Encuentros NOW will once again bring together thousands of people in a creative, destructive, innovative, entertaining, educational and especially solidarity event in 2023, under the title of “Stories of Solidarity for the Success of the Society”.
At the headquarters of the Esperanza Pertusa Foundation, Giosseppo, the Foundation’s patron Esperanza Navarro, Encuentros NOW President Manuel Bonilla, Juan Amirola and NGO Rafiki President and director Enrique Barreneche held a working meeting to advance an agreement. cooperation as the starting signal for the new NOW Meeting.
While details of the event have yet to be announced, following the line that characterizes NOW, the new meeting will bring global influence and recognized professional prestige to speakers through interesting stories and experiences.
In the working session, Esperanza Navarro, together with Manuel Bonilla, Juan Amirola and Enrique Barreneche, voiced the following thoughts and questions: “Is solidarity the lever that will transform society? Is altruism the key to people’s success? Is team collaboration necessary to build a resilient society? Is it possible for the world to move forward without voluntary action and generosity? And the companies of the future, entrepreneurship or leadership? What role do technology, science and innovation play in helping others?
Topics covered at NOW meetings are: war mediation and conflict resolution, the fight against terrorism, peace in the world, measures to overcome economic crises, support for entrepreneurship, commitment to innovation and disruptive technologies, the need to invest in more. research to fight disease, leadership courses in organisations, resilience and improvement, the importance of corporate social responsibility, or AI and health at the recent I European Forum on Artificial Intelligence with Information, Ellis Alicante and Prensa Ibérica.
The Información newspaper has awarded Encuentros NOW with the Important 2022 award, which it will collect at the Significant Gala on February 16, for its ten-year journey. As its acronym, Not Just Words (not just words), states, among others, tangible challenges were achieved: a crowdfunding fundraiser to help treat an ALS patient at a Boston USA Hospital, support and collaborate with an association against ALS on this disease. a research line. Scholarships were awarded to business schools and universities, and support was given for a person with a disability to carry out a doctoral research thesis on sustainability and the environment. Startups and entrepreneurial projects that use artificial intelligence to improve human health were also awarded.
This time, the event’s objectives will include an economic collection to support NGO Rafiki in two different branches it runs in the African country of Uganda: one is support for women’s entrepreneurship in that country and the other is Collaborate. for a boarding school for chartered female students with an additional hospital.
The event will serve to highlight the need to help third world countries such as Uganda and other countries in the African continent indirectly affected by the current state of world conflict, with particular focus on the serious current problem facing women and girls.
Esperanza Pertusa Foundation, which was born with a very open profession of service to the community, especially for vulnerable groups such as women in the African continent, is compatible in values with Encuentros NOW and Rafiki. This small NGO from Alicante aims to improve the standard of living in two very troubled areas of Uganda where the per capita income is 17 euro cents per day. Rafiki has already built several wells, promoted water purification, built several primary and secondary schools, agricultural education centers, sewing workshops and promoted other complementary activities.
There were millions of influences on social networks, interaction in discussions from countries in various continents, support of more than two hundred companies, universities and international organizations, and more than fifty participation in NOW meetings attended by nearly ten thousand people. speakers: Lama Nachman, woman restoring Stephen Hawkins’ voice, AI expert Nuria Oliver, IBM Vice President for Europe Olga Blanco, Medical Director Andrea Bernabéu, oncologist Aurelia Bustos, Mobile World director Capital Frances Fajula, grand chef Paco Roncero, Alberto Chicote, Susi Diaz, Quique Dacosta and pastry chefs Paco and Jacob Torreblanca, Pedro J. Ramirez, former director of El Mundo and current director of El Español, alternative Nobel Prize winner of peace, Johang Galtung, president of International Financial Analysts (AFI), Emilio Ontiveros, Francisco Ruiz, head of corporate affairs at Google Espa, and Javier Jiménez, general manager of Lanzadera, Portugal, or magician Jorge Blass, among others