Theme: Lightbulb Moments

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Klokgebouw 50
Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, 5617 AB
Netherlands

Anne Hélène Gelebart

Anne Hélène Gelebart studied her bachelor and masters in France, where she is originally from. As part of her masters, she had the opportunity to do an internship of 12 months at Sabic Innovative Plastics (The Netherlands) to gain her first experience in the field of polymer research. Later, to finalize her masters degree, she joined the group of Prof. Broer at TU/e to develop photo responsive membranes based on liquid crystal polymers. After completion, she joined the same group as a Ph.D. student to develop dynamic soft matter. As part of Anne Hélène’s four years of research, she has developed various systems that are able to convert light into continuous motion.

Bart ter Haar Romeny

Bart M. ter Haar Romeny is a professor of the medical image analysis group (IMAG/e) at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and a distinguished professor at the Northeastern University in Shenyang, China. From 1989-2001 he was associate professor at the Image Sciences Institute of Utrecht University. He is EAMBES Fellow, and Senior IEEE member. He has been president of the Dutch Society for Clinical Physics, of the Dutch Soc. for Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, and is currently president of the Dutch Society for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing. He received the Wolfram Technology Innovator Award in 2013. He is project leader of the Sino-Dutch RetinaCheck project, a large screening program for diabetic retinopathy in Northeast China.

Camilla van den Boom

Camilla van den Boom is a strategist specialising in how to lead, manage and develop organisations. She has 20+ years of experience in strategy development, strategy implementation and organisational (re)design within large domestic and international organisations. Camilla worked as a management consultant for Accenture, Andersen and Deloitte, helping clients to define new strategic frameworks, business models and organisational roadmaps. She founded the strategy consulting firm, Sturrm, an organisation that helps clients to develop new business models and business strategies by means of doing research on the future. Camilla is a lecturer of Strategic Management and Business Model Design at TIAS School for Business and Society and at TU/e. Camilla also conducts research on how organisations and individuals can craft the future using a combination of proven management and business theories, various tools for strategic analysis and contemporary design thinking.

Clement Vidal

Dr. Clément Vidal is a philosopher with a background in logic and cognitive sciences. He is co-founder of the Evo Devo Universe community and founder of the High Energy Astrobiology prize. In 2014, he authored The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective. He is eager to tackle big questions, bringing together areas of knowledge such as cosmology, physics, astrobiology, complexity science or evolutionary theory.

Diewke van den Heuvel

Diewke van den Heuvel graduated in 2005 as a photographer at the University of Arts Utrecht. Since then she has been active as an artist, freelancer and teacher in photography. To summarise, Diewke trains herself and the people around her on how the images we create tell the stories we don’t hear but we do see with our eyes. Currently, she is working on the project Strijpers; making portraits of all the neighbours in the Strijp-S neighbourhood in Eindhoven. Diewke van den Heuvel is a photographer, teacher and also a neighbour in the Strijp-S area in Eindhoven, where Philips originally manufactured its light bulbs.

Eefje op den Buysch

Eefje op den Buysch is the founder of the Transmedia Storytelling Lab at the Fontys Academy for Creative Industries (Tilburg, Netherlands). She obtained her Master’s degree of Science (cum laude) in Informatics – Human Centered Multimedia on the subject of using future scenarios and narratives for the design of a simulated future newsroom. With her knowledge and experience in digital media and information technologies, she led several (research) projects on transmedia, robotics and online communication. Recently, Eefje got involved in Robot Love, a two-year art and technology manifestation that asks the question of if we can learn from robots about love.

Frank van Valkenhoef

After diving into the creative world at the art academy, Frank van Valkenhoef decided to take another direction and focus on technology. During his study of Industrial Design, he specialized in the development of electronics. Later on, Frank specialized in Human Computer Interactions and within the field of Haptics. Nowadays, he is trying to bring R&D to the public with his company, Instigate. He offers this service to small design studios, but also to companies like Dell.

Jasper Rijpma

Jasper Rijpma is currently working at the ‘Hyperion Lyceum’ in Amsterdam as a history teacher. Besides history, he also teaches on the subject of ‘Great Thinkers’, which he has collaboratively set-up with some of his colleagues. ‘Great Thinkers’ is a combination between philosophy-of-life, sociology, history and philosophy. It’s education that focuses on the world in which students learn to think big together. At his school, Jasper has also established ‘Bureau V’, where students who want to deepen, accelerate, enrich or broaden themselves can sign-up. On 4 October 2016, Jasper was awarded ‘Teacher of the Year’ in the sector ‘Secondary Education’.

Jeroen Zwaal

Coach, editor, artist and today’s speaker on mental health. Jeroen’s experiences became the basis for a Virtual Reality experience produced by KRO-NCRV (a dutch public broadcasting organisation) that allows the user to live through a psychotic episode.

