Monthly archive for February 2009
The upLIFTing dinner
When we attended the LIFT conference in Geneva for the first time last year, we immediately loved it. Laurent, Nicolas and their team are doing a great job in creating a nice atmosphere with inspiring content, where a very diverse crowd of super-interesting people meet.
Thus, it was clear that the Sandbox team would be back [...]
Meeting the Father of the Internet
A living legend for geeks from all continents, Vint Cerf is a 65 years old computer scientist who is most frequently considered to be the father of the Internet. He is now a Google vice-president, and their Chief Internet Evangelist. In this talk in Geneva during LIFT09, Vint Cerf mentioned the biggest challenges now faced by the information and communication technology, two of which have particularly raised our attention: the necessity to increase the number of IP addresses, and the development of an Interplanetary Internet
Sandbox @ LIFT
Nico, Fabian and I will be in Geneva for LIFT from tomorrow to Friday. LIFT is a conference exploring the social consequences of new technologies. We’ll be twittering a lot: follow us to read our updates! Also, we are organising a dinner on the Feb 25 with Sandbox members and participants to the conference. Click below to read more.
IVY Leadership Summit 2009 at Brown University
I’m back in New York from inspiring days at the IVY Leadership Summit 2009 at Brown University. Every year, student leaders from all the 8 Ivy League Universities meet to exchange ideas and listen to extraordinary keynotes (for example Sergei Nikititsch Khrushchev, son of former Sovjet Prime Minister Khrushchev and professor at Brown, “The Cuban [...]
The newsletter for February: Constraints, LIFT and more
We just sent out our first newsletter for this year (there was none for January). In it, we talk about constraints and the opportunities that arise from them, remind you of our cooperation with the LIFT conference in Geneva at the end of this month and give you the usual selection of good stuff we [...]
From eco-clubbing to eco-working
With its powerful sound-system, its numerous lights, its heating and cooling system, a nightclub is an energy glutton. Trying to address this issue, the first eco-club of the world re-injects into the main circuit the energy produced by its customers shaking their bodies on the dance floor.
