Rolf Jensen                                                     

C hief imagination Officer   
Dream Company A/S, Denmark       

Rolf Jensen is a frequently used advisor, author and lecturer. On subjects within the future and corporate storytelling. He is currently on the boards of Børnefonden (The Childrens Foundation), Foreningen FAIR and Byprojekt Tordenskiold. Fellow at the Royal Geographical Society. He incorporated Dream Company in 2001 - on the famous danish writer H.C. Andersen's birthday. Student. MSc. Political Science, Århus University June 1970. Thereafter principal in the Ministry of Defence, then at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and finally Ministery of Fisheries.  In november 1984 employed Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies, CEO between 1988 and 31. march 2001. He has written the bestsellers "The Dream Society" (translated into 10 languages) and "Heartstorm". The next book is called "The Future Makers".

 

Wim Veen

Masters in Human Geography
PhD in Education

Wim Veen is a full professor at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. His field is Education and Technology. His research activities focus on the development of new learning concepts for formal and informal learning. Corporate learning is a major focus and together with a team of researchers he contributes to the development of new e-services for learning in organizations where new learning needs are emerging. He takes a particular interest in the net generation, its cyber culture, and the parallel development of new software, giving insights into future learning cultures which will fundamentally change traditional teaching and the roles of all stakeholders in the education field.

                                                 

Petri Kokko  

Country Manager of Google Finland and Sweden

Petri Kokko is the first Finnish Country Manager of Google, an American
public corporation known for its Internet search, web-based email, online
mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services
among others. He has previously worked as a Country Manager for Nike Finland and as a Managing Director for Omnicom advertising agency. Kokko has graduated from HANKEN School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki.                  

Petri Kokko is also known as a former Finnish figure skater. Kokko and his
skating partner won the gold medal at the 1995 European Figure Skating
Championships, the silver medal at that year's World Figure Skating
Championships and competed in the Winter Olympics twice. During his 18
years' career as a professional athlete he performed live for over 2 million
people in 4 continents. Kokko has two kids with his wife. He has pedaled
3300 km on his bicycle so far this summer.
 
 
                                                     
Kirsti Lehtimäki 
 
IDEM
 
Interaction designer and Idem's user experience design team leader,  Lehtimäki works in mobile experience research, concept design and mobile UI creation for a variety of Finnish and international clients.
 
Lehtimäki studied MA in Interaction Design at Royal College of London. Her background is in product design and textile electronics, having worked for several years at UK based textile innovation company Eleksen Ltd, preceeded by working at a product design consultancy Kinneir Dufort in Bristol. Currently Lehtimäki designs physical interaction and graphical user   interfaces, especially for phones being designed by the industrial design team at Idem. Additionally she designs tangible AV interfaces for museums and lectures at University of Art and Design Helsinki.


Kaj Storbacka                                       

Founder of Vectia Ltd.               

Vectia Ltd. is a management consultancy with offices in Amsterdam, Helsinki and Singapore.

Areas of Expertise: Dr. Storbacka is one of the forerunners in the field of developing customer oriented business models. He has over twenty years of experience as a strategy consultant to major European and global companies – in finance, media, travel, retail, utility, manufacturing and telecommunications. Dr. Storbacka is a frequent speaker at internal seminars for major global corporations, at several Executive MBA – programs and leading management development institutions.

Positions: Vectia Ltd.- Founder, Nyenrode Business School in the Netherlands -Professor of Sales and Account Management, HANKEN School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, Finland – Docent/Visiting Professor, Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA) in Chicago, USA - Member the Board of Directors

Publications: Dr. Storbacka has written a number of research reports on marketing issues, several articles and working papers on relationship marketing and service management, and numerous books on relationship management. The original Finnish version of his and Mr. Lehtinen’s book Customer Relationship Management – Creating Competitive Advantage Through Win-Win Relationship Strategies has won the Pro Oeconomia award for best business book in 1998 and the Swedish version has received an honorary award from the Swedish Marketing Federation in the Federation’s annual “Best Marketing Book”competition in 2001. Selling Value – Maximize growth by helping customers succeed (Kaario, Pennanen, Storbacka, Mäkinen, 2003) (translation in Finnish 2004: “Arvomyynnilläkasvuun”), Driving Growth with customer asset management (2006).                                                         

                                            

Veijo Hietala 

Ph.D. (Doc. Phil.), critic, Columnist, Adjunct Professor in Cinema and Television Studies, Jyväskylä University and Tampere University

His doctoral thesis (1990) focussed on the issues of spectatorship (spectator's experience) in classical and modern film theory. Since then he has published seven books and c. 150 academic articles on various topics of cinema, television and popular culture. Recently he has concentrated on studying a major turn in cultural sensibility from the late 1980s onwards: the shift from the age of reason to "new romanticism" - as he calls it. This was also the subject of his latest book Media ja suuret tunteet (Media and Great Emotions, 2007).