Insights Shared On Day 1 Of Beyond Sport Summit
The first day of the Beyond Sport Summit saw over 60 representatives, including the best sport and development projects from across the world, engage in insight-filled workshop sessions and visit a selection of sport-led social change initiatives across London.
Nick Keller, Founder of Beyond Sport and Kevin Carroll, motivational speaker and author and the Summit host, opened the first day of the proceedings focused on helping the representatives from the shortlisted projects for the Beyond Sport Awards to share best practice, learn new ways to make their initiatives sustainable and to discuss new approaches to make the world more conducive to sport-led social innovation.
The attendees had flown in to London for the Summit from all around the world – from Colombia, to Tel Aviv, to Nairobi – to work together and come up with action points and ideas around sport’s role in major global issues such as poverty, health, education, children’s rights, and peace.
The community of sport and development experts, which also included figures from the sport business industry, Beyond Sport advisers, former Olympians, and UK government leaders ambassadors, participated in workshops and travelled to five London-based sport projects throughout the city.
The second day of the Summit begins today, on July 8, with experts in various fields addressing key points that will aim to improve the skills of those working on the ground in the sport-for-good sector.
Figures such as Alastair Campbell, former head of communications for the British Prime Minister, and Michelle Ford, inaugural member of the International Olympic Committee, Olympic Gold Medallist and Beyond Sport Ambassador, will lead the day.
The three-day Beyond Sport Summit will culminate on July 9, when some of the world’s most influential figures such as Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Prince Faisal Al Hussein of Jordan; and Wilfried Lemke, United Nations Special Advisor to the Secretary General will lead panels, interviews, and discussions about how to use sport to trigger social change.
You can follow the proceedings first-hand by logging on to www.beyondsport.org for regular live updates covering all the action from the Beyond Sport Summit.
