The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Pitch Competition is part of the fellowship program from the U.S. Department of State’s Young Leaders Initiative (YLAI) professional fellows program. As part of the program, 12 young social entrepreneurs from Latin America and the Caribbean work and live in San Diego to build lasting relations with local entrepreneurial organizations... Read More
6 delegates will be coming from Liberia to make professional connections in San Diego and provide examples of how U.S. states and communities provide internet access to resource poor, underserved or rural communities in the United States; illustrate how the United States promotes the study of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) in resource poor,... Read More
Free to Rock is a documentary film directed by 4-time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of... Read More
5 delegates will be coming from Morocco to make professional connections in San Diego and highlight U.S. efforts to help new entrepreneurs overcome social and financial hurdles through leadership development, job creation, access to capital, marketing, education, and innovations that encourage entrepreneurship; explore and assess best practices for promoting small business development including lending, initiatives... Read More
Please join us at the 2017 Diplomacy Gala, "Global Entrepreneurship + Public Diplomacy: A New Venture." Our annual fundraiser is a unique celebration of the impact of public diplomacy in San Diego. This year we will highlight our professional exchange programs which connect local social and traditional entrepreneurs with their international counterparts to build mutual understanding, share best practices and form lasting business relationships. While... Read More
20 visitors will be coming from multiple countries to make professional connections in San Diego exploring the following: facilitate systematic sharing of knowledge, expertise, and lessons learned on building social cohesion and community resilience to prevent violent extremism across cities on on international basis; analyze and examine emerging trends in addressing the underlying conditions that... Read More
5 visitors will be coming from Mexico to make professional connections in San Diego exploring the following: how to navigate between civil and common law systems in the international arena and the significance of the adversarial trial system; discuss efforts to support initiatives providing legal skills training and rule of law public education in Latin... Read More
4 visitors will be coming from Serbia to make professional connections in San Diego to gain insight into U.S. policies and practices to create and implement specialized financial crime investigation and prosecution units and task forces at the federal, state, and local levels. These visitors will explore U.S. approaches to combating all forms of corruption, especially... Read More
15 delegates will be coming from African countries to make professional connections in San Diego exploring how to promote best practices for facilitating and increasing intra-African trade and explore opportunities to lower trade and investment barriers for U.S. companies; through engagement with U.S. private sector leaders, provide exposure to the competitiveness factors and conditions that U.S.... Read More
21 leaders from across Europe will meet in San Diego in order to introduce and provide broad exposure to current U.S. social, political, and economic issues and associated policy formulation and examine interrelated U.S. foreign and domestic policy topics, including homeland security and intelligence gathering; trade and economic development; immigration and integration; health and social... Read More
