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Prof. dr. Cor Molenaar puts people in the centre of all the changes that are occuring in society and companies. There is no such thing as a technology push. People started to change because of the new technology; the Internet hype proved that people have to accept those techniques and want to change. A changing society, new challenges for companies, internationalisation and an enormous need for commu-nication between people are examples of this change. Application of new techniques like the Internet, cellular phones and new chips (to be read from a distance) are making the changes possible. But what is really happening? What are the chances and threats you will come across as a human being, an entrepreneur or a customer? The tension between sociology, technology and marketing is the field of prof. Molenaar. He is conducting academical research on this matter, but is also advising companies. His book 'eStrategy' (2000) has been translated into six languages. His book 'The impact of the I-culture' was nominated for the title Best Management book 2003. His latest books "The end of shops?" and "Why we prefer a smartphone rather than a car" was [ublished in Dutch and English He is currently professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, specialising in e-marketing, supply chain integration and customer shopping behaviour (online and retail) and advices various respectable companies Cor Molenaar is a dynamic speaker, a brilliant strategist, and brings tremendous know-how with his impressive presentations.
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Denis MacShane is one of the most controversial figures in modern British politics. He was Parliament’s Number One Pro-European. A former minister of Europe he now works advising business, non-profit organisations and governments on how to get things done in Brussels. He was known for his witty and punchy interventions in the House of Commons but underneath a politician who enjoyed controversy is a serious thinker about the British and European economy and geo-politics.
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Gina is Professor of Higher Education & Contemporary Literature and Head of Brighton’s Centre for Learning and Teaching. She is part of the management team for the SOTL research project and also conducted interviews. Gina’s principal research interests are in learning and teaching, specialising in postgraduate study and supervision and she has published The Postgraduate Research Handbook, The Good Supervisor and Getting Published. Gina also teaches, supervises, researches and publishes in twentieth-century women's writing, particularly postcolonial writing and popular fictions. Gina has been chair and co-chair of the Heads of Education Development Group, is chief editor of the SEDA journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International and is currently chair of SEDA Scholarship and Research committee, and the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association.
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Eve Lewis is the current head of student participation in quality Scotland (sparqs). She has worked in the field of student engagement for over 20 years, previously within Heriot-Watt University Students’ Association, prior to taking up her post as Head of sparqs in 2010. During that time she has led many innovative developments, including pioneering work linking course representative systems with senior decision-making processes and implementing one of the first schemes of student-led learning and teaching awards in Scotland. Eve has been involved in developments around the role of students in Scotland’s Quality Enhancement Framework since its inception over 10 years ago and in her current role is responsible for ensuring support for this to institutions and their students’ associations within Scotland’s 19 universities and 26 colleges. Eve is a member of many of the key committees in the Scottish post-16 sector, supporting agencies in developing their student engagement activities.
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Dylan Wiliam, PhD, is a consultant who works with educators all over the world to develop effective, research-based teaching. He is former deputy director (Provost) of the Institute of Education at the University of London. From teaching in urban public schools to directing a large-scale testing program to serving in university administration, his professional path has led to a variety of positions at the forefront of education.He has written over 300 books, chapters and articles including a major review of research on formative assessment coauthored with Paul Black. He left the University of London in 2010 to focus on working more directly with teachers, and now spends his time working with teachers all over the world on improving teaching and learning.
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I am many things: an entrepreneur, an EU policy advisor, a podcaster, a workplace transformer, a volunteer and a mum. After a 14 year career in European Public Affairs and running EU advocacy and communication campaigns, I co-founded my company the WorkLife HUB in 2014. We help companies create vibrant workplaces for employees to thrive. I am producing the WorkLife HUB podcast, which has 5000 listeners in over 20 countries.
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Now with a PhD in the psychology of human values and wellbeing, Jackie originally qualified as a behavioural ecology. After her first degree Jackie spent two years helping to reintroduce chimpanzees to the wild in River Gambia National Park. Subsequently her career has meandered through different roles in nature conservation and economic regeneration to the present day and specialising in values and culture - still working with behaviour within a context but the jungle is much more concrete nowadays. As a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a member of the CMI Subject Matter Experts Group Jackie champions the part that values play in individual and collective performance and advocate for more consciously values based cultures in workplaces large and small. Values are a golden thread through all types and sizes of organisation. Values are key to understanding the 'why' behind 'what' gets decided and acted upon. Jackie has been working with one of the world’s leading values profiling tools since 2005 employing it with individuals, groups, teams, consortia and partnerships. Frequently values consciousness positively changes working practice and performance and sometimes even literally transform lives. While the theory of values and culture is interesting stuff, it is the everyday stories of real people and how values awareness can create meaning, increasing motivation, that audiences find really fascinating.
