Speakers IncrediblEurope Summit 2011

 
In 2003 she was joint CEO of Virgin Mobile in Australia when she was asked to work with Richard Branson and the Virgin staff around the world to create Virgin Unite.  The team works with Virgin’s two hundred businesses worldwide and other entrepreneurs to help put driving positive change at their core.  Virgin Unite also works with partners to create new approaches to social and environmental issues, such as a school of entrepreneurship for young people in Johannesburg and an entrepreneurial approach to rural health transport in Kenya.

Jean and Virgin Unite have also helped to incubate a number of global leadership initiatives such as the Elders, the Disease Control Hub in sub- Saharan Africa and the Carbon War Room.   Jean sits on the Advisory Board of the Elders, the Board of the Carbon War Room, the Board of Enterprise Zimbabwe and on the Board of the Bushbuckridge Health and Wellness Trust. 

www.virginunite.com

In their architectural production BIG demonstrates a high sensitivity to the particular demands of site context and program. BIG’s recently completed projects include The Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo (2010), The 8 House (2010) and the The Mountain (2008), which was awarded the Best Housing project in the world at the  World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
Kai-Uwe heads up BIG’s business development which currently has the office working in over 10 different countries. In addition to these duties, Kai-Uwe is also Head of Communications. Registered as an architect in the USA, UK and Denmark, Kai-Uwe is also a LEED AP certified architect who was Project Manager upon Central Asia's first Carbon Neutral Master Plan - Zira Island in Baku, Azerbaijan. In addition to his experience with BIG, Kai-Uwe Bergmann was previously a Project Architect at the Austrian office of Baumschlager & Eberle where he was involved on their work for the UN AIDS Research Administration Building in Geneva and a residence in Diepoldsau, Switzerland. Additionally Kai-Uwe Bergmann lectures on the works of BIG and participates in seminars worldwide.
http://www.big.dk/

The experiment claims to put into test three proved but still exceptional organizational conditions in combination as the fundament for a new kind of firms: companies that concentrate on humans and try to maximize the value of meaning in their work live for as much employees as possible.

For further information on RealExperiment meanomize economy: http://www.realexperiment.de

For further information on beratergruppe sinnvoll wirtschaften: http://beratergruppe.sinnvoll-wirtschaften.de/
See the video on meanomize economy: http://www.youtube.com/user/meanomize#p/u/0/WHT8AdoHWd0

Brende served as Chairman of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development 2003-2004. In 2005 he took up the appointment of International Vice Chairman of the China Council for the International Cooperation on Environment and Development (advisory board to the State Council).
He holds a BA in Economics, Law and History from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and is the recipient of numerous honours and awards including Commander, Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and “Gift to the Earth 2004” by WWF.
www.weforum.org 

After 5 years of investment analysis, Ms. Drucker went on to get her professional degree, in law, and has been a practicing business and tax lawyer for over 35 years.  She also founded a software company, and has started several companies providing business and tax-planning services to investors.  She now teaches business strategy and consults with start-ups primarily in the high-tech industry, in Silicon Valley and Europe.

Part of this journey she co-founded emersense - a Vienna based social venture dedicated to creating ‘enabling spaces’ where young, idealistic, and sometimes big dreams can flourish, HUB Vienna a physical space to host a community of value creators, and later on freims: a social business offering consulting solutions based on emergence and engagement of collective wisdom.
Alexis studied Finance in Bucharest, took advantage of the international students' organization AIESEC, serving as executive financial officer for Bucharest, and executive people development director for Austria, designing and organizing training, conferences, and international experiences to help develop young peoples' capacity. She worked with Two Wings Foundation as a trainer in leadership and diversity, developing and implementing a non-formal educational program on sustainability. Later on she took the pragmatic challenge of experiencing the banking crisis as Network Manager for the central and eastern European countries for Dexia Kommunalkredit Bank in Austria, while trying to advance in her PhD work on "banking for a sustainable future".
www.freims.cc
www.emersense.org
www.vienna.the-hub.net

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

From this last project came a paper called the Cloud of Knowing given at the 2010 MRS conference which has won the award for Best New Thinking. It was also shortlisted for Best Presentation. John continues to work with his clients as a catalyser to ensure that research is more a movement than a product or a process.
www.paab.biz

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

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

Ab is the founder of JuniorSenior, the European Youth Marketing Agency, elected in 2010 by Youth Research Partner as Europe's Best Youth Marketer, President of the British Chamber of Commerce (French Riviera), Business Angel at IncrediblEurope, the innovation platform for changemakers, director at www.fr2day.com and author of the Social Media Survival Guide 'Think Small, Grow Big'.
www.jr-sr.com
www.fr2day.com

 
Cars, bikes, furniture, architecture, everyday objects… Sacha Lakic is one of those rare designers capable of moving from one world to another with both ease and effectiveness. This transversal approach thus enables him to look upon design as basically an act of creation which can be integrated into an industrial environment. His creations have met with dazzling success, simply because they are an astute blend of beauty and functionality, technique and emotion.
 
