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Bram Alkema, Ideabroker
Bram Alkema
Business Developer, FISQ, Media Monks
Moderator, Coach, Speaker, Visiting Professor, MBA teacher, Principal Consultant Business Strategy, Senior Manager Business Development, Senior Manager Consultancy Development, Business Modeler, New Media conceptualist, Blogger
www.mediamonks.com
Gerry Bakx
Psychologist
Dr. Gerry Bakx studied sciences, medicine and philosophy. He works as a coach and psychotherapist with a special interest in evolutionary psychology, cognitive therapy, systems thinking, chaos theory and creativity. He was invited as a speaker on international symposiums and congresses on personal development, emotional management and spirituality. He is invited as a key note speaker on the forthcoming European Depression Day later this year and on the Happiness Day scheduled for next year.
www.bewusterleven.be
Gerrie Bezuijen
Abbuffatta, Organiser of the Leisure Evening
Abbuffata means eating till you're stuffed. Our concept is simple: fresh, good quality ingredients, to be eaten direct after preparation. Combined with 2 cook fanatics and the mediterian kitchen.
We are Gerrie and Giovanni. The first was born in Amsterdam and has a long experience in music business and is fond of good food and wine. The second is born in Toscane and has 20 years experience as a international chief cook.
Most important issue is that we enjoy our work. We love challenges and we can make your craziest idea's com true. If you can't think of anything we can do it for you. from a party or diner for 15 people at your house or catering for hundreds of people on location?
www.abbuffatta.com
Felix B Bopp
Director, Summit for the Future 2006
founder & ceo, Club of Amsterdam
Felix is founder and ceo of the Club of Amsterdam, an independent, international think-tank that organises regular high-level discussions on preferred futures. It involves those who are not just talking about the future - but those who are active participants in shaping the outcome. www.clubofamsterdam.com provides rich resources about more than 25 topics from nanotechnology to philosophy.
Felix has been a voice promoting streaming media since its early days in the mid 90s. He made himself a name as a high-profile trend watcher on a global scale with a close eye on information and communication technologies [ICT] and the music & entertainment industry. His wide scope of interests leads him to develop a range of outstanding products in multimedia & publishing.
His roots are in music and the music industry. He is an accomplished composer of theatre, ballet and film music and also had a successful career as a performer.
www.clubofamsterdam.com
Yme Bosma
Business Manager, Media Republic / Eccky
Yme is currently working as Business Manager Eccky at Amsterdam based Media Republic. Eccky is a ‘game’ developed in cooperation with Microsoft that allows two MSN Messenger users to create and raise a virtual baby together. Eccky was launched on October 26th, 2005.
Before joining Media Republic Yme worked as a strategy consultant at Lost Boys, Europe’s leading web design agency. Further information on Yme can be found at his various weblogs: www.yme.nl/thoughts, www.yme.nl/ymerce, www.yme.nl/photos and www.panbo.com.
Yme’s presentation will focus on Eccky as a first example of something that will become very visible over the next few years: artificial and virtual life.
www.mediarepublic.com
www.eccky.com
Oebele Bruinsma
Knowledge Stream Leader Trade
Founder & Partner, Synmind bv
Oebele Bruinsma has a background in behavioural biology. He has worked both in public, including science, and private organisations. As an international consultant he is involved in industrial innovation and the driving processes of decision making underlying it.
He draws his inspiration both from nature and music which he considers both as ultimate expressions of knowledge management. He lives in the Netherlands.
David Butler
Chairman, Global Business Partnership Alliance
David Butler was educated at Mill Hill School and Keble College Oxford, where he won an open scholarship in classics. He was Chairman of Butler Cox plc, and the originator of the Butler Cox Foundation, the only major IT research programme ever founded in Europe. He was also a director of Istel Ltd and of the United Bank of Kuwait.
