The Adelphi University School of Business is proud to convene the "First International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship, Systems Thinking, and Complexity" to be held from April 24 through 26, 2008. The conference will be co-hosted by the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, publishers of the journal Emergence: Complexity and Organization, and the Plexus Institute, an organization devoted to the improvement of healthcare using the tools of complexity theory. A special two-hour session, Global Perspectives on Social Entrepreneurship, will be open to the public in the Adelphi University Alumni House, 154 Cambridge Avenue, Garden City, NY, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., on Friday, April 25. Business leaders, investors, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, scholars, educators, researchers, and policymakers are invited to join a distinguished panel of experts from 20 countries spanning six continents to address the many pressing global issues being faced by social entrepreneurship initiatives around the world. The nature and benefits of this new phenomenon will be explored within the context of complex systems theory with an eye toward accelerating this approach to positive social change.

The session will include an open dialogue among the delegates from around the world and will be moderated by Adelphi Professor Jeffrey Goldstein, a renowned expert in complexity science and a co-leader, along with fellow Associate Professor James K. Hazy, of the School of Business initiative on Social Entrepreneurship and Complexity.

Advance registration is required. For more information regarding the conference or to register, please visit http://business.adelphi.edu/news/conference.php, or contact Dr. James K. Hazy, at hazy@adelphi.edu, or Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein, at goldstei@adelphi.edu.