SOLUTION MAKING THROUGH INCLUSION
Tech-forward innovation and inclusive collaboration for faster, scaled impact
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We work in partnership on systemic economic, social, and environmental challenges.
shift7 scouts and scales promising solutions and solution-makers, and applies sustainable models for investing resources, talent, tech and capital, especially across under-resourced spaces.
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Apply by August 5, 2019:
UN Solutions Summit at United Nations Headquarters
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shift7 has a constellation of capabilities that we cluster into three buckets:
+ Studio
iterate : activate : empower
- Sprint : Pilot : Catalyze
- Deep dives : Prototyping
- User driven design with cross-functional teams
- Experiential system upgrades
- Open innovation : APIs : Data science
+ Ecosystems
catalytic connections : resource investments
- Scout innovators solving pressing challenges
- Interconnect entrepreneurs
- Build Communities of Practice
- Surface mentors, funding, partners and more
- Network the networks
+ Storytelling
see : learn : engage : believe : act
- Lift solution-makers
- Highlight hidden heroes (historic/current)
- Reduce debilitating stereotypes
- Engage and amplify under-represented voices
- Illuminate tech-forward solutions
Flagship Projects
Latest...
UN Headquarters, NYC — September 2019
Oxford, UK — April 11
Dana Point, CA — February 6-8
Paris, France - November 10
Cambridge and London, UK — Nov 6-9
Los Angeles, CA — October 18-21
Bentonville, AR — October 18-21
Houston, TX — September 26-28
Pine Ridge and Standing Rock — August 12-13
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”
— HOPI ELDER
