(Opening Ceremony) Future We Want: Global Initiative for Young Leaders (MUN)

Good evening, Your Excellency's distinguished guests, delegates, and future leaders.
We are truly honored to welcome you all to this new edition of Future WeWant Model United Nations Global Initiative for Young Leaders here in New York at the United Nations headquarters.
Let me begin by expressing our sincere gratitude to the permanent mission of Italy to the United Nations for their invaluable support to our distinguished speakers, the Mediation Support Unit, and the UN Security staff.
We would also like to thank our dedicated staff and all of you, our delegates and participants for being here today.
Inspired by the 2012 Rio plus 20 resolution, the Future We Want, the conference is committed to promoting a united international community, a better future, and a more sustainable world through the achievement of the sustainable development goals.
We believe that youth play a crucial role in shaping this future and our goal is to empower young people to take action and drive positive change.
This conference is the first of its kind, engaging youth on all 17 SDGs.
It will focus on the significance of youth voices from diverse backgrounds in understanding and implementing the 2030 agenda at all levels of decision making.
By bringing together young people from around the world, we aim to create a platform for collaboration and innovation.
All in all, we want our conference to be the first MUN in the world to be fully inclusive, representing a catalyst for a more just, equitable, and sustainable future for everyone.
We simply want MUN for all because that's the future we want.
As you have just heard, the commitment to a future for all is more relevant than ever, and we are truly honored to begin this ceremony with a special message from the UN Secretary-General, His Excellency António Guterres.
Thank you for taking part in this model, United Nations and for believing in the power of global cooperation.
You are leaders in your schools and communities, and this is a time like no other for all people to raise their voices and engage in our global community.
We are living in turbulent times.
Our planet is burning, conflicts are raging and inequalities are deepening.
Human rights are under fire.
Mistrust and misinformation are polarizing people and communities, but none of these is inevitable.
Time and again, humanity has shown that when we unite to tackle our greatest challenges, change is possible.
The United Nations itself is a good example.
Since 1945, it has been the place for countries to unite behind global solutions to global problems.
We need that same spirit of global solidarity today, and we need your ideas, energy, determination, and voice.
The member states of the United Nations recently adopt the Pact for the future, the Global Digital Compact, and the Declaration on future generations.
These initiatives are designed to strengthen multilateralism and to actively engage young people in deeper and more meaningful ways.
I firmly believe that your voices must count in the way decisions are made, strategies are established, policies are defined, and actions are implemented.
I have no doubt that your model United Nations experience will help develop those skills even more.
Let's keep working to build peace, heal divisions, and extend a hand to those in need, especially the most vulnerable.
The United Nations in your is your ally in this important journey.
We will never give up fighting for a future of peace, dignity, and prosperity for everyone everywhere.
I'm counting on you to be a force of positive change to help get us there, and I wish you every success.
Thank you.
Now, I would like to give the floor to Professor Abramo Shai, Executive Director of the Italian Diplomatic Academy, and Chairman Elect of the World Council for Youth and Diplomacy.
Thank you.
Excellencs, ambassadors, distinguished young leaders from every part of the world.
It is a profound honor to stand before you here today at the United Nations.
Allow me to begin by extending profound gratitude and thanks to the Italian Permanent Mission.
Unfortunately, The permanent representative could not make it to be here with us, but I was promised that he would have been happy to convey the welcome from the permanent mission.
This event here at the UN could not be possible without the support of Italian government.
Similarly, I would like to extend my warm and sincere welcome to all participants.
Because your presence here, it's very meaningful.
We live in an extraordinary time and at the same time, a deeply fragile one, a time in which conflicts continue to take lives to harm societies, and to destabilize entire regions.
A time in which war is no longer fought solely with conventional weapons, but also through information, economic pressure, technological influence.
And by all means.
We are also in the midst of an unprecedented technological revolution.
Artificial intelligence holds the potential to transform healthcare, education, science, productivity, and the lives of billions.
Yet, it raises also profound questions about ethics, employment, security, privacy, and even the very boundaries of what it means to be human.
At the same time, the climate crisis is accelerating.
Extreme events, desertification, water scarcity, forced migration, food insecurity.
All these challenges remind us daily of a fundamental truth.
No nation can face them alone.
This is why multilateralism is not an abstract concept.
It is not a diplomatic formula.
Nor a rhetorical exercise.
