"This is shaping up to be a TED for mobile" - MLOVE ConFestival Advisor Harald Neidhardt, CMO & Co-Founder of Smaato Inc.

Though the backdrop is mobile, the goal is to stimulate new ideas and thinking which you can apply to your life, your business and to inspire others.

“We are bringing together CEOs, innovators and entrepreneurs from across multiple disciplines to share, learn and cross-pollinate ideas with an array of scientists, artists and other thought leaders”, said Peter Giblin, Director of the MLOVE ConFestival. The event exposes the mobile industry to the best minds outside of mobile to maximize the opportunity of creating life-changing services and applications that can impact us all for the better.

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Peter Giblin

aboutPeterDirector, MLOVE Confestival

Peter is passionate about creating environments and formats that help participants get the most out of an event. Part of that is choosing the right venue. Peter has staged events in the Natural Historical Society and the Cathedral of St.John the Divine, New York, the Villa di Medici in Rome, the Townhall in Stockholm and, most recently, the Emirates football stadium in London (M-Football), to name a few.
Peter is interested in the convergence of art, science and technology, particularly the impact of technology and mobile on society. He also believes in the importance of  bringing together leading thinkers from different disciplines to develop new ideas, businesses and methodologies , in a stimulating but informal atmosphere.
Peter was involved in producing YPO events at a young age. He went on to produce independent films (including a student-Oscar winning short), before developing and co-producing the Rising Tide Summit series with Silicon Alley Reporter (likened to “a TED of the East Coast” by the New York Times), the DisinfoCon2000 as well as LOHAS 8 sustainability conference, the Caboom design festival and Invisible College (prompting the LA Times to call him a “pop culture solutions provider) in Los Angeles. He also spent 4 years as Head of Business Development at mobile commerce start-up, mshopper. Peter has a B.A. from Yale.

Peter is passionate about creating environments and formats that help participants get the most out of an event. Part of that is choosing the right venue. Peter has staged events in the Natural Historical Society and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, the Villa di Medici in Rome, the Townhall in Stockholm and, most recently, the Emirates football stadium in London (M-Football), to name a few.

Peter is interested in the convergence of art, science and technology, particularly the impact of technology and mobile on society. He also believes in the importance of  bringing together leading thinkers from different disciplines to develop new ideas, businesses and methodologies, in a stimulating but informal atmosphere.

Peter was involved in producing YPO events at a young age. He went on to produce independent films (including a student-Oscar winning short), before developing and co-producing the Rising Tide Summit series with Silicon Alley Reporter (likened to “a TED of the East Coast” by the New York Times), the DisinfoCon2000 as well as LOHAS 8 sustainability conference, the Caboom design festival and Invisible College (prompting the LA Times to call him a “pop culture solutions provider) in Los Angeles. He also spent 4 years as Head of Business Development at mobile commerce start-up, mshopper. Peter has a B.A. from Yale.

Diana Beata Krüger

Diana Beata Kruger Producer, MLOVE ConFestival

Diana consults cultural institutions on how to strategically improve the visitor experience. She developed several groundbreaking cultural projects and joined the Visitor Experience Strategy team at the British Museum in London (6 million visitors a year) where she successfully helped to implement an overall strategy plan through to 2020. Because of her Visitor Experience expertise and insights into the art scene, she is leading the Future Cubes for the MLOVE ConFestival. She is involved in the MLOVE camps as well as the Head of Organisation for the MLOVE ConFestival. She travelled parts of the world for the MS Starship Millenium Project for the German Stern magazine and has great sociological knowledge of diverse cultures. She is into art, technologies, future scenarios, numbers, communication and deadlines. Diana is holding a Diploma in socioeconomic studies, a MIBA and currently working on her phd in cultural studies.

Sehnaz Sensan

Sehnaz Sansen Coordinator, MLOVE ConFestival

Sehnaz does PR for a Berlin-based fashion label aiming to combine art-performances, critical global thinking and cultural zeitgeist. During her studies in politics and economics she started organizing Open Space conferences with up to 600 people, such as the Advertising Congress, 2005. As an MLOVE coordinator at the ConFestival, she is responsible for the Open Space Section, fashion issues and overall for the well-being of the participants, including transportation, catering and accommodation. She get´s excited about new and unconvential ways of thinking and doing, socioeconomic topics, words, ideas and intelligent taste.