He is now Chairman of the Global Business Partnership Alliance, an organization dedicated to developing and propagating practical skills in the area of partnership. He is also a published author and lectures widely on business topics as well as on Greek and English literature.
www.gbpalliance.com
Marc Canter
CEO and visionary, Broadband Mechanics
Marc Canter founded a company named MacroMind in 1984 which became MacroMedia in 1991 (NASDAQ: MACR.) Canter led the team that created the world's first multimedia player, the first cross-platform authoring system and the world's leading multimedia platform (Director - which became Flash.)
Marc Canter is currently involved in creating and promulgating open standards for new kinds of micro-content and social networking; including people (PeopleAggregator APIs), media (ourmedia.org and Media RSS), reviews (OpenReviews) and events (OpenEvents.)
Canter's company - Broadband Mechanics designs and builds digital lifestyle aggregators (DLAs) for customers like EMI (MyColdPlay), Visual Media (VMFX.net), Ziff-Davis Media (1UP.com), the GoingOn Network, Avid, Cyworld and Tribe.net.
After leaving Macromedia in 1992, Canter started Canter Technology which formed the MediaBand (an interactive music video ensemble), produced the Marc Canter Show (and example of scalable content), and implemented a cyber theme restaurant at his home on Potrero Hill in San Francisco.
Canter Technology helped Sony build the Metreon Center in SF and several other projects, Fujitsu launch its CD ROM based PC, JVC and NEC with their US strategies and also worked for Intel, HP, Apple and Time-Warner on several key projects. Other clients from that era include On-Command, SGI, nCube and Diva.
Canter then went on to build a flat panel system for SuperBowl XXXII (1998), designed a digital city for Trieste, Italy (1998) and an interactive TV authoring system for NOW/com (1999.) Subsequent clients have included Reuters, AOL and the Ealing Digital Studios.
Canter is on the board of several startups and sits on many advisory boards as well.
www.broadbandmechanics.com
marc.blogs.it
Patrick Crehan
Chairman, Summit for the Future 2006
CEO and Founder, Crehan, Kusano & Associates
In 1996, after a career as a mathematical physicist in Europe and Japan, Patrick Crehan left academia to work at the European Commission Directorate General for Industry. Working in international collaboration on research in Information and Communication Technologies, he traveled extensively in countries of the Mediterranean basin, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe using international research collaboration as a policy tool for industrial and economic development. In 1998 he left the Commission to work as an independent consultant in international RTD, industrial and economic development policy. In 1999 he founded CKA - Crehan, Kusano & Associates. CKA is inspired by the conviction that the most important source of competitive advantage today is an ability to organize and manage knowledge-intensive activities such as research, innovation, learning & communication. CKA designs and manages processes that support complex-creative tasks in industry, society and government administration. It develops and adapts technologies to support these processes. It conducts research on management-as-work, on technologies to support organization-and-management tasks, as well as on the nature and organization of work in an age of constant change.
Chris De Bruijn
Chairman, Foundation, International Molecular Medicine Forum - IMMF
Since 2000, Chris de Bruijn has been responsible for Scientific Coordination at the European Institute of Molecular Medicine, a private institute for molecular medicine, developing evidence-based "personalised molecular medicine" and "personalised health management. Chris works with an international consultancy in molecular medicine & health technology. He also co-founded a biopharmaceutical R&D company (NDT, Inc.) based in California. His current focus is on facilitating know-how transfer between science-based and market-oriented organisations.
With expertise in genetics, molecular medicine, neurological diseases, and cancer, he has lectured at the University of Nijmegen and Eindhoven; he is a fellow at many prestigious institutions worldwide. He serves as advisor to the Dutch government in the areas of biotechnology and ICT in medicine.
Chris holds a Ph. D. in Medicine from the University of Nijmegen, did post-doctoral studies at Nijmegen and the Institute Pasteur in Paris, and he holds an MBA from the University of Nijenrode. He has over 120 publications in scientific/medical journals and authored books on biomedical and biogenetic research.
Chris is married to Jutta Martin and is the father of one daughter, Chérine.
