The Disruptive Innovation Festival 2015 Confirms Headline Acts
LONDON, September 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF 2015) today confirmed five of its top Headline acts at this year's global online event, which will run from 2-20 November at thinkdif.co .
The Festival is dedicated to exploring the ideas and innovations which are shaping our changing economy. It connects participants directly with the world's most forward-looking start-ups, entrepreneurs, designers, thought-leaders and policymakers via its unique collaborative online format.
The DIF 2015 provides participants with a rare opportunity to put questions to the speakers and to contribute their own ideas to debates, via the live chat facility incorporated in its online platform.
Headline sessions featured at the DIF 2015 include:
- The collaborative economy - Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar
- Natural capitalism - Hunter Lovins, sustainable development expert and author
- Will Europe seize the circular economy opportunity? - Ida Auken, Member of Danish Parliament and the World Economic Forum Meta-Council on the Circular Economy, and Jyrki Katainen, European Commission Vice President and Commissioner for Jobs, Growth, Competitiveness and Investment
- The sharing economy redefined - Michel Bauwens, founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives, Neal Gorenflo, co-founder of Shareable, April Rinne, shareable cities expert
- The values behind a circular economy - George Lakoff, expert in cognitive science and linguistics, Professor at University of Berkeley
The Festival hosts up to six hours of curated sessions per day, ranging from thought-leading Headliners, to crowd-sourced content on the Open Mic stage. After registering, participants have open access to all sessions streamed directly to their device.
Visit the website: http://www.thinkdif.co
Register to participate: http://www.thinkdif.co/user/register
Host an Open Mic: http://www.thinkdif.co/open-mic
Follow the conversation on Twitter @thinkdif_ #thinkdif
NOTES FOR EDITORS:
The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF 2015) is curated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
About the Disruptive Innovation Festival
The Disruptive Innovation Festival, 2-20 November 2015, is a three-week online festival bringing together thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, businesses, makers, learners and doers to catalyse system-level change for a future economy. Offering a mix of online and physical events, the DIF will explore ideas such as 21st century science, new business models, sharing economy and many other themes. Participants from all over the world can attend sessions running across multiple formats and time zones and are able to apply to host their own session as part of the 'Open Mic' programme during the Festival. http://www.thinkdif.co
About the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation was created in 2010 to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. The Foundation's work focuses on four areas: insight and analysis, business and government, education and training, and communications. With Knowledge Partner, McKinsey & Company, the Foundation works to quantify the economic potential of the circular model and to develop approaches for capturing this value. The Foundation collaborates with Global Partners (Cisco, Kingfisher, Philips, Renault, Unilever), and its CE100 network (corporates, universities, governments and cities, emerging innovators, affiliates), to develop circular business initiatives and build capacity. The Foundation is creating a global teaching and learning platform on the circular economy as well, encompassing work with leading universities, schools and colleges, and online events such as the Disruptive Innovation Festival.
http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org
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