Featured Speakers 2009

Watch this space for information as our exciting international speakers from various fields of human work and imagination confirm their arrival to the IncrediblEurope Summit in Vienna from 9.-11. June 2010.

Professor Colani who describes himself as a legitimate successor to Galileo Galilei, shaped in over 50 years spectacular designs for automobiles, airplanes, architecture, more than 1,000 pieces of furniture and individual products up to countless technical innovations and world records. His individualistic yet spectacular designs and products were epochal milestones in design history, decades before their time. Colani has developed more than 20,000 designs during his career. About 70% of those were every day products such as ballpoint pens and eggcups and were produced in series. His more eccentric designs such as a stratosphere glider and a 900 PS “super sportscar” were a much more seldom reality. Even today, aged over 80, Colani is a highpoint in his own right: the energetic designer is still filling audiences up to the last seat. He is eloquent and quick-witted in more than 10 languages, creative from head to toe, controversial, provocative and exuberant. No wonder that the London Design Museum is speaking of a “Colani Revival”.

Designstatement:
Nature offers the answers to almost all the questions of design.
www.colani.de

Interview with Prof. Colani about his work and the future of design

"The Revival of Colani" Luigi Colani exhibition at Design Museum London

Dr Purg is professor of leadership and effective management at the IEDC-Bled School of Management. Her special field of interest is looking for inspirations for managers from art and other professions.
She has authored and co-authored several books and numerous articles on technological and organizational change, comparative HRM practices, team building, economic reforms and management development in Central and Eastern Europe (published in Slovenia, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Russia, the UK, and the US). In 2003 Dr Purg edited and co-authored the book Leaders and Teams – The Winning Partnership.
Dr Purg is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management, Doctor Honoris Causa at Moscow State University of Management and Estonian Business School, and honorary professor at Moscow International Higher Business School (MIRBIS). The President of the Republic of Slovenia awarded her with the “Honorary Order of Freedom” for her contribution to management development in Slovenia and CEE.

www.iedc.si

This is a new construction material, which, thanks to the built in optical fibres transmits light, while preserves the constructional characteristics of concrete. The novelty in this invention is that it could concentrate two opposite things in one material: weight/massiveness and light. This enables to combine the archaic tectonic character of architecture with the contemporary intention of transparency.
www.litracon.hu

As cultural ambassador of Slovenia, Miha follows the dynamic principle that artists and their audiences purposefully travel throughout the world and gather in places that really need them. He has inspired over 100 multidiscipline festivals and conferences during 16 years, at times in crisis areas of the world: He has played in schoolyards, the Chartres Cathedral and concert halls, at the foot of the pyramids and before military tanks.
www.mihavision.com

Kreativität: Mut zu neuen Ideen Künstler coachen Manager - mit Miha Pogacnik

Passion, Creativity and Professionalism Miha Pogacnik at the 2008 FlashForward conference in San Francisco

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Prior to PROCESOi she was Vice President and Member of the Board at ING Spain. At ING she tripled business results innovating in marketing strategy and communications.

She had been Country Coordinator for Young & Rubicam Brands in Spain, Senior Marketing Advisor for Philip Morris Latin America, General Manager at JW Thompson in Ecuador. She has also worked for the World Bank and the Organization of American States in Washington DC.

Mariana is the author of the book “Bitchy corporate life” which is a fun tale story about success in the corporate world. She has published two papers, one related to Corporate Social Responsibility and the other about Factors that influence the innovation capacity of firms.

Mariana is a key-note speaker for many international organizations and universities.
www.procesoi.com

Mariana Ferrari en BrainRise en espanol

PROCESOi, the innovative consultancy

Innovation: What's in that little, trendy, sexy word article by Mariana Ferrari Quijano

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 Mirko Ilic

Her publications include "Vienna 1908" in "Design Cities" (Design Museum, London 2008); editorship of "Designlandschaft Österreich 1900 –2005“ (Basel, 2006, together with Karin Hirschberger); "Zur Re-Edition Friedrich Kiesler, Nucleus of Forces“ in: "Friedrich Kiesler, Designer“ (Ostfildern 2005). Curated exhibitions include "Elke Krystufek, Liquid Logic“ (Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna 2006); "Peter Eisenman, Barfuß auf weißglühenden Mauern“ (Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna 2004) and, alongside Vitus Weh, "Global Tools“ (Künstlerhaus, Vienna 2001). She is currently working on an exhibition titled "Pace of Design“ for the Design Biennale Experimentadesign in Lisbon, opening in September 2009.
www.viennadesignweek.at

Christian Hense currently advises multinationals on how to develop innovative product and service solutions to fight poverty. One of the first successes of this work has been the establishment of BASF Grameen in April 2009 which will sell nutrition sachets and mosquito nets in Bangladesh.
Before joining GCL, Christian Hense was a consultant in an international Management Consultancy. He consulted clients from the industrial goods and energy sector on how to grow their business, especially in the developing world. He lead clients in product portfolio optimization and developed innovation strategies.
Christian Hense holds an MBA from INSEAD, loves to play field hockey and believes in principle 7.
More on GCL: www.grameencreativelab.com

