Speakers IncrediblEurope Summit 2010

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

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
www.dieangewandte.at

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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

Harald holds a degree in Social Science and Philosophy (University of Vienna), is lecturer, visiting scholar, and invited guest speaker at various universities.
www.fas.at

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

MIKSER is a 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

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

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

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

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

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
www.incredibleurope.com

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

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.

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

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

As a business angel he is among the most active investors in the region and just established a Venture Fund in May 2010. Passion and courage are leading him to share with other people a lof of "iii" effects: ideas, inspiration and innovation to encourage positive changes.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/