Chris technology exploits have been featured on Slashdot.com, engadget.com, digg.com, gizmodo.com, Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He studied Math at Oxford and Computer Science at UCLA and has since worked in online gaming, at a branding agency and as a software consultant with Handspring, Microsoft, Multiactive, Macromedia and Deloitte. Chris is a passionate MAKE-movement evangelizer and currently involved at Syyn Labs where he spends his time twisting together art and technology.
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Steve Jennings founded Maxim, one of Europe’s leading active lifestyle functional food and beverage companies in 1991 and was its CEO through 2000. In 1997, Maxim was acquired by Dutch food group, Prinsen BV. During that time, he successfully managed the integration of the Maxim business into the Prinsen system and oversaw the entry of Maxim into the mainstream grocery channel.
In late 2000, Steve began the development of a healthy snack and beverage platform specifically aimed at teenagers. In 2003, the platform concept was acquired by PepsiCo and Steve became one of the founding members of PepsiCo’s global ‘good-for-you’ foods and beverage UX innovation team.
Ask Steve what he does for a living and the likely response today will be; “start things, connect people, push out the ‘higher-purpose’ UX innovation envelope, encourage kids to be creative and healthy, ride my bike, have an innovative and sustainable impact on people confronted with extreme poverty.”
When Steve isn’t dreaming up ever more creative ways to put business and technology at the service of humanity and make the world a better place, he can be found out running, riding his bike, or watching bands playing live music that rocks ‘hard’
Originally from Hull, England, for the past 7 years Steve has been living in Chicago with his wife Amanda and 2 kids, Rachael (18) and William (13), prior to Chicago, he lived in Eindhoven, NL for 7 years. Steve recently relocated with his family to Malmö, Sweden
Troed Sangberg is a futurist working at the Sony Ericsson CTO Office. With a core technical background and a keen interest in changes in society, culture and the human mind he tries to explore, expand and project the resulting impacts onto the mobile industry. After over a decade’s worth of mobile experience in developing, project leading and directing strategy at companies ranging from Ericsson, Symbian, TietoEnator to Sony Ericsson one question relevant today would be for how long, or if, we still consider there to be a separate mobile industry. Troed can be followed on Twitter, and his corporate Sony Ericsson blog.
Short interview with Vanessa Carpenter Møbius by Peter Neubauer on ThoughtMade, the Öresund region and Innovation!
by Chris Hughes
Chris technology exploits have been featured on Slashdot.com, engadget.com, digg.com, gizmodo.com, Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He studied Math at Oxford and Computer Science at UCLA and has since worked in online gaming, at a branding agency and as a software consultant with Handspring, Microsoft, Multiactive, Macromedia and Deloitte. Chris is a passionate MAKE-movement evangelizer and currently involved at Syyn Labs where he spends his time twisting together art and technology.
Follow Chris on twitter and on his personal blog.