Loretta Napoleoni is an expert on financing of terrorism and advises several governments on counter-terrorism. She is senior partner of G Risk, a London based risk agency and nowadays, Napoleoni is working as investigator at London School of Economics
According to Napoleoni, Terrorism is an economical reality, a big transnational business. She will explain how […]

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Nadja Schnetzler a pioner in the industrial production of ideas is the co-founder and CEO of Brainstore, the idea factory.
BrainStore has specialised in the process of idea development for 18 years. For each project, a new team is created from the BrainStore Community. This process guarantees the most diverse viewpoints and wide support by […]

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Have you ever thought that a simple bottle could save your life and many others?
Michael Pritchard will explain us how.
The LIFESAVER bottle, live at iFEST08

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Brompton, a folding bicycle that has revolutionized a sector on having be constituted as the first really portable and folding, light and enterteining bicycle of using.
“Brompton bicycles are unique, both in their design and the way they are made… and where they are made - you will find few global bike brands still manufactured in […]

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Mr. Hansen, The National Labour Market Authority (AMS) in Denmark is going to talk about the status and perspectives of the work force model in Denmark, called the Danish flexicurity model.
Flexibility x Security = Flexicurity. The Danish ‘flexicurity model’ is a combination of easy hiring and firing, unemployment benefits and an active labour market […]

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Nick Leon is a Visiting Fellow at Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London and Director Urban Programmes for the Think Play Do Group. Nick is based in London, but works closely with the Ajuntament de Barcelona and its 22@District of Innovation. Recently he has been appointed director of Design London.
Nick Leon has studied how […]

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Marc begins his professional career as a scientist investigator in Netherlands (LACDR) and after his experience at Barcelona TV (BTV), he discovered his vocation in the field of communications. In 2000 he co-founded SIT Mobile with Enric Solé.
Nowadays, SITmobile is a European company headquartered in Barcelona that provides SMS and Bluetooth solutions in all shapes […]

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The author of “Start up: What we may still learn from Silicon Valley” will speak at iFest08 on 10th of July.
Hervé Lebret has spent all his professional life in high tech. After a few years in academic research, he became a venture capitalist in 1997 with Index Ventures. Since 2005, he has managed an innovation […]

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Philosopher, engineer, teacher in the University Tama (Tokyo) and author of more than 40 books on the management of the work, business strategies, the Internet revolution and the models of social change.
In 2000, Tasaka both founded and became President of Think tank SophiaBank with the mission to incubate new social systems by fostering social […]

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