Speakers 2012

Brigitte is a Business Angel and serves on a number of selection and investment committees. She is on the Certification Board of CTI Start-Up, the Swiss agency promoting technology and innovation.

Brigitte holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University, Boston and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. Born and raised in France, Brigitte and her family now live in Zurich.

www.eban.org

He grew up in Vienna where he studied computer linguistics, worked at the Austrian National Library and built the multimedia market for Apple. In Paris he worked at the Cinematheque Francaise, at Voyager in Santa Monica he co-invented the first electronic books.

He integrates business, art and science in his work and teaches in Europe an the US. He lives, works, sails and photographs with his daughter in San Francisco, Vienna and the World.

www.envizio.com

The keywords education, occupational orientation and creativity are brought to life in her agency. For many years Cox Orange is supporting the Vienna University of Technology/Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT with the goal to interest teenagers for a technological study. One of the new projects is the “future camp”, an institution for teenagers aged 14 to 18, where they can launch themselves in the quest for their own talents and skills. Coachings and creativity workshops lead the way to the occupational orientation.

Her credo: Let us use our creativity and our spirit, to create something new, something good…
www.cox-orange.at

Born on June 10th, 1959 in Vienna

Business administration studies at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, graduated 1981

Marketing Consumer Electronics, Kapsch AG, 1982-1985
Marketing Capital Goods, Kapsch AG, 1986-1989

As of July 1989; Member of the Executive Board of Kapsch AG

Chairman of ”1031 - group of young entrepreneurs and executives”, 1988 - 1992

Board member of Federation of Austrian Industries since 1996

Vice President of the Austrian Electrical and Electronic Industries Association since 2000

As of Oct. 2001:         CEO of Kapsch Group

As of Sept. 2002:       Chairman of the University of Applied Sciences “Technikum Wien”

As of Dec. 2002:        Chairman of  “Austrian Association of the Electronics Industries”

As of Dec. 2002:        CEO of Kapsch TrafficCom AG

As of Dec. 2008    President of the Vienna Regional Group of the Federation of Austrian Industries

Married to Ingrid Kapsch, two sons

www.kapsch.net

Digital Valley (DV) is an entrepreneur and innovation village - created by a community of interest focused on start-up success - anchored in the heart of Centrope, at the border of Austria and Hungary. DV stands for the successful promotion of talents, where top-talent attracts top-talent, including a new approach to a culture of failure and learning. It builds upon partnerships with co-working spaces, the idea incubators of the future and the place where generation Y meets.

Dream Academia, the organization in charge of implementing the DV vision, organizes an annual digital entrepreneur party - a developer’s weekend with participants from each of the 27 EU-member countries, and representatives from worldwide innovation centres - focused on networking, collaboration / cooperation and exchange. A digital university opens up possibilities to make knowledge available for all parts of the world.

www.dreamacademia.at

He also worked for Seara Alimentos (Cargill Group now) and Kanematsu do Brasil Ltda. Octavio possess an MBA degree from RSM Erasmus University, The Netherlands and post-graduation studies in International Business for UFRJ/ECEX. His academic background and professional experience  relates to sciences, international business and marketing of technology with relevant international business exposure in more than 25 countries. Honours: General Plinio Pitaluga Medal

www.topexecutivesnet.com

As an expert in Innovation Management, New Learning Media and Communication and Leadership for Change, she works as a trainer and lecturer for institutes for post graduate management education, universities of applied sciences, as well as companies and corporate clients.
Being a founding member of the Peter Drucker Society of Austria she is engaged in the organization of the global Peter Drucker Forum – one of the most outstanding European management conferences.

www.strohspinner.at
www.druckerforum.org
www.druckersociety.at

Awarded the Austrian “WOMAN” Award 2006 for her innovative approach to business, the "MiA" Award in 2010 and the "Integrationspreis 2010", Selma initiated the “Brainswork Make a Difference Awards” in 2009. She is married and a proud mother of two.

www.brainswork.at

Amila Ramović was born on 12 November 1977, in Sarajevo. She speaks English, Italian and some French. She is a proud owner of a Masters Degree obtained at the Music Academy in Sarajevo. Currently she is writing a PHD dissertation. The choice of a profession after graduating from Sarajevo's Prva Gimnazija and Music school came as a surprise even to her.

www.arsaevi.ba

He is a serial Entrepreneur and in 2008 he co-founded the student consultancy icons and the international Summer University in Carinthia.

www.starteurope.at