Elizabeth Scharpf, from SHE, talks about she realized what she could do to effect the developing world.

Her elaboration on the franchise system she developed shows how well thought out her concept truly is. She plans on creating these franchises that allow for her organization to exit rapidly and leave the local people with a business all of their own.

Elizabeth ends by reminding everyone that there are people everywhere that want to change things even if you know know them. So be sure to reach out and try to change the world.

What Elizabeth’s complete talk HERE and see the prop she has on stage that got everything started.

For more riveting talks from previous Feast events go to www.feastongood.com/videos.

To attend this year’s Feast Conference click HERE.

Ken Banks from FronlineSMS shares his insights into the future of technology in developing countries.

In this short talk, Ken identifies many key points addressed by the solutions his company is implementing. He says we need to help people do what they want to do rather than what we want them to do. Another great point his that organizations need to figure things out much further than they currently do. Banks says, ”we need to think about who we are giving the technology to.”

Click HERE to view Banks’ fun stimulating talk and hear him speak about how his solutions allowed Nigerians to monitor their elections for the first time. Ultimately Ken feels that “we need to step back and just let things happen.”

For more riveting talks from previous Feast events go to www.feastongood.com/videos.

To attend this year’s Feast Conference click HERE.

Kenna is a Grammy nominated recording artist with an amazing talent and a huge heart. At the 2009 Feast Conference he shared with us his biographical background as well as his influences and passions.

After learning that his father contracted a water-borne illness at a very young age, Kenna was able to become more directly connected with causes he had previously supported. Thankful for “compassionate capitalism,” the artist teamed up with corporations and other groups to further his goal of providing clean water for people around the world.

Watch his engaging talk HERE to learn some interesting facts about Kenna. Find out why he refused to be put on the bill when touring with No Doubt, his engagements with world famous author Malcolm Gladwell, and his thanks to his anonymous Wikipedia updaters.

For more riveting talks from previous Feast events go to www.feastongood.com/videos.

To attend this year’s Feast Conference click HERE.

“The story behind your food should be a good one. Slow Food is about a story that is good, clean, and fair.”

Joshua Viertel of Slow Food USA talks about the journey from the day he took over his small non-profit to where they are today. Being faced with running a group that fits so passionately with his own social goals was made very difficult with the collapse of our economy just two weeks before he started his first day.

Shedding light on some of the activities and events held by Slow Food, Viertel tells us about the challenge his group was given by President Obama soon after he was elected in 2008. The president wanted them to make sure that their goal was a social movement, not just an advocacy campaign.

Watch Joshua’s talk HERE to find out what he was able to do to make that happen.

For more riveting talks from previous Feast events go to www.feastongood.com/videos.

To attend this year’s Feast Conference click HERE.

This short, yet passionate talk by Brian Bordainick of 9th Ward Field of Dreams is simple and great. He went to New Orleans to be part of a movement to help those who were set back by the disaster that struck the area.

He says the scariest part was that his students didn’t recognize the problems they were faced with. After that moment, he knew he had to change the norm and wake people up. He also found out that, “being an entrepreneur, to [him], means being desperate.” He spent many days pitching his ideas to anyone who would listen and was ultimately supported by the people he set out to help, the citizens of the area.

Watch Brain’s moving talk HERE.

For more riveting talks from previous Feast events go to www.feastongood.com/videos.

To attend this year’s Feast Conference click HERE.

Uffe Elbaek is the founder and first principle of The KaosPilots, an international school of new business, design & social innovation. In his masterfully described talk Uffe tells us two small stories that contain two big questions.

In the first he talks about being approached in the late 80’s by a beautiful woman who asks him and his friends if they want to help her invade the Soviet Union. After they “invaded” the country with a huge rock concert, Uffe realized he had never learned the things he needed in order to do what they had just accomplished. From there he began to build a school to change that.

In his second story Uffe tells us about a trip to see the Northern Lights. There he envisioned exactly what his school would look like and how it would better the world. He realized that people need to not just understand the game (of life and business), but change it to suit their needs and skills. Using all that he has learned, he ultimately wants his institution to be the best school, not just in the world, but for the world.

Watch Uffe’s talk HERE.

For more riveting talks from previous Feast events go to www.feastongood.com/videos.

To attend this year’s Feast Conference click HERE.

Today we are officially announcing the first five speakers from our line-up of remarkable people to present at the upcoming Feast 2010. We think that the folks we have gathered so far are really going to be a great treat for all of our attendees this year and can’t wait to hear their talks. As we gear-up to announce some of the other speakers, we thought it would be great to encourage our wonderful community of supporters to suggest who they would love to see this year.

