Five jobs to unlock Europe’s future

  • 02.10.2019
  • < min

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

  • 01.10.2019
  • 2 min

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

  • 23.09.2019
  • 4 min

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.

Imagine if we could eradicate malaria… with paint!

  • 11.06.2019
  • 4 min

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

  • 09.06.2019
  • 3 min

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

  • 24.05.2019
  • 2 min

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.

The transformational power of diversity

  • 21.05.2019
  • 3 min

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.