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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.
Marc Canter is the Founder and CEO of Broadband Mechanics.
Erwin Blom is head of new media department VPRO Digitaal at Dutch public broadcasting organisation VPRO. He's responsable for…
Before starting his own company’s like Internet-brain.com and DMP-Digital Media Production, Igor (37) was head of R&D at Hans…
I study AI at the University of Amsterdam, and work part time at Mediamatic Foundation. I like taking things apart and putting…
Stefana Broadbent is responsible for the development of the Customer Observatory at Swisscom Innovations.
Dominique Delport is the Chief Executive Officer of HAVAS MEDIA FRANCE, the media buying arm of the Havas Advertisement Group.
Bruno Giussani is the European director of the TED Conferences and an entrepreneur and idea curator.
Sylvia Paull specialises in publicity and strategic marketing services for high-tech businesses and organisations.
Overseeing research projects at the intersection of game design, urban planning, and participatory culture. Advising new ventures…
I find myself hanging around on international conferences more and more. Last year I had the pleasure to deliver a talk at…
Matt Adams makes performances, installations, games and interactive artworks.
Matt Biddulph is a creative technologist who works with companies like Nature, Joost and the BBC to bring cutting-edge technologies…
Dr. Michael B. Johnson currently is serving as the lead for Pixar's Moving Pictures Group in the Studio Tools Division, where he and…
Dennis Crowley is the founder of dodgeball.com, a New York based service that focused on merging location-based services with social…
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist.
Ben Fry is a designer who is currently developing Processing, an environment for teaching computational design and sketching…
Neil Gershenfeld is Director, The Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT.
Brian Gruber is the founder of Fora.tv.
Laurin Herr is President of Pacific Interface, Inc., an international consulting company, and organizer of the CineGrid…
Candace Johnson is an international telecommunications expert and entrepreneur, and one of the 50 most powerful businesswomen in Europe.
The San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote that “every good movement needs a contrarian. Web 2.0 has Andrew Keen.”
Andrew D. Klein is the founder and CEO of Spotzer, a Dutch internet agency that aims to make video advertising fast, easy and…
Dr Sugata Mitra is a long time teacher and a scientist of international repute, best known for his 'Hole in the wall' project.
Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared…
Nikolaj Nyholm is CEO of the people photo-identification service Polar Rose.
Katy Salen is the Executive Director of the Gamelab Institute of Play, as well as an Associate Professor in the Design and…
Matt Webb is a principle of the London creative design consultancy Schulze & Webb.
Adam Zaretsky is a Vivoartist working in Biology and Art Wet Lab Practice. This involves biological lab immersion as a process…
Felix Petersen is co-founder and member of the board of plazes.com, a bottom-up approach to spatial interaction and location…
A self-taught designer, Danny Yount has exercised his natural talents to become one of today's top main title designers for film and…
David Silverman is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series The Simpsons.
Paul Pope’s stories evoke poignant, under-explored aspects of youth culture.
An artist, lecturer and cultural activist living in London. He studied Fine Art at Kingston University as well as Interaction Design…
Tom DeFanti is one of the people behind the Cinegrid initiative, which will be presented during Picnic’07.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an Architect in Microsoft’s Live Labs.
For more than 25-years, Myers Publishing founder and CEO Jack Myers has been an industry thought leader and acknowledged visionary.
I've been a Disney character and started working with VR in '91. I'm now the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) for the Brand…
Raymond Spanjar is Co-Founder and Chief Hyving Officer of the social network Hyves, with 4 million members and over 1 billon…
Professor Naohisa Ohta, Director of Research Institute for Digital Media and Content, Keio University
Sir Richard Branson is the founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, which has created more than 200 branded companies worldwide,…
Paul Wouters (1951) is programme leader of the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, an institute of the…
Matt Hanson is a noted British author, filmmaker and film futurist interested in expanding the boundaries of traditional filmmaking.
For the last 10 years Bløf as been one of the most populair bands in Holland. I’ve been the keyboardplayer ever since the band…
Stefan Agamanolis is the Chief Executive and Research Director of Distance Lab , a research institute bringing together…
The founder of Ubercool, Michael Tchong, is an internationally recognized speaker on emerging trends in business, culture and media.…
An interactive media designer, consultant and teacher, Addy Feuerstein has designed and implemented user interface for games,…
Matt Costello’s best-selling and award-winning work across all media has meshed game play, technology and story. He is the writer…
Younghee Jung is a product and interaction designer by education, exploratory design researcher by practice.
Gisel Hiscock is Director, New Business Development - Europe Middle East & Africa at Google.
Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital,” with Walt Mossberg. It is a…
Under the leadership of Michael Fries, Liberty Global has grown into the second largest cable TV operator in the world and the…
Kenyan author, journalist and winner of the Caine Prize. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story…
R. Stanley Williams is an HP Senior Fellow at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and Director of the Information and Quantum Systems…
Guy Laurence started his career at Chrysalis Records and moved on to the film industry working for Universal/Paramount Cinemas, and…
Jared Blumenfeld is the Director of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment, which provides environmental policy guidance to…
Craig is a Customer Service Representative and Founder of craigslist.
