OkfestWishlist

OKFest Speaker Wishlist
''Note List of important and/or interesting speakers who we might want to get to OKFest 2012. Please include the name, why s/he would be a good speaker and any additional information

Some general issues to consider:

-speakers with various thematic backgrounds, not only open data types

-diversity of speakers

-speaker list should not be UK-dominated


 * Marcin Jakubowski, spoke about open hardware design at TED http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html
 * Jyrki Katainen, Finnish Prime Minister, to lobby the open knowledge agenda in Finland
 * Neelie Kroes, EU Digital Agenda Commissioner, to lobby the open knowledge agenda in EU
 * Tim Berners-Lee, to draw attention to the OKFest (he was the first to receive The Millennium Technology Prize from Finland)
 * Heather Brooke, for her efforts in promoting freedom of information (http://heatherbrooke.org)
 * Hans Rosling
 * Linus Torvalds
 * Jon Voss, linked open data in libraries, museums and archives (http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonvoss)
 * A speaker or a track on privacy issues and open data