Build A Custom Innovation Excursion with Geeks Gone Global


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GGG West to East Europe by Bus will take place between June 1, 2014 and June 30, 2014. Starting from Madrid Spain the bus will travel and stop at both places of beauty and interest as well as hubs and places of entrepreneurial exuberance.

15 Countries in 30 Days

Poland

Where We’ll Go

Austria

Germany

Slovakia

Croatia

Moldova

Hungary

Italy

SpainSerbia

Switzerland

Bosnia

Romania

France Slovenia


Founder and President of GeniusCo and its subsidy GeniusCorps he has travelled and worked in over 90 countries servicing both the public and private. Mr. Hunter has been featured in Black Enterprise Magazine for creating a legacy of wealth and stability for your family and selected as one of the top 50 most important African American's in technology. Mr. Hunter has over 18 years experience in information Technology management and implementation and over 10 years experience in Global Business Development.

Geeks Gone Global Innovation Excursions are led by a global entrepreneur and innovator with over 20 years experience working and living in over 90 countries.

Chief Geek

Faruq Hunter

OUR FOUNDER

Mr. Born Global


OBJECTIVES

OUTPUTS FOR ATTENDEES

A Blur of Business and Fun

• Gain a great since of typically underexposed and unknown innovative opportunities

• Build the foundation for relationships with Innovators and Hubs for Innovation in foreign geographic locations

• Identify opportunities for partnership and collaborative exchanges that lead to cross border trade and investment

• Promote foreign centers of innovation as open for business and foreign investment


Geeks Gone Global is the official transit system of the innovation ecosystem. As more and more people are trying to create solutions for a future with many more people and far less borders, the concepts, programs and people that grow the innovation ecosystem are constantly growing. Incubators, accelerators, events, hubs and a plethora of resources are constantly coming online all over the world in order to help more people innovate and grow their ideas into viable and impacting products and services. Geeks Gone Global is dedicated to exposing the full breath of the innovative ecosystem to as many people and as many places as possible. Our role in the ecosystem is awareness and connecting..

Founders of The Innovation Excursion

Connecting The World’s Passionate People

WHAT WE DO


We want to make real connections between people who are committed to truly changing the world and impacting the lives of others. GGG takes actionable people to actionable people who understand each other and make real things happen. Before and after the trip we solidify relationships for our attendees and we share every detail of the planning and planners with you so that you are empowered to take full advantage of your excursion. The daily agenda is filled with meeting and engaging with the most innovative members of each community, discovering the innovative ecosystems of the countries visited.

HOW WE DO IT

REAL CONNECTIONS! REAL IMPACT

A Blur of Business and Fun


GGG EVENTS

Pitch Pa

rties

Partner Events

Culture

ExposureG Hangouts

On the Ground Events

Companies from the innovative community and the delegation take turns sharing 5 minute pitches about their companies followed by networking

GGG partners with the innovative ecosystems premiere events, such as Startup Weekend, Tedx, Sankalp Forum and SoCap

GGG takes its attendees to the offices and sites of the most successful innovative companies in each country visited

With over 7,000 virtual members of GeniusCorps and Living Bridges Planet, GGG hosts 3 Google Hangouts per trip followed by several very active social media campaigns

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Geeks Gone Global’s staff members are experts at designing large scale excursions that cover between 4 to 15 countries in the search and development of innovation. Geeks Gone Global is the creator of the innovation Excursion and wants to lend that knowledge to you and your group. By creating an international 2 – 4 week innovation excursion alongside one of Geeks Gone Global’s many 180 country innovative excursions you provide your team with one of the greatest innovation discovery and collaboration engines of our time at the best rates available anywhere. GGG will work with you every step of the way to create an excursion that insures the growth and bonding of your group will reach new heights.

