Companies are addicted to exponential growth. But is this good for our planet and our society?

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Post Growth Economists are talking about the unsustainability of growth for our planet and society. Our never ending quest for growth is causing climate change, human rights violations, threats to biodiversity, and unprecedented waste. During the COVID-19 economic crisis, the decoupling of the real economy from investors was never more obvious. Now is the time to reinvent our economy, and create a new "normal" for doing business.

This session, organised by the Small Business Research Group, will discuss Post Growth Entrepreneurship, an entrepreneurial methodology for creating non-extractive social businesses.

Dr. Melanie Rieback, co-founder of Radically Open Security and Post Growth startup incubator Nonprofit Ventures, will make you question everything that you know about entrepreneurship, provide practical tools for building something different, and offer you a blue pill and a red pill.

Can you go back to 'business as usual' again?

Free parking is available at the location from 5pm onwards. 

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About Dr. Melanie Rieback

Dr. Melanie Rieback is CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security (the world’s first not-for-profit cybersecurity company), and “Post Growth” startup incubator Nonprofit Ventures. She designed and teaches the ‘Post Growth Entrepreneurship' class in the Business School at the University of Amsterdam, is a Cybersecurity lecturer at Singularity University, and is a former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Melanie is a Fellow of the Post Growth Institute, and she was also named “Most Innovative IT Leader of the Netherlands” by CIO Magazine (TIM Award) in 2017, and one of the “9 Most Innovative Women in the European Union” (EU Women Innovators Prize) in 2019. She is also one of the 400 most successful women in the Netherlands by Viva Magazine (Viva400) in 2010 and 2017, and one of the fifty most inspiring women in tech (Inspiring Fifty Netherlands) in 2016, 2017, and 2019. Her company, Radically Open Security was named the 50th Most Innovative SME by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (MKB Innovatie Top 100) in 2016.

Listen to Dr. Melanie Rieback

• Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/melanie_rieback_post_growth_entrepreneurship
• Medium blog post: https://medium.com/postgrowth/putting-post-growth-theory-into-practice-70033f334088
• PGE videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL14vcCXv7XVONAwzNv0ApYwZ5iepLzz3