Maybach Foundation x Boma New Zealand: On the Shoulders of Giants — Virtual Fireside Chat

On the Shoulders of Giants:

A conversation on mentorship and innovation with Uli Maybach, hosted by Kaila Colbin

Tickets are now available (click here)!

What role does men­tor­ship play in the devel­op­ment of inno­va­tion, inspi­ra­tion, and suc­cess in our shared future? Find out in this fire­side chat with Ulrich (Uli) Schmid-May­bach, Pres­i­dent of the May­bach Foun­da­tion, host­ed by Kaila Col­bin, co-founder of Boma Glob­al and founder of Boma New Zealand.

If Uli’s great-grand­fa­ther, Wil­helm May­bach, hadn’t received the right guid­ance from Got­tlieb Daim­ler, he may nev­er have invent­ed the inter­nal com­bus­tion engine, cre­at­ing the dis­rup­tive ‘mobil­i­ty rev­o­lu­tion’ and lay­ing the foun­da­tion for the mod­ern auto­mo­bile. Mer­cedes and the world of trans­porta­tion which we know would not exist.

This is the dif­fer­ence right guid­ance brings — and why Uli ded­i­cates his time to cre­at­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for the men­tor­ship of tal­ent­ed indi­vid­u­als fac­ing adversities.

Kaila and Uli will dis­cuss the impor­tant role that men­tor­ship plays in the devel­op­ment of inno­va­tion, inspi­ra­tion, and suc­cess in our shared future — pri­mar­i­ly based on the icon­ic case-study of Wil­helm & Karl May­bach’s illus­tri­ous careers, as well as the May­bach Foun­da­tion’s ongo­ing work.

Tickets are now available (click here)!

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Session timing

This ses­sion begins at 7:00 p.m. Uni­ver­sal Coör­di­nat­ed Time, on Tues­day, 27 Octo­ber, or

• 12:00 p.m., 27 Octo­ber | Pacif­ic Day­light Time (UTC ‑7)
• 3:00 p.m., 27 Octo­ber | East­ern Day­light Time (UTC ‑4)
• 8:00 p.m., 27 Octo­ber | Cen­tral Euro­pean Time (UTC +1)
• 8:00 a.m., 28 Octo­ber | New Zealand Day­light Time (UTC +13)

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About Uli

Ulrich Schmid-May­bach (“Uli May­bach”) rep­re­sents the fourth gen­er­a­tion of the May­bach fam­i­ly busi­ness, start­ed by his great grand­fa­ther, Wil­helm May­bach, design­er of the world’s first high-speed inter­nal com­bus­tion engine in 1883 and the first Mer­cedes car in 1901; and his grand­fa­ther, Karl May­bach, who pio­neered the large diesel engines that pow­ered mobil­i­ty by air, land, and sea, includ­ing the lux­u­ri­ous May­bach motor cars of the 1920s and 30s.

Mr. May­bach cre­at­ed the May­bach Foun­da­tion in 2005 and was induct­ed into the Coun­cil of Men­tors of the Unit­ed Nations Glob­al Youth Lead­er­ship Net­work in Octo­ber 2006. Over the last 15 years, he has worked con­tin­u­ous­ly to com­plete var­ied icon­ic glob­al projects includ­ing doc­u­ment­ing the rebuild­ing of the World Trade Cen­ter, build­ing in-coun­try med­ical com­pe­ten­cy in East Africa, and train­ing the first per­son of col­or to play for the South African polo team.

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About Kaila

Kaila Col­bin is co-founder of Boma Glob­al and CEO of Boma New Zealand.

She spear­head­ed the huge­ly suc­cess­ful Sin­gu­lar­i­tyU New Zealand and Aus­tralia Sum­mits, intro­duc­ing more than 2,500 peo­ple to expo­nen­tial tech­nolo­gies and their impact on human­i­ty. She trained with Brené Brown and is a Cer­ti­fied Dare To Lead™ Facil­i­ta­tor. She is also a co-founder and trustee of the non-prof­it Min­istry of Awe­some and a Direc­tor of CORE Education.

Her pur­pose in life is to be an uplift­ing presence.

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About Boma

Boma is a glob­al net­work of local part­ners offer­ing trans­for­ma­tion­al learn­ing expe­ri­ences so that, in a world of dra­mat­ic and con­tin­u­ous change, we can be more inten­tion­al and intel­li­gent about the future.

The roots of the word “Boma” date back to Africa — the cra­dle of humankind — and lie in the lan­guages spo­ken in the African Great Lakes. The Boma was a cir­cu­lar enclo­sure for the com­mu­ni­ty and elders to gath­er, nor­mal­ly built out of branch­es. It was a sacred space for com­mu­ni­ty gath­er­ings and mean­ing­ful dis­cus­sions to be had, space where deci­sions were made, and actions were taken.

Learn more about Boma at boma​.glob​al. For more on Boma New Zealand, includ­ing upcom­ing events, vis­it nz​.boma​.glob​al.