| Event Name | Youth Economic Forum 2025
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| Event Date & Time | Friday, 18th July 2025
9.00am - 5.00pm |
| Event Venue | TAR UMT Campus
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AI's Impact on Future Careers
This panel will explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the world of work by both automating routine tasks and empowering people to do more valuable, creative work. We will begin with a keynote overview of broad employment trends driven by AI, then move into a panel discussion on when AI acts as a “job replacer” versus a “job enhancer.” Participants will learn about entirely new roles—such as AI ethicists, data curators and human-AI interaction designers—and gain practical guidance on the technical and human-centred skills (from data literacy to emotional intelligence) that today’s workers must develop to stay competitive.
Young Entrepreneur Life Sharing towards Financial Freedom
This session features young entrepreneurs’ honest account of building a business from side-hustle to sustainable venture, highlighting the mindset shifts, financial strategies, and pivotal moments that paved the way to true financial freedom. You’ll learn how to manage cash flow on a shoestring budget, diversify revenue through productized and passive-income streams, and use simple KPIs to set and track both short-term and long-term goals. Through real stories of breakthrough wins and cash-flow crises, you’ll gain practical habits—like drafting a 90-day “freedom roadmap,” outsourcing time-consuming tasks, and committing to small, regular investments—that you can implement immediately to accelerate your path toward independent wealth.
Growing With Venture Capital
This panel will equip founders and business leaders with the know-how to leverage venture capital for rapid growth. The panel will touch on the VC ecosystem, how funds operate, what drives investment decisions, and the stages from seed to Series B and beyond. A panel of VCs and successful entrepreneurs will unpack the ingredients of a winning pitch, balancing dilution with runway, and building the metrics investors demand. The panelist will walks founders step-by-step through the fundraising journey: first, you’ll map out a personalized timeline and build a pitch-deck framework, then rehearse how to answer tough investor questions. Through real case studies highlighting both dramatic seed-stage successes and series-A missteps you’ll learn what works and what doesn’t. The session will also dig into term-sheet negotiations, exploring how valuation is set, how liquidation preferences and board rights work, and which protective provisions founder need. By the end, participant will will have a clear roadmap, a tailored pitch outline, key performance metrics ready for investors, and negotiation tactics to secure the best deal while keeping control of the foudner company.
Mental Resilience & Hustle Culture
This panel tackles the clash between today’s “always-on” hustle mentality and its toll on mental resilience. Kicking off with panelist sharing on the science of burnout, it moves into a storytelling by the panelist where professionals share real-world experiences of exhaustion and recovery. Hands-on guiding participants to draft personal wellbeing charters—setting boundaries, rest rituals, and self-care practices—while demo sessions introduce stress-tracking apps and peer-support tools. The day wraps up with an open roundtable to draft organizational policies—from flexible schedules to mental-reslience days—that embed wellbeing into performance metrics. By the end, participants will understand how relentless busyness undermines creativity and retention, leave with concrete self-care plans and a toolkit of digital and analog resources, and build a network of peers and leaders committed to sustainable productivity.
