{"id":38929,"date":"2019-03-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-attends-ypo-edge-summit\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T15:34:15","slug":"president-kagame-attends-ypo-edge-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-attends-ypo-edge-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame attends YPO Edge Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, business leaders from around the world gather for the YPO EDGE, the organization\u2019s premier visionary showcase of thought leadership and innovation. For two days, members, their spouses\/partners and invited guests from more than 130 countries convene with world-renowned thought leaders to address key issues in business, politics, science, technology, philanthropy and the humanities. <\/p>\n<p>It is expected that President Kagame will hold a discussion moderated by Former YPO International Chairman, McKeel Hagerty. The Head of State will also attend a dinner with South-African President, Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>The event offers exceptional educational opportunities for attendees while helping the global leaders of today shape the world of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>YPO members harness the knowledge, influence, and trust of the world\u2019s most influential and innovative business leaders to inspire business, personal, and community impact. The Organization is a premier global leadership organization for more than 27,000 chief executives in over 130 countries.<\/p>\n<p>In Previous times, President Kagame has welcomed YPO delegations to Rwanda several times and has participated in different events organized by YPO globally.<\/p>\n<p>The Head of State told the last YPO delegation to come to Rwanda in August 2018, which had 80 members coming from all parts of the world, that he was no longer worried about Rwanda&#8217;s Future but how the changes and development that had been gained could be sustained.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Young Presidents\u2019 Organization (YPO) bestowed to President Paul Kagame the Global Leadership Award, celebrating his impactful leadership to the lives of Rwandans, in Peace, development, and economy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mst-HlVpyKk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28408 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-1917-8a4fb.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has arrived in Cape Town, South Africa where he will attend the annual Young Presidents\u2019 Organization (YPO) EDGE Summit \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28410 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-1573-b10dd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28412 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-2269-0ff81-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has arrived in Cape Town, South Africa where he will attend the annual Young Presidents\u2019 Organization (YPO) EDGE Summit, where 2,500 youth peers from around the world will gather together to reconnect and learn each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38929"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38929"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}