Jul 29 2008
Yves L. Doz
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Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology & Innovation at INSEAD
Yves Doz is a Professor of Business Strategy and the Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD.
His business experience includes work on multinational aircraft programmes, along with consulting for many major multinational corporations and teaching in their internal development programmes.
“The metanational hypothesis is becoming reality.”
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He was Associate Dean for Research and Development from 1990-1995. From 1990-1994 he held the John H. Loudon Chair in International Management.
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Anne Lise Kjaer is a leading global futurist who has pioneered the concept of Multidimensional Thinking - developing future concepts by analysing scientific research in conjunction with social, cultural, emotional and spiritual shifts in society. Anne Lise has an exceptional eye for ‘the next big thing’ and an original and inspiring way of translating fledgling concepts into viable commercial propositions, working with some of the world’s leading brands.
René Jäggi is the former CEO of Adidas International and Chairman of H.T.M. (Head– Tyrolia-Mares-Penn) the international sports group. He is also the former Chairman of the Board of Head N.V and he was CEO of the LOC Venue office during the football world cup in 2006 in Germany. He is currently on the board of several international companies and Chairman of Flora Eco Power AG in Munich, a public bio energy company. In May 2007 he was appointed as a new member of the Board of Directors of Hong Kong Based Artificial Life, Inc. a provider of award-winning mobile 3G technology and applications.
As Director of Marketing for London 2012 (the organisation which successfully bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games) David worked with Sebastian Coe to build UK public support for the bid, and sell London’s proposals to the International Olympic Committee around the world. He devised and directed the crucial final presentation in Singapore before the election of the host city. This race has been described as the fiercest competitive pitch of all time
Ray Kurzweil is one of the leading inventors of our time. He was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind and the first text-to-speech synthesizer. He also designed the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. 
Tim Cole is an experienced publicist, author and TV moderator in the field of eBusiness and IT security. As editor of the business magazine Net Investor he has a proven track record for journalistic objectivity, as well as the ability to critically evaluate the impact of technology on business processes and markets. His book ‘Management Challenge Security’ has become a standard textbook for non-technical managers involved in IT security decision-making.
Wally Olins is a co-founder of Wolff Olins and was Chairman of the company until 1997 and he is Chairman of Saffron Brand Consultants. He has advised many of the world’s leading organisations on identity, branding, communication and related matters. He has also worked with a number of countries on branding issues. He has acted as advisor to major strategic consultancies. He is currently Visiting Fellow at Said Business School in Oxford, and Visiting Professor at Lancaster University and Copenhagen Business School.
Patrick Vittet-Philippe is an expert advisor on e-business; information and communication technologies; B2B and B2C; and m-commerce for the European Commission (EC). He has been responsible in the elaboration and implementation of the main European Union (EU) policy initiatives on e-business and for drafting a number of EC policy papers and reports. He also represents the EC at international negotiations and conferences. 
Until recently Erik Jan Koedijk was Country Manager (Netherlands) and EMEA Channel Marketing Manager at Nokia Enterprise Solutions. An expert on Web 2.0 and networking, Erik has developed strategic channel sales and marketing plans to open new channels to deliver sales growth and above all transform strategy into action. He is also an experienced branding expert and a recognised leader in the field of building strategic networks.
James Woudhuysen is one of Europe’s best-known independent speakers and writers on the future. In the 1980s he co-directed Britain’s first major study into the future of e-commerce (’teleshopping’ in those days). He then moved to the Henley Centre, Britain’s best-known think-tank on EU markets, where he built up the firm’s forecasting on the broader future of IT and proposed, in 1992, that the Internet be delivered over TV. 
