OPENING SESSION SPEAKERS
John Bessant
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Exeter
John Bessant
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of ExeterOriginally a chemical engineer, Professor John Bessant has been active in research, teaching and consultancy in technology and innovation management for over 25 years. He currently holds the Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Exeter University where he is also Research Director. In 2003, he was awarded a Fellowship with the Advanced Institute for Management Research and was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He served on the Business and Management Panel of both the 2001 and 2008 Research Assessment Exercises. He has acted as advisor to various national governments and to international bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and the OECD. Professor Bessant is the author of over 30 books and monographs and many articles on the topic and has lectured and consulted widely around the world. His most recent books include Managing innovation (2018)(now in its 6th edition) Entreprenurship (2018) (both published by John Wiley and Sons) and 'Riding the innovation wave' (Emerald, 2017). You can find more and follow his blog at https://johnbessant.org
Dorothy Gordon
Chair of the UNESCO Information For All Programme and Board member of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
Dorothy Gordon
Chair of the UNESCO Information For All Programme and Board member of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in EducationDorothy Gordon is the Chair of the UNESCO Information For All Programme and Board member of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. She has worked in the field of international development and technology for over thirty years and is recognised as a leading technology activist and specialist on policy, education, technology and society in Africa. Her work as a leader, manager, consultant and speaker has taken her to over 100 countries. She is a strong advocate of the ROAM principles (internet universality), building on her work with the Open Movement and Creative Commons.
Aape Pohjavirta
Chief Evangelist and Founder of Funzi
Aape Pohjavirta
Chief Evangelist and Founder of FunziAape Pohjavirta is the Chief Evangelist and Founder of Funzi, a mobile learning and information service for the emerging markets. In that role, he has become a recognized industry leader with a vision on how science, technology, and innovation will contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. He is also a passionate entrepreneurship coach and a frequent lecturer in universities, incubation and acceleration programs, and other institutions. Aape has worked with digital since 1988 and in the mobile industry since 1997 in various management roles and has a solid track record of international business, product, and technology development including, Exomi Ltd., C&M Capital, Sofi Securities, Vineyard Ltd., Brossco Systems, and People Group. Aape is an Apple Achiever, an international patent inventor, and an inspirational public speaker.
Zsuzsanna Bodi
ENoLL Director
Zsuzsanna Bodi
ENoLL DirectorAs former Living Lab practitioner and current Association Director, Bodi has worked with ENoLL’s 170 active Living Labs. She is also actively following the European Commission’s DG CONNECT’s OISPG group’s activities. Working with and for these valuable networks has allowed Bodi to gain a keen appreciation for and a deep insight into the most recent research findings and future aims of the Living Lab and Open Innovation phenomena. Bodi holds a French MBA-MAE degree in Management and Business Studies (Université Jean Moulin, Lyon). Previously she obtained a M.Sc. in Engineering and Management degree at the Technical University of Budapest and has strong focus on User Centered Product Design. Throughout her 10 years’ experience as a Project manager, she gained knowledge from her work on 15+ national and European projects focusing on the multi stakeholder and end-user engagement, citizen driven and co-creation aspect of the following topics and areas: Future Internet; Smart Cities and Mobility; Cross-border, Cross-sector Collaboration, Game design & serious gaming; STEM Learning Analytics; Big Data; Climate Change; Design and Creative Industries.
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Prof. Fernando Vilariño is Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor of the Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is currently lecturing in Robotics and Multimedia Systems. His research has been linked to diverse areas of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and Robotics. His current research is focused on the development of the link between physical and digital objects. He has led different projects related to citizen science through the implementation of a model for Living Labs in the context of Open Innovation. He has participated in the different workshops and invited talks in the context of ICT and culture. Dr. Vilariño has been awarded with the Spanish Gov. Ramon y Cajal Grant (2010), and Google Academy Award (2014) for his research. As Associate Director for the CVC he has contributed to the technology transfer of Computer Vision technology with setup of a number of start-ups in the field of Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He is co-leading the implementation of the Regional Computer Vision Ecosystem, the regional economic driver of AI. He has developed a model for innovation based on living labs that allows for multi-stake holder user centric approach. Fernando Vilariño is the current Chairman of the European Network of Living Labs.
Daria Tataj
Founder & CEO of Tataj Innovation
Daria Tataj
Founder & CEO of Tataj InnovationDr. Daria Tataj (Entrepreneur Motivational Speaker), Founder & CEO of Tataj Innovation, is the world expert on innovation networks. Tataj Innovation empowers entrepreneurs through Network Thinking, a methodology based on 15+ years of Daria’s research done in collaboration with Prof. Manuel Castells. Prof. Castells endorsed her book ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ as a fundamental book that will reshape the way we think about innovation.
HIGH LEVEL PANELISTS
Daria Tataj
Founder & CEO of Tataj Innovation
Daria Tataj
Founder & CEO of Tataj InnovationDr. Daria Tataj (Entrepreneur Motivational Speaker), Founder & CEO of Tataj Innovation, is the world expert on innovation networks. Tataj Innovation empowers entrepreneurs through Network Thinking, a methodology based on 15+ years of Daria’s research done in collaboration with Prof. Manuel Castells. Prof. Castells endorsed her book ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ as a fundamental book that will reshape the way we think about innovation.
Eddy Hartog
Head of Unit DG Connect Smart Mobility and Living in DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology.
Eddy Hartog
Head of Unit DG Connect Smart Mobility and Living in DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology.Mr Hartog has Dutch nationality and was born and raised in Utrecht (the Netherlands). He obtained a degree in political economics at the Erasmus University (Rotterdam) and subsequently a post-graduate degree at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium). He has worked in the European Commission since 1989, first in Trade policy, then in Regional policy and in Maritime policy and lately in Information Society and Media policy. He is a Head of Unit since 2003. His present responsibility (since July 2016) is Head of Unit for Smart Mobility and Living in DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology.
