Creative Industries
Mr. Datuk Badlisham Ghazali
CEO : Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)
Datuk Badlisham Ghazali was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) in January 2006.
Mr. Amar Bhidé
Visiting Scholar : Kennedy School of Government on "The Venturesome Economy"
Amar Bhidé, previously the Laurence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University, has just completed A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press in September.
Mr. Dario Castello
CIO : Ferrari
Appointed CIO at Ferrari at the beginning of 2007, he drove a deep change in the IT organization and its support to the many business lines which form the prancing horse brand, where speed, agility and exclusiveness are the key words.
Mr. Mark Ejlenberg
Entrepreneur Digital Heritage :
Advisor : Leonardo Media
Entrepreneur Digital Heritage, Tel Aviv- Yafo Israel. Financial & Strategic Background, Advisor to Philips Carin project in 1992 and Advisor to Leonardo Media, a digital content management tool for distributing content across channels in the Travel distribution Industry.
Mr. Charles Groenhuijsen
Former USA Correspondent : NOS News
Mr. Charles Groenhuijsen is independent writer, producer, speaker and consultant.
Mr. Doron Hacmon
Managing Director : Products and Online Media Group UPC
As the managing director of the products and Online media Group, Doron Hacmon is responsible for UPC's video-TV, data, telephony and online Media products as well as bundling, research and strategic planning. UPC Broadband is the European distribution division of Liberty Global, Inc.
Mr. Pradeep Kashyap
Founder & CEO : MART
His career spans 40 years, first 17 years working with Exide, Bosch and Denso in the corporate, and the next 23 years, in both development and corporate sectors.
Dr. Ruth Ladenheim
Secretary of Planning and Politics in Science, Technology and Productive Innovation : Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina
Dr. Ruth Graciela Ladenheim is Secretary of Planning and Politics in Science, Technology and Productive Innovation.
Mr. Stefano Marzano
CEO and Chief Creative Director : Philips Design
Stefano Marzano is CEO and Chief Creative Director of Philips Design, the international in-house design group at Philips responsible for all design work within the company.
Mr. Navi Radjou
Executive Director : Centre for India & Global Business, University of Cambridge
Navi Radjou is an internationally-recognized voice of business strategy and innovation. Alongside his consulting work, he is Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Mr. Norm Rose
President : Travel Tech Consulting
Norm Rose is president of Travel Tech Consulting, Inc, the recognized leader on how emerging technologies impact the global travel industry. Since 1995, Travel Tech Consulting has been providing technology marketing and procurement services to the global travel and technology industries.
Mrs. Vidhya Sampath
Director External Relations : Tata Consultancy Services
Executive Director : Erasmus Centre for Emerging Economies
Ms. Sampath has held diverse management positions, the last one at Tata Consultancy Services Europe as Head Marketing. Presently she divides her time between her roles at Tata Consultancy Services and the Erasmus Centre for Emerging Economies (ECEE), an initiative of the well-known Rotterdam School of Management.
Mrs. Marleen Stikker
Founder/president : Waag Society
Marleen Stikker is founder/director of Waag Society. She founded in 1994 'the 'Digital City' (DDS), the first free internet access provider and virtual community in Europe.
Mr. Dov Winer
Coordinator : Israel MINERVA Network, Israel National Library
Dov Winer is a psychologist (Hebrew University) who specialized in Online Education and Training (University of London). He managed the early program of dissemination of the Internet in Israel industry for the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Ms. Kathryn Best
Research Professor Cross-Media, Brand, Reputation & Design Management INHOLLAND, University of Applied Sciences
Kathryn Best consults and runs courses in design management and the creative industries for academia and industry. Based in London, she has 15 years work experience in architecture, interiors, digital environments and brand consultancy. Kathryn is currently a Research Professor at INHolland University (CBRD: Center for Cross Media, Brand, Reputation and Design Management).
Mr. Gary Carter
COO Fremantle Media
Gary Carter is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of FremantleMedia and a member of the FremantleMedia Operating Board. He is also Chief Creative Officer of the company's experimental cross platform division FMX.
Mr. Tom Chatfield
Senior Editor Prospect Magazine
Tom Chatfield is a senior editor at Prospect magazine, and the author of "Fun Inc" (Virgin). He has a doctorate in literature and philosophy, and has done design and consultancy work for companies including Mind Candy, Grex, Red Glasses and Intervox.
Mr. Adam Greenfield
Founder and managing director Urbanscale
Adam Greenfield is founder and managing director, Urbanscale, and author of Everyware (2006) and The City Is Here For You To Use (forthcoming). He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
Mr. Dirk Groten
CTO Layar
Dirk Groten is CTO of Layar, a startup company founded in 2009 and currently growing fast to become the leading platform for Augmented Reality on the mobile phone.
Ms. Anab Jain
Director Superflux
Educated in India, Vienna and London, Anab is is a TEDIndia Fellow and the Founder of Superflux, a design studio working at the intersection of people and technology.
Dr. Ir. Ben Kröse
Associate Professor Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam
Ben J.A. Kröse is lector Digital Life at the HvA University of Applied Science. He leads a research group in the field of Digital Life: how can IT be used to make life more comfortable, healthy, safe and richer?
Mr. Ronald Lenz
CEO 7Scenes
Ronald Lenz (36) is CEO of 7scenes, a mobile storytelling platform, and heads the Urban Reality Lab, a research department at medialab Waag Society. He is strongly intrigued about how mobile technologies and network infrastructures can have us interact with the city and its residents in new ways and how we could ultimately participate in the design of our ever-changing physical and digital urban surroundings.
Mr. Kishore Padmanabhan
Head of R&D and Business Innovation Tata Consultancy Services
K. Padmanabhan (K. Paddy) is responsible for transforming Research in TCS and in its COIN Partners into business solutions that can be adopted by the business units in TCS.
Mr. Dr. Simon Roberts
Senior Design Anthropologist Intel Corporation
Simon has been researching the interactions of people, culture, technology and business for over a decade. Those explorations began with research on popular Hindi films and a cultural study of the satellite TV revolution in India in the mid 1990s.
Mr. Tony Salvador
Director of Research & Definition for the Emerging Markets Platforms Group Intel
Dr. Tony Salvador is the Director of Research & Definition for the Emerging Markets Platforms Group (EMPG) with Intel Corporation.
Mr. Tom Steinberg
Founder mySociety.org
Tom Steinberg is the founder and director of mySociety, a non-profit, open source organisation that runs many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK.
Mr. Bill Thompson
Head of partnership development BBC
Bill Thompson is a pioneer of new media in the UK and has provided strategic advice and hands-on expertise to a range of organisations during nearly thirty years working in computing, journalism and online.