Arnoud Raskin

Founder Mobile School and Streetwize

Like every student, Arnoud wanted to change the world. But he made his dream come true. As his graduating project, Arnoud designed a mobile school with telescopic blackboards. He travelled to Latin America to teach homeless children. If they can’t go to school, maybe the school can come to them, is what Arnoud believed. Each year, his npo Mobile School supports 30 000 street children in their personal development.

Arnoud has also started a new ambitious project called Streetwize. Via corporate learning programs, and product development, he wants to generate income for Mobile School. Streetwize aims to decrease Mobile School’s dependency on subsidies. This year his ‘pavement chalk action’ won the Belgian brand activation award.

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Tina Dutton and Andrea Winders

Founders Pink Ladies

These days numerous new goods and services are targeted specifically at women, by marketeers who finally got the message: women are powerful consumers. Take this shocking pink car for women only. Driven by women with self-defence training, Pink Ladies cars not only gets you home safely, they make sure you get safely through your front door as well.

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Prof. dr. Jean-Pierre Locquet

Chairman Leuven Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is closer than you may think. Let Prof. Locquet inspire you with some examples of products that use nanotechnology today. He will explain how beautifull all things small can be. If you think a bug's life is miniature, what about printing text on a human hair?

Dirk Callaerts

CEO Eyetronics

Dirk Callaerts graduated in 1984 as an engineer in electronics from the K.U.Leuven, where he started his career as a scientific researcher. He obtained a PhD in 1989 in biomedical engineering. In October 1991 he became a Professor at the ESAT department of the K.U.Leuven. Between June 1991 and Oct 1994 he became the personal advisor on science policy and innovation of the minister-president of the Flemish government. In 1992 he co-founded the company Easics, an expert in the design of digital ASICs for telecommunications and consumer electronics applications. Since Sept 2001, Callaerts joined Eyetronics (www.eyetronics.com) as the CEO. Eyetronics is expert in 3D scanning and modelling and is mainly active in the entertainment industry: visual effects for motion pictures, computer games, commercials, music videos, etc. In Nov 2001, he started a wholly owned subsidiary close to Hollywood in California and end 2007 he opened a subsidiary in Montreal, Canada.

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Francesco Merisio

Director of Centro Servizi Calza (Legwear Service Centre) Regione de Lombardia

Francesco Merisio, director of Centro Servizi Calza (Legwear Service Centre). The Centro Servizi Calza is a small innovation centre supporting the legwear District of Castel Goffredo, Mantua, Italy. Cooperation within the district enables the entrepreneurs to be creative on a daily basis. With the innovation centre we want to enable the industry to enter new markets and answer to welbeing of the consumers.

Francesco Merisio will explain how they try to combine elegance and efficiency within the legwear (socks and hosiery) industry to answer to some specific health needs like Diabetes, Arthritis and venous insufficiency diseases.

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Luc Van de Velde

Director Developer & Platform Evangelism Microsoft Belux

Luc has the mission to broadly evangelize innovation towards audiences like CIO's & CTO's, IT-architects and academics. He joined Microsoft in '99, first leading the services department and building up the consulting practice. After that he lead the technical capacity and capabilities expansion of the partner channel. Luc is a long-term IT veteran who started his career in 1985 as developer and has build his professional experience before Microsoft on Mainframe and UNIX at IT companies like Computer Associates and Informix.

Johnny Chung Lee

Wii Hacker

Researcher Johnny Lee became a YouTube star with his demo of Wii Remote hacks -- bending the low-cost game piece to power an interactive whiteboard, a multitouch surface, a head-mounted display ... When he's not hacking Wiimotes, Lee is a graduate student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

His primary research interests are in developing technologies and techniques that increase the accessibility and practicality of technology. His previous work includes a diversity of topics ranging from projector calibration, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, haptics, animation, multi-channel audio, and filmmaking tools. He also founded a small company to manufacture and sell hardware components related to his projects called Little Great Ideas, LLC.

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Richard Stomp

Streetcomber

Streetcomber Richard Stomp (1957) is Founder and CWO (Chief Wow Officer) of WOWIDEAS, a service company in the front end of Innovation. Richard is an experienced business man and innovation consultant. He combines analysis (MBA) with creativity (COCD, de Bono). Richard was always astonished by the laziness of many marketeers outsourcing consumer insight to research agencies. Richard: "You won’t get to know consumers by sitting behind your desk. Hit the street!"

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Pepe Zapata

coordinator of the Alícia Foundation

Alícia is a research centre focusing on technological innovation in kitchen science and the dissemination of agronourishment and gastronomic heritage. It has a clear social mission in that it is open to the public, and is aimed at promoting good nourishment. It is a foundation created by the Generalitat de Catalunya and CaixaManresa, a Catalan savings bank, with a Board of Trustees headed by El bulli chef Ferran Adrià and consultancy services provided by the cardiologist Valentí Fuster.

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Naomi Kaempfer

Division manager Materialise.MGX

Naomi Kaempfer was born in Boston, USA in 1973. After completing background studies in Law and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Naomi received an engineering degree in industrial design from The Hadassah technical college, Jerusalem, in 1999. Naomi completed a Master's Degree of Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Netherlands, where she studied the fields of Product Design (studio Droog design), Interior Design (studio Girod-Merkx) and Identity Design (studio Li Edelkoort). In August 2003, after a collaboration with “Young Designers and Industry” for Materialise, she established .MGX where she now works as Art Director and head of the department.

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Horst Soboll

Chair of European Entrepreneurial Regions association

Horst joined automotive industry (DAIMLER) in 1989 up to 2004, being responsible for Research Policy and Communications. He is engaged since years in German and European committees for innovation, since 2007 Chair of European Entrepreneurial Regions association.

Danny Goderis

Chief Technology Officer Alcatel-Lucent Bell and Managing Director Bell Labs in Belgium

A common link throughout Danny’s career is the drive to create new value – for company and society – through disruptive innovation and creative thinking. In his present position, Danny is leading Bell Labs in Belgium, the largest Industry IcT Research and Venturing organisation in Belgium.

Gert Van Thillo

Innovation Consultant Boerenbond

In 1999, the Flemish Farmers organisation Boerenbond decided to launch a program to stimulate innovation and creativity among their 17.000 members. This program resulted in the creation of new support centre called 'Innovatiesteunpunt voor land- en tuinbouw' that currently employs 10 consultants. Their mission is to encourage innovation in agriculture and horticulture and to provide assistance to innovative projects of farmers.

Gert Van Thillo will present several projects that illustrate the very down-to-earth attitude and hands-on mentality of agricultural entrepreneurs in Flanders.

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Cyriel Kortleven

Creative facilitator and Knight of NOW - New Shoes Today

Most people associate time with the clock and try to control it by following all kind of time-management tools. Nothing wrong with that, except that we can't control the clocktime. As a result, lots of people have a feeling that they never have enough time and suffer from stress. During this 'Time to NOW'-session, you will become more conscious of other forms of time and explore topics like influencing your experience-time or the possibility of time-travel. or what about being NOW and here? Beware, this session can change your vision of time forever.

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