Our co-founders, Joel Neoh and Khailee Ng were selected to represent Malaysia in the One Young World, a global leadership summit for young leaders. The inaugural summit took place on Feb. 8-10, 2010, in London.
During the One Young World Summit, together with 1000 young pioneers from 192 countries, Joel and Khailee were guided, counselled, considered and voted on the One Young World resolutions. As decision makers of the future, they had plenary discussions about issues that are affecting and would eventually affect our world, such as global health, political leadership, interfaith dialogue, media, business and environment, were guided by the One Young World Counsellors.
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It started with a phone call.
A few meetings. Then a letter.
Our co-founder Joel Neoh was amongst one of 20 appointed to join the Majlis Perundingan Belia Negara, or the National Youth Consultative Council for 2009-2010.
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Amongst many awesome individuals, our co-founder Joel was invited to speak at AIESEC’s Malaysia Leadership Development Seminar (MyLDS) held in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) last December 6-11, 2009.
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MyLDS was another activity of AIESEC in Malaysia which aims to provide an international platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential for them to have a positive impact in society.
This six-day workshop brought together about 500 AIESECers and young people from universities and colleges from Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Sri Lanka and India. The delegates aspired to be leaders and change agents for their societies. Some of the featured topics which stirred their emotions and interest were about HIV/AIDS, Entrepreneurship, and Environmental Sustainability.
The 9th HSBC Young Entrepreneur Awards (YEA) will be held in Malaysia for the first time on April 2010.
Why is Youth Asia (extra) excited about this?
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Joel was recently invited to speak at the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute Brand and Marketing seminar in 2009.
Amongst the many things he said at the seminar, we distinctively remember this one, which we would like to share with you:
“Much has been said about the potential of the lucrative youth market. Young adults however, do not limit themselves to certain types of media and are in fact digital natives who are totally in tune with technology in every aspect of their lifestyles. Marketing to the youth is no longer just about advertising or media strategies,” he said.
Joel Neoh talked about embracing the youth movement and engaging the next generation consumer in the ASLI’s Brand and Marketing 2009 in Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur Hotel last August 18-19, 2009.
His speaking session covered the following…
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