GRID 2008

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Bilder från GRID08

Breakout Sessions


	HIGHLIGHTS FROM GRID08 A Summary from GRID 2008.


	Dame Evelyn Glennie Good Vibrations Dame Evelyn Glennie is a Scottish world-famous virtuoso percussionist and composer. Although she became deaf at age 12, music is her life. She has performed worldwide with the greatest conductors and orchestras, as well as with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Björk and Sting.


	Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Story Telling Kiran Desai is an Indian author living in Brooklyn, New York. Her novel, "The Inheritance of Loss" won the 2006 Man Booker Prize. It has been translated into 40 languages. As might be expected from the rich input of her cultural background, Kiran Desai, daughter of author Anita Desai, is a born storyteller.


	Younghee Jung Consumer Anthropology Jung is a senior interaction designer at Nokia, based in London. She specializes in developing future product concepts by combining anthropology with design. Her passion is to learn and understand various cultures of humanity and make contributions to enrich them.


	Nova Spivack The Semantic Web Nova Spivack lives in San Francisco and is one of the leading voices of the emerging Semantic Web, often referred to as Web 3.0. As a grandson of management guru Peter F. Drucker, Nova shares his grandfather's interests in the evolution of knowledge work. In 1999, Nova Spivack flew to the edge of space with the Russian space agency.


	Jim Berk Lights, Camera – and Social Action Jim Berk is CEO of Participant Media, Hollywood's leading provider of entertainment designed to inspire social change. A lifelong commitment to entertainment, education, social change and business leadership has guided Jim Berk throughout his career. Participant Media has produced films such as The Kite Runner, An Inconvenient Truth, Darfur Now, and newly released The Visitor.


	June Cohen New Technology, Ancient Instincts June Cohen, Executive Producer of TED Media, is responsible for bringing the legendary TED Conference online. As a result, TED talks have been watched more than 50 million times worldwide, and have created a thoughtful new genre in online video. She has written books on the Web and was part of the editorial team that launched HotWired.com, the pioneering website from Wired Magazine in San Francisco.


	Hans Rosling The World Is Becoming A Better Place Hans Rosling is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. In 1980, he discovered an outbreak of a formerly unknown paralytic disease. His research led to links between economic development, agriculture, poverty and health. He is invited to speak all over the world and is highly rated for his jaw-dropping lecturing style.


	Pele Cortizo-Burgess Change the way you work, change the way you think Pele Cortizo-Burgess has a background in advertising and has worked for many of the most well-known consumer brands in the world. He started ITV Imagine one and a half years ago. Imagine investigates current culture and media platforms, creates television formats, and tries to find inspiring paths to creativity. ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK.


	Mattias Klum Being There Mattias Klum is a full time freelance photographer specializing in natural history and cultural subjects. His photographs have appeared in many publications worldwide, including National Geographic , Wildlife Conservation, GEO, and other magazines.