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Dataproces, Open4citizens Morten is an innovative and curious economist, former public servant, co-founder and currently CEO at Dataproces. With more than 40 employees in Dataproces, Morten has worked almost 6 years to support the Danish public sector and many Danish municipalities towards making real value out of data. He is a great capacity to support hackathon participants to think big and wild - AND he is realistic about what can be achieved in new services based on data!

COWI Kristian fulfills an ambidextrous role at both COWI and Aarhus University; since 2011, he has worked thoroughly with all phases of urban development at COWI and since 2017 he is enrolled as a PhD-fellow at Aarhus University and COWI with the purpose of understanding the process of successful business model innovation. Kristian also teaches engineering students in "Persuasive Technology", and has a great interest in technology-based business innovation.

COWI MSc IT, Digital Innovation, COWI. Jon works with digital prototyping and innovation - i.e. design thinking, web, process digitalization, geo-coded data, UI/UX, workshops and IT-architecture. He has previously worked with 3D graphics and futurism – and 3D/VR at the Alexandra Institute (CAVI). He is fueled by developing ideas with interesting people, the gentle radiation from his monitors and copious amounts of coffee.

Antropologerne, Open4citizens As CEO and Chief Anthropologist, Rikke Ulk has worked for the past 15 y to make Antropologerne (The Anthropologists) a recognised, pioneering consultancy of talented anthropologists and ethnologists. Antropologerne helps you to understand the needs, barriers and opportunities in people’s everyday lives by creating deeper insights and meaningful change. Rikke is passionate about leadership, community power, insights, changes, and being hands-on.

Kvistgaard+HIRD / AAU Peter is an energetic expert within the field of tourism and experience economy. For the past 20 y, Peter has been active within research and education, drawing on his Ph.D. degree in tourism politics from Aalborg University. In 2005 he founded the consultancy Kvistgaard+HIRD and has engaged numerous consultancy tasks that span a focus on destinations, companies, public organisations, tourism politics and strategic advising. He is a passionate speaker as well as writer.

BrainsBusiness Network coordinator at BrainsBusiness. Kasper is experienced and passionate of everything involving mentoring and supporting networks. He has a long entrepreneurial track record of supporting start-ups though his work with Aalborg Startup Community, Kickstart Aalborg, Startup café, Startup works, Gate to Create and BusinessAalborg. Today Kasper is organizing specialized networks, at BrainsBusiness, for professionals of various backgrounds within the ICT field.

Open4citizens, AAU Nicola Morelli is Professor with Special Responsibilities at the department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University. He is the coordinator of the research project Open4Citizens. Nicola is passionately working on service design strategies to promote innovation in public services and to engage citizens into design processes. He matured a long supervising experience in the course of industrial design and service design at Aalborg University Copenhagen.

AAU MSc IT in Information Studies, Aalborg University. Frederik is a research assistant at Aalborg University. He is a passionate advocate for a user-centered approach to developing ICT and empathetic design. As a part of the international Open Data Education project, Frederik has worked with organizational aspects of teaching open data and promoting “open data-thinking” for students and organizations.

SDU Tanja is a Ph.D. student in the dep. of Design & Communication, Centre for Tourism, Innovation and Culture (TIC) at University of Southern Denmark. Her research is about big data, smart tourism and how collaborative design enables the envisioning of alternative futures and possibilities. Tanja is curious and keen to experiment and in her work, she applies design thinking, collaborative design, big/open data and ethnography to invite new perspectives within tourism innovation.