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Speakers 2010 (in alphabetical order)
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Dear participant, We are proud to present masterminds of innovation and creativity, future-oriented changemakers who will discuss solutions, synergies, opportunities, chances towards Europe 2049 and act now. Make a difference and be part of this exciting opportunity to voice your opinion and vision of Europe's future! Selma Prodanovic Initiator of IncrediblEurope Watch this space for information as our exciting international speakers
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the IncrediblEurope Summit in Vienna from 9.-11. June 2010.
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Special Guest: Edward de Bono (Malta)
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Edward de Bono is regarded as the global leading authority in the field of creative and conceptual thinking. An MD, PHD and Rhodes Scholar, he has authored 72 books in 41 languages. His instruction in thinking has been sought by major corporations such as IBM, Microsoft, Shell, Prudential, GM, Ford, and Citicorp to name a few. His work is in use in thousands of schools worldwide, and mandatory on the curriculum in some countries. He is the originator of the term ‘Lateral Thinking’ and the very popular “Six Thinking Hats” framework. Based on an understanding of how the brain works as a self-organising information system, Edward de Bono has designed specific thinking tools to maximize the creative process. Dr. de Bono has worked successfully with organizations such as Pharmacia, Nokia, Philip Morris and Dupont to imbed his thinking tools into their culture. The ROI for these companies has been impressive. www.edwdebono.com |
Special Guest: Cameron Sinclair (UK, USA)
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Cameron Sinclair was trained as an architect at the University of Westminster and at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. During his studies Sinclair developed an interest in social, cultural and humanitarian design. His postgraduate thesis focused on providing shelter to New York's homeless through sustainable, transitional housing. After his studies, he moved to New York where he worked as a designer and project architect. In 1999 Sinclair co-founded Architecture for Humanity, which seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brings design services to communities in need. Currently the organization is working in a dozen countries on projects ranging from health centers in Sub-Saharan Africa, community centers in Southeast Asia to low-income housing on the Gulf Coast of the United States. In 2007 Architecture for Humanity launched the Open Architecture Network, the worlds' first online community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. In 2003 Sinclair was named a Nice Moderist by Dwell Magazine. He is a recipient of the ASID Design for Humanity award and the Lewis Mumford Award for Peace. In 2004 Fortune Magazine named him as one of the Aspen Seven, seven people changing the world for the better, and in 2006 Sinclair was named one of three winners of the TED Prize, which honors visionaries from any field who have shown they can "positively impact life on this planet." Together with co-founder Kate Stohr he accepted the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Patron Award in honor of the work of Architecture for Humanity, its chapters, volunteers and design fellows. www.architectureforhumanity.org |
Doris Agneter (Austria)
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Doris Agneter obtained her Ph.D. in technical mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology. She completed her post-graduate training in business management at the Institute for Advanced Studies. She was a prime force in creating new guarantee instruments for venture capital/private equity funds at Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH (formerly FGG), whose equity/venture capital department she also created. While in this position, she closely collaborated with numerous Austrian and international venture capital funds. Before joining tecnet capital in 2005, Doris Agneter headed the private equity department at Raiffeisen Centrobank AG in Vienna as the chairperson of RZB Private Equity Holding AG, the private equity fund-of-funds portfolio of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich. Now Doris Agneter is chairperson of tecnet equity Technologiebeteiligungs-Invest AG, a Venture Capital Fund focusing on technology-oriented, innovative, high-growth companies. She is CEO of tecnet capital Technologiemanagement GmbH, NÖ Bürgschaften, NÖ Beteiligungsfinanzierungen GmbH and chairperson of AVCO (Austrian Private Equity and Venture Capital Organisation). Doris Agneter holds visiting professor positions at several Austrian universities. She has been a member of numerous advisory boards and supervisory boards of Venture Capital Funds. www.tecnet.co.at |
Gerald Bast (Austria)
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Dr. Gerald Bast Studied legal sciences and economic sciences at the University of Linz PhD in legal sciences at the University of Linz Court and Public Prosecutor’s Office work (1979-80) Officer of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (1981-1999) Lecturer and Examiner at the Federal Academy of Administration (university law, constitutional law, administrative law, public service law, university reform, decentralization / deregulation - until 1999) Head of the Department for Organizational Law and Questions of Principal on the Reform of Universities and Art Universities, in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (1991-1999) Consultant at the Ludwig Boltzmann Society for Scientific Research (1992-1999) Legal trade qualification to act as a consultant for scientific and educational institutions Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna (since 2000) Vice President of the Austrian National University Federation Spokesperson for the Rectors of the Austrian Art Universities Member of the Presidium of Universities Austria Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Zeitschrift für Hochschulrecht, Hochschulmanagement und Hochschulpolitik" (Journal for University Law, University Management and University Policy) Vice-President of the Austrian Rectors' Conference Vice President of the European League of Institutes of the Arts - ELIA www.dieangewandte.at |
