ColaLife selected for TEDx Warwick 2010
February 21, 2010 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
TEDx comes to Warwick University for the second time on 6 March 2010 and will be held in the Maths and Stats Building. 400 people are expected and I will be telling the ColaLife story. You can book tickets here. Other speakers include:
Morning Speakers:
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Afternoon Speakers:
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ColaLife presentation at TEDx London - Part 1 and Part 2
January 27, 2010 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
OK, I obviously need to polish my presentation techniques but for those who couldn’t be there, here is the presentation of the ColaLife story at the inaugural TEDx London event on 4 November 2009. Any comments?
ColaLife autumn speaking tour hits the trains
October 22, 2009 by Simon Berry · 3 Comments
Through a string of very fortunate coincidences, tomorrow I get on a train to begin a pretty high profile (although I say so myself!) ColaLife speaking tour! The first stop is Rotterdam for the 8th Annual World Food and Innovation Conference to give a plenary presentation on ColaLife to the big boys and girls of the food industry:
Then it’s back to London where Colalife is ‘headlining’ at TEDx London (4/11/09) - at least that’s how it was put to me! I think all the speakers there are also ‘headlining’. I want to use this to try a get a spot at global TED at some point in the future:
And then Colalife will one of the two short plenary sessions kicking off the wonderful Chain Reaction event in Canary Wharf (12/11/09):
This string of activities has inspired ColaLife supporter (and son) to put together a brilliant animation showing how the ColaLife AidPod works. This will go onto YouTube and this blog after the Chain Reaction event. Can I urge you to consider coming to the Chain Reaction event. It’s free if you are under 21. I guarantee you will have an inspiring day - the programme is simply amazing (ColaLife only gets 15mins!).
ColaLife moves on the rest of Europe - Part 2
September 1, 2009 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
I have been invited to give a ColaLife presentation at the 8th Annual World Food Technology & Innovation convention in Rotterdam at 15:35 on 27 October. It looks like it’s a plenary session. The programme is here. This is the pitch I will be going in on:
Distributing commercial products in developing countries fulfils one purpose: a commercial one. Will this be acceptable in the future against a back drop of high child mortality and grinding poverty? Sustainable distribution businesses will need to maximise social and environmental returns as well financial ones.
ColaLife is encouraging Coca-Cola to engage in ’sustainable distribution’ and use the unused space in Coca-Coca crates to carry ’social products’ such as oral rehydration salts, vitamin A tablets, water purification tablets or whatever else is required in a particular location to improved public health, particularly children’s health.
You can get a Coca-Cola virtually anywhere you go in developing countries but in these places 1 in 5 children die before their 5th birthday. as well as being a blight on humanity it doesn’t make commercial sense that 1 in 5 of your potential customers die before they are 5.
ColaLife is a mature proposition that has been honed by exposing the idea to thousands of people in social networks. Coca-Cola have engaged at international level; ColaLife has brokered a partnership between Coca-Cola and an international NGO (AED) and local trials will start in Tanzania this year.
Four children die every minute in Africa alone from simple preventable diseases and this has been the case for many decades - ColaLife aims to be part of the solution to this problem. This presentation will be delivered by ColaLife’s founder and former development worker, Simon Berry.
http://colalife.org - the website
http://colalife.org/blog - the blog
Other speakers include:
Tim Carey
Director, Sustainability and Technology
PepsiCo
Steven Moorhouse
General Manager European Supply Chain
Coca-Cola
Dr. Graham Cross
Director Innovation Acceleration & Supplier Alliances
Unilever
Andrew Trevis
Plant Director
Kraft Foods
Chris McCann
ES Country Head
Wal-Mart Global Procurement
Onwards and upwards!
ColaLife - the story so far - 25/4/09
April 26, 2009 by Simon Berry · 3 Comments
Here’s the presentation I gave yesterday at the Africa Gathering event at Birkbeck College, London. The audio was added retrospectively. The ‘Live’ version was a lot more fun! But all the facts are here. The videos and audio mentioned in the presentation are here:
- Frontline video
- What Bob Geldof thinks of the ColaLife idea
- What Dame Barbara Stocking, CEO of Oxfam, thinks of the ColaLife idea
- Initial iPM feature
- ‘Best of year’ iPM feature
Big thanks are due to Ed Scotcher and friends for organising a great day and for inviting ColaLife.
*STOP PRESS*
An hour or so after this presentation, Coca-Cola confirmed their commitment to trials on the BBC’s iPM programme on Radio 4. You can listen again here.
PROGRESS REPORTS
The latest timeline (progress report) is always here.
ADDENDUM: 30/6/09
Here is a video of the African Gathering presentation. After a bit of a flaky start with the technology it’s OK! Thanks to Mark Simpkins for uploading this.
Simon Berry at Africa Gathering, London 2009 from Mark Simpkins on Vimeo.
The unveiling of Mark II of the ColaLife AidPod
March 4, 2009 by Simon Berry · 4 Comments
As promised, and a lot quicker than expected, here is the unveiling of Mark II of the ColaLife AidPod (thanks to David Wilcox at Social Reporter).
The main differences between the initial prototype model and this one are:
- It has a hi-top that sits slightly proud of the bottles - this increases the capacity of the pod
- It has has ’shoulders’ which mean that when the aid pod is pushed into the crate the bottles will part slightly and come back together and grip the pod once it is fully inserted. The shoulders also give the pod longitudinal strength
As before the benefits of using a universal pod are that:
- It allows the essential local determination of what is distributed and when. Needs will vary from location to location and from season to season and what is distributed MUST be determined locally by those with the long term responsibility for public health care;
- It potentially allows the idea to be replicated across the World after successful local trials;
- It also dis-associates the Coca-Cola product/brand with a particular ’social product’ which is likely to enable a wider range of products to be distributed.
I will be putting up a pattern so that you can make your own! And we will be building a 6-foot tall one for the press stunt on 17 March if we get through the last 100 in the Goggle’s Project 10 to the 100th competition.
Summing up. ColaLife face-to-face gathering 16/12/08
December 18, 2008 by Simon Berry · 7 Comments
Rather than write a long report we thought we’d sum the evening up there and then. We are, left to right, Simon Berry, William Hoyle (CTT) and Simon Cohen (Global Tolerance). David Wilcox (socialreporter.com) is on the camera and Ian Crawford is asking the questions.
It you’ve got 40 minutes to spare(!) you might want to watch this very informal delivery of the ColaLife story so far. Make yourself a cup of tea or grab a beer before pressing the play button. Thanks again to David Wilcox (socialreporter.com) for the camera work and editing.
If you’d like a copy of the Powerpoint presentation please leave a comment.
ColaLife - the story so far - 24 Nov 2008
November 24, 2008 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
Here is the presentation I gave at the NCVO Info 2.0 conference today. I’m uploading it quickly before boaring the plane to Dar Es Salaam (via Doha). I will try and add a soundtrack at some future date.
ColaLife featured at ‘Social Activism Online’ conference
October 4, 2008 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
A tweet has just come in from @darraghdoyle who is at the Social Activism Online in Ireland conference. ColaLife is slide 3 in Damian O’Broin’s presentation (below) - it would have been great to have heard what he said. Damian is the founder of Ask Direct, a fundraising and marketing consultancy. See Damian’s post about the presentation here.
Workshop presentation at 2gether08
July 3, 2008 by Simon Berry · 4 Comments
This is the presentation given at the Coca-Cola campaign workshop at 2gether08 on 3 July 2008.
Further information:
All of the Coca Cola campaign posts
What others are saying about ColaLife- ColaLife on Flickr
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