Theme: Disruption

Innovation and disruption are similar in that they are both makers and builders. But true disruption literally uproots and changes how we think, behave, do business, learn and go about our day-to-day. Disruption displaces the existing and creates something completely new, more efficient, worthwhile and unique. As such, it is at once destructive and creative. Disruptors shake up their fields from top to bottom. Together with our speakers, we would like to explore what is disruptive in our day and time in the fields of technology, society, science, art, entertainment and design.

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MIU

New York. A small shabby venue in Manhattan. An old grand piano and a a young woman with bold eyelined eyes sitting in front of it. To play where soul legends such as Donny Hathaway or Marvin Gaye started their careers Miu scrambled up her student’s income and travelled alone to the big apple. The club “The Bitter End” is her personal start. Back in Hamburg she starts her own band (Arne, Daniel, Joscha, Nando and the horn section Matti, David and János) and writes songs with them and trains her singing skills. From now events came thick and fast: Big newspaper articles, first airplays and many concerts.

Damien Declercq

Damien has a background in mechanical and production engineering, and a master in management. He has worked in the battery industry, the automotive after market in Europe, in various sales and marketing positions. Before joining Local Motors, Damien was working on a project to put enthusiastic eco-friendly cars on the European roads through the use of co-creation and partnership with OEMs. Damien joined Local Motors in 2011 to lead the Business Development of the company, developing the outsourced innovation business line as well as strategic partnerships. Today, Damien leads the setup and growth of the network of Microfactories and vehicles portfolio for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

Lorne Lantz

Lorne Lantz is a passionate bitcoin entrepreneur and educator who has built multiple financial startups that have won awards with PayPal and Swift. He has been programming for over 20 years, and has deep domain knowledge in banking, payments and bitcoin. Lorne is an O'Reilly bitcoin expert, having co-chaired the O'Reilly Bitcoin & Blockchain Summit and produced educational videos on Bitcoin & the Blockchain. Lorne has launched several bitcoin projects; His current project leverages blockchain technology to improve the financial infrastructure in developing countries in Asia, which is leading to increased wealth for the worlds unbanked.

Nathalie Brandenberg

Nathalie Brandenberg is the Co-founder of SUN bioscience, a biotech company based in the heart of the ‘Health Valley’ on the shores of the Swiss Leman Lake, which develops stem cell derived patient-specific organ models on a high throughput screening compatible platform. Nathalie is in the last months of her PhD in the Life Science department of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). She was the fourth batch of student graduating from the Life Science college of EPFL, a new multidisciplinary path that combines strong engineering skills with biology training. At the end of her curriculum, she built a strong background in microengineering by performing 2 years of research at the University of Tokyo in Japan. Throughout her PhD, Nathalie developed, with her co-workers and under the supervision of Prof. Matthias Lutolf, new innovative tools merging physics, biomaterial engineering and microengineering to stem cell biology.

Pascal Finette

Pascal Finette heads up Entrepreneurship at Singularity University where he inspires, educates and empowers entrepreneurs tackling the world’s most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies. Pascal has spent his career pushing the boundaries of technology and passionately believes the Internet can deeply impact the betterment of mankind. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of technology startups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, invested into early-stage tech startups, led Mozilla’s Innovation Lab, created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla’s Office of the Chair and has invested into social impact organizations around the globe at Google.org. But most of all – Pascal loves to work with entrepreneurs who are making things better and go from zero to one.

Vedrana Högqvist Tabor

Vedrana Tabor is currently Head of Scientific Research at Clue, a female digital health company, where she works with a talented interdisciplinary team inside the company, as well as the top researchers in the field of female health around the globe. Before Clue she has spent about 15 years as a researcher trying to find out the mechanism behind emerging and metastasis of cancer, as well as other complex diseases. Vedrana is using scientific method to quantify life in and around her. Her goal is to prevent late diagnosis of complex diseases through improving scientific tools we have, transforming our understanding of healthcare and usage of mobile technology. She believes that the right to information about how to maintain health should be one of our basic human rights.