Have a look at the great speakers that participated at PICNIC'07!
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.
Prof.dr. Emile Aarts holds an MSc. and PhD. degree in physics. For almost twenty years, he has been active as a research scientist in computing science. Since 1991, he has held a teaching position at...
Marko is responsible for the brand and design Blyk. Blyk is a pan-European free mobile operator for young people, funded by advertising.
Nora Abousteit is co-founder of BurdaStyle, an open source sewing community, which she runs with her business partner Benedikta Karaisl von Karais.
Matt Adams makes performances, installations, games and interactive artworks.
Matt Biddulph is a creative technologist who works with companies like Nature, Joost and the BBC to bring cutting-edge technologies into the mainstream. He is also the CTO of Dopplr, a social network...
Julian enjoys working at the fringe of sane technology design, in the area beyond the 9-18 month window in which market-constrained research and development is able to operate, but nearer to now than...
Erwin Blom is head of new media department VPRO Digitaal at Dutch public broadcasting organisation VPRO. He's responsable for mobile, internet and digital tv-channels. In 1994, the VPRO was the first...
danah boyd is a doctoral candidate at the School of Information at the University of California - Berkeley and a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her research focuses on...
David Burden, founder, Daden (UK) started his career in army communications managing a range of mobile and wireless systems in a variety of challenging situations.
Marc Canter is the Founder and CEO of Broadband Mechanics.
Dennis Crowley is the founder of dodgeball.com, a New York based service that focused on merging location-based services with social networks to help people connect with the people and places around...
Regine Debatty is the author of We-make-money-not-art, a Weblog about the use and misuse of technology by artists, media labs researchers and hackers.
Tom DeFanti is one of the people behind the Cinegrid initiative, which will be presented during Picnic’07.
Eduardo Dias, co-founder and Vice President of Ydreams.
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist.
Peter Frankfurt serves as creative director and managing partner of Imaginary Forces (IF), the multidisciplinary communications, entertainment, and design firm he co-founded in 1996.
Ben Fry is a designer who is currently developing Processing, an environment for teaching computational design and sketching interactive media software.
Fabien Girardin is a researcher and engineer at Lift lab, a research agency he co-founded. He studies and provokes the interplay between urban infrastructures, ubiquitous technologies and people...
Brian Gruber is the founder of Fora.tv.
A visionary in web applications and open source software, Dick Hardt has been active in technology development for over two decades. His most recent venture, Sxip Identity, is the leader in Identity...
Jonathan Harris is an artist and storyteller working primarily on the Internet. One part computer science, one part anthropology, and one part visual art, his work seeks to explore and understand the...
Laurin Herr is President of Pacific Interface, Inc., an international consulting company, and organizer of the CineGrid International Workshop.
Pablos is a futurist, computer security expert, and a notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies.
Candace Johnson is an international telecommunications expert and entrepreneur, and one of the 50 most powerful businesswomen in Europe.
After earning her degree in fashion from Parsons School of Design , Benedikta Karaisl worked for several years in high-end evening wear. Last fall she, together with her partner Nora Abousteit
The San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote that “every good movement needs a contrarian. Web 2.0 has Andrew Keen.”
Kaiser Kuo is group director, digital strategy, for Ogilvy China. Before joining Ogilvy, he served as China bureau chief for Red Herring, a leading Silicon Valley-based technology business magazine
Dr Sugata Mitra is a long time teacher and a scientist of international repute, best known for his 'Hole in the wall' project.
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Geert Mul's work includes music videos, installations, and performances at art festivals, pop festivals and nightclubs.
For more than 25-years, Myers Publishing founder and CEO Jack Myers has been an industry thought leader and acknowledged visionary.
Craig is a Customer Service Representative and Founder of craigslist.
An artist, lecturer and cultural activist living in London. He studied Fine Art at Kingston University as well as Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art. In 2001, he wrote the book 'Mobile...
Nicolas Nova works as a user experience and foresight researcher at LIFTlab in Geneva, Switzerland
Nikolaj Nyholm is CEO of the people photo-identification service Polar Rose.
Professor Naohisa Ohta, Director of Research Institute for Digital Media and Content, Keio University
Chee Pearlman is the director of Chee Company, an editorial and curatorial design consultancy.
I study AI at the University of Amsterdam, and work part time at Mediamatic Foundation. I like taking things apart and putting things together, adding dysfunctional aesthetics to otherwise functional...
Felix Petersen is co-founder and member of the board of plazes.com, a bottom-up approach to spatial interaction and location oriented service platform, sometimes also dubbed “Mobile Social Software”.
I've been a Disney character and started working with VR in '91. I'm now the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) for the Brand Experience Lab in NY. Our passion is helping companies create compelling
Johan Redström is the Design Director of the Interactive Instititute in Sweden
Stefan Sagmeister is a long-standing artistic collaborator with musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed. He is the author of the design monograph Made You Look, and is one of the profession's most...
Thecla Schiphorst is a Media Artist/Designer, and an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
David Silverman is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series The Simpsons.
Currently, Arnold Smeulders leads the Intelligent Systems Lab (ISLA) of the University of Amsterdam.
Raymond Spanjar is Co-Founder and Chief Hyving Officer of the social network Hyves, with 4 million members and over 1 billon pageviews per month one of the most popular Dutch websites.
Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organisation in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. In a...
Alexander Straub is a German entrepreneur and investor based in London, focusing on significant technology or business model innovations.
Shari Swan helps multinationals connect more authentically with their consumers.
Gary Wang is the CEO/Founder, Tudou (Video Sharing): Gary is founder/CEO of Tudou, the leading video sharing site in China.
Matt Webb is a principle of the London creative design consultancy Schulze & Webb.
David Weinberger's new book covers the breakdown of the established order of ordering. He explains how methods of categorization designed for physical objects fail when we can instead put things in...
Eckart Wintzen was the founder of Ex'tent Green Venture Capital and an unconventional thinker, visionary and serial entrepreneur.
Adam Zaretsky is a Vivoartist working in Biology and Art Wet Lab Practice. This involves biological lab immersion as a process towards inspired artistic projects. His personal research interests...
Jyri Engeström is co-founder of Jaiku, now at Google.
Bruno Giussani is the European director of the TED Conferences and an entrepreneur and idea curator.
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...
Dr. Michael B. Johnson currently is serving as the lead for Pixar's Moving Pictures Group in the Studio Tools Division, where he and his team design, develop and support the production pipeline for...
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