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Keynote Speakers

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Barb Jacobson

BARB JACOBSON is an advice worker at a small central London charity which helps people with benefits, housing, debt. She has been active in community organising since 1982, a co-ordinator of Basic Income UK and on the board of Unconditional Basic Income Europe, a network of organisations and activists in 25 countries.

She worked with the Wages for Housework Campaign for nine years from 1982, and after that focussed on local housing and health campaigns until she started organising for basic income during the European Citizens Initiative for Basic Income in 2013.

Barb is the keynote speaker on the topic Basic Income.

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Valerie Bryson

VALERIE BRYSON is Emerita Professor of Politics at the University of Huddersfield. Her academic background is in political theory and political sociology, and her research has focussed on interconnected issues around the politics of time, feminist theory and women and politics.

She has a BA and a PhD in Politics from the University of Kent at Canterbury and an MA in Political Theory from the University of Manchester. She taught and researched at a number of British universities (including 15 years of part-time work while her children were young) before joining the University of Huddersfield in 1993, and she has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Orebro in Sweden.

Her books include Feminist Political Theory (1992, 2003, 2016) and Gender and the Politics of Time (2007), and her work has been translated into Japanese, Arabic, Greek and Russian.

Her work-life balance improved dramatically five years ago, when she retired from her post as Professor of Politics, but she continues to speak and write on time-related issues and she has recently published a revised edition of Feminist Political Theory.

Valerie is the keynote speaker on the topic Work-life Balance.

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Rasmus Astrup

RASMUS ASTRUP is partner and project director in SLA – one of Scandinavia’s leading landscape architecture and urban development studios. SLA has more than 20 years of experience in creating modern, sustainable urban spaces that inspire community and diversity through innovative use of architecture, infrastructure, nature and technology.

By focusing on both the nature in the city and the nature of the city, SLA aim to create smart, resilient landscapes that adds value to the surroundings – not only for the investors and clients, but also for the city’s citizens, it’s visitors and the natural environment.

Rasmus is currently working on major international projects with green transition as driver for the urban transformation, including the prestigious, international architecture competition ‘Re-invent Paris’: A new urban development project integrating the built and the grown environment, housing and retail, business and leisure, infrastructure, urban farming and rooftop tea plantations in the periphery of Paris.

Rasmus is the keynote speaker on the topic Sustainable Urban Development.

Watch his speech “Green transition: The urban benefits of city nature”.

Camille Fong

CAMILLE FONG is an Environmental Engineer and associate at Biomimicry Switzerland. She developed her passion for biomimicry during the summer of 2013 while in Berlin, where she was involved in Biomimicry Germany. At the same time, she worked as a research assistant at Technische Universitaet Berlin in Urban Water Management. She eventually returned to Montreal to resume her studies at McGill University with a greater interest in this emerging discipline.

To share her enthusiasm with the local academic community, she impromptu organized a conference on biomimicry and engineering at her university in collaboration with Biomimétisme Québec (Biomimicry Québec). Still, she felt the need to learn more about this field. She decided to participate to the Biomimicry Student Design Challenge 2013-2014 organized by Biomimicry Institute 3.8 and tied first place with her team Dédale. Her willingness to learn more about biomimicry and the opportunity to enhance her professional network brought her back to Europe, in Switzerland this time.

In the Summer of 2014, she became a research assistant at Central Environmental Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Lausanne, which ended in her presenting a poster on Air Ballast Biomimetic Cargo Ship Design at the Biomimicry Europe – Innovation and Finance Summit 2014 in Zurich. She flew back to Canada to finish her Environmental Engineering degree and decided to explore what the Netherlands have to offer in biomimicry and water management. Last May, she was invited to give a talk at the Thought For Food Summit 2016 in Zurich.

Camille seeks to find a holistic approach to today’s societal challenges by integrating biomimicry thinking into the engineering problem-solving mindset and methods.

Camille is the keynote speaker on the topic Biomimicry.

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Tom Henfrey

TOM HENFREY conducted longterm fieldwork with indigenous forest dwellers in Guyana around the turn of the millenium. He has since worked across the interface of academia and grassroots environmental and social action in the ecovillage, permaculture and transition movements. He is currently Senior Researcher at the Schumacher Institute in Bristol, UK and Research Fellow at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change at Lisbon University. He is a worker-director in several social enterprises dedicated to supporting sustainability and social change, and currently an elected Council member for ECOLISE, the European network of community-based sustainability initiatives. He is also an active shamanic and sacred sound practitioner.

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Ole Bjerg

OLE BJERG is PhD in Sociology and Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School. He teaches in the program for Philosophy and Business Administration. Ole’s fields of research include Addiction and Capitalism, Ethics and Postmodernity, Poker and Ideology, Systems and Systems Theory, Methods and Epistemology, Laughter and Existence, Houses and Production. His most recent book is: Parallax of Growth – The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy (Polity, 2016).

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