Pope Francis convened a few thousand young economists, entrepreneurs and changemakers and asked them to reshape the economy. That's an inspiring mandate and a terrible organisational brief.

I started as a participant, then coordinated the Vocation & Profit village. The problem there wasn't ideas — there were far too many. It was that people left the event and never spoke again. So I built a buddy system: every member paired with another member for a month, then rotated. Low effort, no platform to maintain, and it created more lasting relationships than any of the programming did.

I was later called to the Assembly, and I'm now its Vice-President. Over three years we took it from an informal group to the most active and best-structured body in the foundation — clear mandates, a working rhythm, and decisions that actually get made.

What I'd keep from it: the lowest-tech mechanism usually wins. A pairing rule you can explain in one sentence beats a community platform nobody opens.