The prolonged worldwide pandemic, intensifying climate change impacts, and cascading risks have taught us that conventional approaches to disaster risk planning and management are insufficient for developing sustainable and resilient communities. Substantial improvement in our effectiveness requires not only more systematic identification of processes, techniques, evidence, challenges and opportunities, but also that we unleash to a far greater degree the latent capacity of diverse sets actors for contribution and collaboration. Among these actors, youth and young professionals (YYP’s), and their organizations, have profoundly important roles to play in addressing the complex challenges related to disaster risk and climate change, the ongoing digital transformation, and intergenerational communication and collaboration. Numerous efforts worldwide have already illustrated the impact that such leadership roles of YYP’s can have. It is important that the broader disaster risk management community learn from examples of successful youth leadership and accelerate efforts to support YYP’s and their organizations to yet further expand their transformative capacity. This session highlighted global examples of three roles of YYPs in data and knowledge sharing for multi-hazards disaster risk management, specifically as “producer”, “broker”, and “synthesizer”. In the first role, as “data and knowledge producers”, YYPs devote themselves primarily to capturing natural and social phenomena essential for understanding the landscape of disaster risk. In the second role, as “brokers”, YYPs provide essential services to ensure stakeholders can access the most relevant disaster-related data and knowledge based on their needs. In the third role, as “synthesizers”, YYPs access and craft the available disaster-related data and knowledge - consolidating, combining, and providing meaning, such as to inspire or trigger societal changes, including for policy-making, implementation of research results, program ideation, and capacity-building. The session showcased examples from multiple countries and regions that illustrate each of these roles and explored ongoing challenges and opportunities for collaboration for YYPs from diverse professional backgrounds, including, but not limited to, earth scientists, social scientists, engineers, policy-makers, and emergency management professionals.