Samsung Electronics’ international flagship company social duty (CSR) program, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow, took the highlight at a worldwide gathering of changemakers hosted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland — the place innovation, sport and social affect converged.
From June three to five, as a Worldwide Mobile and Computing Equipment Partner of Olympic & Paralympic, Samsung participated within the first Olympism365 Summit: Sport For A Better World on the IOC headquarters to showcase its Solve for Tomorrow imaginative and prescient of empowering youth via training and know-how — highlighting tales from all over the world that reveal how this system helps younger folks deal with real-world challenges of their communities.
Over three days, the occasion introduced collectively greater than 250 representatives from 100 organizations — throughout the Olympic Movement, United Nations companies, improvement and financing establishments, civil society, for-purpose enterprise, protected sport group and IOC Young Leaders working collectively — to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) via sport.
▲ IOC President Thomas Bach delivers a keynote on the IOC Youth Summit.
Held as a part of the Olympism365 Summit, the IOC Youth Summit offered a platform for IOC Young Leaders to contribute their views, collaborate on modern options and assist form the way forward for sport for improvement — providing an important contribution to the Olympism365 technique centered on constructing a greater world via sport.
During the summit, Ramneek Kaur Ahluwalia, the 2022 winner of the United Kingdom’s Solve for Tomorrow program, spoke about how the expertise formed her private development.
“What started off as a challenging lived experience of being isolated, vulnerable and stereotyped when using a white cane, quickly fueled the evolution of award-winning MyVision,” she mentioned. “Thanks to the amazing Samsung Solve for Tomorrow mentors who helped me utilize the design thinking process and technical expertise to create a truly life-changing device.”
She shared her journey creating MyVision, a wise assistive machine designed to assist folks with congenital visible impairments. Drawing from her personal expertise with visible impairment, Ramneek described how Solve for Tomorrow helped her to develop — and outlined her ongoing efforts to increase her dream realized via Solve for Tomorrow into broader academic and profession alternatives for others with comparable challenges.
▲ Ramneek Kaur Ahluwalia shares her journey with IOC Young Leaders.
The occasion additionally offered alternatives to interact with IOC officers and different Young Leaders from all over the world. Ramneek met with Sherief Kholeif, a United Kingdom-based IOC Young Leader, to debate sports activities applications for marginalized youth in Scotland and exchanged concepts with contributors on the social affect of mixing sport and know-how.
Building on its participation within the Olympism365 Summit and the IOC Youth Summit, Samsung plans to strengthen its collaboration with the IOC by designating “Social Change Through Sport & Technology” as one of many international themes for Solve for Tomorrow 2025. In doing so, the corporate will proceed to help younger folks worldwide in creating artistic, sensible concepts to drive optimistic change of their communities.
“It was a pleasure to meet Ramneek, one of Samsung’s Solve for Tomorrow ambassadors at the IOC Youth Summit,” mentioned Kholeif. “Her innovative and thoughtful ideas are inspiring. It is encouraging to see Samsung paving the way for young students around the world who believe in creating a more accessible and inclusive future through innovation. I hope the Solve for Tomorrow program continues to create meaningful opportunities for my fellow Young Leaders, and that together we can make a difference by combining technology and sport.”
▲ (From left) Sherief Kholeif…
