SKOLKOVO MEETS DLD: Сonference Speakers

Cindy Gallop
	Cindy Gallop's background is brandbuilding, marketing and advertising - she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. She is the founder and CEO of www.IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a web meets world platform that turns good intentions into action, one microaction at a time, to deliver Action Branding and build your Action Graph, which launched in beta with a demo at TED 2010, and of www.makelovenotporn.com, launched at TED 2009. She acts as board advisor to a number of tech startups and consults for companies around the world, describing her consultancy approach as 'I like to blow *** up. I am the Michael Bay of business.' She has a reputation as a highly compelling and inspirational speaker at conferences and events around the world on a variety of topics: her talk on ‘The Future of Advertising’ has been described on Twitter as ‘The most brilliant speech on the future of advertising ever – not the usual buzzword-laden bullshit’, and ‘Watching @cindygallop slice and dice the ad industry status quo like a ginsu knife. #purewin’. She published ‘Make Love Not Porn: Technology’s Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior’ as one of TED’s line of TEDBooks and is currently working on a book about her philosophy of life and business. She will be launching http://makelovenotporn.tv in summer 2012. You can follow her on Twitter @cindygallop.
Cindy Padnos
	Founder and Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures, an early stage Micro VC firm focused on cloud computing. Current investments and board seats include BrightEdge, CalmSea, Hoopla, and Xactly. Cindy has deployed over $100 million in venture funding to help dozens of start-ups reach successful outcomes including prior portfolio companies Red Aril (acq. Hearst Corporation) and WildPockets (acq. Autodesk). Named one of the Most Influential Women in Technology (Fast Company) and one of the Most Influential Women in Business in the Bay Area (San Francisco Business Times), Cindy’s high tech career includes successful stints as a management consultant (Booz), VP of Marketing (Scopus, IPO) and founder/CEO (Vivant, acq. EVLV/ORCL). Cindy is on the Board of Advisors for Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business where she received her MBA/MSIA and is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she recently offered the College of Engineering commencement address.
Dr. Ellen D. Jorgensen
	Dr. Ellen Jorgensen is a molecular biologist and a passionate advocate of citizen science. Her research interests have encompassed such diverse areas as free radicals in disease, DNA fingerprinting, virus protein structure/function relationships, and cancer biomarkers. She grew up in New York City and attended both Columbia University and New York University. During her 30-year career she has held a variety of R&D positions in the biotechnology industry. In 2009 she turned her back on the for-profit world and co-founded Genspace NYC, the world’s first community biotechnology laboratory. Its mission is to promote science literacy and demystify the latest advances in biotechnology and synthetic biology though education, outreach, and engaging the general public in a hands-on manner. Genspace’s unique concept of a stand-alone lab not connected with a university or corporation results in vibrant cross-disciplinary projects not possible in traditional spaces. In 2011, Genspace’s groundbreaking programs communicating synthetic biology and biotechnology to non-scientists were awarded the prize for Best Social Study in Synthetic Biology at SB 5.0, the leading international synthetic biology conference. Last summer Dr. Jorgensen’s Genspace-based team of undergraduates from Cooper Union and Columbia University won a gold medal in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition. She has spearheaded many of Genspace’s outreach programs such as the collaborative effort between Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Genspace to mentor students competing in the Urban Barcode Project via the use of DNA-based species identification technologies. She has served as Genspace’s president for the past two years, and her efforts to develop Genspace into a haven for entrepreneurship, innovation and citizen science have been chronicled in Nature Medicine, Science, BBC News, Discover Magazine, PBS News Hour, and the science section of the New York Times.
Dr. Yossi Vardi
	Dr. Joseph (Yossi) Vardi is a co-chair of DLD. With 40 years experience of co-founding, leading and participating in building over 60 high-tech companies, he is one of Israel's early entrepreneurs. Yossi co-pioneered instant messaging as the founding investor and the former Chairman of Mirabilis Ltd. the creator of the highly popular instant messaging program ICQ now owend AOL. Yossi Vardi looks back to an extensive government and public career. Serving , amongst others, include Director General of the Ministry of Energy and chairman of Israel's National Oil Company and Israel chemicals and of the Jerusalem Foundation. Numerous investments Yossi Vardi co-founded or helped to build went public, including answers.com, Scopus, Granite and Lasers or have been acquired by Cisco, Aol, Yahoo, IAC , sierra wireless and others. He now acts on the advisory Board of Amdocs. Vardi served on boards of directors and advisory boards of numerous state and private corporations including Bezeq, Israel Electric, the Bank of Israel. He has also been an advisor to the CEO's of AOL, Amazon, and Allied Signal. He has received many awards, including two time the Prime minister of Israel Hi-Tech award for life achievements, the Industry prize, the Ramniceanu prize and C-E-O's Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.
