Sustainable development
The 17 SDGs, from ending poverty (Goal 1) to partnerships (Goal 17), as the shared destination, with the governments, communities, faith and Indigenous leaders who hold that direction.
Celebrating SDG achievements · September 2–4, 2027 · Blue Mountain, Canada
Celebrating those who turn aspiration into action.
The SDGs provide the shared destination. Future Together is where 1,000 leaders from every part of society discover, celebrate, and learn from the people already showing us how to get there.
Blue Mountain, OntarioSeptember 2–4, 2027Three days in nature
1,000leaders, youth, and wisdom-keepers
10constituencies of about 100 people each
3 daysin nature, in cohorts of ten
Each Septemberand every second year, in another part of the world
What Future Together is
Where sustainable development, entrepreneurs, and resources meet.
One platform that brings together the goals the world has agreed on, the people building real solutions, and the capital, knowledge, and institutions that can carry those solutions further.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are the shared destination. Every lighthouse, match, and commitment on the platform is tagged to the goals it advances.
- 1No poverty
- 2Zero hunger
- 3Good health
- 4Quality education
- 5Gender equality
- 6Clean water
- 7Clean energy
- 8Decent work
- 9Industry & innovation
- 10Reduced inequalities
- 11Sustainable cities
- 12Responsible consumption
- 13Climate action
- 14Life below water
- 15Life on land
- 16Peace & justice
- 17Partnerships
Entrepreneurs
Founders, family firms, researchers, and young people already turning aspiration into action: the lighthouses others can learn from.
Resources
Capital, research, institutions, networks, and media that can adapt, fund, and scale what works.
One platform, all year. Nominate and be matched before the Summit, meet in September, and follow through together afterward.
Planet · People · Purpose
The “triple P,” reread through the SDGs.
Future Together highlights proven practice across three dimensions, so SDG alignment becomes a natural part of how leaders design projects, invest, and evaluate. It starts with better questions at budget time.
Planet
Stewardship of land, water, climate, and energy. We move from stories of sacrifice and scarcity toward credible forms of sustainable flourishing.
People
Dignity, learning, belonging, and inclusive prosperity. Human capability is treated as a central outcome, not a side effect.
Purpose
Leadership that serves. Institutions that answer to the generations who will live longest with today’s decisions.
Domains
Ten domains. About a hundred voices each.
Every part of society that shapes the SDGs has a seat. Each domain brings about 100 people who have built, led or learned something others can use.
01 / 10
Government
National and internationalMinisters, legislators, regulators and senior officials from national governments and international institutions. They set the rules and the budgets that decide whether a proven solution stays local or reaches millions.
02 / 10
Business
Listed and family-ownedFounders, executives and owners of family firms who have built sustainability into how they earn, not beside it. They show that a working SDG model can also be a working business model.
03 / 10
Foundations
For substantive workPhilanthropies that fund long-term, systemic change and are ready to back what has already been proven somewhere else, rather than starting from zero each time.
04 / 10
Academia
Across regions and disciplinesResearchers and educators who measure what works and why. They help a lighthouse travel from one context to another without losing what made it succeed.
05 / 10
Youth
Already leading real workYoung people already running projects, companies and movements. Through the Global Youth Poll, their priorities set the Summit’s opening agenda.
06 / 10
Faith
Wisdom traditionsLeaders of faith and wisdom traditions who reach communities no other institution reaches, and who carry long experience of care, service and stewardship.
07 / 10
Media
Including emerging formatsJournalists, storytellers and creators, from established outlets to new formats, who carry what works to the people who need to hear it.
08 / 10
Civil Society & NGOs
Practitioners and buildersThe organizations closest to the people the SDGs are meant to serve, and often the first to build what later becomes policy.
09 / 10
Indigenous & First Nations
Knowledge often absentKnowledge keepers and leaders whose understanding of land, water and community is too often missing from global decisions. A particular emphasis of the Summit, alongside Small Island Developing States.
10 / 10
Local & Regional Leaders
Cities, provinces, communitiesMayors, governors, planners and community leaders. Most SDG progress is delivered locally, and they know what it takes to make a solution stick.
Watch
See the work in motion.
Films, talks and field stories from the people and places behind Future Together.
Lighthouses
Nominate a lighthouse
Proven solutions, ready to be adapted.
Each year the Summit identifies and honors real-world initiatives that others can learn from, adapt, and replicate. We measure success by how many are taken up and put into practice.