Jay de Groot
Lobbyist of the Club of Amsterdam
Commercial Director, info.nl
Gustav Dobos
Chair for Complementary and Integrative Medicine
University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Since 1999, Gustav Dobos has been Director of the Clinic for Internal and Integrative Medicine (54 beds) at Kliniken Essen-Mitte in Essen, the first model-institution for Integrative Medicine of the county of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Besides doing research projects in classical naturopathy, Mind-Body Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine he has treated more than 5000 patients according to the principles of Integrative Medicine and is one of the most experienced specialists in his field world-wide. In October 2004 Gustav Dobos was selected as head of the first Chair for Complimentary and Integrative Medicine at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.
With his expertise in Mainstream Medicine (he is an Internist, specialized in nephrology and intensive care) and Complementary Medicine he is able to speak both languages that are necessary for Integrative Medicine.
During medical school Gustav spent some time in Peking, China studying TCM in 1983. His postdoctoral training he did at the Research Institute of Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, USA and the University of California, San Diego. He has over 100 publications in scientific/medical journals and authored books on subjects of Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
Gustav is married to Karin von Kleist-Dobos, a trained Sinologist and is father of two daughters, Aniko and Marika.
James M. Dorsey
Foreign correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
James M. Dorsey is a veteran foreign correspondent. Currently based in Istanbul, Turkey for The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Dorsey has served in the past 30 years as a correspondent in the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the United States for The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Christian Science Monitor, ABC News, NBC News. NPR and Dutch and Belgian radio. He has also worked as managing editor of Interpress (IPS) and was largely responsible for restructuring of the worldwide news agency in the early 1990s. Mr. Dorsey has three times been nominated for a Pullitzer Prize. He has furthermore served as a consultant to the World Economic Forum, playing a key role in shaping the positions of the forum and the business communities at the Middle East and North Africa summits in the 1990s. Mr. Dorsey has garnered broad experience in training of government officials, business executives and journalists. He is frequently invited to international conferences to speak on international affairs. Over the years, Mr. Dorsey has contributed to a number of books on the Middle East. Mr. Dorsey is also chairman of Irish-based Quest Holding, an international media consultancy firm.
www.questjournalists.com
Finn Drouet Majlergaard
Founder & Managing Partner, Gugin
Finn Drouet Majlergaard (41) is the founder and managing partner of Gugin International Business Development operating globally with offices in France and Denmark. He holds an MBA from Henley Management College and is currently studying DBA at International School of Management. He has worked internationally through his entire professional life with companies like IBM, CSC, Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. He is a regular guest professor at Bangkok University and Copenhagen Business School but he spend most of his time helping companies around the world to succeed internationally. He has an unorthodox way of thinking and he likes to provoke in order to get his messages through.
www.gugin.com
Leif Edvinsson
CEO, Universal Networking Intellectual Capital
Professor Leif Edvinsson holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley USA. He is the author of numerous articles on the service industry and on Intellectual Capital. He is a speaker at such organisations as the Conference Board, OECD, Harvard Business School, Sorbonne, KM Forum in Japan, Learntec in Germany, the American Productivity Centre etc. He is listed in Who's Who in the world.
In January 1998, Leif received the prestigious Brain Trust "Brain of the Year" award.
In March 1997, together with Michael S. Malone, he launched one of the very first books on Intellectual Capital "Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower" describing the evolution of IC in practice.
Leif's publication from 2000 "Corporate Longitude - Navigating the Knowledge Economy" offers different ways of looking at the corporate longitude problem. He believes that it is only through new perspectives that we can gain new insights and it is only through new perspectives that we will be able to chart the uncertain waters of our futures.
His recent publication 2005 together with professor A. Bounfour has the title "Intellectual Capital for Communities, Nations, Regions and Cities" as the critical external structural capital for the human capital growth.
Leif is on the Board of Directors of several knowledge intensive enterprises among others the Swedish Brain Research Foundation as well as the Center for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2000 he has been the Honorary Chairman of the UK based Henley KM Forum.
