Exceptional times need exceptional solutions.
This year's UN 2.0 Week will focus on:
We invite you to contribute to the programme!
Apply for a chance to present your initiatives in a panel or side event during the UN 2.0 Week. The call for contributions is open until 24 April 2025.
High-level panels and expos
Side events hosted by UN teams and partners
World-renowned speakers
Stakeholders expected
The first-ever UN 2.0 Week featured data, digital, innovation, foresight, behavioural science, and culture in action in a High-Level opening event, 8 thematic sessions, and over 30 side-events!
22 Apr, 9 AM – 10 AM ET
UN WebTV Broadcast
Hear from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, as well as the UN Deputy Secretary-General, the Under-Secretary-General for Policy, the UNDP Administrator and other inspiring speakers as they lay out the vision for a modernized United Nations – ready to face the challenges of our era!
22 Apr, 11 AM – 12 PM ET
Virtual Event
All Session & Side-Event Recaps
23 Apr, 9 AM – 10 AM ET
Virtual Event
Sign-up now to explore the pressing issue of food security with the Global Head of Innovation in IFAD's Innovation Unit, the Director of the Office of Innovation at FAO, speakers from WFP and more! Join the conversation about how data and innovation are transforming food systems and food security around the world.
23 Apr, 11 AM – 12 PM ET
Virtual Event
All Session & Side-Event Recaps
24 Apr, 9 AM – 10 AM ET
Virtual Event
250 million children–many of them girls–do not have access to basic education. Join the Chief of Executive Office at UNESCO's Social and Human Sciences Sector, the Co-Lead of UNICEF's Giga Initiative and speakers from ILO and more to learn how connectivity and digital transformation can reimagine how children learn!
24 Apr, 11 AM – 12 PM ET
Virtual Event
All Session & Side-Event Recaps
25 Apr, 10 AM – 11 AM ET
Virtual Event
25 Apr, 11 AM – 12 PM ET
Virtual Event
All Session & Side-Event Recaps
26 Apr, 10 AM – 11 AM ET
Virtual Event
All Session & Side-Event Recaps
Over 40 speakers from more than 30 organisations across the United Nations system spoke at UN 2.0 Week 2024, including UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, the UN Secretariat, UNICEF, the World Bank, the UN Youth Office, IFAD, FAO, WFP, UN Women and more!
General Supervisor for Assistant Deputyship for Sustainable Development Affairs,
Ministry of Economy and Planning,
Saudi Arabia
Deputy Vice Minister, Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services,
Brazil
Under-Secretary-General and
Special Adviser on Africa to the
United Nations Secretary-General
Our annual UN 2.0 event connects thousands of UN system colleagues and partners in a series of virtual events: expect transformative dialogues, inspiring expos, and hard facts on how data, digital, innovation, foresight and behavioural science can make our work more effective in today's uncertain times!
Five high-level panels will feature senior leaders in conversation with practitioners sharing how UN 2.0 can deliver for impact.
Across the UN 2.0 Week agenda, breakouts in expos, Q&As and interactive side events provide space for inter-agency and cross-sector collaboration.
In digital expos and side events, teams across the globe will showcase the UN's most impactful solutions - so we can learn, collaborate, and adopt!
UN 2.0 is the UN Secretary-General's vision of a modernized UN system for stronger results and greater SDG impact - powered by more capabilities in Data, Digital, Innovation, Foresight and Behavioural Science.
Looking for an intro? UN 2.0 Week 2024 featured a High-Level Opening Segment with UN Secretary-General António Guterres and other senior UN leaders discussing the potential and outlook for a UN 2.0.
22 Apr, 9 AM – 10 AM ET
Broadcast from the UN SDG Studio
Have questions about UN 2.0 Week? Here is some information about the event!
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