Lecturers

Profiles of speakers

in alphabetical order

Keith Evans (United Kingdom)

Managing Director/Creative Industries Development Agency (CIDA)

Keith Evans is the Managing Director of the UK based Creative Industries Development Agency (CIDA). Since 2001 he has worked with thousands of creative enterprises, across all creative disciplines and of varying sizes. His strategic portfolio includes the development of numerous trans-national creative sector enterprise projects, EU policy interventions and creative renewal projects which help regenerate towns, cities and rural places.

Bernd Fesel (Germany)

Creative Industries Advisor for the European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010

works as an independent cultural events organiser and cultural policy advisor in Berlin and Brussels. He is the owner of the Gallery Fesel, founded in Düsseldorf in  1977, which was renamed as Fesel Modern Art in 2005. He studied Economics and Philosophy in Heidelberg and Bonn from 1983 to 1990 and graduated with an economist degree. In 1995 he became working group member within the Federal Association of German Galleries (Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien – BVDG), from 1996 to 1997 he was board member of the BVDG, from 1997 to 2003 Managing Director. Bernd is a honorary spokesperson of the German Council for the Visual Arts, board member of the German Council for Cultural statistics, chairman of the expert committee “Taxes” in the German Arts Council. From year 2007 Bernd is the Creative Industries Advisor for the European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010; Deputy Director ECCE – European centre for creative economy; Advisor of the German UNESCO Commission and the German Federal Foreign Office; Member of the advisory board of the Bundesakademie Wolfenbüttel

Georg Flachbart (Germany/Slovakia)

Director/mind(21)factory

is action philosopher and director of mind(21)factory for Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Design Stuttgart, Berlin. From 1968-73, he studied philosophy, psychology and formal logic at Charles University in Prague  – PhD in 1974 – and worked later as a scientific assistant in the Department of Philosophy of Science at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Since 1980, he has been living in Germany where he worked mainly as a writer, director and producer in the fields of audio-visual media, theory of architecture, and the performing arts. His work has won numerous Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards at the international media competitions in NYC, Chicago, Hamburg. He currently represents the Stuttgart Economic Development Department / Kreativwirtschaft in the ECCE Innovation Committee of Experts, a project supported by the European Commission.

Bernd Hartmann (Germany)

The City of Stuttgart/Project manager

Bernd studied Journalism, Literature and Business Studies in Germany and Canada. After positions in a regional innovation agency in Stuttgart and a consultancy firm in Berlin he started working for the Economic Development Department of the City of Stuttgart as Project Manager Creative Industries in 2008. He is also currently working on his PhD in communication studies and is a fellow in the UNESCO Capacity Building Programme “U40- Cultural Diversity 2030″

Štefan Klein (Slovakia)

Head of Design department,  designer/ Academy of fine arts and design in Bratislava

Štefan Klein is a successful university professor and renown designer. He cooperates with various producers of transportation machines in Slovakia and abroad: VolksWagen, Audi, BMW, Ford, Johnson Controls. Since 1993 he manages the Transport Design Department at the Academy of fine arts and design in Bratislava. He gained National price for design 97 – Locomotive engine R 755 and Banič price 99 (Council for patents and inventions) – LEA, light electric automobile. He is an author of various designer projects focused on transportation.

Radoslav Kutaš (Slovakia)

Expert/ Media Institute

After Broadcasting Council where he was deputy on the programming department he used to work at The Ministry of Culture as a head of the Media division. Currently he works as an independent expert specializing on media, partially focusing on advertising and digital broadcasting. He also lectures at the Academy of fine arts in Bratislava.  Co author of various publications, lectures, and member of various expert groups.

