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Welcome Foreign Delegations

For foreign delegations only

15:00
Antwerp City Hall
Registration
Welcome address by Patrick Janssens, Mayor of Antwerp
Cocktail offered by the City of Antwerp
16:00
Antwerp City Hall
Meetings
Political meeting with District of Creativity Heads of Delegation
Guided tour in the city of Antwerp  
17:30
Antwerp Cruise Terminal
Reception and Presentations
 
 
20:00
Antwerp Cruise Terminal
Welcome Diner
 
 
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Conference Day 1 - 18 November

Host: Patricia Ceysens, Flemish Minister for Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade

08:00
Entrance / Expo Area
Registration & Coffee
Expo Visit
09:00
Auditorium
Keynote
Opening
Patricia Ceysens, Flemish minister of Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade
Pascal Cools, general manager Flanders DC
Lorin Parys, chairman Flanders DC
The importance of Creativity.
Too often, business is about the bottom line. But the thinking this involves, stifles the ability to innovate. Cleese shows how striving for clarity and control, can be put on one side when Creativity is required. What he says is surprising, slightly shocking... and yet completely persuasive.
Presentation by John Cleese
11:00
Expo Area
Break
Expo Visit
11:30
Auditorium
Roaring twenties
Presentation 1: Building a Bright Green Future
We find ourselves facing two futures, one unthinkable and the other currently unimaginable, The big challenge is to create a future which is sustainable, dynamic, prosperous and fair - a future which is both bright and green.
Presentation by Alex Steffen
Presentation 2: My organisation is a jungle
What does Red Monkey Innovation Management mean for your organisation? Have you already moved from a 2D to a 3D organisation?
Presentation by Jef Staes
Presentation 3: Strandbeest: making New Life
The wall between art and engineering only exists in our mind.
Presentation by Theo Jansen
12:30
Expo Area
Lunch
Expo Visit
14:00
Auditorium
Keynote
How to avoid a Slamming Door
How to deal with other cultures and what you can learn from them. How to avoid a slamming door, and instead get an instant intimate connection with people you haven't met before.
Presentation by Martin Heylen
15:00
Expo Area
Coffee break
Expo Visit
15:30
Auditorium
Quickshare Sessions
Streetwize
The entrepreneurial and leadership abilities of street children.
Presentation by Arnoud Raskin
Pink Ladies
A great idea from the UK: a women only taxi service, in shocking pink.
Presentation by Tina Dutton and Andrea Winders
Small is Beautiful
Nanotechnology is closer to you than you may think.
Presentation by Prof. dr. Jean-Pierre Locquet
The Future of 3D Scanning
Eyetronics takes you from the TV series Bionic Woman over Grand Theft Auto IV all the way to the future of 3D scanning
Presentation by Dirk Callaerts
Technology meets design
Listen to how the Lombardian stocking industry culminates fashion with technology
Presentation by Francesco Merisio
e-health: rich user experiences
Rich user experiences finding their way from R&D to practical use in e-health in applications.
Presentation by Luc Van de Velde
Wii Remote Hacking
Knock up a poor man's steadycam or an interactive whiteboard with Nintendo's Wii.
Presentation by Johnny Chung Lee
16:30
Expo Area
Coffee break
Expo Visit
17:00
Auditorium
Keynote
On founding Apple and the Future of Technology
Presentation by Steve Wozniak
18:30
TBD
Networking Cocktail
Expo Visit
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Conference Day 2 - 19 November

08:00
Entrance / Expo Area
Registration & Coffee
Expo Visit
09:00
Auditorium
Keynote
Opening
Pascal Cools, general manager Flanders DC
Helping organisations innovate through Design
IDEO's success comes from its philosophy: you don't have to be a genius
to have a great idea and companies that encourage this creativity will excel.
Presentation by Tom Kelley
11:00
Expo Area
Break
Expo Visit
11:30
Auditorium
Roaring twenties
Creativity in the post-Google Generation
Artscience, the need for new collaborations between scientists, artists, industry and the social sector. An enticing tale from the trenches.
Presentation by David Edwards
How Web 2.0 will Change Your Daily Life
What it takes to survive and thrive in the ever-transforming and ever-growing worldwide web. Gain better insight into the possibilities and potential of the social networking market.
Presentation by An De Jonghe
Poetry as Paradigm Shifter
How poetry can play a part in transforming personal, social and organisational paradigms to create a more life affirming world.
Presentation by Devon Reid
12:30
Expo Area
Lunch
Expo Visit
14:00
Auditorium
Made to Stick
Why do some ideas thrive while others die?
Presentation by Dan Heath
15:00
Expo Area
Coffee break
 
15:30
Auditorium
Quickshare Sessions
Streetcombing
The best ideas lie on the street. On his blog, Richard Stomp publishes one discovery per day.
Presentation by Richard Stomp
Innovation in kitchen science
Alicia mixes El Bulli creativity with nutritional science. Buen provecho!
Presentation by Pepe Zapata
Bridging the gap between idea and reality
.MGX materialises whatever a designer would dream to achieve.
Presentation by Naomi Kaempfer
European Entrepreneurial Regions
How regions can stimulate innovation.
Presentation by Horst Soboll
Innovation Bootcamps
Bootcamps are a better experience than an MBA. Learn about Alcatel-Lucent’s tools to develop their ideas into business cases.
Presentation by Danny Goderis
Innovations in the agricultural industry
From new technologies to farm fresh marketing.
Presentation by Gert Van Thillo
Time experience
Experience time differently
Presentation by Cyriel Kortleven
16:30
Expo Area
Coffee break
 
17:00
Auditorium
Keynote
The Future of Business
New business models for the economics of abundance in the digital information economy. Chris Anderson describes how the economics of abundance works and discusses two important aspects —the Long Tail and the free economy.
Presentation by Chris Anderson
18:30
Hand-Over CWF by Patricia Ceysens
Unizo After Party
21:00
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