Past Speakers
PICNIC speakers from previous years
Have a look at the great speakers that have contributed to PICNIC' 06, 07 & 08.
From entrepreneurs to artists, designers, architects, philosophers and anthropologists, from games developers to advertisers, fashion designers and movie directors: PICNIC gathers the world's creative pioneers to share their expertise, their vision and their ambitions with the PICNIC audience.
John de Mol
Founder, Talpa and Co-Founder, Endemol (the Netherlands)
Marc Canter
Founder and CEO, Broadband Mechanics (United States)
Erwin Blom
VPRO
Igor Van Gemert
Ideas machine
Nadya Peek
likes tools
Stefana Broadbent
Ethnographer, Customer Observatory, Swisscom Innovation (Switzerland)
Dominique Delport
Managing Director, Havas Media France (France)
Philip Rosedale
Founder and CEO, Linden Lab and Second Life (United States)
Bruno Giussani
TED Conferences European Director, Writer
Sylvia Paull
Founder, Berkeley Cyber Salon and Founder, Gracenet (United States)
Ben Cerveny
Strategist and Advisor, Stamen Design
Jim Stolze
Curator at TEDxAmsterdam
Matt Adams
Matt Biddulph
CTO, Dopplr
Michael B. Johnson PhD
Lead, Moving Pictures Group, Pixar Animation Studios
Dennis Crowley
Founder of Dodgeball. Area/Code
Cory Doctorow
Pablos is my hero.
Ben Fry
Developer of Processing.org
Neil Gershenfeld
Director, The Center for Bits and Atoms MIT
Brian Gruber
Founder of Fora.tv
Laurin Herr
Director of Cinegrid
Candace Johnson
International telecommunications expert and entrepreneur
Andrew Keen
Author of Cult of the Amateur and Founder of afterTV
Andrew D.Klein
Founder and CEO of Spotzer
Sugata Mitra
Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University
Walt Mossberg
Author Weekly Personal Technology column, The Wall Street Journal
Nikolaj Nyholm
CEO, Polar Rose
Katy Salen
Executive Director of the Gamelab Institute of Play
Alex Steffen
Co-Founder Worldchanging, and Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
Matt Webb
Schulze & Webb; Mind Hacks
Adam Zaretsky
Bioartist, performer, researcher and art theorist
Felix Petersen
Founder and CEO, Plazes
Danny Yount
Designer / Director, USA
David Silverman
Movie Director, The Simpsons Movie, Monsters Inc
Paul Pope
writer/artist/designer
Christian Nold
Artist, Lecturer, Cultural Activist
Martin de Ronde
Director OneBigGame
Tom DeFanti
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Jack Myers
David Polinchock
Raymond Spanjar
Laurent Haug
Founder LIFT Conference
Ton Roosendaal
Developer and chairman of Blender Foundation
Aaron Koblin
Artist, Designer, Researcher
Itay Talgam
Contemporary Composer & Orchestral Conductor
Ethan Zuckerman
Co-founder, Global Voices/ Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and...
Genevieve Bell
Anthropologist, Director Intel Corporation
Pim Betist
Founder SellaBand.com
Michael Tchao
General Manager, Nike Techlab Group
Marcel Wanders
Designer
Eileen Gittins
Founder and CEO of Blurb Inc.
Eskil Steenberg
Game designer
Rafi Haladjian
Co-Founder and Chairman VIOLET
Matt Jones
Co-founder/Designer Dopplr.com
Hellen Omwando
Head of Market Intelligence Royal Philips Electronics
Werner Vogels
CTO @ Amazon.com
Antoine Brachet
Business Development director of Total Immersion
Katarina Skoberne
Co-Founder OpenAd and Group Managing Director
Wolfgang Wagener
Director in the Cisco Connected Urban Development (CUD)
Craig Newmark
Founder and Customer Service Representive, craigslist (United States)
Shari Swan
Founder, CEO, Streative Branding
Arnold Smeulders
Julian Bleecker
Professor of Interactive Media and Researcher at The Near Future Laboratory
Regine Debatty
Author and Blogger, We-make-money-not-art (Belgium)
Friedrich Kirschner
animation and code
Linda Stone
Writer, Speaker and Consultant
Emile Aarts
Vice President and Scientific Program Director, Philips Research Laboratories...
Euro Beinat
Salzburg University
Eckart Wintzen
Founder, Ex'tent Green Venture Capital (the Netherlands)
Mary Hodder
CEO, Dabble (United States)
Nora Abousteit
loves mixing
Marko Ahtisaari
Brand Director, Blyk
.danah .boyd
Social Networks Researcher
Federico Casalegno
Director of the MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory
Eduardo Dias
Co-Founder and Vice President of Ydreams
Jyri Engeström
Entrepreneur and sociologist
Fabien Girardin
Researcher at Lift lab
Adam Greenfield
Critical Futurist & User-Experience Consultant
Dick Hardt
Founder & CEO, Sxip Identity
Pablos
Futurist, security expert, and hacker
Benedikta Karaisl von Karais
Susan Kish
VP Network & Community Practice Xing
Kaiser Kuo
Strategy Director, Ogilvy China
Geert Mul
Media Artist
Nicolas Nova
Researcher, LIFTLab
Chee Pearlman
Design Consultant
Thecla Shiphorst
Media Artist, choreographer and dancer
Alexander Straub
Entrepreneur and Investor, Co-Founder Truphone, CEO and Co-Founder of Pixsta
Gary Wang
Fo-Founder Tudou
Richard Hytner
Vice Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide
Kevin Roberts
CEO Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi
Clay Shirky
Author, ‘Here Comes Everybody’
Johan Redström
Design Director TII Sweden
Charles Leadbeater
Advisor and Author of 'We-think'
Eija Ailasmaa
President and Chief Executive Officer of Sanoma Magazines
Peter Frankfurt
Co-Director, Co-Founder of Imaginary Forces: Experience Designed
Jonathan Harris
Artist and Storyteller
Jeroen Mol
People want to be entertained anywhere anytime… all to prevent us from...
Woody Harrelson
Biz Stone
David Burden
David Burden, founder, Daden (UK)
Naohisa Ohta
Sir Richard Branson
Chairman of the Jury, PICNIC Green Challenge
Paul Wouters
Programme leader at the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and...
Matt Hanson
Film Futurist
Bas Kennis
Musician in the band Bløf
Stefan Agamanolis
Chief Executive/ Research director, Distance Lab
Michael Tchong
Trend Analyst
Addy Feuerstein
Co-Founder & CEO of AllofMe, LTD
Loic Le Meur
Founder, CEO Seesmic
Matt Costello
Writer and games developer
Younghee Jung
Designer, Nokia
Bill Moggridge
Founder of IDEO
Gisel Hiscock
Google Director, New Business Development
Kara Swisher
Co-Executive Editor AllThingsDigital
Mike T. Fries
President and CEO Liberty Global
Binyavanga Wainaina
Kenyan author, journalist
Stanley Williams
HP Senior Fellow Director, Information & Qauntum Systems Lab
Guy Laurence
CEO of Vodafone Netherlands
Jared Blumenfeld
Director of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment
