A four-day conference of the Dhaka Hub of the Global Shapers Community concluded Saturday with participants reiterating commitments to foster regional collaboration.

About 100 young leaders, known as Global Shapers, from 30 countries and 50 cities attend the conference titled “Shape South Asia 2018” at the Lakeshore Hotel in the capital, said the Global Shapers Community Dhaka in a statement yesterday.

The Global Shapers are a community of young leaders and change-makers aged 20-30 and curated by the World Economic Forum. The Dhaka Hub was founded in 2014.

Rohingya response, manufacturing, finance, healthcare, climate change, sustainability, and innovations in public and private sectors were the focus of the conference alongside Bangladesh's prospects and challenges in embracing the fourth Industrial revolution, according to the statement.

Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, speaker of parliament; Zunaid Ahmed Palak, state minister for ICT; Md Shahidul Haque, foreign secretary; Radwan Mujib Siddiq, governance expert at the UNDP; Sonia Bashir Kabir, managing director of Microsoft Bangladesh; Kamal Quadir, CEO of bKash, and Sohara Mehroze Shachi, curator of the Dhaka Hub, were present.

The conference was supported by United Group, Summit Power, Ha-Meem Group, IDLC Finance, bKash, Mohammadi Group, Bitopi Group, Masco Group, Dmoney, Microsoft, WE, and Pathao.