On October 10th at 12pm MaRS is hosting a Best Practices panel on Badges: http://www.marsdd.com/
Afterwards, from 2:00-4:00 PM, MaRS and Ashoka and Pearson are assembling a smaller round-table of educators, not-for-profits, for-profit social impact companies and publishers to talk deeper about how badging can be used and implemented.
Details here: http://www.marsdd.com/ events/badges-learning-deep- dive/
If you would like to attend reach out to Joe Wilson (Senior Strategist, Education Cluster) through twitter – @joeatmars.
Great opportunity!