Netherlands

Description: Entrepreneur, Innovation Intermediair, Co-creator, Imagineer

Description: I am working in the field of sustainability - reporting on it, raising the awareness about it, engaging for it, integrating into the core business. Thus I look at the process side of making sustainability (I call it connectedness) happen.

Description: We are citizens of interspaces, the scapes where connections flow between messages, scales and places beyond our comfort zone. Its creating solutions, multi-optional thinking and overlooking assumption to work with bright minds, motives and material. Judith van den Boom (NL) and Gunter Wehmeyer (GER) unite in BoomWehmeyer, a duo that explores new kinds of cross-disciplinary research and design development. Their active topics explore the intersection of product and urban design to expand public, professional and personal expectations of design, developing into innovative design strategies for people, education, manufacturing and business. Their work aims to stimulate connections between the environment and its use, bridging cultures and knowledge to create new (land)scapes for design.

Description: Live in The Hague with wife and daughter. Work with Cisco in the field of Local Government in Europe. Special interest in the impact of social media and web 2.0 on our society.

Description: As an entrepeneur myself i'm part of the Hub team Amsterdam, i own a business on (organisational) development, (social) change and leadership. Partnered with the "NPI institute for change and leadership", founder and vice chairman of the board of the " the 100th village", a not for profit organisation specialised in bottom up/integrated development aid in the field of malaria eradication. At the Hub i make myself strong for our youth that boldly takes the step into social entrepeneurship. I make myself strong to help these young change-agents create a better more social and sustainable world.

Description: IDplein develops methods and works on projects to increase participation of individuals and groups in society. By individual coaching, training, and special projects we help people to get a grip on their lives. Our services focus on employment, education, housing, finance, criminality, health, relationships, leisure activities, and the social network. We aim at getting people back to school, to work, or starting there own business. I'm mainly concerned with business development, project development, networking and "designing" solutions on social issues.

Description: Advisor on strategic policy and innovation. Currently working on the development and founding of a Centre for Social Innovation at Maastricht (Netherlands). This centre will be shaped as a social enterprise or foundation with the mission to support and facilitate the process of social innovation (among others) by translating the theoretical and practical knowledge of the process of innovation in different forms of providing external services on behalf of the community of innovators and to create an open platform and workspace for knowledge workers and creative professionals in the domain of innovation.

Description: Independent professional involved in creating projects with a twist on the with the combination of business, government and academia.