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Join the Summit’s global community of international youth-led and youth-serving organizations, funders and policy makers, business voices, researchers, technical experts, and young leaders as we reflect on the lessons, challenges and opportunities posed by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The multi-format event will include video and live sessions that bring together voices from across the youth development community. The agenda includes:

• Calls to action from across the GYEO youth development community.
• Fireside chat with the Ford Foundation and a young leader discussing what “reimagining our systems” means to them.
• Five live deep dive technical breakout sessions hosted by Summit partners on innovations in entrepreneurship, youth-led design thinking, digital transformation in crisis, youth employment at scale, and on emerging research on the impacts of the pandemic youth-serving organizations.
• Four expert lightning talks on priority topics such as gender and the workforce, education-tech and digital inclusion, evolving industries of opportunity for youth employment, and youth-led innovation.
• A live, interactive closing session titled, “Collective Action for Youth-Centered Development Priorities,” with our community and leading voices from USAID, Citi Foundation, The Youth Employment Funders Group (YEFG), the Alliance for International Youth Development (AIYD), and more to explore how we as a collective system of actors can best support policies advancing youth economic opportunity and development in the changing context of COVID-19.

Date & Time:

Thursday, October 29, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT

Format:

Four hours, online, advance registration required.

Registration is free and space is limited.

Agenda:

All program sessions and times listed are subject to change and in EDT.

9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:10 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. Voices from the Community

9:20 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Youth Leader Fireside Chat

• Ford Foundation & Youth Leader, IREX

9:45 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. Transition Break

9:50 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Expert Lightning Talks

• Gender & Workforce
• Ed-Tech and Inclusion
• Rethinking Opportunity
• Youth-Led Innovation

10:20 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Transition Break 

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Live Breakout Sessions

• Chemonics & UNLEASH Global Innovation Lab
• D2i & Deloitte
• MTC
• Save the Children
• MSI, World Learning, USAID, World Bank, and Rice University

11:30 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. Transition break

11:35 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. Closing Session: Collective Action for Youth-Centered Development Priorities 

“Collective Action to Reimagine Development Priorities for Youth Economic Opportunities” - Join us for the final session of the 2020 GYEOS to explore how we as a collective system of actors can best support policies advancing youth economic opportunity and development in the changing context of COVID-19.

12:35 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. Event Close “The Way Forward” 

More Information to come!