MICROSOFT: DO GREAT THINGS

littleBits makes a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks empowering everyone to create inventions, large and small.

Condé Nast Traveler is a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published by Condé Nast. The magazine has won 25 National Magazine Awards.

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States. 

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

Some of the most productive devices on the planet are right at your fingertips. Designed for the way you work, play and all of the moments in between, the Microsoft Surface collection delivers innovative technology that will transform your day, bring new life to your projects, and help you spend more time doing what you love. 

National Sawdust (NS), an unparalleled, artist-led, non-profit venue, is a place for exploration and discovery. A place where emerging and established artists can share their music with serious music fans and casual listeners alike.

Paola Prestini is “the imaginative composer.  Co-founder and Artistic director behind the Brooklyn venue National Sawdust. She was recently named an “Innovator” on the list of Top 30 Professionals of the Year by Musical America, the country’s oldest classical music magazine; she is on Brooklyn Magazine’s latest list of “influencers of Brooklyn culture…in perpetuity” alongside such household names as Chuck Schumer and Spike Lee; she is one of the “Top 35 Female Composers in Classical Music.

Founded in 2007, sweetgreen is a destination for simple, seasonal, healthy food. We believe the choices we make about what we eat, where it comes from and how it’s prepared have a direct and powerful impact on the health of individuals, communities and the environment. 

Jonathan Neman is a co-founder and co-CEO of Sweetgreen, a hip, farm-to-table style salad chain. Mr. Neman, along with Nicolas Jammet and Nathaniel Ru, opened the company’s first location in Washington D.C. in 2007, the same year they graduated from Georgetown University. Now, nine years later, the fast-food salad lunch option is nationwide. 

Workouts worthsticking to!  Start fresh with fitness that’s anything but routine. Try the best workoutsfrom strength training to cycling — and everything in between.

Founder & Executive Chairman at ClassPass and graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Winner of 13+ awards & gift guides, the Gizmos & Gadgets, 2nd Edition is the ultimate app-enabled invention toolbox. It transforms passive screen time into a passion for hands-on inventing, problem solving and creativity.

Ayah Bdeir is the founder and CEO of littleBits, an open source library of modular electronics that snap together with magnets.