Ethel Hui Yan Tan
Policy Advisor for Digital Government, Governance & Innovation, OECD
Ethel Hui Yan Tan
Policy Advisor for Digital Government, Governance & Innovation, OECD
Ethel Hui Yan Tan is a public policy and communications specialist at the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, Open and Innovative Government Division. She works with governments across Europe, Middle East and Asia to design policies that strengthen digital government and data governance, promote the creation of open and innovative ecosystems and deliver economic and social value to citizens. Ethel also actively advises and engages with businesses, think tanks and non-governmental organisations on public-private collaborations and international co-operation towards creating a sustainable, citizen-centric digital future. She has worked for global strategic communications firms such as Ogilvy, Golin and Hill+Knowlton Strategies; and consulted for executive leadership and training firms in the management consulting and banking industries. Ethel holds a Master in Public Policy from Sciences Po and a Global Elite of Business Administration from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Saskia van Uffelen
GFI Corporate Vice President Belux, former CEO Ericsson Belux and Digital champion of Belgium
Saskia van Uffelen
GFI Corporate Vice President Belux, former CEO Ericsson Belux and Digital champion of BelgiumSaskia van Uffelen is the CEO of Ericsson Belux and the Digital Champion of Belgium. Saskia aims to get all Belgians online, to change the "geek" image about STEM with a special attention for girls/women and to stimulate to boost the Digital transformation of the industry, the government, the academic world. Saskia is strongly supporting the Digital Belgium Plan. Digital Belgium is the action plan, which outlines the digital long-term vision for the country and translates this into clear ambitions. On the basis of five clear, specific priorities we would like to put Belgium more firmly on the digital map. Digital Infrustructure Digital Confidence and Digital Security Digital Government Digital Economy Digital Skills and Jobs
Ugo Guarnacci
Project Adviser at Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), European Commission
Ugo Guarnacci
Project Adviser at Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), European CommissionUgo Guarnacci works as Project Adviser at Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), European Commission, managing Horizon 2020 projects on smart and sustainable cities, social and cultural innovation, nature-based solutions. Before joining EASME, Ugo has worked for 6 years as Policy Officer at Directorate of "Climate Action and Resource Efficiency", Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), European Commission. In 2019, Ugo Guarnacci worked as Lead in Diversity and Inclusion 4.0 at the World Economic Forum in Geneva. Ugo is an applied economist by training, with a PhD on measuring resilience and subjective wellbeing in post-disaster, post-conflict Indonesia. His areas of expertise include sustainable urban development, beyond GDP indicators and environmental accounting, diversity, equity & inclusion, social innovation and citizen engagement.
TOPIC DEBATE SPEAKERS
Muriel Mambrini-Doudet
Director of Research at INRAE
Muriel Mambrini-Doudet
Director of Research at INRAEMuriel Mambrini-Doudet holds two qualifications, sustainability science and innovative science management. She is research director at Inrae, currently i) adviser at the scientific directorate for accelerating open innovation and transdisciplinarity in research-education-industry- government hubs concerned by agriculture, food and environment (notably living labs), ii) director of the international doctoral school “frontiers of innovation in research and education” welcoming outstanding interdisciplinary projects at the interface between life science- education-digital, and iii) researcher at the industrial chair “theory and methods of design thinking”. Prior to this role, she was the director of the Institut des Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technologie, which trains top managers from public and private organization to the scientific approach to reduce the distance between science and society. From 2008 to 2014 she headed the largest research center of Inrae (1 500 staff, 35 scientific laboratories), after having served as scientific adviser to Inrae’s CEO. At each step of her scientific career, she has been working at the interface between at least two disciplines in order to contribute to the sustainable development of the sector she was working for. She holds a PhD in nutrition, defended her habilitation to steer research at the interface between nutrition and genetics, authored more than 50 international publication in various disciplinary fields (biological sciences, management sciences, epistemology).
Geert Christiaansen
Senior Director Design Innovation, Phillips Design
Geert Christiaansen
Senior Director Design Innovation, Phillips Design
Geert Christiaansen is Senior Director Design Innovation at Philips Design. He has worked in Philips in a number of businesses in different regions and roles, ranging from product strategy and marketing to business development, in Europe, Asia and the United States. Next to this Geert started and owned a venture in RFID/NFC technology. His background in business enables him to connect the capabilities of the creative force of Philips Design to the businesses internal and external to Philips. In his role he is responsible for the Philips Design Innovation Portfolio and developing strategic relationships.
Alexia Rouby
Programme Officer - European Commission - DG AGRI
Alexia Rouby
Programme Officer - European Commission - DG AGRIAlexia Rouby is a Research Programme Officer with the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG-AGRI), Research and Innovation unit. She is an Agro-economist with over 10 years experience in network coordination, policy analysis and project development and management.
Chris McPhee
Innovation Management Specialist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Chris McPhee
Innovation Management Specialist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Chris McPhee is an Innovation Management Specialist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Living Laboratories Initiative, which is an integrated approach to agricultural innovation that brings farmers, scientists, and other partners together to co-develop, test, and monitor new practices and technologies in a real-life context. Prior to this role, he served for nine years as Editor-in-Chief of the Technology Innovation Management Review, an international journal focusing on emerging topics in innovation from a multidisciplinary perspective and featuring many special issues on living labs. He is a member of the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and a co-lead of its Special Interest Group on Living Labs, which is supported by the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). In Canada and Scotland, he has held various innovation-related roles in the private sector, the public sector, and academia, primarily in the areas of education, healthcare, and science. His areas of interest include living labs, open innovation, entrepreneurship, participatory and action research, knowledge mobilization, and the human and social dimensions of innovation. Chris holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology (Plant Ecology) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
Milica Trajković
Head of Business Development Department at BioSense Institute, PA4ALL
Milica Trajković
Head of Business Development Department at BioSense Institute, PA4ALLMs. Milica Trajkovic is a certified PMI project manager, experienced in EU funded projects focused on Digital Agriculture and development of ICTs for AgriFood value chain. For the last five years she has been equally involved in numerous proposals preparation (from idea to design and proposal formulation) as well as projects’ implementation. Constant managing of multiple projects resulted in two main specializations – i) liaison between project requests and partners’ needs and Institute’s expertise and resources dedicated to implementation of project tasks; ii) efficient implementation of overall project strategy and assuring sub-projects and pilots are executing pre-defined tasks and activities within time, budget and quality constraints. At the same time, she deeply believes that people are the most valuable asset a company can have. Hence, Milica is very passionate about training and development activities tailored to Institute’s employees needs she is leading. In parallel, Milica is an Operations Manager in Precision Agriculture Living Lab (PA4ALL), where she works on broadening the relations with agricultural producers and maintaining cross-fertilization process between agricultural and ICT industry.
