Photo credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg We have wrapped up Day 2 of CSW Europe with some food for thought on where crowdfunding is heading next. What is brand new today will be common tomorrow. But the challenge is to make investors and entrepreneurs grasp how to get to...
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Day 1: Survival Kit for your Business in the Age of Crowdsourcing
The first day of Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2014 is brought to a close. We had an action-packed day full of insights on what crowdsourcing can give to companies and why collaboration matters. Crowdsourcing is not only about money. Neither it is for a selected field of...
That’s a Wrap! Three New YAP Fellows Cap Off Inaugural Class
The inaugural class of Young Achievers Program (YAP) fellows for Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2014 is now complete! The response to the program was overwhelming and we are truly inspired by all the passionate and accomplished submissions received. Here are the three...
New YAP Fellows for CSW Europe
We're thrilled to introduce the five newest members of our Young Achievers Program (YAP) for Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2014. A diverse and talented group, they join the inagural fellows announced last week and form the core of an exciting new community of...
Crowdsourcing For Good: Join the Conversation Online
Crowdsourcing Week is collaborating with Nordics SOCAP and Living Bridges Planet to facilitate a unique global conversation on crowdsourcing for social good. The conversation begins on Oct 1 with a introductory webinar that will highlight best practices for...
Nesta to Highlight Digital Social Innovation at CSW Europe
Nesta is an innovation non-profit with a simple mission -- bring great ideas to life. Ideas that can potentially help the 7 billion+ of us lead better lives while harnessing technology and the Internet like never before. Nesta will bring some of these topics to the...
CSW Europe: First Round of YAP Fellows Announced
We're thrilled to introduce the inaugural members of our Young Achievers Program (YAP), an initiative to recognize and nurture new talent and ideas in the crowd economy. Hailing from countries all across Europe, this class of YAP fellows are embarking on a career of...
The Crowdsourced City Guide to Copenhagen
With it’s renowned environmentally friendliness, vibrant city life, and a penchant for innovative urban solutions, there are many reasons Copenhagen is the host city for Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2014. For those traveling from near and far to attend CSW Europe 2014,...
Apply for the Young Achievers Program for CSW Europe 2014
Crowdsourcing Week is proud to announce a new program to highlight young achievers in the crowd economy from local regions around the world. Through the Young Achievers Program (YAP), we seek to ensure that promising up and comers are able to attend CSW conferences,...
Why Copenhagen Can Become Europe’s Crowd Capital
The city of Copenhagen is making a public call to citizens, companies and government to make the transition to the new, connected and inclusive economy. With many great cities in the running, it is no mean feat that Copenhagen nabbed the top spot, for two years in a...
Keep Calm and Trust In Crowds. Get Ready Europe!
The crowd knows best - well most times at least! The CSW team will show you more reasons to trust crowds and tap into your community through CSW Europe coming up October 14-16, 2014 in Copenhagen. Do you have a roadmap for unleashing the collective potential of your...
Workshop with the Founders of CSW, Crowdonomic & Pozible
Singapore entrepreneurs, start-ups, creatives, makers, and non-profits are invited to participate in this dynamic and interactive session, produced by Crowdsourcing Week to discover how crowdfunding can progress your company or cause. Join the founders of...
Europe: A Complex Ecosystem for the Crowd Economy
Crowd Expedition's Martijn Arets talks to Epi Ludvik Nekaj, Founder & CEO of Crowdsourcing Week about the CSW Summit in Brussels and the collaborative movement in Europe and beyond. As we travel around the world, Crowdsourcing Week is adding to the conversation...
Roundtables Offered Decision Makers of the Collaborative Economy
Day 2, June 6, of the CSW Summit – Brussels focused on a series of four roundtable discussions aimed to provide in-depth insights into the collaborative economy. Implementing crowd innovation at an organizational level could seem overwhelming to many decision...
Crowdsourcing Week Brussels Summit #CSWBrussels (Day 1)
On Thursday June 5th, I attended Crowdsourcing Week’s Brussels summit (which ran until Friday June 6th included, but I didn’t stay until then). Organized in Vilvoorde, a couple of miles outside Brussels, the event gathered crowdsourcing professionals, academics,...
LIVE Crowdfunding Round At CSW Brussels with MyMicroInvest
Venture capital investment platform MyMicroInvest will present a live crowdfunding round at the CSW Summit in Brussels on June 5, 9:50 am Brussels local time and you can participate too -- from anywhere! The live crowdfunding session will present 2 innovative...
CSW Summit Brussels: A Primer on the Collaborative Economy for Decision Makers
Day 2, June 6, of the CSW Summit - Brussels will be dedicated to a series of four roundtable discussions aimed to provide in-depth insights into the collaborative economy. Everybody is talking about the collaborative economy but implementing crowd innovation at an...
CSW Europe 2014 Coming to Copenhagen October 14-16
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2014 Looks to Highlight Organizational Transformations Through The Crowd Economy Singapore / Copenhagen / New York (May 20, 2014) – Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) announces its first European flagship conference in Copenhagen...
The Crowd Economy to Take Center Stage at CSW Summit Brussels
Focusing on customer-led innovation, the two-day CSW Summit Brussels conference on June 5 & 6 will connect an expanding crowdsourcing community in Belgium to European and global innovators in crowdsourcing and open innovation. Crowd participation is transforming...
Call for Volunteers at CSW Summit Brussels
Are you a student or startup who wants to attend the Crowdsourcing Week Summit in Brussels? Here are two special ways to get involved. In less than four weeks, Brussels will welcome the first-ever event to unite the crowdsourcing community in Belgium. Focusing on...
Infographic: Crowdsourcing Week Global 2014 by the Numbers
Wondering what you missed at CSW Global 2014, or were you there and want to relive the best moments? Check out the many amazing stats in the CSW Global 2014 Infographic (tweet this). A big THANK YOU to the speakers, delegates and volunteers who all contributed to a...
Life Interrupted: My CSW Global Story by Nick NM Yap
Nick NM Yap, the CEO of ROCKI, serial entrepreneur and a veteran of two successful Kickstarter projects (for ROCKI and the Omate Smartwatch) recounts his CSWGlobal14 experiences. Nick simply is a rockstar. Follow him @addlikefollow. Crowdsourcing Week Global, when I...
And that’s a WRAP – CSW Global’14 Has Participants Rooting for the Crowd Economy
What a week it has been! We have come to the end of an amazing week in Singapore that brought together the global community of innovators in the crowd economy and it truly has been exhilarating to listen to inspiring work that is changing the paradigm and disruption...
CTO, Crowdsourcing Week: How Does That Title Sound to You?
As you may know, I founded Crowdsourcing Week about 18 months ago and since then we have produced 5 one-day summits in Europe and North America and 2 week-long conferences in Asia. At the closing of our second flagship CSW Global conference in Singapore in April...