We all know that a website is only a good website if its mobile version is at least equally well performing as the desktop version. A mobile version is an absolute Must-Have and what seems normal to all of us today, was a long time coming process behind the scenes.

The same destiny is happening to businesses of all sizes and industries. For a few years now, it has been expected from businesses to create and drive positive impact and not only have good products/services or rising profits. What slowly started to develop in the past years, now is suddenly put in the spotlight. In times of COVID-19, the impact aspects of your business are becoming important NOW and it is the best time to start implementing them in your brand and business.

We invite you to look with us at the 1st chapter of IMPACT IS THE NEW MOBILE to understand where we are now and what we all can do right away.

We will talk about:

What is impact? Why is it relevant in times of COVID19 and beyond?

Regenerative business framework & other impact models (tools, practices, trends that can help you lead from the emerging future)

Importance of communication & content marketing

7 tips for Content Marketing for acting in a crisis

2 approaches that will work post crisis

Human Centred approach

Responsible Storytelling

Moderator:

Arlind Haxhijaj, Founder Coolab

Workshop Hosts:

Christina Forster

I believe that every business, brand or product has a story to tell – and that’s a good one, too. My own story started in the field of journalism but already in 2005 she moved from print to online. However, it was only during my 8 years in London when I discovered how Content Marketing, Storytelling and Responsible Communication can enable sustainable success for a business – something that became my biggest passion. Since then I am helping clients – ranging from big corporation to startups, telling their stories by creating human centered content strategies for internal and external use. Throughout my career I have worked in the fashion, sports, music but also media and IT industry with companies such as Red Bull, Nivea, Labello, Boden or Cisco Austria. Startups I love to support with DIY tool-kits for Content Marketing, so everyone can implement it themselves.

Bistra Kumbaroska

Poetry is what I am, everything else is what I do and what I do is supporting individuals, organisations and companies in combining innovative tools to grow their impact. In 2008, I was one of the core drivers of a movement in Macedonia that resulted with today’s most popular youth portal in CEE Region, www.mladiinfo.com. My passion for entrepreneurship took me on a journey through Europe, Sub-Sahara Africa, and South-East Asia, supporting the creation of meaningful jobs for youth, together with partners like the European Commission, UN PRME and other international organisations. I have been involved in the creation and scaling of more than 5 networks and entities across different sectors in CEE and have organized, facilitated and shared my experience at more than 132 international events and conferences so far. At the moment, I am a managing partner of Vienna-based agency Heartbeats Innovation & Communication and I focus my time on innovations in impact management, civil society, community management, impact-driven businesses and international convenenings.

Guest Speaker:

Barbara Inmann, Managing Director, Impact Hub Viena

As we can neither use our community kitchen nor our lounge, hammocks or Café spurlos, we just use our sofas at home and laptops!

Join our weekly session if you’re keen to meet impact-makers from Basel and beyond. Feel free to also use this opportunity to pick your coworkers brains, ask questions, pitch your (business) ideas, and make meaningful connections in an easy and informal way. We also take the chance to update you about what’s happening in the Hub.

Of course, it’s also simply about enjoying each others company and drink a beer together.

You find the link to the Zoom call in the event description in our Members’ Slack Space and Nexudus.

See you there!

PS: Not a member yet? Check the Membership Packages out here: https://basel.impacthub.net/en/become-a-member/ and email us: [email protected]

Join us for our online version of ‘Meet the Changemakers‘, at which three members of our social impact community will introduce themselves, their stories and current projects.

The format is a mash-up of the ‘pecha kucha’ style, where each person will present for just four minutes.

After that, stick around for questions and some virtual networking to see in the weekend.

This event is brought to you by Impact Hub Berlin – where change goes to work.

Switzerland is one of the world’s design capitals, producing furniture classics, world-renowned architecture and innovations in building science. With such a depth of expertise, there is a great opportunity to share experience and inspire innovation. 

As we look to the future, our challenge is to design objects and environments that keep products and materials in use, and regenerate natural systems; what we call circular design. But what does this mean for the user experience, business models, and how different elements of the industry and supply chain work together?

We aim to inspire your thinking through design portraits of Swiss furniture, architecture and the built environment, exploring how circular thinking is being implemented in their design, material selection, and service models.

JOIN YOUR TRIBE

Impact Hub Basel and Circular Economy Transition invite you to the (virtual) launch of the Circular Furniture, Architecture and Built Environment tribe.

With this event, we are launching a space for circular design discussions, by presenting you a practical case study and giving you a chance to ask questions during our expert Q&A panel. You also get an opportunity to network virtually with peers within and outside of your field. Additionally, we want you to tell us what you’d like to get out of our network, as we plan for the next FABE Tribe events.

This event is open to anyone with an interest in good design, especially industrial designers, furniture companies, architects, interior designers, building engineers, waste and recycling companies, researchers and many more of the field.

AGENDA

• 18.00 Introduction by Olena Bolger (Program Manager CET)
• 18.20 Circular Portraits – Case studies related to Furniture, Architecture and the Built Environment
• 18:30 Panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Kate Bottriell (Impact Hub Basel FABE Tribe Leader, and founder of ecochair.ch)
• 19.00 Looking forward – Building our Tribe and future events
• 19.10 Speed networking

REGISTRATION

After your registration via Eventbrite, you will receive an email with access to the Zoom call closer to the event.

ORGANIZERS

The Circular Furniture, Architecture and the Built Environment (FABE) Tribe is a network of individuals and organizations interested in the circular economy, as applied to the furniture, architecture and built environment in Switzerland. It is an initiative of Impact Hub Basel, and part of the Circular Economy Transition program.

