The seas of change initiative will provide a unique opportunity for leading practitioners and thinkers to get together and share on the basis of well prepared background materials and analysis.

Benefits for business players:

• Inspiration from effective work across a range of efforts, with ideas that can be adopted, adapted and hybridised.
• Design sessions generating agenda’s for pragmatic collaboration and focused research
• A safe space to explore sensitive but crucial hot topics
  Helping to shape the conditions for supportive business environments

Benefits for policy makers:

• Identifying crucial enabling environments they can shape
• Finding partners to ensure goals are put into practice
• Seeing opportunities for proactive collaboration for a major public goods

Benefits for NGO practitioners:

• Using existing social and political capital to contribute to key goals
• Furthering opportunities to move from stalemate or confrontation to constructive collaboration
• Clarifying own critical and complementary roles when working with business

Benefits for Knowledge institutions:

• Increasing the relevancy of research agenda’s
• Defining urgent, critical research focus for short- and medium term research programs
• Setting up action-based research with business and NGO’s to complement fundamental research
• Bringing research domains together to tackle complex problems