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Dr. Michael Trautmann – the communication mastermind. Former Global Head of Marketing at AUDI AG and founder and board member at the well-established German ad-agency thjnk (formerly: kempertrautmann) – just to name his most prestigious previous and present titles. In 2004, he was one of three German managers nominated in “Top 40 under 40” (marketing leaders in Europe) by the magazine “Media & Marketing”. In 2009 the agency Kempertrautmann was nominated “Global Newcomer Agency of the Year” by an international jury. Michael will have an eye on creativeness and originality of the submitted ideas, and is always on the look out for fresh creative talents. 

Kate Michi Ettinger is a social impact strategist. Since dotHIV has an innovative business model based on a social cause, her experience and forward thinking in social innovation are a gift and constant source of inspiration. Not only is she a strategy advisor for social enterprise start-ups, but also an e-health entrepreneur with wide tech expertise. She launched OpenQRS, an initiative to build open source tools to assure the quality, reliability and safety of medical devices designed for low resource settings. Currently, she is also part of the advisory board at mycelium - a learning community. Kate is a true world citizen, with roots in San Francisco, in health care ethics and the art of mediation. She will check ideas for their social impact value, and scouts for the next big thing for good.

Prof. Dr. Johann Füller is Professor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Innsbruck University School of Management. He is Fellow at the NASA Tournament Lab-Research at Harvard University and visiting scholar and research affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management. As CEO of HYVE AG, the innovation company behind this contest, he makes sure that academic findings about innovation find their way into reality. Johann won numerous awards for his research in the fields of crowdsourcing, co-creation, and online innovation communities. In 2012 „Handelsblatt“, ranked him #33 among 3.000 professors in business administration across Austria, Germany and Switzerland. He is looking forward for your innovative ideas.

Sean Strub is a hero of the global HIV movement. A long-time activist who has been HIV positive for over 34 years, Sean has lived through the dramatic and turbulent history of the epidemic, and today he is an expert on HIV prevention. He is the founder of POZ Magazine, the leading independent global source of information about HIV and the Sero Project, an organization dedicated to destigmatizing and decriminalizing HIV and AIDS. His bestselling autobiography „Body Counts: A memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS and Survival“ was published this year. Sean is a .hiv first mover as he manages two of the very first .hiv websites on the web – seanstrub.hiv and sero.hiv. His eye is on ideas that help dotHIV to contribute to the central vision: the end of AIDS.

Patrick S. Ryan  When it comes to questions of ethics and policy in relation to the Internet system, Patrick is the man to ask. Dr. Patrick Ryan is Operations Principal with Google Inc., and as such helps his company navigate the most difficult territories of right and wrong in an ever-changing field of IT innovation between free expression, governmental influence and economic interest. Prior to joining Google, Patrick spent 18 years as a lawyer advising companies on the deployment of next-generation networks, international investment, and intellectual property. Patrick’s special interest for the contest lays in clear, straightforward ideas that don’t get lost in the complex background of dotHIV.