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Youth Engagement Summit

About
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. 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

Participating Countries
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.

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
 * 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