Every person has its aspirations and every time has its challenges.
You and your organization are looking for people, ideas, a better understanding of how to be part of the change that is necessary, to increase your impact and reach. 

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ABOUT EBBF EVENTS

"The energy, hope that comes from deep questions, interactions with people determined to fulfil their role of meaningful impact through the organizations where they work is unique. I leave every ebbf event with a fresh new understanding of what is possible and what is needed for my organization to be truly successful today and how I can be part of building the future we seek to create."

"By far the most challenging, thought provoking, yet supportive and empowering events. The only place where diversity has an impact ... undergrads and CEOs have meaningful conversations. Unparalleled."

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We invite leaders, explorers from around the world to live an ebbf learning experience to understand that relation and to identify how we and our organizations can have the impact that this age requires and  influence unleashing our huge potential.

ebbf has been refining for over 30 years the art of interactive events. Action-oriented individuals and their rich diversity of questions, views and ideas are brought together in deep and meaningful conversations that lead to fresh new energy and volition for action.

During this three-day event, you will feel part of a community of diverse yet like-minded leaders, exploring together your roles, understanding the reality that surrounds you, the needs of this age, the desire to create meaningful impact and together choose a path forward.

Mind-opening speakers will inspire you through their experiences and nurtured interactions between participants open new possibilities.

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EVENT FLOW

What are our aspirations? What unites us?
What are the key issues we are facing and the underlying assumptions causing them? What positive signs are we seeing in the midst of so much confusion, what is emerging?

What is the ideal future we are aiming for?
What makes that desired future possible?
What is already working, what is giving us hope?

How can we build the future?
Who can we walk this path with? How do we create partnerships?
What are the attitudes and conceptual frameworks that can help us progress?
Where do we start?

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At ebbf events PARTICIPANTS rather than SPEAKERS are the FOCUS OF ACTIVITY because of the insightful level of people who attend.
We have however invited a number of inspiring individuals to share their ideas and spark our exploration.

Confirmed speakers

EVA YAZHARI - CEO Beyond Capital Fund  

ROY STEINER - Senior VP, The Rockefeller Foundation

SOVAIDA MA'ANI - Founding Director, Centre for Peace and Global Governance

BOB HENDERSON - CEO at The Henderson Consulting Group 

NDIITAH NGHIPONDOKA-ROBIATI - CEO at Namibia Trade Forum 

JOHN SANEI - Futurist and Associate Partner at CIFS 

JOSEPHINE LAU - Executive Director - The Serica Initiative

VALERIE JULLIAND - UN Resident Coordinator for Indonesia 

ARTHUR DAHL - President of the International Environment Forum (IEF)

CAROLINE AVANZO - Founder of Gemmes.org 

NESSRINE BENLAKHAL -  Student

EWURAKUA DAWSON-AMOAH - Founder, The Melacast Network

LEONEL RAMIREZ - Freelance Writer

Dr. DULIA ENKHTOR - Senior Consultant at ValueAdd Group

OLIVIER AVANZO - Student

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PROGRAM FLOW (all times in European CEST)

FRIDAY 14th May 2021
UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT

16:00 to 18:00  (CEST)
Opening and the power of one, multiplied by the uniting power of many.

The opening keynote by Arthur Dahl will frame this big challenge that we have set for us:
How can we be the force for social good?

FIRST LEARNING SESSION
"Every soul has its aspiration"
We start the event by sharing personal aspirations that we aim to achieve through our workplaces.
We start with the power of one: I can do this , I have done this, hearing and sharing what we are trying to achieve and achieving in these complex times.

KEYNOTE: Ndiitah Nghipondoka Robiati 
The power of unity, when managing very diverse teams, in our quest to "become the source of social good"

SECOND LEARNING SESSION
We explore how we can create and use unity to strengthen our individual and collective impact.
We aim to connect with the aspirations of people around us,
exploring how accompaniment is strengthening our resolve and impact.
Then we connect with the wider reality “my team / my company / society”.

We are individuals, we seek to understand and be a part of the reality that surrounds us and of the needs that are part of this age.
Identifying what unites us as individuals, what creates the best groups and communities with whom an understanding of priorities and actions can progress in our every day work.

19:00 to 21:00 (CEST)
What are we seeing and sensing in the world right now?
Inequalities, racial debate, this and much more is what is happening at the moment.
But what is driving and causing racial inequality, gender injustice, climate disaster etc.?

KEYNOTE BY ROB HENDERSON
framing the current situation and ways to understand what is necessary

FOURTH LEARNING SESSION
And what is giving me / us hope ?

Caroline Avanzo, founder of Gemmes will be interviewing youth associated with Gemmes to highlight some of the signs, the kinds of actions are already being taken to overcome the injustices and negativity surrounding us. 

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SATURDAY 15th May 2021
SENSING THE FUTURE

16:00 to 18:00 (CEST)
"Those who journey in the garden land of knowledge, because they see the end in the beginning, see peace in war and friendliness in anger..." Seven Valleys, Baha'u'llah.

KEYNOTE : JOHN SANEI 
As a Futurist John is perfectly placed to introduce us to this concept of the future, not one future set in stone but a number of possible futures. What is he observing? 

LEARNING SESSION:
We position ourselves in the future, a future where the SDGs have been achieved, the desired outcomes have been reached.
What does that look like?

"An immutable belief in justice should guide every endeavour to allocate resources according to the real needs and aspirations of the community rather than the whims and wishes of a a privilege few." OSED framework for action.

We want to describe the details of that reality, to understand exactly what is necessary today to build that future.

KEYNOTE:  ROY STEINER
Roy will share how he is exploring possible, ideal futures and the key elements that are not what you might imagine of what is making those co-creation sessions so useful and transformative.

LEARNING SESSION:

We will look at scenarios of the future and identify what will make them possible.

The scenarios we have envisaged is not impossible, it has been done before e.g. electric cars ridiculed for so long are now the cool car to drive, smoking in public places normal 20 years ago is now unacceptable, polio has been eradicated...
So what are some of the key elements to make those futures possible? 

19:00 to 21:00 (CEST)
What do we already have in place to build that future?

YOUTH KEYNOTE
What seeds are already been sowed that can get us into that direction.
What are the inspirations of people, economic systems, organizations already moving forward in the right direction?

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SUNDAY 16th May 2021
BUILDING THE FUTURE

16:00 to 18:00 (CEST)
How can my and my company's actions connect now, to building that future?

KEYNOTE: Eva Foust Yazhari
Eva will share how she built her company, how she is driving the future of impact investing, who she is collaborating with, what she has learnt about becoming the source for good.

LEARNING SESSION:
What can we do? Who are the best partners to identify to accelerate our shift?

KEYNOTE: Sovaida Ma'ani
What is the attitude and the mindset that works best to create social change?
How do I keep up the attitude and the volition by understanding and resisting the pressures we face?

LEARNING SESSION:
Following Sovaida's keynote we will go and explore our personal attitudes and mindsets and how to foster those in our teams.

19:00 to 21:00 (CEST)
Closing - We circle back to opening of the event, to the power of unity, the power of one , the reciprocity, of working as a community.
Feeling of accomplishment bringing together what we learnt, building the volition to continue on our path of meaningful impact, together with the new insights and new human partnerships we have created in these days and will continue on the event's platform.

JOSEPHINE LAU gives talk presenting her work connecting US - China relations - how she brought spiritual principles in a secular work, what she learnt along the way and the way to build bridges as we build the future.

CLOSING KEYNOTE and HOW WE CONTINUE THE PATH, TOGETHER.