The second annual Virtual Island Summit brought in over 10,000 attendees from over 500 island communities, representing every corner of the globe. Over 160 speakers presented over 30 panel discussions, 7 networking sessions, 4 virtual expositions, and a private film screening. Sessions covered the most pressing issues for sustainability in island communities, which included topics ranging from clean energy to ocean protection to COVID responses and tourism.
Key statistics:
The goals of each Virtual Island Summit are:
We are proud to say that we have accomplished all 5 of these goals both years of the summit and look forward to continuing to do so next year in the Virtual Island Summit 2021.
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We incorporated your feedback from the VIS 2019 into this year’s event in order to make it a success. We also learned a lot from hosting the summit a second time and are going to use your feedback to make next year’s event even better.
Thanks to your constructive feedback, we are able to make the summit better each year!
From the summit format to the topics to the people, some of your favourite parts of the summit were:
Participants were encouraged by the impact of coming together with other islands to address similar issues. Here is what some of your biggest takeaways were:
The summit was featured in over 100 radio, television and news articles around the globe:
We couldn’t have hosted a large-scale successful event with the help of our amazing team, including:
Continue the conversations started at the summit and keep in contact with fellow attendees with these next steps:
Thank you for making the Virtual Island Summit 2021 a success — we couldn’t have done it without you!