Pacific Forum brought 34 Young Leaders (YLs) from seven countries including the US, Japan, ROK, Australia, and the PRC to two Young Leader programs in Seoul. The first program, the 2011 IFANS Conference on Global Affairs: Alliance in Transformation and Regional Security Architecture in Northeast Asia, brought experts from South Korea, Japan, the United States and Australia in Seoul in October 2011, to discuss the future of multilateral cooperation as a means to tackle traditional and nontraditional security threats.