Day 3| Youth Entrepreneurship Forum

October 17, 2019

From Left to Right : Comm. Laurence Diestro, Chair Ryan Enriquez, Youth Leaders Patrick John Ratuita, Irene Olipendo and Maurice Ondoy

The delegates attended the Asian African Youth Entrepreneurship Forum in the morning and Asian-African Youth Partnership Meeting for Cooperation in the afternoon at the Banquet Hall of 21st Century Hotel, Beijing, China.

Group photo with delegates from Morocco and Cambodia

Photo taken by Chair Ryan Enriquez in their plenary session

NYC Chairperson and CEO Ryan Enriquez with the heads of delegation from other countries

During the Asian-African Youth Entrepreneurship Forum, He Junke, First Secretary of Secretariat of the Central Committee of Communist Youth League of China (CYLC), and Aytab Aliyeva, the President of Great Silk Way International Youth Union give an Opening Remarks to all the participating countries.

The Forum is about the New Opportunities and Practices for Asian and African Youth Entrepreneurship. Liu Kai, Executive Director of International Department of All-China Youth Federation (ACYF) was the moderator during the forum.
The four (4) speakers are Alounxai Sounnalath, Secretary General of the Central Committee, the Lao People’s Revolutionary Youth Union, Oluwaseun Oluwafemi Emmanuel William-Olugun, Director/Chairperson, Youth Council of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Jiang Jiang, Director of Innovation Strategy Institute of Chinese Academy of Macroeconomy Research, and Yunus Furkan Akbal, President of Young MUSIAD & Co-founder of Fuzul Group Turkey.

NYC Chair Ryan Enriquez discusses the different entrepreneurial practices in the Philippines which could be shared to other countries.

Also, there is a Panel Discussion about Forge Partnership to Promote Youth Entrepreneurship. Liu Fan, Associate Professor of University of Chinese of Social Sciences & Senior Mentor of KAB Entrepreneurship Education.

There are six (6) speakers during the Panel Discussion, Ryan Enriquez, Chairperson and CEO, the National Youth Commission (NYC) of the Philippines, Ahmed Zakarta Mostafa Edirs, President Assistant, Egyptian National Movement, Sun Yan, Vice-President of Promotion Association of Global Youth Innovation Leaders Community (PILC), Qaiser Nawab, Founder, “THE” Society – Together for Health and Education Pakistan, Zhou Yuning, CPO of Bottloop Recycling, and Sara Rajabli, Social Entrepreneur, Azerbaijan BUTA Arts and Sweets Company Azerbaijan.
In the afternoon, the Asian-African Youth Partnership Meeting for Cooperation was conducted, twenty (20) speakers from Asia and Africa introduce their organizations and advocacies.