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• Blackshore

Keynote

Solving world problems using satellites and the wisdom of the crowd with a game!

Biography

Hans van ‘t Woud (1983), founder of BlackShore with a vast experience in space data, crowdsourcing, serious gaming and web community management. Hans studied Human Centered Multimedia at the University of Amsterdam where he was awarded his MSc degree regarding his research known as “The Mars Crowdsourcing Experiment”.

Nowadays he is a full-time entrepreneur for his company, BlackShore, where he is taking his crowdsourcing gaming engine “Cerberus” to the next level. He participated with success in the ESA business incubation centre in the Netherlands.

Hans van ‘t Woud won the GMES master 2012 and was the winner of the European Space Imaging High-Res challenge with his Cerberus engine.

• Wildlife Air Services
• The Blackfish

Keynote

Crowdsourcing fisheries enforcement.

When dealing with serious issues such as illegal fishing, maritime security and enforcement, we look to governments to act. But what if the necessary budgets for strengthening enforcement are non-existent?

Van Der Werf presents unique and cost-effective ways to strengthen maritime enforcement, from land, air and sea. He argues that beyond collecting data, tackling illegal fishing is about involving ordinary people and crowdsourcing enforcement resources to achieve measurable
outcomes.

Biography

is a conservationist on a mission to fight wildlife crime through unconventional means. Having founded a number of civilian enforcement services, Wietse works with regular citizens to crowdsource monitoring capacity, collect evidence and prosecute wildlife criminals.

•  Buyerminds

Keynote

INSPIRATION to kick start the IDEATION!

Inspiration session Persuasive technology is technology that is designed to change attitudes or behaviours of the users through persuasion and social influence. The session is aimed at giving the teams a head start in the concept development.

Biography

Ellen heads the persuasion design department of Buyerminds. She leads a team of persuasion designers, psychologists and creative technologists. She creates digital experiences for real people – having worked for clients such as Adidas, Greenpeace, Ahold, KLM, McDonald’s, Exxon Mobil, the National Museum of History, Volkswagen, Mars and Heineken. Ellen leads diverse projects as a persuasion strategist, varying from digital campaigns and mobile experiences to big platform sites and, on occasion, interactive installations – always aimed at getting the results. She engenders creative and critical thinking and her interactive marketing and business development knowledge gives her the opportunity to add value to new and existing products.

In recent years her teams have won several interactive awards, such as FWA’s and SpinAwards. Perhaps most valuable for a UX team – she won Gold in the Design for Experience awards in 2014 – for the McDonald’s The Netherlands app. Earlier in her career she won a ‘Museums and the Web – Best of the Web’ award for the Dutch National Museum of History. Ellen lectures on topics such as persuasion design, working methods and behaviour design. She writes for UX Magazine and loves to participate in hackathons. She’s inspired by the vivid startup scene in Amsterdam in which she plays an active role.

• European Space Agency

Keynote

Getting the most out of satellite observations to further our understanding of our oceans and the threat of climate change.

Biography

Prior to ESA: Ph.D. Oceanography (1994) Department of Oceanography, University of Southampton, UK and B.Sc. First class (Hon) in 1998 at Department of Environmental Science, University of Lancaster, UK. Worked at the University of Colorado, USA as an Assistant Research Professor, at the European Commission Joint Research Centre Italy for 5 years in the Institute for Environment and Sustainability, at the Met Office UK for 5 years in the Oceanography Section. At ESA (since September 2008) as the Principal Scientist for Oceans and Ice in the Mission Science Division of Earth Observation Programmes Directorate.

Main interests in remote sensing of oceans and ice (particularly sea surface temperature), operational oceanographic service delivery, oceanographic application of satellite data, development of satellite era climate data records of sea surface temperature and sea ice, design, construction, software development, calibration and deployment of sea-going infrared radiometer systems, validation of satellite ocean data sets, coordination of international SST community as chair of the Group for High Resolution sea surface temperature (GHRSST). Coordinator for the Joint Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology with expert teams in sea ice, Ocean forecasting systems, wind waves and storm surges, marine safety information services, Marine emergency and response.

•  WWF Netherlands

Keynote

Pirate and dynamite fishing in the Coral Triangle. Although forbidden in all territorial waters pirate fishing as well as fishing with dynamite and even occurs in Marine Protected Areas in the Coral Triangle in South East Asia. Recently Indonesia gave a strong signal to all pirates by simply blowing up a few ships that were caught fishing illegally in its waters. Dynamite fishing however is also done by local fishermen. Local communities, authorities and local WWF staff work together to stop this highly damaging practice. Linking several tools could increase their effectiveness.

Biography

For more than 20 years Carel Drijver has been leading and supporting the establishment and management of marine protected areas around the world, as well as projects and campaigns for sustainable fishing and responsible tourism to ensure that local communities participate in the benefits of healthy marine ecosystems.