The Idea
When Taipei City launched its new Department for Youth in 2024, its founding Director had a clear ambition for young people: bring Taipei to the world, and bring the world to Taipei.
Dots Global was invited to help turn that ambition into a flagship global platform.
The Impact
The result was the inaugural 2025 Global InnoYouth Summit — powered by Taipei, bringing together 150+ participants from more than 40 cities.
Across global leadership, civic engagement, innovation, and tech & well-being, young people gained direct access to ideas, leaders, and peers from around the world.
But the summit was designed to be more than an event. It became the launchpad for Friends of Taipei — a growing global community connecting young changemakers to Taipei and to one another.
Our Role in the Journey
Dots Global worked across strategy, experience design, global curation, and ecosystem building — turning a vision for international youth engagement into a platform designed to grow.
Craft the Innovation
We shaped the concept around a simple idea: bring the world to Taipei, and bring Taipei to the world.
From there, we developed the Global InnoYouth Summit as the flagship experience and Friends of Taipei as the community that could live beyond it.
Build the Venture
We designed and produced the inaugural summit — shaping the program, participant journey, speaker mix, and global outreach.
What made it distinctive was the community we curated.
Rather than simply recruiting attendees, we tapped our global network of leaders and asked them to nominate exceptional young people in their communities — rising stars with the right mix of sharp minds and kind hearts.
Develop the Ecosystem
We continue to help grow Friends of Taipei — deepening the network, strengthening connections, and creating new ways for young leaders around the world to engage with Taipei over time.
