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                                      GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SUMMIT 2018
                                                         June 4, 2018

                                                           Click here to download the PDF version
  
            
 9:00 - 9:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks/Reflections from Co-Organizing Member States and Co-Hosts of Global Solutions Summit 2018


  • Ambassador Toshiya Hoshino, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations and Co-chair of UN STI Forum 2018
  • Ambassador Juan Sandoval-Mendiolea, Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations and Co-chair of UN STI Forum 2018
  • Mr. Juwang Zhu, Director, Division for Sustainable Development Goals, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA)
  • Alfred Watkins, Chairman, Global Solutions Summit
 
9:30 – 10:30
Business Models for Potable Water Delivery
 
Moderator: Dan Bena, Retired leader of the Sustainable Development agenda for Pepsico's Global Operations


  • Kurt Soderlund, CEO, Safe Water Network
  • Randy Welsch, Cofounder and President, Jibu
  • Lars Willi, Founder, Weconnex
 
10:30 - 10:40
Innovator Roundtable 1
  • Elevator pitches by three innovators selected by the UN

10:45 - 11:45
Business Models for Off-Grid Electricity
 
Moderator: George Owusu Essegbey, Director, Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana


  • Patrina Eiffert, Senior Director, NRECA International
  • Laura Koch, Ignite Power
  • ​Katherine Lucey, CEO, Solar Sister
 
11:45 - 12:00

Technological Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development Targets
 
Remarks by Ambassador Juan José Gómez Camacho, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations, Chair of the UN Ambassadorial Core Group on the Impact of Exponential Technological Change on Sustainable Development 

12:00 – 12:45
The Human Connection for Last Mile Deployment
 
Moderator: 
  • Jonathan Papoulidis, Executive Advisor on Fragile States, World Vision
  • Mark Grobmyer, CEO, Global Technology Deployment Initiative
  • Katherine Lucey, representing Global Distributors Collective

12:45-13:00
Innovator Roundtable 2
  • Elevator pitches by three innovators selected by the UN

13:00 - 15:00
Lunch

15:00 – 15:30
ICT for the Last Mile
 
Moderator: Sonia Kabir, Managing Director, Microsoft Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Laos


  • Andrew Beard, CEO and Co-Founder, Vanu
  • Syed Farhad Ahmed, Managing Director, Aamra Group

15:30 - 16:30
Business Models for Smallholder Farmers


  • Martha Hirpa and Hilary Haddigan, Heifer International
  • Kate Granger, Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation       
  • Shaun Ferris, Director of Agriculture & Livelihoods Program, Catholic Relief Services
 
16:30 - 16:40
Innovator Roundtable 3
  • Elevator pitches by three innovators selected by the UN

16:40 – 17:40
Finance for Smallholder Farmers and Community Based Projects
 
Moderator: 


  • Donna Katzin, Founding Executive Director, Shared Interest
  • Fan Gao, SVP, CreditEase
  • Chris Walker, Social Innovations Director, Mercy Corps

17:40 – 18:00
Wrap Up – Next Steps and Introduction to STI Forum



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