SDG 14 · Life below water
Illustrative example
A coastal community restores its fishery
Local fishers, scientists, and an Indigenous council co-manage stocks. Their model is now being tested in two other regions.
SDG 10 · Reduced inequalities
Illustrative example
Youth-led learning circles in rural towns
Young people teach digital skills to their neighbors. Learning grows as it is shared: learning as capital.
SDG 7 · Clean energy
Illustrative example
A family firm powers its region with community solar
Ownership is shared with the town, and the returns fund local schools.
SDG Cities Award
Honouring the mayors who move their cities forward.
Each year the Summit recognizes a mayor and city administration for real advancement on the Sustainable Development Goals. Awards are given in three size categories, so every city is measured against its peers.
Small cities
Towns and smaller cities, where change is close to home and every initiative is visible to residents.
Medium cities
Growing cities balancing expansion with liveability, affordability and resilience.
Large cities
Metropolitan areas whose decisions shape daily life for millions of people.
The Summit
Not another conference.
The difference isn’t the speaker list. It’s how people meet. Every part of the three days is designed to produce learning, real relationships, and the confidence to act.
Instead of: Panels of prominent peopleCohorts of tenA small, cross-sector group you meet online before arriving and return to throughout.
Instead of: Leaders speak firstYoung people open and closeThe Summit begins with what young people care about, and ends with their verdict.
Instead of: Convention-center hallsWalk and talkConversations in pairs and trios on the trails of Blue Mountain.
Instead of: VIP tablesLeaders serve the mealFamily-style dinners where status is set aside and people meet as people.
Instead of: Collect business cardsStructured serendipityBring a challenge and an offer, and we match you with people you’d never meet otherwise.
Instead of: Forget by MondayThree months afterCohorts test ideas, report back, and shape the next Summit.
Who takes part
Ten constituencies. One room. Equal voice.
Invitations follow transparent, mission-based criteria: what you have built, led, or learned, not your title. Once inside, everyone takes part as an equal.
Government & public leadersNational and international
Local & regional leadersCities, provinces, communities
BusinessListed and family-owned
FoundationsFor substantive work
AcademiaAcross regions and disciplines
Civil society & NGOsPractitioners and builders
YouthAlready leading real work
Faith communitiesWisdom traditions
Indigenous & First NationsKnowledge often absent
MediaIncluding emerging formats
Particular emphasis on First Nations, other Indigenous peoples, and Small Island Developing States. Fees stay within the range of major academic conferences, and support is available so cost never keeps an important voice away.
Suggest a participant
Global Youth
The first word and the last word belong to the next generation.
Young people are not an audience at Future Together. They are invited for work they have already done, and the Summit is built around helping that work go further.
- They open and close the SummitYouth voices frame the agenda on day one and hold the room to its commitments on day three.
- Their projects sit at the centerA young leader’s real initiative is the subject of each working session. CEOs, ministers and scientists come to the table as advisers.
- One of the ten domains is theirsAround 100 young achievers join as full participants, working in small cohorts alongside the other nine domains.
- The work continues after SeptemberYouth project teams keep their mentors and their momentum in the months that follow the Summit.
Global Youth Poll
820,000
young voices across 82 countries
Rather than deciding what future generations should care about, the Summit begins by listening to what they report caring about, what frustrates them, and where they are already acting. The poll sets the opening agenda.
Recognition
TRUST AI Research Awards
TRUST AI began at the Vatican. In September 2019, UNGSII, led by Roland Schatz, was a key partner of the Holy See’s seminar “The Common Good in the Digital Age,” as both sponsor and participant, alongside some one hundred technologists, ethicists and scholars.
The question put to that room guides the awards today: does a technology serve human dignity and the common good? Each year at the Summit we recognise the research and innovation that puts AI to work on one of the 17 SDGs, as part of our tradition of saying “thank you” to those who lead with purpose.
The place
Blue Mountain, Ontario. September 2–4, 2027.
Held in the midst of nature, because movement, open air, and the absence of a stage change how people talk to one another. Family members are welcome at social activities: we come as whole people.
2027Blue Mountain, Ontario, Canada · September 2–4
NextEvery second year, the Summit travels to another part of the world
Founding group
Guided by a small, rotating founding group.
We keep our operations deliberately lean, so that every resource serves the mission. Our partners make the Summit possible, and the stage belongs to ideas, with every voice heard on its merits.
- Rakesh Khurana
- Kumar MurtyVKM
- Natalia Parlov
- Roland Schatz
- Luis Seco