Multilateralism is a historical necessity.
It is recognition that our future is shared.
It is understanding that the security of one depends on the security role.
This is precisely why the role of the United Nations remain indispensable.
In a world marked by tensions, rivalries, and fragmentation, the United Nations continues to remind us that there is a space where dialogue can replace confrontation, where human dignity remains the central reference and where peace, rights, development, and cooperation can still be upheld as universal values.
The United Nations is not perfect, but it embodies an essential conviction that dialogue, even when conflict is always stronger than silence, that cooperation, even when slow, is always more constructive than division, and that international law and shared responsibility remain indispensable tools for safeguarding peace.
Yet today, more than ever, all of these requires renewed energy, renewed credibility, and renewed vision.
That energy is you.
You young leaders from over 140 countries are not merely the future.
You are a force of the present.
You are the first truly global generation, the first generation to experience in real time the consequences of global crisis, to fully understand how deeply interconnected our world has become and perhaps also the first generation with the tools, the network, and the awareness to transform this interdependence into shared responsibility.
Young people must not be seen as spectators of history.
They must be recognized as co authors of change.
It will be young people who decide whether artificial intelligence becomes a tool of empowerment or exclusion.
It will be always you who demand that innovation be guided by ethics and always you who bring into public life a new model of leadership, less centered on power and hopefully a more grounded in responsibility.
The responsibility before you is immense, but it is also extraordinary.
You are called not to allow Cynicism to become culture, not to allow indifference to become normality, nor to allow fear to define the future.
Of course, you are not asked to be perfect.
You are asked to be present, aware, courageous, and responsible.
This is the kind of leadership the world needs today.
A leadership capable of placing the human person at its center, capable of transforming technology into shared progress.
Believing that international cooperation is not a weakness, but a form of wisdom.
The answer is not written on international summits.
It is written in your daily choices.
You don't have to wait for tomorrow.
Every day you are called upon choices, and these choices will determine who you are, who you will be in this world, and what role to play.
Because the future is not something that simply happens.
It's something that we choose, that we build, that we protect all together.
Thank you.
Thank you, Director.
Now, I would like to give you the opportunity to learn more about the institution that has been instrumental in shaping and making this event possible, the Italian Diplomatic Academy.
Thank you.
It is now my honor to give the floor to His Excellcy Ambassador Anatolian Dongba, permanent representative of Equatorial Guinea to the United Nations.
Good afternoon.
Dear Young leaders.
His Excellency, Professor Abramo Jabb, Executive Director of the Italian Diplomatic Academy.
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.
As I have the existing honor of addressing this important conference organized by the Italian Diplomatic Academy, the World Council for Youth and Diplomacy, and the Global Initiative for Young Leaders centered on the theme youth empowerment to strengthen multilateralism, allow me first and foremost, to express my deepest gratitude to these three noble institutions for inviting me to this significant event and for the noble initiative of organizing it.
Young leaders.
Would like us to reflect on a specific fever.
In 1945, when the Charter of San Francisco, current charter of the United Nations was signed, the world had a population of 2.3 billion with an average age of 23.
Today, in 2026, we number 8.1 billion inhabitants, half of whom are under the age of 30-years-old.
So 1.8 billion are between ages of ten and 24, representing the largest generation of young people in human history.
And yet, ladies and gentlemen, this is the generation most excluded from the decision that define its future.
We negotiate the climate without them, even though they will live with the consequences.
We negotiate peace without them, even though they will die in wars.
We negotiate technology with them even though they are digital natives.
This is why I greatly appreciate the convening of this conference on empowering youth to strengthen multilateralism.
For multilateralism needs not only reform, it needs a generation shift.
Young leaders, ladies and gentlemen, multilateralism is facing its deepest crisis since the Cold War, a situation evidenced by the following symptoms, paralysis, a deadlock Security Council, a World Trade Organization under scrutiny, and an international financial architecture of science in 1944 for a world that no longer exists.
Second, disaffection.
According to the UN 75 survey, 68% of young people believe the international system does not represent them.
They view the UN as distant, bureaucratic, and slow, and they are right.
Three, retreat.
We are witnessing the rise of neuro nationalism, unilateralism and po solutions that promote barriers.
Faced with these symptoms, some advocate for less multilateralism.
We, in my country, utero Guinea, advocate for more and better multilateralism, a multilateralism legitimized by young people who are the strongest believers in cooperation, solidarity, and a shared future.
