Holtzman has been actively involved in the Internet of Things since the 90s. According to him that consumer apps for Web-connected objects are becoming more common; he refers to this as an emerging "ecology of devices." There are many real world objects being connected to the Internet nowadays, he said, and they are beginning to act in concert.
Karim Amrani is Director at Jibly, developing new concepts, that take a creative and playful approach to social innovation. His grandparents were jbella (plural of jibly). Jbella are people who live in the mountains. Simple people, with little knowledge to grasp. Despite the lack of available information, they understood the world around them. They interacted with each other and their environment in a simple yet complex way. Many years later, I live in a world where all the information is available. Yet, we hardly understand our environment.
Born in 1977 in Paris, Marie-Noéline Viguie is an expert in facilitation, cultural mediation, management in contributor spaces and their interactions, as in animation of plural working spaces in Silicon Sentier to prefigure and launch “La Cantine”.
La Cantine, first French space of co working for emergent technology is a new type of area. It associates working spaces, competence rising period of communities and project design crossing art creation, research and innovation: She’s worked in projects such as spreading of “Cantines”, Palais Brogniart project, CENTQUATRE incubator, design and animation of first French event gathering of all actors around fluid interfaces. Her background: economy, cultural mediation and work social psychology. To original transmission promoting messages, knowledge, link and risky meetings and collaborations. Artists and company salaried employees, artists and elderly, public and private, most of projects designed or carried out by Marie-Noéline are centred on this concept of crossing and interdisciplinary. She’s set up several workshops, conferences and working groups. Marie-Noéline founds with Stéphanie Bacquère in 2009 Nod-A to experiment innovation by digital creation.
Maurits Kreijveld carries out a foresight study on Wisdom of the crowd and the future of decision making at STT, the Dutch Study center and think tank for Technology Trends. In the past years Maurits worked at the Ministry of Economic Affairs on Innovation policy and the ICT and new media policy. Maurits holds/has a Master’s degree in applied physics. He is particularly fascinated by the interaction between technology and society and how this shapes the future of our society and organisations.