The Global Youth To Business Forum was a successful event for AIESEC
International, Partners, and Delegates at AIESEC International Congress 2009. Feedback from the day
was immensly positive from all stakeholders involved--with AIESEC International currently compiling
a report with output and recommendations from the day that will be presented to our Partner
organisations and essential stakeholders towards the end of 2009. The event captured media
attention, and the attention of thousands of virtual delegates worldwide. Across the 3 tracks of
the day: Entrepreneurship in the crisis, Climate Change & Sustainability, and Labour Mobility
& Diversity--delegates were exposed to a number of important keynote presentations from 60
organisations attending the event. Delegates were able to continue their discussions with partners
over lunch, before going into the afternoon sessions. The climatic conclusion of the day was the
Closing Panel discussion. Delegates were seated looking in at a small group discussion in the
middle of the room, and were able to participate in the disccuions throughout the panel. Three
large screens around the room projected the opinions of thousands of delegates worldwide through
the social networking website Twitter as they participated in the discussion virtually, along with
their fellow delegates at the congress.
Please find a post press release from the event here.
AIESEC International would like to thank all partners, supporters, and
delegates for their contribution for the day. Our ambitious vision for The Global Youth To
Business Forum was realised, and we hope that the output coming out from the event will be valuable
for AIESEC and many organisations for the years to come.
Global Youth to Business Forum Agenda
Explained Agenda
9:00 - 9:40
Meet the Youth of the World
The member delegates start a typical AIESEC day with a 30-min AIESEC
greeting from each of the 107 countries present in the congress. Facilitated by the congress’
chair.
9:40 - 10:20
Opening of the Global Youth to Business Forum
Opening of the Forum with a keynote address by Amadou Diallo, CEO of DHL Global
Forwarding for Asia Pacific, and an address by the President of AIESEC International, Aman
Jain.
10:20 – 10:50
Networking Breakand Transition to Workshops
10:50 - 13:00
BUSINESS TO YOUTH:Entrepreneurship in the Crisis, Climate change & Sustainability, Labour mobility &
Diversity delivered by 13 AIESEC partners.
Partnering organizations will hold 13 parallel workshops of 30-50 youth
delegateseach lasting 120 minutes. These workshops will vary in methodology from simulations, lectures
and group activities all with the objective of providing an informative background for the young
leaders to build their opinion and brainstorm specific questions to address in the afternoon.
Delegate evaluations of the workshops will be collected as they finish.
13:00 – 13:30
Networking Break
13:30 - 15:00
Lunch with the Youth of the World
60
organizational representatives are welcomed to dine with the 550 youth leaders from 107 countries
and continue their informative and insightful conversations informally.
15:00 - 15:50
Featured speechesdelivered by 8 featured guests
8
representatives of partnering organizations will challenge the audiencewith an overview of the pressing issues related to each of the topics. This will open the
floor for specific conversations the delegates feel still need to happen so that society can
advance on these macro-topics and their more sub-topics.
15:50 - 17:40
YOUTH TO BUSINESS:Entrepreneurship in the Crisis, Climate change & Sustainability, Labour mobility & Diversity
in 2 rounds of an open space.
Delegates will have the opportunity to propose conversation topics they feel the world
needs to have in order to progress and develop around each of the Forum’s key topics. In 2 rounds of conversations, all delegates will attend those that interest
them the most and capture the thoughts and conclusions of the group and themselves. The space is designed for the organizational representatives to participate
alongside the members to continue guiding and offering assistance when needed; however, the
discussions are led by the members themselves. The conclusions and further questions will be harvested and shared among the
network and public in a published output.
17:40 - 18:00
Networking Break and Transition to the Closing Panel
18:00 - 19:20
YOUTH AND BUSINESS:Concluding, Open Panel Discussion
All three forum tracks come together to observe and participate in the concluding
panel facilitated in an open and engaging manner. The panellists include 3 organizational representatives alongside of 3 youth
leaders of AIESEC.
The Global Youth to Business Forum is a unique meeting point for youth leaders from around
the world and leading organizations.
More than 600 youth leaders and selected organizations will meet, share perspectives and
propose possible actions around issues of global relevance. The forum will gather youth opinion
around the topics of
Climate change and Sustainability;
Entrepreneurship in the Crisis;
Mobility and Diversity.
The output of the discussions around each of those three topics will be later on presented to
relevant world institutions and large businesses.
If your organization is working around one of the discussed topics or youth opinion in
general, join the youth leaders from around the world in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25th August 2009 as a corporate delegate.
Click HERE
If your organization is interested to:
Gather global youth opinion regarding the core business/important initiative of your
company
Involve your staff in direct interaction with youth leadership from diverse cultures
Profile your brand among 600 youth leaders from over 100 countries and thousands more
online
Co-brand a youth statement to the world institutions and business regarding the burning topics
of today
Global Youth to Business Forum