Y2B 2013 Concept and Invite

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www.youthtobusiness.org

GlobalY2B

@AIESEC_Y2B

Global Youth to Business is an initiative powered

by AIESEC and provides a forum where young leaders and businesses come together to voice their concerns on major world issues and generate new, actionable ideas and thoughts about the future.

We aim to do this by providing a platform for Youth to voice their opinions, and allow it to be validated and made stronger with inputs from global business and thought leaders through our one-day event.

Gen Y: Present & Future Generation Y has become the major demographic group in most of the world. This generation is the largest group of consumers and makes up the biggest chunk of the upcoming global workforce. The values they hold and the opinions they have should be of great interest to business, government and the world.

The trends of today are shaped by Generation Y and will be the prevalent reality tomorrow. We want to provide a platform for them to engage with business leaders in order to discuss major issues that the world faces today and create ideas to help shape a better future for their generation and beyond. Youth to Business is a space to inspire and empower this generation of youth.

Technological

Innovation What technology themes are imminent and likely to disrupt business as usual?

How will it affect the youth and their behaviors?

How can technological innovation be used to provide global solutions to the world’s current challenges?

changing

Education paradigms

Are we developing the right skills to create leaders of tomorrow?

What is the role of businesses to develop skills in young people?

Should businesses support educational institutions in curriculum and infrastructure development?

What kind of leadership does our time demand?

What is the role of youth to become a new age leader that their community demands? development?

21st Century

Leadership

The Agenda The agenda of the forum is created in the following framework:

The first half of the agenda is dedicated to host of guest speakers delivering short and powerful talks on the relevance and future demands of the topics being discussed on the day. This will inform the delegates and create the base for helping the delegates form their opinions for the rest of the day.

In this part of the agenda, the youth delegates attend workshops and discussions on the above topics with the business leaders and experts present. This is a unique space where the youth delegates get a chance to not only develop their own opinions, but also co-create solutions with their peers and the experts in the same room.

This is the space where youth delegates validate their opinions, ideas and solutions with business leaders and experts. Its a space where the businesses and the youth constructively challenge eachother on their ideas & opinions with the quest to make them better.

The output of the day is collected and aimed to be circulated to not only 100,000 AIESEC members worldwide but also to many a million people that AIESEC reaches everyday.

Keynotes to deliver a general level understanding among the audience on the topic addressed.

Workshops delivered by corporate partners to showcase the business perspective of the topic that is relevant to youth.

Talks delivered on the above mentioned topics by business leaders and youth.

Facilitated space for youth and business to create content, solutions and opinions based on the topics for the day.

The conversations throughout the day will evolve through this flow:

Present Perspective

Ideation for the Future

For further queries or enquiries on participation at Global Youth to Business Forum, please contact: Nakul Asija - nakula@ai.aiesec.org

the 2013 edition The 2013 edition of Youth to Business Forum will be held at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt together with the 65th AIESEC International Congress.

Tentatively scheduled for 20th August 2013, the forum will bring together around 1000 students from more than 110 countries of the world and some of the top business and thought leaders.

Past editions of Global Youth to Business Forum have been held at: 2009 : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2010 : Hyderabad, India 2011 : Nairobi, Kenya 2012 : Moscow, Russia

PastCollaborators Phil Clothier Carsten Sudhoff Vishen Lakhiani Ruben Vardanian Will McInnes Gert Van Mol Miranda Ash David Bacon Nirvana Cable

Ulrich Bartsch Anantha Krishnan Chris Weeks Henry Njoroge Jessika Fraser Lee-Anne Ragan Marianne Knuth Fernando Lanzer Jon Froda Thomas-Madsen Mygdal

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