Claus Bindslev (Denmark)
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Claus Bindslev is the director of Bindslev AS, a Copenhagen based consultancy that specializes in producing societal improvement. Claus inventing the Camp method in 2001, an innovation process based on isolating 48 people for 48 hours to create tangible results to a given challenge and shortening an organization’s innovation cycle from a year and a half to mere days. Claus has orchestrated and lead more than 80 Camps and executive summits, engaging more than 2500 experts. He has facilitated the development of a vast range of hard-hitting concepts and projects. He was behind the Danish Wind Power industry’s campaign Wind Power Works, has overseen the birth of new products for Danish pump giant Grundfos, designed the world’s largest Climate Summit for Mayors in Copenhagen in 2009 and hosts annual Energy Camps in Scandinavia, bringing together the entire national energy sector and putting it to work to achieve common goals. Starting off as a theatre and film director and as a project manager for several national NGOs, Claus has gone on to accumulate more than 20 years of experience in facilitating real, concrete results based on current societal challenges. He has both created a model for innovation that actually works and sees the benefits and results of the model in action every single day. Claus is profusely passionate and has a keen, creative and strategic eye for always seeing the opportunities present in the societal challenges surrounding us. www.bindslevas.dk |
Julia Cassim (United Kingdom)
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Julia Cassim studied at Manchester College of Art and Design and then at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music on a Japanese Ministry of Education postgraduate sculpture scholarship. She has an MPhil from the International Centre for Heritage Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Art and consultant to the Natural History Museum, London. From 1971-1998, she was resident in Japan. She was arts columnist of The Japan Times, wrote widely for other publications and founded Access Vision, a non-profit organisation for visually impaired people engaged in research on alternative modes to access and interpret museum collections of art and artefacts. She curated and designed award-winning exhibitions for audiences with visual impairments and learning disabilities. ‘Into the Light - Museums and their Visually Impaired Visitors’, her book published by Shogakkan in 1998, draws on this experience. Since 2000 she has worked at the Helen Hamlyn Centre, a centre for inclusive design at the Royal College of Art, London. where her research focus is the involvement of disabled people in the mainstream design and innovation process. www.hhc.rca.ac.uk |
Michael Conrad (Switzerland)
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After 34 wonderful years in advertising Michael Conrad retired in 2003. Born in Germany - a country more famous for great cars and less famous for great ads, as his friend John Hegarty likes to point out - Michael brought German engineering to global quality management in advertising, helping Leo Burnett Worldwide Inc. become Global Agency Network of the Year in 2000 (AdAge) and Most Awarded Agency Network in 2001 (Gunn Report). Under his creative leadership 27 Leo Burnett agencies were named Agency of the Year in their countries, some of them more than once. Upon retiring in 2003 ADC Germany's Sebastian Turner approached Michael to help develop ADC's education initiatives. Having identified low quality Creative Leadership as the main reason for low quality standards in creative industries, the idea was born to establish The Berlin School of Creative Leadership. Michael lives with his wife Helga in Zurich, Switzerland. They enjoy their three children's creative progress: Anja's fresh photography; Josepha and Philipp's desperate serenades. www.berlin-school.com |
Jillian de Beer (New Zealand)
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Jillian de Beer is an international strategist specialising in creative
enterprise, business transformation, economic development, cultural
identity, international market development, and the creative industries. Jillian has advised on the creation of niche industries and new markets, creative environments, urban revitalisation, and the protection of authentic cultural expression in New Zealand, USA, Australia, Canada and Eastern Europe. www.debeer.co.nz |
Martina Fineder (Austria)
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Martina Fineder is a writer, lecturer and a researcher at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (currently on maternity leave). Her work focuses on the history and material culture of socially and environmentally responsible design. She has been instrumental in establishing the Victor J. Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts on the basis of his personal archive and library, which she discovered together with Thomas Geisler in the USA in 2007. She co-edited the German re-edition of Papanek’s key writing Design of the Real World Human Ecology and Social Change (2009). Martina Fineder favours collaborative writing, and her work is published in journals such as L'Architecture d'aujourd'dui and the Journal of Design History. She is also co-author of the departure White Paper focus Design – Innovationen für Mensch und Gesellschaft im Wandel (2009). Prior to her work at the University she has worked as a self- employed exhibition curator and designer. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on The Promises of the Alternative – Environmentally critical design since 1968. |
