The Summit

Movements.org summits strive to bring activists, technology experts and members of the private sector together in person to facilitate collaboration and learning. To date, AYM has had 88 delegates representing 25 countries participate in three conferences.

New York City Mexico City London

LONDON

The 2010 Alliance For Youth Movements Summit

Joel Braunold, OneVoice (Delegate, 2010 London Summit)

"The London AYM was an inspirational summit to me personally given the large basket of knowledge I took home with from the summit. The contacts I made and the knowledge we shared was enormous and continue to be very helpful as we plan our new projects. In fact, we refer to our current young organisation (CAMAYM) as a brain child of the London AYM summit, for its birth came immediately after the summit." -Eric Acha, African Policy Forum (Delegate, 2010 London Summit)

Highlights:

Keynote: Scott Heiferman: Meetup.com

Interview with:Kristen Morissey: Google

Panel discussion:How can you use online content and conversation to drive community? (Kristen Morrisey, Google; Juan Zarate, CBS News; Matthew McGregor, Blue State Digital; Christ Sarette, Invisible Children; Aashika Damodar, Survivors Connect)

Interview with: Kingsley Bangwell: Youngstars Foundation International

MEXICO CITY

The 2009 Alliance of Youth Movements Summit

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said of the Summit, “Young people around the world are poised to lead this kind of innovative citizen empowerment – which is why the United States is supporting a summit here in Mexico of Alliance for Youth Movements – to connect up young people working to end violence throughout Latin America – whether it’s domestic violence or dating violence or lawlessness in the streets of your community, we must all take a stand against violence. And this is a new tool that will help."

(Secretary Clinton addresses the 2009 AYM Summit in Mexico City via video message)

Highlights

Welcome Remarks by: Suzanne Hall, US Department of State

Case Study: The Use of Twitter in Moldovan Protests, with Co-Founder of AYM Jared Cohen; Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder of Twitter; Natalia Morari, ThinkMoldova)

Panel: Stories From Mexico (Suzanne Hall, US Department of State; Mayra Contreras, Mexico SOS; Elias Kuri, Iluminemos Mexico; Ana Franco de Wattnem, Mexico Unido Contra la Delincuencia)

Who Attended?

Full Attendee Bio Book 2009

Selected Press

CNN Mexico's Mario Gonzalez covers the 2009 AYM Summit

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All Mexico Summit Panels, Keynotes, and Remarks

Video Interviews from Mexico

NEW YORK CITY

The 2008 Inaugural Alliance of Youth Movements Summit

The first annual AYM summit identified and convened 21st century movements for the first time in his tory. Speakers at the Summit included actress Whoopi Goldberg, Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz, The Obama Campaign’s New Media Team, and then-current Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs of the United States James K. Glassman.

(Co-founders Jason Liebman and Jared Cohen address the 2008 delegates at a gala hosted by MTV in New York's Times Square)

Highlights

Keynote: Oscar Morales on Using Social Media to Build a Global Movement
Remarks: Introduction to Building a Movement Against Terrorism by James Glassman

Panel: Rebooting Politics 2.0 With the Obama Campaign's New Media Team (Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum; Joe Rospars, 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign; Andrew Rasiej, Personal Democracy Forum; Sam Graham-Felsen, Obama for America; Scott Goodstein, Obama for America; Joe Green, Causes and Project Agape)