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Program Presentation - Sponsorship - Speaker Bios

The Global Summit's diverse program promotes synergistic collaboration between citizens, organizations, and businesses - honoring the unique strength of each in co-creating a sustainable world.

November 8-10, 2010 in San Francisco, CA, USA

YOU WILL EXPERIENCE:

SEED (Social, Economic, & Environmental Diversity) Change Forum
7 Stages to Sustainability WORKShops - for a healthy, culturally rich, bio-diverse world
Global Citizen Solution Councils - youth, leaders, farmers & technologists co-create

Sustainable Technology Expo - where breakthrough innovations go global

Concert & Culture - raising critical mass participation through art

SEED Change Forum – SEED is the main speaker forum, where each morning and closing session in the main hall, Social, Economic and Environmental Diversity (SEED) inspire all to co-create sustainable global change. Daily Forum Themes include (Monday) "Birthing Social Transformation" with Barbara Marx-Hubbard +; (Tuesday) "New Economic Forum" with Author, Marvin T. Brown +; (Wednesday) "Environmental Action- On the Road to COP 16!" More

7 Stages to Sustainability (7SS) WORKShops – Delivering best practice training in everything from team building to self-empowerment to fair trade marketing to Local Currency Systems; expert practitioners deliver hands-on tools for change-makers (YOU) to co-create a healthier, culturally rich and bio-diverse world. More

Sustainable Technology Expo – Advancing the planet's greenest, cleanest and most grass-roots friendly technologies to catalyze immediate climate change solutions & sustainable economic development; Categories include energy, transportation, h20, health, agriculture, education, communications, + BLUE SKY. Investment forums unite businesses, public representatives, and international development organizations to bring what works into economies of scale. More

Solution Councils – Co-create real world solutions to the issues that matter most to you. Uniting local and global business leaders, farmers, youth, virtual delegates and technologists throughout three powerful days, Solution Councils transform dialogues into committed action around five major topics. Communications technologies and collaboration processes are applied to ensure the voices of people working on the front lines are heard. More

Concerts & Culture – For millennium, artists have been the catalysts of lasting social change. Harnessing their creative power to inspire awareness and local action, TGS will host art installations, short films, and theatrical dance performances throughout each day and in special evening programs. More

Civic Engagement Vehicles:

TGS impact is catalyzed via the following global awareness and grass-roots engagement tools:

Your Voice Matters! - Outreaching across the globe through program partner list serves of community based organizations, search engines and media partners, TGS will launch a “Your Voice Matters” campaign and ongoing voting platform invites citizens to nominate civil society delegates & identify top policy issues for each Summit.

1PIE Knowledge Base – Empowering The Global Summit's online community during events and around the year, the 1pie online knowledge base will support real-time global access (and input) to TGS and multi-sector collaboration between the grass-roots and industrialized worlds. Around the year, 1PIE is the follow up plan and unites members in local programs through joint needs assessments, evaluation & other tools.