Dorian T. Warren is a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and Board Chair of the Center for Community Change. He is the Host and Executive Producer of “Nerding Out” on MSNBC’s digital platform. He teaches at the University of Chicago and Columbia University and serves as a Research Associate at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies.

Dr. Alexandra Borchardt was editor at the German Press Agency and Munich correspondent of the Financial Times Germany. Since 2005 she works for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, first as chief editor for business news, then as Deputy Head of Department interior policy and since 2011 as Managing Editor

She studied political science and holds a PhD of Tulane University, New Orleans.

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Erik is the Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, the Schussel Family Professor at the MIT Sloan School, and Chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review.

His research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, digital commerce and intangible assets. At MIT, he teaches courses on the Economics of Information and the Analytics Lab. Professor of Information Technology, MIT

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Erik will join us by video.

Bruno Frey is

ranked to be one of the most influencial economists globally and most highly cited researchers. He is known as a pioneer of economic policy theory, happiness economics and cultural economics. He is permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Basel and held professorships for econmics at the University of Zurich (CH) and Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen (DE) and for Behavioural Science at the Warwick Business School (UK).

Guy Standing has been professor of economic security at the University of Bath (until 2006) .

Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. His recent work has concerned the emerging precariat class and the need to move towards unconditional basic income and deliberative democracy. He is co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network.

Dirk Helbing is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and affiliate of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich. He is internationally known for his work on pedestrian crowds, vehicle traffic, and agent-based models of social systems. Furthermore, he coordinates the FuturICT Initiative (http://www.futurict.eu), which focuses on the understanding of techno-socio-economic systems, using smart data.

Robert A. Johnson is the Executive Director of the Institute

for New Economic Thinking and Senior Fellow and Director of the Project on Global Finance at the Roosevelt Institute. Johnson was previously a managing director at Soros Fund Management, where he managed a global currency, bond and equity portfolio specializing in emerging markets. He has also served on the UN's Commission on International Monetary Reform together with Joseph Stiglitz.

Athony Painter leads the RSA's Development Team, which includes design, international, behaviour change, organisation change, and the RSA’s policy work and consultancy offer.  In his work on policy development, he focuses on a range of policy issues including the impact of new technology on the economy and society, reform to welfare, public services and a range of public institutions. He previously directed the Independent Review of the Police Federation and worked with Google, the BBC and the Metropolitan Police.

Cato Institute senior fellow, Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on poverty and social welfare policy, health care reform, and Social Security.

Tanner is the author of numerous other books on public policy.

He directs a project on Social Security Choice, which is widely considered the leading impetus for transforming the soon-to-be-bankrupt system into a private savings program.

Armin Steuernagel is economist and co-founder of several start-ups in e-commerce and food sector active in 20 countries. He is Member of the Think Tank 30 of the Club of Rome which aims to identify and solve problems in the world, from a younger perspective.

Armin Steuernagel is president of the Purpose Foundation that researches ownership and investment forms fitting for the 21st century economy.

Daniel J. Mitchell is a senior fellow who specializes in fiscal policy, particularly tax reform, international tax competition, and the economic burden of government spending. He also serves on the editorial board of the Cayman Financial Review. Prior to joining Cato, Mitchell was a senior fellow with the Heritage Foundation, and an economist for Senator Bob Packwood and the Senate Finance Committee. Dan’s work has been published in numerous outlets. He has appeared on all the major TV networks, and has given speeches in almost 40 states and more than 30 countries. Dan earned a PhD in economics from George Mason University.

Robert Bernard Reich is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Reich is currently Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was formerly a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of social and economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University.

Yanis Varoufakis was the Greek Minister of Finance in 2015. He is a leading participant in the current debates on the global and European financial crisis. Further he is author of "The Global Minotaur" and several academic texts on economics and game theory. He is professor of economic theory at the University of Athens and holds visiting-professorships at the universities of Texas and Stockholm. Besides that he is private consultant for the Valve Corporation (US video game developer).