Nikolaus Franke (Austria)
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Professor Nikolaus Franke is Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He is also Director of the TU/WU Entrepreneurship Center, a joint technology transfer organization together with the Technical University Vienna, Academic Director of the MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and founding member of the Research Institute for Family Business. Together with Professor Christopher Lettl he leads the User Innovation Research Initiative Vienna. He is Scientific Director of the yearly competition “Top 100 – Germany’s most innovative SME”. He is member of many juries and evaluation committees, for example of the Ernst & Young Austrian Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Austrian National Innovation Award and the Rudolf Sallinger Award. He consulted many firms from start-ups to leading multinationals, and served as invited speaker in executive meetings worldwide. Nikolaus Franke is married and has two daughters. www.wu.ac.at |
Stefan Glaenzer (Germany)
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Stefan Glaenzer, Executive Chairman and first investor of Last.fm until it got sold to CBS in 2007 for USD 280m, is one of the most active business angels in Europe’s digital space. Currently he acts as Executive Chairman at the research community Mendeley.com and at RjDj.me. Stefan is a serial entrepreneur since he left university: in 1998 he founded ricardo.de, Germany’s biggest online-auction company, which he took to an IPO at Neuer Markt in 1999. The company merged to QXLricardo in 2000 before got sold to Nasper in 2007, for USD 1.8 billion. Stefan is currently invested in 25 plus companies. Since end of 2000 he and his family enjoy living in London. |
Martina Gleissenebner (Austria)
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Since 1996, Martina Gleissenebner has worked internationally as trainer and lecturer. Her work is enriched by inside skills coming from ten years on the international executive board of a globally active corporation and eight years of experience abroad (in Milan and Monte Carlo). She has lectured and trained in Italy, France, Holland, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia. She speaks and works in German, English, French and Italian.
www.branding-tc.com www.expertinnen.net |
Gabriele Gottwald-Nathaniel (Austria)
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Gabriele Gottwald-Nathaniel graduated from the City of Vienna Academy for Social Work as a qualified social worker in 1996 and started her work at Department V - Drug Department of the Anton Proksch Institute where she became Appointed Director of Administration in 2007. In 2002 she initiated the socioeconomic organisation "gabarage upcylcing design", became Head of the organisation and was therefore awarded the WIENERIN Charity Award in 2009. Gabriele holds a masters degree in Social Work and Social Management from Donauuniversität Krems. Furthermore she is founding member of Augustin, a newspaper sold by the homeless, a member of respAct Austria and regular lecturer at Pro Mente Wien Akademie. www.gabarage.at www.api.or.at |
Rudolf Greger (Austria)
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Rudolf Greger, 1965, is industrial designer and managing partner at GP designpartners gmbh, a design consultancy based in Vienna. Since 1992 he has been working together with his partner Christoph Pauschitz for many companies in the fields of corporate design and industrial design. In the middle of the 1990s interaction design was added to the design services of the today ten-headed-company. Rudolf Greger has been teaching at the Advertising Academy and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is honorable member of the Junior Chamber of Vienna and a JCI Senator. Since the end of 2006 Greger has been boardmember of designaustria, too. Designaustria is one of the oldest design organizations of Europe and Austrias knowledge center and the interface between the economic world and the design community. As design consultant Rudolf Greger focuses on awareness raising for the value of design and promotes the professionalization of users of design. The aim is that design and design thinking becomes an integrated strategic management tool into corporate culture. In January 2009 his book »design im marketing - mittel zum zweck« has been published by the Österreichische Marketing Gesellschaft. www.gp.co.at |
Lisa Elena Hampel (Austria)
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Lisa Elena Hampel, born 1981 in Graz/Austria, graduated from Industrial Design in 2003. Lisa started her career as an industrial designer working on a wide range of projects in studios in Munich, Ulm and Stockholm. In 2006 she co-founded the Viennese design consultancy DANKLHAMPEL together with Kathrina Dankl. Their work accommodates elements of customization, leaving room for individual user preferences. The team follows principles of co-design and ethnographic research, fostering a special area of interest in the new “older” generation. The demands, wishes, and ideas of the elderly evolve from long-term experience and clear perceptions of quality and usability. However, a large range of existing products does not live up to their expectations in terms of style and function. DANKLHAMPEL is also editor and publisher of MEET Magazine, a modern high-quality interviewmagazine on the controversial but multi-faceted topic of ageing. www.danklhampel.com |
Martina Hörmer (Austria)