Artur Serra
i2CAT deputy Director, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights lead
Artur Serra
i2CAT deputy Director, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights leadArtur Serra Hurtado (1954), Alicante (Spain). Deputy Director of the Foundation i2cat Foundation, research and innovation centre about the Internet. PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Barcelona, specialised in technological cultures. In 2006, launched the Cultural Ring, the first experimental network bandwidth for the cultural sector, connecting cultural centers in Catalonia and around the world, including Latin America through the Anilla Cultural Latinoamericana. Interested in the connection between the technology and the citizenry, since 1995 he developed some projects design and launched the first citizen networks in Spain and Europe (BCNet, Ravalnet, …) culminating them in the organisation of the First World Congress Citizens Network (Barcelona 2000). Currently, his line of research focuses on the design and implementation of living labs, new innovation structures open to the entire citizenry. In 2007 he launched the Citilab, the first European citizen lab.
Tuija Hirvikoski
Laurea University Director
Tuija Hirvikoski
Laurea University DirectorDr Tuija Hirvikoski is currently a director at Laurea University of Applied Sciences responsible for the University’s strategic stakeholder management. During her Vice-Presidency, Laurea become Finland’s most successful University of Applied Sciences receiving multiple awards. She has held managerial positions at various Finnish higher education institutions and governmental institutions focusing on sustainable regional and societal development. Hirvikoski’s specific area of expertise is related to multi-stakeholder, user-centred innovation design and ecosystem development (Living Labs). She has received a PhD in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystems), MSc in Education and MSc in Administration. As a sought-after advisor, she has provided various audiences with inspirational examples and research results concerning the Finnish education and open innovation ecosystems. Hirvikoski was the President of The European Network of Living Labs between 2015-2018 and has served as a council member in various organisations such as the Uusimaa Regional Coordination Committee, Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Centre R&D Unit, Tech villa Ltd (a Finnish technology centre), Helsinki Information Technology Association, the Talent Cultivation Program for Smart Living Industry in Taiwan, and the Centre for Skills and Post-Secondary Education (SPSE) in Canada.
Carolyn Hassan
Director, Knowle West Media Centre, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights lead
Carolyn Hassan
Director, Knowle West Media Centre, AOTF Social Innovation & Digital Rights lead
Carolyn is the founder and Director of Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) http://www.kwmc.org.uk and Bristol Living Lab. KWMC is an arts and media organisation that delivers programmes ranging from citizen led housing, citizen sensing, to young peoples’ arts and technology programmes. KWMC works closely with academic institutions including University of Bristol and collaborated with Helen Manchester, Reader in Digital Inequalities and Urban Futures as part of the Horizon 20:20 Lighthouse project Replicate https://replicate-project.eu/. She is currently an International Ambassador for Bristol.
Joëlle Mastelic
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland
Joëlle Mastelic
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western SwitzerlandDr Joëlle Mastelic is professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland. She has been teaching for 12 years in the fields of Business Economics and Energy and Environmental Techniques, in particular in the Energy Management major. She has also developed continuing education courses: CAS on "Sustainable Marketing" and participated in the launch of the interdisciplinary Master "New Product Development";. As a researcher, she is part of the InnoLab Unit (Entrepreneurship and Management Institute) and the Water Group (Energy and Environment Institute). Her area of expertise is innovation and marketing in the field of energy. She is in charge of the Energy Living Lab, a living laboratory whose aim is to put the user at the centre of the energy transition by co- developing innovative solutions with him. This laboratory has notably collaborated with Romande Energie, Transports Publics du Chablais and Losinger Marazzi by proposing service design approaches. It is currently working on disseminating the results by creating social franchises for the Energy Living Lab, with the support of the HES-SO strategic fund. Her publications and interventions focus on the empowerment and engagement of key stakeholders in the process of energy innovation within regional ecosystems. In terms of networking, she is part of the board of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) as head of the Energy and Environment Taskforce. She is responsible for the Living Labs for Decarbonisation of Energy national program, financed by InnoSuisse, which brings together more than 20 partners, including Swiss Post and SBB, and whose aim is to develop a portfolio of innovative projects supported by InnoSuisse in the field of decarbonisation of energy. At the European level, it is an expert for the European Commission, and is collaborating in particular on the transformation of the Joint Research Center site in Ispra into a Living Lab dedicated to the energy and mobility of the future. As organizer and moderator, she has organized and facilitated numerous conferences, such as the Energy Forum on the integration of consumers in the energy transition: http://www.energyforum-vs.ch. She also moderated a workshop during the International Days of Sociology of Energy in Tours on the theme Information and support: what tools, what challenges? http://www.socio-energie2015.fr. She was the moderator of the day on Energy Transition: new roles for buildings and neighbourhoods? at the HEIG in Fribourg: http://pst-fr.com/zero-carbone. She has organised and moderated numerous participatory workshops, in particular in the framework of the international conferences Open Living Lab Days https://openlivinglabdays.com and Sustainable Energy Week https://www.eusew.eu. She has co-organised the Open Living Lab Days in Geneva with more than 500 participants and introduced by the UN office director. The participants have worked on the role of Living Labs to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN https://www.ge.ch/agenda/open-living-lab-days-2018-olld.