Circular Economy Transition is a pioneer initiative that aims at accelerating the transition of Switzerland to a Circular Economy. It currently takes place in 5 Swiss cities – Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, and Zurich. The program is initiated and being implemented in close collaboration with Impact Hub Switzerland, sanu durabilitas and with the support of the MAVA foundation.

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Please note that by registering and participating in this event, you agree to the recording of your appearance and/or your voice, which Verein Impact Hub Basel can publish in photos, videos and accompanying sound recordings via online and offline media and for marketing purposes.

Circular Economy is a necessary measure to be taken in Switzerland due to the high rate of resource consumption. Redesigning technological solutions by using the cyclic flows of the ecosystem and its regeneration is the way to reach a higher sustainability where the minimal material and energy consumption is assured.

The Circular Economy initiative is a new cross-vertical focus of the KICKSTART program together with ​Impact Hub Switzerland,​ as part of the ​Circular Economy Transition to support technological innovations for sustainable development.

SPEAKERS:

Naomi MacKenzie, Co-Founder at KITRO

Manuel Winter, CEO & Co-Founder of Oxygen at Work

Amanda Byrde, Co-President of Impact Hub Switzerland

Moderated by Katka Letzing, Co-Founder & Co-Lead at KICKSTART

AGENDA:

18:30: Welcome & Introduction

18:40: Q&A & Panel Discussion between speakers

19:15: Open Q&A

19:30: Closing

WEBINAR ACCESS:

The details for accessing the webinar will be sent via the confirmation email once you have registered for the event.

Shaping the Post-Corona World: Possible Responses for Business and Society

“In the rush to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to” – Dave hollis

Goal of the event:

The purpose of this event is to stimulate a dialogue between key international players from politics, science and experts operating in the fields of new economic models, circular business models and behavioural change to explore how the Coronavirus crisis and the forced “slowing down” of societies is impacting personal lives, our societies and economies. More importantly, we would like to look to the future and explore whether the Covid-19 pandemic can and will help societies achieve the United Nations SDG goals and the impending climate targets. We will discuss learnings and takeaways from C19 crisis and hear insights about what opportunities such a time has to offer for a more resilient future.

The event is brought to you by the Circular Economy Transition initiative and Impact Hub Switzerland with kind support of the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland and WWF Switzerland.

About the speakers:

Keynote speaker:

Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging future—in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter co-authored with P. Senge et al). He is co-author of Leading from the Emerging Future, which outlines eight acupuncture points for transforming capitalism. His most recent book, The Essentials of Theory U, summarizes the core principles and applications of awareness-based systems change.

Panelists:

Nancy Bocken is Professor in Sustainable Business at Maastricht Sustainability Institute, Maastricht University. She is also visiting professor at Lund University, Sweden and LUT University Finland, and Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She is co-founder of HOMIE, a Dutch ‘pay-per-use’ business pursuing the circular economy. Nancy’s research evolves around the broad field of Sustainable Business, including topics like sustainable business models, business experiments, Circular Economy, sufficiency, and closing the ‘idea-action’ gap in sustainability through novel tools and approaches. She is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council funded project Circular X which focuses on ‘experimenting with circular service business models’.

Adèle Thorens Goumaz is a member of the Swiss Council of States and president at OdA Umwelt, a network for professionals in the environment and cleantech sector in Switzerland. She is also a member of the foundation board of sanu durabilitas, a think tank for sustainable development, where she focuses on circular economy. A philosopher by training, her main focus is the promotion of the green economy and sustainable development  in the broadest sense – be that as a member of parliament, a consultant for companies or public authorities, during her involvement in various councils or for educational matters.

Ion Karagounis has been working for the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) Switzerland for more than eight years. After having led the department for environmental programs, he initiated a WWF-internal think tank on future trends in economic and environmental issues. He writes regularly in Swiss newspapers on environmental issues and travel stories. Ion has a degree in natural science from ETH Zurich and a degree in corporate management and journalism.

Marie-Claire Graf is a Swiss climate activist and engaged in various organisations for climate protection and sustainability. She is President of the Swiss Association of Student Organisations for Sustainability (VSN) and co-founder of the Sustainability Week, an initiative launched in 2017 in which 14 Swiss cities are currently participating. She is also Vice-President of “Swiss Youth for Climate”, an association founded in 2015 to involve youth in the political debate on climate change.

AGENDA (CET time)

18:00: Welcome & introduction – Impact Hub Switzerland / Circular Economy Transition

18:15: Inspirational keynote: Setting the Scene

Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer, MIT, and Founding Chair, Presencing Institute

18:45: High level panel discussion to discuss on different levels with:

Nancy Bocken, Adèle Thorens Goumaz, Ion Karagounis, Marie Claire Graf

• Status Quo – What do we see? (new initiatives, behaviors)
• Factual – What are the impacts (Climate, society, etc.)? What can we measure?
• Perspectives – What are trends, future scenarios, transition opportunities?
• Political – What should we demand for? What can we expect?

19:30: Moderated Q&A with audience

19:45: Conclusion & outlook – Circular Economy Transition

About the organisers:

Circular Economy Transition is a pioneer initiative that aims at accelerating the transition of Switzerland to a Circular Economy. It currently takes place in 5 Swiss cities – Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, and Zurich.

In close collaboration with Impact Hub Switzerland, sanu durabilitas and with the support of the MAVA foundation, this initiative will contribute to drive the new paradigm for the future of business, policy making and society through 4 main approaches:

• Circular Economy Incubator (learn more here)
• Circular Business Lab (learn more here)
• Circular policy recommendations (learn more here)
• Circular Ecosystem building (learn more here)

REGISTRATION

The event will be held online. After your registration via Eventbrite, you will receive an email with access to the Zoom call closer to the event. The event is limited to 500 attendees via zoom. Make sure to reserve your seat.

We are looking forward to this great discussion with you!

the Circular Economy Transition team