2012 San Francisco Hub Curator Recap and Shaper News

Hello and happy 2013! We wanted to take a moment to share some 2012 highlights from our SF Global Shapers hub.
— Katherine and Britta (SF hub curators, featured in photo)

WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR FIRST FULL YEAR? 2012 HUB HIGHLIGHTS

We got to know each other, at:

• 10 local meetings, which included visits with Adam Werbach, Heather Fleming, Ethan Beard, and Brian Behlendorf
• 3 YGL / Shaper mixers, including at the YGL Silicon Valley Summit
• Our first skills-building workshop on collaboration with Todd Johnson of The Value Web
• The first Shaper-YGL holiday party…and many unofficial Shaper meet-ups!

We also participated in several WEF events:

• Davos: 3 SF Shapers were selected as the first Shapers to attend the WEF annual meeting in January
• SHAPE NYC: 3 SF Shapers attended the first Shaper-organized conference in September
• Annual Curators Meeting: 1 SF Shaper attended, to formalize governing standards across hubs

And supported each other in launching new initiatives, growing our teams, and expanding our reach… Scroll down for individual highlights from our SF Shapers. In June, we welcomed the 27th Shaper and tied with NYC as the largest Shaper hub!

WHAT’S NEXT FOR 2013? In the year ahead, we look forward to more workshops, professional development talks, mixers, and more; a soon-to-be-announced project; and new opportunities to take action in our local communities.

2012 SAN FRANCISCO GLOBAL SHAPER HIGHLIGHTS

Sean Duffy is tackling one our most pressing health issues, diabetes, through group-based behavior change. Learn more at Omada Health.

Julia Hu and her team just launched their new product, larklife, into all Apple stores in the US. Named the Most Innovative Product of 2012 by Forbes, larklife is a smart wristband and an app that tracks your diet, exercise, and sleep throughout the day and uses that data to coach you, in real time, on how to get fitter and feel great.

Amit Garg worked as a venture capitalist, helping fund and grow startups. He left his role recently to try to build a company himself. In his other capacity, Amit and his team just finished building a crowd-funded hospital in rural India — this project spanned almost 5 years, more here.

Lesley Silverthorn and her team at Angaza Design are eliminating the upfront cost barrier of solar products in the off-grid developing world with end-customer financing technology. They received the top prize in their category in The Tech Awards, which recognizes technology solutions benefiting humanity.

Andréanne Grimard has established the North America branch of Solidaridad Network, a non-profit organization which builds alliances between civil society, private sector and government to create sustainable supply chains for agricultural commodities, textiles and gold.

Brenden Millstein and cofounder Raphael Rosen were honored by a Forbes’ inclusion on the 30 Under 30 Energy list for their work at Carbon Lighthouse. Carbon Lighthouse makes it profitable and easy for commercial and industrial buildings to become carbon neutral, and since launching in 2010 has completed 90+ projects in California and Oregon.

Ben Knelman’s startup, Juntos Finanzas, builds text-message-based personal finance products that drive financial inclusion and empower cash based households to increase their savings. Last month Juntos received the G20’s innovation award for financial inclusion at the G20 Summit in Mexico City.

Jessica Scorpio, Founder of Getaround the leading peer-to-peer car sharing company was named by Wall Street Journal as a startup to watch in 2013. Last year Getaround expanded to 5 five markets and raised $13.9M from Menlo Ventures, Marissa Mayer and Innovation Endeavors. Jessica was featured on the cover of Inc Magazine and spoke at conferences including SXSW Interactive and Lean Startup Conference.

Morgan Simon led 26 social investments through her network, Toniic, into companies ranging from India to Mexico.

Neil Dsouza is bringing world class education to rural communities around Asia by personalizing learning using technology for every child. Check out his TEDxAmsterdam talk from September 2012.

Katherine Michonski is figuring out what it means to be a responsible health insurance company in her new role running Blue Shield of California’s CSR program.

Originally published at https://www.globalshapers.org/news/2012-san-francisco-hub-curator-recap-and-shaper-news on January 10, 2013.