L’Innovation Forum 2009 & InnovExpo vedrà la partecipazioni di ospiti illustri che animeranno i dibattiti e presenteranno ricerche e analisi di mercato. Tra i molti, Roberto Masiero presidente di IDC International, Giacomo Vaciago economista e presidente del Forum dell’Innovazione Digitale, Jacques Attali scrittore ed economista.
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase The Long Tail in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and five young children.
He is the Chairman of a new startup, BookTour.com
Before joining Wired in 2001, he worked at The Economist, where he launched their coverage of the Internet. He also has a degree in physics from George Washington University and did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
He has also worked at the journals Nature and Science.
On October 29, 2007 Chris posted an article to his blog The Long Tail titled Sorry PR people: you're blocked In this article he listed the email addresses of people who had sent him messages during the month of October and stated that he "was not interested in what they were pitching."
He is currently working on a new book, entitled Free, which examines the rise of pricing models which give products and services to customers for free. The book is set is be released in early 2009.
Professor, writer, Honorary Member of the Council of State, Special Adviser
to the President of the Republic from 1981 to 1991, founder and first
President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in
London from 1991 to 1993, Jacques Attali (www.attali.com) is currently
CEO of A&A, an international consulting firm (www.aeta.net) specialised in new technologies,
based in Paris, and President of PlaNet Finance (www.planetfinance.org), an international nonprofit
organisation assisting microfinance institutions all over the world.
He founded Action Contre la Faim in 1980 and the European programme Eurêka (a major
European programme on new technologies that invented, among other things, the MP3). In,
1989, he also launched an international programme of action against the disastrous floods in
Bangladesh.
Jacques Attali then advised the Secretary General of the United Nations on the risks of nuclear proliferation. He is at the origin of the higher education reform, known as LMD, to bring all European degrees into line. Jacques Attali has a doctorate in Economics and is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique (first in the class of 1963), the Ecole des Mines, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the Ecole Nationale de l'Administration. He taught Economic Theory at the Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées and the University of Paris-Dauphine. He has received honorary doctorates from several foreign universities and is a member of the Universal Academy of Cultures. Jacques Attali is an editorialist for the magazine L'Express. He has written forty four books, translated into more than twenty languages, with over six million copies sold all over the world, including essays (dealing with a wide variety of subjects ranging from mathematical economics, to music), biographies, novels, children’s tales and plays.
Jacques Attali has been nominated President of the Commission for the liberation for French economic growth by the President of the French Republic since August 2007.
As Chief Research Officer and Senior Vice President of IDC, John Gantz has responsibility for IDC’s worldwide demand-side research, global market models, and research quality control and standards. He is also a member of IDC's management committee, chief architect of IDC's Worldwide Digital Marketplace Model (formerly the Worldwide Internet Commerce Market Model, TM,) IT Economic Impact Model, and PC Software Piracy research. He is one of IDC's chief spokespersons on broad technology and market issues at major forums in the United States and around the world.
Prior to joining IDC in September 1992, Mr. Gantz was vice president and chief analyst for Dataquest and director of that company's Software Research Group. Before joining Dataquest in 1991, Mr. Gantz was executive vice president of TFS, Inc., a custom research and consulting company that he co-founded in 1983. Mr. Gantz has been an IT industry analyst and columnist for more than 30 years. His publications and columns have appeared in Fortune, Forbes, Computerworld, Infoworld, Computer Graphics World, and Industry Week. Additional national and international exposure has come through quotes in all major business publications, interviews on CNN, NBC, Reuters, Bloomberg and other network news shows, and chairperson assignments at major computer industry trade shows.
For the last five years, he has also been a judge of the CIO China awards. Most recently, he has become IDC's chief spokesperson on the issue of digital piracy. Mr. Gantz is a graduate of Dartmouth College, former Navy submarine officer, and co-author of Pirates of the Digital Millennium (Prentice Hall 2005) and The Naked Computer (Morrow, 1983). He has run two Boston Marathons and hiked the Appalachian Trail end-to-end (1973). He is married with two sons.
