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David van Zeggeren
Projectleider IJdijken ea e-culture projecten @ Sparked
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Michiel Verberg
Sogeo ( www.sogeocompany.com ) delivers white label communities and enables companies to respond to developments in the media technology and social media space. The Sogeo platform provides businesses...
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Anil George
Anil George is the Editor of T3 Middle East, the GCC version of the World's No. 1 Gadget Mag. His love for travelling and interest in photography make for two individual, yet complimentary hobbies.
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Juha van 't Zelfde
Office for Cultural Innovation
Juha van 't Zelfde is founder of Non-fiction, Office for Cultural Innovation, a vehicle for experiments in art, technology and urban culture. non-fiction.nl He is co-founder of VURB, a European...
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Vigna San Martino
Scanning Robin & Speculum Celestiale
Sinfonia Diagonale
Whoever attends to the great symphony of rhythms, sooner or later has occasion to observe that organic and cosmic tides constitute polarized forms of a rhythmical totality that corresponds to rhythms...
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Roy Ascott
Artist and theorist
Roy Ascott is an artist and theorist who has shown at the Venice Biennale, Electra Paris, Ars Electronica Linz, V2 Holland, Milan Triennale, Biennale do Mercosul, Brazil, European Media Festival, and...
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Bjorn Wijers
Not into PICNIC thus also not paying for a ticket. Will gladly join those free workshops and events that parasite on PICNIC since its partially paid by the (local) government anyway. Do not care...
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Anne Helmond
New Media lecturer at the University of Amsterdam
Anne Helmond is a New Media lecturer at the Mediastudies department at the University of Amsterdam where she is also a researcher with the Digital Methods Initiative. At PICNIC08 Anne co-organizes...
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Maíra Lioi
product design, context research, post-usage of products
I'm a brazillian product designer. My research focuses on the interrelation of waste management and post usage of products. Early on, I participated in a design research about objects and visual...
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Daniel Kaplan
CEO Fing
Im am the founder and CEO of the Next-Generation Internet Foundation (Fing), a collective and open Research and Development project that focuses on digital innovation and on the interaction between...
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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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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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Jyri Engeström
Entrepreneur and sociologist
Jyri Engeström is co-founder of Jaiku, now at Google.
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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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PICNIC Club (Gashouder)
Green City Lab
- Personal fabrication and collaborative, distributed energy production as catalyst for citizen involvement in the field of sustainability25Sep 2008The central theme of this hands-on workshop is the exploration of the role of personal fabrication and collaborative energy production as catalysts for bottom-up innovation and citizen involvement in...
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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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Younghee Jung
Designer, Nokia
Younghee Jung is a product and interaction designer by education, exploratory design researcher by practice.
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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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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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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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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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PICNIC Club (Gashouder) Ronald Lenz
Locative Lab - Cultural Heritage
- "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players"25Sep 2008"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages." William...
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PICNIC Club (Gashouder) Ronald Lenz, Peter Troxler
Locative Lab - Social Networks
- Social Networks with a Meaning and a Purpose26Sep 2008Social Networks have an online history of just over 10 years, with the last 5 years seing a massive increase of initiatives. '6 degrees apart' is anybody from anybody else (Weinreich), and distance...
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PICNIC Club (Gashouder) Ronald Lenz
Locative Lab: Education
- "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players"24Sep 2008"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages." William...