Line-up
Jimmy Wales
The Story behind Wikipedia Wed 16, 10:15 - 11:05
In 2011 Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia, celebrates its 10 year anniversary. That is a great excuse to invite Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, to Belgium.
He will explain the success of the project “Wikipedia” : how they got the idea, how they grew the project and how Wikipedia has helped popularise a trend in web development, called Web 2.0. Web 2.0 aims to facilitate creativity ,...
Alexander Osterwalder
Entrepreneur, Speaker and Business Model Innovator Wed 16, 11:45 - 12:05
What the Bongo Bon did for gifts, Cirque du Soleil for the circus or DELL for computers, that's what we call business model innovation . So you know what innovative business models can do for a company.
Alexander Osterwalder is a master business model innovator. His Business Model Canvas , a tool to visualise, challenge and (re-)invent business models is used by business schools and leading organizations...
Keith Sawyer
Author of Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration. Wed 16, 13:55 - 14:55
His session will be based on his book GROUP GENIUS, written for a broad audience, draws on his research on jazz and improv theater to show the reader how to be more creative in collaborative group settings and how to change organizations for the better.
He will tell some compelling stories about the inventions that change our world: the ATM, the mountainbike, and open source operating systems among...
Malcolm Gladwell
Best Selling Author of Blink, The Tipping Point and Outliers Wed 16, 17:00 - 18:00
Malcolm Gladwell will present you the essentials of his tought-provoking work . From his bestseller The Tipping Point : How do things go viral? What are the mechanisms at work? From his book Blink : We make split second decisions about people and situations, willingly or not. How can we avoid false prejudice and benefit from rapid cognition? From Outliers : how hard we want to believe that success is defined...
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Scott Belsky
Author, Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality. Thu 17, 10:00 - 10:50
Many of us believe that great ideas inevitably lead to success. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whether it is the perfect solution for an everyday problem or a bold new concept for a creative masterpiece, you must transform vision into reality for an idea to have value .
"Making Ideas Happen" chronicles the methods of exceptionally productive creative leaders and teams – companies like Google, IDEO,...
Garr Reynolds
Author of Presentation Zen & The Naked Presenter Thu 17, 13:55 - 14:55
Today more than ever your presentation skills set you apart from the crowd. Garr Reynolds wrote two of the best presentation books in the world: Presentation Zen (on designing slides) and The Naked Presenter (on preparing and presenting). Garr Reynolds will lead you through the different steps from the preparation to the design and the delivery of a killer presentation. Moreover, Garr is a killer presenter himself. So...
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Oliver Stone
Director of Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, World Trade Center Thu 17, 17:00 - 18:00
Undoubtedly one of the most controversial directors in Hollywood , Oliver Stone has made films that are remarkable for both the way in which their subject matter is handled and the degree of controversy such handling inspires.
Although he has served as a producer, screenwriter, and actor on a variety of films, Stone is consistently identified with his more political works, from 1986's Platoon ,...