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Since August 2002, Martina Hörmer (MA) has been responsible for the Private Brands Marketing Department at REWE International AG. As Managing Director of Ja! Natürlich and Delikatessa, Martina Hörmer leads up a team of 25, all dedicated to consistent brand management. A business administration graduate, Martina Hörmer has many years experience in the branded goods industry, both at home and abroad. Born in Vienna, she spent, inter alia, three years as Marketing Director in Budapest and was Franchise Director Uncle Ben’s Europe for two years, based in Antwerp. She is now successfully deploying her 15 years of know-how in the food industry within the management of REWE International AG’s private brands. Martina Hörmer is married and has a son, Johannes. www.janatuerlich.at |
Toyah Hunting (Denmark)
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British-Norwegian Toyah Hunting was born in Norway and graduated with a degree in Russian from the Norwegian Military school of Security and Defence in 2000. Finishing her contract in the far North of Norway, Toyah then moved to Denmark where she attended the Kaospilot School of Social Innovation and New Business Design and honed her skills as a project manager and process facilitator. Toyah has since initiated and managed numerous cross-sector projects in Switzerland, Scandinavia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is one of the founding members of Ask Sarajevo, an initiative where 600 Bosnians aged 6-30 painted their dreams for the future on 5000 square metres of canvas. The canvas ultimately became a fashion exhibition that kicked off the restoration of Sarajevo's youth house. The youth house Dom Mladih opened in 2007. Toyah currently resides in Copenhagen where she has headed the Innovation and Business Design section at the Copenhagen College of Engineering as well as worked as a copy writer, journalist and CSR adviser. She now works as consultant and producer at Bindslev, a Copenhagen-based consultancy that specializes in producing societal improvement. Toyah deals with Bindslev’s international activities and always tries to pair idealism and profitability. www.bindslevas.dk |
Mirko Ilic (USA/Bosnia-Herzegovina)
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The extraordinary designer Mirko Ilic, who often appeared in the media because of his provocative and occasionally political works, was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina, but has been acting and living in the US since 1986. Among other things, he worked as the Art Director for the international edition of Time Magazine. In 1995, he founded the Mirko Ilic Corporation, a studio for graphic design and 3D animation. Ilic was awarded medals by the Society of Illustrators, the Society of Publication Designers, the Art Directors Club, I.D. magazine, the Society of Newspaper Design, and many others. To share his views and experience with young people, he began teaching advanced design classes at Cooper Union, in cooperation with Milton Glaser, and is currently lecturing Master Degree classes in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
In February 2007, Mirko Ilic and Steven Heller published a book titled ”The Anatomy of Design”, in which 50 selected works of graphic design were analyzed, and their secrets uncovered. A good portion of the exhibits come from Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. With this example, the publishers want to prove that there is an immense number of creative people even in smaller countries, and that creativity is not a question of power, money and size. www.mirkoilic.com Success Secrets of the Graphic Design Superstars |
Rudi Kobza (Austria)
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Rudi Kobza (42) is chairman of Lowe GGK, Austria’s legendary and creative high class agency brand. He started his career in 1986 in one of the top 10 agencies in Austria and consequently four years later became a Member of the Management Board. In 1994 he founded Kobza Communications, which one year later merged to become FCB, later Draftfcb Kobza. Since 2005, Rudi Kobza additionally accepted to become the Chairman of Austria’s top creative agency Lowe GGK. In this time the group was built to Austrias largest communication group. His work has won several awards including Lions in Cannes, Clio, Eurobest, Epica, New York, IAA, Effies and awards at the Golden Drum Festival. Lowe GGK was the only Austrian agency, which could ever win a film Lion in Cannes. In 2009 Rudi Kobza decided to focus on Lowe GGK and sold his shares of Draft FCB Kobza. Parallel he founded new companies as 'Kobza integra PR and Lobbying', the strategic consulting company 'Markenstern' and the Investment and Advisory Boutique 'First Love Capital'. All companies are member of Kobza Media Group. Rudi Kobza is a board member of Austria’s IAA (International Advertising Association) and member in numerous juries. www.lowegkk.at www.firstlovecapital.com |
Ab Kuijer (The Netherlands)
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Ab Kuijer is a conceptual thinker, a writer and a communicator. He started 25 years ago as a journalist for several newspapers and magazines. In the years that followed Ab had his daily breakfastshows being a radiohost, he became owner of a dance radiostation and the publisher of a Nightlife magazine. He worked for several media and after two years of being a tv producer Ab started his own communication agency. Because above all, Ab likes to communicate. With the use of all possible media, as long as they are effective. With JuniorSenior he established Europe's first communication agency network that is leading in young marketing. JuniorSenior is represented in 9 countries and advises and creates solutions for clients that want to communicate with a young audience in a world that is always changing. You can connect with Ab on Facebook to get to know him better.
