PROVO -- The 2009 Economic Self-Reliance Conference will highlight leading research and practices of social entrepreneurship that are creating positive change in the United States and internationally.

This year's conference, designed to run Nov. 5-6 at the Conference Center at Brigham Young University, will provide a forum for participants to discuss how social entrepreneurship is creating new approaches for addressing poverty and economic development.

Plenary and breakout sessions will focus on these areas of social entrepreneurship: education, engineering, business, markets and becoming a social entrepreneur.

The keynote address will feature the 2009 social innovator of the year, Jim Fruchterman, founder of Benetech.

The conference costs $185 for two days of information.

To register, visit the Web site at ce.byu.edu/cw/esr/register.cfm.

Free recordings of past sessions are available at ce.byu.edu/cw/esr/archive.cfm.