PRESENTERS + FACILITATORS

Anne-Marie Van Der Weijden

Service Designer Essense Eindhoven, North Brabant Province, Netherlands

Anne-Marie is a service designer from the Netherlands with extensive professional experience in scenario planning and concept development. It is her passion to create products and services that give people means to improve their lives and awareness on what choices they can make. Their growth is her inspirati on to design new things. Therefore, she pro-acti vely involves end-users in the design process. She works in complex businesses where diff erent technologies, touchpoints, stakeholders and users meet.

Anne-Marie can focus on making a holisti c endto-end journey by understanding the larger context and harmonize front/backstage processes, without losing track of the user needs. She is a passionate and highly engaged professional, who connects easily on deeper levels with people and brings a human touch to everything she does. Anne-Marie has worked with Signify/Philips Lighting creati ng Future City scenarios and has facilitated teams as a teaching assistant through the Oxford Scenarios Programme at Oxford University.

Anne-Marie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administrati on from the Stenden Hogeschool Leeuwarden and a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Technology, Concept and Product Development from the Saxion Hogeschool Enschede, Netherlands. Philips Scenarios, Future of Citi es htt ps://philips.to/30FZPkn

Oxford Scenarios Programme – Philips Case htt ps://bit.ly/2Ytj3an

Monique Fuchs, PhD

Associate Vice President, Innovation + Entrepreneurship // Founder, FutureLab Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA USA

Monique is a disruptor, educator, and innovator comfortable in challenging the status quo and envisioning the future. Seeing the vision to differentiate an organization, creating a strong narrative to increase their visibility and unique selling proposition, building extensive ecosystems, and connections to support its success has been at the core of her work. Making a difference drives her and she is leading organizations to shape how we will live, learn, and work in the future.

Monique launched Wentworth’s innovation agenda to change the educational paradigm creating more relevant education models for the future of work, developing talent and career pathways, crecollaboration models between industry and education. Over the course of her career, she created a strong track record of starting up new business opportunities, new departments and competence centers as well as redefining and turning around underperforming units.

Monique was recognized as the 2017 Innovation All-Star by the Boston Business Journal in the education category. She holds a master’s in education and a PhD in Education/Organizational Development from the University of Passau in Germany. Monique has consulted, coached, and worked in profit and non-profit sectors and across industries ating civic and social impact, and fostering radical

and functions in Europe and the US. She is also on the Advisory Council of the Design Museum Boston and BoSTEM and completed the Oxford Scenarios Programme.

Future of Cities ThinkTank: Video http://bit.ly/futureofourcitiesvideo Booklet http://bit.ly/futureofourcitiesbooklet