The PICNIC 08 theme was Collaborative Creativity. Visit our Overview for more information about the PICNIC 08 programme.
Have a look at the great speakers that have contributed to PICNIC'08.
From entrepreneurs to artists, designers, architects, philosophers and anthropologists, from games developers to advertisers, fashion designers and movie directors: PICNIC gathers the world's creative pioneers to share their expertise, their vision and their ambitions with the PICNIC audience.
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Stefan Agamanolis
Chief Executive/ Research director, Distance Lab
Stefan Agamanolis is the Chief Executive and Research Director of Distance Lab , a research institute bringing together technology, design and the arts to overcome the disadvantages of distance.
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Euro Beinat
Salzburg University
Professor of Location Awareness at Salzburg University Austria, Chairman of Currentcity Foundation (www.currentcity.org)
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Genevieve Bell
Anthropologist, Director Intel Corporation
An internationally recognized ethnographer, Genevieve Bell has developed product shaping insights into consumers world-wide and is bringing a research driven, end-user focus to Intel. Her influence...
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Pim Betist
Founder SellaBand.com
Pim Betist is a passionate music lover. Instead of using his masters degree to climb the ladder in the corporate world, he gave up his job. Pim had a vision of how things could be different in the...
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Antoine Brachet
Business Development director of Total Immersion
I’m Business Development director of Total Immersion, and as such head of network of partner. Total Immersion is worldwide leader of Augmented Reality software (Augmented Reality enables to mix real...
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Ben Cerveny
Strategist and Advisor, Stamen Design
Overseeing research projects at the intersection of game design, urban planning, and participatory culture. Advising new ventures in data visualization, ubiquitous computing, reactive architecture
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Matt Costello
Writer and games developer
Matt Costello’s best-selling and award-winning work across all media has meshed game play, technology and story. He is the writer and creator of groundbreaking TV, novels, nonfiction books, and games...
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Jyri Engeström
Entrepreneur and sociologist
Jyri Engeström is co-founder of Jaiku, now at Google.
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Addy Feuerstein
Co-Founder & CEO of AllofMe, LTD
An interactive media designer, consultant and teacher, Addy Feuerstein has designed and implemented user interface for games, websites, and desktop applications for various companies and institutions
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Mike T. Fries
President and CEO Liberty Global
Under the leadership of Michael Fries, Liberty Global has grown into the second largest cable TV operator in the world and the largest outside the U.S. with operations in 15 countries. As of March...
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Eileen Gittins
Founder and CEO of Blurb Inc.
Eileen says this is the most fun company she’s ever run, which is saying a fair amount as she has lived and worked all over the world with Kodak and as VP at Wall Data before and after the IPO, CEO...
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Bruno Giussani
TED Conferences European Director, Writer
Bruno Giussani is the European director of the TED Conferences and an entrepreneur and idea curator.
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Adam Greenfield
Critical Futurist & User-Experience Consultant
Adam Greenfield is an internationally-recognized writer, user experience consultant and critical futurist, having worked for clients ranging from global concerns like Toyota, Capgemini, and Sony to...
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Rafi Haladjian
Co-Founder and Chairman VIOLET
Rafi Haladjian is the founder of Ozone founder and co-founder of Violet.
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Matt Hanson
Film Futurist
Matt Hanson is a noted British author, filmmaker and film futurist interested in expanding the boundaries of traditional filmmaking.
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Laurent Haug
Founder LIFT Conference
I am an entrepreneur and thinker, founder of the Lift conference series exploring the social impact of new technologies in Europe (Geneva, Switzerland) and Asia (Jeju, Korea) since 2006. I run a...
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Frank Heemskerk
Minister for Foreign Trade, the Netherlands, video
Frank Heemskerk has served as Minister for Foreign Trade since 2007. Previously he was a vice president at ABN AMRO Asset Management responsible for clients in the Middle East. From 2003 to 2006 he...
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Gisel Hiscock
Google Director, New Business Development
Gisel Hiscock is Director, New Business Development - Europe Middle East & Africa at Google.
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Matt Jones
Co-founder/Designer Dopplr.com
Matt Jones is a designer. Creative director for the award-winning BBC News Online and Sapient's London studio in the first boom, then at the BBC in 2001 for the BBC's web search and a geo-located...
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Younghee Jung
Designer, Nokia
Younghee Jung is a product and interaction designer by education, exploratory design researcher by practice.
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Bas Kennis
Musician in the band Bløf
For the last 10 years Bløf as been one of the most populair bands in Holland. I’ve been the keyboardplayer ever since the band started in 1992. We’ve released many multi-platinum records and we were...
