Social innovation is growing rapidly across the UK, and it will be critical to how businesses and social enterprises can solve social and environmental challenges and enable all businesses to focus on the triple bottom line: profit, people and planet.

What is driving this growth is that current solutions are not hitting the mark. Investors, government, and civil society are emphasising the need to produce better solutions, and this is a good thing for humanity and a huge economic opportunity too.

This workshop looks at how social innovation relates to both private sector business and social enterprise and the opportunities that are available to create transformation change in communities addressing social and environmental issues as well as sustaining business growth and profit.

• Roger Warnock is an award-winning social innovator with over 25 years in social innovation, social tech, and creating social impact. Listed as one of Nesta’s and the Observers Top UK New Radicals for his innovative design and social enterprise work. He is an experienced mentor for start-ups in the Tech4Good space, expert in co-creation and experienced in building a business and raising investment. He is internationally renowned for his social innovation and co-creation work working with some of the world’s leading organisations such as the UNDP where he has designed and delivered the co-creation strategy for the Social Innovation Platform focusing on a range of digital and technology prototypes in Asia and Eastern Europe. He is a Churchill Fellow, Clore Leadership Fellow, Hammamet Fellow and Fellow of the RSA.