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Entries Tagged as 'Videospeakers'

11th July 2008

Nigel Barlow

From a man who shared creativity through design and studies the changes on cities identities, to another one who goes around the world advising companies.
Nigel Barlow defines himself as a provocative agent, a creative coach and a business rocker. Barlow founded Tom Peters’s consulting in Europe – Peters is the prophet of the revolution […]

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11th July 2008

Emile Aarts

From artisan production to intensive market. Emile Aarts will share with us his experience on how design is a key tool to compete on an intensive market (electronics of consumption). That’s what Philips Design is doing and the success of new products sales confirm they were right.
Emile Aarts is a key figure at Philips Research. […]

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11th July 2008

Kevin Warwick

Knowledge and technology are changing us and Kevin Warwick is a real example of it.
Kevin Warwick talks about ultra-sonic senses, brain-to-brain telepathic communication, the therapeutic benefits of his experiments and why he won’t be the only cyborg on this planet in the future. Cyborg technology: a reality that might change human evolution.
Kevin Warwick has carried […]

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11th July 2008

Younghee Jung

Big companies know they have to study carefully user’s behavior and trends in order to know what will be next and to create new products. This is what our next guest do. Younghee Jung is the product and interaction designer at Nokia, who leads one of the firm’s exploratory design research teams. These teams explore […]

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11th July 2008

Rodney Douglas

Rodney Douglas is the director of the Institut of Neuroinformatic (INI) of the Institut Federal TecnologĂ­a ZĂşrich, founded in 1995. One of the major research areas of this university is neuromorphic engineering, namely the design and manufacture of artificial neural systems whose principles of design and architecture are based on those of biological nervous systems.
One […]

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10th July 2008

Eric Joachimsthaler

“Companies have only two choices: change the environment or fail in a competition focusing on the product”. This is what our next guest thinks. Erich Joachimsthaler is founder and CEO of Vivaldi Partners, a strategy, innovation and marketing consulting company.
in his newly published book, “Hidden In Plain Sight : How to Find and Execute […]

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10th July 2008

Alberto Alessi

If we imagine a tale of innovation in Italian design, there is one name: Alberto Alessi, who has been able to constantly reinvent without losing focus: exploring the imaginary of people by ignoring prescriptive marketing research in their product development. For this video interview we travelled to the Alessi headquarters in Crusinallo near Milan […]

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10th July 2008

Tom Kelley

What has innovation consulting to do with film making? Let’s listen now to the art on innovation. 20 years ago, Tom Kelley founded the Californian Company IDEO with his brother. Nowadays Tom Kelley is the general manager of IDEO, the world’s leading innovation company and the author of the best-sellers The Art of Innovation […]

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10th July 2008

Alex Steffen

Alex Steffen is a great communicator on how companies are the only ones that can give an answer to the challenges of the climate change. Steffen is co-founder and Publishing Executive of WorldChanging.com, since he co-founded the organization in 2003. The Worldchanging is a project of non-profit-making communication dedicated to detecting and promoting […]

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10th July 2008

David Weinberger

Video David Weinberg These thinkers’ visions we shared today not only created new business models but also a new order of categorization of information. Or maybe we should talk about a new disorder born from a massive flow of information. This is what David Weinberger thinks. The digital disorder is, in fact, the new […]

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