Jennifer L. Schenker
	Jennifer L. Schenker has been a journalist for over 30 years, working for daily newspapers in the U.S. owned by the Gannett, Knight-Ridder and Tribune newspaper chains, including the Miami Herald. She has been covering the technology sector in Europe since 1985. At The Wall Street Journal Europe, she covered breaking technology news and worked as the assistant managing editor of Convergence, the Journal's quarterly technology magazine. In 1999, she took on the job of senior writer/technology for Time magazine in Europe and was editor of Time Digital Europe, a quarterly technology report. She is also a former technology writer for the International Herald Tribune, and from 2004 to 2007, was the international editor of Red Herring magazine, managing a team of journalists in Europe, Israel, China and India. She left her most recent job as European technology correspondent for BusinessWeek to create Informilo, an online and print magazine that connects business with innovation.
Lapo Elkann
	Lapo Elkann is a New York-born Italian industrialist and creative entrepreneur. Currently President and Founder of companies Italia Independent and Independent Ideas,he is also the Founding Partner of LA Holding. Fluent in 4 Languages,Lapo Elkann spent the first ten years of his life in London, then Brazil with his mother and siblings. He moved to France, where he was enrolled at a boarding school in the French Alps, then studied at the Lycee Charlemagne in Paris. He graduated from London Guildhall University. In 2001, Lapo worked as Personal Assistant to Henry Kissinger at Kissinger Associates in NYC. In 2002 he moved back to Italy and entered the family owned Fiat S.p.A. as Assistant of the Institutional Relations Director. He was then marketing and sales associate for Ferrari and Maserati and,in 2003, was in charge of Fiat Europe Operative Marketing B.U. While in charge of Brand Promotion he designed the Fiat Sweaters using a Fiat vintage logo. It was a huge success (launched at Corso Como in Milan, sold out in many specialty stores) which aim was to make youngster perceive Fiat as a "buddy brand" and love mark at the moment in which the company was at its worst financial moment. Promoted Director of Brand Promotion for FiatGroup (Fiat, Alfa Romeo,Lancia, Ferrari,Maserati...) he coordinated the reinvention of classics like the Fiat Punto and Fiat 500 and their launchs. He left the family group in 2006 and, in early 2007, created the first of his companies: "Italia Independent", a lifestyle brand, featuring ready -to- wear and eyewear products conceived, developed, and produced in Italy. Independent Ideas, the Communication and Advertising agency, followed the year after. Lapo Elkann is with brother John and sister Ginevra the majority shareholder of Exor, FiatGroup parent company. He is "global ambassador" of the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel and Worlwide Ambassador for the Italian Design Museum/Triennale. Lapo sits on the Board of Phillips de Pury. Vanity Fair magazine listed him in its Best Dressed Hall of Fame in 2009.The magazine has previously listed him in the International Best Dressed List from 2005 til present. Voted Man of the Year in 2007 by the Spanish and German editions of GQ GQ US elected him amongst the 25 sexiest man of the World in January 2010.
Ludwig Siegele
	Ludwig Siegele is the Economist's online business and finance editor and the deputy editor of the newspaper's international section. He joined The Economist as US technology correspondent in 1998. In 2003, he was sent to Berlin as the newspaper's Germany Correspondent, before relocating to London in 2008 to again cover the IT industry. Mr Siegele started his journalistic career in 1990 as the Paris Business Correspondent of Die Zeit, a Germany weekly. In 1995, he moved from France to California to write about the internet for several German publications. He holds a degree in economics and political science from Cologne University and degrees in journalism from the Kolner Journalistenschule as well as the Centre de Formation des Journalists (CFJ) in Paris. He is also co-author of a book on SAP ("Matrix der Welt - SAP und der neue globale Kapitalismus"). In 2010 he won the Olin Corporate Strategy Prize from the Olin Business School for his article "The world according to Chambers", a profile of Cisco Systems. He is married and lives in London with his wife and two children.
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Nikolas Deskovic
	Nikolas grew up in Split Croatia and studied at University of Split and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, where he received a Ph. D. Degree in Structural Engineering in 1993. He started his career at McKinsey and Company in Munich where he worked in the automotive and electronics sector as a senior engagement manager. In 1998 he founded Masternets.com, his first internet company focused on internet classifieds. Shortly after that he launched Mastercar, a car buying internet service. In 1999, he co-founded Scout24 AG in Switzerland and AutoScout24 GmbH in Munich, the European leading online service for cars with operations in 10 countries across Europe. He was managing director for the German business, then COO/CTO for the Group and from 2009 until 2011 he run the Group as CEO. He was member of the Corporate board of Scout24 GmbH. In 2009 he cofounded bettermarks.de, the leading adaptive e-learning service for mathematics, where he is managing director for business development and internationalization. Nikolas is a father of 3 kids and a passionate sailor with a sailing team in Split, Croatia.