Andrea Rubini
Director of Operations, Water Europe
Andrea Rubini
Director of Operations, Water Europe
Andrea Rubini holds a Master in Water Resources Engineering and has more than 30 years of international experience in the water and energy sector, in climate change and its impact in urban, industrial and ecosystem areas. He has spent the last 20 years in the context of multi-level European lobbying in Brussels where he has gained a deep experience of European R&I policies and funding. He has previously worked for the Italian Chamber of Commerce system, in Asia and Africa for INGO, UNDP, ILO and AfDP. The assignment as policy advisor for the Delegation of the Presidency of the Lombardy Region to the EU and the EC DG REGIO. Lastly, several assignments as visiting professor at universities in Europe, Asia and Africa complete his profile. Andrea currently works in Brussels as Director of Operations of Water Europe, the European Technology Platform for Water, assigned to Brussels as Director of Operations and is charge of the marketing and R&I collaboration programs of Water Europe.
Amir Banifatemi
Curator and Co-funder of AI commons
Amir Banifatemi
Curator and Co-funder of AI commonsBanifatemi is an entrepreneur, investor, and innovation strategist. He is the managing partner of K5 Ventures, and currently leads the AI and Frontiers Technologies and Impact initiatives with the XPRIZE foundation. He is a co-founder the AI Commons Initiative, and curator of the AI for Good Global Summit with the ITU and UN Agencies. He has managed two venture capital funds, and supports and advises companies focused on exponential technologies and transformation of humanity and society. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne, a Doctorate in System Design and Cognitive Sciences from the University Paris Descartes, as well as an MBA from HEC Paris. He is a regular guest lecturer and adjunct MBA professor at UC Berkeley, Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, UC Irvine, and HEC Paris.
Mayte Sánchez Hidalgo
YBRID SOLUTIONS BUSINESS LEADER - EVERIS DIGITAL
Mayte Sánchez Hidalgo
YBRID SOLUTIONS BUSINESS LEADER - EVERIS DIGITALMayte started her career in Microsoft, MSN Search. In 2002 she moved to USA as Fulbright Scholar to research on data and customer centricity with the team of Kellogg on Integrated Marketing. She worked as CRM consultant at Banco Santander, CMO of FON Wireless and Strategic Mktng Dtor at NH Hotels. She is now Hybrid Solutions Leader at everis Digital. Mayte has completed studies in Spain, Chile and Italy, holds a MS by Northwestern University and speaks Spanish, English, Italian & basic Arab.
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab
Fernando Vilariño
Chairperson of ENoLL, Associate Director at Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at UAB. Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab Prof. Fernando Vilariño is Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor of the Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is currently lecturing in Robotics and Multimedia Systems. His research has been linked to diverse areas of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, and Robotics. His current research is focused on the development of the link between physical and digital objects. He has led different projects related to citizen science through the implementation of a model for Living Labs in the context of Open Innovation. He has participated in the different workshops and invited talks in the context of ICT and culture. Dr. Vilariño has been awarded with the Spanish Gov. Ramon y Cajal Grant (2010), and Google Academy Award (2014) for his research. As Associate Director for the CVC he has contributed to the technology transfer of Computer Vision technology with setup of a number of start-ups in the field of Machine Learning and Computer Vision. He is co-leading the implementation of the Regional Computer Vision Ecosystem, the regional economic driver of AI. He has developed a model for innovation based on living labs that allows for multi-stake holder user centric approach. Fernando Vilariño is the current Chairman of the European Network of Living Labs.
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thess-AHALL Researcher, AOTF Health & Wellbeing lead
Evdokimos Konstantinidis
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thess-AHALL Researcher, AOTF Health & Wellbeing leadDr Evdokimos Konstantinidis is the leader of the Assistive Technologies and Silver Science Research Group in the Lab of Medical Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received the Diploma in electronic engineering from the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, in 2004, the M.Sc. degree in medical informatics in 2008 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the Ph.D. degree in the Laboratory of Medical Physics of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2015. His research interests lie predominately in the area of medical informatics, particularly within assistive technologies (silverscience, silvergaming, mobile health)
Vicky Van der Auwera
Operations Manager LiCalab
Vicky Van der Auwera
Operations Manager LiCalabVicky holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Sciences from Brussels University Belgium, where she graduated as civil mechanical-electrical engineer. She worked for 14 years in private sector in the area of mechanical engineering as Research Manager and Project manager, where she built up experience and knowledge of machine construction, mechatronics, opto-mechanical measurements, semiconductor measurements (wafer inspection). Since 2010 she works for Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, at the tech transfer office and in the unit research. She is one of the team members that started up LiCalab in 2012, in close collaboration with the City of Turnhout. At LiCalab she is responsible for the operational management of the team and she leads EU-projects as well as private assignments.
