The Social Good Summit is a three-day conference where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions. At the summit, innovative technologists, influential minds and passionate activists will come together with one shared goal: to unlock the potential of new media and technology to make the world a better place, and then translate that potential into action.

This year’s Social Good Summit will be more engaging than ever. People from around the world, in both the developed and the developing world, will unite in person and online to participate in The Global Conversation – the world’s largest conversation on how technology can grow communities and improve life for all of us as we move toward being a networked society. The Social Good Summit in New York City takes place September 22 – 24, 2012. On September 24 it will go to China and Kenya.

Buy tickets to the September 22-24 event in New York.

Speakers

This year’s speaker lineup includes Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore, award-winning author Deepak Chopra, UNDP administrator Helen Clarke, New York Times journalist Nick Kristof and actor Forest Whitaker, among many others.

See the full list of speakers at mashable.com/sgs/#speakers.

Take Action

On Monday September 24, the summit invites people all over the world to create and join meetups to connect about the biggest challenges facing our world.

In the weeks that follow the Social Good Summit, they’ll be sharing and starting conversations around all the local discussions. And at the end of the year they’ll bring together all the local discussions into one “worldwide paper,” a crowdsourced global action plan that highlights the opportunities – and challenges – we all face.

The summit goal is to hear the voices and ideas of people everywhere.

Take action by joining this global conversation:

• Attend the Social Good Summit in New York City from September 22 -24
• Organize or attend a Social Good Summit Meetup in your own hometown or anywhere around the world as part of The Global Conversation
• Watch the summit on YouTube and interact in real-time with the Social Good Summit community via social media with the hashtag #SGSglobal

The 2012 Social Good Summit is organized by Mashable, 92nd Street Y, the United Nations Foundation, Ericsson, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Learn more and register at mashable.com/sgs.