“We are not job seekers, we are job givers” – Professor Dr. Muhammed Yunus in his keynote speech

The summit was divided in four major parts - the keynote speech, the first and second panel discussions, and the innovation session. The morning started at the registration booths, where hundreds of youngsters gathered to register for the summit from different universities and organisations. The summit began with the opening speech by SBYN's CEO Shazeeb M Khairul Islam who welcomed the students and the delegates. After the opening speech it was time for the keynote speech, which was given by the father of social business himself, Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus. In his speech he emphasised on his famous quote, “We are not job seekers, we are job givers.” He explained how social business can make the world a better place by changing the capitalist money-making world we live in and how it can put poverty in the museum. In his speech Dr Muhammad Yunus said to the social business enthusiasts, “It's your chance to live in your dream world and say, 'Yes! We did it'.” After his speech there was a Q & A session where Dr Muhammad Yunus answered various questions about social business from the participants.

Participants brainstorming for social business ideas in the innovation session

After the keynote speech it was time for the panel discussions. The first panel was about 'Social Business and Youth' where the panellists talked about how social business concerns the youth and how they can get involved. The panellists consisted of Ujal Ibrahim, Lecturer at the Business School of North South University; Mustafizur Rahman Khan, Founder and CEO of Startup Dhaka; A K M Shahidul Islam, CCO at SBYN, and Joanna Klimczak, Founder and CEO of MyVision Global. Addressing the participants of the discussion, Ujal Ibrahim said, “Social business is all about making yourself and other people happy. And happiness comes from solving a problem.” The session was moderated by Albaab Habib of Yunus Centre's Social Business Team.
In the second discussion, social business entrepreneurs showed how they are conducting their social businesses and how it is affecting the society. The panellists for this discussion were Duncan Power, Executive Director of Grameen Foundation in Australia; Asir Ahmed, Director at Global Communication Centre; Ahad Bhai, Founder of Panther Social, and Tafsir M Awal, Director of Multimode Group. The session demonstrated the entrepreneur's viewpoint of how social business can change the whole structure of everything we know as business and how it is the next big thing. They talked about their own side of social businesses and how they are trying to make a change in this world. This session was moderated by Labib Tarafdar, Program Officer at Yunus Centre.
The best was saved for last – the innovation coordinated by Joanna Klimczak. Her enthusiasm towards this session put everyone in an excited mood. She explained how every one of the participants can start their own social businesses and asked them to do just that in the ensuing brainstorming session. The participants all came up with a social business idea of their own in under 20 minutes time.

From the left, Joana Kimzack, Mustafizur Khan, Albaab Habib, A K M Shahidul Islam, and Ujal Ibrahim in the panel on 'Social Business and Youth'.

The summit proved to be one of the biggest successes for the Social Business Youth Network. After the summit, the SBYN core management team said, “Our aim was always to bring the youth and social business together. We think this summit dispelled most of the participants' misconceptions about social business and we hope they will follow through with this ideology. As a lot of people said in the discussion, this is definitely the next big thing!”