At Spirit Design, Wagner is in charge of strategy, helping the company develop a substantial basis for integral product and brand strategies. He provides consulting to companies on terms of choosing target markets which allow development, using an integrated innovation and branding process. Spirit Design has received numerous awards and recognitions in national and international competitions, for projects such as CAT - City Airport Train, Rosenbauer Panther, Fischer AMC, Ortovox S1 and Railjet.
www.spiritdesign.at

Her experience also includes working for The European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) and the Turku Games Organisation (TGO). She has also worked with issues like historical live acting role plays, museum management, business advisory services to sme's and regional and national strategies.
www.ceb.fi

Thomas Kratky studied Marketing at the University of Economics in Vienna, holding a Master Degree in Business Administration.
He lived in Spain, Italy, Brasil, the USA and in Mexico, where he wrote his Diploma Paper. Since 1998 he is giving classes at the University of Journalism
and Communication in Vienna.

2009 he has begun to set up his own enterprise.
kratkys.net, agency in progress.
Oh, and if you ask him personally, life is great.

Globals Inc has drastically grown as a multi-national IT consulting company with representation in more than 11 countries.
Suhas is also on the Board of ICT Advisory Council of the World Bank. In 2009, he received his Diploma on Global Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School at the Harvard University.
www.globalsinc.com

CBS News  World's Youngest CEO - Suhas Gopinath

World Economic Forum  Young Global Leader 2008

www.wkw.at
www.brigittejank.at

She has championed significant plans and projects to position and grow New Zealand’s cultural and creative industries. Jillian has launched, positioned and mentored numerous innovative companies in the New Zealand and international marketplace, developing their online presence and assisting them with securing significant global business opportunities.
She uses her own unique methodologies for mapping creative ecologies, human aspiration and experience to support creative value innovation and brand positioning solutions within a sustainable framework. She has won international awards for leadership, business communication management and organisational identity.
Jillian is the owner, entrepreneur and strategist for her own New Zealand based businesses.
www.debeer.co.nz

Since the beginning of 2006 Roman A. Tolic has been president of the Austrian platform „Content Industries“, promoting content services and applications for broadband communication: www.contentindustries.com

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

Barbara Imhof worked as a space architect on NASA’s BIOPLEX Project (Earth test bed for a human mission to Mars) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Other projects include the ESA feasibility study of a 200 M € integrated European Simulation Facility and the most recently completed project RAMA, a pressurized Rover for Advanced Mission Applications in the frame of the European exploration programme and under the contract of Thales Alenia Space and the European Space Agency.
Barbara Imhof holds an architecture degree from the University of Applied Arts where she studied with Wolf. D. Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au. Additionally she holds a Master of Science from the International Space University and a PHD in architecture from the University of Technology in Vienna.
www.liquifer.at

Thomas has in the last years (2003-2006) focused, as a brand manager, to create a strategy and brand platform for a powerful, coordinated image of Sweden within the framework for collaboration in NSU and for its practical execution. In addition to implementing this new venture within the institute’s operations.
He has a broad academic background; he is educated in Political Science, Economics and International Relations at the Uppsala University and l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix en Provence. In the communication field he has added a BA in Media & Communications from Stockholm University.
Furthermore Thomas is a member of the advisory board for the Association for Place Branding and Public Diplomacy.
www.si.se
www.nationbranding.de

Edelwiser received several awards, including the Austrian Multimedia & e-Business National Award 07 and the Volvo SportsDesign Award at ISPO 2007. Already in 1995 Werdenigg organized the "Austrian Internet Congress" in cooperation with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, ORF and of a number of other successful Internet related conference events. After that he worked on "Nocknet", a tourism destination development project, and "Echtzeit" a business enterprise in Berlin and San Francisco.
www.edelwiser.com

She also enjoys the role of a ‘catalyst’ in large organisations to speed-up the creation of innovative organisations (e.g. DSM, Hibernian, Mars & the Financial Ombudsman Services), and keeping a hand in academic research on her favourite topic.  In addition she teaches innovation and design management at a number of leading universities in the UK, Germany and France, and shares her passion for innovation at conferences, workshops and other events.
She has also developed the Innovation Wave®, a tool for the facilitated assessment and development of innovation capability in organisations (www.innovationwave.com).
Bettina holds a first degree in architecture and town planning and an MBA as well as a PhD from London Business School.  Her work has resulted in the writing of numerous article, book chapters and two books (The Innovation Wave, 2002; Managing Innovation Design & Creativity, 2008, 2nd ed, also available in Chinese and soon Arabic).
www.innovationleadershipforum.org

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