PROGRAM
8:30-9AM
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
9-11 AM
PROGRAMMING
Welcome to Global Citizen NOW
Exploring how investment, partnership, and leadership can strengthen the foundations of opportunity and turn ambition into progress.
FEATURING: Nomzamo Mbatha
Powering Progress: From Partnership to Delivery
How practical partnerships can align leadership, expertise, and investment to turn shared priorities into tangible progress.
FEATURING: Yasamin Alttahir, Dr. David Sengeh, The Honorable Gaston Browne, Zoisa North-Bond
Small Businesses, Big Impact
Celebrating entrepreneurs using innovation, technology, and sustainable business models to strengthen communities and drive change.
FEATURING: Amy Bonitatibus, Amrita Bhasin, Anu Bidani, Diana Yousef, Lawrence Miller, Michelle Adelman
Shared Facts for Our Shared Future
Exploring why reliable, independent media is essential to informed communities, accountable leadership, and lasting progress.
FEATURING: Jessica Nabongo, Nishant Lalwani
Educating the Next Generation: Investing in Opportunity
Exploring how bold partnerships and investment can expand access to education and create opportunities for millions of children.
FEATURING: Jessica Nabongo, Fran Katsoudas, Gabriela Pinheiro, Maysa Jalbout
Putting Girls in Charge
Exploring how protecting reproductive health can give girls and women greater freedom to shape their own futures.
FEATURING: Aparajita Ramakrishnan, Diene Keita, Klau Pakos, Laís Ribeiro, Vanessa Garcia-Brito
Built for What’s Next: Inside the UAE’s Race for Water Security
Exploring how the UAE is investing in innovation and long-term solutions to strengthen water security for the future.
FEATURING: Nomzamo Mbatha, His Excellency Abdulla Balalaa
Investing in Development, Investing in Our Future
Exploring why investing in international development is essential to expanding opportunity and building a more resilient future.
FEATURING: Neale Richmond
11-11:25AM
COFFEE & NETWORKING
11:25AM-12:30PM
PROGRAMMING
Yanuni: For the Forest, for the Future
Exploring how storytelling and philanthropy can build support for Indigenous-led conservation and lasting impact in the Amazon.
FEATURING: Michael Sheldrick, Dax Da Silva
The Fight for a Healthy Generation in a Turbulent World
Exploring new approaches to strengthen health systems, protect children from disease, and ensure every child has the chance to thrive.
FEATURING: Kalpana Kochhar, Alishba Khan Barech, Dr. Sania Nishtar
Light Every Birth
Bringing reliable solar power to health facilities across Sub-Saharan Africa.
FEATURING: Dr. Laura Stachel, Dr. Ntuli Kapologwe
From the Ground Up: Storytelling the Future of Farming
Exploring how storytelling can turn local farming solutions into a global movement for healthier land, stronger livelihoods, and lasting change.
FEATURING: Jessica Padula, Josh Tickell, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Investing in Education, Expanding Opportunity
Supporting education programs
FEATURING: Dr. Laura Stachel, Dr. Ntuli Kapologwe
The Fundamentals of Moral Leadership
Exploring what moral leadership demands in practice and what leaders, institutions, and investors can do to turn principles into action.
FEATURING: Hugh Evans, The Honorable Mia Mottley
12:30 - 1:10 PM
LUNCH BREAK
1:10 - 2:40 PM
PROGRAMMING
Food Security
Exploring how investment in smallholder farmers and food systems can strengthen food security, economic growth, and resilience across the Global South.
FEATURING: Andrew Zimmern, Dr. Álvaro Lario, Salah Ahmed Jama, Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi
Staying the Course: Europe's Role in Building a Fairer World
Exploring Europe’s role in sustaining global cooperation, development, and opportunity amid a changing global landscape.
FEATURING: Roberta Metsola
The Power of Collective Action: A Strategic Conversation Around COP31
Exploring how Pacific leadership can strengthen global cooperation, unlock climate finance, and turn commitments into action ahead of COP31.
FEATURING: Monika Froehler, The Honourable Inia Seruiratu MP, Ruel Yamuna, Tina Stege
Climate Finance Is a People Story
FEATURING: Mafalda Duarte
Indigenized Energy
Expanding clean electrification to Indigenous homes across North America.
FEATURING: Cody Two Bears, Deejay Two Bears
Indigenous Solutions at Scale
Highlighting Indigenous-led solutions protecting the Amazon and how greater investment can expand their impact.
FEATURING: Toya Manchineri
Beyond Debt: Financing People and Planet
Exploring how public and private finance can ease debt pressures and unlock long-term investment in people, climate resilience, and opportunity.
FEATURING: Josh Wilson, Leo Varadkar, Sir Ronnie Cohen