Jean Claude Van Damme Wants You To Smile

A man most famous for kicking in teeth wants people to smile.

"The ability to smile is an integral part of life," said Jean-Claude Van Damme. "The absence of a smile is hostile to our nature, to the joy You must have a strange feeling when you see a child or an adult, who can't smile and you can.

So I want to help. I became famous and I need to use it for good causes."

FORUM ONE together with celebrity guest Van Damme, keynote speaker Seth Godin and all other speakers, including C level managers from Microsoft, Facebook and BMW, invite hundreds of thousands of people across the planet to unite and bring back 1,000 smiles for children.

The major European conference aims to raise $240,000, enough to cover 1,000 surgeries for children of Operation Smile. FORUM ONE will be held Oct.

23-25, 2014 in Vilnius, Lithuania. It will attract more than 4,000 businessmen, managers, leaders and professionals from Central and Eastern Europe.

FORUM ONE has launched anIndiegogo campaign so that donations can be accepted from people all over the world. Contributions of any amount are welcome at the Indiegogo page which can be viewed at www.indiegogo.com/projects/forum-one-1-000-smiles-challenge.

FORUM ONE is providing perks to encourage donations. For $24, backers can choose to watch one keynote speech of the conference.

Larger pledges are rewarded with increased free access to the conference livestream. For $2,400, you can receive a VIP ticket to the Oct. 24 closing event in Vilnius, featuring Van Damme as a guest speaker.

"The amazing story of Blake Mycoskie and TOMS has made a huge impact in the way we do business and organize events," said Darius Jonauskas, Martynas Saikus and Vladas Lasas, co-founders of FORUM ONE. "We've started something that matters and every year FORUM ONE will choose one inspiring social cause to support."