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Speakers include:
Simon Burton, event, digital and social media entrepreneur
Frazer Chesterman, Managing Director, FESPA
Barney Cox, Executive Editor, Printweek
Steve Ducelli, Publishing Director, Signage and Graphics Group
Christian Duykaerts, Owner, Print & Display
Denise Gustavson, Editor, Wide Format Imaging
Laura Hardy, Vice President, Production Director, Ogilvy
Jeff Hayes, President, InfoTrends
Mike Horsten, Owner, ZEMT Consulting and Coso
Alex Hunter, independent digital ninja
Sophie Matthews-Paul, consultant
Paul Lilienthal, President, Pictura Graphics, and member of the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership Board of Directors
Chris Lynn, VP Sales and Marketing, Xaar
Roland Niggemeyer, Owner, Niggemeyer Bildproduktion
Sudhir Ravi, Vice President, Marketing, Think Variable Print
Michael Ryan, President, Sampco/Brilliant Graphics
Andreas Skantze, Owner, Big Image
Mark Simpson, Chairman, The Simpson Group
Thomas Struckmeier, Blasé Holdings
Marcus Timson, Sales and Marketing Director, FESPA
Roman Weishaupl, Director, TrendOne
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 Alex Hunter is an independent digital ninja, brand consultant, company advisor, and angel investor.
Alex is also a noted public speaker, appearing at events all over the world such as ad:tech, Future of Web Apps (London & Miami), Thinking Digital, Marketing 2.0, and Internet World.
He has served as an adviser to the Prince of Wales’ Rainforest Trust specifically around the use of social media and engagement to propagate the Trusts’ message.
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 Andreas has worked with super large format images for almost 25 years. Big Image was printing digitally as early as 1989, and a lot has happened since. 1994-1995 Andreas lived in Berlin to start up the Big Image production plant there, today there are 35 employees working with digital printing and finishing of setdesigns for theaters and operas. As the president of Big Image Systems group (with production and sales in Sweden and Germany, sales office in the US), Andreas continues to travel as much as possible to meet clients and produce large format visual experiences for creative and demanding clients.
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 Chris Lynn is VP Sales & Marketing for Xaar Americas, Inc. supporting clients from Canada to Chile. He is a business strategist with twenty years’ experience in technologies for printing & publishing. He has worked Europe, Asia and the US in product management, sales & channel development, strategic marketing and general management.
Chris held senior marketing positions at pre-press vendor Crosfield Electronics Ltd, a jointly-owned Du Pont & FujiFilm company; and led the $120m printing & converting technology division of a pan-Asian capital goods company, based in Singapore. He moved to the US with that company in 1994 and subsequently became vice president of marketing for Digital Asset Management software vendor MediaBin, Inc. prior to its acquisition by Interwoven.
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 Christian Duyckaerts (DOB: 1970) is FESPA's board representative in Belgium, and President of the screen and digital work group of Belgian trade association Febelgra. He is also a member of the Organisation Mondiale de la Presse Periodique.
Since the year 2000, Christian has been a managing partner and technical director of Antwerp-based Print&Display, a specialist in the creation of outdoor publicity materials, cardboard displays, permanent displays, and POP collateral for corporate and agency customers throughout Europe.
Employing 108 people, with sales offices in Benelux, Germany and France, Print&Display takes care of the entire process from research, design and prototyping through to printing, finishing, fulfilment and warehousing, and uses a combination of screen, offset and digital printing techniques.
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 Enrico Steijn (DOB: 1960) is FESPA’s current Treasurer and has been a Board Member since 2000. He is also on the Board of the Dutch screenprinting trade association ZSO, a division of KVGO. As such he represents the Netherlands on the board of FESPA.
Enrico holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and has occupied management roles in the packaging and graphic arts industries since 1985.
He is the owner and CEO of Imaba Screenprinting in Zoetermeer, Netherlands, employing 35 people and generating turnover of Euro 4 million through outdoor and POS printing.
He directs the company together with his wife, sales director Anne-Martine, and complements his business interests in screenprinting with ownership of several industrial properties in the Zoetermeer area. Enrico and his wife have two young daughters.
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 Frazer Chesterman is a youthful and energetic 46 year old, who is married with 3 children - all boys. He joined FESPA as a commercially driven senior professional with wide ranging experience of running exhibitions, conferences and magazines in a variety of business to business sectors. He spent 8 years working at Reed Elsevier on various magazines and then joined Brintex, the UK's largest privately owned exhibition organiser. At Brintex, he was a board level director with responsibility for six medium sized events covering various different marketplaces.
