Day: September 8, 2018

Young BSF: The World in 60 Minutes

Participants of the Young BSF engaged on Saturday evening in a fireside chat with acclaimed international TV presenter and journalist Ali Aslan, who was given 60 minutes to share his take on the current global situation. Aslan expressed serious concern about developments, most notably the attitude to refugees.

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Young BSF: Making AI Work

One of the panel highlights at this year’s Youth BSF forum started off with a somewhat dystopic picture of the future presented by Filip Muki Dobranič, a philosopher and activist involved in civic tech, studying the effects of the internet on decision making processes. Looking at the future where AI will be “perfected”, Dobranic spoke…

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Young BSF: Disrupting Gender Stereotypes

Youth BSF’s young leaders explored gender stereotypes and their implications in a workshop organized by the Gender Equality Research Institute Slovenia and ran by Nina Pejič.

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Young BSF: Alone We Fail

Saturday morning at the Young BSF began with an extensive workshop led by Timotej Šooš, who is in charge of Slovenia’s efforts to deliver on Agenda 2030 for sustainable development.

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Young BSF: How can Smart Communities Drive Sustainability?

The first day of the 2018 Youth BSF forum concluded with a panel/open format discussion on the possibility of smart communities driving sustainability, although it evolved into a more general debate on sustainable or circular economy as such.

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Young BSF: Bridging the Intergenerational Divide Panel

The first topic to be taken on at this year’s Young BSF forum was the intergenerational divide, whose key features and solutions allowing us to bridge it were outlined in an opening presentation by Melanie Seier Larsen, partner and managing director at the Boston Consulting Group.

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Young BSF gets underway

The 2018 Young Bled Strategic Forum got underway in Ljubljana on Friday with a welcome address by the capital’s Mayor Zoran Janković. The mayor welcomed the young participants to “the most beautiful city in the world”.

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