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Aaron Koblin
Artist, Designer, Researcher
Currently working out of San Francisco, California, Aaron Koblin creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork. Koblin's work has been shown...
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Guy Laurence
CEO of Vodafone Netherlands
Guy Laurence started his career at Chrysalis Records and moved on to the film industry working for Universal/Paramount Cinemas, and MGM Studios, where he was for example involved with launching the...
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Charles Leadbeater
Advisor and Author of 'We-think'
Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation strategy and drawn on that experience in...
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Loic Le Meur
Founder, CEO Seesmic
Loic is the CEO and visionary behind Seesmic, founded in 2007, with the goal of transforming online video into a medium for threaded, interactive video conversation. Prior to Seesmic, Loic incubated...
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Bill Moggridge
Founder of IDEO
Award-winning designer Bill Moggridge is a founder of IDEO, one of the most successful design firms in the world and one of the first to integrate the design of software and hardware into the...
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Hellen Omwando
Head of Market Intelligence Royal Philips Electronics
Hellen currently leads the Market Intelligence function across Philips . Her remit is to transform the function into one that is high impact by driving the growth agenda of Philips through fact-based...
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Martin de Ronde
Director OneBigGame
Martin started working in the games industry over 10 years ago as a PR manager and later as development manager in publishing. After this, he wanted to see what life was like on the other side of the...
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Ton Roosendaal
Developer and chairman of Blender Foundation
Ton Roosendaal is the lead developer of the free 3D application Blender, and chairman of the Blender Foundation. Ton is presently working full time to coordinate Blender projects, ranging from...
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Philip Rosedale
Founder and CEO, Linden Lab and Second Life (United States)
Philip Rosedale is the Founder and CEO of Linden Lab , the company that produces a massively multiplayer online game, Second Life. He has stated that his goal with Second Life is to demonstrate a...
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Clay Shirky
Author, ‘Here Comes Everybody’
CLAY SHIRKY divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized...
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Katarina Skoberne
Co-Founder OpenAd and Group Managing Director
Katarina Skoberne is responsible for running the OpenAd group. Katarina is responsible for the strategy and development of the group of companies and their implementation and alignment within the...
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Amsterdam
Marleen Stikker
Director, Waag Society, Co-founder PICNIC
Marleen is co-founder of Picnic - Amsterdam Cross Media Week Marleen Stikker is Founder and Director of Waag Society, a medialab which develops new creative technologies for culture, health
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Jim Stolze
Curator at TEDxAmsterdam
I find myself hanging around on international conferences more and more. Last year I had the pleasure to deliver a talk at PicNic'08 on the main stage and that lead to a few invitations to speak at...
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Linda Stone
Writer, Speaker and Consultant
Linda Stone is a writer, speaker and consultant focused on trends and their strategic and consumer implications. For more information on Linda, go to lindastone.net
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Itay Talgam
Contemporary Composer & Orchestral Conductor
Conductor Itay Talgam is one of the leading figures in the Israeli music scene. Talgam is a champion of contemporary music, and in particular music of contemporary Israeli composers.
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Michael Tchao
General Manager, Nike Techlab Group
Michael is General Manager of Nike Techlab, a sports technology innovation group within Nike chartered with developing new digital products and services for Nike's sport and fitness consumers.
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Michael Tchong
Trend Analyst
The founder of Ubercool, Michael Tchong, is an internationally recognized speaker on emerging trends in business, culture and media. Michael is a highly energizing and motivational speaker.
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Bas Verhart
Founder and CEO, Media Republic Co-founder of PICNIC (the Netherlands)
Bas Verhart is co-founder of PICNIC and co-founder & CEO of Media Republic, a leading digital media and entertainment company based in Amsterdam. In December 2005, he sold Media Republics game...
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José Luis de Vicente
Cultural Researcher and Curator
José Luis de Vicente is a Researcher and writer working around the edges of New Media Arts, Digital creativity, and innovation in Design and Culture. Recent Fields of Interest include Information...
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Werner Vogels
CTO @ Amazon.com
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on...
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Marcel Wanders
Designer
Marcel Wanders is Director and owner of Marcel Wanders Studio, as well as the art director and co-owner of design firm Moooi, and designs for a number of European clients. Wanders works on...
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Paul Wouters
Programme leader at the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Paul Wouters (1951) is programme leader of the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, an institute of the KNAW, and Visiting Professor of Cybermetrics at the University of...
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Ethan Zuckerman
Co-founder, Global Voices/ Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Ethan is an activist, blogger and geek, who lives in western Massachusetts, USA, and works of a variety of technology and media projects. He's co-founder of Global Voices (globalvoicesonline.org), an...