Social Outcomes Conference 2019

In pursuit of social outcomes: the international conference on impact bonds, outcomes contracts, and beyond

Hosted by the Government Outcomes Lab at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, in partnership with the Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Newcastle University Business School

Welcome remarks 

Calum Miller, Blavatnik School of Government; Mara Airoldi, Government Outcomes Lab 

Keynote speech

Stefan Dercon, Blavatnik School of Government

Plenary session - Still inventing the wheel: Global evidence and experience on impact bonds to date

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution; Alison Bukhari, Educate Girls, James Ronicle, Ecorys UK; James Williams, York University, Toronto

Concurrent sessions

• Impact bonds and the welfare state
  
• Beyond bean counting: Alternate approaches for valuation
  
• Practical lessons and insights from impact bonds implementation in the UK
• Implications for impact bonds in low- and middle-income country contexts
• Can impact bonds improve governance, accountability, integrity, and transparency in public services?
• Impact bonds: the provider perspective
• Impact bonds across the world
• Hybridity: Bending and blending across sectors in outcomes-based contracting
• Who's a party and to what? Impact bond contracts, configurations, and risks 

Plenary session - Can't get you out of my head: Overly fixated on the SIB tool?

Adrian Brown, Centre for Public Impact; Carolyn Heinrich, Vanderbilt University; Mildred Warner, Cornell University; Scott Kleiman, Government Performance Lab, Harvard University; John Tambornino - Office of Management and Budget at the White House

Concurrent roundtable sessions

• Bold and bright: from idea to implementation at the cutting edge
  
• European perspectives on social outcome contracts and outcome funds
• Capacity development and procurement professionals

Plenary session - Are impact bonds just public-private partnerships (PPPs) with a specified social outcome?

Stéphane Saussier, Sorbonne Business School; Inga Afanasieva, Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches, World Bank; Salim Bensmail, John Laing Group

 Concurrent sessions

• Markets in employment support
• Social impact bonds at scale
• Measuring what matters
• Alternative takes on investment

Plenary session - Rallying Together or Passing the Buck? Exploring new collaborative approaches to public service delivery

Adam Lent, New Local Government Network; Robert Mcmillan, Sheffield Hallam University; Gary Wallace, Plymouth City Council & GO Lab Fellow of Practice; Robert Pollock, Social Finance & GO Lab Fellow of Practice; Clare FitzGerald, Government Outcomes Lab; Jo Blundell, Government Outcomes Lab

Plenary session - Through the looking glass: reducing information asymmetry through availability of project-level data on impact bonds

Christian Pettenkofer, Munich Re; Maya Ziswiler, UBS Optimus Foundation; Gen Maitland Hudson, Social Investment Business; Josh Pritchard, Reform

Plenary session - To infinity and beyond! The future of impact bonds and outcome based approaches 

Abha Thorat-Shah, British Asian Trust; David Hutchison, Social Finance; John Tambornino - Office of Management and Budget at the White House; Tom Le Quesne, Inclusive Economy Unit, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Public talk: What is a democratic right, and what is a philanthropic gift?

Jo Wolff, Blavatnik Professor of Public Policy, University of Oxford

Tom Hall, Global Head of Philanthropy Services, UBS

SAVE THE DATE! We are delighted to announce that the next edition of the Social Outcomes Conference will take place on 3-4 September 2020. Follow us on Twitter #SOC20 or sign-up to our newsletter for updates regarding the call for papers and the programme.