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Please check the full programme and list of speakers here: www.picnicnetwork.org/programme09

The Conference

The PICNIC Conference is a high-level plenary meeting of bright, creative minds. The world’s best and brightest thinkers, entrepreneurs and creators share their stories.

The speakers of the conference include: Niklas Zennstrom, Michael Tchao, Nicholas Negroponte,Tomi Ahonen, Jeffrey Hayzlett, Peter Molyneux, Phil Zimbardo, Gerd Leonhard, Michael B. Johnson, Ed Ulbrich, Linda Stone, Kevin Slavin, Moed Ahmad,  Bernard Lietaer and Nick Bilton. For a complete list of all the speakers involved visit www.picnicnetwork.org

The Festival

PICNIC is about sharing ideas, building communities and togetherness. The festival wraps the PICNIC events with a friendly, convivial and open atmosphere, and makes it a unique and quirky experience.

• Vodafone Mobile Clicks: An international, high profile contest for the best mobile internet start-up. This competition was founded to accelerate innovation in the mobile internet sector and features companies from Netherlands and UK with a 150,000 euro prize for the best mobile internet start-ups.
• Postcode Lottery Green Challenge: A creative competition that urges people around the world to send in innovative ideas for products and services that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The person with the best invention will win 500,000 euro to make his or her plan reality, and two other brilliant ideas could win 100,000 euro.
• PICNIC Young: A collection of workshops and seminars for students and teachers designed to explore how technology and creativity take lessons to a higher level and provide a great connection to the world of today’s youth.
• PICNIC Academy/HOT100: Brings together the top creative students (graduates and near graduates) in the Netherlands and provides them with lectures, targeted labs and matchmaking activities. The event offers a taste of the unique opportunities that lay ahead of them.
• PICNIC@Night: Cutting-edge entertainment designed to keep you grooving until the late hours of the night. The party is organized together with Heineken, Vodafone, MTV, Vice Magazine and the Magneet Bar.
• Interactive Workshops & Labs: The interactive experiences at PICNIC ‘09 give you the chance to participate in the action. They bring together international thinkers and makers in an intense co-creation process, advancing the field by combining very diverse expertise & experiences in a playful setting.
• Networking: Targeted matchmaking formats for small and large groups provide opportunities for the attendees to make new connections. Through various specially designed formats, ideas will meet business, artists will meet technologies, and businesses will meet other businesses to make connections and new deals.

In addition to the day’s events as outlined above, there will be evening parties and concerts to guarantee full involvement and entertainment for everyone participating.