Bethany Wilcoxon is dialed in to the latest mobile applications asssiting their users in purchasing goods responsibly. She discusses her personal goals to cut down on spending, and speaks on apps like "Buycott" which encourage consumers to purchase from corporations who are socially and ethically responsible.

Gustavo Álvarez, Regional Director of Startup Weekend, explains the importance of entrepreneurship and how it impacts on our daily life. (In Spanish) 

Designer, researcher, writer and strategist, Gilad Meron, shares his take on the process and practice of design thinking and the need for collaborative discourse between different disciplines which leads to something greater. He discusses that the design thinking process goes beyond the idea and leads you to something to unexpected outcomes.

"Innovations is about originality in the sense of taking a new perspective."

Philipp Kristian Dieköner talks about Innovation from its most attractive sides. Through analyzing its attributes, he shows how crucial seduction is in the process of creating new ideas. Just as Seduction, Innovation is intimately connected to curiosity, improvisation, originality, courage, danger, trust, challenge. Playful and sudden, creativity is not defined as a skill, but like an experience - something that can happen to anybody who is open to it. 

Design thinking is hot & has somewhat of a star status….and that’s fully justified!! Design thinking is helping organizations to emphatically uncover needs of customers, users and employees and design the appropriate solutions. This is a story about how design thinking builds on the strengths from design and brings empathy into organizational & innovation processes. All you need is design thinking!

Arnoud Koning shares on design thinking. Koning is passionate about design thinking which he first experienced within the global business services organization of Procter & Gamble. Since several years, he worked with applying design thinking in different business contexts and he started teaching design thinking and facilitation skills both inside P&G and together with the Design Thinkers Academy.

Neoka Naidoo, shares her idea that most people are unaware of the consequences of their daily choices. Drawing the link between daily products and the environmental and social impacts is necessary for people to question and take responsibility for their choices. In the globalized world we live in, learning the effects of 'buycotting' products is imperative.

In the fast changing global landscape of governance, what are the new shapes it is taking? How can citizens be part of this process? What does it translate into in the Georgian reality? Here are the first examples of design thinking experiments in public service development in Georgia. Khatuna Sandroshvili

Agnieszka Konopka is psycholinguist and lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. This presentation explains how people prepare utterances across various languages and how people remember information that is presented with and without language.