Hear from Dean Peter Tufano
An action-oriented problem-solving community geared towards addressing some of the most complex issues that the world faces today.
Students, alumni and faculty can connect via skills sessions and tutorials to discuss, debate, and drive new business ideas that address global issues. The community addresses problems across generations, across nations and across business sectors. This provides our students with the skills to solve complex challenges and to help them become innovative leaders.
Designed to stimulate thinking, GOTO convenes and inspires a wide range of people with a variety of viewpoints to come together to identify business opportunities and generate solutions to challenges arising from high impact global trends.
An issue of high global impact is identified by experts and considered each year.
GOTO gives you two critical things:
The project introduces the critical skills of linking large-scale, system-level trends to your own career and to the opportunities available in your chosen sector and region. It cultivates a broad perspective and deep insights and links the most pressing threats faced by the world with the corresponding opportunities for innovative organisations and individuals. As future leaders, you will be required to negotiate those links; we are uniquely able to provide this breadth and depth.
Systems reset
The pandemic has thrown our world into disarray, triggering an economic crisis, a social crisis and a governance crisis. We need to seize this moment to reimagine and redesign our systems. We need a reset.
This year our goal is to leverage the creativity and intellectual firepower of a global community to develop actionable systemic change ideas that can help respond to a world in crisis.
Climate Action
'This is the defining challenge of not just our generation but I think this century', Peter Drobac, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and co-academic lead for the GOTO programme.
Last year, students worked in small groups in one of four tracks under the broader theme of Climate Action; Cities, Rethinking Growth, Energy Systems, or Food & Agriculture Systems.
The programme culminated in the GOTO Summit, held on 1 May 2020, featuring a keynote address from Former US Vice President Al Gore. Here, finalist teams presented their solutions and competed to win the prestigious GOTO trophy.
