2020 CEO SUMMIT

The Third Annual Leaders on Purpose CEO Summit brings together the world’s top thought leaders, business visionaries, multilateral leaders, Academics, and CEOs.

Created by leaders for leaders, this exclusive event accelerates a new kind of leadership at the forefront of the new business logic in a post COVID world, integrating purpose and profit.

This year’s Leaders on Purpose summit will focus on creating a shared vision in response to the COVID 19 pandemic. The online talks, workshops, and discussions will all be Informed by findings from the 2020 CEO Study, which focuses on ‘build it better’ strategies and a roadmap towards the purpose first economy.

The summit is a powerful platform where shared learnings, cross-sectoral engagement, and research insights converge to drive change, delivered through proactive collaboration to enable scalable impact.

What to expect? 

This invitation only summit is the first of its kind and the first of a series in alignment with the decade of action. The agenda has been co-created by CEOs for CEOs in collaboration with UN Leadership, the science community and other global stakeholders and informed by the Leaders on Purpose CEO Study. In this important event we will set in motion strategic alignment around the shared goal of multiple stakeholders to enable businesses to transition towards the purpose-first business logic in 2030. Designed as an outcome oriented event, it promises to be one of the most insightful and impactful gatherings of 2020.

Over 70 invitation-only speakers & panelists include:

• Leaders such as Henrietta Fore (Executive Director UNICEF), Olga Algayerová (Executive Secretary UNECE), Emmanuel Faber (CEO Danone), Jesper Brodin (CEO IKEA), Alan Jope (CEO Unilever), Feike Sijbesma (Honorary Chairman DSM), Anand Mahindra (Chairman Mahindra & Mahindra), Barbara Humpton (CEO Siemens U.S.), Dylan Taylor (CEO Voyager Space Holdings) and many more

• Ambassadors and Heads of State from Germany, Columbia, Iceland, Argentina, Rwanda and around the world

• Edie Lush & Claudia Romo Edelman, Co-Hosts of the Global Goals Cast will join us as Masters of Ceremony throughout the day

Content and research driving the purpose-first economy, include:

• Launch Leaders on Purpose CEO Study 2020 preliminary insights & participatory CEOs

• Launch Fourth Sector 2030 & Global Policy Solutions following the CEO Call to action for the purpose-first economy featured in the Financial Times New Agenda

Special Guests and experiences include:

• Space For Humanity Panel with Astronauts, Performance and Q&A, Rachel Lyons, Dylan Taylor, Astronaut Nicole Stott

• Guided Overview Effect Meditation, Jeremy Nickel

• Purpose, Art and Technology virtual Exhibit and Q&A, Drue Kataoka, Founder of Drue Kataoka Studios

• Australian Artist Performance and Q&A, Ziggy Ramo

• Design Science Studio, Buckminster Fuller Institute and Habritual creators capturing the day

• Broadcasting through embassies around the world, UNGA Guide Platform and many more