Young people are not a vulnerable group in need of protection.
They are a strategic asset for multilateralism because they are internationalist by nature, innovative, guardian of peace, and uncompromising when it comes to values.
That is why my country, the Representative a Guinea, which I represent as permanent representative to the United Nations, has a concrete five pillars proposals that we are making available to the global initiative for young leaders.
First, a voice at the decision making table.
Institutionalizing youth participation not as a site event or a photo opportunity, but as part of official delegations to the General Assembly.
Second, employment and education.
The Rape of Ectura Guinea allocates 35% of its public investment to education and health and called for a global Pact on youth employment within the framework of the Furth International Conference on Financing for Development held in Sevia, Spain in 2025.
It calls for a World Bank and international monetary fund to measure not the GDP, but also the decent jobs created for young people.
Third, technology with equity.
African youth do not want to be merely consumers of artificial intelligence.
They want to be producers.
They do not want to face discrimination from algorithm trended in the global North.
We call for the future global digital compact to include a digital solidarity fund to connect all secondary school in Africa by 2030, as well as the creation of scholarships program for engineers specializing in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity for the Global South.
Fourth, peace and security.
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea fully support the youth peace and security agenda, specifically UN resolutions 225-02-0419 and 25 35.
However, of the 2000 peace Agreement signed since 1990, only 5% of them mentioned the youth.
Fifth and last, values and Pan Africanism.
The rep Guinea seeks to foster youth who are grounded in their roots as empowerment devoid of values is hollow.
In a wrife with disinformation and online hatred, we need civic education, history, and respect for cultural diversity and to the sovereignty of people.
We want young people who fight against racism as we enshrined in Durban, who defend the right to development, and we believe that Africa can speak with a single voice.
Dear young leaders, ladies and gentlemen, excellencies.
I conclude these remarks by noting that in 1945, the young people who survived the war created the United Nations.
They the future we are living in today.
Now, it fall on us to envision the future that young people of year 2000 hundreds will inhabit.
What kind of United Nations will we leave today? Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I invite all states to join the global initiative for young leaders, not as an act of charity, but as an investment in the survival of multilateralism.
For ultimately excellencies, the question is not whether we empower young people to strengthen multilateralism.
The question is whether multilateralism will be intelligent enough to allow itself to be strengthened by young people.
I thank you very much.
Thank you, Your Excellency.
Professor Shabi will now present you with a token of our gratitude.
It is now my honor to give the floor to His Excelleny Ambassador Azim Ith Ahmed, permanent representative of Pakistan to the United Nations.
Thank you so much and very good afternoon.
Dear, young leaders, Professor Shabib Ambassador Anatolyo.
At the outset, I would like to Express my sincere thanks to the Italian Mission and the Italian Diplomatic Academy for bringing together such a huge congregation of young minds and young people and very motivated and dynamic ones.
Pakistan is a country that has one of the largest and youngest populations in the world.
About 65% of Pakistan's population comprises of boys and girls below the age of 30.
Look at this gathering, I am recalling one of the similar sessions of model UN sessions that I had the opportunity to participate in my school days, and I would like to just relate to that.
One of the initial sessions in those exercises was about public speaking.
You know that some of us, and that was the case with myself also at that time, You have a fear of the audience and some people just simply go blank when they are in front of a big audience.
We had a very renowned professor of public speaking, and he came and he was giving a brief orientation to students.
How can you overcome the fear of the audience? And he said, I give you one advice.
You just consider that all the people in front of you, you see the heads.
So are men, some are women.
You just take them as a field of cauliflowers.
And you will have no fear at all.
Every nods, yeah, that's a good advice.
These are not people.
These are just cauliflowers in the field.
And then he invites one of the boys to come to the stage and to say something on a topic.
The boy comes and he starts speaking and within a few seconds, he goes blank.
And then he asked you what happened? He said, Sir, very respectfully, People are people, cauliflowers are cauliflowers.
So I think the But I believe that those days are history, and when I see whenever I interact with the younger people, I see that they are very good at conversation.
They are outstanding in public speaking and interaction.
So that was a way of waking everyone up.
So let me go back to what I wanted to say to use this opportunity to speak to you.
So we are here at the United Nations, and the UN was founded, as you know very well, 81 years ago, with a profound purpose to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.