www.jr-sr.com |
Maja Lalic (Serbia)
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Maja Lalić Director, reMiks studio President, Mikser organization Having worked in Belgrade in parallel careers in architecture and television journalism, Maja leaves for New York to pursue Master's degree in Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University and works with U+D studio on different urban scale design projects, as well as Kramer Design Group on numerous branding projects. Motivated by political changes in Serbia in October 2000, and pursuing her own multidisciplinary practice, she returns to Belgrade to establish MIKSER – creative network of enthusiastic professionals dedicated to „restoration“ of Serbia’s cultural landscape via exchange projects with globally recognized design institutions and professionals such as Columbia University, Rem Koolhaas, Konstantin Grcic, Gaetano Pesce, Luigi Colani, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, etc. In addition to presiding at the non-for-profit organization Mikser, Maja runs her own creative studio reMiks whose portfolio includes branding strategies, architecture and interior design projects among which the awarded Supermarket concept store stands out. Expanding her role as an activist among architects, Maja is currently busy with creative direction of the Mikser festival, multidisciplinary regional platform for creative businesses dedicated to reestablishing professional and educational networks in the region of Balkans. www.mikser.rs www.remiks.eu |
Julie May Queen (Austria)
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Julie May Queen born in London, freelance photo artist, lives and works in Vienna. After graduating from fashion college „Modeschule Hetzendorf“ in Austria, she went on for creation and design at the fine arts section of the Austrian federal theatres. She worked as costume designer, production manager and supervisor on several productions at opera houses and theatres at home and abroad. Projects with Christian Ludwig Attersee, Hermann Nitsch, Roman Polanski, Vivienne Westwood and Eric Woolfson (Alan Parsons Project) have inspired her to create her own imagery. She uses photography to realise innovative perceptions beyond conventional categories of composition. Over the past few years Julie May Queen has created numerous works (www.galerieleu.de), poster campaigns (CCA and ADC*E Award in Photography, 2009) and an artistic get-up (Photographies) for the film „The Reader“ (Director: Stephen Daldry; starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes). In her recent photo project „The Box“ JMQ captures the moments of people discovering an empty space. The Box as an instrument of communication, visualizing a network of people’s experiences, visions, destinies an destinations. Personalities like David.J.Goldberg, Edwin Moses, Sir Paul Nurse, David Rosen, Dr. Andreas Salcher, Br.David Steindl-Rast and Alan M. Webber, already experienced it. www.juliemayqueen.com |
Muhamed Mesic (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
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Muhamed Mesic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1984, and has spent his life so far connecting the realities, visions and ideas of himself and others - and plans on doing so in the time to come. A lawyer by academic training, a learner by vocation and a networker by passion, Muhamed has worked with initiatives, projects, groups and businesses in 24 countries on four continents. His ability to communicate in 56 languages means he is able to learn and share first-hand with the world; from Aramaic to Yiddish, from Basque to Kinyarwanda, from Quechua to Georgian. Muhamed remains an optimist committed to changing the world, a fan of the Arctic, cycling, flags, and some of the world's worst football teams. Muhamed has spoken, held workshops and seminars, given lectures and interviews and written for books, newspapers, and electronic media on the creative industries, sustainable development, global citizenship, genocide studies and human rights as well as networking in 17 countries, from Argentina to Finland. His professional experience includes working as Project Manager for the British Council, serving as City Councilor in his home town of Tuzla and acting as Senior Consultant to sustainable development and education projects of Brainswork. www.brainswork.at |
Patricia Mussi (Austria)
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Patricia Mussi is the Managing Director of the European Forum Alpbach, a Vienna-based non-profit association which specialises in organising high-profile international conferences on Europe-related topics, ranging from economics and politics to science and the arts. Born in Vienna in 1978, Patricia earned Master's degrees in German Literature and Philosophy (Vienna University) as well as in International Relations (Johns Hopkins University). Before joining the European Forum Alpbach in 2008, she worked as a radio journalist/presenter with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and as a communications consultant. www.alpbach.org |
Antonija Pacek (Austria)
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For the last twelve years Antonija Pacek has been an international educator, consultant, keynote inspirational speaker, researcher and trainer in the area of organizational efficiency and soft skills. She has conducted training sessions with companies in the areas of leadership skills, creativity and innovation in organizations, emotional intelligence in business, people management across cultures, motivating people and managing change. She is a Vienna-based representative for the Centre for Creative Leadership since 2004 focusing on projects in Western and Eastern Europe. In 2009 Antonija developed a leadership program, Inspiring Innovation in Leaders, combining psychology and research findings on creativity in organizations with a live performance of self-composed, contemporary piano music. Before joining The Center for Creative Leadership, Antonija was People Value Management Consultant with Hewitt Associates in Vienna; she was a member of the European Organizational Effectiveness division. www.ccl.org |
