The conference for social entrepreneurs was held in Rosbank Head Office. It started the training program for social entrepreneurs and NGO that make life of the people with disabilities called “Start Differently”. The program was launched by Rosbank in collaboration with Impact Hub Moscow.

12 perspective social projects from Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk and Novokuznetsk. This training program gives participants the opportunity to work on the business model and build a sustainable business. During two days of the conference, social entrepreneurs found out how to improve the stability of an organization through entrepreneurship and how to build up a team work. Also they learned how to test their assumptions on the target audience. The experts in the field of social entrepreneurship and business modelling were there to help the participants, namely Igor Dubinnikov, StartUpTour, StartUpVillage and Open Innovation speaker and host, Yevgeniya Ogarkova, a well-known coach, Anastasia Gulyavina, a co-founder of Impact Hub Moscow, and the others.

During the networking evening, the participants were able to communicate with successful social entrepreneurs and experts. Olga Ryabova, an independent expert in the field of social entrepreneurship, Igor Novikov, a co-founder of the Everland project for the employment of the physically-challenged people, and Alexandra Schyotkina, Head of Altzrus (the first Alzheimer-café in Russia).