JCI Estonia seminar esinejad
Bowman J. Heiden – Innovation Director, Qatar Science and Technology Park (Qatar)
Mr. Heiden is currently the Innovation Director for the Qatar Science & Technology Park, where he is responsible for driving innovation strategy and intellectual property policy. Previously his role as deputy director of CIP, a development center for knowledge-based business, involved strategic program development specifically focused on the building of collaborative innovation platforms to facilitate the creation and development of knowledge-based business. In this role Mr. Heiden has co-developed the Intellectual Capital Management Master program (ICM), which is a graduate education in knowledge-based business development and management for business, engineering, and law students. Mr. Heiden is also co-founder of the Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School (GIBBS), a graduate education that develops real bioscience ventures in an imbedded pre-incubator, and CIP Professional Services, which provides IP and business development services to both established firms and technology start-ups. Mr. Heiden has also developed CIP FORUM, which has grown to one of the leading knowledge-based business events worldwide. Current projects include the construction of an Intellectual Capital Incubator designed to package intellectual assets into viable innovations in a pre-venture setting with partners worldwide and the creation of social entrepreneurship platform focused on developing countries.
Mr. Heiden has held several positions including Chairman of the ScanBalt Knowledge Network on IP and Bio-Entrepreneurship and Chairman of the Task Group on Innovation for the European Federation of Biotechnology. Mr. Heiden holds degrees in engineering and technology management and his PhD work is in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship with a focus on intellectual property valuation and finance in knowledge-based sectors. Mr. Heiden currently resides in Doha, Qatar with his wife and two small children. Before turning his focus to the field of knowledge-based business, he played professional basketball in a number of European countries.
Ilmar Pralla - Director of Innovation Division, Enterprise Estonia (Estonia)
Ilmar Pralla has worked for Enterprise Estonia more than 8 years. During these years he has been working with several innovative R&D projects, regardless of the size, and being part of launching the Quality Management System. Before Enterprise Estonia, Ilmar worked in financial sector.
Priit Alamäe – CEO and Founder, Webmedia Group (Estonia)
Priit Alamäe is an entrepreneur who started his first company at the age of 18. Since the year 2000, he has led the development of Webmedia Group into an international software company with 350 employees and customers in over 15 countries.
Margus Reinsalu - Founder and Chairman, KC Grupp (Estonia)
Margus Reinsalu is the founder and chairman of the board of the Estonian-based investment company, KC Grupp. Mr. Reinsalu founded KC Grupp in 1994 and built the company from ground up to a prosperous player in the business world.
Combined with his ownership of KC Grupp and partial ownership of Property Logic, Reinsalu has undeniably sealed his position of diverse influence. In 2005, Reinsalu founded Property Logic with Sean Cusack and Joop Huisman, and now holds the position of managing director there. Property Logic has important development projects in many parts of the world, including luxury resorts in Brazil and Morocco. Property Logic has also won five highly prestigious Arabian property awards.
Through his company Tone Tea, Margus Reinsalu has entered into an advertising contract with the GP2 team, Racing Engineering. This means that Tone Tea’s trademark Fat Burner is the Spanish team’s main supporting partner for the 2009 GP2 Series. The team will be participating in GP2 as “Fat Burner Racing Engineering”. Fat Burner is an Estonian beverage created in 2004 with specialists from body building and fitness associations. In 2007, entrepreneur Mr. Margus Reinsalu discovered the product and its potential to help people and founded the company Tone Tea together with business partner Mr. Greg Grace. In the summer of 2008, Tone Tea acquired the rights for Fat Burner with the aim to market it worldwide.
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves bestowed national decoration on Mr. Reinsalu, for helping Estonian economy become better known in many foreign countries. Margus Reinsalu’s role at Property Logic and passion for Morocco saw him appointed as the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Moroccan in Estonia in 2007.
Robin Gurney – Altex Marketing, Founder and Managing Director
In a no-nonsense, high speed, 80 frame slideshow Robin will explain why the hell you should not just “believe” in the power of social media but (hopefully) inspire and motivate you to rush back to the office to “engage online” and “get on with it”. It’s time that all companies learn what social media is and how to leverage its benefits and pay attention to its inherent dangers too. The presentation is given with the cooperation of Marta Z. Kagan (USA).
Mart Noormaa, Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Docent
Over the years, docent Mart Noorma has worked for different universities, scientific institutes and companies in Estonia, Finland, and the United States. Currently he is the Vice Dean for Studies of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Tartu. In addition, he heads the Space and Military Technologies working group at the Institute of Physics. As a physicist, Mart concentrates on research of the measurement technologies.
Mart is one of the Academic Advisors of the Estonian Student Satellite Program. He considers his mission to promote natural sciences and engineering studies among Estonian youngsters through highly visible research projects. EstCube-1, the first Estonian student satellite, is the finest example. After the working hours, Mart leads a space club “Estronauts” for children at the primary school, who are determined to make their dreams about space explorations to come true within their lifetimes.
Rando Rannus – Smart AD, Founder (Estonia)
A year ago Rando established the company SmartAD - a results-oriented Internet ad network, which connects almost 200 websites (forums, blogs, infoportals and etc.). Based on the characteristics of websites and using smartAD software, the ads will be placed on different websites where the target audience of the marketing campaign will be reached best way possible. The result: advertisers get the best possible placement of banner ads in internet and websites earn more revenue by maximizing their ad space.
Before creating his own business, Rando worked as business consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Within 7 years working-experiences he worked with interesting projects in Estonia and in different Eastern-Europe countries. Rando is a member of JCI Estonia, active with time-to-time as a moderator in different conferences and in cooperation with Pärnu Conferences. His hobbies are sports and travelling.
Per Stilling – Learning the GAME
Per is a dynamic flower. He is working within the training field, with a focus on increasing the output of individuals, groups and companies. Per graduated with honors from ESCP-EAP in Paris (MBA) and Oregon State University in Oregon (M.sci. in Business). Behind him he has many years of experience within the ICT-field, but now focuses on training and organizational development. Per is currently partner of analogIQ.com, a company specializing in designing internal company training programs. Customers are found across the globe, and analogIQ services needs and wants in most industries. Per Stilling was born in Denmark, but lives in Oslo, Norway. Per lives to train, and he has enjoyed doing this for more than 10 years, training several thousand employees, on 3 continents, 23 countries and counting.
In JCI, Per has been an active member for 11 years and within JCI Training he is certified as an International Graduate.
Timo Vuori- Corporate Responsibility after Financial Crisis
The Financial crisis is not the end of globalization. International business between various partners including SMEs will still continue to grow after this recession. In order to manage new kinds of risks in international trade, visionary companies have already set their internal values and provide clear business principles for their behavior beyond companies´ legal obligation. This helps companies to run their business in a less risky way in countries where local regulation do necessarily support financially, but also socially or ecologically responsible business behavior or zero tolerance in corruption.
Increasing number of companies are using well-known and widely respected external business principles and guidelines like UN Global Compact in order to shape up their every day responsible business behavior. Even increasing number of institutional investors are asking companies about their risk management in CSR and tools for that. In Nordic countries there are already over 260 companies which have committed themselves to apply Global Compact as a part of their business. See Global Compact: www.unglobalcompact.org and Nordic Network: www.gcnordic.net
Mr. Timo Vuori is the Focal Point and Coordinator of the Global Compact Nordic Network in which over 200 Nordic companies co-operate and learn from each other about CSR issues. Mr. Vuori is also the Secretary General of International Chamber of Commerce ICC Finnish National Committee. For many years he has worked with the Finnish major companies like Nokia, Kesko, Kone, Metso, Nordea, Valio, Wärtsilä in international trade and investment issues and corporate responsibility challenges. He is representing business in the Finnish Government´s Committee on Corporate Responsibility and is also member of the CSR Committee of the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK. See: www.iccwbo.org