Bastian Lange PhD. (Germany)

Post-Doc Researcher and Project manager/Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig

Bastian Lange holds a Ph-D (Dr. phil.) in Geography. Since 2006 he has been a post-doc researcher and project manager at the Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig. Current Projects include EU-Project ACRE as well as the First Creative Industries Report for the State of Saxony; Together with Inga Wellmann, he runs consulting enterprise Multiplicities (www.multiplicities.de). Contact: Bastian.Lange@berlin.de

Gertraud Leimueller (Austria)

President/ Arge Creativ Wirtschaft Wien

Gertraud Leimueller is elected president of the Austrian creative industries platform creativ wirtschaft austria (www.creativwirtschaft.at) since 2006. In her bread winning job she runs winnovation (www.winnovation.at), an international research and consultancy firm specialized on open and distributed innovation methods based in Vienna.  She is a member of the EU Expert Panel on Services Innovation, which consults the European Commission on services innovation issues and has studied at Harvard University (MPA), MIT and at the University of Vienna (Ph.D. in Science).

Claire Newman (France)

ECCE Innovation project manager/Nantes Métropole

Claire Newman is the Lead Partner Coordinator for the ECCE Innovation Project and part of the Economic Development and International Affairs team of Nantes Métropole in France. She worked on the initial development of the ECCE project and is subsequently now coordinating the project and its European partners. A British national, she has 15 years experience in European regulatory affairs and project management in both the private and public sectors in Brussels, Paris and Nantes.

Lasse Paananen (Finland)

CEO of Ideone Ltd.

Lasse Paananen works currently as a CEO of Ideone Ltd. Ideone is a leading Finnish company working in the field of developing tools and methods to make companies more innovative. Ideone provides services for inventive companies, development organizations, and local, regional and national governments. Currently Lasse works as a Director of Creative Tampere programme which is the largest regional creative economy development programme in Finland. Ideone manages also Creative Industries Finland (CIF) which coordinates the national development program for business growth and internationalization in the creative industries, a program directed by the Finnish Ministry of Education.

Andrea Redi (Austria)

Principal/ ORTLOS Space Engineering

Andrea Redi is principal of ORTLOS Space Engineering based in London and Graz, founded by Ivan Redi and Andrea Redi in 2000 as a network of interdisciplinary partners. ORTLOS Space Engineering is an immersive spaces design studio, which is developing innovative environments as a new channel for engaging with communities, reaching end-users, and build spatial experiences. Our main design competence is translating 21 century technologies into spatial systems With their strong commitment to working online, ORTLOS has focused on expanding classical architectural tasks by simulating virtual environments to be applied to future realities and by using cutting-edge computer technologies. Their work has been published and exhibited worldwide, including at the Venice Biennale in 2000. They are currently teaching at Graz University of Technology, Bartlett University College London, and lecture around the world.

Jan Runge (Belgium)

Manager for international projects/KEA European Affairs

is Manager for International Projects. He gained seven years of experience in media, culture and technology consulting and has developed a profound understanding of the European cultural and creative sectors and related policy making. Jan has conducted consulting assignments for clients as varied as the European institutions, national ministries, support agencies and creative companies. After starting out as a researcher for a R&D unit at Deutsche Telekom in Berlin he worked as a research analyst with a media strategy consultancy in London. He then gained experience in the public sector, working for a regional innovation agency in Stuttgart (MFG Baden-Württemberg). He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He speaks English, German and French.

Željko Martin Sampor (Slovakia)

EU and International Affairs Senior Consultant/ PubRes s.r.o.

Used to represent Slovakia as an expert in various  EU and international organizations such as WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), various Copyright and Media expert groups of the EU Council and the European Commission, Council of Europe Media Steering Committee (and various expert committees), UNSECO, etc.  Currently works as an independent consultant specializing in Copyright (EU and USA) and Media matters.

Aurel Sloboda (Slovakia)

Professor/Technical University in Košice, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Professor in the field of Technology and innovation of the agricultural and forestry production at the department of safety and quality management of the Faculty fo Mechanical Engineering. He graduated the Faculty of mathematics at the University of agriculture in Nitra (1974). He finished his PhD in year 1988, and was nominated for professor in 2005. He is author of more than 150 scientific and expertise works published in Slovakia and abroad and co-author of 2 patented inventions and several innovative schemes. He has been involved in several research and grant projects and co-author of 3 monographs and 3 lecture books. He is a member of several research councils and editorial boards of scientific and specialised magazines and permanent member of the department of agriculture technology, construction and energy of the Slovak academy of the agricultural science and member of Slovak academy of science.