Sacha Lakic was awarded with several design prizes throughout the world, like the “Etoile du Design 2001”, the “Good Design Award of Chicago 2008” and the “Jury’s Special Price” at the Festival de L’Automobile in Paris 2009. Moreover he is a demanded speaker at numerous universities and conferences in Europe and beyond.
 
Anticipating trends, Sacha Lakic puts his signature to intelligent objects of rare beauty. Admitting to being stimulated by constraints, he above all aims to produce dreams and pleasure.

www.lakicdesign.com
www.venturi.fr
www.roche-bobois.com

From 2010 to 2011, she was one of 20 members of the EU Expert Panel on Services Innovation, which consulted the European Commission on innovation in the service sector and issued a report on “Transformative Services” in early 2011.
Gertraud studied at Harvard University, where she earned a Master Degree in Public Administration (MPA), at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and at the University of Vienna, where she got a Ph.D. in Science.
www.winnovation.at
www.creativwirtschaft.at

www.garmz.com

The “Common Welfare Economy”  (developed by the Austrian bestselling writer, university lecturer, and political activist, Christian Felber) is based upon values like confidence building, appreciation, cooperation, solidarity, sharing and enhances cooperation and the pursuit of the common good instead of competition and profit-orientation. Entrepreneurial success will be redefined from financial profit to the positive effect on common welfare.

GDG´s mission is not only to sell fashion produced under fair social and ecological conditions, but also to create and cultivate social and ecological awareness in the fashion industry – analogous to the food industry – so that the purchasing behaviour of the consumers moves away from exploitative bulk commodities towards responsible and long-term purchase decisions, thus changing today’s throwaway society to tomorrow’s conscious value-oriented society.

www.goettindesgluecks.com

Penninger is a multiply awarded scientist (Descartes Prize, Karl Landsteiner prize, ESCI Award, WEF Young Global Leader,...) with 387 published articles (336 listed on Pubmed), gave more than 450 public talks on science and was listed twice top 10 in the world for the most cited scientists in all fields of science (ISI). He organized 60 million Euros in funding for the new IMBA institute building plus an annual running budget of 15 million Euros.

Since 2004 he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Immunology and Medical Biophysics of the University of Toronto and Honorary Professor of Genetics at the University of Vienna.
www.imba.co.at

During her residence in Vienna and in the past she has acquired professional experience in international issues, multicultural and intercultural management, project development, and research (sustainable development, environment, cultural and socioeconomic development). Elizabeth has taken part and organized several international conferences and has participated in multinational negotiations in her homeland.

She spends her free time with her beloved family and loves diving, trekking and travelling.

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

Since 1992 he has supported his friend Reinhold Treitinger in South Indian Kumily/Kerala as he founded "Natural Shakti" (= power of nature), a sustainable farm of natural goods in harmony with the jungle's ecological system.
He founded the event agency "circ" in 1994 and began to continuously develop its fields of
activity. Today circ serves such renowned companies as adidas, Autostadt, BASF, Bertelsmann, Caterpillar, E.ON, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, T-Systems, and Volkswagen, for whom the Wiesbaden agency has become a fixed live communication anchor, and was awarded two times as the most creative agency in Germany.
Hans Reitz is active in many areas and uses his corporate expertise to create synergies.
Entrepreneur Hans Reitz has established his radius of operations and his network not only in the world of business, but as he has developed social projects, starting with Wiesbaden, where he now lives, and subsequently throughout the world.
As Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus' creative advisor, Hans Reitz has devoted himself to spreading the idea of "Grameen Social Business" since 2007. He founded the Grameen Creative Lab which now advises various large-scale enterprises throughout the world, a short time later along with Prof. Yunus. Today, he accompanies Prof. Yunus to official events. Since late 2008, Hans Reitz has also been speaking at international conferences and has, in addition, led numerous workshops at various universities. In addition, he lectured on "Social Business" in the field of "Entrepreneurship" during the Summer semester 2009 at the Freie Universität Berlin. Hans Reitz is also the father of two children.

