GRID 09


	GRID Highlights See some highlights from GRID09!


	Steven Berlin Johnson Media and the Jungle: The new ecosystems of news Dynamic writer and speaker Steven Johnson crafts captivating theories from an array of disciplines. His big-brained, multidisciplinary theories make him one of his generation's more intriguing thinkers. Following the twists and turns his own mind makes, he takes the reader on a journey as he connects seemingly disparate ideas: ants and cities, interface design and Victorian novels. He is the author of Everything Bad is Good for You and The Invention of Air.


	Cecilia Weckström Consumer Innovation Designer Cecilia Weckström, Experience and Innovation Director at LEGO, has revolutionized the way the Danish toymaker uses customer experience and consumer insights to co-create new toy lines. Cecilia is a leading expert on creativity, learning and child development. She lives in London, is originally from Helsinki, and bicycles wherever she can.

	Åsne Seierstad Journalism at War: How we need literature to tell the story. Award-winning journalist, writer and war correspondent Åsne Seierstad reported live on Norwegian and Swedish TV when US troops invaded Iraq. Since then, she has published internationally-noted books which have made her the third-bestselling author in Norway. In her latest book, Angel of Grozny, the Russian-speaking Norwegian reporter returns to the place where she started: inside Chechnya.


	David Carr The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life – his own. New York Times reporter and media columnist David Carr investigated the darkest story he has ever covered—his own. With his journalistic tools, he revisited his long, brutal trip from being a crack addict to becoming an acclaimed reporter at the New York Times. The Night of the Gun is his breathtakingly honest memoir of that time.


	Rosalind Picard How technology can read your emotions – and those of your audience One of the world's leading experts on artificial intelligence, Professor Rosalind Picard is the founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT in Boston and co-director of the Things That Think consortium. Together with her students, she designs and develops sensors, algorithms and systems that recognize and respond to human affective information.


	Nils Mueller and Sven Tollmien Media Technologies in 2020: 12 micro trends that will blow your mind German TrendONE-researchers Nils Müller and Sven Tollmien take you on a safari into the future of technology. From their outpost in Hamburg and Berlin, TrendONE identify 300 worldwide microtrends every month to support creative thinking and innovation. You may think the future is unknown, but it already exists.



	Passionate People: Magnus Palm The Collector Magnus Palm from Bonnier Tidskrifter was one of the Passionate People speaking at GRID09.


	Esther Dyson The Quantified Self: How self-knowledge changes behavior. Journalist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and leading expert on digital technologies, Ester Dyson is the internet's court jester and a Silicon Valley legend. She has been a board member and early investor in many startups, including Flickr. She regularly contributes to The Huffington Post and lives in Star City, California, where she is training to be a cosmonaut backup and spaceflight participant.


	Abraham Verghese On Life and Death Abraham Verghese, an Ethiopian-born Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, has taken the world by storm with his two very different callings: physician and bestselling author. His novel Cutting for Stone is a gripping family saga of an immigrant surgeon which spans over three continents. It has been called "a masterpiece of traditional storytelling."


	Ilse Crawford In the end, it's all about life Named one of Britain's 30 most influential women in the Harper's Bazaar power issue for "her knack for defining the way we want to live," Ilse Crawford is one of the biggest stars in the interior decorating world. As a designer, she not only predicts trends - she creates them. Ilse Crawford is the founder of Elle Decoration UK, was Vice President of Donna Karan Home and now runs her own design studio in London. She is also the designer behind the new look of the Grand Hotel restaurant in Stockholm.


	Steve Preeg The Curious Face of Benjamin Button: An Oscar-winning artist reveals the art of creating believable digital characters Digital-effects wizard Steve Preeg was awarded with an Oscar this year for giving Brad Pitt an older face in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. As animator at Digital Domain, Steve Preeg works at the leading edge of computer-generated visual storytelling. That’s where reality and digitally-created worlds collide.


	Hans Rosling 200 years that changed the world The world-renowned Swedish global health professor from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm captivated the audience at last year's GRID conference. Now he is back with more boundless energy, interactive graphs and even a casino wheel. With a new take on the world economy, which he calls Das Kapital 2.0, he challenges our understanding of social and economic development.


	Ben Hammersley Clothes that Know When You're in Love: How exposing data can change your life, help you get the girl, and save the media British journalist, broadcaster and photographer Ben Hammersley focuses on technology journalism. He is currently Deputy Editor of Wired magazine UK, which was relaunched this spring-an indication that the high-tech magazine still believes in paper. Hammersley has reported for The Guardian, The Times (London) and the BBC from Iran and Afghanistan. He has also traveled undercover to interview Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.