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05 Jul 2011

NEXT: a rare invitation into the minds of today's most daring thinkers

NEXT is a rare invitation into the minds of today’s most daring thinkers. We’ve handpicked speakers and exhibitors with one mission – to rock your world view! August 30th-31st, Aarhus – Denmark

Concurrent with the renowned international cultural venue – Aarhus Festival – NEXT 2011 offers boosts for mind and matter. This eighth edition of our Nordic Exceptional Trendshop once again presents the very latest and the best proposals for what’s next in our lives and businesses. This year you can experience representatives and global leads within living architechture, publishing, design, car manufacturing and research. On brand-side of things the speakers represent the likes of Time Magazine, LUX, IDEO, HWKN and many more.

Beautyful mistakes

True progress comes through digress. The real short cut is going across and making connections where previously there were none. True pioneers see no clear distinction between success and failure – only potency and latency. And a lot of experimenting taking the latter to the former. Rarely has a new approach, a progressive turn or a reinvention not been as a misfit, a wrongdoing, a mistake, judging by habitual thinking. From airplanes, x-rays and radios to PCs and iPhones.

Speakers

The NEXT Conference is our annual mindbooster – a rare invitation into the minds of today’s most daring thinkers on Digital, Food, Green, Design, and Health. Per tradition, the speakers is a unique and handpicked line up of knowledge and those twisted ideas that will shape tomorrow.

• David Polinchock, Director, Media Lab at AT&T Advanced Ad Solutions: Prescient tech acrobat who has helped the likes of Disney, Nike and even Grateful Dead to gain from latest tech inventions.
• Ted Howes, Fmr IDEO Global Lead, Energy Domain: An amazing fountain of ideas and no-bullshit takes on business proof sustainability and “green” productification.
• Matthias Hollwich, Architect / Co-founder HWKN: Key NYC networker, frontrunner in a reinvention of aging, pathfinding architect, and pioneer on living technology.
• Henrik Bennetsen, Founder/CEO Katalabs: All businesses go digital. Henrik founded Stanford’s Open Source Lab and has come to give the virtual future a business go.
• Jason Anthony, Vice President / Senior Editor TIME Inc: Combining gaming mechanisms with insightful new media applications, Jason is hacking traditional problem solving.
• Mark Bünger, Research Director, LUX Research: Mark is the owner of the best and most informed overview of opportunities and perspectives in the rising field of “bio”.
• Alfons Cornella, Founder and President, Infonomia: The resident Spanish champion of networking with a global army of restless minds representing most top brands alive.
• Clark Dodsworth, Owner Osage Associates: The man behind EU’s tech take and Philips’ latest product generation comes to share his pulse on a you-based tech future.

More speakers coming up…

Exhibition

The NEXT 2011 Exhibition presents an overview of the future, as it looks today. A tasty cookie made of the latest spacy prototypes, new ways to interact with technology, and crazy robots sprinkled on the crust of innovation and foresight. The exhibition also takes a historical look at technology’s finest beautiful mistakes, varying from X-rays to chocolate chip cookies. The NEXT 2011 Exhibition is your opportunity to see the future, before it arrives.