And since then, its work has rested on three mutually reinforcing pillars, maintaining international peace and security, promoting and protecting human rights, and Advancing sustainable development.
We were talking about the SDGs.
These pillars reinforce one another.
Peace creates the conditions for development to flourish.
Respect for human rights strengthens peace and inclusive development in turn helps address many of the underlying causes of instability.
We are in the midst of the selection process of the new Secretary-General of the United Nations.
I'm sure you would have been following that.
And these questions around these three pillars are amongst some of those fundamental questions that are being posed to the candidates for the new SG.
And we are having wider discussions on reform, how to strengthen this organization.
The UN AT Reform Initiative is there.
We are discussing for many years how to reform the UN Security Council.
So it is a broad area of discussion here at the United Nations.
But today, I thought I would be focused on the first pillar, and that is peace and security.
So you know that today around the world, there is an unprecedented number of conflicts.
And when we talk of peace, in my view, peace is not simply the absence of conflict.
It is a wider concept.
It is built on justice, dialogue, mutual respect, and a genuine commitment to resolving differences through peaceful means.
It requires patience, trust, compromise, and fidelity to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Yet, as I said, as we gather at the time when armed conflicts, foreign occupation, and deepening polarization continue to cause immense suffering and undermine confidence in international institutions.
The challenges demand renewed commitment, stronger partnerships, and effective multilateral action in pursuit of peace.
And this is precisely why multilateralism remains indispensable.
No nation regardless of its size or influence, can address today's interconnected challenges on its own.
Lasting peace can only be advanced through collective responsibility, inclusive diplomacy, respect for international law, and institutions that bring nations together in pursuit of common solutions.
The United Nations, this organization remains the principal forum where dialogue can prevail over division and where differences can be addressed through peaceful engagement.
For Pakistan, this is not simply a matter of policy.
It is a matter of deep conviction.
Pakistan's foreign policy has consistently been guided by principles of peaceful coexistence, sovereign equality, mutual respect, dialogue and cooperation.
Coming from South Asia, a region that has experienced the wide reaching consequences of conflict, we understand the immense value of peace and heavy price that is paid when peace is absent.
Accordingly, Pakistan has consistently championed the peaceful settlement of disputes and preventive diplomacy.
And during our current tenure on the UN Security Council as a non permanent member, we have worked closely with our fellow council members to strengthen this principle of peaceful settlement of disputes.
This collective effort culminated in the unanimous adoption last year of Security Council Resolution 27 88 that was presented by Pakistan on strengthening mechanisms for peaceful settlement of disputes.
This resolution reflects the shared understanding that dialogue should remain at the heart of international efforts to prevent and resolve conflict.
And as a practical manifestation example of that, I think you would have followed during the recent conflict in West Asia, the situation between Iran and the United States, Pakistan consistently advocated restraint, dialogue, and de escalation.
And working with our regional and international partners and with the parties, Pakistan supported diplomatic efforts aimed at reducing tensions and creating space for peaceful engagement, which, as you all know, culminated in the signing of the Islamabad Memorandum of understanding in June.
This reflects our long standing belief that diplomacy offers the most durable pathway to peace.
But for this effort, which is a collective effort, you need other stakeholders.
You need the civil society, you need the private sector.
Governments alone cannot accomplish this task.
And I think one of the most important stakeholders are the younger people, you, young people who have an indispensable role to play.
You belong to the most connected generation in history.
You have unprecedented opportunities to exchange ideas, to travel, to build friendships across borders, and deepen understanding among diverse cultures.
At the same time, you face challenges, new challenges ranging from disinformation and misinformation and polarization to growing intolerance and mistrust.
The choices you make in responding to these challenges will help shape the character of international cooperation in the decades ahead.
We must recognize that Building peace does not begin necessarily only in conference halls or negotiating rooms.
It takes root actually in classrooms, in universities, communities, workplaces, and increasingly on digital platforms.
Every effort to promote understanding, every initiative that brings people together and every action that advances inclusion and mutual respect would contribute to a more peaceful and resilient world.
I see in you the future diplomats, policymakers, sportsmen and sports women, academics, entrepreneurs, innovators, and community leaders.
You will help shape the institutions and ideas of tomorrow.
I would like to encourage you to cultivate curiosity.
To listen with empathy, to embrace diversity and remain open to perspectives different from your own.
