Vasilis Kostakis

Vasilis Kostakis is the Professor of P2P Governance at Tallinn University of Technology and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center.

Vasilis is also Visiting Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Moreover, he is the founder of the P2P Lab and core member of the P2P Foundation. In 2018, Vasilis was awarded a prestigious four-year grant from the European Research Council, to study the convergence of the digital commons with local manufacturing technologies. While at Harvard, he focuses on how to create an economy based on locally sustainable communities that are digitally interconnected.

Vasilis has written essays for several outlets such as the Harvard Business Review and Aeon. His work has appeared in 13 languages.

He is also an artist.

Thomas Patzko

My answer to the question:
Global mobility of an increasing percentage of people and the more inward focus of nation-states will lead to more tension between state actors and citizens as regional and global topics are not getting addressed in a regenerative way.

Technology is increasingly more accessible and understandable for non-engineers. We see a systematic change coming in how technology is affecting every single aspect of our lives in a way where we can make more conscious decision on the effect our lifestyle has on the planetary ecosystem.

We believe in the power of fostering radical collaboration in our ecosystem to induce positive change in the way we live, work, develop people, lead companies and design products and services. We see the momentum to make being a startup entrepreneur a viable path in Switzerland. Social entrepreneurs are going to solve current and future challenges!

My presentation
The focus will be on how tech is spanning from changing individual lives https://powercoders.org to making the effects of global climate change visible and helps at the same time to get people out of harm’s way https://quantworks.ch/
The title of my presentation will be “Tech for individual and societal good”.

My bio:
Thomas Patzko is CFO and Partnership Lead Google for Startups, AXA, and Credit Suisse and has been with Impact Hub Zürich for 3 years. Before joining Impact Hub, Thomas held executive positions at financial services corporations and, for almost ten years, was a self-employed business consultant and mentor. He holds an M.Sc. in economy and business administration and has completed advanced degrees in coaching and sociology.

Tom Fleming

Dr Tom Fleming is a leading international expert on cultural policy creative cities and regions. His work focuses on advising governments, municipalities and institutions across the world to develop effective research, policy, strategy and action across the cultural sector and wider creative and social sectors. Tom is director of Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy (TFCC), which he set up in 2003. Based in Porto and London, Tom has worked in over 80 countries and 200 cities to shape cultural strategies, develop creative industries plans and advise on inclusive culture-led transformation. This includes a focus on urban creativity and innovation, interculturalism and the convergence of social and creative entrepreneurship.
www.tfconsultancy.co.uk
@tfconsultancy

Sebastian Schlueter

Sebastian Schlueter is a Berlin based urbanist and the coordinator of Actors of Urban Change, a program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung in cooperation with MitOst e.V. Trained as an urban geographer, he worked previously as a lecturer at Humboldt-University Berlin and was the publisher of a magazine on architecture and everyday life in cities. Sebastian is a trained car-mechanic and holds a PhD from King’s College London and HU Berlin.

Miodrag Kuč

Miodrag Kuč is an interdisciplinary artist and urban theorist trained as architect / urban planner in various cultural settings. His work explores the role of ephemeral structures in uncertain urban conditions and spatial appropriations of marginal social groups. He is a founder of the studio ParaArtFormations which moves at the intersection of urban studies, performative-planning, artistic interventions and micro politics. Currently, he works as programme director, researcher and curator at ZK/U (Centre for Art and Urbanistics) Berlin, exploring new ways of knowledge production through the lenses of critical urban pedagogy.

Simos Malamis

Dr Simos Malamis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering at Brunel University and at the Cyprus University of Technology. Dr Malamis was also a Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Verona. His research activities focus on the development and application of novel processes/systems for wastewater purification, resource recovery and carbon footprint minimization. Simos has more than 70 publications in international peer reviewed scientific journals with impact factor and more than 90 presentations in international conferences. Simos has significant experience in the implementation of National and European projects. He has participated in numerous water related projects and is the coordinator of the 12 million Euro Horizon2020 project of HYDROUSA dealing with the valorisation of non-conventional water sources within the concept of circular economy.

Matthias Reisinger

10 years ago, after graduating from business school with a master in international management, Matthias Reisinger co-founded Impact Hub Vienna and served as its managing director until the beginning of this year. After transitioning the operational management to a new team, Matthias took on a new role as the head of the department for Entrepreneurship and Creative Industries of Austrian Wirtschaftsservice, the largest funding institution of the Republic of Austria.