Speakers

Yasmina Haryono

Yasmina delivers delightful and often playful user experiences through a series of creative design and business processes, and through solid design and communication deliverables. She's interested in human motives, passions and fear – recurring concepts in her work have been privacy, identity, memory, possession, reputation and panopticon.

Germany  

Andrea Vascellari

Andrea is a born communicator and an entrepreneur, he's currently the CEO of iTive.net an international digital strategy firm based in Finland, Andrea's is known for his work on digital marketing, social media and communications and PR. Andrea is founder of Sometu English and Coordinator at the Suupohja Living Lab in Finland. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, and has in his past has been a Marketing Professor at Suupohjan Ammatti-Instituutti/Kauppaoppilaitos and an e-Learning Coordinator at University of Vaasa (Finland)

Finland  

Bruno Lima Santos

Formed in journalism in the early 90's in Brazil, I moved to Europe to search for new horizons. Find a whole new world in Spain, working in a company dealing with the content television area. Ratings, audiences studies, formats. Can I ask for better work than this? I always loved TV since I was a child and used to drove my parents crazy after dedicating hours and hours in front of tv. I didn't know (and of course, my fathers neither), but I was already working in my future. After working as a TV consultant for some years, I engaged the Portugal Public Broadcaster in 2001. Nowadays, I'm still working at RTP and trying desperately to adapt these crazy times of contents in everywhere and in everyway.

Portugal  

Cennydd Bowles

Cennydd Bowles leapt into the world of user experience eight years ago and hasn't shut up about it since. He now works for Clearleft by day and moonlights as a UX blogger, mentor and community evangelist. Cennydd is a regular public speaker (SxSWi, IA Summit, EuroIA), a widely-published writer (A List Apart, Johnny Holland, .net magazine) and co-founder of the UX London conference. He is currently writing his first user experience book with fellow Clearleftie James Box.

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Erik de Bruijn

From the age of 6 after my first encounters with Lego and computers it was clear that I was passionate about technology. When I was 16, I co-founded my first IT company SHiFTing from webdesign to hosting, to internet infrastructure management and datacenter appliances. The companies fully operated on open source software. My studies at the University of Tilburg are from an economics and business angle, which help me to keep things in perspective.

When I first found out about the RepRap project, it completely blew my mind. Developing a machine that can make almost anything, including a copy of many of its parts. A machine that can print out its own hardware upgrades. A machine that can be developed collaboratively, highly distributed, by any of its users. A project that would definitely consume most of my time. And that would be okay.

Netherlands  

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith is a web developer living and working in Brighton, England.

Working with the web consultancy firm Clearleft, Jeremy enjoys building accessible, elegant websites using the troika of web standards: XHTML, CSS and the DOM.

His online home is adactio.com.

Jeremy is a member of the Web Standards Project.

When he's not building websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the alt.country band Salter Cane. He is also the creator and curator of one of the Web's largest online communities dedicated to Irish traditional music, The Session.

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Ken Nunes

Ken Nunes is a 56 year old Electrical Contracts Engineer with a career spanning over 30 years. In 1988 moved to Portugal and in 1989 started a real estate developing company, Tirone Nunes, which included the architecture and commercialization services of the company’s own developments. Initially, the company focused on housing developments and introduced to Portugal the concept of Bio-climatic Architecture. Over the last 20 years this concept has evolved into what is now known as Sustainable Architecture. Considered leaders in this field in Portugal, Tirone Nunes has pioneered and innovated by creating buildings which have become a reference for Sustainable Construction in Portugal as well as in Europe.
 

Portugal  

Kushtrim Xhakli

Kushtrim Xhakli is an internet specialist and in many aspects a brilliant generalist. In terms of information technology he understands and often even manages every aspect of a project, from initial brainstorming to implementation without loosing attention to detail.

He understands the concepts very well both from a business point and technical point of view. Beyond this, Kushtrim’s major skill lies in his ability to analyze businesses and industries. In June 2007, with Ipko Institute, he launched a free e-learning education portal trajnimi.com providing free access to ICT education in Kosovo. The objective was to break the existing paradigm and offer Kosovo citizens a unique opportunity to develop their ICT skills. The portal was awarded ECDL Foundation: Best Practice Award 2008 at the ECDL CEO Summit in Vienna, 22-25 October 2008.

The concepts of marketing, user-focus and new business blends together in every single new internet and new media related project and to win you need to know how they work together. Kushtrim does this in every aspect and has a great eye for why some projects succeed or fail.