Heike Paul (Austria)
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„Finding back to the middle day by day“ Heike Paul runs her own studio in which she teaches gyrokinesis, gyrotonic, yoga and pilates. In her early childhood, she started with rhythmic gymnastics on a professional level, where she first learned to synchronize body and mind. Later she moved on to more balance orientated disciplins like yoga, gyrokinesis etc. She is trained in a wide variety of therapies and treatments with which she supports her clients to reach their individual goals. In her search for the ideal method to unfold the full potential of body, mind and soul she came across the physical pedagogic training according to Crick, which still forms a large part of her classes and treatments. She taught personal classes and group classes in many (of Vienna’s) well-known Dance-, Healthand Fitness Studios before finally deciding to open her own place. At “Studio Heike Paul” not only people in rehabilitation or people that want to increase their wellbeing have their place, but also professional dancers and athletes can take advantage of this exceptional spectrum of Bodyworks and treatments. www.studio-heike-paul.com |
Eric Poettschacher (Austria/USA)
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Eric Poettschacher graduated from the European Executive Masters Programme for Media and Arts at the International Centre for Culture and Management in Salzburg. In 1994 he founded a consultancy firm and developed a comprehensive set of interventions made to tackle the specific management challenges of small businesses in the creative sector. From 2005 through 2008 he has been leading a research project named “Mindscapes” and explored the intrinsic decision-making patterns of professional creatives within a strategic framework he described as “Money & Meaning”. Eric has received training in large-group facilitation, organizational systems theory as well as communications management. Clients include cultural quarters, urban redevelopment agencies but most of all creative entrepreneurs from a wide range of disciplines and cultures. In 2006 he incorporated Shapeshifters Information Management GmbH together with a Boston based angel investor. Shapeshifters is a global knowledge broker supporting creatives all over the planet with tailor-made business opportunities: www.shapeshifters.net |
Selma Prodanovic (Austria)
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Selma Prodanovic is CEO of the Brainswork Group and initiator of IncrediblEurope. She is known as the “discoverer and connector” of human and business potentials. Truly multicultural and multilingual (5 languages), Selma was educated in 4 different educational systems and lived in several countries in Europe and Africa. An entrepreneur and educator at heart, she is an expert in new business development, strategic marketing and networking. Awarded the Austrian “WOMAN” Award 2006 for her innovative approach to business and the "MiA" Award in 2010, Selma initiated the “Brainswork Make a Difference Awards” in 2009. She is married and a proud mother of two. www.brainswork.at www.incredibleurope.com |
Ranja Reda (Austria)
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Ranja Reda holds a Masters Degree in theoretical nuclear physics and currently finishes two PhDs, one in mathematics, the other one in finance. Her studies brought her to Princeton University, University Bologna, Ecole Polytechnique Paris, London School of Economics, City University New York und University of Cambridge. Back at Vienna University of Technology, the 24-year old scientist currently works together with Austrian Banks to create a fruitful interplay between basic research and practical applications. Together with distinguished Wittgenstein Prize-winner Prof. Walter Schachermayer and a collegue from Credit Suisse, she developed a simulation model for credit risk portfolios for extreme events. For her research, Ranja Reda was awarded the Austrian audience innovation award Mercur 2008 by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the Oe1 Audio Price awarded by federal minister Johannes Hahn to young scientists who “share their enthusiasm and knowledge with the public in an innovative and entertaining way”. In 2009 she was chosen to be FemTech Expert of The Month by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology. www.fam.tuwien.ac.at |
Manfred Reichl (Austria)
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DDr. Manfred Reichl, born in 1953 in Salzburg, has worked for 20 years with Roland Berger, the leading European Strategy Consultancy, heading the Austrian and Eastern European business for more than 15 years. Until 1984, he had studied Civil Engineering and Law (studies mainly in Graz, but also at Stanford and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), was Assistant Professor for Management and Organization, and university lecturer for Software Programming, Computer Aided Design and Artificial Intelligence. From 1984 to 1987 he has worked for Hewlett Packard as a European Marketing Program Manager, located close to Stuttgart. Today he is, among other functions, Senior Adviser at UBS Investment Bank and at the World Economic Forum, Investor in small technology companies, Non-Executive Board Member at various companies and lecturer for "Globalization" at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He is married and has two adult daughters. |
Sandra Luzia Schafroth (Switzerland)
