Facebook's Metaverse pictures a promising future for corporate learning
At the end of June Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to his employees his new ambition for his company: “Facebook would strive to build a maximalist, interconnected set of experiences straight out of sci-fi — a world known as the metaverse.” The ambition comes out at an interesting timing, a package of bills is coming […]
What to remember from SXSW 2017? [Download Full Trends Report]
South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual film, music, interactive media and conference-packed festival launched in 1987 and held in Austin, Texas (US). It has become an important place for startups to gain momentum. Indeed, over 50% of attendees from organisations are key decision-making individuals, and 63% of attendees are looking for new business opportunities […]
Singapore's "Disrupt Yourself First" Strategy for Fintech Innovation
Fintech (short for ‘financial technology’) has seen massive growth in Singapore, rising from just 18 fintech startups in 2015 to more than 300 today. That’s an increase of over 1600% over the last two years! Hence, it is no surprise that Singapore is currently leading the fintech wave in Southeast Asia; which coincides well with […]
Meet KIC Shanghai, a leading community of startups
In Shanghai, a player of the startup scene not to miss is Knowledge and Innovation Community, as known as KIC.
Startup Weekend Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina has been the most prolific tech hub in Latin America for the last 20 years. Actually, most of the largest tech companies of Latin America are from Argentina. In the early 2000’s, the 10 top tech companies were all Argentinians. Even lately, 4 of them are still argentinian according to Martin Vivás, facilitator at […]
The emergence of an incubator ecosystem in Uruguay
Is a business incubator the best way to help startups to cope with their day-to-day challenges? To help them grow and become sucess stories that will make other local entrepreneurs dream? This is a recurrent question in Latin America, where almost every single country has realized the need to become a hub for entrepreneurs, if […]
Meeting with the Uruguayan developer community at TechMeetUp Uruguay
One would not expect such a small country as Uruguay to be of interest when it comes to technology matters. We actually got proven it’s a start-up scene to look at very closely in the future after attending TechmeetUp, one of the main event of the local tech community, gathering most developers, hackers and tech […]
El Mashrou3: when a Reality-TV show support entrepreneurship in the emerging markets
While in Dhaka, Bangladesh for Innovation Xtreme, we’ve met with Asim Haneef (LinkedIn, Twitter), a British TV producer and Director of Global Development for Bamyan Media. He helped in particular to launch and popularise “El Mashrou3”, a reality-TV show promoting entrepreneurship to a mass-market audience in Egypt, with successful developments in other emerging markets such […]
The Future of Coworking: coworking visas, corporate partnerships and real-estate specialists
The coworking phenomenon might not be very old, yet, it already has a lot of perspectives and questions to address for its near and long-term future. As we attended Asia’s first Coworking Unconference in Bali in January 2015, we heard a lot of the speakers (coworking operators for the biggest part) share their insights on […]
The Future of Work – Wrap-up of the Asia’s 1st Coworking Unconference
We’ve attended the first Coworking Unconference of Asia, organized by Hubud (The Hub in Ubud, Bali) as again, we have this privileged feeling to have witnessed something new, half-way between a tectonic, societal move and the birth of an ecosystem of organisations willing to innovate in a new field. The event was co-organized by some […]