Luis Navarro López
Director General Guadalinfo, AOTF Rural Living Labs lead
Luis Navarro López
Director General Guadalinfo, AOTF Rural Living Labs leadLuis is a telecom engineer, with more than 15 years of experience in aligning technology and social needs. Managing Director at the Guadalinfo Living Lab network, composed of more than 800 living Labs located in all the municipalities under 20.000 inhabitants all over Andalusia, coordinating an expert group responsible of the LL network support and the Social Innovation and ICTs regional and international strategies, from a Smart Rural perspective. Especially active and interested in the human centered environment, expert on gamification, social innovation, and impact assessment methodologies. Currently involved in the regional certification of Digital Competencies (based on DIGCOMP) and the development of entrepreneurship competencies strategies (based on ENTRECOMP). Responsible of the international affairs with a long track of international projects development. Passionate about intelligent crowd tendencies, open innovation, open science and living labs methodologies and experiences. Long research experience on the optical communications field. At the moment involved in social innovation, smart rural and internationalization strategies Especially active and interested in the human centered environment, expert on gamification, social innovation, crowdfunding and impact assessment methodologies. Responsible of the international affairs with a long track of projects development. Passionate about intelligent crowd tendencies, open innovation and co-creation methodologies
Aawatif Hayar
President of Université Hassan II de Casablanca
Aawatif Hayar
President of Université Hassan II de CasablancaPr. Aawatif HAYAR President of University Hassan II of Casablanca-Morocco. She received, with honors,as the First Moroccan, the degree of “Agrégation” in Electrical Engineering from EcoleNormaleSupérieure de Cachan in 1992. She received the “Diplômed'EtudesApprofondies” in Signal processing Image and Communications and the degree of Engineer in Telecommunications Systems and Networks from ENSEEIHT de Toulouse in 1997. She received with honors the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing and Telecommunications from Institut National Polytechnique in Toulouse in 2001. She was research and teaching associate at EURECOM’s Mobile Communication Department from 2001 to 2010 in Sophia Antipolis-France. AawatifHayarhas an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger la Recherche) from University Sud Toulon Var from France on Cognitive Wideband Wireless Systems on 2010 and an HDR on Green Téléommunication from University Hassan II Casablanca on 2013. From 2011 till June 2019, AawatifHayar had Professor position at the engineering school ENSEM of University Hassan II Casablanca. Since June 2019, Pr. Aawatif Hayar was appointed President of the University Hassan II of Casablanca-Morocco and is the second female in the history of Morocco to occupy this position. She is also member of Casablanca “Avant-garde” City think-tank. She is co-initiator since 2013 of E-madina Smart City Cluster. Her research interests includes fields such as cognitive green communications systems, UWB systems, smart grids, smart sustainable social building, e-governance, open data for citizens, smart cities, ICT for social eco-friendly smart socio-economic development. Pr. AawatifHayaris also IEEE DLT Chair for EMEA region since 2014 and the designerof Frugal Social Sustainable Smart City concept for Casablanca and emerging countries which was selected by IEEE Smart City initiative as one of the most innovative projects in the world in 2015. Pr. AawatifHayar is currently Chair of Casablanca IEEE Core Smart City project. She was also selected by the prestigious African Innovation Foundation as one of the top ten innovative African women in 2015. Aawatif Hayar has developed “Frugal Social Collaborative Sustainable Smart City Casablanca“, a new concept for smart city transformation which was distinguished by IEEE Smart city initiative in 2015 as an innovative cost effective inclusive smart city concept. She is the Scientific Advisor, at the City level, of Smart City Expo Casablanca and General Co-Chair of IEEE international Conference on Smart Cities (IEEE ISC2 -2019). Pr. Aawatif Hayar is currently leading or involved in a couple of R&D/Innovation projects with the City of Casablanca, the region Casablanca Settat, CNRST, INDH, GIZ and Heinrich Böll Stiftung such as End to End Energy Efficiency Living Lab, Virtual Museum of Casablanca, e-douar “Smart Inclusive Ecological village”and Solar Decathlon Africa E-Co Dar and Benguerir Smart City ASToN AFD projects.
Patrizia Busolini
Policy Officer, European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sea-basin Strategies, Maritime Regional Cooperation and Maritime Security
Patrizia Busolini
Policy Officer, European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sea-basin Strategies, Maritime Regional Cooperation and Maritime Security
Patrizia BUSOLINI is a policy officer at DG MARE Unit dealing with Sea-basin Strategies, Maritime Regional Cooperation and Maritime Security. She is in charge of the Common Maritime Agenda for the Black Sea (CMA) that aims at supporting regional cooperation for a more sustainable blue economy in the Black Sea and which is the 3 rd and most recent EU sea basin initiative that joins similar frameworks of cooperation in the Atlantic and Western Mediterranean. In the framework of its 3 goals - 1. Healthy marine ecosystems; 2. Innovative blue economy; 3. Investment - the CMA involves diverse Black Sea stakeholders: policy actors and public authorities, business, academia as well as civil society and international organization while research and innovation and digitalization are cross cutting enables of the process. She equally works on similar regional processes that are active in the Mediterranean basin. Pervious to this experience she was in charge of Enlargement and Integration Action of the EU Commission Joint Research Centre, focusing the identification and implementation of projects supporting Horizon 2020 Associated countries in participating to EU research and innovation projects. Before joining the EU Commission, she was responsible for the implementation of the Axis 4 of the EU INTERREG Mediterranean Programme and the related Mediterranean intergovernmental platform focusing capacity building to Programme countries in the identification and implementation of joint policies and projects targeting common challenges in strategic sectors such as maritime surveillance, coastal/maritime tourism and innovation.
Susan Halford
Professor of Sociology University of Bristol, UK
Susan Halford
Professor of Sociology University of Bristol, UKSusan is a Geographer by training, has been a Sociologist for the past 25 years and over the past decade has worked across the social and engineering sciences with a research focus on the politics of digital data and infrastructures. As Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton until December 2018, she was a founding Director of the Web Science Institute where she also co-directed the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Web Science. In 2019 Susan joined the University of Bristol as Professor of Sociology and founding co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, at the centre of the University’s new Temple Quarter innovation campus. Susan is a member of the UKRI Digital Economy Programme Board, the UK Biobank Ethics Committee and chairs the ESRC on New and Emerging forms of Data. She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts and is currently President of the British Sociological Association 2018-21.
RESEARCH SESSION CHAIR
Dimitri Schuurman
Team Lead Business & Domain Experts imec's Digital Transformation Department
Dimitri Schuurman
Team Lead Business & Domain Experts imec's Digital Transformation Department
Dimitri Schuurman leads the Business & Domain Expertise Center at imec's Digital Transformation Department focussing on the domains Smart Cities, Mobility & Public Health. He holds a PhD on Living Lab organizations from Ghent University & the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. Together with his imec colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific Innovation Management approach & framework (called Innovatrix) which is specifically designed for multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary innovation projects. He also leads a Special Interest Group on Living Labs in the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and is active in the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) as a Living Labs specialist. His main interests and research topics are situated in the domains of open innovation, user innovation and innovation management.
WORKSHOP FACILITATORS
Mike Martin
Professor
Mike Martin
ProfessorMike has had a career in Research and Development in the computer and telecommunications industries of over 45 years. After working in the early development of Human Factors and HCI in the 1970s, he was involved in the collaborative research of the `80s and `90s which developed modern distributed systems architecture and systems design methodologies and their ultimate translation to form the global information infrastructure. In 1999 the focus of his work shifted to the challenges of information systems in the public sector and particularly to the creation of infrastructure to support multi-agency partnership working in Health and Social Care. He was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Software Reliability in the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University from 1994 to 2000 where he led the COBRA service brokerage architecture project of the 4th Framework Programme. 1997-8 he was appointed Senior Visiting Research Fellow at BT Research Laboratories developing a Business Modelling Facility. He moved to the Newcastle University Business School in 2000 bringing the DH funded Durham and Darlington Electronic Health Record project and the EPSRC funded AMASE project which formed the platform for the Social and Business Informatics Group later incorporated into the KITE Research Centre. In 2013, Mike was appointed to the staff of the Business School as Senior Research Advisor where he is collaborating in the Digital Economy Research. He has also been responsible for the development and operation of the Newcastle Living Lab which is a set of visualisation and sense-making theory, tools and methods to support the co-production and governance of complex socio-technical systems and environments.
