Digital Program
Session Type: Panel
Participants: Belissa Rojas (UNPDF - Washington DC), Claudia Olmedo (UNDP Accelerator Labs - El Salvador), Kylie Porter (Global Compact Network Australia) and Michael Donaghue-Evnans (UN Victoria)

The panel will be moderated by Lionel Lee (InvestUnited).

Claudia Olmedo

Head of Exploration
UNDP Accelerator Labs, El Salvador

+12 years of experience in Innovation strategies, gamification and Digital Transformation. She has been a start-up founder of two companies related to the creation and application of user-centered innovation and digital transformation strategies, interactive technology and data science and fintech in social and corporate sectors. Until September 2020, Vice President of the Salvadoran Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies CASATIC and President of the El Salvador-India Women's Business Council. She is currently Head of Exploration in El Salvador at the Accelerator Lab of the United Nations Development Program UNPD, the world's largest and fastest learning network on the challenges of sustainable development and part of the global policy teams and country offices. 

UNDP Accelerator Labs

UNDP Accelerator Labs is becoming the world’s largest and fastest learning network on sustainable development challenges. It is part of UNDP’s drive to be an incubator for the future. It started with 60 Lab teams covering 78 countries in 2019 and are now expanding to 91 Labs covering 115 countries. It brings bright, unusual talent into the development sector and creates actionable intelligence, test solutions with national partners. It models a new capability to make breakthroughs on the future of development: inequality, decarbonization, the 4th industrial revolution and new forms of governance. Aligned with UNDP’s vision of gender equality, more than 50 percent of its new innovation experts are women, driving its exploration and elevation of women-led solutions.

Topic: State of Sustainable Development Goals

Synopsis: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. With the continued COVID-19 pandemic affecting every country, how are efforts to end poverty, hunger, AIDS, and discrimination against women and girls affected. What creativity, knowhow, technology, financial resources and cooperation are being applied to keep the SDGs on track? Our panel of experts share their examples and provide insight into the state of SDGs globally and in Australia.