Youth to Business Forum: Top Leaders Edition 2015

Youth to Business

Forum

Youth to Business Forum is a premiere event powered by AIESEC that brings together both young and senior leaders to form a diverse cross-sector and multi-generational space for inspiring conversations around pressing global issues. The forum aims to create an environment where people from diverse backgrounds can cross-pollinate ideas, share insights and gain new perspectives to create actionable outcomes to push the world forward.

Leaders will be able to access youth who offer valuable insights into the present opinions, and what the future may look like based on the leadership and behaviours of the next generation. Come ready with your biggest problems, and seek for inspiration to solutions!

It’s an environment that helps foster fresh creativity and new perspectives to tackling problems, and by challenging you and the present status quo it will help inspire the creation of your next big idea.

The youth leaders represented by current and elected presidents within AIESEC’s operations in 126 countries and territories and have a broad range of experiences, perspective and informed insights – they are 250 engaged and participative leaders who want to create social impact.

The Forum generates the Youth to Business Output of ideas and actions, which will be collected and circulated to our network of 100,000 young people, our big alumni community and our partner groups.

Youth to Business Forum: Top Leaders Edition 2015 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam February 16, 2015

HOW CAN WE IMPROVE CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION FOR SUSTAINABLE OUTCOMES?

There are many different types of organizations coexisting in this world. We see more and more projects and initiatives that have the same goals, but choose not to collaborate with similar projects to scale-up the impact. For that reason we have decided to focus this year’s Youth to Business Forum on cross-sectorial collaboration.

We believe that if many different NGOs, businesses, start-ups and institutions will join efforts, we can create something that will bring positive impact and will be able to make a big difference in the world.

United Nations has decided on Millennium Development Goals in 2000, since then we saw member states, many organizations and institutions creating initiatives to help achieving these targets, we are about to reach the magical year of 2015, where the world was supposed to be ideal. Unfortunately we have failed to reach many of the goals. To continue the efforts the new Sustainable Development Goals will come into existence in late 2015.

We will empower youth to ACT upon world issues, and collaborate with other organizations, businesses, local and national governments to be able to make this world better. By providing a platform for youth leadership development, we make a positive impact on the society and empower leaders of tomorrow.

During Youth to Business Forum: Top Leaders Edition, we want to engage youth in creating a sustainable future.

We will create projects that will involve many different stakeholders and will help solve the biggest problems that are touching generation Y.

AGENDA Keynote speeches: Youth Engagement in Post-2015 development

The event will open with a special Keynote from the United Nations Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth - Ahmad Alhendawi, who will address the importance of youth engagement in the world pressing issues.

Business collaborating with Youth for Employment

We invite top business leaders to share their expertise and best-case practices of businesses creating employment opportunities and contributing towards youth unemployment and skills gap.

Workshops:

Interactive spaces delivered by AIESEC International’s Partners.

The aim of the workshops is to engage and prepare delegates for the Action Space.

Workshops will tackle major issues that affect Youth today: Employment, Youth Mobility Diversity in a workplace Education Corporate Citizenship Impact of technology on society in the Internet Era

Action Space:

Together with companies and organizations delegates will create projects and ideas that can be implemented within the next months with the help of resources of our guests.

Delegates will pitch their ideas to invited businesses, organisations and guests. As an outcome they will get a chance to realize their projects that will impact their local environment in a positive way.

Employment Opportunities – Connecting with Business Employers will be given a space to interact with top AIESEC talents. The roundtable discussion will be focused on bridging the generation gap. Delegates and Employees will interact with students to come up with solutions to the skills gap and the misalignment of expectations on the job market. As an outcome some of the young participants will be offered internships or job opportunities within partner companies.

Future Entrepreneurs The space aims to prepare young people to start their entrepreneurship journey. Think tanks, organizations and investors will be initiated to participate in the space to advice and mentor young participants. At the end of the session, aspiring entrepreneurs will pitch their ideas to organizations and investors who will then choose the best ones to sponsor and implement them together.

AIESEC’s impact with Millennium Development Goals and post -2015 engagement AIESEC’s youth, NGOs, foundations and businesses will be involved in the creation of projects that will bring positive impact to their local societies tackling global issues. AIESEC will provide a platform to make the projects a reality and the partners present at the forum will provide resources needed to implement them. As an outcome we want to come up with community projects to be realized within next 6 months on a global or regional scale.

HOW CAN WE IMPROVE CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION FOR SUSTAINABLE OUTCOMES?

9:00 - 9:30

Registration

9:30 - 10:00

Opening Remarks

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 12:00

Keynote: Youth engagement in post-2015 development, Ahmad Alendawi UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth Workshops: - Employment, - Youth Mobility - Diversity in a workplace - Education - Corporate Citizenship - Impact of technology on society in the Internet Era

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:00

Keynote: Business collaborating with Youth for Employment

14:00 - 14:30

Break

14:30 - 16:30

Action Spaces: - Employment Opportunities – Connecting with Business - Future Entrepreneurs - AIESEC’s impact with Millennium Development Goals and post -2015 engagement

16:30 - 17:00

Closing Remarks

17:00 - 19:00

Networking Space

For any additional information please contact Global VP Public Relations at: karolinap@ai.aiesec.org