Social Business – Counterculture in the Economic World
- Date
- 16 Mar 2011
- Time
- 9:15 AM to 2:00 PM
- Venue
- Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, National University of Singapore
Speaker
Hans Reitz was born in 1966 in Bad Abbach in Bavaria where he grew up. He was driven from a very young age by the quest for adventure and change. At the age of 20 he started traveling which led him to many countries, including India where he encountered classical southern Indian music. He has always been interested in art and culture. Within a few years, he established a creative circle and, as culture manager, organized, among others things, a variety of theater and culture projects.
Since 1992 he has supported his friend Reinhold Treitinger in South Indian Kumily/Kerala as he founded “Natural Shakti” (= power of nature), a sustainable farm of natural goods in harmony with the jungle’s ecological system.
He founded the event agency “circ” in 1994 and began to continuously develop its fields of activity. Today circ serves such renowned companies as adidas, Autostadt, BASF, Bertelsmann, Caterpillar, E.ON, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, T-Systems, and Volkswagen, for whom the Wiesbaden agency has become a fixed live communication anchor, and was awarded two times as the most creative agency in Germany.
Hans Reitz is active in many areas and uses his corporate expertise to create synergies. Entrepreneur Hans Reitz has established his radius of operations and his network not only in the world of business, but as he has developed social projects, starting with Wiesbaden, where he now lives, and subsequently throughout the world.
As Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus’ creative advisor, Hans Reitz has devoted himself to spreading the idea of “Grameen Social Business” since 2007. He founded The Grameen Creative Lab which now advises various large-scale enterprises throughout the world, a short time later along with Prof. Yunus. Today, he accompanies Prof. Yunus to official events.
Since late 2008, Hans Reitz has also been speaking at international conferences and has, in addition, led numerous workshops at various universities. In addition, he lectured on “Social Business” in the field of “Entrepreneurship” during the Summer semester 2009 at the Freie Universität Berlin. Hans Reitz is also the father of two children.
Event Schedule
0915 – 1000 Start of Registration
1000 – 1005 Introduction by MC and Welcome of Guest-of-Honour
1005 – 1030 Welcome Address by Guest-of-Honour (Provost)
1030 – 1230 Keynote Address by GCL Distinguished Founder & CEO (Mr. Hans Reitz) followed by Q&A Session
1230 – 1300 Showcase Presentation by 3 Local Social Businesses
1300 – 1400 Light Lunch and Networking Session