CREATOYO

Good morning everyone! Today is the first day of Creatoyo 2022 and we would like to take this moment to welcome and thank each and every one of you who decided to join us in this truly unique and creative adventure! We hope you all feel inspired by discovering so many new things, learning useful skills, meeting with our talented speakers, and connecting with your fellow students.

Creative minds come together! 🙌

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Hello everyone! Today we are here with the last post about our guest speakers. Please welcome Veronika Antoniou. Following is her message for us! 👏

✨ "I would love to introduce new perspectives on how to look at our urban environment, 
focusing on something we all share in common: our public spaces" ✨

Veronika is the co-founder and creative director of Urban Gorillas, a Nicosia-based NGO. She’s also a licensed architect, landscape designer and urban planner. Her work spans many aspects, and includes the practice of architecture, socially-engaged art and research promoting sustainable cities. Her academic work was funded by the Japanese ministry of education and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Since 2013, as the executive director at Urban Gorillas, she is actively involved in the operation and promotion of the organization 🌇

Her skills cover project development through to design thinking, management and coordination of small- and large-scale projects, fundraising as well as human resource management. Urban Gorillas is now part of numerous, important international networks in its field.

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Hello everyone! Today we are here with another post about our guest speakers. Please welcome Sylvain Pierre. Following is his message for us! ✌️
 
“I left France for Vietnam in 2006 to co-found Officience (a French BPO company) with other two associates. After growing the company to 300 people, in 2014, we decided to change our management model and to embrace a flatter and more open structure, a move about which I gave a TED talk in 2015 in Paris 🎤
 
✈️In 2016, I moved to Japan to launch Le Wagon's Tokyo franchise. Le Wagon is a coding bootcamp for entrepreneur and creative people. In only 4 years, we grew our local community to over 4,000 members, expanded to Kyoto in October 2018, launched a new Data Science program, and have trained 300 aspiring developers and entrepreneurs.
 
I am a business books and TED enthusiast, fan of Seth Godin, Clay Shirky and Frédéric Laloux's ideas. Curious about the latest business and social trends, I regularly share my own opinions on innovation, globalization and organizational innovation on my blog and twitter. Funny anecdote about me: I got portrayed in a French comic book talking about organizational innovation 😊
 
I am excited to join Creatoyo for the second year - Speaking to university students, and potentially future entrepreneurs and innovators, always makes me reflect on the evolution of education and on the ever-increasing prevalence of tech in our daily lives. The workshop I'll run will focus on prototyping a web application, with broader learnings in User Experience, Product Design and Pitching.”

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Good Morning everyone! We hope you’re getting ready for Creatoyo 2022! today we would like to introduce you to Bruno Abrioux 🎉

💥Initially, an IT engineer Mr. Abrioux has ventured into many different fields working as a business leader, independent consultant, entrepreneur, and advisor! Among his main achievements, we find leadership roles at some Global Fortune 500 corporations, as well as mentoring and direct representation of different startups. Mr. Abrioux is also busy working as a Program Director and Service partner for global accelerators.

As for his field of expertise, Mr. Abrioux's works and interests revolve around Digital Technologies applied to Business, Strategic Business Development, and Partnership and alliance building 💡

He joins Creatoyo 2022 for the second time to bring further valuable experiences and knowledge to students by running a renewed edition of the Business Innovation Award!

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Hello everyone and welcome back to Creatoyo with one of the final posts about our guest speakers. Today we would like you to meet Professor Alex Coad!🌟

👔Alex Coad is Professor at Waseda Business School, Tokyo, working on topics relating to firm-level R&D investment, firm performance, entrepreneurship, strategy, and innovation policy. He has published over 80 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, such as “Research Policy”, “European Economic Review”, “Economica”, “Journal of Business Venturing”, “Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics”, and “Industrial and Corporate Change”. 

According to google-scholar, Professor Coad has over 7000 citations and an H-index of 32. He is also an editor at the journals “Research Policy” and “Small Business Economics.” Previously Alex obtained a PhD from Univ Paris 1 and the Sant'Anna School, Pisa, Italy, and held research positions at the Max Planck Institute (Jena, DE), Aalborg University (Denmark), SPRU (Univ. Sussex, UK), the European Commission (JRC-IPTS, Seville, Spain), and CENTRUM Graduate Business School (Lima, Peru).

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Good Morning everyone, Today we would like you to meet with Professor Marine Agogué! 👏

👩🏽‍🏫/📚Professor Marine Agogué has been teaching Management at HEC Montréal (Canada) for the last 7 years. She’s a prolific author in the field of Creative cognition and Innovation Management and has seen several of her pieces published in the “Creativity and Innovation Management Journal”, “Journal of Creative Behavior”, and “Plos One.”

She joins Creatoyo for the third time and can’t wait to share with us her latest findings and insights on creative method and creative reasoning (she will challenge us with tricky questions and mind-changing exposés, so be ready to think outside the box and go against your intuitions to solve them!) 🔥

Her workshop will focus on Creative methods to nudge creativity. 

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Good morning everyone and please welcome Professor Patrick Cohendet!

Professor Cohendet has been teaching Economics at HEC Montréal Business School (Canada) for more than 20 years now. He has published 20 books and over 150 articles in refereed journals and has supervised more than 70 Ph.D. students.

He specializes in Economics of innovation, management of innovation, management of knowledge, the economics of creativity. The reason he decided to join Creatoyo 2022 is to be part of one of the most stimulating and creative conferences out there.