Amory Bloch Lovins is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient (1993), and author and co-author of many books on renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Lovins has worked professionally as an environmentalist and an advocate for a "soft energy path" for the United States and other nations. He has promoted energy-use and energy-production concepts based on conservation, efficiency, the use of renewable sources of energy, and on generation of energy at or near the site where the energy is actually used.
His works include Winning the Oil Endgame, Factor Four with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, and Natural Capitalism with Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken. In the 1990s, his work with the Rocky Mountain Institute included the design of an ultra-efficient automobile, the Hypercar. Lovins has provided expert testimony in eight countries and more than 20 US states, briefed 19 heads of state, and published 29 books.
Senior Vice President of IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer and Telecom research, is responsible for worldwide enterprise research in the areas of technical computing, enterprise platforms, system infrastructure software, network infrastructure, security, storage, enabling technologies (including semiconductors), document solutions and valuation (pricing/leasing). He also oversees the small/medium business and hardware channels/alliances practices as well as IDC's wide-ranging consumer and telecommunications research. Mr. Turner advises IDC clients on the competitive, managerial, technological, integration and implementation issues for complete systems environments.
Mr. Turner’s areas of expertise include enterprise computer and storage relationships, technology recovery and capacity planning, performance management and end-user perspectives. He has helped to drive research on the evolution of the next generation Internet Infrastructure including grid computing, service centric IT infrastructures, utility computing solutions, processors and modular server designs. In addition he has worked with several industry customer councils in an advisory role on server network and storage architectures to take advantages of initiatives such as IT Consolidation. Mr. Turner has a strong background in the technology requirements of the finance and banking communities and comments frequently on high availability and disaster recovery requirements for mission critical workloads.
Finally, Mr. Turner is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today and Financial Times as well as commenting on technology showcases for CNBC, CNNfn, and international media outlets. Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Turner was Vice President, Technology Services, with State Street Bank in Boston where he managed the deployment of hardware technology (tape, disk, server, print) across a multi-data center environment. He held similar responsibilities at Fidelity Investments. Mr. Turner holds an M.B.A. from Babson College and a Computer Science undergraduate degree from Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, England.
E' ordinario di Politica Economica e direttore
dell’Istituto di Economia e Finanza all’Università Cattolica di Milano.
Nato a Piacenza nel 1942, Giacomo Vaciago si è laureato in
Economia e Commercio nel 1964 presso l’Università Cattolica di
Milano. Nel 1968 ha conseguito il Master of Philosophy in Economia
all’Università di Oxford.Tra il 1970 e 1989 è stato prima incaricato e poi ordinario di Economia
Politica presso l’Università di Ancona, della quale ha anche diretto per diversi anni l’Istituto di
Economia.
È stato Vicepresidente di Ancitel, Consigliere Economico di Citibank (1980-1991), Presidente di Citinvest (1983-1991),Membro del Comitato per la politica economica e sociale della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri (1984-1987), Direttore del Progetto Finalizzato Economia del C.N.R. (1985-1989),Visiting Scholar alla Fed,Washington (1985); Consigliere Economico del Ministro del Tesoro (1987-1989), Membro del Consiglio Scientifico dell’Istituto di ricerca sulla Dinamica dei Sistemi Economici del C.N.R. di Milano (1988-1996) e consigliere del Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri (1992-1993).
E’ stato membro del Comitato Tecnico-Scientifico del Ministero del Bilancio (1992-1998).Nel 1992 è stato Visiting Fellow di Christ Church, Oxford. Dal gennaio 2003 al marzo 2005 è stato Consigliere scientifico del Ministro Urbani. È altresì membro della Società Italiana degli Economisti (dal 1976). Dal 2000 al 2004 è stato Presidente di REF. (Ricerche per l’Economia e la Finanza). È stato Sindaco di Piacenza tra il 1994 e il 1998. Dal 1983 è editorialista de Il Sole 24 Ore. Giacomo Vaciago è sposato: ha 4 figli e 8 nipoti.
Innovation Forum 2009 & InnovEXPO si terrà a Milano, presso Fiera Milano City, dal 23 al 25 marzo 2009.