Hank Kune
Founder and director of Educore bv in the Netherland. He is also a co-founder of the FCA and a member of its board.
Hank Kune
Founder and director of Educore bv in the Netherland. He is also a co-founder of the FCA and a member of its board.Founder of Educore, and Founding Partner of the Future Center Alliance (FCA). His work focuses on systemic and open innovation, developing innovation-enabling environments, supporting the entrepreneurial mindset, and creating conditions for dialogue that leads to renewal. He has worked extensively with public sector organizations in the Netherlands, as well as diverse innovation initiatives throughout the European Union and Japan. Hank is a co-initiator of the Global Lab for Climate Resilience. He has published extensively on societal innovation, orchestrating regional innovation ecosystems, and dedicated innovation-enabling spaces, and this has been influential in establishing and running Future Centers in several countries. Hank is one of the pioneers of the Aalto Camp for Societal Innovation and has led more than 25 Camps since 2010. He is the principal author of the Innovation Camp Methodology Handbook, published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (2017).
Tuija Hirvikoski
Emerita president of ENoLL holding a PhD in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystem relationship)
Tuija Hirvikoski
Emerita president of ENoLL holding a PhD in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystem relationship)Dr. Tuija Hirvikoski, emerita president of ENoLL has received a Ph.D. in Industrial Management (Innovation and Innovation Ecosystem relationship). Hirvikoski has held various managerial positions at different Finnish higher education institutions and governmental institutions focusing on sustainable regional and societal development such as being a long-term Vice-President of Laurea. She has contributed to the development of several EU funded RDI projects particularly in the field of holistic and citizen-driven service innovation, eHealth and Wellbeing, Smart Citizens and Entrepreneurship. Hirvikoski represents Laurea in national and international organizations such as Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Coordinating Committee, ENoLL, Committee of the Regions, EC OSPP, Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Centre and an invited expert on the EC European University Vision 2030 group. In 2016, she was rewarded with the international Innovation Luminary Award.
Kaisla Saastamoinen
Project specialist
Kaisla Saastamoinen
Project specialistKaisla Saastamoinen is a project specialist in the Co-creation Orchestration (CCO) project at Laurea University of Applied Sciences. In this position, she researches multi-stakeholder innovation ecosystems and their orchestration. She holds a Master’s degree in Hospitality Management (Customer-centric Service Development).
Anne Äyväri
Principal Lecturer
Anne Äyväri
Principal LecturerDr. Anne Äyväri is a Principal Lecturer in the Service Design and Innovation master’s degree program at Laurea University of Applied Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in Economics. As part of the Co-creation Orchestration team, she researches e.g. multi-stakeholder co-creation governance models as well as skills and capabilities of multi-stakeholder innovation ecosystem orchestrators. She has strong experience in co-creation and Living Labs.
Elke den Ouden
TU/e Fellow in the Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship and Marketing group at the Eindhoven University of Technology
Elke den Ouden
TU/e Fellow in the Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship and Marketing group at the Eindhoven University of TechnologyElke den Ouden is a TU/e Fellow in the Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship and Marketing group at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on new business development in public-private value networks. In this role, she focuses on the domain of Smart Cities and Intelligent Lighting and is also responsible for the strategy of the Living Light Labs on the TU/e campus, a.o. the Atlas Living Lab.
Pegah Kheiri
PDEng in the Smart Buildings and Cities program at the Eindhoven University of Technology
Pegah Kheiri
PDEng in the Smart Buildings and Cities program at the Eindhoven University of TechnologyPegah Kheiri is a PDEng in the Smart Buildings and Cities program at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on the innovation ecosystem around Atlas Living Lab, where she aims to integrate the academic and practical learnings to design a holistic business model for Atlas Living Lab, which is also a best practice for other living labs.
Thalia Rizou
Service Designer & Facilitator
Thalia Rizou
Service Designer & FacilitatorThalia Rizou is the founder and director of Youthnest, an organization that develops holistic methodological approaches to address social challenges. With a strong background in project management, service design and facilitation, she is looking for systemic methods to tackle our society’s challenges in a participatory, efficient, and holistic way. The last 13 years, she has been involved in several organisations, projects, and initiatives that promote social innovation, civic society, and education in Greece and abroad. She is passionate about promoting practical social innovation ideas in her community, in her city, Thessaloniki, and in Greece. She believes that in order to find sustainable solutions you need a vision-driven idea, a strong systemic business plan customized for local needs, and a participatory, user-centric approach. Areas of interest and expertise: Design for Social Innovation, Systemic impact, Project Management, Learning Innovation, Service Design, Organizational Design, Social Innovation Secret Superpower: Although she lives in a country full of islands and sun, she is a deep lover of winter mountaineering
Ioanna Elabd
Participatory Innovation Architect & Strategist
Ioanna Elabd
Participatory Innovation Architect & StrategistIoanna is the heart of Wabi & Sabi, a New York-based, strategic design and innovation consultancy founded to guide organizations into purpose-driven innovation, regenerative growth, and sustainability. Since graduating from Cornell University she splits her time between her two homes, the US and Greece, devising adaptive, cross-platform strategies that grow audiences, build resilience, and amplify social impact at the speed of culture and everyday life. Over two decades she has future-proofed startups and worked on award winning projects across three continents garnering international acclaim. Her clients range from fortune 500s and SMEs to nonprofits and public entities in need of reinventing themselves. Driven by her lifelong passion to explore society’s increasingly interconnected problem spaces she is dedicated to developing participatory programs that facilitate networked learning, capacity building, and transformational leadership for innovation. Her goal is to help changemakers shift to managing complexity more efficiently through collective inquiry and iterative problem solving—empowering them to ask the ‘tough’ WHYs that will confidently lead them through accelerating change. She believes that architecting human-centered experiences that resonate deeply and inspire meaningful transdisciplinary dialogues can fuel activation and accelerate systemic change. Secret Superpower: A forever curious chocoholic with an innate ability to make novel connections others miss and unlock opportunities for shared value co-creation.
