Speakers A-Z
List of speakers with available talks.
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Abrams, J.J.
Country: USA
Writer, director and producer J.J. Abrams makes smart, addictive dramas like TV's Lost and Alias -- and the hotly anticipated film Cloverfield.
Alcorn, Katrina
Country: USA
Allen, David
Country: USA
David Allen (b. December 28, 1945) is a productivity consultant. He is the creator of the Getting Things Done time management method. He grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana where he acted and won a state championship in debate. He went to college at New College, now New College of Florida, in Sarasota, Florida. His career path has included jobs as a magician, waiter, karate teacher, landscaper, vitamin distributor, glass-blowing lathe operator, travel agent, gas station manager, U-Haul dealer, moped salesman, restaurant cook[1], personal growth trainer, and manager of a lawn service company and a travel agency. He is also an ordained minister with the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. He claims to have had 35 professions before age 35. He began applying his perspective on productivity with businesses in the 1980s when he got a contract to design a program for executives and managers at Lockheed. He is the founder of the David Allen Company, which is focused on productivity and executive coaching. The Getting Things Done method is part of his coaching efforts. He was also one of the founders of Actioneer, Inc., a company specializing in productivity tools for the Palm Pilot. Allen has written two books, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, which describes his productivity program and Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life, a collection of newsletter articles he has written. He lives in Ojai, California with his fourth wife, Kathryn. Source: Wikipedia
Allende, Isabel
Country: Chile
Novelist Isabel Allende writes stories of passion. She's the author of The House of the Spirits.
Anderson, Chris
Country: USA
As editor of WIRED, Chris Anderson is an authority on emerging technologies and the cultures that surround them.
Anderson, Stephen
Country: USA
Stephen P. Anderson is the VP of Design at Viewzi, where his group is focused on changing how people experience search results. He is passionate about elegant design, remarkable customer experiences, and managing maverick teams– topics he loves to write and speak about. Source: Stephen Anderson's website
Andreessen, Marc
Country: USA
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in Cedar Falls, Iowa and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, United States) is known as a entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He was the chair of Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He is also a co-founder of Ning, a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites. As of June 30, 2008, he is said to be joining the Board of Directors of Facebook. Andreessen is a frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences. Source: Wikipedia
Armano, David
Country: USA
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The city is here for you to use: Urban form and experience in the age of ubiquitous computing
Greenfield have given a talk today at Prado Medialab, Madrid. Very interesting. "The long here and the big now": place now has visible depth in time.
Daemon: Bot-Mediated Reality
Though it is quite long, I would definitely recommend this talk. The bots activity is the most invisible power on the net.
Groundswell Business Strategies
Josh works for Forrester Research and has written Groundswell, a nice work about social media, social networks and strategy. Very recomended.
The mystery box
Very inspiring if you're interested in storytelling.
Creativity, fulfillment and flow
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Creativity, fulfillment and flow
yeha!
Creativity, fulfillment and flow
Test againnnn
Creativity, fulfillment and flow
Have you read Csikszentmihaly's book Flow? Highly recommended!:)