Teen Peace Summit

We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) is proud to announce the 2019 Three Dot Dash Global Teen Leaders (GTLs) Peace Summit, representing 14 countries on 6 continents. Carefully selected and curated from hundreds of applicants, these 33 teens are innovating technology and harnessing creativity to keep our water systems clean, rethink approaches to cancer research, put youth at the forefront of civic engagement, transform urban forestry industries, and use machine learning to tackle modern day crises, among other vital challenges. They are addressing some of the world’s most pressing issues across the spectrum. Celebrating 11 years of the Three Dot Dash, WAFF is honoured to continue its partnership with SAP.

“I am inspired each year to meet and work with the Global Teen Leaders who join our family. It’s one of the most important parts of my life. Just listening to their voices and their ideas gives me a huge amount of hope. And, I have been known to say, ‘if our summit took place during the apocalypse, our teens would have the technical aptitude to survive and rebuild.’ With their innovative and creative minds, they are changing the world for the better of all of us on the planet. We are honoured again this year to have SAP as our partner to nurture and support the new generation of socially conscious humans.” – Nile Rodgers, Founder & Chairman,

We Are Family Foundation

“It is an honor to partner with We Are Family Foundation and support its Three Dot Dash global teen leader initiative. Our organisations are committed to equip young people like the Global Teen Leaders with the skills and technology to tackle society’s problems and to turn the world’s greatest challenges into our biggest opportunities. The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow and it is our duty to make them ready for what lies ahead.” – Bernd Leukert, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, SAP Digital Business Services

The 2019 GTLs will convene in New York City March 8 – 15, 2019 for WAFF’s 11th Three Dot Dash Just Peace Summit. For a full list of Global Teen Leaders, click here.

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The report, titled ‘Digitising IT’, found that there remains a significant gap in organisations preparing for and implementing a digital strategy that fully integrates strategic, financial and operational elements.

The survey, based on responses from 812 senior executives at multinational corporations, examined the challenges and opportunities facing IT departments with the context of digital. Nearly half of those surveyed (49 per cent) were IT remainders, with the other respondents coming from sales, marketing, HR and finance.

Digital initiatives are most likely to be rated as the “highest strategic priority” in APJ (47 per cent), companies in China were most likely to rate their digital initiatives over the past three years at 55 per cent, ahead of APJ companies at 40 per cent and the global average of 25 per cent.

CIOs in United States (51 per cent) and China (49 per cent) were most likely to have primary ownership of their company’s digital initiatives, compared with a global average of 37 per cent. The survey also showed that the role of the chief digital officer (CDO) is gaining traction in Europe and Germany, with 20 per cent and 13 per cent respectively saying that primary ownership of digital strategy rests with the CDO.

Forty-two per cent of organisations in APJ also said that “improving collaboration between IT and other departments” would most help IT departments make the ideal contribution to their company’s digital initiatives.

“Digital transformation is the new strategic imperative – no longer just a handy source of competitive differentiation but a must-do for every company, in every industry and across every geography,” said Thomas Saueressig, chief information officer, SAP.

“Forward-looking CIOs understand that they need to change their roles from ‘keeping the lights on’ service providers to ‘leaders of innovation’. This is easier said than done, but there is a positive correlation between the early involvement of IT and meaningful success rates of digital transformation initiatives – so the first step is the most important one.”

The complete study is available here.

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