Some of the most remarkable achievements in international relations have come from those who were willing to bridge the divides, when others were discouraged by barriers and who sought common ground when differences appeared insurmountable.
So it's your generation that has a unique opportunity now to strengthen multilateralism.
By believing in cooperation, respecting international law, and engaging constructively across cultures, across borders, you can help ensure that international institutions remain responsive, inclusive, and effective in addressing the challenges of our time.
The future of peace will depend not only on the decisions of governments, but also on the commitment of young leaders to uphold dialogue, solidarity, and our shared humanity.
So let me conclude by saying that the future we seek will be shaped by those like yourselves who choose cooperation over division.
Who choose dialogue over confrontation and hope over fear.
I'm confident that many of you gathered here today will be among those leaders, among such dynamic leaders and thinkers.
I wish you every success in your deliberations at the Model United Nations.
And more importantly, beyond that, in your future endeavors and your contributions to building a more peaceful, just, and inclusive world.
I thank you.
A.
On behalf of the Italian Diplomatic Academy, this is not meant to be a normal token of appreciation.
As it was mentioned during your speech Excellency.
The Ital Academy praise and congratulate the important position that Pakistan had and is having during this period of war in trying to contribute for a more peaceful world.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Your Excellency.
It is now my honor to give the floor to misses Daniella Chefuk Sgaff of the Permanent Mission of Moldova, to the United Nations.
Excellencies, distinguished delegates, dear young leaders and friends.
It is a great honor to address you today on this important topic of empowering youth to reinforce multilateralism.
I'm especially glad to see so many young faces in this room where we spend hours, days, and sometimes a week of negotiations.
I thank the Italian Diplomatic Academy, Professor Tabb, the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations, and the UN Department of Global Communications for making this possible to all of us.
We meet at a time when the world is facing challenges that no country can solve alone.
This is clear, and I think that you have heard these so many times already, but that's true.
Armed conflicts continue to threaten our peace and security.
Climate change affects communities across every continent and each country in part.
If we take this seriously, by 2075, my country will no longer be a landlocked country if the sea level rise continues the same way as it does at the moment.
New technologies are transforming our societies faster than ever before, creating both extraordinary opportunities, but also raising complex ethical issues on what is allowed and what is necessary to preserve to keep our human rights in place.
At the same time, inequality, disinformation, and humanitarian crisis continue to test the resilience of our societies and our national institutions.
These challenges transcend borders and affect all of us.
From the moment we open up our phones in the morning, we became part of a global community whose prosperity, security, and future depends on cooperation.
But multilateralism is much more than cooperation among governments.
It is founded on the conviction that dialogue is stronger than confrontation, that cooperation is more effective than isolation and that shared challenges require shared action.
It provides a framework in which every UN member states can contribute to shape international responses guided by the principles of sovereign inequality, mutual respect, and international law.
Allow me to share perspective from the Republic of Moldova.
As a small and young state of only 35 years of independence, the Republic of Moldova understands the value of multilateralism not as an abstract concept, but as a practical necessity.
In multilateral institutions, influence is not determined by geography, population, or economic growth.
Every UN member state has the opportunity to participate in negotiations, to build partnerships, to contribute with expertise, and to help shape international decisions.
This principle ensures that countries like the Republic of Moldova can make a meaningful contribution alongside larger and older nations.
I believe the same principles applies to young people.
Just as every state has an equal voice within multilateral system, every young person has the potential to enrich international dialogue through fresh ideas, innovation, creativity, and a strong commitment to building a better future.
Multilateralism reminds us that leadership is not determined by size or by seniority.
It is determined by the willingness to engage, to cooperate, and to contribute.
It creates a space where both small states and young people can transform their voices into meaningful action and become genuine partners in building a more peaceful, inclusive, and resilient world.
Youth participation in multilateralism is a vital component of the Republic of Moldova youth policy.
Our National Youth strategy, 2030, places youth participation at the heart of public policy by expanding opportunities for young people to engage in decision making processes at local, national and international levels.
Through youth councils, youth centers, volunteer programs in partnership with civil society organization, we try to ensure that young people are not merely consulted, but actively involved in shaping public policies and community development that are directed at youth.
The Republic of Moldova recognizes that meaningful youth participation extends beyond national borders.
We encourage young people to actively engage in international initiatives such as the UN system, the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the European Union.
