How knowledge and technology are changing us? How are they redefining realities, identities, believes and threats? Will intelligence and genetics redefine humanity? How are we adapting to the fast changes of our aging society?

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It is not possible to speak of the world without considering the social innovation. The world’s inequity is a critical problem that needs to be resolved. Nowadays new kinds of NGOs are growing with the aim of finding a solution not only for crisis but also to create the best conditions to improve or develop the depressed areas of the world.

María Zapata is Director of International operations of Ashoka and she is the head of the organization in Spain. Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems.

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If you book your place before May 15 you will have a special price!!! There is a special offer until May 15, take advantage of this opportunity and book your place now.

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New ideas not only modify objects, companies, markets or processes, but also reinvent places. New spaces, city projects and communities are modifying relationships, culture and economies, changing and creating new realities.

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Banco suizo “El poeta” -  Alfredo Häberli for BD Barcelona Design

“El Poeta” is one of the five “Bancos Suizos” created by Alfredo Häberli for the company BD Barcelona Design, winner of the Prize Delta ADI-FAD of industrial design 2007. Built of perforated sheet, it is cool in summer and prevents the accumulation of rain besides allowing multiple modalities of use because of its design.

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When dreams become reality, ideas come into market. We will talk about all these new thoughts have turn into successful stories of innovation in fashion business, design or new markets. It’s the moment to discover how creativity can reinvent the most common objects around us. These will be tales of personal experiences, from those who once had an idea.

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Idélaboratoriet specializes in Innovation Culture and Idea Management. This intriguing field takes many forms: Innovation strategy planning, Idea management facilitation, training programs in professional idea creation and digital idea management solutions are all good examples of how they create value for their clients.

They collaborate with Infonomia in the Brain Bang of July 12^th.

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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 the new terrorism born in the beginning of the 90s has globalized, during all the regulatory process of the international markets. In her books, she has studied the power of Al Qaeda as a transnational organization, making money in different countries and using Internet to spread their influence.

Who is doing business with terrorism? How the new economy is financing this terrorism? How technology has given new powers to these movements? Napoleoni will answer all that at the iFEST08.

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New thoughts get stronger and go further if they are shared by “restless” people. Innovation is a team-based process. Value is created through collaboration and networks. We will discover how creativity shared has brought innovation to big companies, production processes and social entrepreneurship. This creativity shared opens a new dimension for brainstorming or innovator networks.

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We offer you thoughts that spring new realities. This thematic area will be a journey from knowledge to wisdom, a way to discover the best new ideas flowing around the world from the importance to create social entrepreneurship to have a look through the latest progress in science. We will even learn the three main ideas of the whole human history.

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