The Youth Engagement Summit is the gathering of Southeast Asian youths with well-known global icons of change. The Summit’s goals are to create a lasting community of youths in the Southeast Asia region who are willing and able to work to bring positive changes to their lives and their communities.
Attendees will include regional and global business leaders, political figures and youths from all over Southeast Asia. 500 of the youth attendees will winners chosen out of the one million participants in the SEAchange survey. These winners will be given free transportation, accommodations and tickets to the event.
Join the SEACHANGE Movement and win free trip to the Youth Engagement Summit worth USD 2,500! This could be your chance to meet other youths and leaders from various sectors.
In addition to bringing this youth community together, the Summit will see the release of results from the SEAchange survey, which will present to the UN and global NGOs what change today’s Southeast Asian youth would like to help accomplish.
Sponsors
YES2009 is funded by:
*Sledgehammer Communications
*The London Speaker Bureau
*YouthAsia
*Amphibia Digital
*GO Communications
*Photolibrary
*Global Communicators
*CaptiVate
*Eyeblaster
*CGYnet
*Zesqua Media
*Vocanic
Speakers
The following speakers will be presenting at YES2009:
Sir Bob Geldof, founder of Live Aid and Live 8
Biz Stone, inventor of Twitter
Randi Zuckerberg, Director of market development at Facebook
Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood star and host of Kaun Banega Crorepati
Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, former managing director of the World Bank
Dato’ Tony Fernandes|Tony Fernandes, entrepreneur and founder of AirAsia
Nando Parrado, survivor of the 1972 airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Garry Kasparov, Chess Grandmaster and political activst
Lorraine Hahn, CNN and CNBC anchor
Youths participating in the Summit come from the following countries:
*Brunei
*Cambodia
*Indonesia
*Laos
*Malaysia
*Myanmar
*Philippines
*Singapore
*Thailand
*Vietnam
Dates & Locations
The 2009 Youth Engagement Summit will take place on November 16th-17th at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Join the SEACHANGE Movement and win free trip to the Youth Engagement Summit worth USD 2,500! This could be your chance to meet other youths and leaders from various sectors.
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