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Sandra Luzia Schafroth (born 1969 in Basel / Italian and Swiss citizen) is managing director of the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum (since 2009). She also works as curator and independent consultant for communications, PR and arts management mainly for the creative industries. Until May 2007 she was managing director and senior consultant of cR Kommunikation, a PR company based in Basel, Bern and Küsnacht. Before that she had an employment as research associate at the Institute for Design and Art Research of the Academy of Art and Design HGK / University of Applied Sciences FHNW and as independent communication consultant and manager for different art/culture events and institutions, such as the Regionale, les muséiques, Design Miami/ Basel, Lichtfeld, Scope, Swiss Association of Architects, etc.. Other previous recent engagements include: Associate Professor / Head of Communications at the HyperWerk Institute of the HGK / FHNW 2004 -2006; Acting Cultural Attaché of the Swiss Consulate General in New York from 2002 - 2004; and, Co-Director of VIPER, the International Festival of Film, Video and New Media in Basel from 2000 - 2002. Ms. Schafroth completed her post-graduate studies Culture/Arts Management at the University of Basel. Previous studies include sociology, law, and communication / media science. She speaks fluenty German, English, French and Italian. www.sam-basel.org |
James Skone (Austria)
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* Head of Dept. for Design Education, University of Applied Arts Vienna. * Head of Institute for Art Research and Art Education, University of Applied Arts Vienna. * Course Leader BA (Hons. Degree) Project and Furniture Design Kingston University London at the New Design Centre St.Pölten, Austria (2001–2003) * Visiting Prof. for Industrial Design at FH Joanneum Graz (2000) * Lecturer for Design at the FH Wr. Neustadt (1997 – 2006) * Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Austrian Design Federation * Member of the board. Designforum MQ Vienna. * Numerous int. design awards inkl.: Royal Society of Arts Bursaries Award, (2x) Österreichischer Staatspreis für Design, finalist for the European Design Award, Red Dot Award Hannover, etc.... * 2 Sons. * Pioneer of free climbing and ice climbing in Austria in the 1970s and 1980s. * Numerous first. accents. |
Johan Staël von Holstein (Sweden/Singapore)
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An international serial entrepreneur, a political provocateur and one of the leading European Internet visionaries in the mid 90ies. The founder of companies as InTV, Icon Medialab (LBI), Lestbyit.com, Speed Ventures, IQUBE and most recently Mycube. He has been awarded “Technology Pioneer” by the WEF, “Global Media Innovator” by Forbes International & Advertizing Age, Internet Guru of the year in Sweden for three consecutive years. Lectured at Harvard, Stanford, Berkley's, LBS, INSEAD, World knowledge forum, WEF and numerous other occasions. He is a passionate skier, diver, traveler, father and committed defender of individual freedom and entrepreneurship. He is now out to change the world! |
Alfred W. Strigl (Austria)
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Alfred W. Strigl Biochemist, Expert in Sustainable Development, System Change Management & CSR Studies of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology and University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (1985-1993) Master thesis at Cape Verde Islands, West-Africa, Austrian development project on alternative energy production and water purification (1991-1992) Assistant Professor and Doctorate Studies at Institute for Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, Graz University of Technology Graz (1993-1997) University courses and credits on Business and Legal Administration (1993-1997) Vice-Director of Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development Vienna (1998-2007) Founder and Director of plenum – association for holistic sustainable development, an eco-social company owned by the own employees (since 2008) University Lectures: University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna: “Sustainable Development” & “Precautionary Environmental Management” Ritsumeikan Asian Pacific University, Beppu Japan: “Sustainable System Change Management” Training and working experiences on: Sustainable Innovation Management Corporate Sustainability and Ethics Sustainability Reporting Corporate Social Responsibility Social Entrepreneurship Active Memberships: Austrian Actors Network on Sustainable Development, Member of the Board Austrian Civil-Society Conference and Initiative, Founding Member Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development, Member of the Board Eco-Social Forum Vienna, Member of the Board ESD – Association for European Sustainable Development, President www.plenum.at |
Sonja Stummerer & Martin Hablesreiter (Austria)
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Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter both studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts/ Vienna. Sonja Stummerer did her masters degree at the Design Research Laboratory at Architectural Association/ London. Martin Hablesreiter made the pre diploma certificate at Bartlett School of Architecture/ London. They worked as project architects for Arata Isozaki & Associates at Tokyo/ Japan and for several offices in Vienna. 2003 Stummerer/ Hablesreiter founded the interdisciplinary atelier: “honey & bunny productions” in Vienna. They work as architects, designers, filmmakers and authors. One of their major projects is “food design”. Since more than 10 years they research and work on that topic. 2005 the first book “food design – von der Funktion zum Genuss” was published. Honey & bunny curated an exhibition about food design at the Designforum/ MQ/ Vienna and they were directors for the documentary film: “food design” 2008. Their latest work is the book: “food design XL”. Honey & bunny built several roof extensions and took part in exhibitions. They taught at Universities in Bukarest, Istanbul and Chennai. And they did lots of lectures and published more than 100 articles. www.honeyandbunny.com |
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (Austria)
