Europe is a powerhouse of innovation, enterprise and entrepreneurship. And yet we face, like the rest of the world, a set of serious challenges – from the climate crisis and social inequality, to uncertainty around employment and threats to our global competitiveness. It’s time to rise to these challenges. It’s time to unlock a vibrant future for Europe.
Connecting kids for learning through innovation
During last year’s Xynteo Exchange/Norway, Verizon hosted an open innovation Studio that brought together a diverse group of leaders and practitioners to investigate societal problems that connectivity can help address.
What cane toads can teach businesses about growth
The dreaded cane toad has few friends in my home country, Australia, writes Xynteo MD Chester Cunningham. In 1935, 3000 of them were released in the country’s sugarcane plantations in an effort to eat the beetles that were devouring the valued crop.
Want to achieve the SDGs? Start by scrubbing your windows
This need for change is what motivates us at Xynteo to develop a theory of change that is unique. It’s a theory of change built with a view towards creating collaborative action.
Exploring partnerships for sustainable mobility in Bangalore
Leadership Vanguard’s Low Carbon Cities team travelled to Bangalore to explore partnership opportunities with a local impact enterprise, Vogo, that works to reduce the city’s pollution and congestion challenges.
LV leaders select impact enterprises to accelerate in Seattle
Senior leaders from Mastercard, Energias de Portugal, Baker Hughes, HSBC, Shell, ICRC, Tata and Unilever meet with promising impact enterprises and a global community of experts and leaders.
Imagine if we could eradicate malaria… with paint!
Natsai Mutezo, a womanitarian, afropreneur and a chemical technologist on a mission to transform Africa with a microencapsulation technique to create products designed for use in the home that fight malaria.
Saving the planet’s coral reef ecosystem
On World Oceans Day, we caught up with James Beresford and Mahima Sukhdev on a project aiming to turn the tide on the catastrophic loss of our global coral reef ecosystem.
Mobilising businesses for impact at scale
Each year at the Xynteo Exchange in Norway, hundreds of business leaders and innovators come together and choose one ground-breaking ‘Impact Maker’ – a start-up that is doing well by doing good and has great potential for scale.
Exploring solutions for sustainable megacities in Bangalore
Senior leaders from Baker Hughes, Tata, HSBC, Mastercard, Unilever, EDP, ICRC and Shell, the Leadership Vanguard travelled to Bangalore to meet with entrepreneurs innovating for a low carbon and sustainable city.
The transformational power of diversity
On this World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, Chester reminds us that, in our interconnected world, for any real transformation to take place, organisations need to be mindful of how diversity is encouraged and sustained.
The Leadership Vanguard explores plastic waste management in Bangalore
India generates around 5.6 million tons of plastic waste annually. 70% of the plastic consumption is discarded as waste and around half of this waste is single-use plastics.