EcoRise to host The Shaper Leaders Summit at SCBX Next Stage, Siam Paragon

EcoRise, a 2024 recipient of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Seeds for the Future programme, will host The Shaper Leaders Summit at SCBX Next Stage, Siam Paragon, on Sunday 28 September 2025 from 10:00 to 17:00. 

The Summit will convene young people aged sixteen to twenty-three from every region of Thailand who are committed to addressing sustainability challenges. Its centrepiece is an intensive workshop to design practical approaches to environmental and social problems and to present them for public review.

The Shaper Leaders Summit provides a structured setting in which students and emerging leaders can test ideas, learn from peers, and collaborate with practitioners from industry, public policy, and community organisations. The aim is to move from awareness to application, so that promising concepts develop into workable solutions that reflect local conditions. At the heart of the programme sits The Shaper Impact Lab. Teams will map stakeholders, examine assumptions with discipline, iterate proposals, and share them in real time on a Live Idea Wall. Participation in the workshop is by advance registration.

Alongside the workshop, the programme will showcase youth-led initiatives developed through recent regional activities. Visitors will be able to observe prototypes and policy concepts, and to meet participants whose projects have been shaped through dialogue with residents and local agencies. The event reflects a belief that durable progress depends on informed collaboration that links community insight, technical knowledge, and the public interest.

“It is energising to watch young people work together and apply their creativity to longstanding problems, then translate that energy into practical solutions,” said Garin (Methaphon Tukoonpanich), co-founder of EcoRise, a YSEALI Academic Fellowship alumna, and a 2024 YSEALI Seeds for the Future recipient. “Our mission is to help build the communities of tomorrow, communities that combine innovation with responsibility.”

EcoRise has operated since receiving support through YSEALI Seeds for the Future, a small grants competition of the United States Government that supports innovative, youth-led projects in Southeast Asia. The programme, run under the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Mission to ASEAN, equips young leaders with funding, mentorship, and training to implement projects across civic engagement, sustainable development, education, and economic empowerment. Since 2015 the programme has awarded more than two and a half million dollars to emerging leaders in ASEAN and Timor-Leste, and in 2024 winning teams received grants of up to fifteen thousand dollars to launch their projects.

Event details

• Date: Sunday 28 September 2025
• Time: 10:00 to 17:00
• Venue: SCBX Next Stage, fourth floor, Siam Paragon, Bangkok
• Workshop: The Shaper Impact Lab for registered participants aged sixteen to twenty-three