Dialogue Cafe Amsterdam Launch 0 Reply

Yesterday we launched Dialogue Cafe Amsterdam at Waag Society. It was a fantastic event – connecting people from seven cities around the world.

Diogo outside de Waag…

Russel Craig, Marleen Stikker and Diogo Vasconcelos outside de Waag.

Marleen Stikker.

In Amsterdam, we were joined by the inspirational Marleen Stikker, the Director of Waag Society, Ger Baron from Amsterdam Innovation Motor, Diogo Vasconcelos, Chairman of the Dialogue Cafe Association and Simon Willis, Cisco.

We were absolutely thrilled that President Jorge Sampaio, High Representative to the UN
Alliance of Civilisations, was able to join us, together with Relina Bulchandani from Cisco.

In Lisbon, we were joined by Barbara Coutinho, Director of MUDE, Rui Esgaio from the Gulbenkian Foundation, Beatriz Vidal from the Portuguese Design Centre, Luís Mah from the UN Millennium Campaign and Prof. Jose Santos from INSEAD and MIT, together with his class of students.  We also spoke to our colleagues Luisa Sena and Katia de Marco in Rio de Janeiro.