I wish I were able to make it to San Francisco this weekend. One of the most exciting business competitions in the social enterprise space, the Global Social Venture Competition, wraps up with presentations by the finalists during the day followed by a session with Paul Polak tonight and a day-long symposium tomorrow at the Haas School of Business of UC Berkeley.

NextBillion.net will be covering the highlights of this venue through Guest Posts that will appear in the next few days. Meanwhile, I encourage you to check out the projects that will be presenting in today's finals and the agenda for tomorrow's symposium on social entrepreneurship.

For now, I'm off to the last sessions of this year's Global Philanthropy Forum. I'll be turning my notes into blog posts over the weekend so stay tuned.

Happy Friday!