Setting the stage for the 2023 Concordia Annual Summit, young leaders from the NYC Junior Ambassadors program will provide their perspectives on the most pressing issues of our time. Young people have been a force for change throughout history, and their absence from conversations on the future only inhibits society. Accordingly, in a preface to the summit's agenda, this group of next-generation movers and shakers will touch on core pillars of the plenary to be delved into over the following 3 days; civil society empowerment; sustainable impact, and particularly the age of mis- and disinformation and its impact on their generation.