12 OCT · Dhaka University Campus

Youth Speaking Forum

A stage for young changemakers to pitch real solutions.

What is Youth Speaking Forum?

Youth Speaking Forum (YSF)

Youth Speaking Forum (YSF) is a platform where students and young professionals pitch ideas addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals to a live audience and a panel of judges from industry and academia.

Event details

  • FormatPitch competition + panel discussion
  • AudienceUniversity students, young professionals
  • DurationFull-day event
Youth alignment

How this aligns with youth development

YSF gives participants a rare, low-stakes stage to practice public speaking, structure an argument, and defend it under real questioning — skills that rarely get taught directly in a classroom.

Partners

How organizations can partner

Organizations can get involved as judges, sponsors, or by proposing a challenge statement for participants to respond to — a direct way to see how young talent thinks through real problems.

How to participate

Open to any university student or young professional in Bangladesh. Applications open roughly six weeks before each edition.