Following his morning presentation, during which he introduced us to “the Aspirationals”, Raphael Bemporad, founder and Strategy Director of BBMG led a humanity-centered design workshop. The objective was to disrupt and delight, to come up with innovative business ideas that would help Samsung engage with aspirationals in a sustainable way. Paco, from Samsung, participated of…
The topic of this break-out session was the power of sustainable fashion to change lives and bring a message for future generations. We were joined by Nicholas Allen from Patagonia, Paul Dillinger from Levi Strauss, Begoña García from Jeanologia, Gema Gómez from Slow Fashion Spain, and Enrique Segovia from WWF. Sonia Ruiz, founder of NOIMA,…
Katherine Raleigh, of the Sant Pau Knowledge Centre, set the tone early on in the conversation, framing 2015 as a year of significance for the UN. You see, the UN entity is in its 70th year. The world is experiencing many challenges from a wide range of problems, and some may openly question the effectiveness…
The diversity of information and initiatives presented to us in this panel discussion was really interesting. It was not until I looked again at the title that I realised what each of the four topics – smart cities, crowdfunding, eco innovation and forest sustainability corporation (FSC) had in common. The answer, of course is that…
Tuesday’s plenaries started with Matthew Yeomans, founder of Sustainly, telling us why sustainability needs social media. To answer this question, Matthew took us back 11 years, to the birth of Facebook. The birth of social networks gave everyone a voice and changed the rules of the game. According to Matthew, social media gave sustainability a…
