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Unleashing the power of emergent entrepreneurship

August 24th, 2010 by Christian Busch

Imagine the highest concentration of emergent change makers on the planet in one spot and the unstoppable energy released in such a gathering.

This is what happened this weekend in Silicon Valley. Sandbox, Singularity University, and Sparkseed were on a good track to repeat the incredible flashmob phenomenon of TEDxVolcano; within 5 days the collaborative power of Bjoern Lasse Herrmann, Mike Del Ponte, Zain Jaffer, Max Marmer and Nathaniel Whittemore created an epic event at the Dangerously Ambitious Conference. More than 220 young leaders from artificial intelligence, neuroscience, design & education to courageous front liners in the Congo war. An incredible selection of passionate entrepreneurs from more than 40 nations. They were joined by TEDsters, White House staff and many of the trail blazer entrepreneurs who have made Silicon Valley into what it is today.

What was it all about? The aim was to connect people who truly transform society around the world by fundamentally changing how we do things. The motto of Singularity University summarizes this with the question “how can we impact 1 Billion lives in 10 years?”.

Nathaniel from Asset Map moderated an exciting pitch session preceding the dinner with some aspiring social ventures such as Starting Bloc, Holstee, Falling Whistles, Startl, among others – profound idea-sex, and deep discussions provided fruitful ground for kicking off new projects and scaling up existing ones. Top angel investors rounded up the event’s catalyzing ecosystem.

We are looking forward to many more of these events allover the (Sandbox-) world, the next one happening in Washington, D.C. this Friday!

Christian Busch is Co-Founder and Head of Community Development at Sandbox, constantly inspired by the creative capacity of our 37 ambassadors in 24 hubs allover the world.