Upcoming Events & International Delegations

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative *Dinner Hospitality Available

12 delegates will be coming from Latin America and the Caribbean to make professional connections in San Diego through month-long business fellowships with local companies. They will be living as a cohort downtown, working Monday-Thursday with local companies, and spending Fridays in professional development sessions as a group. Host institutions confirmed thus far include Hub... Read More

ADDRESSING RADICALIZATION IN THE SAHEL

14 delegates will be coming from African countries to make professional connections in San Diego to learn about U.S. programs that work to counter radicalization, including the relationship between federal, state, and local programs; explore the underlying conditions that fuel extremism, political grievances, communal conflicts, social structures, and economic disparity and emerging trends to address them;... Read More

Professional Fellows Program (PFP) and Young Southeast Asia Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) *Home Hosting Available

8 delegates will be coming from Eastern Europe and South East Asia to make professional connections in San Diego through month-long business fellowships with local companies. These fellows will be home hosted and work approximately 40 hours per week while in San Diego. Host institutions include PANA, ESET, Founders First Capital Partners, San Diego Workforce Partnership, DoWhop, UCSD Center for Commercialization... Read More

Colorado River Project

25 Visitors will be coming from the U.S. and Mexico to make professional connections in San Diego exploring the following: Visiting the Imperial Valley's Imperial Irrigation District to better understand bi-national management of the Colorado River resources

YLAI Pitch Contest

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

Tech Entrepreneurs in Low-Tech Environments

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

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

Entrepreneurship

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