Philipp von Roeder

Philipp von Roeder 2010

Public Relations

Philipp is a political scientist (FU Berlin) and worked several years as a journalist (ZDF). In 2000 he changed sides to become a PR-Professional (Scholz & Friends). In 2007 he started his own agency (tba: vR communication consultants) where he focusses on the mobileindustry.
Personally and professionally, Philipp is a aficionado for mobile: technique and services with many implications – that’s starting to change the world.
As an MLOVE Allumni he joined the organization team to take charge of the media and press activities at the MLOVE ConFestival.

Roman Beranek

Roman-Beranek-7Roman Beranek and Projektil

Peter is passionate about creating environments and formats that help participants get the most out of an event. Part of that is choosing the right venue. Peter has staged events in the Natural Historical Society and the Cathedral of St.John the Divine, New York, the Villa di Medici in Rome, the Townhall in Stockholm and, most recently, the Emirates football stadium in London (M-Football), to name a few.
Peter is interested in the convergence of art, science and technology, particularly the impact of technology and mobile on society. He also believes in the importance of  bringing together leading thinkers from different disciplines to develop new ideas, businesses and methodologies , in a stimulating but informal atmosphere.
Peter was involved in producing YPO events at a young age. He went on to produce independent films (including a student-Oscar winning short), before developing and co-producing the Rising Tide Summit series with Silicon Alley Reporter (likened to “a TED of the East Coast” by the New York Times), the DisinfoCon2000 as well as LOHAS 8 sustainability conference, the Caboom design festival and Invisible College (prompting the LA Times to call him a “pop culture solutions provider) in Los Angeles. He also spent 4 years as Head of Business Development at mobile commerce start-up, mshopper. Peter has a B.A. from Yale.

Roman Beranek is the projection designer and founder of Projektil – Visual Art Experiences, was born in 1979 in Zurich, Switzerland. During a stay in Vienna in 2007 he started experimenting with large scale projections and has since been part of productions in Austria, USA, Mexico and Japan. Developing his very own style Roman has illuminated buildings in Vienna, Gouda, Eindhoven and Doha. A visual art show at the Swiss National Museum and the videomapping stage design for “Eusi Chlii Stadt” at “Theater am Hechtplatz” were major projects in 2009. Roman enjoys to create new visions and embraces challenges. His focus lies on concept design and networking.

PROJEKTIL – visual art experience is name and program of an artistic collective that first gathered in 2003. Nowadays the Zurich based company designs large-scale video mapping projections for literally any surface. Their mixture of graphics, video and 3D animation is both emotional and interactive. Visitors are incited to partake in the show for instance by using mobile devices to draw onto the projection.

MLOVE Advisory Board

Oliver Rothschild

Oliver

Founder and principal of Buchler Rothschild Investments, Oliver Rothschild has held several key positions including Chairman of UNICEF (Appeals). He is currently the Ambassador of the Monte Carlo Film Festival (IETFF), Patron of Tiny Tickers and closely associated with several charitable bodies and boards. Oliver is the Patron of the St.Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, a Director of Twilight Films Ltd and Non-Exec Chairman of the Tripleplay Group, and Chairman of the Carbon Advice Group and Pod3.tv as well as Chairman of the Advisory Board for Fusion Universal (E-Learning).
His track record of successful business development includes Property Investment, ICT and Entertainment, Public Relations, Fine Arts & Antiques. Oliver’s board level experience is equally extensive. He has served as Chairman for a travel plc, senior vice president of American General Investments and as director of an auction House. Principle shareholder in a Fine Arts and Antiques business, currently Oliver is serving as Chairman of AB Entertainments and holds directorships with a number of IT, PR and Investment companies.
Fluent in French, German, Spanish and Italian, Oliver Rothschild is actively developing business opportunities throughout the US and Europe including the former Eastern European Block countries, where he is both investing and advising on property and business acquisitions.

Harald Neidhardt

Harald Neidhardt

Chairman of MLOVE ConFestival Advisory Board

CMO & Founder of Smaato; Founder of MLOVE

Harald is Chairman of the advisory Board for the MLOVE ConFestival and a Founder of MLOVE. He is an international marketing & business development executive and the CMO & Co-Founder of Smaato Inc. – a pioneer in mobile advertising headquartered in Silicon Valley.

He was the CEO of Pixelpark Inc. (US), a former Bertelsmann company based in New York and headquartered in Berlin. Recently, Harald founded Cardmine, a successful viral marketing / web-to-print company in New York. In his career, Harald has served many clients in FMCG, fashion, transportation and telecoms incl. MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Lufthansa. Harald has a passion for photography, art, all things mobile and how innovation and inspiration can make the world a better place.

