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Luc Tayart

Luc Tayart, the Managing Director, King Baudouin Foundation, Brussels, was born in 1957, Beerse, Belgium. He holds a Master’s degree in Moral Sciences from the University of Ghent.
A practitioner with more than 20 years experience, he participates in several organisations, including the European Foundation Centre as president (June 2000-June 2002) and vice-president (June 2002-2004), the Council on Foundations, US, as a member of the Board of Directors (2002-2005) and as a member of the International Committee of the Council on Foundations (2002-2006).  He is president of the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Cooperation. Mr Tayart  is also a member of the Advisory Council of the European Policy Centre, former member of the board of theEuropean Cultural Foundation, Trustee at the European Venture Philantropy Association, Treasurer of the King Baudouin Foundation United States and Chairman of Guidestar International.

Bart Becks

Bart Becks is passionately active in the digital media and technology domain for 25 years. At the age of 13, he started programming on his Commodore-64, which finally led to becoming CEO of Belgacom Skynet and of Skynet iMotion Activities (BelgacomTV). He then became Senior Vice President at SBS Broadcasting, which was sold for 3.3billion Euro to become the ProSiebenSat1 group, based respectively in Amsterdam and Munich. Since 2008, he started, internationalized and guided a series of innovators in Europe and the US.

Bart currently resides mainly in Los Angeles, where he recently launched the music platform Sonic Angel. He often returns to his beloved Brussels and Limburg, where he sits on the board of 3 startups, a media company,  plus some socio-cultural organizations, often involving music.
Bart studied Commercial engineering in Hasselt, MBA’d in Liège, and studied some stuff in Columbia and Harvard. He still needs to finish his thesis to get his History of classical music degree – but has recently focused on being Chief Entertainment Officer of Charlie, his two-year old son. In 2007, Bart got awarded Euro50 media personalities by Cablesat Europe. You can follow some of his thoughts at http://www.flyingchaz.com

Méhand Guiddir

Méhand Guiddir joined Altran, leader in Innovation consulting, in 2006 as Chief Technical Officer of Altran Telecoms and Media. He previously held the position of CTO at Altran Belgium. His responsibilities include the coordination of innovative R&D activities related to French competitive clusters. He is actively involved in the ICT cluster System@tic, participating in the Telecom Steering Committee.

Méhand Guiddir graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris, a Tier-1 engineering school in France, and holds a Master in Networks & Telecommunications.  He began his career in 1984 within the Marconi group and then held several management positions within telecom vendors and operators worldwide. He participates as an expert in several selection committees, such as the selection committee of Paris city Innovation award.

Roald Sieberath

Roald Sieberath is an expert in entrepreneurship and innovation. He has a formal training as an engineer, MBA, and innovation manager. He has filed patents, founded a number of startups since 1995. He managed R&D teams and projects at CETIC (Center of Excellence in ICT). He currently runs the Entrepreneur Boostcamp for the Microsoft Innovation Center (in Mons). He is also involved as advisor in a number of startups, including OpenERP, Learnence, and a couple of stealth projects… His interests include web & enterprise 2.0, cloud computing, eLearning, eHealth, collaborative intelligence, art & technology.

Eric Salmon

Eric Salmon, MD, PhD, Neuropsychiatrist, Professor, Head of the Memory Centre, Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Liege, Belgium; Medical Director of the Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liege; Principal Investigator in the EC projects NEST-DD, European Alzheimer Disease Consortium (5^th FW) and DiMI (6^th FW), in a belgian InterUinversity Attraction Pole, in several clinico-pharmacological studies. Teaching in the Faculties of Medicine and of Psychology, University of Liege; involved in InterUniversity teaching programs. National and international research programs on neurodegenerative diseases, cognitive functions and functional imaging.

Harald Eichsteller

After 20 years as a manager in old and new economy companies, consultancies, agencies and media corporations, Harald Eichsteller went back to university to teach at the renowned Stuttgart Media University / Hochschule der Medien (HdM) in 2003. International sales experience within Siemens Inc. worldwide as well as several positions as Vice President and Managing Director at RTL Television and as Head of Strategy and eBusiness at Aral Inc. give a professional foundation for his lectures and today‘s consulting and speaking activities. Based on international business studies (WHU Koblenz, Northwestern University, ESC Lyon) Harald Eichsteller has been regarded as an expert for customer centric strategies, online marketing and innovation management since 1996; he also has been in great demand as a speaker and chairman of various conferences and summits (e.g. in Rio de Janeiro, London, Valencia, Montreux, Heiligendamm, Zürich, München, Berlin).
Professor Eichsteller published numerous articles and books on a variety of issues. ‚Fit für die Geschäftsführung – Ready for Top Management‘ was published at CAMPUS in 2005 and the 2nd edition came out in 2009; articles on ‚Valuation of WEB 2.0 Portals‘ and ‚Development of a Convergence-Radar-Model‘ were published by Germany‘s leading editors in their respective fields. Prof. Eichsteller was appointed to the jury of the German digital industry awards DMMA and OVK; since 2003 he supports start-ups as well as established companies and professional sports teams in their advisory boards. Currently he is Professor for International Media Management and Dean of Master Programme Electronic Media at Stuttgart Media University. (Source: www.eichsteller.com)

Tony Davilla

Professor Antonio Davila’ research focuses on the intersection of performance measurement and management systems with innovation and entrepreneurship. He teaches entrepreneurship, innovation, and management accounting as well as courses on Sport Business Management. He has recently published “Malea Fashion District: A New Way to Learn Managerial Accounting.” He has also published “Making Innovation Work: How to Manage it, Measure it and Profit from it” with the Wharton School Press and edited “The Creative Enterprise;” he also contributed to “Performance Management and Management Control Systems for Implementing Strategy.” He is currently working on a new book “Defying Gravity: Building and Sustaining High Growth Companies.”

He was a faculty member of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University for seven years after receiving his doctorate from the Harvard Business School and before moving back to Europe. He also holds a Bachelor Degree in Telecommunications Engineering from The Polytechnic University of Catalunya in Barcelona and an MBA from IESE.
He was worked with several companies including Logitech, Salesforce.com, Citibank, and Siebel Systems as well as several startup companies in the West Coast as well as companies in Europe and Asia in industries such as medical devices, infrastructure management, restaurants, and entertainment. He is one of the leading researchers in the management control systems field with publications in the most prestigious journals and member of the editorial board of various journals.

Anne Bland

Anne Bland is a social entrepreneur, and heads the operations of Social Business International in Finland. Anne was first introduced to social enterprise in 1996 when, with some other people, she founded a worker co-operative. The values of the co-op movement resonated with her own and she soon became a co-operative adviser.

The first social enterprise conference, organised by Social Enterprise London in 1999, opened the breadth and width of social enterprise movement to her. The heartwarming stories of pioneering leaders of social entreprises and their “can-do” attitude have ever since been inspiring her. Anne has nearly 15 years of experience in the third sector and adult education, having worked both in London and Helsinki and is now supporting new ways of delivering public services and the regeneration of rural and run-down areas.
At the moment, the SBI helps the central government and local authorities to develop social enterprise concept and strategies in Finland. Her website is www.socialbusinessint.com.