Beyond Sport

The Beyond Sport Summit is a unique three-day event designed to celebrate, promote and drive forward sport-led social change. The Summit collides those who use sport as a vehicle to create social impact, with influencers from the world of business, government and federations whose attitudes and decisions can have substantial impact.

The Summit has three primary objectives:

• To forge connections and ongoing strategic relationships that create benefits across all parties.
• To generate ideas that will tangibly help to scale and replicate sport development projects from across the globe.
• To create momentum behind the change-through-sport agenda.

The Summit is attended by representatives from the following groups of people:

• Shortlisted projects for the Beyond Sport Awards.
• Specially selected corporate CEOs and decision-makers.
• Political leaders
• Leaders from international aid, peace and development organisations.
• Entrepreneurs and key influencers.
• Funds and Foundations.
• International Federations and Governing Bodies.

The 2010 Beyond Sport Summit will take place in Chicagp on September 27 to 30 and will comprise of a range of facilitated events specifically designed to deliver against our objectives.

The Summit will also include the announcement of the Beyond Sport Awards winners on September 30, celebrating the world’s best sport-led social innovation projects.