To help facilitate this we are holding a short competition where you can suggest a speaker for a chance to win a free ticket to the Starting Bloc Make Your Ideas Happen :: Transformative Communication Workshop. The workshop is sure to be a great event with registration limited to only 60 attendees (and is sold out) and full of creative people. The event is described as follows on the Starting Bloc website:

The first in a series of BuildingBloc Workshops lead by: Scott Sherman, Founder, Transformative Action Institute. In this one day workshop, we will tackle how to make your ideas happen through transformative communication + conflict resolution, with plenty of open StartingBloc-style dynamic conversations in between.

To enter to win the tickets all you need to do is suggest a speaker for this year’s Feast conference. It’s as easy as filling out the short form HERE or by replying to us (@alldaybuffet) on Twitter. Just make sure you fill out the form entirely and that the person you suggest has not been a speaker before at our event. We’ll announce the winners here on the blog and on twitter Friday morning and the winners will go the the workshop on Saturday.

We can’t wait to see which wonderful people you guys suggest for this year’s Feast!

So you know about the Feast 2010 coming up in October, where you can learn from some of the most inspiring people in the world, and you’ve heard about our Feast Digital Salon in a couple of weeks, but now there is more. And by more I mean MUCH MORE. Today we’re announcing our next step towards reaching out to everyone that is interested in feasting on good, Feast Meetup Everywhere.

With Feast Meetup Everywhere you’ll be able to attend (AND HOST!) Feast meetups in your own city. The events will allow you to connect with other social innovators to create world-shaking change in your very own community. We want everyone that is interested to be able to find each other and connect no matter what part of the world they are in.

So to start this project off we are hosting our first Global Feast Meetup Day on Monday, June 7. The events will take place all around the world. We currently have over 50 events created in 14 countries. So hurry up and register for an event near you. Once you find an event click “I’m interested” and you’re all signed up. We will send out updates about the event in your city. It’s really that easy.

Now Feast Meetup Everywhere doesn’t end after the Global Feast Meetup Day. We want you guys to host Feast events in your city as often as possible. We know that you guys are the people that are changing the world and we want you all to get together and do great things. You can go to the Feast Meetup Everywhere site and create an event at any time. Once it’s created, share the link with friends and followers and prepare for a great experience. All of the events you host will also be listed on the site so people you don’t have contact with that are interested in getting together can find out about all of the events. This is really going to be awesome.

So go ahead and sign-up for a meetup for June 7 and create an event of your own!

We’re excited to host Feast on Digital for Internet Week 2010! Join us as we hear from leaders in the fields of game mechanics, volunteerism, and the interwebs – this trio of speakers doesn’t hold back on inspiring good. Come get a taste of The Feast at our Internet Week Event. We guarantee that you’ll get Full on Good!

“The Feast” is a cross-disciplinary series of programs addressing social innovation and new ways to make the world a better place. Our secret sauce lies in a healthy combination of passion, creativity, and entrepreneurship to shift the way things are done – thereby changing individuals, industries, and ultimately the world.

All Day Buffet will be hosting different events leading up to The Feast Conference on October 15th in New York City. Buy your tickets today! Tickets are almost out, so make sure to get ‘em while they’re hot. And for those who twitter, follow updates @alldaybuffet #feastongood.

Monday, June 7, 2010
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
MEET at the Apartment
101 Crosby St, New York

Who’s on the plate?

Check out the great Kenna talk from Feast ‘09 “Nothing Is Greater Or Less Than Us”

BIO

There are people who need to define themselves because it gives them identity and then there are people, like Kenna, who allow themselves to be undefinable and lead others onto a journey that we could never have reached ourselves.

Being that unclassifiable, in Kenna’s case, can end up nabbing you stage time with Justin Tmberlake and Nelly Furtado, a gig opening Live Earth at Giants Stadium and probably a spot on more album-of-the-year lists than you’d ever imagined.

The long and winding road from the release of his 2003 debut album New Sacred Cow to the late-2007 release of Make Sure They See My Face showed the Ethiopian-born, Virginia-raised artist the dark side of record industry politics after he was passed around from label to label before finally landing on the Neptunes’ Star Trak imprint (high school friend Chad Hugo co-produced both of Kenna’s albums).

The self-described chameleon elaborated on his inability to be easily pigeonholed when he recently told VIBE, “I was never a clique kid, I never fit into one crew in elementary (or) high school, I was never that way in college, I pretty much rolled with whoever I felt comfortable with in my life. I’m a foreign kid, an inner city kid, a suburban kid — I’ve done and been in all those worlds, so now who am I to you? Who am I to the world when I represent so many aspects of it?” But the multifaceted 30 year old, who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro (slacker!), used his enigmatic appeal to claim his place as the king of esoteric dance-pop with his next album, Make Sure They See My Face.