Archive of the category: "On the Road"
First Sandbox Boston Event
We had the pleasure to host the first Sandbox event end of February in Boston with local members, guests from the Harvard Entrepreneurship Conference and new people. I really enjoyed this evening full of inspiring conversations and look forward to many more to come soon. Many thanks to Nabeel and Sehr for their help with the [...]
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 at DLD in Munich & World Economic Forum in Davos
A lot of traveling happening in the Sandbox team right now. Antoine just came from Singapore where we hosted an event with the Minister of Entrepreneurship (huge thanks to Sandboxer Andi Brenner for the amazing organization!), and our team will be at Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich and at the World Economic Forum [...]
One hour with Sebastian Lindstrom
Yesterday morning, Julian, Paul, Sara and I had breakfast with Sebastian Lindstrom at Zurich main station, where he was stopping by for one hour on his way to Copenhagen - Paris - Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea, where he should arrive before Christmas.
In one hour, we talked about COP 15 (Sebastian attended the Summit [...]
Don’t Mess with Quechuan Grandmothers
Nate Loewentheil recently moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia. He will be publishing occasional pieces here on Bolivian politics as well as his personal adventures. Here’s a piece on his first inter-city bus travel.
Supermodels strip for climate change
Supermodel, Ivy-league student, social entrepreneur and Sandbox member Cameron Russel is the producer of this video aimed to draw attention on climate change. 350 is the number of parts per million (ppm), which an overwhelming number of scientists now insist is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Her action joins the [...]
Sandboxing in Covent Garden
Another evening of inspiring people around great food in the heart of London: a dozen Sandboxers and guests joined Antoine and me for some good Shiraz and pizza/pasta at Cafe Mode.
Bjoern Welter, Head of Design at Pret A Manger elucidated the interface between design and business, and briefed us about the exciting new openings [...]
Oh my, I’m jealous: These Sandboxers go to Palomar5 in Berlin
The Palomar5 location in Berlin (picture by Palomar5)
Palomar5, the inspiration camp taking place in Berlin in October and November, has just announced its list of participants. And we’re honored that out of the 30 people who have been selected to attend, four are active members of Sandbox: Congratulations to Sagarika, Eddie, Jyoti and Ian! I [...]
Fred on the road from Gibraltar to North Cape
From March to April 2010 Stockholm Sandboxer and Co-founder of one of our community partners Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden , Fredrik Hagenius, is planning to hop on his bike and cycle from Gibraltar to North Cape.
“I’m planning to do this challenge during 30 to 50 days, depending on budget and how good shape I will [...]
