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Speakers IncrediblEurope Summit 2009
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Below you find first generation speakers and masterminds of innovation and creativity, future-oriented changemakers of the Summit 2009 who generated solutions and chances for a sustainable Europe. You find them in order of appearance. more details ... |
SELMA PRODANOVIC
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Selma is Chief Networking Officer (CNO) of Brainswork, international top management consultant and a famous networking expert. She is known as the ”discoverer and connector” - of human and business potentials. She is a specialist for networking and strategic marketing, following 20 years of business experience in New Business Development in CEE. In 2005, Selma founded Brainswork, a boutique business development firm assisting clients in developing their recognizable identities and sustainable business models world-wide. more details ... |
BRIGITTE JANK
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Brigitte Jank is an entrepreneur and certified expert in real estate, and has been President of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as Chairwoman of the Viennese Business Alliance since 2004. Apart from her work in business and politics, she is also the Chairwoman of the University Council of the Modul University Vienna, Vice Chairwoman of the University Council of the University for Applied Arts and Vice Chairwoman of the "Austria Wien" Football Club. more details ... |
Prof. LUIGI COLANI
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Born in 1928 in Berlin, Luigi Colani is widely considered one of the absolute pioneers of organic design. 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. more details ... |
ERWIN WERDENIGG
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Erwin Werdenigg is founder and CEO of Edelwiser.com. Edelwiser offers a professional range of high-quality, sidewall laminated, all-mountain and carving shaped skis. Each pair of skis shows its individual topsheet graphic design, brought in by the customer in an interactive and collaborative process, retailing at the same price as comparable mass production products. Edelwiser received several awards, including the Austrian Multimedia & e-Business National Award 07 and the Volvo SportsDesign Award at ISPO 2007. more details ... |
JILLIAN DE BEER
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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. more details ... |
AB KUIJER
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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 breakfast shows being a radio host, he became owner of a dance radio station 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 JuniorSenior. He is one of the best European youth marketing experts. more details ... |
THOMAS CARLHED
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Thomas Carlhed is the Director of the Department for Branding and Coordination at the Swedish Institute. For over eleven years, Thomas Carlhed has worked with Public diplomacy within the framework of the Swedish Institute’s activities. The institute, a public agency for the promotion of Swedish interests and for international relationship building, is entrusted with the task of informing the world about Sweden and of organizing exchanges with other countries in the spheres of culture, education, research, and public life. more details ... |
GEORG WAGNER
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Georg Wagner was born in Vienna in 1964. After graduating from the
University of Business Administration in 1991, he co-founded Spirit
Design / Innovation and Branding and went on to develop innovation and
brand strategies for renowned companies. He also lectured Product
Lifecycle Management for Deutsche Telekom and has helped develop and
implement a course for innovation and product managers titled
"Management of Innovation Processes". more details ... |
MARTINA GLEISSENEBNER
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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.
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THOMAS KRATKY
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You probably have read more from Thomas Kratky than even from your favourite author. If you are an Austrian, the chances are pretty good that he told you which bank to chose, which car to buy, or which President and Chancellor to vote for. As Creative Director he brought McCann-Erickson within 3 years among the most creative agencies in the Creative Club of Austria, after renewing the complete agency. At Young and Rubicam, he was as Chief Creative Officer not only responsible for the most creative year in history of the agency, he moved the firm within 5 years from top 9 to top 4 of Austria's leading agencies. more details ... |
Prof. DANICA PURG
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Professor Danica Purg is the founding and current President of the IEDC-Bled School of Management, and the founding President of the Central and East European Management Development Association, which has 170 members from 42 countries and whose aim is to enhance management development in Central and Eastern Europe. She is also chairperson and director of the European Leadership Centre, established with the aim of assessing and promoting European leadership through the organization of forums and research. more details ... |
MIHA POGACNIK
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Miha Pogacnik is an exceptional virtuoso, in the corporate and political world, as well as the musical stage. He is the creative force for intercultural and diplomatic missions, using his music as the media to channel his thought. Miha Pogacnik is a visionary in every sense. 1981 Miha founded IDRIART, the Institute of the Development of Intercultural Relations Through the Arts, based in Germany. 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. more details ... |
CHRISTIAN HENSE
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Christian Hense is a project manager at The Grameen Creative Lab (GCL). GCL was founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Hans Reitz, his creative European director. Its vision is to eradicate poverty by accelerating the use of Grameen social business. The GCL interacts with the interested community through books, articles, and events on social business. The GCL creates social businesses by advising companies on how to set-up social businesses worldwide. more details ... |
OUTI LIEDES
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Outi Liedes is the project manager of Creative Industries Finland in Helsinki University of Technology TKK Dipoli and responsible for the international Creative Economy and Beyond (CEB) conference. Outi has previously managed national developing programmes like Center of Expertise Programme and projects in Turku Science Park Ltd and has worked in areas such as cultural and digital content production and cultural tourism. more details ... |
BETTINA VON STAMM
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Bettina von Stamm is hugely passionate about understanding and enabling innovation, particularly in large organisations. For this purpose she has set up her own company, the Innovation Leadership Forum (ILF). Part of the ILF is a Networking Group to exchange and further knowledge around innovation; the currently 20 members include BOC Linde, Cancer Research UK, Danone, GSK, Marks & Spencer, Ordnance Survey, Smith & Nephew and Unilever. more details ... |
TULGA BEYERLE
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Since 2006, Tulga Beyerle has been responsible - alongside Thomas Geisler and Lilli Hollein - for the organizational development and program of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Design Festival. In 2009, she became the Managing Director for the festival. Tulga Beyerle is an independent design consultant, author and curator. She is currently working on an exhibition titled "Pace of Design“ for the Design Biennale Experimentadesign in Lisbon, opening in September 2009. more details ... |
ÁRON LOSONCZI
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Áron Losonczi is an award-winning architect and Ambassador of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. He got his degree from architecture in Budapest, in 2001. Currently he is not working in that profession, but instead he is managing his own enterprise in Hungary, which is engaged with the development of his invention named Litracon – the Light Transmitting Concrete. This is a new construction material, which, thanks to the built in optical fibres transmits light, while preserves the constructional characteristics of concrete. more details ... |
MARIANA FERRARI
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Mariana Ferrari Quijano is an international marketing and innovation professional, with over 15 years of multinational experience. Diverse, open-minded and energetic executive and entrepreneur, who embraces challenges. She is currently CEO of PROCESOi, an innovation consultancy firm based in Madrid, Spain. At PROCESOi she has developed along with her team and Prof. N. Ramamoorthy from the University of Houston, the first study that analyzed the factors that influenced the innovation capacity of firms. more details ... |
BARBARA IMHOF
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Barbara Imhof is the Co-Founder and Partner of LIQUIFER Systems Group, a multidisciplinary platform that takes innovative approaches to terrestrial and extraterrestrial architecture. LIQUIFER develops concepts for living and working environments tracing, advancing and reflecting future development potentialities and anticipates deepening the exploration of synergies between space and earth applications for architecture. In addition to being a practicing architect, Barbara Imhof lectures and publishes regularly in the field of both earth and space architecture. more details ... |
