Olaf Lorenz is General Manager of Konica Minolta Europe’s International Marketing Division and member of Konica Minolta’s European management board. With more than 20 years industry experience, Olaf is responsible for Konica Minolta’s European marketing strategy, and a key driver in the businesses transformation to becoming a leading global services provider.

As R&D Partners Manager at Konica Minolta Laboratory Europe (KMLE), Andrea is responsible for the cultivation of the technological ecosystem (Innovation Partnership Network or ’IPN’) of prospective partners from universities, research institutes and companies throughout Europe. Andrea’s extensive experience covers all aspects of digital innovation including market dynamics, digital trends, M&A, bid management, client engagement, partnerships, and programme management extending to Smart Energy System, Smart Cities and Naval innovative semantic-based solutions. With a master degree in computer science focused on advanced web 2.0 architectures, Andrea is leading Pan-European public funds opportunities development for KMLE.

Armin Alt is the founder and Managing Director of perform IT based in Nuremberg – Germany.Motivated by the fact that too many assumptions drive business decisions, in 2001 Armin decided to set out with a team of experts and provide scalable, modular software solutions to improve the optimisation of printing and document processes. Today this software makes life easier for sales people and consultants based all over the globe.

Armin has over 20 years of industry experience including as a Sales Representative, as a Key Account Manager based within a direct sales organisation, and as a Manager for a business based in Germany where he oversaw sales, administration and service.

Alastair is an e-learning specialist based at Linnaeus University in Sweden. He is an educational enthusiast who spends a great deal of time monitoring developments and trends in the use of technology in education. His specialties include e-learning, distance education, social media, technology trends, open educational resources, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and quality in e-learning. Alastair is active in disseminating his findings in numerous articles, blog posts, through social media and at conference appearances.

Alistair is also a course leader on an open course for teachers (Open Networked Learning) in collaboration with colleagues from Lund University, Karolinska Institute, KTH and Varsity College, South Africa, and undertaken teaching assignments in teacher training programmes. Involved in two EU projects (LangOER and Tempus BLATT) and two Nordic (Nordplus) projects (Effective webinars, Silent Learners), Alastair is a member of an ISO standardisation committee (ISO 21001 Management Systems for Educational Organisations) and the Swedish representative in the Nordic Council's NVL Distans network.