Since 2000, he has been the world´s first Professor, adjunct at Lund University on Intellectual Capital. He was formerly Vice President and the world´s first Corporate Director of Intellectual Capital at Skandia a global financial service enterprise. Professor Edvinsson was earlier Senior Vice President for Training and Development of S-E Bank, and President and Chairman of Consultus AB, a Stockholm-based consulting company. In light of his work in both training and Intellectual Capital.
Professor Edvinsson has been a key contributor to the theory of IC and has overseen the creation of the world's first corporate Intellectual Capital Annual Report. During 1996 he was recognised with awards from the American Productivity and Quality Centre, USA and Business Intelligence, UK, for his pioneering work on IC.
Professor Edvinsson has been a special advisor on service trade to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as Ministry of Industry, a special advisor to the United Nations International Trade Centre and is a co-founder of the Swedish Coalition of Service Industries. Recently during 2004 he was one of the prime advisors for the German Ministry of Economics on IC Reporting. He has participated in several European Commission projects and is now also one of the High Level Experts working for the European Commission on guidance for IC reporting to come 2005.
www.corporatelongitude.com
Ahmed El Sheikh
Scenario Planning, The Pharmaceutical Strategist
Ahmed is a senior partner at The Pharmaceutical Strategist, a forward looking think tank focused on scenario building for the life science industry.
www.pharmastrategy.com
Ralph Freelink
Founder, Centre for Holistic Inquiry
Ralph holds a long interest in working with chaos, complexity and evolutionary adaptation in systems. During his academic career he has studied various disciplines (from economics to philosophy) and attained an MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, an international school for ecological studies. Since then he has worked in environmental education and as a consultant to bring his worldview into practise. In 2005 he founded the Centre for Holistic Inquiry to explore new frontiers in leadership and community by creating dynamic learning environments. He senses that facilitating transformative change through process oriented approaches, employed within the complexity of today's world, will form the solution to existing problems and enable innovative breakthroughs.
www.holisticinquiry.org
www.schumachercollege.org.uk
Erik-Jan Gelink
Founder, Provice
Erik-Jan Gelink is an entrepreneurial manager with a creative and practical way of doing business. He studied at Nyenrode University and has a masters degree in business economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has worked for several commercial companies, been involved in the Dutch dot.com boom and has worked in the Dutch media industry for two of the largest technical distribution platforms. He is fascinated by what technology can do for people and is regularly asked to give an opinion on whether a technology is really useful, or simply a clever marketing campaign. He is the author of a book in Dutch about the rise of the Dot.com boom in the Netherlands.
www.provice.nl
Homme Heida
Promedia
Member of the Club of Amsterdam Round Table
Homme Heida is a generalist by heart, who worked as a journalist for several mass media like Algemeen Dagblad, Tros Aktua and publishing group VNU. After ten years he started his own bureau Promedia: company journalism, which slowly changed into business journalism.
Homme Heida has a continuing interest in a more philosophical approach of 'being there'. His views on the future are very much based on new technologies. "Humans change only slowly by evolution. Technology will speed it up", he argues. His credo is: 'living body and soul', which means to him a sportive challenge as well as an intellectual one. From the Amsterdam marathon till the Club of Amsterdam.
www.promedia.nl
Martin Herzog
Philosopher, Brainworker's Online-Journal des Wissens
Swiss. 1955. Rheinfelden. 1980, straight after exams (MS Forestry) Saudi Arabia (landscaping, Surveying) and Iraq.
1985-88 research project on genetic variability and resistance of silver fir against air pollution and drought at the Federal Technical Institute of Zurich.
1988-94 forest ecologist with FAO, Jemen, establishing Directorate for Natural Forest Management and Protection.
1994-96 Forestry Consultant in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, Tajikistan.
1996 - 2000: Studies on the Swiss job-market and Swiss salaries system.
> 2000: Training in journalism, editor, webmaster - Creation of www.brainworker.ch - 2002 officially registered as individual enterprise.