Shari Swan helps multinationals connect more authentically with their consumers.
Currently, Arnold Smeulders leads the Intelligent Systems Lab (ISLA) of the University of Amsterdam.
Julian enjoys working at the fringe of sane technology design, in the area beyond the 9-18 month window in which market-constrained…
Regine Debatty is the author of We-make-money-not-art, a Weblog about the use and misuse of technology by artists, media labs…
Linda Stone is a writer, speaker and consultant focused on trends and their strategic and consumer implications. For more…
Professor of Location Awareness at Salzburg University Austria, Chairman of Currentcity Foundation (www.currentcity.org)
Eckart Wintzen was the founder of Ex'tent Green Venture Capital and an unconventional thinker, visionary and serial entrepreneur.
Nora Abousteit is co-founder of BurdaStyle, an open source sewing community, which she runs with her business partner Benedikta…
Marko is responsible for the brand and design Blyk. Blyk is a pan-European free mobile operator for young people, funded by advertising.
danah boyd is a doctoral candidate at the School of Information at the University of California - Berkeley and a fellow at Harvard's…
Dr. Federico Casalegno is the Director of the MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory and Associate Director of the MIT Design Laboratory.
Eduardo Dias, co-founder and Vice President of Ydreams.
Jyri Engeström is co-founder of Jaiku, now at Google.
Fabien Girardin is a researcher and engineer at Lift lab, a research agency he co-founded. He studies and provokes the interplay…
Adam Greenfield is an internationally-recognized writer, user experience consultant and critical futurist, having worked for clients…
Pablos is a futurist, computer security expert, and a notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies.
After earning her degree in fashion from Parsons School of Design , Benedikta Karaisl worked for several years in high-end evening…
Kaiser Kuo is group director, digital strategy, for Ogilvy China. Before joining Ogilvy, he served as China bureau chief for Red…
Geert Mul's work includes music videos, installations, and performances at art festivals, pop festivals and nightclubs.
Nicolas Nova works as a user experience and foresight researcher at LIFTlab in Geneva, Switzerland
Chee Pearlman is the director of Chee Company, an editorial and curatorial design consultancy.
Thecla Schiphorst is a Media Artist/Designer, and an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon…
Alexander Straub is a German entrepreneur and investor based in London, focusing on significant technology or business model innovations.
Gary Wang is the CEO/Founder, Tudou (Video Sharing): Gary is founder/CEO of Tudou, the leading video sharing site in China.
Richard Hytner is Vice-Chairman of Saatchi&Saatchi Worldwide.
Kevin Roberts is Chief Executive Officer Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, one of the world's leading creative organizations,…
CLAY SHIRKY divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.…
Johan Redström is the Design Director of the Interactive Instititute in Sweden
Eija Ailasmaa (1950) has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Sanoma Magazines since 2003.
Peter Frankfurt serves as creative director and managing partner of Imaginary Forces (IF), the multidisciplinary communications,…
Jonathan Harris is an artist and storyteller working primarily on the Internet. One part computer science, one part anthropology,…
Biz Stone is co-founder of Twitter, Inc and also helped make Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. Biz sometimes writes books about…
David Burden, founder, Daden (UK) started his career in army communications managing a range of mobile and wireless systems in a…
I am an entrepreneur and thinker, founder of the Lift conference series exploring the social impact of new technologies in Europe…
Ton Roosendaal is the lead developer of the free 3D application Blender, and chairman of the Blender Foundation . Ton is presently…
Conductor Itay Talgam is one of the leading figures in the Israeli music scene. Talgam is a champion of contemporary music, and in…
Ethan is an activist, blogger and geek, who lives in western Massachusetts, USA, and works of a variety of technology and media…
An internationally recognized ethnographer, Genevieve Bell has developed product shaping insights into consumers world-wide and is…
Pim Betist is a passionate music lover. Instead of using his masters degree to climb the ladder in the corporate world, he gave up…
Michael is General Manager of Nike Techlab, a sports technology innovation group within Nike chartered with developing new digital…
Marcel Wanders is Director and owner of Marcel Wanders Studio, as well as the art director and co-owner of design firm Moooi, and…
Eskil is at the forefront of real-time 3d graphics, leading the Verse and Uni-Verse projects and is a contributor to the OpenGL…
Rafi Haladjian is the founder of Ozone founder and co-founder of Violet .
Hellen currently leads the Market Intelligence function across Philips . Her remit is to transform the function into one that is…
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s…
Katarina Skoberne is responsible for running the OpenAd group. Katarina is responsible for the strategy and development of the…
Dr. Wolfgang Wagener is a director in the Cisco Connected Urban Development (CUD) program and a trusted advisor on improving the…