Paul D Miller
	DJ Spooky (Paul D Miller, born 1970, Washington DC) is a composer, multimedia artist and writer. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, and Artforum amongst other publications. Miller's work as a media artist has appeared in the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial for Architecture (2000); the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many other museums and galleries. Miller’s newest book, “The Book of Ice”, was published in July 2011 by Mark Batty Publisher. “Sound Unbound” (MIT Press), a collection of writings by notable authors, preceded that. Miller has collaborated with vast array of recording artists, from Metallica to Chuck D; from Steve Reich to Yoko Ono. Miller’s large scale, multimedia performance pieces include “Rebirth of a Nation and “Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica,” commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the Next Wave Festival.
Prof. Peter Weibel
	Born in Odessa in 1944, Peter Weibel studied literature, medicine, logic, philosophy and film in Paris and Vienna. He became a central figure in European media art on account of his various activities as artist, media theorist and curator. Since 1984 he is professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, from 1984 to 1989 he was head of the digital arts laboratory at the Media Department of New York University in Buffalo, and in 1989 he founded the Institute of New Media at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt-on-Main, which he directed until 1995. Between 1986 and 1995, he was in charge of the Ars Electronica in Linz, he commissioned the Austrian pavilions at the Venice Biennale from 1993 to 1999. From 1993 to 1998 he was chief curator at the Neue Galerie Graz, Austria, and since 1999 he is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM \| Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. In 2002 he was awarded with the "Gro?e Ehrenzeichen fur Verdienste um die Republik Osterreich", in 2007 the Honorary Doctorate by the University of Art and Design Helsinki and in 2008 he was awarded with the French Order "Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" (Order of Arts and Literature). Also in 2008 he was the Artistic Director of the Biennial of Sevilla (Biacs3). In 2009 he was awarded with the "Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge-Preis fuer unkonventionelle Kunstvermittlung" of Stiftung Preu?ische Seehandlung, with the "Verdienstmedaille des Landes Baden-Wuerttemberg" and the "Europaische Kultur-Projektpreis" of the Europan Foundation for Culture. Also in 2009 he has been appointed as full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts Munich. From 2009 to 2012 he is Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. In 2010 he was awarded with the "Osterreichisches Ehrenkreuz fur Wissenschaft und Kunst 1. Klasse". In 2011 he is the Artistic Director of the Fourth Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Robert Goldberg
	Robert is the founder and Managing Partner of Crossroads Ventures. He is a seasoned entrepreneur, technology leader and investor with more than 30 years of experience building companies from early-stage startups to established enterprises. Most recently Robert was a member of the early executive team at Zynga serving as its first senior vice president of business operations and corporate development. His work resulted in key revenue initiatives, global partnerships, and strategic acquisitions, which contributed to Zynga reaching over $1 billion run rate in revenue, growing its employee base to over 2,500 worldwide and expanding distribution to 100 countries worldwide in less than three years. Robert also established and led Zynga's operations in Asia where he guided the company's expansion onto multiple SNS and mobile platforms. During his career, Robert helped lead three companies to initial public offerings and has been involved in numerous successful exits. Previously,Robert has been the Managing Director of managing director of venture operations at Idealab where he pioneered the capital-efficient strategy of "innovation through milestone investing" which tied frequent operating and innovation milestones to successive capital investments. Prior to Idealab, Robert spent more than 20 years in senior management, corporate investment and strategy positions at media, e-commerce and enterprise software companies. Robert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Columbia University in New York City.
Yuli Ziv
	Russian-born Yuli Ziv is the Founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of top fashion and beauty influencers in partnership with Hearst Digital Media. Style Coalition is responsible for the creation of the Fashion 2.0 Awards and social media campaigns for clients such as Lancome, Microsoft and Starbucks. Yuli is a world-renowned speaker on the topic of social media as it relates to the fashion industry. She organizes and leads the monthly Fashion 2.0 discussion panels and networking event series in NYC, bringing together more than 2,000 fashion and technology innovators. She is the author of Blogging Your Way To The Front Row, a contributor to Mashable, and has been featured numerous times in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Forbes. Prior to founding her own ventures, Yuli spent seven years developing interactive online strategies as a Creative Director at leading digital agencies and networks. She holds a BA in Design of Visual Communications from Tel-Aviv University and an MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts New York.

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