Friday, November 12, 2010

21min Milano Conference (November 18-20)

Some speakers who shared their knowledge on our events:

Moshe  Abeles
Moshe Abeles

His fields are neurophysiology, biomedical engineering, psychobiology, computational neuroscience... His academic CV intimidates both people in his fi...
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Stefano Baldini
Stefano Baldini

Stefano Baldini was the gold medallist in the Olympic marathon in Athens 2004, winner of the 1996 world half-marathon championships, winner of the 199...
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Shlomo Ben-Ami
Shlomo Ben-Ami

Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace, Shlomo Ben-Ami is an Oxford graduate historian, active in politics. He was Minister of In...
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Alberto Bertone
Alberto Bertone

Is it possible to enter the mineral water business with nothing and build Sant'Anna in a mere 15 years? Is it possible, with a background in the build...
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Giovanni Bignami
Giovanni Bignami

After graduating in physics, a brilliant career in space mission design and construction in Italy, Europe and the United States brought him to the top...
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Marcello Binda
Marcello Binda

Marcello Binda, CEO of the Binda Group. Born in Milan in 1960, he graduated in economics and commerce from Milan's Bocconi University before moving to...
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Edoardo Boncinelli
Edoardo Boncinelli

He has spent his life in the realm of science, seeking an answer to one of the crucial questions of our age: "What role do our genes play in determin...
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Mario Brunello
Mario Brunello

World-famous cellist, in 1986 Brunello was the first Italian musician to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He now plays with the most prestig...
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Mario Calabresi
Mario Calabresi

Currently the youngest newspaper editor in Italy, he is also probably the first not to be familiar with lead printing and the tap of typewriters. He w...
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Giacomo Campiotti
Giacomo Campiotti

A director is above all someone who can convince producers that they need his film to make money and him to direct it. Campiotti's stories are fragmen...
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Jury Chechi
Jury Chechi

A great gymnast, he is an athlete known for his complete mastery of the discipline, a " Lord of the Rings". From an early age, the red-haired boy wit...
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Woodrow Clark II
Woodrow Clark II

He is a true son of California, that land that has, for generations, been inspiring the world with its visions: cinema, 1968, the computer...He began ...
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Mario Cucinella
Mario Cucinella

Internationally famed architect, he tied many of his projects to the idea of listening to the natural and soaal environment His architecture is sustai...
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Luca De Meo
Luca De Meo

Luca De Meo was the Chief Marketing Officer of Fiat Group Automobiles SpA and currently heads up marketing for the Volkswagen Group’s car division. He...
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Riccardo Donadon
Riccardo Donadon

The natural berth for a serial entrepreneur who was able to combine the new economy's potential for growth (keyword: imagination) with the entrepreneu...
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Ennio Doris
Ennio Doris

Chairman of Banca Mediolanum, he is in charge of over 6,000 "family bankers" and 1,400 employees. The bank has over a million customers in Italy, admi...
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Rita El Khayat
Rita El Khayat

Just like a diamond, Rita El Khayat has many faces, including psychiatrist, television and radio presenter, writer and artist, activist for women’s ri...
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Andeisha Farid
Andeisha Farid

She began her career at a tender age: she was still studying and already she was working for the Afghan mothers and children who she was housed with i...
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Mara Galeazzi
Mara Galeazzi

She began dancing at 6. At 8, she had a dream: become a nurse to help children in Africa. At 10, she moved to Milan to study at La Scala's Ballet Scho...
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Alberto Galgano
Alberto Galgano

Alberto Galgano is Chairman of the Galgano Group, a well-known management consulting company that brought the concept of "total quality" to Italy and ...
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Tara Gandhi
Tara Gandhi

Tara Gandhi has taken the message of her grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi, and has made it her own, re-proposing it as a model of action in the social sphe...
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Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner

Chris Gardner is at the centre of one of the most amazing stories from the 20th century. He is the owner and CEO of Christopher Gardner International ...
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Michael Gazzaniga
Michael Gazzaniga

He is among the top scholars of the mind, and has dedicated his life to researching the codes that govern the workings of the mind, with particular at...
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Oscar Giannino
Oscar Giannino

He is an economist and journalist, a free thinker and free spirit on a collision course with the editors at the papers where he worked, as well as bei...
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Letizia Giuliani
Letizia Giuliani

Minute, versatile, passionate, she is a first grade star of Italian classical ballet....
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David J. Gross
David J. Gross

All the protons and neutrons in this universe are made up of quarks, tiny particles shrouded in mystery. They always arrange themselves in threes and ...
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Erin Gruwell
Erin Gruwell

When she was assigned the class with the worst grades, and the most violent students in the school, she didn't lose her spirit Within a year, she mana...
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Claudio Gubitosi
Claudio Gubitosi

It is rare for a person to undertake the project of a lifetime at 18 years of age. But it is even more rare to see someone who has cultivated their or...
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Ted Hart
Ted Hart

