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.

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