Present activities: Internet-Journalism, Knowledge- and Town-Mapping (Baghdad) www.brainworker.ch/Irak/baghdad_map.htm). Trade-Dealer Irak.
www.brainworker.ch/Irak/Handel/index.htm
www.brainworker.ch
www.brainworker.ch/waldphilosophie/web-philosophie.htm
Glen Hiemstra
Owner, Futurist.com
Glen Hiemstra has been listening professionally and then sharing compelling lessons from the future for two decades. The Founder of Futurist.com, Glen is a highly respected consultant and speaker for business, government, and associations.
Those who hire him are looking for an engaging program on the long range future for their business, conference, enterprise, or community. They are seeking a program that has a lasting impact. They are seeking a program that changes things for the better. They are seeking a response like this one from an audience member in 2003…
"This is the most excited I have felt about the future since [I heard] Gene Roddenbury way back in graduate school."
What kinds of clients have experienced impacts like this? Examples include Microsoft, Adobe Systems, Attachmate, Boeing, Northern Telecom, Burlington Northern, Weyerhaeuser, Hewlett Packard, Regence, Premera, U.S./Mexico JWC, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle Sonics & Storm, Wonderware, Ernst & Young, PaineWebber, APAX Partners, Costa Rica Hotel Association, and Tulsa 2025. Television projects have included Technical Advisor to Steven Bochco Productions for the development of a pilot set in the year 2069, advising Universal Pictures on the new CBS series, Century City, set in the year 2030, and Technical Advisor to 20th Century Fox Television for the revival of the series, Lost in Space.
Glen is the co-author of Strategic Leadership: Achieving Your Preferred Future, and is an expert in Preferred Future Planning. Prior to going into business in 1987, Glen was an award-winning educator, selected Most Influential Professor at Whitworth College. Glen is a Visiting Scholar at the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington, which works on virtual and augmented reality technology.
At Futurist.com, you can read Glen's newsletter, FuturistNews, along with a wide variety of information about the future. Glen is often cited as a resource for articles about the future, for example in Scenario & Strategy Planning, The Futurist, the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, the Los Angeles Times, and the Detroit Free Press.
The way it is...is not the way it will be. Glen's presentations offer insight into surprising developments shaping the 21st Century, and then go beyond that to the deeper challenge of understanding our new world and creating our preferred future. The hallmark of Glen's speaking is the dynamic connection he makes with his audience. His message is clear and heartfelt. His style is crisp, warm and engaging. People feel hope and begin to move in new directions, as a lasting impact is created which goes far beyond the initial experience.
Glen was educated at Whitworth College, the University of Oregon, and the University of Washington. Glen lives in Kirkland, Washington with his wife Tracie. Three college age and adult kids drop in from time to time. Tracie and Glen began a new entrepreneurial venture in late 2003, Bella Rose Fine Gifts & Furnishings, in Seattle's "Madison Valley" neighborhood.
www.futurist.com
Neville Hobson
Accredited Communication Practitioner, ABC
Neville Hobson, ABC, is a communicator, blogger and podcaster, one of the leading European early adopters and influencers in new-media communication for business. He blogs daily at NevOn (www.nevon.net) with commentary and opinion on business communication and technology, and co-presents For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report (www.forimmediaterelease.biz), a twice-weekly business podcast at the intersection of online communication, business and technology. He is a frequent speaker on the subject of new media communication channels and their effective use in organizational communication.
Weblog: www.nevon.net
Podcast: www.forimmediaterelease.biz
Alliance: www.bloggingplanet.com
Antoinette Hoes
directeur, e-strategist, lecturer
REALZAR, Virtueel Platform, MediaMonks, HES Postgraduate Studies
www.czar.com
www.virtueelplatform.nl
www.mediamonks.com
www.hesasd.nl
Hans Hoogeweegen
Knowledge Stream Leader Healthcare
Executive Vice President, Medical Knowledge Institute
Hans Hoogeweegen has dedicated almost his entire career to facilitating and enhancing access to medical education and information. After finishing his medical study in 1986 he was involved in the launch of the first computer and information network for physicians in The Netherlands. Until the summer of 2004 he worked for different companies (e.g. Elsevier Science and Nuvis) in the international market and successfully developed, launched and implemented a number of new services, like amongst others accredited CME programs, teleconferencing, e-mail newsletters and medical databases. In summer of 2004, he decided to dedicate himself to transformation in health care. Joining the Medical Knowledge Institute was a natural choice.
