Open Innovation Lab of Norway
Bringing together smart people, great tools and innovative ideas for a better future! Open Innovation Lab of Norway
Thakur S POWDYEL, Former Education Minister of Bhutan (2008-2013)
Currently the President of the Royal Thimphu College, Thakur S Powdyel is an educator by choice, conviction and passion. He served as Bhutan’s Minister of Education from 2008 through 2013. As a committed advocate of GNH and Green Schools, he…
Anne Beate HOVIND, Project Director at Bjørvika Utvikling
Anne Beate Hovind is Project Director of Bjørvika Utvikling’s art programme for public space with two internationally know art works: Futurellibrary.no by Scottish artist Katie Paterson and flatbreadsociety.net by FutureFarmers. She is the Chair of the Future Library Trust. She…
Dr. Julia KIM, Gross National Happiness Center
Dr. Julia Kim is a researcher and global health and sustainable development specialist who has worked extensively in Africa, and Asia with NGOs, academia and UN agencies (UNDP and UNICEF). She is currently a Senior Program Advisor at the Gross…
Trond Riiber KNUDSEN, Founder and CEO of TRK Group
Trond Riiber Knudsen is Founder and CEO of TRK Group, an Oslo-based investment and advisory firm focused on active ownership and advisory within disruptive technologies, digital service transformation and new African growth markets. Trond was previously a Senior Partner at…
Michael de VIBE, Norwegian Institute of Public Health & Mindfulness Researcher
Michael de Vibe’s is educated as a medical doctor and family therapist. He is a senior advisor at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, working on quality in public healthcare. Michael has developed and researched methods of awareness training –…
Loveleen Rihel BRENNA, Seema AS
Loveleen Rihel Brenna is the managing director of Seema AS. She has been working with diversity and inclusion issues since 1995. Brenna was born in India and moved to Norway whens she was five years old. She experienced first-hand how…
Otto SCHARMER, Presencing Institute & MIT
Otto Scharmer is the founding chair of the MIT IDEAS Program, that takes leaders from civil society, government and business from Indonesia and China on a nine month action learning journey in order to co-create profound social innovation in their…
Arawana HAYASHI, Social Presencing Theater
Arawana Hayashi’s pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in collaborative improvisation. She currently heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater (SPT) for the Presencing Institute. Working with Otto Scharmer and colleagues at the Presencing Institute,…