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 Laura joined Ogilvy Washington in 1999. She has extensive knowledge and experience in all areas of print production and creative management. Her day-to-day responsibilities include production oversight of campaign materials, managing budgets, negotiating outside purchases, qualifying and managing vendors and researching new technologies.
With more than 25 years of highly technical production management experience, Laura has handled accounts and purchasing of tens of millions of dollars annually. Laura’s current work includes managing the print production needs for social marketing/public health communication campaigns, advertising materials for business-to-business/consumer education/general consumer campaigns, corporate marketing materials, direct mail, out-of-home, exhibit materials, video packaging and turnkey kits.
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 Marcus joined the event and exhibition industry in 1999 from the world of publishing.
In 2006, I joined FESPA to run the marketing for FESPA’s flagshhip FESPA 2007 breaking all attendance records by over 20%. In April 2008 he launched the Wide Network, a social community for wide format digital printing and it now has over 1,300 members in over 100 countries & still growing.
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 I began working for the family business, Simpson Print Limited in 1983 initially working in the studio and then progressing to estimating and sales positions. Within 3 years I was appointed Sales Director and began to develop a nationwide sales team to exploit the then growing market for retail POP. In 1990 I was appointed Managing Director to succeed my father who was then planning his retirement. The business grew dramatically during the 1990s emerging as one of the most respected in it’s field.
I am now currently Chairman of Simpson Group, located in Washington, Tyne and Wear providing UK and European wide in-store advertising campaigns for major brands and retailers including Next, TUI, Sainsbury’s and Matalan.
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 Mike Horsten is the Sustainability & Green Visionair of Zemt Green consultancy; he is responsible to give advice and vision to small and large companies, in there green and sustainable growth ideas. Converting there current business model in more sustainable and green ways, without loosing sight of company profitability and margins goals. Zemt is active in the printing industry where Mike has more then 20 year of production experience.
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 Paul Lilienthal is the President and owner of Pictura Graphics. Paul’s management of Pictura’s brand and market strategies has positioned the company as a leader in wide-format digital graphics in the United States. Lilienthal is committed to continuous advancements in the sustainability of the company, through manufacturing process improvements, innovative product and services offerings, and commitment to its customers. Pictura Graphics was the nations’ 1st Certified Sustainable Green Printer of the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP) and Lilienthal’s leadership is helped to establish industry standards for sustainable printers nationwide. Paul is active on the Green Committee for the Exhibit Design and Planners Association (EDPA), Signage and Graphics Summit (SGS), participates on the Advisory Board for Sustainable Brands, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Sustainable Green Print Partnership (SGP).
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 Sudhir Ravi has been a serial entrepreneur since 1996. After successfully starting and selling two technology businesses, he has started a variable data print practice within TVP Graphics, Inc, a retail printing company based in suburban Chicago. He is also a partner in Krishi Consulting Inc., which specializes in SMS/mobile marketing and FolderPro.com which allows presentation folders to be produced on a custom basis without any minimum orders.
His strategy of boot-strap financing to organically build competence and camaraderie in the organization worked with TVP and the once retail-based printing company is now a regionally recognized leader in digital print.
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 Roman leads a network of 80 trend spotters worldwide. This network provides Roman real-time trend insights from global hotspots. In addition he is in charge of customers in Germany, Mexico and the US.
In his work he is focusing on the future of technology and the future of the internet in particular. His major task is helping clients to push innovation out of his global network into the markets to spur inspiration, creativity and innovation processes. Moreover he is booked frequently as keynote speaker. His presentation skills has thrilled many clients and enriched events, workshops and companies’ future days.
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 Simon Burton presents, writes and consults on effective event marketing, networking and social media around the world. His thoughts on how to get the best from digital media and live events are regularly described as "inspirational" and "energising". He has launched and sold several trade shows, has created numerous social networks and runs a thriving PR and consultancy business.
Simon places new media and event marketing into a real business context. Building businesses through events, PR, and use of social media by are topics he regularly discusses.
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 Sophie Matthews-Paul is an independent international consultant, concentrating on the wide-format digital print market, its technologies, and its use in industry today and in the future. She works with many of the industry's leading and fledgling manufacturers, as well as vendors and end-users. Sophie is based in Europe, and contributes regularly to many specialist publications world-wide. She is also a photographer and has been involved with pre-press and the practical aspects of ink-jet production since the earliest days of its development.
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 Born 13th of August 1966
Finished High school 1986
Apprenticeship in “Deutsche Bank” 1986 until 1988
Consultor for medium sized companies in “Deutsche Bank” 1988 until 1992. During this time studying Bank management on “Bank Akademy” in Frankfurt
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