Harald is a frequent speaker at international conferences like MMA Forum (Singapore, New York, London, Berlin), AlwaysOn, Mobile Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0 (Barcelona, San Francisco) and attended TED twice as well as the Burning Man festival.

Follow Harald on Twtter: @hneidhardt
He blogs at: www.hneidhardt.com

Catalyst Disruptor Passionista

Jonathan MacDonald

Jonathan MacDonald

Founder, this fluid world

Jonathan MacDonald is a co-founder of this fluid world, a business and marketing consultancy that helps global organisations achieve their full potential in the context of an ever-changing communications and business world:

“We do this by identifying and exploiting new areas of opportunity, by enabling companies to be flexible and agile, and by facilitating continuous learning, understanding and stretching of the mind. Organisations choose us because of our objectivity, broad general knowledge, wide experience and our contagious enthusiasm. With 30 years combined experience, the founders have worked with, and inside, many of the largest brands and agencies in the world, positively affecting strategy, innovation, change and new business.”

Jonathan’s experience, contribution to the industry, entrepreneurial spirit and passion means that he is widely considered as one of the primary strategists and thought leaders in the digital space. He has been a Senior Consultant at Ogilvy (who still regularly use his services), Sales Director of Blyk, Commercial Director of Ministry of Sound, CEO of a Sky TV channel, advisor to British Government on education, the owner of one of the first online music stores, and a Chairman of the Music Industries Association.

Follow Jonathan on Twitter: @jmacdonald
He blogs at: www.jonathanmacdonald.com

Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott

Andrew is CEO of Rummble, his sixth start-up, which enables people to find and share things and places you like, online and on mobile. A serial entrepreneur, Andrew ran a successful web development company serving blue chip clients through the dot com years, which he sold to CMG plc in 2001; there he developed the world’s first online digital video news archive (British Pathe with 4000 hours of video and 13+ million images) and created the UKs first interactive SMS dating application (DinnerDateAuctions). Andrew later founded a ground breaking interactive personal fitness website with Olympian Dave Morgan (InTraining) and pioneered Europe’s first location based social software (playtxt) in 2002. As an authority in the field of mobile and online communities Andrew speaks at industry events and contributes to trade press.

Andrew also sits on the board of  UnLtdWorld, an online platform that connects and empowers Social Entrepreneurs.

Follow Andrew on Twtter: @andrewjscott

Stefanie Hoffmann

Stephanie Hoffman

CEO & Co-Founder

Stefanie Hoffmann is responsible for business development and marketing at aka-aki. The Berlin based start-up successfully completed several rounds of financing and is now a company with 18+ employees. aka-aki was named Best Mobile Social Network in the 13th Annual Webby Awards and received the Webby People’s Voice Awards in 2009 besides other international award recognitions.

Prior to aka-aki, Stefanie worked as a product manager at Bertelsmann and developed strategies for a Berlin based fashion label. She studied communications and strategic planning at the University of the Arts in Berlin where she became part of the founding aka-aki team.

Follow aka-aki on twitter: @akaaki

Fee Beyer

Fee Beyer

Fee is member of the advisory Board for the MLOVE ConFestival and a Founder of Mobile Monday Berlin. She works for Deutsche Telekom’s Product&Innovation department where she develops mobile apps and creates go-to-market strategies.

In her previous career, she has worked for various mobile startups, helping them develop and execute their marketing strategies and product launches.

Fee has a passion for climbing, traveling, tech and is currently taking classes to become a Personal Trainer.

Follow Fee on Twitter: @feebeyer

René Bellack

aboutRene

René Bellack, 35, joined Out There Media as VP Sales in May 2010 and is responsible for Mobile Advertising Sales within the global footprint of Out There Media.  Before he has been at Vodafone MediaSolutions! as Head of MediaService & AdManagement since 2007 while he worked for Vodafone from 2004 until January 2010. He started out as Marketing Manager for business areas MobileTV, Mobile Gaming and Sport, News & Entertainment at Vodafone live!. Mr. Bellack started to gain experience in Internet, Mobile Services and ITV at Razorfish in 2000 and studied Business Economics in Bielefeld, Alicante and Cologne. Furthermore he acted as Head of Mobile Marketing and Mobile Advertising Circle (MAC) within the section mobile of the BVDW Germany and is an active Board Member of MLOVE.