South Africa: Wesgro welcomes the BRICS Youth Innovation Summit 2025 to Cape Town. This prestigious event is a great platform for young innovators to connect, collaborate and create the solutions to global challenges.
It is taking place in the heart of Cape Town and the summit highlights the opportunities for innovation and investment that positions the region as a hub for tech-inspired innovation and economic growth.
The theme for latest edition of BRICS Youth Innovation Summit 2025 is “Innovating the Future: Technology for Sustainability and Social Good”. The event is for young entrepreneurs and innovators aged 18 to 35 from BRICS+ and Global South Countries with a project in the following sub-themes for innovation:
- Circular Economy and Waste-to-Wealth Technologies
- Digital transformation for economic growth
- Tech-Enabled Food Security and Agricultural Resilience
- Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Social Good
- Digital transformation for economic growth
Major purpose of BRICS Youth Innovation Summit 2025 is to empower the next generation of innovators. With this, they aim to address the global challenges through collaborative, technology-driven solutions by promoting sustainability and social equity among BRICS nations and the broader Global South.
The summit aims to create a dynamic platform where the emerging startups can synergize their technological capabilities. These startups can share best practices and will co-develop the sustainable solutions to address both regional and global challenges.
BRICS Youth Innovation Summit 2025 will leverage the collective strengths of BRICS countries i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It will also engage with other nations in the Global South as the summit seeks to foster a culture of shared learning, creativity and responsibility.
It emphasizes on building a future where technological advancements drive the economic growth through combined strengths and resources of BRICS countries and the Global South. It will also contribute to environmental resilience, community development and inclusive opportunities for all.
The BRICS Youth Innovation Summit 2025 will consider the following objectives:
- It will encourage the development and implementation of technologies by addressing the press global issues such as climate change, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and education.
- It will develop actionable strategies to integrate the technology into building resilient infrastructure and communities.
- It will facilitate cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaboration among youth from BRICS and the Global South countries to co-create innovative solutions for sustainability and social good.
- It will also facilitate the exchange of successful strategies, technological breakthroughs and policy frameworks among participants to advance innovation ecosystems in BRICS countries and the Global South.
- It will advocate for technological solutions that are accessible and equitable. It ensures the benefits extended to underrepresented and marginalised communities.
- It will establish an ongoing network and community of BRICS youth committed to pursue long-term sustainability and social equity through technological innovation.
Through this summit, the participants will be benefitted a lot by networking opportunities, sharing knowledge, developing skills and will provide diverse perspectives through exposure.
It will also have advantages of having access to industry experts and will showcase innovations. The participants will also observe cultural exchanges, global visibility and will have access to resources. Thy will also be awarded with a certificate of participation.