Harm Hogenbirk
Marc Nagel
Founders & Partners
Pilotfish
Dr. Christian Nagel
Cofounder & Managing Partner
Earlybird
Manuel Götzendörfer
Senior Consultant
UnternehmerTUM
John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen
Entrepreneur and Designer
Crowd-funded through Kickstarter
Pilotfish MCBW Event
Design + Entrepreneurship
How can creative minds today turn their outstanding design ideas into commercially viable products or services?
Harm Hogenbirk and Marc Nagel, industrial designers and founders of Pilotfish, bring together renowned national and international speakers to share their approach on successfully combining design and entrepreneurship by the means of crowd funding, venture capitalism and hubs of innovation. After the official session, a party in Pilotfish’ new premises on the fifth floor gives the opportunity to network and follow up on the discussion in an informal setting with drinks & music.
Speakers
Munich Creative Business Week
The event takes place in the frame of the first Munich Creative Business Week (www.mcbw.de), devised as the special annual design event drawing the international design community to Munich, one of Germany’s most influential cities for the creative industries. MCBW will present multifaceted, innovative design activities, give momentum to interdisciplinary design discourse and bring together people in the creative and economic sectors from around the world. As such, it will also serve as a platform for fostering international partnerships. Organised by bayern design GmbH and sponsored by the Bavarian State Ministry for the Economy and the City of Munich, partners of the event include BMW Group and the iF International Forum Design GmbH.
Contact
Nicole Dortans
nicole.dortans@pilotfish.eu
+49 (0)89 1202 1894
Nina Kahn
nina.kahn@pilotfish.eu
+49 (0)89 1202 1893
www.pilotfish.eu
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Harm Hogenbirk
Cofounder Pilotfish
CEO Pilotfish Netherlands BV
Following his graduation with honours from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Arts, Amsterdam, Harm started his professional career at WeLL Design. In 2000, he founded the award-winning design + innovation consultancy Pilotfish Munich | Amsterdam | Taipei together with Marc Nagel and has since been vital in shaping the company into a sought-after development partner for international brands and startups worldwide. Harm is a requested international speaker and member of international design juries.
www.pilotfish.eu
Marc Nagel
Cofounder Pilotfish
CEO Pilotfish GmbH
Marc Nagel graduated from the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg and ENSCI - Les Ateliers, Paris. Following numerous awarded projects for renowned design agencies, he founded the design + innovation consultancy Pilotfish Munich | Amsterdam | Taipei together with Harm Hogenbirk and built the company into a sought-after development partner for international brands and startups worldwide. Marc is member of international design juries and a requested speaker on international conferences.
www.pilotfish.eu
Dr. Christian Nagel
Cofounder & managing partner
Earlybird
Dr. Christian Nagel is Cofounder and Managing Partner of Earlybird. With more than 17 years experience as investor and entrepreneur, he focuses on web-enabled services and e-commerce. His most successful exits include Tipp24, Interhyp , and Trade Sale BridgeCo to SMSC; he is a Board Member of Crowdpark, Lumics, madvertise, and Smava. Prior to Earlybird, he worked as consultant for McKinsey.
Christian holds a Dipl.Wi-Ing./MSc equivalent (Tech University Hamburg) and a PhD from University St. Gallen.
www.earlybird.com
Manuel Götzendörfer
Senior Consultant
UnternehmerTUM
Manuel Götzendörfer, Senior Consultant at UnternehmerTUM, Center for Innovation and Business Creation at TUM, is responsible for innovation and consulting projects.
He dealt with Design and Innovation management during his dissertation. Furthermore he is co-founder and managing partner at Temotions GmbH & Co. KG.
Manuel studied architecture, holds an MBA from the TU Munich and worked on his research project at Stanford University.
www.unternehmertum.de
John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen
Entrepreneur and Designer of Hidden Radio and Bluetooth Speaker crowd-funded through Kickstarter
John co-designed the Hidden Radio and Bluetooth Speaker, a project brought to life through the crowd funding website Kickstarter. The project has become one of the most funded projects ever.
Originally from Sydney, Australia, John is an Industrial Designer with over 10 years experience working in global consumer product design for multinational companies.
Now based out of San Francisco, John is running his own studio with business partner Vitor Santa Maria. Prior to starting his own studio John worked as Design Lead for Motorola in Milan and Chicago, then moved to Cupertino in 2007 to work for HP as Industrial Design Lead.
John graduated with a Bachelors of Industrial Design degree from the University of New South Wales.
Hidden Radio & BlueTooth Speaker - Kickstarter
John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen
