Speakers at NEXT no. 6 | Innovationlab.dk

MASTER THE YOUNIVERSE!

Jeff Howe (US)

Jeff Howe is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, where he covers the media and entertainment industry. In 2006 he published "The Rise of Crowdsourcing" in Wired which laid claim to the Crowdsourcing concept of user involvement in product development, in 2008 Jeff published the crowdsourcing book and blog. Jeff has a long career in journalism that spans both the Village Voice and The Washington Post.
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GET THE 2.0 TRICKS!

Julia Allison (US)

She has adorned the prized cover of Wired, appears weekly on CNN, and is a regular with CBS, NBC, and Fox. Julia Allison is hailed as a new media marketing genius and flashes all 2.0 tricks daily as founder of life cast phenomenon NonSociety.com. A non conformist writer, Julia was named both "most famous journalist", NY Magazine, and 3rd Most Hated Person on the Internet, Radar Magazine. In the same year.
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HACK THE WORLD!

Pablos (US)

Pablos is an incredible hacker with a world famous ability to construct, and deconstruct, technologies. Often, as you’ll see, live from stage! Pablos helped build the world’s smallest PC, hacker robots and even space ships. Today, Pablos’ genius is with a high end tech consultancy Komposite. The democratization of technology has led to a hacker mindset that will dominate online behavior. Here, Pablos rules.
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PICTURE THIS!

Nikolaj Nyholm (DK)

Polar Rose CEO Nikolaj Nyholm picks at the edges of technology to build innovative companies - from mobile sensing and open source Wi-Fi, to face recognition and crowd-sourced mapping.

FEEL THE STREET!

Richard Stomp (NL)

Serial entrepreneur and author Richard Stomp is the inventor of streetcombing. Forget about brainstorms and focus groups. Fetch your camera and head for the streets to pick up faint signals from future blockbusters. Mixing analytical skills and front end technology, streetcombing is spreading like wildfire as a way to sense market movements. Richard Stomp is also head of Dutch innovation masters WOWIDEAS.

BLOW YOUR MIND!

Matt Webb (UK)

Matt Webb is a principal of the design shop Schulze & Webb, which has a special focus on the social life of stuff. Projects include material prototypes for Nokia, Web strategy for the BBC, and an electronic puppet that brings you closer to your friends. Matt speaks on design and technology, is co-author of acclaimed book Mind Hacks - cognitive psychology for a general audience - and if you were to sum up his design interests in one word, it would be "politeness." He can be found at interconnected.org and in London.
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MAKE YOUR OWN!

Peter Semmelhack (US)

Bug Labs Founder and CEO Peter Semmelhack’s invention, BUG, is basically hardware LEGO – a way to build your own gear from open source building blocks that includes screens, GPS, camera etc. A community for each component makes the improvements constant. The first BUG is now ready for the world – and so is Peter’s idea of a time where it is ridiculous that our choices are narrowed by pre-packaged products.

SOCIALIZE TECHNOLOGY!

Jimmy Loizeau (UK)

James Loizeau explores the role of technology in society; how it affects our behaviour, our relationships and the quality of life. Museum of Modern Art and London Science Museum both exhibit his pieces that include an audio tooth implant, a space helmet and work on robots in the home. Daily work is with both MIT Media Lab and Royal College of Art. Arts and Sciences have rarely been more rewardingly combined.
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DO LIKE NATURE!

Julian Vincent (UK)

The future of technology is, ultimately, nature. Dr Julian Vincent, director of the Centre for Biomimetics at University of Bath, has devised a "biological patents" database enabling engineers to directly tap into nature's ingenuity. Hummingbird fuel efficiency, cuttlefish camouflage and firefly light emission. The answer to many technological challenges is right on our doorstep. Or just outside.

GET INVISIBLE!

Ulf Leonhardt (UK)

We’ve all dreamt about it, authors from Tolkien to H G Wells wrote about it and Harry Potter has tried it. Ulf Leonhard, University of Sct Andrews and member of the Royal Society, has turned his insights in quantum mechanics into a leading expert role in the field of invisibility. Ulf is working on several invisibility devices and knows just about how you can achieve invisibility. We hope to see him at NEXT.
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BEAM ME UP!

Yoel Fink (IL)

In 1995 at age 29 professor Yoel Fink, a former commander in the Israeli army, invented minimally invasive LASER surgery from military equipment. A discovery that earned Yoel a hot spot amongst MIT Technology Review top 100 innovators. Today, Yoel Fink holds a professorship at MITs dept for Material Sciences and continues to produce world class inventions for his company OmniGuide.

R&D INFUSION!

Daan Roosegaarde (NL)

Daan Roosegaarde is an explorer. Half tech, half art, wholly experiment, Daan commits his artful R&D projects so they can both be exhibited at Tate Modern, used in real life and form the basis for a host of new products. His Studio Roosegaarde became famous for constructing a sustainable dance floor, where the energy of a dancing crowd generated electricity, and now solves R&D assignments all over the globe.

SCHOOL'S OUT!

Camilla Uhre Fog (DK)

The Danish school system encourages independent thinking and a proactive societal stance. This is now reinforced with “Fremtidslaboratoriet”, Future Lab, seeking to empower new generations evenly with the new weapons of mass communication. Students and pupils act as developers for companies, wielding the latest in prototypes and mashup tools available. Camilla, a long time new tech learning aficionado, has the word.

PLAY TO LEARN!

Chris Rogers (US)

Chris has exercised his extraordinary talent – sharpened at Stanford (triple degree), Harvard, Princeton, Lincoln University (NZ), ETH, and Tufts – on areas as diverse as fruit fly locomotion, particle-laden turbulence, piano design and couch fires. As part of NASA work, Chris has been on more than 700 0g flights without getting sick. Chris worked with LEGO to develop ROBOLAB, attending kindergarten classes every week (when he is not kicked out from making too much noise).

CONSUMER CONSPIRE!

Christoph Fuchs (AT)

Christoph Fuchs, Assistant Professor of Århus School of Business, is the piper of customer integration. He masters the art of awakening consumers for participation in new product development. Benefits of inviting recipients into the lab go beyond the lab rat effect of reducing failure risk. Christoph will share the whys and – most interestingly perhaps – the hows.