Ted Hart is CEO of Hart Philanthropic Services - an international consulting company providing services for non-profit organisations and NGOs - and fo...
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Josefa Idem
Josefa Idem

There is no other woman like her in the history of Italian sport: a champion who chose the Italian flag and paddled her canoe to a record number of wo...
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Natasha Korsakova
Natasha Korsakova

A descendant of a famous composer. Granddaughter of a grand maestro. Daughter of a well-known violin virtuoso and a pianist. She herself was a child p...
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Emmanuel Leprince
Emmanuel Leprince

From his top position as President of the European Federation of High Tech Small and Medium Enterprises, Leprince enjoys a bird's-eye view of the Old ...
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Tegla Loroupe
Tegla Loroupe

As a little girl, besides working in the fields and looking after her younger brothers, she had to walk barefoot for 10 kilometers every day to g...
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Luciano Mazzetti
Luciano Mazzetti

A university lecturer in the science of education and President of the International Montessori Center, he has worked with Unicef for 30 years. The cu...
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Pietro Mennea
Pietro Mennea

Pietro Paolo Mennea was the holder of the world 200m-record from 1979 to 1996 and a gold medallist at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. With an ability to ...
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Nives Meroi
Nives Meroi

Nives Meroi is a top Italian alpinist She is among the few women to have conquered eleven of the eight-thousanders, and the only woman to have climbed...
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Andres Neumann
Andres Neumann

Andres Neumann, an internationally acclaimed theatre producer, founded the “Andres Neumann International” agency in Florence in 1978. This agency has ...
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Davide Oldani
Davide Oldani

After having studied with the great masters of international cuisine, he opened up new paths, far from prejudices and arrogance. Despite being a star ...
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Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim

One of the most famous contemporary artists and a leading exponent of Land, Body and Performance Art, he highlights the importance of a "creative visi...
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Raj Patel
Raj Patel

Economist and sociologist, he is known also outside of academic drdes for his civil involvement, which may be described as everything but acquiescent....
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Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar

She has pulled down gender barriers in chess. Not only has she won 4 world titles and 5 Olympic gold medals, but she was also the first female chess p...
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Giacomo Rizzolatti
Giacomo Rizzolatti

Neurosdentist of considerable fame, his name is bound to a sensational discovery: mirror neurons, the brain cells that influence thought in an imitati...
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Sanjit
Sanjit "Bunker" Roy

He is one of toda y's most courageous and influential visionaries and social entreprenem. The doors of his Barefoot College in Rajathan are open to al...
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Erno Rubik
Erno Rubik

What could have brought a Hungarian architect and designer, the son of a poetess and an aircraft engineer, with a passion for geometry to invent the m...
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Kell Ryan
Kell Ryan

The contribution provided by Michael Kell Ryan - co-founder of Ryanair, Europe's leading low-cost airline - brings to light the secrets of the most im...
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Alessandro Sannino
Alessandro Sannino

Not only is he young. Not only was he born and educated in the south. Not only has he become a major name in the field of materials research because h...
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Maurizio Savi
Maurizio Savi

Maurizio Savi is General Manager of AIRC - the Italian association for the fight against cancer. Born in 1958, he graduated in business economics, spe...
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Sam Say
Sam Say

It is no fun having to escape from your own country (Laos) at the age of 12 and then having to grow up in a country on the other side of the world (Ca...
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Alessandra Sensini
Alessandra Sensini

2004, Athens Olympics. After winning bronze in Atlanta and gold in Sydney in the Mistral class for windsurfing, Alessandra Sensini was the favourite. ...
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Dan Serfaty
Dan Serfaty

He calls himself a "serial entrepreneur". Every business that Serfaty touches gains a surprising tendency to grow, grow, grow... He has been active in...
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Gilead Sher
Gilead Sher

Attorney and esteemed international negotiatior, he was Chief of the Cabinet under Bara k's government in Israel, and head negotiator at the peace tal...
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Card. Ersilio Tonini
Card. Ersilio Tonini

His Eminence Cardinal Ersilio Tonini became a priest in 1937, a bishop in 1969 (in Macerata) and archbishop of Ravenna in 1975. He was made a cardinal...
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Julio Velasco
Julio Velasco

Julio Velasco is a sports legend. He has an impressive coaching record in which he brought every volleyball team he ever coached to the top, both male...
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Pier Mario Vello
Pier Mario Vello

His story is of a humanist catapulted into the world of economics. Before becoming secretary-general of the Cariplo Foundation, he directed large firm...
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Valentina Vezzali
Valentina Vezzali

Maria Valentina Vezzali was the first fencer to win three consecutive Olympic golds (Sydney, Athens and Beijing). Winner of five world titles and five...
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Jirí Wackermann
Jirí Wackermann

Jirí Wackermann, born 1955 in Roudnice n.L. (Czechoslovakia), studied psychology at Charles University in Prague, and graduated in 1985. He was in act...
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