6th European Consumer Trend Conference

James Cherkoff

British media and marketing expert. His company, Collaborate Marketing, advises companies on how to benefit from the new opportunities in the networked media environment. James Cherkoff is regarded as a thought leader by specialists in his field, and his Modern Marketing blog receives widespread international attention.

Douglas Rushkoff

Cyberpunk, best-selling author, documentarian and UN advisor. Douglas Rushkoff lectures at various universities on media, art, society and change. After authoring several books on the networkculture, his latest, “Life Inc.”, is an analysis of the origins and consequences of the prevailing economic system. He sees the current crisis as a great opportunity.

David Bosshart

CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, one of Europe’s leading think tanks for business and society. The focuses of David Bosshart’s work are trade, consumption, mananagement and social change.

Christoph Keese

As President Public Affairs at Axel Springer, Christoph Keese is rather like a foreign minister for one of Europe's largest media groups. The economist was formerly editor-in-chief of the Sunday newspaper “Welt am Sonntag” and the “Financial Times Deutschland”.

Morten Lund

The investment in Skype made the dynamic young entrepreneur
from Copenhagen famous. The high-tech visionary and investor has
founded and invested in countless other start-ups. He teaches at the University of Reykjavik and is a special member of Bill Clinton's Global Initiative.

Bre Pettis

Co-founder of NYCResistor, a New York hacker and artist collective. The open-source activist, teacher and media artist is also an entrepreneur and inventor. He created the MakerBot, a robot that prints physical objects in 3D from digitized ideas.

Andreas Schönenberger

As Country Manager, Andreas Schönenberger has headed up Google in Switzerland since 2006. He had previously been vice-president at the Monitor Group consultancy. Earlier stops in his career included Boston Consulting Group and ABB. Andreas Schönenberger's academic credentials are a doctorate in physics from the ETH in Zurich and an MBA from London Business School.

Peter Wippermann

Founder and CEO of Trendbüro (Hamburg). Peter Wippermann is Professor of Communication Design at the University of Duisburg-Essen, a specialist in trend-based brand management and the author of numerous publications.