7^th Social Business Academia Conference is ready to go on floor from 6 – 7 November 2018 in Wolfsburg Germany. Paper submission for the conference began on February 15, 2018 with the full paper submission closing on June 20, 2018. 52 papers have been submitted from 17 countries under ten tracks on social business: Sustainable Development Goals, Health, Education and Training, Technology Including Artificial Intelligence, Environment and Disaster Management, Marketing, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Wealth Concentration and Other Issues. Notification of acceptance has already been made to the applicants post assessment by peer-review process to select papers for presentation at the conference. The deadline for camera-ready (final) paper submission is September 30, 2018. The conference will take place during the Global Social Business Summit organized jointly by the Grameen Creative Lab and Yunus Centre. Registration link can be found at:https://gsbs-2018.com/.

The conference is devoted to the ongoing development of theory and research on social business and its impact on societies around the world. The aim is to bring together scholars in social business to discuss emerging concepts and themes in social business research. A Pre-Meeting of Social Business Academia was held during Social Business Day 2018 on June 29, 2018.