Hans Rosling among Foreign Policy´s top 100 global thinkers 2009 (1 december 2009)
For boggling our minds with paradigm-shattering data, public health scholar | Karolinska Institute | Sweden. Rosling (InnoTown speaker 2008), a doctor and global-health professor, has become famous for his energetic lectures, in which he narrates mind-blowing statistics on development and public health. Rosling's quest to use numbers to shatter stereotypes of rich and poor countries has brought him global prominence. More
Hans Rosling: India's per capita income will overtake US and UK by 2048 (10 November 2009)
Rosling (InnoTown 2008) presented his latest findings at the TED India conference. More
Li Cunxin, Mao´s Last Dancer: Now a major movie (November 2009) Li Cunxin´s personal story moved the InnoTown 06 audience. Now Li´s story has become a major movie, by award winning director Bruce Beresford.
Sir Ken Robinson: Improving education, business and ourselves (3 March 2009) Ken Robinson (InnoTown 08) joins Al Jazeera´s Riz Khan to share his ideas for improving education, business and ourselves. Ken Robinson joins Riz Khan to share his ideas for improving education, business and ourselves.
Gerald Celente on Fox News: Obamageddon is coming! (7 May 2009) Two time InnoTown speaker (2000/2006) Gerald Celente of the Trends Research Institute looks into the future and gives some rather dire predictions.
Benjamin Zander at World Economic Forum, Davos, 28 January 2009 Benjamin Sander was an acclaimed InnoTown speaker in 2002. In Davos this year his theme was: From complexity to possibility - an artist's approach.
We Think: Mass innovation, not mass production (March 2008) A new book by Charles Leadbeater, InnoTown speaker (2005), explores the potential of the latest developments of the internet. We Think was published by Profile in March 2008 after a long period of development which included sharing a draft of the first elevn chapters online. This was downloaded thousands of times and I got hundreds of comments from people, most of them very helpful and some that changed the way the book was written. This video based on the illustrations in the book.
Polly LaBarre: CNN business and innovation correspondent (June 2008) InnoTown speaker Polly LaBarre currently does three segments a week on CNN's "American Morning" and one on the weekend show "Your Money" as a business and innovation correspondent. The segments introduce viewers to a remarkable collection of inspiring leaders, innovative organizations, and exciting new ideas from the world of business and beyond.
Helen Greiner´s Women of Vision Award Speech (June 2008) Helen Greiner (InnoTown speaker 2005) is the 2008 Women of Vision Award Winner for Innovation. Helen is the Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of iRobot.
Karim Rashid on industrial design (28 February 2008) Egyptian/English/American industrial designer and (InnoTown speaker way back in 2002) talks to Al Jazeera in this 18 minute interview.
Oliviero Toscani: Never Far From Controversy (October 2007)
Legendarily controversial advertising photographer Oliviero Toscani (InnoTown speaker 2001) wants us to imagine an archaeologist a thousand years from now digging up an issue of TIME, circa 2007. "Maybe on the cover he'll find a poignant photograph of AIDS in Africa. Then he'll open up the magazine and see a photograph advertising a shiny Mercedes." More
Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer (5 March 2008). Guy Kawasaki, Apple Computer evangelist and acclaimed InnoTown speaker talking to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (5 March 2008).
Interview with Ricardo Semler (March 2007) Chairman of Brazilian Company Semco, (InnoTown 07). Aired on Australian ABC television March 2007.
Alex Steffen on CNN: Just Imagine Coming together: InnoTown 08 speaker Alex Steffen and Yasuaki Sakyo reveal how we can transform ourselves - and our world - by sharing our experiences.
