Archive of the category: "Generation Y"
Weekly inspiration #23: Internet Lovin’
Sunday being Valentines and the Chinese New Year, I tried to find a theme somehow connecting the two – ultimately settling on our love affair with the internet. Google’s first TV advertisement in the US captures the sentiment quite well. The internet enables and initiates almost everything, from information sharing to something potentially much more.
Ironically, [...]
Weekly inspiration #22: Attracting the best and the brightest
This year, I had the privilege to follow World Economic Forum Annual Meeting from the inside. The week I spent in the Swiss mountains was totally inspiring, both for the people I met as for the discussions going on.
A session that especially passioned me was a dinner with Mexican President Felipe Calderón among other prominent [...]
Taking Sandbox Themes on the Road
Since publishing the Sandbox Six Themes report last month, we received a lot of great feedback and interest from our members, our advisory board, larger organizations, universities, and many others. To keep the momentum going, we were invited to present these themes at various events and conferences around the world.
Just in the last two weeks [...]
Sandbox’ partner OYW in The Economist
Sandbox’ exclusive talent partner OneYoungWorld has been covered by The Economist’s The World in 2010. We are glad and proud that the event, for which Sandboxer Lucian Tarnowski does the social media search, is attracting the deserved global attention.
The summit of 1500 delegates from allover the world, which will (for the first time in history) [...]
Future of Retail
Sandbox member and Holstee co-founder Michael Radparvar recently published this blogpost on the “Future of Retail” on the incubaker blog.
Increasingly I find people are going into stores with no intention of actually buying anything. They are going to stores to touch, try and ask questions about a product in person then jot down the description [...]
Meet a Sandbox Member: Brian W. Jones
Sandbox member Brian W. Jones is currently living in Greensboro, Alabama where he helped start PieLab, a welcoming community space focused on civic engagement, economic revitalization, and job training. He describes himself as a designer, “trying to redefine what that means and the role I play in business”.
What is your latest project?
I’m working on a few things right now, but a [...]
PALOMAR5 FROM THE INSIDE - WEEK #4
This blog post is part 2 of the Sandbox Network ‘Palomar 5′ series: a six week innovation camp in Berlin from 9 October - 24 November 2009. To follow the progress of the conference, you can view the official Palomar 5 blog. Alternatively, if you are on twitter, follow hashtag #p5 for real-time updates. You [...]
Innovators Gather in Washington DC
Sandbox dinners are a place where emerging ideas and the innovators behind them meet. Last Friday, Sandboxers and potential members came together in Kramers Books and Afterwords, a well-known Washington venue. Nested in the restaurants upstairs balcony, the Sandbox group of technologists, social media experts, entrepreneurs, and other passionate innovators shared their stories.
Among [...]
Sandboxing in London and setting a global agenda
Thanks to our ambassador Paolo Rigutto, the last weeks have been filled with various Sandbox dinners in London which sparked several ideas on (social) innovation and the agenda-setting potential of Sandbox on a global scale.
On a dinner focusing around entrepreneurship, potential Sandboxer Mai-Li Hammargren told us about her exciting new time-tracking application, which has won [...]
Sandbox partners up with Europe’s leading Speaker Agency
Sandbox is very proud to announce its partnership with JLA- Europe’s leading speaker agency.
JLA is UK’s biggest specialist agency for keynote, motivational and after dinner speakers, conference presenters, and awards hosts.
This move will enable our talents to speak at major events and conferences, and opens up major opportunities for Sandboxers.
We are looking forward to a [...]
