President Obama speaking to entrepreneurs in (from left to right) London, UK; Erbil Iraq; Seoul, South Korea; and Mexico City, Mexico through Portal_Screens at a Global Entrepreneurship Summit event hosted by Google for Entrepreneurs.
Shared_Studios exists to create meaningful human connections between people separated by distance and difference.
Shared_Studios creates and maintains a growing network of immersive, audiovisual telecommunications Portals in 20 countries around the world, which host powerful virtual interactions that overcome distance and cultural differences.
Shared_Studios has partnered with the world’s leading organizations to create one-of-kind-experiences, foster dialogue, and build human-scale bridges across the global community. Organizations (United Nations), companies (Twitter, Airbnb, Google, Starbucks, Coca Cola), universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins), and cities (New York, Richmond, Milwaukee), have utilized the Portals limitless applications to activate spaces, perpetuate values, and drive connections and conversation.
Portal guests have included Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, Sergey Brin, Steve Case, Melinda Gates, and other worldwide leaders of government, industry, philanthropy, and the arts.
When you step inside a Portal, you are connected with someone in another, identical space, and can talk to that person as if they were in the same room as you. Every site is staffed by a Shared_Studios Curator, who facilitates dialogues and creates connections to suit the needs of their local community. In this way, a human network helps local communities to access knowledge from around the world and embrace the diversity of human experience.
The Portals global network currently spans 20 countries in over 40 international cities and includes sites in Mexico City, Gaza City, Erbil, Lagos, Kabul, Berlin, La Paz, New York, and San Juan.
Curious? For more information drop a line to mat@mathallagency.com. I'd love to tell you more.