http://www.grameencreativelab.com/

Rieder decided to break new ground with concrete and intensified the efforts to encourage the green movement. By implementing Wolfgang Rieder’s philosophy “carefully listen to the customer, push the limits and make things possible” the Austrian company regularly contributes to international projects. Wolfgang Rieder does not wish to impose limits on creative capabilities, but rather to translate the ideas into realities.
Wolfgang Rieder lectures on innovative solutions for building and creating with concrete all over the world. He recently spoke at the Material Beyond Materials conference at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and the Intricate Correlations Workshop and Symposium on Digital Design Processes.
www.rieder.cc

Jonathan has written the book ‘careers un-ltd’ published by the penguin group, designed interventions for the Barcelona 2004 Cultural Festival, taken on the Royal Festival Hall to host a weekend millennium festival of music and debate, joined an aid mission to Bosnia during the war, made a budget-film in West Africa, interviewed the Dalai Lama for Amnesty International and worked to create knowledge flows between UNICEF’s network of practitioners in the world’s conflict zones.

Jonathan thrives on collaborators with a multi-disciplinary team of architects, scientists, investors, filmmakers, technologists and policy-makers. He has worked with people ranging from the UK government's Cabinet Office, the Guardian Media Group, Barcelona City Council, the Prince of Afghanistan, to post-aparthied activists in Soweto.

http://www.thehubuk.com/

In 2011, together with Alexis Eremia he founded freims: contemporary consulting, for transformation, innovation & impact based in Vienna, incorporating all his previous valuebased & creative consulting activities for politics, ngo’s and enterprises.
Milo initiated the platform "Der Staat" (derstaat.at) which aims to inspire and activate civil society to work on political change.
He was born and raised in in Graz (Styria/Austria) in 1982. Currently he is living and working in Vienna and “on the way”.
www.freims.cc
www.biorama.at

He is a serial Entrepreneur and in 2008 he co-founded the student consultancy icons and the international Summer University in Carinthia. His next project is the STARTUP WEEK organized in Vienna in October 2011.

www.starteurope.at

Since 2006 until 2009 Roman has been president of the Austrian platform „Content Industries“. 2010 Roman was elected for the Initiative "Go Silicon Valley" - more month business program at the technology park and business accelerator "Plug and Play Tech Center" in Sunnyvale, CA, USA, where he founded with Emmanuel Carraud and 10 other Entrepreneurs the new European movement for Digital Economy and Next Generation Entrepreneurship “12 Entrepreneurs” and initiated “Digital Entrepreneurs”, a winning Big Idea for Digital Agenda - Europe's new strategy for the digital economy. Since 2011 Roman is United Nations Expert Innovation and Entrepreneurship for UNIDO-UNDP Joint Programming. Roman is developing the digital film factory "Hercules Filmnetwork – Film 2.0".

www.herculesfilm.com

1975-1995 she worked as a radio journalist and TV presenter for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF (e.g. local news and society magazine, programmes for children and young people) as well as for the German TV station NDR (Sesame Street). She has acted in various films and has published a music record (as singer, author and composer) as well as a cookbook for children.
Since 1987: Master of ceremonies (using the respective local language) at Viennese Balls in Munich, Milano, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Singapore, Tunis, Kuwait, Oman and the Arab Emirates.
Communication and media seminars for political decision-makers and business executives. In 1991 she was awarded with the Decoration of Merit in Gold of the Province of Vienna, the Golden Microphone and the Golden DVD.

From April 2001: member of the Vienna City Council and Provincial Parliament for the Austrian Social Democratic Party.
Spokesperson on film matters in the Cultural Affairs and Science Committee of the Vienna City Council. Member of the Tourism Commission, the Duties Appeals Commission, the Special Needs Commission, the Vienna Historic Town Preservation Fund and the Incompatibility Commission, as well as board member of the Dr. Karl Renner Award and vice chairperson of the European Affairs Commission in the City Council of Vienna.

Since 2007 President of the European Affairs Commission in the Vienna Diet,
since 2010 President of the Committee for European & International Affairs  there.in.

Member of the Committee of the   Regions (CoR) in Brussels, political group coordinator of the EDUC expert commission on Education, Training and Cultural affairs.
Chair of the PES-women in the CoR.

http://www.wien.gv.at/