Creative Wallonia

Chris Anderson, born in 1961, is an American author and entrepreneur. He was with The Economist for seven years, then joining WIREDmagazine in 2001, where he was the editor-in-chief until 2012. He is known for his 2004 article entitled The Long Tail. His third book, Makers, describes how entrepreneurs using open source design,and 3D printing as a platform for driving resurgence of American manufacturing. He is currently the cofounder and CEO of 3DRobotics, a drone manufacturing company.

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Artistic director at Sagmeister & Walsh, graphic designer too, this New Yorker has created websites since she was 12 years old. Today, she is a rising star in its fields of expertise. She finds inspiration in universe, science, people and in the work of others graphic designers and artists.

Michle Anne De Mey studied from 1976 to 1979 at Ateliers Lilian Lambert and at Ecole Mudra (created by Maurice Bjart). She participated in some creations of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, in particular the famous Fase. She is one of the four creators of the company Rosas. In 1981, De Mey signed her first choregraphy : Pass simple. With Sinfonica Eroica, she founded her company and the association Astragale. She signed too the choregraphy of two movies : Love Sonnets and 21 tudes danser, realised by her brother Thierry De Mey. Since july of 2005, she is the main artistic directof of Charleroi/Danses.

Francis Pisani is a French journalist, professor and writer who lived especially in Brazil, Mexico and California. He is truly an embedded observer of the technological and digital revolution and the socio-economic transformations. Since two years, Francis began a world tour of innovation, which he reports through his columns in Le Monde (Transnets then WINCH5).