This morning was Women Up, Defining Purpose with Barclays, Youth Unemployment, HIV and AIDs - The New Challenge, How to be an Entrepreneur, and The Third Metric.
The Women Up session included a video from Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook), from Lean In and a talk from Emmanuelle Duez who started Women Up to try and encourage gender diversity in the workplace. One of the interesting things she said was that this is the first generation where both boys and girls have the same aspirations regarding work and careers. Next was the panel including Maria Ramos, Fatima Bhutto, Lauren Bush, Lily Cole, and Dr Mamphela Ramphele. One of the facts from this panel was that women make up 40% of the labour force, but only 1% of world leaders.
Next was Anthony Jenkins, CEO of Barclays, who spoke about the values of Barclays and how they are helping to combat youth unemployment.
The Plenary on Youth Unemployment involved councillors Arianna Huffington, Kathy Calvin, James Chau, Zafar Siddiqi, Anthony Jenkins and many delegates including James Eden, the founder of studentbeans.com. One quote from Anthony Jenkins is that "when you're scared you have to be brave, when you can't be brave you have to be braver".
The HIV and AIDs session covered what stigma actually means and how people's HIV status shouldn't affect how they are viewed or treated, which involved panelists such as Justice Edwin Cameron, James Chau and Ashwin Willemse.
The Third Metric talk was my favourite of the morning where Arianna Huffington (founder of The Huffington Post) discussed how crucial it is to balance work and rest, talking about ways to remain stress free, such as meditation, and the importance of sleep, saying you should "sleep your way to the top"!
In the afternoon we attended external breakout sessions in smaller groups around Johannesburg. I attended the Banking for Change sessions which showed how Barclays, Care and Plan UK are working together in rural Africa to encourage and teach communities saving, earning interest from their savings, and, in the future, offer the communities loans.
After this we went to the Lion Park for dinner, which was a great experience. We were able to go into the cage with lion cubs and pet them, see animals such as hyenas, leopards, wildebeast, gazelle, antelope, ostrich chicks, and giraffe. After dinner a cheetah was lead through were we were sat and we got the opportunity to take a bus through the lion area to see them being fed.
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