Jeremy Hockenstein, Digital Divide Data

 

Jeremy Hockenstein is co-founder and CEO of Digital Divide Data (DDD), an award-winning social enterprise pioneering its field. DDD provides socially responsible IT outsourcing services to clients around the world while creating jobs and better futures for disadvantaged youth in those countries. For its business success and remarkable social impact, DDD and Jeremy have been recognized with the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship as well as awards from the World Bank Development Marketplace, the IFC Grassroots Business Initiative and the Global Knowledge Partnership. Among other media acclaim, Jeremy and DDD were profiled in Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat as his "favorite example" of a social entrepreneur's initiative. Prior to DDD, Jeremy worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and as an international nonprofit consultant. He graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in economics and earned an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

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Digital Divide Data (DDD) is an innovative, internationally acclaimed social enterprise that uses technology for social good.  DDD creates jobs for disadvantaged youth in developing countries and enables them to complete higher education.  This development model is financed by selling and delivering high-quality digital content services to clients globally--including Columbia University.  DDD's business empowers staff to lift themselves out of poverty and prepares them for a lifetime of professional employment.  Founded in 2001, DDD is a pioneer of "Impact Sourcing", a model that uses work in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry to create employment at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP).  For more than a decade, DDD has seen how Impact Sourcing is a sustainable way to create employment and a strong workforce in countries like Cambodia, Laos and Kenya.​

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David Cascino, Thunderclap​

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Dave co-founded AI Capital, a high frequency trading platform for executing arbitrage algorithms. He then led engineering at adaptive learning startup Knewton before founding Thunderclap.it, the world's first crowd speaking platform.

Thunderclap is the first-ever crowd speaking platform that helps people be heard by saying something together. It allows a single message to be mass-shared, flash mob-style, that rises above the noise of your social networks.



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Abigail Cohen, Uncharted Play​
 

Abigail Cohen is VP of Social Development for Uncharted Play, Inc. She has a degree, cum laude, from Barnard College at Columbia University. As an undergrad, Abby also studied climate systems and sustainable development at Columbia's Earth Institute and School of International and Public Affairs. Prior to joining Uncharted Play, Abby taught organic agriculture, soil remediation and carbon sequestration to farmers in rural Kenya with re:char, a biochar company. Her areas of specialization include impact analysis and social entrepreneurship accountability.



Uncharted Play, Inc. is a for-profit social enterprise grounded in the belief that play serves an integral function in our learning and development. At U.P., we teach innovation and creative problem-solving, and self-empowerment and co-create fun products and services that allow people to rethink the function of play both as a tool to address major issues facing society today and as a way to keep joy at the forefront of our lives.​