Archive for the tag: "conference"

LIFT10: connected people

Lift is a series of events built around a community of pioneers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social implications of new technologies. Each conference is a chance to turn innovation into opportunities by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meet the people who drive them. This year, Lift will explore [...]

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 [...]

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 in [...]

Meet a Sandbox member: Andreas Brenner

Sandbox Ambassador Andreas Brenner is a 23 year old German, living in Switzerland and currently studying in Singapore. Besides his studies he is organizing dinners and events for the growing Sandbox community in Singapore. He is passionate about new technologies, especially in the ICT sector and loves skiing as well as delicious food. Tell us [...]

“Entrepreneurial Opportunities Amidst Crisis”: Event at Columbia University

We’re excited to announce an event we’re co-sponsoring: “Entrepreneurial Opportunities Amidst Crisis“. Together with Emily Harbourg from Harvard I’m organizing a small but highly interactive event with exciting people, happening here at Columbia University in New York on Friday, April 24th. University students from across the nation will gather at Columbia University in an intimate [...]

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 [...]

Sandox is coming to you

At Sandbox, we have talked a lot about our strategy in the last months. Our network has been expanding fast and we felt a strong need for local events at places where the Sandbox community are growing rapidly. So instead of organizing one big Sandbox conference in Q2 2009, we have decided to do six [...]

SANDBOX @ EHRF

In June, I attended a 3 days-strategy workshop of the European Human Resources Forum in Lugano, Switzerland. The event gathers every year about 20 senior HR executives from all over the world, who take the occasion of this event in a paradisiac location to pause and reflect about their function and the challenges they’re facing [...]