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Fields of interest: Brussels, Germany, Europe, Society of Jesus Alain Deneef (born in 1960) is a Belgian entrepreneur, urban expert and coalition builder. He is currently intendant of Brussels Metropolitan, a Belgian employers’ coalition at federal (Federation of Belgian Enterprises (FEB-VBO)) and regional (Brussels Entreprises Commerce and Industry (BECI), VOKA and Union wallonne des entreprises (UWE)) levels. As an expert in urban issues and civil society, he is the founder and president of Aula Magna, a Brussels based think-tank created in 2005. He helped to launch and coordinate in 2008 the Citizen’s Forum of Brussels, a unique effort in mobilizing civil society around the future of Brussels. This endeavor won the Flemish Prijs voor de Democratie in July 2010. As businessman, he has held top management positions in Canal+ Belgium (deputy general manager), Belgacom (Executive Vice-President) and the SNCB - the Belgian railway company (Chairman of the Board), among others, and several positions as director in BT Belgium, CIT Blaton and Carmeuse. Currently a strategic consultant, he helps medium and large organizations foresee the impact of technological, financial, social, demographic, environmental, urban and political change on their future. He has served as president of a number of clubs and associations amongst which the Alumni association of the Jesuit Collège Saint-Michel (Bruxelles). Since August 2013, he is the president of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni (WUJA). He was also president of the Brussels chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and is currently a member of the World Presidents’ Organization (WPO). He is also the Executive Officer of the European Quarter Fund, a corporate fund managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, which acts as a bridge between public and private actors in the European Quarter in Brussels. Closely linked to the latter, he is also involved as president in the European Quarter Area Management Association (EQuAMA), which endeavors to animate public spaces and to create events in this area of Brussels. In the sport field, he is the Secretary General of the European Sports Academy (ESA), which aims at creating a center of excellence for the Belgian and European sporting elite. He is further a director of the Brussels Studies Institute. He was educated at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he obtained the degrees of Business Engineer (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) and Law and Philosophy (1984). He is currently finalizing a Master in History at the same university. He is fluent in French, Dutch, English and German. He lives in Ixelles (Brussels Region).
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Alanda co-founded and manage Sinergi Muda, a youth-run social enterprise that connects likeminded youth from all across Indonesia to collaborate on creating social change through programmes like the Indonesian Youth Conference, which has become Indonesia's biggest independently-organised youth event in 5 years. She is a British Council's Global Changemaker and One Young World Ambassador. Alanda has published best-selling books on youth empowerment issues and spoken in high-level engagements, including the London G-20 Summit 2009, 100th International Labour Conference and Pontifical Council for Culture’s Plenary Assembly 2013, among others. Alanda has worked for Indonesia's Presidential Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight, Microsoft, and Unilever prior to joining a social innovation fellowship at The DO School, which she is currently completing.
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Alvin campaigns for policy changes to address poverty. In 2015 he ran the First Job Opportunities programme. First Job Opportunities are jobs-with-training for people in poverty who have never had a job. The first major success was the use of a procurement model which states that for every £1m spent on public procurement, one first job opportunity is created. Now, contracts in total worth over £760m are implementing the model. As a community organiser, Alvin led the Citizens’ Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots. This was the community-led response to the events that shocked England in the summer of 2011. This grassroots effort engaged 10,000 local people and led to jobs for young people and the suspension of section 60 stop and searches in the area. Alvin advises governments and global corporations on leadership and social impact. He is an advisor to a €5 million research project that is examining the obstacles and opportunities affecting youth employment in Europe. He is currently advising the government of Trinidad and Tobago to support the establishment of its statutory National Youth Commission. In 2014 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to research how community leaders are addressing social exclusion across the US. Alvin has lectured at the University of Connecticut, has delivered keynote speeches in the House of Lords, and has debated in Cambridge Union. He has also appeared on CNN, BBC, Televisión Española, AFP, and Channel 4 to discuss politics and economics. He was selected to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 in Davos. Before completing his master’s degree in social policy at the LSE, Alvin ran soup kitchens and did research for the think-tank Demos. He has also worked for the social business Catch22 focused on crime, youth justice, and gangs. Outside of work he has been boxing since he was 16 and is a former British Grand Champion of the Korean martial art Tang Soo Do and won bronze in the world competition.
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Insightful and inspiring teacher with a deep understanding of team/group dynamics.
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I've been user interface designer, sitebuilder, e-learning specialist and now my focus is on growing a happy, effective and value-oriented team. Building an agile company for me is a cultural factor, and is not a matter of methodology. I am surrounded by a couple of excellent problem solvers. I am not good in this. The connection means more to me than the answer. I prefer the piano to chess. Jiu jitsu to swimming. I am engaged in building trust among team members. I am motivated to form a working environment where everyone can find his/her voice and expectations. Where growth and flow determine each day. Where common practice dictates the schedule. I am moving on borderlines. When I get into something, I always start seeking other areas where I can adopt the new knowledge. I appreciate when something is easily defined, and I can join the process from the very beginning. In my free time I am looking for new topics, when I get obsessed by something, it happens that I get addicted for years. Newly I got caught by Brasilian jiu jitsu and bowing folk music for Transylvanian folk dance of Szék.
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