New York City Global Goals Jam 2024

Global Goals Jam New York City 2024

Location: Impact Hub New York Metro Area, 417 5th Avenue Unit 814, New York, NY 10016

Date: Friday, November 15, 2024

Time: 5 PM – 10 PM

Fee: Donation

Please register here:

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Global Goals Jam (“GGJ”) is an initiative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Digital Society School, at the University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam.

Official website: https://globalgoalsjam.org/

Description:
GGJ seeks to design realistic, actionable interventions for realizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that take shape as startups, non-profit or for-profit companies.

A GGJ in New York is a 5-hour event consisting of short design sprints, presenting and discussing startup business plans for attaining the SDGs in the local context of New York. Creative teams of local social and environmental scientists, current students, designers, architects, and developers work together using a tailored toolkit that applies a design thinking method to addressing and solving challenges of realizing the SDGs in the given context.

The GGJ workshop aims to:

• Introduce the audience to the methodology of design thinking underpinning the GGJ concept

• Conduct a series of case analytical and visual exercises, applying design thinking to attaining the SDGs in the local context. Each team working on the selected targets and indicators of the Goal / Goals will have delivered a business plan for a startup initiative to achieve them.

• Particular focus for the 2024 GGJ is Reconnect and Repair 

Number of participants: 10-15

Composition of GGJ NYC 2024 Session:

> Facilitators/moderators of GGJ NYC

> Speaker: Member of the UNDP Accelerator Labs team (TBC)

> Speaker: Executive Director, Asia Society Philippines

> Participants: Social and environmental scientists, current students, designers, architects, and developers

Agenda of the NYC Global Goals Jam

Friday, November 15, 5 PM – 10 PM

5:00 PM

Setting the scene: introducing Political Declaration of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015 and the Outcome of the Summit of the Future 2024, as applicable in the local context

5:15 PM

Opening by the member of the UNDP AccLabs (TBC) and the Executive Director of Asia Society Philippines

6:00 PM

Introduction by the GGJ Facilitators; Application of design thinking to attainment of the SDGs

6:10 PM

Icebreaker

6:30 PM

Breaking into teams, 3-5 persons each

6:40 PM

GGJ Sprints, Pt. 1
1.1. Organize it

1.2. Experience it

2. Respond to it

7:45 PM

GGJ Sprints, Pt. 2

3. Make it

4. Test it and evaluate it

8:45 PM

Presentations of project designs

9:30 PM

Feedback and discussion

9:45 PM

Closing remarks and thanks