It’s over and it went so fast.
It was an amazing experience and we made it. We, the Globe Forum Team, succeeded in making the biggest conference that ever happened in Gdansk. We brought sustainability and innovation to discussion and we were astonished how the Polish market is into it.
Thank you Gdansk and thanks to all [...]
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Thanks Gdansk and Thanks Poland!
November 2, 2009 – 1:31 pm
Less than 24 hours left
October 27, 2009 – 10:10 am
And here we are. A whole team of professionals ready to start the biggest conference that ever happened in Gdansk.
During the next two days more than 1200 participants will listen to business leaders. politicians, innovators, specialists and futurists discussing about innovation and sustainability.
Globe Forum Gdansk will show how innovation can contribute to a profitable and sustainable [...]
Globe Forum Innovators’ Contest – Polish Edition
October 15, 2009 – 2:16 pm
During the Forum, an onstage innovators contest will take place.
The contest features 12 exciting innovative companies who will present their groundbreaking sustainable innovations. The format of the presentations will be short “elevator pitches”. The audience will vote and decide which innovation is most likely to succeed.
Below a movie clip from GF Innovators’ Contest in Sweden.
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2 degree – Globe Forum is engaged, are you?
September 28, 2009 – 10:21 am
The two-degree campaign has been set up to increase public pressure before the climate negotiations get underway in Copenhagen in December. There are high hopes that a global climate agreement will be drawn up, but there are difficulties in getting all the countries to sign up to an agreement.
Go to http://www.2grader.se/en/ and sign the petition [...]
The race of the cities
September 22, 2009 – 8:01 am
Berlin, Dublin, Curitiba, Gdansk, Stockholm, Boston, Eindhoven, Barcelone or Hong Kong are all cities claiming to work towards sustainability.
Globe Forum is always on the look out to collaborate with cities who understand the meaning of hosting a marketplace that supports sustainable innovation and research that helps corporations and organizations to find a sustainable way of doing [...]
Sustainability
September 21, 2009 – 8:02 am
Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the capacity to endure. It can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. Sustainable maintenance of the natural world and the responsible use [...]
The Convention Centre Dublin
September 18, 2009 – 10:10 am
The Convention Centre Dublin will be the first carbon neutral international convention centre in the world as the impact of the building’s construction on the environment is zero.
Designed to meet the highest standards of environmental sustainability, the venue is being constructed with concrete that has a zero carbon footprint.
Long-term operational requirements have also been prioritised, [...]
Developing an optimal innovation strategy
September 7, 2009 – 8:28 am
If one innovation approach is helpful, you might think using more than one approach to innovation would be even better. Not necessarily, write Frank T. Rothaermel and Andrew M. Hess in an article on innovation strategy in the new issue of Business Insight, MIT Sloan Management Review’s collaboration with The Wall Street Journal.
In a [...]
The Five Stages of Adopting Corporate Sustainability
September 3, 2009 – 8:11 am
The report, “Why Sustainability is now the Key Driver of Innovation” from Harvard Business Review, lays out five stages for successfully adopting corporate sustainability. Authors came to their conclusions by looking at best practices at companies such as HP, Wal-Mart, Clorox and others.
Stage 1 – Viewing compliance as opportunity.
Stage 2 – Making value chains sustainable.
Stage [...]
