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SPEAKERS 2011

Victor van der Chijs
Country
Netherlands
Company
OMA
Designation
Managing Director/Partner

Bio

Victor van der Chijs joined OMA in 2005 as Managing Director / Partner. Next to the day-today responsibility for OMA’s operations, he is responsible for business development and expanding and diversifying OMA’s activities worldwide. Van der Chijs’ mission is to make OMA the most inventive creative company in the world.

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Banny Banerjee
Country
USA
Company
Stanford University
Designation
Director Stanford Design Program

Speech Title: Design Thinking and Transagencies

How creative companies can co-create.

Bio

Banny Banerjee is Associate Professor at Stanford and teaches design at the Stanford Design Program and the d.school. He is the director of Stanford ChangeLabs. His primary research area is innovation for large scale transformations in rapid time frames in ways that integrate social, environmental, business, and infrastructural concerns.

At Stanford, he is working on advancing the field of design by developing new trans- disciplinary processes where "design thinking" can be combine design methodology, technology strategy, human behavior, and new business processes.

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Sarah Lacy
Country
USA
Company
Techcrunch.com
Designation
Senior Editor

Speech Title: Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky

How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos.

Bio

Sarah Lacy knows great entrepreneurs. After more than a decade covering business in Silicon Valley, Lacy decided to follow the flow of capital into the developing world. She bootstrapped a two-year, 40 week journey through the Middle East, South America, Africa, India, China and Southeast Asia looking for the best entrepreneurs Silicon Valley had never heard of. The result is her second book Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos, which is being published by John Wiley & Sons in January 2011.

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Steven van Belleghem
Country
Belgium
Company
InSites Consulting
Designation
Managing Partner

Speech Title: The Conversation Manager

Getting grip on current consumers through branding, advertising and conversations.

Bio

Steven Van Belleghem is Managing Partner of the global online marketing research agency, InSites Consulting. His passion is helping clients in taking strategic marketing decisions. Steven is specialized in branding, advertising and word-of-mouth strategies. Together with his team, he helps companies get a grip on the current consumers through branding, advertising and conversations. Before Steven joined InSites Consulting, he was a researcher at the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School.

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Martijn Hamann
Country
Netherlands
Company
Van den Ende & Deitmers, Venture Capital Partners
Designation
Partner

Speech Title: Investing in Passion: Inspire Local Audiences, Create Global Customers

Practical methods and do’s/don’ts that professionals and entrepreneurs can use to accelerate their growth plans. Listen, Learn & Share to create Fun everywhere.

Bio

In 2006 Martijn jointly with 2 other partners started and invested in the digital media & e-commerce investment fund Van den Ende & Deitmers. This EUR 150m fund is related to Europe’s media tycoon and entrepreneur Joop van den Ende. Some current and old investments of the fund are Hyves, Eyeworks, Spil Games, CentralPoint, Albumprinter-Albelli, Metrixlab, Smartclip, Unamic/HCN, Paylogic, Bright magazine.

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Niel Robertson
Country
USA
Company
Trada and Crowdsortium.org
Designation
Founder & CEO

Speech Title: How Crowdsourcing is Changing the Future of Work

The hot trend of Crowdsourcing is transforming many different industries in the US and increasingly, globally – particularly creative design, marketing and advertising. Niel Robertson, founder and CEO of Trada, a crowdsourced search advertising marketplace and founder of the crowdsourcing trade group the Crowdsortium, will give attendees perspective on why crowdsourcing has gained credibility in recent years, which companies are leading the way, and how it will change the face of work in the coming years.

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Ruurd Priester
Country
Netherlands
Company
LBi Lost Boys Amsterdam
Designation
Strategy Director

Speech Title: Creative Value Networks: Models, Opportunities, Key Actions

How any company can become the magnet in a open creative value network. One: Identify your maturity stage. Two: Select the actions that will get you connected. Three: Make it happen.

Bio

In 2005 Ruurd joined LBi Lost Boys in Amsterdam. In his current position as Strategy Director and member of the Management Team he is responsible for strategy and innovation. His client list includes Anne Frank Stichting, ANWB, Interpolis en PWC.

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Maud de Vries
Country
Netherlands
Company
Fort Knox
Designation
Founder

Speech Title: Reset your settings

How to unite two worlds where people come from different cultures and speak different languages? Commercial markets & organizations on one side and existing creative networks on the other need to thoroughly reorganize themselves. If you want to be successful, create true commitment, think about earnings and make sure you have faith in order to start a strong, lasting and effective cooperation.

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Laura Niño Caceres
Country
Netherlands
Company
Thought Refinery/VisionScapers
Designation
Founder/member

Speech Title: Three tips for a flourishing network organization

Our experience starting and shaping the Visionscapers.net - the networked innovation company.

Bio

Laura Niño Caceres is member of a Visionscapers.net and founder of the Thought Refinery. She is an international innovation consultant that combines socio-cultural research and design methods to support clients to connect to consumers through differentiated and meaningful products.

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Gunter Wehmeyer
Country
Germany
Company
Local Intelligence
Designation
Founder

Speech Title: Hybrid ways of expanding businesses

We need new hybrid ways to expand our businesses wider than only economical profits. It is about creating shared values, transparency, facts and results, working with the essence. A new responsibility for being different!

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Kwela Sabine Hermanns
Country
Netherlands
Company
Kennisland
Designation
Organiser

CCC Moderator

Kwela Sabine Hermanns designs and hosts events and is an interntional speaker on education, innovation and creative industries. She recently spoke at a TEDx event and is on the editorial board for Second Sight trend magazine. Kwela is co-founder of the Social Innovation Safari platform with Kennisland (KnowledgeLand) in Amsterdam and founder at Innovalesque.com which links Innovation to Value through serious playfulness for companies and organisations that want to innovate sustainably. Kwela also does PR and marketing for special projects and events. She dances Tango whenever possible.

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Jelle Piersma
Country
Netherlands
Company
Rabobank
Designation
Business Change Manager

Creative Interruption: DUOS in Art: the smallest form of co-creation

You know Victor & Rolf, but who are Mictor & Molf? They are an Art Duo and part of a growing group of visual artists who choose to connect and co-create. This presentation offers a sneak preview of an exciting forthcoming event on partners in Art that will take place in Amsterdam-Noord in 2012. It will be jointly organized by the Nieuw Dakota Art Centre and the EYE Film Institute. Get inspiration from these complementary forces in a still predominantly individual profession and find out how YOU can be part of it.

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Jim Stolze
Country
Netherlands
Company
Founder Institute
Designation
Chief Attention Officer

Creative Interruption: the Founder Institute

TEDx founder Jim Stolze presents the Dutch branch of the world famous Founder Institute.

Bio

Jim Stolze is an author / entrepreneur. Recently he wrote a book with the provocative "Sold Out" (Uitverkocht) that focuses on business strategies for the so called Attention Economy.

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Robert van Meer & Tim Meuleman
Country
Netherlands
Company
C2B Consultancy
Designation
Co-founders and Managing Partners

Creative Interruption: The C2B revolution: The power of crowdsourcing in the Netherlands

Robert and Tim present what the power of a crowd can be for any type of organization, by introducing in 5 minutes their selection of fifteen best cases of crowdsourcing projects from the Netherlands.

Bio

In 2010 Robert van Meer and Tim Meuleman co-founded C2B Consultancy, an agency that helps companies with involving customers in their business activities. C2B stands for Consumer-to-Business: a new market that arose besides the ongoing B2B and B2B markets. With new principles like crowdsourcing, co-creation and open innovation, companies can now gain more value than traditionally possible, simply by involving customers in their business.

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