YOUR GROUP

DESIGN A CUSTOM INNOVATION EXCURSION FOR YOUR GROUP

Increase Collaboration & Get S__t Done


CUSTOMIZE

Build a Startup

Hackathon

Unconference

Customize

Choose a Format or Create One

Break into teams and assign floating mentors to assist with refining you startup and creating key resources before pitching against each other.

Hackers partner with startup founders to develop a minimal viable product and finish and pitch their startup to the group in the end.

Every attendee gives small workshops on their perspectives and skills. Afterwards the group collaborates on what can be done from what they’ve learned

Make of it what you will. Be creative and create a new format to launch startups and build innovative businesses.

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SUPPORTERSGGG Brings the world’s top organizations to your custom initiative so that you can access the global innovative ecosystem to find sponsors, attendees, mentors and participants.

GGG Has over 100 Supporting Organizations We’ll help you get the word out and make connections


Hundreds of News Articles and Interviews

GGG’s excursions have been featured and produced in over hundreds of news stories and articles. In addition, GGG excursions have been either mentioned or referenced in hundreds stories. GGG leverages this constantly growing PR network to draw attention to your specific initiative in order to increase outcomes and help your team develop new partnerships.

GGG’s PR


Examples of Custom Excursions

15 Women to Africa Design Capital Cape Town

Journey to Sankalp Africa

Atlanta

Startup Weekend Mentors Women

Empowerment

Eurohacktrip The Daily Impact Reports

Official Exploratory Trip For Mayor Kasim Reed

The representation of multiple initiative on one trip dramatically increases the trips press and exposure. GGG trips have been used by startup groups, startups, communities, organizations and government entities as an engine for innovative discovery and collaboration. GGG acts as a conduit and facilitator for these initiatives and each initiative in return brings additional value and depth to all those who participate in GGG Innovation Excursions. GGG removes the exhausting hardships of developing logistics and on the ground events and connections so that each initiative can flourish to its fullest extent while providing a one of a kind collaboration experience.

A Vehicle for Lead Initiatives

Crowdsourcing Signup for Imagination for People


Transportation32%

Food32%

Events5%

Lodging32%

By combining your group’s event with the larger GGG Innovation Excursion your group not only gains a larger group of collaborators on the trip but it also highly reduces the costs of the excursion. GGG takes care of Event planning, reduced entry fees to major events, three full meals daily and lodging costs. This leaves your group to focus solely on developing you unique excursion and recruiting great people to go. The Pricing structure is also such that you may either take advantage of the group rates or resell the excursion to your attendees at a profit. Group rates will always be lower than the publish rates.

Excursion Cost Breakdown

CUT COSTS


Since the primary goal of the Geeks Gone Global Innovative Excursions is to expose innovators to opportunities to grow their initiatives, there are multiple opportunities to present branding and marketing to the many participants and attendees. All sponsorship opportunities are customized to the sponsor or supporter. DEVELOP SPONSORS

MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPOSE YOUR BRAND & YOUR SPNSORS’

Pre-Developed Branding & Marketing

At Events • Banners• Digital Presentations on Flash

Drives• Speaking • Panels• Pitch Presentation• Table or Booth• Distribution of Materials

Give Away and Media • 1,000,000 MB of Film • 6,000 Professional Photos• Entrepreneurial Interviews• Over 100 News Pieces• Sponsorship Press Release• Branded Commemorative T-Shirt• Branded Solar Genome Backpack• Branded Scottevest Jacket

Web Based • Custom Landing Page• Logos on landing pages and e-mails • Lead Capture and Generation• Custom branding of trip logo• Links on

• Geeksgoneglobal.com• Geeksgoneglobal.com/

fundyourtrip• Geekheaven.co• GeniusCorps.co

At Lead Generation and Qualification • All attendees, participants and connectors are listed in the GGG, Citrix Sponsored, extranet in Podio. All contact

information and participant information gathered is available at all times for GGG sponsors and partners


Website and Responsive Mobile Branding

Geeks Gone Global maintains a professional and graphically pleasing web presence. Your group will be given a custom landing page on our site.

