Workshop Leaders - Social Enterprise Open Camp

Guglielmo Apolloni

guglielmo apolloni

Designer & Social Entrepreneur

Guglielmo is a Designer and Social Entrepreneur active both in Italy and abroad. He collaborates with different realities, including Social Seed, an innovation ‘lab’ for local organisations and social enterprises, and Shifton, an advanced studio for social innovation. In addition, he is responsible for the Municipality of Trento and CSV Trentino, where he is in charge of the development and implementation of the strategy for the Trentino ecosystem in view of Trento European Volunteer Capital 2024.
As a social entrepreneur, he co-founded School Raising, the first Italian crowdfunding platform to finance school projects, and Mitosis, a Berlin-based co-working and event space.

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Elisa Bacchetti

Deputy Operations Officer & Systemic-Service Designer at SocialFare

Elisa Bacchetti is the Deputy Operations Officer at SocialFare, the first Center for Social Innovation in Italy. Product-Service System Designer, in her work and training experiences, she has always combined Design and Sustainability as key approaches to design solutions towards sustainable development. Her main activities took place between Milan and Turin, however she had the opportunity to co-lead and research on international projects involving partners from Europe, Africa, Mexico, Brazil, India and China.

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Federico Bartolomucci

federico bartolomucci

PhD candidate in Management Engineer at Politecnico di Milano and part of the TIRESIA Research Centre

Federico Bartolomucci is research associate and PhD candidate in Management Engineer at Politecnico di Milano and part of the TIRESIA Research Centre. His fields of expertise are the once of social impact measurement, technology transfer towards the social economy and tech for good. His research is currently focusing on the governance of cross-sectoral partnerships finalized to use data to generate a positive impact. He is lecturing in multiple courses among with the course on Social Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable and Social Innovation Lab in the MSc degree on Management Engineering. He has recently been visiting researcher at the Leventhal Center For Advance Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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David Bryan

Head of Sustainable Business at SEA in Edinburgh

David is the Head of Sustainable Business at Social Enterprise Academy based in the Highlands of Scotland, focused on people-centred learning and development and community impact. Before joining the Academy, he worked for the Community Resources Network for Scotland as Development Officer for the north of Scotland, managed a local rural partnership in Sutherland and lectured in rural development at Moray College at University of the Highlands & Islands. David is also an Associate Lecturer with the Open University on Environment modules. He lives in the Highlands and enjoys running, walking and camping in the hills and generally keeping up with his four kids, which takes up all his spare time!

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Ella Camille

ella camille

International Partnerships Manager at SEA in Edinburgh

Ella works at Social Enterprise Academy, an impact organisation that uses transformative learning to support social enterprise and leadership development in the third sector. At SEA, she develops international partnerships and cross-cultural projects, as well as focusing on strategic development of organisations and communities.
She has worked for more than eight years in Learning and Development, where her focus is on women’s economic and social development, and intersectional community capacity development was nurtured in roles across both the third and private sectors.
She has worked in advocacy for victims and witnesses in Scotland’s criminal justice system, in charitable volunteer development, in a variety of roles at Apple in her native Australia, and for many years in live music events.

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Giulia Cassani

Project Manager at Social Seed

Giulia has been working for almost 10 years as a senior consultant at Social Seed, a research, training and accompaniment agency for grassroots organizations (public administration, third sector entities, for-profit companies, banks and foundations) that supports in strategic, organizational and service innovation.
Over the years she has developed deep field experience in innovative service design, stakeholder engagement processes, design of open innovation rituals, and training and experimentation in community management pathways.
Giulia designs and manages training and mentorship pathways for the creation of high social impact business models with an approach that combines service design with strategic design: in the pathways she accompanies, Giulia has a keen eye on the sustainability and resilience of innovation, on what remains over time in terms of learning, strategy, skills, and leadership.
After completing a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Diplomacy, Giulia specialized with a master’s degree in Social Economy Management. For years she has worked in building community activation and co-design processes and collaborative space design in her city, Forlì, and specifically founded a coworking network with local associations.

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Veronica Chiodo

Manager and Consultant of social businesses and Assistant Professor Politecnico di Milano

Veronica Chiodo has a Ph.D. in Management Engineering, and she is Assistant Professor at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano. She completed her M.Sc. in Social Economy in 2014 at the University of Bologna. Her research interest focuses on innovation in socially oriented hybrid organizations, hybrid business models and corporate deep purpose. In 2017, she has been visiting PhD student at the University of Heidelberg and Middlesex University Centre for Enterprise. She teaches subjects related to social innovation, social entrepreneurship, impact measurement and business administration. She works as a consultant with social enterprises and impact investors; and as a researcher in several projects funded by the European Commission in the field of social innovation, social entrepreneurship and social outcome-based contracting. She is co-founder of Triadi, a spin-off of Politecnico di Milano, providing AI supported impact strategy and measurement consultancy.