www.infomki.org
Soeren Jakobsen
formerly with EC, Directorate-General Trade
Chief Transport Economist, Rambøll
Soren Jakobsen recently joined Rambøll - the largest Nordic consulting engineering company – and works here as a transport economist. Previously he worked in the European Commission as a trade negotiator on transportation matters; in the multilateral talks held in the WTO - and in the numerous bilateral trade negotiations between EU and its trading partners. In DG Trade, the branch of the European Commission dealing with external commercial affairs, Soren was also in charge of the EU-ASEAN relations regarding Trade in Services and Investment. He has a long background in national and regional government administrations. Soren is convinced that transport is a defining and integrated part of any economic relationship between countries and regions.
www.ramboll.dk
Simon Jones
Director
Human-Computer Studies Laboratory, University of Amsterdam
former Managing Director, M.I.T. Media Lab Europe
Simon Jones has been the Managing Director of M.I.T. Media Lab Europe. With 20 years of success in generating and deploying innovative R&D, Simon is a significant figure in the European Technology Landscape. His technical expertise, vision, experience, contacts and team-building skills marks him out as one of the few individuals able to drive innovative research teams in an international context.
In the mid-1980's Simon was one of the first to emerge from UK universities with research skills in Microelectronics Systems Design. Five years after his PhD he was awarded a full Professorship at the UK's largest Engineering Research Institution - Loughborough University, where he held the ARM/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Embedded Microelectronic Systems. He was also awarded at the age of 31 the British Association for the Advancement of Science 'Brunel Prize' awarded to 'an outstanding academic in engineering under the age of 40'. Simon is a fluent German speaker with a degree-level qualification in German Language and Business. He was awarded in 1998 'The Siemens/German Research Ministry Research Chair' at the Technical University of Dresden working that year with Siemens to advance new computer systems for the consumer electronic market and he continues to be well connected with European industry.
A period as Dean of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath, one of the top 5 universities in the UK, gave him valuable experience in the leadership of complex organisations.
hcs.science.uva.nl
Sir Paul Judge
Chair, Royal Society of Arts
Sir Paul is currently Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts, of Teachers’ TV, of the Schroder Income Growth Fund plc, of the Businessdynamics Trust and of the British-North American Committee, Deputy Chairman of the American Management Association and President of the Association of MBAs. He is a Director of Standard Bank Group Ltd of South Africa and of Tempur-Pedic International Inc of Kentucky.
Sir Paul was an Open Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge and a Thouron Fellow at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, where he gained his MBA. He spent thirteen years with Cadbury Schweppes plc and then led the buyout of their food companies to form Premier Brands Ltd, which was successfully sold in 1989. He was subsequently a government-appointed Member of the Milk Marketing Board, Chairman of Food from Britain, Director General of the Conservative Party, a Ministerial Adviser at the UK Cabinet Office, a Director of the Boddington Group plc and of WPP plc and the key benefactor of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He is the Immediate Past President of the Chartered Management Institute and Immediate Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Marketors.
www.rsa.org.uk
Kalle Kähkönen
Chief Research Scientist, Technical Research Centre of Finland, (VTT)
Dr. Kalle Kähkönen works as a chief research scientist at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He holds degrees from two universities: MSc (Civil Engineering) from the Helsinki University of Technology and Ph.D. from the University of Reading (UK). Dr. Kähkönen has been an active influential member of the project management society by his research and development for many years. He has been the chairman of Project Management Association Finland in 1998-2000. Kalle Kähkönen has published over 100 papers both in Finnish and English.
www.vtt.fi
Jan Karel Kleijn
Youi, Result Strategy, Ideabroker, FON, Caliber Media, Food and Friends, Slogo