By engaging within these platforms, Moldovan youth, focus on civic dialogue, democratic resilience, and sustainable development.
Their efforts are supported by national frameworks such as the National Youth Council of the Republic of Moldova.
Our young people are playing an increasingly important role in strengthening democratic resilience.
They are among the first to recognize the risks posed by disinformation and the misuse of emerging technologies, while also actively engaging in promoting media literacy, civil participation, and digital responsibility.
Their perspectives are essential in ensuring that technological progress serves humanity while respecting human rights and democratic principles.
Dear young leaders, allow me to share a personal experience.
As a young diplomat who only a couple of years ago was participating at similar events, I'm glad to be here today as Chi De of the permanent mission of the Republic of Moldova.
I want to share and what I want to share from my modest experience is that hard work pays off.
Invest your time, energy, and perseveration into your future and do not hesitate to take opportunities when you have them.
Learn, socialize, and create your own multilateral network to be in line with the latest development and be able to open a door everywhere you go.
Remember that many of the colleagues you meet today are future diplomats, journalists, politicians, international experts, human rights defenders, climate change, and digital professionals.
Make sure you exchange some contacts and build some friendships in this room today in the next days so that tomorrow you can already have your own multilateral network.
Dear participants.
This event is a powerful example of multilateralism in action.
Here we are coming from different countries, cultures, and experiences, yet united by a common purpose to strengthen cooperation, promote dialogue, and empower young people to become active participants in building a more peaceful, inclusive and sustainable world.
Let us continue to create spaces where young voices are heard, where their expertise is valued, and where they are trusted not only as leaders of tomorrow, but as partners in the decisions we make today.
Be yourself, embrace yourself.
Be young, but keep your cultures wherever you go and keep the multilateralism alive.
I thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you Thank you, misses Chef Chuk.
Let us now take a moment to explore what lies ahead for the future WeW movement, a sneak peek at what's to come.
Finally, to officially begin our journey towards the future We W, I invite on the floor Mr.
Mark Foley, the Secretary-General of Future W, MUN New York Summer 2026.
Kind of bouncing off what our guests said before.
I've never had the chance to speak in front of a field of cauliflowers, but this is definitely more exciting.
Now, delegates and distinguished guests, I'm pleased to welcome you all to my home, New York City, the heart of the world's international community for this summer edition of the Future We Want Model UN Conference.
Walking down the street in the city, you'll hear people speaking a variety of different languages with thousands of unique faces with backgrounds from across the globe.
Beyond Manhattan where we are now, you'll find this unmatched diversity throughout our boroughs, including Queens, which is considered to be the most diverse place in the world.
For aspiring diplomats and leaders such as yourself, this unique environment fosters learning and debate like truly no other.
Now, we meet in times of crisis and transition for our international community, be it wars, instability, or extreme rising temperatures around the globe due to climate change.
As part of the largest generation of youth in history, you all have a crucial role to play in supporting international efforts to promote global peace and justice.
Through the debates at FWWM, you will be challenged to find alternative solutions to very real problems.
The committees in this conference will cover a wide range of these specific issues.
From our SOCOM committee where delegates will champion the rights of the world's most vulnerable to our vast general assembly, This addition of FWW one ensures that nobody is left behind in the global struggle for peace and well being.
As UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, we need your creativity, courage, and commitment.
I draw hope from seeing your generation challenge the status quo and call for transformative change.
The United Nations is your steadfast ally in striving to build a more just, sustainable, inclusive, and peaceful world for all.
Serving as a delegate will help you to understand the importance of the United Nations values and principles.
This weekend gives you three days to dig deep and really think about a change that you want to see in your world.
Finally, you should remember that a model UN conference is an amazing opportunity to connect with other students from across the globe, to see things from their lens and broaden your own perspective.
Therefore, I implore you all to make the most of this opportunity and use all your research, communication, and negotiation skills to work hard and make this a real true to life experience.
Only by really embracing this opportunity will you be able to leave New York City with the tools not just to create the future we need, but the future we want.
Don't wait for change, be the change.
Now, enjoy FWWn's 2026 New York Summer Conference, and good luck.
Thank you all for joining us today.
We hope you will enjoy the intellectual stimulation and lasting friendships that this conference will foster.
We wish you all a productive and memorable experience.
My keys on the seventh floor, please now collect all of your things and leave that set where you found them.
Thank you.