Session Details Paul Papadimitriou is a management consultant, focusing on innovation. He specializes in consumer forensics and trends foretelling “the future of digital behaviours” Paul seeks to understand how digital innovation through social and mobile technologies is changing consumers and how businesses and societies will be impacted. Paul also scouts for startups that redefine innovation & advises a handful of those. What he learns from startups, he gives back to large companies and vice-versa. Amongst other projects, Paul is currently hosting The Digital Loop, a weekly video series about innovation. www.paulpapadimitriou.com 21 November, 11:00-12:00 OpenSpace WorkSpace 1 Gerfried Stocker Gerfried Stocker is a media artist and telecommunications engineer. An active producer of installations and performances featuring elements of interaction, robotics and telecommunications, Gerfried is now Ars Electronica’s artistic director. He headed the crew of artists that developed the Ars Electronica Center’s pioneering new exhibition strategies and set up the facility’s in-house R&D department, the Futurelab. Paul Papadimitriou InnovationSpace: The Lab 23