NEXT LEADERS’ EUROPE SUMMIT 2019
How do we build young leaders to tackle sustainability challenges entrepreneurially?
Limiting global warming to 1.5ºC would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in a new assessment in October 2018. Who else to make non-incremental changes than the open-minded, technologically minded and digitally connected youngsters who care for their only planet.
The Next Leaders Summit 2019
Date :20-22 March 2019
Venue :Helsinki, Finland
Register Now (Free Attendance)
This gathering of minds is for the participants to learn and share on the latest of sustainability trends, on the skills needed to lead ground-breaking sustainability projects, and to make new connections to collaborate with one another to start-up initiatives to impact local realities.
It is also about activating the often dormant leadership potential of talented young academics into utilising their intellectual capabilities for positive impact in their immediate surroundings. It is about giving them their tools of skills upgrading, technology, context and mind-set to think entrepreneurially.
Target Audience
1. Young professionals keen to lead sustainability projects locally/internationally in networked organisations.
2. Young academics, researchers, PhD students wishing to take on leadership roles in their future career and/or to commercialise their research. Leadership roles can be at different levels, e.g. community-based organizations, academic institutions, private industries, government bodies, parastatal agencies, citizenship movements, diaspora groups.
3. Decision-makers in public and private institutions eager to know how to collaborate with the upcoming tech-savvy generations and mobile diasporas.
*Young: (age 25-40 preferably)
Why Attend?
- Understand the latest big picture trends & research on science & sustainability with the current backdrop of political and economic turmoils.
- Bring your own ideas to the conversations and be inspired by others’ stories on climate leadership.
- Meet sustainability entrepreneurs thinking laterally on tackling sustainability challenges. Share and transfer but also be able to adapt to different issues, contexts and grass-root solutions (already existent or not).
- Connect to international networks and diasporas to build the understanding on how to cross-culturally collaborate for effective actions locally.
- Get to ask for help in the marketplaces on how to make your existing projects more actionable and fundable.
Agenda
- Tuesday 19 March 2019 |Pre-Event
Company / Institution visits for international guests
Expected attendance: 20
Venues: Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo - Day 1: Wednesday 20 March 2019 | Firesides
Tapping onto the academic marketplace of diasporas: Leadership stories & connections
Expected attendance: 50
Venue: Tiedekulma, Helsinki - Day 2: Thursday 21 March 2019 | Main Event
How to build the leadership required to tackle sustainability challenges with an entrepreneur mindset?
Expected attendance: 100
Venue: Porthania, Helsinki - Day 3: Friday 22 March 2019 | Closed-door workshops
Taking the lead to impact communities through local chapters
Expected attendance: 50
Venue: Kaapelitehdas - Saturday 23 March 2019 | Open event
Get to know the local hosts
Expected audience: 20
Venues: Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo
No-show Fee:
Organising a summit comes with expenses. We’ve strived to make attendance free of charge. We’d love those who register to indeed join us. Should you need to cancel, please let us know in advance, latest 48 hours, so we can give the seat to someone else. By registering you accept a no-show fee of €147/day registered. Thank you.
Visit website for more information : https://www.nelisglobal.org/evento
About NELIS
NELIS, or Next Leaders’ Initiative for Sustainability, is a global network of young leaders working on solutions for sustainability from around the globe. Originating in Japan and active in six continents, we will bring the global NELIS network to Helsinki in the NELIS European Summit