Nell Abernathy manages strategy and research priorities for the RI think tank, and focuses her own work on economic issues, including financial regulation and the gig economy. While at Roosevelt, Nell developed and managed the Inequality Project led by Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz, and coauthored “Rewriting the Rules” with Professor Stiglitz. She has also managed the Next American Economy project with Senior Fellow Bo Cutter, and the Financialization Project with Fellow Mike Konczal.

Stern experienced the transformation of our labour markets from a unique perspective and advised President Obama on it. For 2008 he is listed as the “most invited person to the oval office”. Soon his new book will be published, in which he proposes a universal basic income for the US. He is currently senior fellow at Columbia University, New York.

Stern has been described by CBS News as the "most important labor boss in America."

Enno Schmidt is artist, writer and filmmaker. He studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and lives and works in Basel. In 2006 together with the Swiss entrepreneur Daniel Häni he founded the initiative for Basic Income in Switzerland. In 2012 they launched the Citizens Initiative for a Basic Income, which could successfully be submitted in autumn 2013 with 126.000 signatures. Therefor in June 2016 the referendum will be carried out on the introduction of an Unconditional Basic Income in Switzerland.

Rick Wartzman began his career at The Wall Street Journal, where he served in a variety of positions, including White House correspondent. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 2002 as business editor and, in that role, helped shape “The Wal-Mart Effect,” which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. In addition to his position as Executive Director at the Drucker Institute, Rick has written about management and leadership for Time Magazine, Forbes and Businessweek, and he currently writes a column called Work 3.0 for Fortune online.

Entrepreneur, co-founder of "unternehmen mitte", the largest coffeehouse in Switzerland. He is co-founder of the Swiss initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income which was successfully submitted in autumn 2013 and sparked a worldwide media echo. The  referendum on the introduction of an Unconditional Basic Income in Switzerland will be carried out in June 2016.

Vania Alleva is vice president of the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB) and president of Unia, with over 200,000 members the largest labor union in Switzerland. Already since 2008 Alleva is intensively dealing with the topic of changes in working environment and the related challenges for social security and social solidarity. She is co-author of the 2012 published book "Unrecognized work. Service employees in Switzerland ".

Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV), a New York-based early stage VC firm focused on investing in disruptive networks. USV portfolio companies include: Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Etsy, Kickstarter and Shapeways.

Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo. He previously founded or co-founded five companies, including a management consulting firm (in Germany), a hosted data analytics company, a technology subsidiary for Telebanc (now E*Tradebank), and an early stage investment firm.

Natalie Foster has transformed and run some of the largest digital teams in the country, including President Obama’s successful effort to pass health reform, and built two organizations from scratch.

Most recently, Natalie co-founded and launched "Peers.org" as the organization’s first executive director. Peers is the world’s largest independent sharing economy community. Prior to Peers, she was the CEO and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, a platform for people–driven economic change, with Van Jones.

Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest car-sharing company in the world. She is also the founder and former CEO of Buzzcar, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, acquired by Drivy. She also started the defunct GoLoco.org, a ride-sharing company. She is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Veniam, a vehicle network communications company. She authored the book, Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism.

Myke Näf (CH) is co-founder and former CEO of "Doodle", one of the most succesful Start-Ups in Switzerland and the world's most used event scheduling-plattform.

The website counts 15 million user per day.

Since 2014 he supports several start-ups as early-stage investor and sparring partner, for example in cooperation with the platform kickstart-accelerator.com
Myke studied Computer Sciences at ETH Zurich and advised several Swiss companies as IT- and cybersecurity expert.

Economist and co-founder of several start-ups in e-commerce and food sector that are active in 20 countries around the world. Founder of Purpose Foundation.

Entrepreneur, “idea-producer”, networker, journalist, leadership consultant and full-time staff member for this conference.
boerries@socialpolicy2016.com

Social innovator, sustainability consultant and project developer. He supports several NGOs in Europe, like "Alternative Nobel Prize". benjamin@socialpolicy2016.com

Engineer renewable energies, research&development, software and project developer, conference organisator.