Here’s a brief description of his lecture for Creatoyo: “Managing creativity, in order to accelerate and improve innovation, is the key management challenge that companies will face in the coming years in an environment of ever-increasing complexity. In the course of the lecture, we will focus on some of the new perspectives adopted by innovative organizations to cope with creative challenges. In particular, we will focus on managing  ideas (the raw material of creativity and innovation.)

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Hello everyone! Today we would like you to meet Professor Mingfeng Tang!

Dr. Mingfeng Tang is a full-time Professor and assistant dean in charge of the international affairs office at the School of Business Administration, founder and director of Sino-French Innovation Research Center, in the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), China. She is also an affiliated researcher in the Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliqué (France) 📝 

👩‍🎓/🎓Professor Tang holds a PhD in Economics from University of Strasbourg, France. Her research focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship. Professor Tang published 50 articles in peer-reviewed domestic and international journals and undertook 23 research projects financed by NSFC, OECD, DAAD and other government agencies. She is also a reviewer of several international and domestic journals. 

“I first heard of Creatoyo from my good friend Professor Carraz. He was my classmate when I studied at the University of Strasbourg as a master student. We know each other and have similar study and research backgrounds. He invited me to join Creatoyo 2022. It is my great honor to accept it. Thanks to Professor Carraz, I get to know Toyo University. I am always keen on Japanese culture, the Japanese innovation system and entrepreneurship in Japan. All these factors together motivated me to join Creatoyo 2022 ✨

My lecture for Creatoyo 2022 will first give an overview of the new energy vehicle industry in China and describe the profile of BYD, a private Chinese automobile Co., Ltd. After that, I will discuss how BYD builds its block-chain enabled green ecosystem for reducing emission.”

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Hi everyone! Today we would like you to meet Caitlan Maggs! Here is her message:

“Hi, I’m Caitlan, and I am passionate about developing creativity through art. I believe that through the artistic process, everyone can discover their own creativity. As Artistic Expert at Cirque du Soleil for 20 years, I designed the Artistic Creativity Training for all the CDS Creations and Touring Shows, as well as mentoring dance coaches at CDS’ shows: MJOne & LOVE. At Cirque, through years of experimentation, I developed the art of teaching creativity and how to transform athletes into artists.🎨

🩰A life-long movement expert, I graduated from the Royal Ballet School and performed with The National Ballet of Canada; Les Grands Ballets Canadiens; Desrosiers Dance Theatre, and then became a reputed teacher at L’ Ecole Supérieure de Ballet du Québec, before joining CDS. Through dance, I discovered how to connect the imagination with physical expression, and how to express emotions and stories through the art of Creative Movement.

Since 2017, I am a creativity consultant and have directed workshops for Mosaic Creativity Schools at HEC, Montreal & Lithuania 2017-21, as well as CREATOYO 2019. I am currently writing a book on the creative process, to be published in 2022.✍️

CREATOYO’s collaborative approach to developing creativity is so unique, and I am thrilled to be returning to CREATOYO '22 to offer “CrEaTiVe GaMeS.” These workshops are a great way for you to connect your intuition with your imagination and corporal expression. We will develop confidence, lateral thinking, innovative ideas, and deeper communication. Look forward to meeting you!”

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Hello everyone and happy 2022 from the Creatoyo Team! Wherever you are in the world, we hope you managed to enjoy the winter break safely with your family and friends.

Today we would like to introduce you to another of our guest speakers, Strasbourg University Professor Thierry Burger-Helmchen!

After earning his Ph.D. in Management Science he decided to join the academic world full-time as a researcher and professor. Not only has he been teaching Innovation Management for almost 15 years at Strasbourg University, he also has been quite prolific in terms of publications. Over the years, he managed to produce more than 50 academic papers and write 12 books revolving around the topics of “innovation” and “creativity management.”

Professor Helmchen joins Creatokyo for the third time and told us he can’t wait to share with us his latest findings! His lecture will focus on the links between “creativity and entrepreneurship” and how the former can be expressed in different ways by a wide array of entrepreneurs, from the most frugal to the most high-tech-oriented ones.

This is all from Creatoyo, 

Again, Happy 2022!

Creative minds come together! 🙌

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Hello everyone and welcome back to Creatoyo!

The registration period is now officially closed and from today onward we would like to start sharing with you some background information about our guest speakers so that you can become acquainted with them 👐

As you will find out throughout the event, at Creatoyo we believe in diversity, multiculturalism and intercultural communication are some of the key factors necessary for the creation of a more inclusive, tolerant and healthy society. That’s why we are extremely proud to have personalities joining not only from different settings (business, academic, freelance etc…) but from all over the world too!

In this sense, we would like to start our journey from France by introducing you to 🌟Professor Émilie Ruiz🌟

✔️Ruiz holds a PhD from University Savoie Mont Blanc. She is an associate professor at Strasbourg University, teaching at IUT Louis Pasteur and member of the Creativity – Science – Innovation department at “BETA” research laboratory.

✔️Her research deals with open innovation, crowdsourcing, communities of innovation, organizational creativity and cultural and creative industries. It is published in Technovation, R&D Management, Management International and so forth.

✔️She joins Creatoyo for the third time as she really enjoys sharing insights about creativity with international students!

“The Creatoyo event is such an opportunity to share and work with students, instead of “teaching” to students. For this edition, students will work in the music industry!”

This is all from Creatoyo,

Cheers!

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