Vasia Christoulaki
Service designer
Vasia Christoulaki
Service designerVasia is a service designer with expertise in using service design to improve public and social services for citizens and transform organizations towards a design-led, human-centered culture. She is the founder of Design4Future, a service design agency in Greece and founding member of the Service Design Network – Greek Chapter. During the past 4 years she has organized and facilitated various service design events and jams in Greece (such as. Service Design Jam, Global GovJam, Service Design Drinks etc.) and has participated in the team who translated Nesta’s DIY Toolkit in Greek. Her portfolio of clients includes public organizations in Greece as well as multinational tech companies (Deutsche Telekom and more.) and the European Commission. She holds a MA in Design Management.
Isis Gouedard
Collective intelligence expert
Isis Gouedard
Collective intelligence expert
Passionate about human interactions and motivations, Isis Gouédard helps clients embrace change and derive action plans fostering ideas through experience and games, unleashing the power of collective intelligence. A Genevoise mum-preneur and Senior IT Project manager, she holds a Mathematics Master and Entrepreneurship EMBA from the University of Geneva.
Stephanie Douillard
Anthropologist & Founder ANTHR2
Stephanie Douillard
Anthropologist & Founder ANTHR2Stéphanie’s career path has interchanged between archaeology and educational sciences whilst also including teaching and working in various businesses. As a result, her experience is a hybrid of multiple environments. This has led her to social anthropology which she has incorporated into multiple projects in France and in Quebec. Today, she oscillates constantly between concepts surrounding prehistory, humanity, collective intelligence, collaborative spirit, self-reflection, and various traditional and spiritual healing methods. A singularity that allows her to create a meaningful link between roots and wings, between our long-held traditions and innovation, between prehistory and future prospectives.
Mike de Kreek
Senior researcher at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Mike de Kreek
Senior researcher at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesMike de Kreek (Ph.D.) is a senior researcher at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. His main research interest is in collective learning as a social process and cultural interventions that can boost this process.
Yasemin Oruc
Senior Lecturer in Hospitality Marketing & Innovation and Research Fellow
Yasemin Oruc
Senior Lecturer in Hospitality Marketing & Innovation and Research FellowYasemin Oruc (MSc., MBA) is a Senior Lecturer in Hospitality Marketing & Innovation and Research Fellow at Hotelschool the Hague. She is conducting doctoral research on a socio-cognitive mindfulness approach to city hospitality.
Martijn Arnoldus
Living Lab Strategist
Martijn Arnoldus
Living Lab StrategistMartijn Arnoldus is currently working as Living Lab Strategist at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands). He is also the founder of Scale Matters, a small company concerned with social innovation, social entrepreneurship and bottom-up innovation.
Susie McAleer
Accomplished Digital Government practitioner and thought leader with over 15 years of experience
Susie McAleer
Accomplished Digital Government practitioner and thought leader with over 15 years of experienceSusie is an accomplished Digital Government practitioner and thought leader with over 15 years of experience helping public administrations across the globe harness the transformational power of technology. A founding partner of 21c Consultancy, Ms. McAleer regularly works with international organizations such as the United Nations and European Commission as an expert eGovernment consultant and evaluator. Her portfolio of global clients includes the governments of Great Britain, Belgium, UAE, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, and India as well as multiple pan-European cities and regions. Throughout the years, Susie has written and edited numerous specialist papers and journals, including a United Nations and Council of Europe book on eParticipation.
Sandrine Leroyer
Project manager in social innovation
Sandrine Leroyer
Project manager in social innovationA facilitator with great empathy, she uses collective intelligence, co-design methodologies, and in situ experimentation to transform a blank page into a unique user experience and deploy it for good living at home and in society. Project manager in social innovation at the « Université du domicile », Sandrine has been putting her expertise at the service of projects to develop jobs in the home since 2012.
Cristiana Parisi
Associate Professor
Cristiana Parisi
Associate ProfessorProf. Cristiana Parisi: Associate Professor in Management Control at the Operations Management Department at CBS. She is an acknowledged member of the managerial accounting research community and has a solid professional background. Prof. Parisi has more than ten years of academic and consultancy experience and she trained as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with consistent practical experience in the implementation of multistakeholder’s performance measurement models. She also has a consistent track record in successful research projects. A recent example is the Horizon 2020 “constRuctive mEtabolic processes For materiaL flOWs in urban and peri-urban environments across Europe (REFLOW)” project (2019-2022) that she is leading in the role of principal investigator and overall project coordinator ( https://reflowproject.eu/; https://blog.cbs.dk/reflow/). REFLOW is an Innovation Action project (€ 10 Million). It is a research project that sets out to offer a new approach to a circular economy (CE) in urban areas. REFLOW will provide the best practices aligning market and government needs in order to create favorable conditions for the public and private sector to adopt CE practices. Active citizen involvement and systemic change are needed to re-think the current approach. Concretely, REFLOW will create new CE business models within 6 pilot cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, Cluj-Napoca, Milan, Paris, and Vejle and assess their social, environmental and economic impact. In each of the pilots, citizens will be involved in developing and testing circular products, software, and business models for their own city. REFLOW’s ambition is to offer tools and guidelines that other cities can adopt.
Kaisa Spilling
Development Manager, Forum Virium Helsinki
Kaisa Spilling
Development Manager, Forum Virium HelsinkiKaisa Spilling, Development Manager, Forum Virium Helsinki. Urban interventionist with + 10 years experience innovation projects and ecosystems and public-private partnerships. Responsible for the development of living lab methods and competence.