Fast Europe Ventures is a telecommunication media company specializing in web-mobile entertainment and value added services who independently develops many markets and provides many specialized services using mobile as payment, distribution and messaging tool

portugal  

Lane Becker

Lane Becker is co-founder and President of Get Satisfaction, a web startup dedicated to fostering new methods of communication and collaboration between companies and their customers.

Lane is a co-founder of Adaptive Path and currently sits on the Board of Directors. Adaptive Path is a user experience strategy, research, and design consultancy, known for, among other things, coining the technology terms "blog" and "ajax." While with Adaptive Path, Lane ran the consulting business and, as the creator of the New Ventures program, developed strategic partnerships with early-stage startup companies to provide them with long-term support for their product ideation, design, and launch strategies.

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Lee Bryant

Lee is an online community and social networking specialist, and co-founder of the leading social computing consultancy Headshift, which helps companies use lightweight social tools to create meaningful applications and purposeful social networks.

Headshift has a 35-strong social computing team that operates internationally, with clients across Europe, the UK, Australia and North America, which gives us an insight into the diversity that makes for healthy networks. We help put IT at the service of business, not the other way around, and apply the lessons of what works on the public internet to the real needs of businesses, both internally and externally. Our clients include several top 10 global law firms, consultancies, FTSE-100 companies, media and governmental and public sector bodies.

united_kingdom  

Ricardo Tomé

I started as a copy-writer in advertising. Moved to RTP (TV & Radio Public broadcaster) in 2001 as a web editor for the newborn website, and since then I've been working Tv and Radio brands and contents for the web. Most recently, I've also been exploring the mobile area, both as a delivery platform but also using it for creating contents for shows too. And, of course, social networks. How I mix all of this? Well, that's an everyday learning process. And a fun one too.

Portugal  

Rui Madeira

Rui is an independent computational designer creating and developing unique and playful interactive environments. His works are born from the intersection of various disciplines including illustration, animation and interaction design. By using programming languages and custom software as the main building blocks for his work he developed specific and adaptable systems which brake apart from the limitations of traditional tools. This allowed the creation of surprising and innovative installations, where illustrative visuals interact with mediums ranging from physical interfaces to computer vision systems. Rui has also participated in various solo and collaborative projects for both artistic and institutional contexts including interactive performances and concerts, realtime generative visualizations and interactive installations. He has produced work for the London College of Fashion, Centro Cultural de Belém, Pavilion of Knowledge, Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, Moda Lisboa, City Hall of Almada, National Ballet of Portugal, Monstra Animation Festival amongst others. And his collaborations include Rui Horta, Micro Audio Waves, André Gonçalves, NearInteraction, Guilherme Martins and O Cubo.

Portugal  

sara batalha

Sara Batalha is the executive Manager but also TOP Trainer of Media Training WorldWide Portugal (MTW Portugal). Sara is also a regular presenter in Universities (ISTL, ISEG, IDEFE), Portuguese and International conferences (EWMD, The Future Tendencies of Comunication and Design 2.0, Q-Day, EACD, SHiFT 2006), Communication Agencies (Pure Ativism; Inforpress; Jervis Pereira; BestNews; Parceiros das Comunicação) as well as a regular commenter on Portuguese Media (Jornal i; RTP, TVi, SIC, Sic Notícias, Tvi24 , RCP, Antena1, Expresso, DE, Exame, blogs).

Apart from her Media Training career, Sara is also an invited Professor at ISEG/IDEDE, on the leadership training for executive women and a trainer at CENJO (the portuguese center for advance training of journalists) on the Television and Media Training courses. Today she's the coordinator of the Master Class program in Media Training 2.0.
Sara worked as a journalist for a decade and also as the redaction coordinator at companies like RTP, Expresso, Actual and several other press and radio companies. Sara has also worked as Communication Director on communication and advertising agencies, companies and ONG's. She's currently member of the board for the European Women Management Development as well as volunteer on some social responsibility projects.

Portugal  

Siert Wijnia

 From childhood I was always interested in technology and the philosophy of technology. After studying mechanical engineering at Twente University, I started working for an American engineering company in 2001. During my 7 years of work in the oil and gas projects, the internet changed from an information source to a social network infrastructure. This infrastructure has changed the way we behave and work, but is now also empowering a new field: shape your own physical world. By sharing digital designs (open source) and simplified, easy to control production machines, it is possible to create things and shapes in your own personal way. I was completely caught by this bottum-up concept that I started working for the non-profit organisation ProtoSpace, the FabLab of Utrecht.

One project that combined all aspects mentioned above is the RepRap project. It is the most fantastic project that empowers individuals to contribute on a high philosophycal level by doing something very practical. It is such an amazing project, that I started building RepRaps with a group at ProtoSpace. It seems that we've only just started....

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