The first annual Impact Summit was held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 21st to 23rd of September. The entire event was hosted by the Impact Summit Foundation and through collaboration with Salam Center For Peace and MUN Impact. The aim of Impact Summit Conference was to raise the awareness about all 17 Sustainable Development Goal, especially the 16th SDG which stands for Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions. Impact Summit 2018 offered to all participant an unparalleled experience which consisted of workshops delivered by world-class speakers, such as Onyi Anyado from Nigeria and speeches from four KeyNote speakers Omar Al Busaidy from United Arab Emirates, Salam Kedan from Israel, Robin De Zeeuw from Netherlands, and Monika Babcanova who was the 2015 Slovakian Peace award winner.
Preparations of the Impact Summit 2018 commenced 9 months prior to the conference. Throughout the time we have prepared a video about 16th Sustainable Development Goal into which we have incorporated speakers from Afghanistan, Israel, Morocco, Czech Republic, and Hungary, and established cooperation with international NGOs which aim at raising awareness about Model United Nations and Peace all across the world. We have worked with delegates and ambassadors from 57 countries of the world and in the end, Impact Summit Conference was attended by ambassadors from 8 embassies, Executive Director of UNICEF Mission in the Czech Republic, and two UNODC representatives.
As a group of students, we have learned a lot by organizing this event. We were lucky to have the support of Salam Kedan, Founder of the Salam Center for Peace, who encouraged us at difficult times and helped us with everything. The final conference had many mistakes, however as we established an event from nothing we are eager to continue and make the
Impact Summit 2019 even greater. Organizing events such as Model United Nation Conferences provide you with the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and gain new friends. It was an honor for us to collaborate with the MUN Impact as through them we were able to educate youth about their possibilities of establishing their own events.
As a result of the Impact Summit, we established in the Czech Republic the Impact Summit Foundation. Impact Summit Organization and leadership team is a newly established organization which aims to raise the awareness about all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (2030 Agenda) in less economically developed countries by involving local students and
volunteers in establishing a local Impact Summit Conferences. Impact Summit Team based in Prague supervises the work done by local representatives and encourages people to participate and attend. Impact Summit conference is not a regular Model United Nations Conference. It is rather a process of educating students and encouraging them to become
greater and more influential leaders. Moreover, the aim of the summit is to connect people together and establish connections between non-governmental organizations and student bodies.
We are looking forward to all future conferences and to work mutually with MUN Impact to support students in planning their own startups and conferences.