Joost Smiers

Dr. Joost Smiers is a Professor (em.) of Political Science of the Arts, Research Fellow in the Research Group Arts & Economics at the Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands, and formerly visiting professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles, and Director of Research at the Utrecht School of the Arts. He has written, lectured all over the world and researched extensively in the areas of decision-making in cultural matters worldwide, new visions on a world without copyright and the public domain, freedom of expression versus responsibility, cultural competition policy, the income of artists and their entrepreneurs, European cultural policy, Unesco’s Convention on Cultural Diversity, and cultural identities (plural).

Kirsten Swensen

Kirsten Swensen is a Visual Artist and Photographer with an interest in aesthetics, consciousness, awareness, intimate relationships, communication and is inspired by the people around her. In 2013, she obtained her Bachelor in Documentary Photography at the St. Joost Art Academy in the Netherlands. She is engaged in psychology and anthropology, and uses her camera as a way to reflect on society. Kirsten wants to express her own emotions as well as those of others through the use of photography and cinematography.

Kuang Yi Ku

Kuang-Yi Ku was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. He is currently based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and studying at Design Academy Eindhoven. He holds two masters degrees, one in dentistry from the National Yang Ming University and the other in Communication Design from Shih Chien University. He is a practicing dentist, a new media artist and a social designer. He also co-founded TW BioArt (Taiwan Bio-Art Community) to stimulate the fields of BioArt and Science+Art in Taiwan. He won first prize at the Taipei Digital Art Awards in 2015 with “The Fellatio Modification Project”. For the project, he expored body modification, gender studies, queer theories, and dentistry all together. His work often deals with the human body, sexuality, human-animal interaction and medical technology, aiming to investigate the relationships between technology, the individual and the environment.

Michel Decre

Michel Decre is an innovator and entrepreneur in neurotechnology. Has been present at the start of many technological innovations during his work with Sapiens, Medtronic, Salvia Bioelectronics and, amongst others, Philips. With a background in physics and mechanical engineering Michel Decre has a detailed understanding how the many parts of our bodies operate at multiple scale levels. But his perspective is much broader, encompassing the scientific and philosophical thoughts informing how we view our own humanity in an increasingly technological society.

Milee Herweijer

Based on her research as architect into evidence-based design in Dutch hospitals Milee Herweijer was awarded a doctorate from Delft University. She specialises in the design of what we’ve come to call healing environments. Rather than focussing on specific symptoms, ailments and patients, she extended her gaze to include something as vital as the place where we heal.

Mpanzu Bamenga

Mpanzu Bamenga, born in DR. Congo, was eight years old when he came to the Netherlands with his mother and brother in 1994 as an asylum-seeker. Last year, he was elected Political Talent of the Year as a councilor in the city of Eindhoven. He participated in several (international) exchange and leadership programs. He co-founded a movement: the inclusion leaders network (Incleaders). Mpanzu was a candidate for the Dutch National Parliament and was a speaker at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation event 2016, as well as speaking in a meeting on Human Rights at the White House in Washington DC. After leaving his place of birth DR. Congo, Mpanzu spent sixteen years living without a status before he received a residence permit in 2007. At first the authorities told him that he had nothing to offer to the Netherlands. They wanted to deport him back to his country of birth. In the end it was the Justice Minister himself who made use of his discretionary power to stop deportation and grant Mpanzu and his family a residence permit. The Justice Minister believed that Mpanzu had a lot to offer. How things have changed.

Olle Lundin

Olle Lundin is the coordinator of the queerification of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. What is queerification? “Queer” as an academic, cultural but also social term signifies both behaviour and appearance that goes against the grain.

Ruben van Vreeland

Ruben van Vreeland is a young, veteran Ethical Hacker. With Ruben’s company, BitSensor, he offers security advice to the greatest web platforms. Ruben started programming at the age of nine. His security career began when he turned 14. Ruben then started his own security consultancy company. A job as a programmer at a web development company followed. Today, Ruben is a speaker at major conferences such as Hack In The Box/HAXPO, where he spoke on advanced XSS. With BitSensor, he has created a radical new approach on fighting attacks on the web application layer. IBM has chosen BitSensor as globally most promising startup in the SmartCamp program.

Steven Kyffin

Professor Steven Kyffin was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Enterprise) in September 2016, having previously been Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences since September 2012 and Dean of Northumbria School of Design since January 2010. He has a Master of Design, Industrial Design, Royal College of Art London and an Hon Doc of Civil Law from Northumbria University. In the past thirty years, Steven has spent ten of those in London’s design consulting businesses; ten in academia, including Director of Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art; and, prior to joining Northumbria University, Steven spent ten years in Corporate Design leadership as Director of the Global Design Research group at Philips Electronics.