Biamp is a long-time partner of Shared Studios, with their equipment powering many of our Portals.

Departments across the UN, including UNICEF and UNFPA, use Portals to connect leadership to frontline stakeholders

Juniper uses a Portal at their HQ and at events to demonstrate the power of connectivity and inspire employees

When Twitter wanted to model for the world healthy conversations, they hired us to host 20,000 conversations across 40 cities over 10 days. This was Twitter’s largest consumer-facing experiential marketing campaign to date. Their Head of Global Brand Strategy Tweeted, “This is really the most meaningful work I’ve seen at Twitter ever. So inspiring and so moving.” Twitter reported that this activation had the highest “joy” sentiment index on Twitter of any activation they’d ever done.

Working with the Museum for the United Nations and with support from the Ikea Conversation, we launched the world's largest dialogue on climate through Portals across the world. These Portals connected to one another and to major world leaders at Climate Week, the UN General Assembly and COP27.

Working with the Museum for the United Nations and with support from the Ikea Conversation, we launched the world's largest dialogue on climate through Portals across the world. These Portals connected to one another and to major world leaders at Climate Week, the UN General Assembly and COP27.

A Portal at Davos made space for conversations between Forum attendees and communities around the globe. In the portal, diplomats, journalists, politicians, and businesspeople engaged with young people and WEF Global Shapers in Myanmar, Gaza, the United States and Iraq.

A Container Portal was placed outside the Vancouver Convention Centre for TED's flagship 2017 conference, connecting attendees with global conversations. TED engaged Portals to facilitate its mission to spread new and exciting ideas by bringing new voices into the conversation and expanding TED’s discussions around the globe.

A Portal at Google Cloud Next, a flagship annual Google event, connected attendees to mentees in Bamako, Mali and Mexico City, Mexico.

Airbnb invited Portals to the Sundance Film Festival to host once-in-a-lifetime encounters between emerging filmmakers and the living legends at Sundance.

Andover Public Schools brings the Inflatable\_portal to different schools within the district, allowing for students of all ages to connect to portal sites around the world. Students develop familiarity and understanding of communities from Erbil, Iraq to Kigali, Rwanda, and engage directly with people they would never otherwise encounter. Teachers use the portal to enhance and globalize education with a curriculum that explores:

Google used Portals at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit to connect participants to innovators at their Google for Entrepreneurs hubs in London, Seoul and Mexico City. Start-up founders who could not attend were able to pitch to Silicon Valley VCs and connect with mentors without ever having to leave their cities.

Inspired U.S.-based National Geographic Certified Educators at a 2-day conference in Washington DC, connecting them to leaders pushing the boundaries of education around the globe in Gaza, Lesvos, Erbil, Tampico, Herat and Kigali.

L’Oréal wanted to understand how to build better products for people living in water scarce conditions. Through a day-long series of global connections, L’Oréal’s research department connected with target customers in Rwanda, Mexico City, and San Joaquin Valley, uncovering insights on how habits and product usage changes when living in drought conditions. The connections served as a launchpad to waterless product design hackathons hosted at L’Oréal later that week.

LEGO used Portals to introduce employees to novel approaches to solving everyday business challenges. Through a series of meals, Shared Studios connected LEGO leadership with startups in Stockholm and Mexico City to learn about what the future of “play” looks like in different contexts and cultures.

Portals connected students from Harvard Divinity School to aid workers and residents of refugee and displaced communities around the world. Participants spoke about the role and impact of distance education and how new startups led by former refugees are being used to tackle problems created by new humanitarian crises.