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Goals for Tomorrow Youth Presenters
Aga Khan Foundation Canada x Students Commission of Canada logoAga Khan Foundation Canada x Students Commission of CanadaConference

Goals for Tomorrow Youth Presenters

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Opportunity type
Conference
Funding
No Funding
Location
Canada
Deadline
Archived
Age
Priority ages 15 to 24, any youth welcome

About this opportunity

Goals for Tomorrow is a national youth-led virtual festival run by Aga Khan Foundation Canada with the Students Commission of Canada, happening 17 October 2026. It brings young people from across Canada together around global citizenship, international development and the Sustainable Development Goals, and this call selects the youth who will present.

What you get:

  • A presenting slot at a national virtual festival with a Canada-wide audience
  • Connections with youth changemakers from across Canada
  • Public speaking and leadership practice
  • Recognition for your participation
  • Accessible delivery: bilingual with interpretation and closed captions

What you'll do:

  • Submit a presentation proposal in one or more formats before the deadline
  • Prepare your talk, workshop, panel contribution or creative showcase
  • Present at the virtual festival on 17 October 2026
  • Engage with other youth presenters and festival participants

Who can apply

  • Priority for ages 15 to 24; any youth is welcome to apply
  • Youth living in Canada
  • Apply individually or as part of a group
  • No previous presenting experience required
  • Multiple proposal submissions allowed
  • No application fees

AI Verification

✓ AI Verified

Our AI read the official sources and cross-checked the key facts. Here is what held up, and what it could not confirm.

This opportunity is run by an established organization, and we confirmed its key details against the official source. As always, never share sensitive personal or financial information until you are sure a request is genuine.

90
LOT Verification ScoreStrong

Cross-checked 4 of 5 key facts

Confirmed Our best read Not stated

Good to know

  • +Deadline, eligibility and FAQ verified directly on akfc.ca including the expanded FAQ accordion
  • +Genuinely low-barrier: no experience needed, group entries and multiple submissions allowed
  • +Accessibility is concrete: bilingual delivery, interpretation, closed captions
  • +Established organisers (AKFC and the Students Commission of Canada), supported by Global Affairs Canada
  • +Banner is a real akfc.ca photograph of a young presenter speaking, 2560x1707, no embedded text

Worth checking yourself

  • !Canada-only eligibility (youth living in Canada), so not a global record
  • !akfc.ca serves a Cloudflare bot challenge to automated fetchers: agent-browser, curl and WebFetch all got 403 or a challenge page, and the page was verified through a real Chrome browser pane instead. The platform's automated link-health and banner fetchers may need an exception or manual handling for this record
  • !AKFC is a LOT client/partner; noting for the judge so featuring decisions are made with that disclosed
  • !No honorarium stated for presenters

What we could not confirm

  • ?Whether presenters receive an honorarium (nothing is stated; benefits listed are platform, skills and recognition)
  • ?Festival hours (AKFC's campaign brief says 11 am to 7 pm ET but the public page does not state hours)

Sources checked

OPopportunitiesforyouth.orgFound viaOPopportunitydesk.orgFound viaAKakfc.caApplyCRCross-checked against AKFC's Goals for Tomorrow influencer brief held in the LOT vault (clients/akfc/), which states the same 26 August 23:59 EDT deadline and the 17 October festival dateOfficial

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