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Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, born 1960, has been the strategic managing director of departure wirtschaft, kunst und kultur gmbh since November 2007. Prior to this, from September 1999 till August 2007, Thun-Hohenstein was director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and publisher/editor of the bimonthly online magazine “austria.culture”. Whilst studying Law, Political Science and Arts History he was assistant at the University of Vienna. 1982-83: Doctor’s degree in Law and Doctor’s degree in Political Science and Art History 1984 he entered the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria. Postings abroad in Abidjan (1985), Geneva (1986-90) and Bonn (1991-93). Numerous publications and lectures, in particular on European integration and on themes of contemporary culture and art in different disciplines, as well as curatorial activities and participation in juries. www.departure.at |
Felix Thun-Hohenstein (Austria)
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Felix Thun-Hohenstein, born in Vienna in 1959, is Managing Director of 3M Austria and 3M Switzerland. Both countries form 3M Alpine Region with a combined workforce of 330 and a sales volume of € 197 million (2009). Having studied law at the University of Vienna, Felix Thun joined 3M Austria in 1985. 3M, the well-known U.S. enterprise and global player being worth $ 23 billion is fundamentally science-based and structured in 45 technology platforms which deliver - as the company claims - innovative solutions to almost every need in life. In his 25 years with the company, Felix Thun acquired in-depth knowledge of 3M’s diverse business units and the thousands of innovative products, from Health Care and Highway Safety to Office Products and Abrasives and Adhesives. Having held different sales and marketing positions in Austria, he became Regional Sales & Marketing Manager, Occupational Health & Environmental Safety, 3M Central Region, in 1992, and was appointed Marketing Development Manager, 3M Europe & Middle East/Africa, in 1993. All in all, the Thun family - consisting of his wife, two sons and a daughter - spent more than seven years in Brussels and St. Paul, Minnesota (US), the company’s headquarters. Before Felix Thun was appointed to Managing Director, 3M Austria, in 2008, and to Managing Director, 3M Switzerland, in January 2010, he was in charge of 3M’s eProductivity Initiative as Director eBusiness & eProductivity, 3M Europe & Middle East/Africa. Last year, he was also elected to President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Austria. Being a „dedicated Austrian“ as well as an international manager for a global company, one of Felix Thun’s major objectives is to encourage the co-operation with Austrian businesses and corporations in order to intensify the exchange of know-how and creative ideas. Recently, 3M Austria developed and launched Austria’s first open-innovation-platform www.zukunft-innovation.at |
Gentry Underwood (USA)
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Gentry Underwood heads IDEO’s Knowledge Sharing domain, which focuses on facilitating large-scale collaboration through the human-centered application of technology. He began his career as a software designer, after earning a degree in human-computer interaction from Stanford University. But he left Silicon Valley and the world of start-ups to study psychology, anthropology, and community development. Today Gentry combines his social science and design backgrounds to focus on building collaborative systems that people actually want to use. Published works: November 2009, “Social Software: The Other ‘Design for Social Impact'," Core 77 User-centered push methods and system (patent) 2007, "Capturing New Community: A Case Study in Digital Filmmaking as Ethnography" www.ideo.com |
Friedrich Wille (Austria)
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Dr. Friedrich Wille was born in 1940 into a very humanistic household, where an intense consideration of other cultures and convictions were on a daily occurrence. In the year 1960, after finishing law school, Mr. Wille became the financial auditor of the company, founded by Michaela Frey, which was dealing with enamellings of commodity and ornamental objects. In 1980 he became art director, additional to his economic role in the company. In the following years there was a new creative spirit going through the team of artists with academic background, under the direction of Simone Grünberger. The “jewelry of decorative art” was invented, built from 24 carat gold, based on an innovative design philosophy with focus on modern forms. Becoming the CEO of the company, Dr. Willes distinguished himself in an excellent selection of new collections, motifs and products. It was essential for him to remain true to his line, to give his arts plenty opportunity for independent work and to bring joy and excitement to the people with his products. Almost 60 own stores belong to the FREY WILLE-empire, increasing each year due to the expansion strategy which keeps on continuing. www.frey-wille.com |
Brigitte Wolf (Austria)
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Dr. Brigitte Wolf has been the Director of ORF’s, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, regional radio- and tv station, Radio Wien, since 2002. Radio Wien’s output totals 24 hours of radio a day, 30 minutes of daily local TV news, 15 national TV programmes per year as well as 7,3 million page impresssions a month. Dr. Wolf holds a PhD in media studies, communications and psychology. She began working for ORF while still a student, first in radio and subsequently in media research. From 1991-94 Dr. Wolf was Executive Assistant to the Director-General, Gerd Bacher; 1994-95 she was head of the department of external relations as well as company spokesperson. Returning from maternity leave in 1999, Dr. Wolf assumed responsibility for all of ORF’s HR Training and Staff Development, including management-, technical- and journalistic staff, as well as “high potential” trainees. Dr. Wolf’s 2nd term as Radio Wien’s Director ends in 2011. http://wien.orf.at/ |
