GloCha Climate Week New York 2024 Philanthropy and Impact Entrepreneurship Event

Emergent Futures: Innovative Technology, Finance and Localized Solutions

Date:  25th September, 8.30 – 10.30 AM

Organizers:

Registration: https://lu.ma/t5j02jwr

Objective:

Aligning with UNGA, the Summit of the Future and Climate Week, this event will harness insights to highlight transformative solutions and pathways for effective responses to emerging local and global challenges through multi-stakeholder engagement. Organized by the Global Challenges Foundation (GloCha), we will hold a design session to discuss innovative approaches to local action, focusing on geospatial information, citizen science, emerging technology and innovative funding mechanisms. 

The event will unfold in four parts:

The event will include:

  1. ​Welcome: Context & Announcements
  2. ​Global Challenges Action Centers: Spaces for empowering action on global goals
  3. ​Thematic Introductions: Experts will discuss the potential of various technologies and methods for effective multi-stakeholder action and philanthropy innovation, including:
    1. ​UN Geospatial Network’s One Map initiative
    2. ​GloCha
      1. ​A Web3-powered platform supporting impact entrepreneurship and philanthropy through citizen science data.
      2. ​Edutainment & Creative Economy Programs
    3. ​Emerging technology
    4. ​Citizen science
  4. ​Group design: Collaborative emergent strategy & design thinking session
  5. ​Tour de Table: Participants will share best practices and solutions. 
  6. ​Networking Reception: Attendees will network over light refreshments.

​This event is a timely opportunity to exchange insights, knowledge and collaborate as we surface innovative approaches to solving critical global challenges to implement the vision of UN 2.0 and work together to collectively fulfill, and think beyond, the 2030 agenda.

Location: Eric and Wendy Schmidt Foundation, New York

This event is a timely opportunity to exchange insights, knowledge and collaborate as we surface innovative approaches to solving critical global challenges to implement the vision of UN 2.0 and work together to collectively fulfill the 2030 agenda. 

Benefits for partnering philanthropists:

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