The meeting acknowledged that all around the world, young people are responding to challenges of the day through innovation by contributing fresh ideas, building bridges and driving the human development they want to see for themselves. Innovation and entrepreneurship offer important solutions and the 4th Industrial Revolution offers many opportunities for the future. Initiatives that bring the different sectors together, alliances that really achieve the SDGs through innovation, entrepreneurship, and the harnessing young people’s leadership are the way to go.

Decent policies, innovation, social entrepreneurship and education can help achieve what the SDGs are looking for: to leave no one behind. The needs of marginalized communities can be addressed. It is also important to keep in mind that gender equality is not just a goal, but actually an instrument in maximizing the amount of human potential.

The Meeting Acknowledged that firms such as ARK Impact Asset Management demonstrate how social development and profit can go hand in hand, making investments into social development projects much more attractive to investors. The emphasis should be placed on how impact investment does not compromise on investment return. Although social and environmental values is important, cannot achieve sustainable development without financial value.

The Meeting agreed that, beyond the public and private sectors, more people need to be brought into PPPs. The common ground of PPPs is to boost up local economy and utilize local R&D resources to cultivate innovation sites similar to Silicon Valley. Venture capitalists can also offer opportunities to startups to solve any challenges of the cities. Nurturing startups that are doing something for the city will benefit the public, private sectors and people since it is logical to give them sound opportunities for business. It’s a sound business model for us to give them proper sound opportunities for business.

Incubators are approaching the UN, asking to establish partnerships. Three objectives: 1. unleashing leadership of young people 2. solving social challenges 3. sustainable development. The conversation is focused on all three of these tenets.

Skepticism regarding the achievability of the SDGs within its given timeframe can be countered by approaching the problem from a different angle. Rather than thinking of solving the SDGs in a linear manner, exponentially thinking about the way that development is happening right now is key to achieving the 2030 Agenda.

The Meeting agreed that IT technology is well developed and utilized for various sectors, yet remains largely untapped in politics. These ‘untouched’ industries should be commercialized and make profit while connecting people to better solutions.

The Meeting recognizes the impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on the public and private sectors. While the concept of a city was defined as a physical space in the past, the city has been further extended and connected through digitalization. It is important for governments to provide data infrastructure and access to data to social ventures for their success.

The Meeting recognized that Youth want to help themselves and contribute to their own future by creating the life they want to live in. A lot of them feel that the state that we are in now is not what they want for the future, which drives them to create new solutions