Dr John Dumay is Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Originally a consultant, he joined academia after completing his Ph.D. in 2008. His thesis won the European Fund for Management Development and Emerald Journals Outstanding Doctoral Research Award for Knowledge Management. John researches intellectual capital, knowledge management, corporate reporting and disclosure, research methodologies and academic writing. John has written over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and edited books, and is highly cited in Scopus and Google Scholar. He is the Associate Editor of the highly regarded Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal,  the Journal of Intellectual Capital and Meditari Accountancy Research, Outgoing Editor of the eJournal of Knowledge Management, on the Editorial Board of Advice Journal of Knowledge Management and several other leading accounting and management journals.

Dr. Guido Enthoven (1962) is founder and director of the Dutch Institute for Social Innovation, researcher, consultant and publicist. In 1991 he started together with friends the National Ideas Line. Shortly thereafter, he founded the Institute for Social Innovation (IMI) and advised dozens of ministries and municipalities on dialogues, participation and innovation. In 2011 he graduated (University of Tilburg) on the thesis ‘How to tell Congress? An empirical investigation of the information relation between Dutch government and parliament. ‘
He was in different roles involved in about 150 projects in the public realm, a selection:
• Initiator and editor national prime time TV series ‘The Idea’
• Advisor on the development of a new Dutch Freedom of Information Act
• Organizing local dialogues with citizens, city coucil and civil servants, developing new forms of democracy.
• Research on new connections between parliament and science.
• International survey on active transparency, on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior.
• Developing a Strategy ‘Information 2020’ and research on ‘Open data, opportunities for MP’s’. An investigation for Dutch Parliament.
• Facilitating the European dialogue with companies and NGO’s, leading to a European Bioeconomy Manifesto.
He’s author of 80 articles about democracy, information and innovation in magazines, newspapers and scientific journals.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Rainer NOENNIG (*1973) is Professor for Digital City Science at the CityScienceLab at HafenCity Universität Hamburg and director of the WISSENSARCHITEKTUR Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture at TU Dresden. From 1992 to 1998, he studied architecture at Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Polytech Krakow and Waseda University Tokyo. Between 1998 and 2001 he practiced as architect in Tokyo, among others at Ishiyama Experimental Underground Architecture Factory, at Arata Isozaki & Associates, and as a freelance architect. From 2001 he was Research Associate at TU Dresden, where he was appointed Junior Professor for Knowledge Architecture (2009-2015). In 2007 he received his doctoral degree from Bauhaus Universität Weimar. He taught at different universities in Japan, USA, China, Italy, Switzerland and Angola, and was Visiting Professor at Universit degli Studi dell l´Aquila, ISEN Toulon and Voronezh State Technical University. He has published several books and more than 100 scientific papers and essays. He has won several prizes, scholarships and awards, incl. the Grand Prize of the European Association for Architecture Education (EAAE). Since 2007 he is married to Yoco Fukuda-Noennig; they have two children.

After obtaining his PhD in theoretical physics at Leiden University in 1982,
Wim van Saarloos joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in the USA as a researcher. In 1991 he returned to Leiden University in the Netherlands in 1991. His research as a professor of theoretical physics focused on statistical physics and condensed matter physics. While in Leiden he was also the founder and long-time director of the Lorentz Center (1997-2009), an international workshop center in the sciences. In 2009 he became the director of the national foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) in the Netherlands, which is part of the national funding agency NWO.
On January 1 2017, Wim van Saarloos returned to Leiden University as a professor of physics, combining his position with being vice-president and of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW. With the president of the academy, he wrote in 2017 an essay “The Dutch Polder Model in science and research”; his talk at IFKAD will be based on this essay. From June 1 2018 till June 2020 he will serve as president of the KNAW.

Ena Voûte has, after 25 years in industry, returned to the faculty Industrial Design Engineering at the Technical University of Delft where she obtained her MSc as dean.
After her thesis on packaging at Unilever she joined as marketer at Langnese in Hamburg. After that for the margarines in the Netherlands (a.o. Becel, Blue band) and Kuner in Austria and global roles.
A short period at the internet start-up Independer.nl and consultancy Altuïtion broadened her view on innovation and design.
The last decade she has been working for Philips,  as global business line manager in Consumer Lifestyle and as CEO and CMO in the Lighting division
Innovation always plays a role for Ena. Improving people’s lives & designing (y)our own future are key drivers.
Being back at Industrial Design Engineering at the TU Delft I realize again how much designers can contribute to society. As a designer, you’re trained to connect all sorts of different perspectives. We focus specifically on the human side, how to align people and technology with each other and subsequently to see whether the design is also commercially feasible. The knowledge gained since our inception in 1969 is passed on to our students and new knowledge is continuously being added through research. We started out as product designers. At a later stage, services were added, and now we even design complete systems to improve people’s lives. In the coming years, we will be focusing on 5 themes:

• Unlocking people: Releasing the inherent power of people through behavioral change. Many of the problems we face come about because we behave as we do. If we could change this, we would be able to improve the way we take care of ourselves and other people.
• Meaningful interactions: How technology is attuned to humans, especially in connection with the ubiquitous presence of internet and interaction with new materials.
• Re(d)use: Better use of the available resources so that our planet is not “used up”. We examine designing with materials, including those that are scarce, and the reuse of these, in order to arrive ultimately at a circular economy that goes beyond C2C.
• Care for our health: Healthcare, and in particular growing old with vitality. Living independently for longer will increase the joy of living and ideally cost less.
• People in transit: people are continuously on the move. We design for seamless journeys with public transport and at airports.

The first two themes have a strong integrative character for our individual areas of expertise, the last three focusses on 3 societal challenges as described in the funding programmes in Europe that make us tick specifically.