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Anni Sinnemäki

Minister of Labour, Ministry of Employment and the Economy

Stefan Wallin

Minister of Culture and Sport, Ministry of Education

Peter Barkman

is the chairman of the board and active service designer for Palmu Inc., a service design agency from Helsinki. Barkman is also co-founder and shareholder of Palmu Inc. Barkman has 15 years of experience in management consulting, start-up management and service design. He is also co-founder and owner of Innocap Oy, a Finnish angel investment company, and has interests in the Finnish Venture capital company Inventure Oy. Barkman has been involved in financing and development of several Finnish start-ups. He has also been involved in internalization of several companies and teams as well.

Bryan Boyer

currently works at Sitra, The Finnish Innovation Fund, where he is Design Lead in the Strategic Design Unit. Trained as an architect, Boyer is now working with Sitra to find new opportunities for designers to be actively involved in high level decision-making, while also helping governments and other large organizations understand the value of using a design perspective to better understand their complex problems. Boyer's main focus is Helsinki Design Lab 2010, the third in a series of events that began in 1968 on Suomenlinna. http://www.hdl2010.org

Sergey Evtusenko

Composer, has been working in music production for the films The Border 1918 and Russian Ark. The soundtrack for Russian-Finnish coproduction The Border 1918 was nominated for Jussi award by Cinema Academy of Finland in 2008. Since 2001 Evtusenko is also Artistic Director at the Hermitage Music Academy Program St. Petersburg and Music International Festivals in the Music of the Great Hermitage Museum. He is also pergforming as a pianist-improvosator. His latest film production is music for The Last Station, a film on the life of the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

Anna Hag

is Head of Section at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications. She has been working as a policy developer in areas such as competence development (individual learning accounts), design for innovation and growth, and the sector of cultural and creative economy. She is now Chair of KreaNord, a cross-sector initiative from the Nordic Council of Ministers. KreaNord is established to enhance cooperation on the Nordic level between business and culture with networking, policy recommendations and profiling activities as tools. A strong, well-supported and highly connected creative industry sector will provide the stage for a competitive, entrepreneurial-driven Nordic creative economy, ready to compete and face global competition.

Jari Handelberg

is Research Director at Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. He works with creative SME’s and incubators.

Dieter Haselbach

works as a business manager for ICG culturplan in Berlin. He has more than 20 years of consulting-experience in the public sector. In the CEB conference he`s the representative for Creative Metropoles, a project to create public policies and instruments in support of creative industries. The project presents shared vision of 11 European metropolitan cities on creative industries and creative economy as the key driving force behind the city’s and regional development.  The cities involved are Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Birmingham, Helsinki, Oslo, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vilnius and Warsaw.

Irina Kizilova

Deputy Director of the St. Petersburg Institute for Cultural Programs, Lecturer at the St. Petersburg State University. During 25 years of her work in the sphere of culture she has coordinated international and regional projects including international educational programs for cultural managers accomplished in cooperation with Sibelius Academy Continuing Education. Since 1999 Irina Kizilova has participated in a number of international projects, conferences, study trips and seminars devoted to creative industries’ development.

Rebecca Madgin

Dr Rebecca Madgin is an Urban Historian and is currently a Research Fellow in the Department for Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow. Rebecca Madgin's principal research intrests focus on urban policies, the built environment, conservation, heritage, culture and urban memory. More specifically she has recently published a book as well as several articles which examine decisions to re-use historic industrial buildings during the regeneration of European cities in Britain, France and Italy. These decisionsexposed how, and the extent to which, historic significance contributes to the develoipment of creative and cultural cities across regenerating European urban centres.

Anu Mänttäri

works as Business Development Advisor for the City of Helsinki. Her focus area is creative industries, and she`s also involved in Creative Metropoles project.

Eija Nieminen

Dr., Director of Designium the Centre of Innovation in Design in 2000 at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. She has continued her research in textile technology and design as associate professor at the Institute of Fibre Materials Science, Tampere University of Technology. She is currently leading a scientific network of 16 European universities involved in textile research and is directing many projects aimed at developing industrial design on a national level. Her areas of expertise are sustainable materials and design.

Miira Paasilinna

holds the position of Sales Executive at NonStop Sales Ab. At NonStop Sales she is responsible for film sales to half of the world and acquires new films as well as develops the marketing strategies for the launch of the films. Paasilinna also works as an Executive Producer in a small Finnish TV-production company Visiorex Oy (Ltd). From 2006 to 2009 Paasilinna worked at Diges ry (Association) as a Senior Advisor. Diges Association provides advisory services to Finnish companies in the creative industry in the development of their businesses.

Vassily Pankratov

Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee for Culture, Correspondent of the European Museum Forum in Russia, UNESCO Expert, Founder of the Festival of Children’s Museum Programs “Children’s Days in St. Petersburg”. Vassily is an author and coordinator of the “Concept for Developing Culture in Saint Petersburg 2006-2009” and the following Action plan. In 2003-2004 he participated in the initiative group for Tacis development project “Creative Industries in Russia”.

Sylvain Pasqua

is a Senior Administrator in the European Commission, Belgium. He has been working in the Directorate General for Education and Culture (Culture Unit) as a Policy Developer, preparing the next generation of funding programmes in the field of cultural cooperation, in particular the new Culture Programme, entered into force in January 2007. He has also been very closely involved in the development of the Communication on a new European Agenda for culture in a globalising world, adopted in May 2007. He is also in charge of evaluating the various funding instruments managed by the Unit and carrying out studies aiming at reinforcing cultural cooperation in Europe.

Hannele Pohjola

is a director at the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK where her responsibility area is innovation policy and growth issues. EK represents the entire private business sector, both industry and services, and companies of all sizes. Pohjola is also the chairperson of Design Forum Finland. Hannele Pohjola has a 20 + years of experience in innovation and industrial policy issues, including design policy. Before moving in to private sector she worked several years in public sector, e.g. at the Ministry of Communications. She has also been involved in several groups designing design policy in Finland, e.g. the Design 2005! –programme launched by the Government of Finland and the Finnish business life.

Jarmo Röksä

works as a project manager at Turku 2011 Foundation – The European Capital of Culture. He is leading the design project of rich social media services build around cultural events in order to bring up the level of the participation of the audiences in cultural events. Live2011.com, the digital capital of culture brings the cultural year to internet and to mobile devices in a new exciting way. Röksä has worked with new media, information and media technology, games and social media both in private and public sectors since mid 1990’s.

Petri Sirviö

works as a project manager at Oulu15 project. The main themes of Oulu 15 project are spaces, events and contracts. Sirviö is also a composer and a conductor for men's choir The Shouters (Huutajat) established in 1987.

Andrei Zonin

Director of the St. Petersburg Institute for Cultural Programs. Ph. D., Professor of the St. Petersburg University of Finance and Economics, member of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists. For more than 30 years of experience in the sphere of culture he initiated and coordinated various projects: exhibitions, festivals, forums and conferences. Andrei is an expert on issues of cultural tourism, creative industries, regional development and international cooperation.