Here's your sneak peek at the 2017 Social Good Summit
The 2017 Social Good Summit will kick off a week of various activities—from concerts to conferences—all with one common goal in mind. Actually... make that 17 goals.
The Sustainable Development Goals, also known as Global Goals, is a 17 item agenda adopted by the United Nations in 2015 to find solutions for the most pressing issues of our time. With the intention of achieving the SDGs by the year 2030, Global Goals Week was created to raise awareness and accelerate action.
To help kick off Global Goals Week, the Social Good Summit will unite a community of activists, innovators, celebrities, and world leaders on Sunday, Sept. 17 to explore how we can make the world a better place using technology and new media.
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This year's Summit is raising the bar with a day of dynamic conversations, performances, special announcements, and more. This year, the Social Good Summit will feature performances by Rocky Dawuni, Erika Ender, and Madame Gandhi; an original piece, written by U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman; and even a sit down interview with actor and UN Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador Connie Britton and the Syrian Civil Defense's White Helmets.
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The latest additions to the 2017 speaker lineup include:
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Queen of Jordan
Humza Arshad, Comedian, Actor, YouTube Personality
David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme
Connie Britton, Actor & UN Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador
Bob Collymore, CEO, Safaricom
Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent, BBC
Sara Eisen, "Squawk on the Street" & "Worldwide Exchange" Co-Anchor, CNBC
Rebecca Hoppy, Partner & Managing Director, Rabin Martin
Khaled Khatib, Media Officer, The White Helmets (Syria Civil Defense)
Matt Keller, Senior Director, XPRIZE
Jerry Li, General Manager of Overseas Business, Panda Green Energy Group Limited
DeRay McKesson, Civil Rights Activist
Mounir Mustafa, Head of The White Helmets (Syria Civil Defense)
Femi Oke, Journalist, Al Jazeera
Arthur Potts Dawson, Chef
Vivian Schiller, Executive Editor in Residence, Weber Shandwick
Caryl Stern, President & CEO, UNICEF USA
Jayathma Wickramanayake, United Nations Secretary General's Envoy on Youth
To see the agenda and full list of speakers, visit socialgoodsummit.com.
ACTIVATIONS
In addition to our stellar lineup of speakers, the 2017 Social Good Summit will feature more onsite activations than ever before. From art installations to virtual reality, be sure to check out all that's happening both on and off the stage.
TUNE IN LIVE
The decisions being made in New York during UN General Assembly Week affect us all, and the Social Good Summit provides our global audience with a glimpse of those closed-door conversations.
Sponsored by UBS, the 2017 Social Good Summit will broadcast the onstage dialogue into seven different languages — English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Hebrew, Russian, and Spanish — for audiences worldwide. You can access the Social Good Summit's during and after the Summit on mashable.com/sgs.
GLOBAL MEETUPS
From full-scale conferences to watch-parties, people all over the world will meet and join forces in-person and online, connecting back to the Summit in New York City through video and social media, allowing even the most remote regions to participate in the conversation.
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Hosted by the UNDP Country Offices and +PlusSocialGood, more than 50 meetups will take place in a number of exciting locations around the world including Sudan, Myanmar, and Afghanistan.
This year’s Social Good Summit Ukraine will showcase a dozen of grassroots innovation projects which are making a positive change for democracy and human rights. Rwanda's Social Good Summit event will follow the YouthConnekt Africa Summit held in July, and help continue the youth’s conversation about the future they want. Committed to leaving no one behind, Suriname’s Social Good Summit meetup will bring together people with disabilities and provide them an opportunity to showcase their resilience and join the conversation about the world we want for #2030NOW.
INSTACORPS
The #Instacorps is a group photographers handpicked to go behind-the-scenes at the Social Good Summit and Global Goals Week. Follow along on Instagram as the 2017 #Instacorps share their favorite pictures.
2017 #Instacorps
Marisha Camp, @marisharocks
Chris Lee, @theotherchrislee
Simon Lewis, @simonlewisphoto
Nicol Perez, @nicolandreap
Ray Spears, @rayneutron
Daniella Zalcman, @dzalcman
For more updates, including speaker announcements and ticket information, follow @MashableEvents on Twitter.
The 2017 Social Good Summit is sponsored by:
Topics Social Good United Nations