Landing Page +++Trip PageYour group will also be listed on our main landing page for the trip, which receives premium traffic during the excursion

26K+ UNIQUE VISITORS


GeniusCorps & Living Bridges Planet Live Google Hangouts

GGG has partnered with Living Bridges planet and SoCap, one of the world’s largest gathering of social entrepreneurs and investors to execute Live Google Hangouts from most of the excursion stops. Viewed by thousands of entrepreneurs around the world Living Bridges helps to insure that your group gets maximum exposure.

Over 7,000 Online Members


Reach

10,000Face to Face

Innovators 7,000

Geeks Gone Global always reaches and retains reach to innovators and entrepreneurs through every excursion. Through GeniusCorps free memberships GGG has a reach of 7,000 members and will establish over 10,000 face to face interactions while on the continent. With 160 more trips planned in the next 2 years this number will grow to every country in the world, expanding your groups network faster than any other engine.

Exponential Collaboration

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Existing Online Members

+250,000Unique Online Views

from GGG Sites, Partner Sites and Media

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GGG Targets innovative entrepreneurs and the organizations that facilitate that community.

Target audience

Startup Community

Founders10%Care

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Profes

siona

ls5%

Socia

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trepr

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Politicians and

Public Officials

5%

Tech Startups30%Mode

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Agribu

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30%

100% Innovators


CHECKLISTGGG has comprised a comprehensive checklist of all the things you will need to do to make your excursion into a reality. In many cases GGG has secured the resources necessary to help you streamline this process. All you need do is build a core team and start. Once you partner with GGG, we are dedicated to your success and seeing your initiative to fruition.

Time To Get Started: Here is a checklist of what’s needed

□ FormatChoose a format for your excursion or create one

□ NameChoose a name that will resonate with your group.

□ LogoChoose a format for your excursion or create one

□ Workspace (GGG)GGG provides a free workspace in Podio.

□ Document Repository (GGG)Setup a an online place to share all docs

□ Choose Your Core TeamBetween 1 – 5 dedicated people

□ GoalsSet 1 - 4 clear goals for your initiative

□ BudgetUse GGG Pricing and identify additional costs

□ Website (GGG)Develop and awesome web page for your excursion

□ Prospecting Form (GGG)GGG provides forms that sync with your workspace

□ VideoDevelop a 3 – 5 Minute video about your excursion

□ Trip Summary (GGG)Develop a printable trip summary

□ Sponsor Kit (GGG)GGG will help you develop a print Sponsorship Kit

□ Press ReleaseDevelop a great press release

□ Crowdfunding Profiles (GGG)Use GGG Fund Your Trip platform to raise funds

□ Launch EventHave a great event to announce your excursion

□ Communication PlanPlan your team communications to move forward

□ Recruiting PlanDevelop a plan to get more people to come

□ PR PlanPlan a list of releases that will create great PR

□ Submit Gear Orders (GGG)Order custom GGG Gear with your logos

□ Expand Network (GGG)GGG will help you to connect to those on the ground

□ Build SponsorsIdentify sponsors and work with them from day 1

□ Pay FeesSecure attendee payments and fees to GGG

□ Secure Visas (GGG)GGG will assist in getting all of your visas

□ Packing Lists (GGG)GGG makes suggestions of the best way to pack

□ Collect Attendee DataCollect personal data from attendees

□ Submit Schedule AdditionsMake additions to the GGG schedule specific to you

Geeks Gone Global 2014 /20CONTACT US

Our website

Social

Contact

SKYPEPHONEMAIL

www.geeksgoneglobal.com

Facebook.com/geeksgoneglobal

faruqh

[email protected]

+ 1 404 990 0613

Twitter.com/geeksgoneglobal

To develop your custom initiative contact us. Or contact your local GeniusCorps Ambassador, they are fully empowered to help you every step of the way.

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