Americo Mateus
Vice-director of HEI-LAB Research center - digital Human-Environment Interaction Lab / ULHT
Americo Mateus
Vice-director of HEI-LAB Research center - digital Human-Environment Interaction Lab / ULHTLecturer at ULHT and ISMAT - Portimão, Head of Research at Design Lusófona, Author of IDEAS(R)EVOLUTION - a co-creative way of thinking innovation. Author and co-author of more than 38 scientific articles, published and presented internationally. Keynote speaker in several international conferences about, Creativity, Design, Marketing, Branding and Innovation. Main Scientific responsible of several implementation projects of IDEAS(R)EVOLUTION methodology case studies, such as: ALVITO territorial innovation and branding strategy, OESTE ATIVO innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in OESTE region Portugal, CALDAS DA RAINHA territorial innovation and branding strategy, CULTURA AVIEIRA Social innovation project, TWINTEX brand innovation for manufacturer SMEs, UCIP user-centered innovation program for Inovcity smart grid EDP in Évora, Group IMPRESA - Design Thinking Training. Expert in international research project S3C smart customer, smart consumer, smart citizen regarding co-creation in energy-efficient consumption. Research member at URBINAT h2020 project. PhD on Management - combining Management, creativity, design and Marketing.
Joanne Carroll
Researcher
Joanne Carroll
ResearcherJoanne Carroll has an MSc in Psychology looking at the impact of virtual technology on memory and cognition. She has a Level 9 Certificate in internet research methods and is also a researcher on the CAPTAIN project. As a result, she has experience conducting research where technology is at the center of methodological design in online settings.
Aaron Farrelly
Researcher
Aaron Farrelly
ResearcherAaron Farrelly has a research masters in psychology looking into the impact of stress on clinical psychologists. He also has completed a yearlong research methods module as part of his masters. As a result, he has experience conducting both quantitative and qualitative research. He has relevant experience in recruitment, schedule/survey creation, qualitative data collection and analysis.
Marília Ferreira da Cunha
Communication consultant, researcher, information designer
Marília Ferreira da Cunha
Communication consultant, researcher, information designerMarília Ferreira da Cunha is a communication consultant working in the development of strategies, its implementation, and the production of content for several platforms. Marília is a researcher, and information designer, passionate about good stories and how to tell them, and interested in international relations, (visual) communication, design, data visualization, and culture. Marília is digital communications officer at On Think Tanks, a leading platform for think tanks. She is the founder of the think tank Global Diplomacy aimed at researching, communicating, and discussing international topics and processes. She also founded the Fukinsei Studio, a visual communication and information design studio, specialized in international relations. Marília is a volunteer at Data Science for Social Good in the communication team.
Olga Glumac
Co-founder and coordinating body member of the Lab of Collaborative Youth (LoCY)
Olga Glumac
Co-founder and coordinating body member of the Lab of Collaborative Youth (LoCY)Olga Glumac is a Ph.D. in Design holder, specialized in developing intergenerational and multi-stakeholder collaborative frameworks through the application of co-creation in grassroots and EU initiatives. Olga is a co-founder and coordinating body member of the Lab of Collaborative Youth (LoCY), a platform based on youth-driven codesign with the stakeholders of the local communities. Over the past ten years, Olga has been acquiring competences and providing coaching sessions and training courses under the context of Youth in Action/Erasmus+ Programme and H2020 projects in collaboration with various non-governmental, academic, private and youth organizations located in Serbia and Portugal. Olga has profound knowledge in assessing learning/capacity-build needs, always appropriating language, materials and participatory approaches to suit the best the intercultural learning and learning styles of individuals/collective.
Athifah Utami
Master student
Athifah Utami
Master studentAthifah Utami is currently a Master student in Play, Toys, Education and Languages at the University of Cordoba. Before coming to pursue her Master Degree in Europe, she was a teacher in an international school in Jakarta, Indonesia. She is interested in technology in education, play and space for children's wellbeing, and has published some studies in these fields.
Tú Anh Hà
Master student
Tú Anh Hà
Master studentTú Anh Hà is a Master student in an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Play and Education, Toys and Languages at the University of Cordoba, Spain. Before taking part in the course, she was an English teacher at FPT Education Vietnam. She completed her Master Degree in Learning and Teaching English as a second language at University Rovira i Virgili in Catalonia, Spain. She is interested in CLIL, methods of teaching English and Integrated Learning Themes for young learners, play and drama for children's wellbeing and mental health, project-based learning and gamification and has several publications in these areas.
Michel Nader Sayún
Designer
Michel Nader Sayún
DesignerMichel Nader Sayún is a designer interested in collaboration and participatory practices from Mexico City. He currently works doing a participatory evaluation for the Smart Kalasatama project at Forum Virium Helsinki. He is studying a Master in Arts in Collaborative and Industrial Design from Aalto University and graduated from License in Industrial Design from ITESM CCM. He has worked in close collaboration with educational projects in Design Week Mexico, with World Design Organisation and independently in photojournalism and documentary filming. Michel is experienced in field research and social or community-oriented projects. He has participated and mentored in Aalto Sustainable Global Technologies as well as in Problem Based Learning South Asia. As a critical thinker, he has worked with several NGOs and government agencies. He is native in Spanish and fluent in English.
Eelko Hamer
Independent innovation strategist
Eelko Hamer
Independent innovation strategistFor Amsterdam-based innovation strategist Eelko Hamer, that unarticulated idea that hangs between two thinkers is where the magic happens. In 2019, he co-authored the Untourist Guide to Amsterdam, the launchpad for a collaborative movement refocusing investment on projects of economic and ecological value to the city. Suggested activities included marrying an Amsterdammer for the day, a daring concept which made headlines in over 40 countries and became a powerful symbol of how an alternative mindset can reshape tourism. A former marketing manager for KPN, this arts-loving amateur pianist with a degree in engineering is the ultimate polymath: an unconventional and abstract thinker at ease in any setting, with a fresh perspective, where positivity is key. Clients include Booking.com and D&AD, where Eelko worked alongside some of the world’s most creative minds. As a faculty member for the Citizen Artist Incubator in Vienna, he did what he does best: make idealistic, world-changing goals a reality.