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Roy Clunie

Associate Facilitator at Social Enterprise Academy Scotland

Roy supports the Social Enterprise Academy Scotland as an Associate Facilitator, facilitating programs on Leadership and Enterprise in Scotland, Africa, Asia and Europe.
Roy’s interest in social enterprise derives from his passion for strengthening and developing communities particularly in rural areas. His mantra is “If the problems are in the community, the solutions are in the community”. He established and ran his own successful business in Oban and the west highlands of Scotland before selling the business to focus on social enterprise and community development. Roy has also been an associate consultant with Imani Development, an employee-owned economic and development consultancy partnering with Social Enterprise Academy South African hub.
Roy is one of the concept holders and past Chairman of Atlantis Leisure: a successful Oban-based social enterprise. He has been concept holder and a founding director of several other community organisations one of which is Oban & Lorn Healthy Options Ltd. of which he is Vice Chair. Roy completed a post graduate certificate in social enterprise at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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Laura Orestano

laura orestano

CEO at SocialFare

Laura Orestano is CEO at SocialFare, the first Center for Social Innovation in Italy and President of the first impact seed fund in Italy, SocialFare Seed. Laura has extensive experience in social entrepreneurship and social innovation ecosystems and has worked for large multinational corporations and institutions worldwide in UK, USA, Luxembourg and Germany. She is awarded with other titles: EU Expert on Social Innovation, Jury Member at EU Social Innovation Competition, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and in 2016 was awarded with the WEF Prize “Trailblazer Innovative Woman of the Decade”. She has been recently appointed ActionAid Italia Board Member.

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Juan Parodi

juan parodi

Consultant, trainer and facilitator on sustainability and innovation

Juan Parodi is a consultant, trainer and facilitator in sustainability and innovation with 15 years of experience, working with corporations, public entities and NGOs. He is currently Partner and Global Director of Sustainability and Impact at OLIVIA, a global consulting firm. Previously, he led the area of innovation and entrepreneurship projects at Impact Hub in Madrid.
He holds a degree in Political Science and another one in International Relations. He has a Master’s Degree in Sustainability, another one in Communication and Public Relations, a Postgraduate Degree in Digital Marketing and an Executive Postgraduate Degree in Agile Methodologies.
He is part of the BMW Foundation’s Responsible Leader’s Network. Being accepted as a Responsible Leader means that you are a person who considers society as a whole and contributes to a caring, sustainable and future-oriented world by putting your influence and experience to work.
Juan is a professor in sustainability and entrepreneurship at Instituto de Empresa (IE), Univ. Carlos III, ISDI and Geneva Business School.
He mentors different entrepreneurs, helping them to integrate sustainability into their strategy, operations and business model.

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Rosario Sapienza

Social innovation expert, Co-Founder and CEO of Impact Hub Siracusa

Rosario Sapienza is an anthropologist with more than 20 years of experience in the field of social sciences. As a researcher at the CENSIS Foundation, Italy, he coordinated research projects on migration, criminality, trafficking of human being and on different youth related issues. Later on, he monitored, evaluated, planned and managed projects in more than 25 countries in the field of the International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid. Among the principal organisations he provided his services there are the EC, the Italian Cooperation, IFAD, UNDP, UNICEF, USAID. In 2012 he co-founded in Sicily (Italy) Impact Hub Siracusa, the Southern European territorial node of the Impact Hub Network, a global network of entrepreneurial communities, entrepreneurial support programs and shared workspaces with a primary focus on social or environmental impact-driven startups. In the last years Rosario joined a team of international consultants in an EU funded project called TESIM, providing its support to the cross-border cooperation between European Member States and neighbourhood countries. Rosario oversees the Mediterranean region.

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Julia López Varela

Julia Lopez Varela

Expert in social innovation and design thinking

Julia López Varela, consultant, strategic designer, and project manager with a focus on social innovation. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and is currently studying the Master’s in Language Science at UNED. She has a degree in Business Design and Lean Startup from the H2i Institute Innovation School. Julia is cofunder and director of Ultrazul, a strategic design consultancy. She has served as the Director of Business Relations and Social Innovation at Madrid Destino (Culture Department of Madrid City Council), as well as the Director of Impact Hub Madrid, an international network for social innovation and entrepreneurship. She has worked in Rome at the Spanish Tourism Office in the cultural sector, in Buenos Aires for AECID in cultural cooperation, and in Madrid at La Residencia de Estudiantes. She has lived in Mexico, where she developed cooperation projects. Julia is a professor at IE and ISDI, teaching Design Thinking and entrepreneurship. She is part of the curatorial team for TEDx Madrid and Residenza Lago Scuro (art, creation, and gastronomy residencies in Cremona, Italy).

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