Hi Fiware Folks.

My name is Richard Kastelein <http://www.richardkastelein.com>and I am a
Dutch Canadian based in Groningen who has run some of the world's larger
hackathons (called The Hackfest <http://the-hackfest.com/>) in both Europe
and the US backed by companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, IBM, GM,
Sony, Samsung and many others.
<http://the-hackfest.com/sponsors/previous-sponsors.html>

See www.the-hackfest.com

I have run successful hackathons in London, San Francisco, Utrecht and
Brussels in verticals including TV, Health, Green, IoT, Auto, M2M and
others.

I am interested to see if there's any room for collaboration in the future

• either with Fiware participating in our hackathons or perhaps I can bring
  some new resources and networks towards the Fiware community.

I also work for the European Commission as an expert for SME Instruments.

My goal is to eventually try and build a European version of America's
Major League Hacking (www.mlh.io) for European Universities.

Hope to hear from you... My bio from Linkedin.
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/expathos>

Publisher of TV App Market, founder of The Hackfest (both acquired in 2013)
and global expert on Media & TV innovation, Kastelein is an award winning
publisher & entrepreneur. He has guest lectured at MIT Media Lab, Oxford
University, & the University of Koln - sat on media convergence panel at
2nd EU Digital Assembly in Brussels and worked with broadcasters such as
the BBC, ABC, CBC, NPO, RTL (DE and NL), Eurosport, NBCU, C4, ITV, Liberty
Global, Seven Network and others on media convergence strategy - Social TV,
OTT, DLNA and 2nd Screen etc.

Kastelein has judged hundreds of startups for the European Commission
Horizon 2020 and UK Technology Board funding programmes.

He's a Fellow of the UK Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and UK Royal Television
Society (RTS) member.

Kastelein has spoken on the future of media & TV in Amsterdam, Belfast,
Berlin, Brussels, Brighton, Copenhagen, Cannes, Cologne, Curacao,
Frankfurt, Hollywood, Hilversum, Geneva, Groningen, London, Las Vegas,
Leipzig, Madrid, Melbourne, NYC, Oxford, Rio de Janeiro, Sheffield, San
Francisco, San Jose, Sydney, Tallinn, Vienna, Zurich... and been on
advisory boards of TEDx Istanbul, SMWF UK, Apps World UK, and judged @ AIB
awards, Social TV Awards Hollywood, TV Connect & IPTV Awards.

A versatilist & autodidact, his leadership ability, divergent and synthetic
thinking skills, concepting, and storytelling skills, evolved from sailing
the world 24000 miles+ offshore in his 20′s on sailboats under 12m.

He spent 10 years in the Caribbean media & boating industry as a
professional sailor before returning to Holland.

A Creative Technologist and Canadian (Dutch/Irish/English/Métis) his career
began in the Native Press (Canadian Arctic). He's a columnist at The
Association for International Broadcasting and writes for Wired Insights,
Guardian & Virgin and his work and ideas have been translated into Dutch,
Greek, Polish, German and French.

One of his TV formats was optioned by Sony Pictures Television in 2012.

Warm Regards

• Richard Kastelein*
  ------------------------------

[image: --]

Richard Kastelein
[image: http://]about.me/expathos
<http://about.me/expathos?promo=email_sig>

Social Graph
<http://nl.linkedin.com/in/expathos> <http://www.twitter.com/expathos>
<http://www.facebook.com/kastelein>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kastelein> Linkedin
<http://nl.linkedin.com/in/expathos> Twitter.com
<http://www.twitter.com/expathos> Facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/kastelein> Wikipedia.org
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kastelein>

• ------------------------------ Netherlands Mobile +31 (0) 63 958-3979 |
  email: expathos@gmail.com <expathos@gmail.com> This e-mail message may
  contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient,
  any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail message is
  strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please
  immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your
  computer. The information contained in this e-mail message does not
  constitute a distribution, an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer
  to buy any securities in any jurisdiction. *

_______________________________________________
Fiware-general-help mailing list
Fiware-general-help@lists.fi-ware.org
https://lists.fi-ware.org/listinfo/fiware-general-help

[Created via e-mail received from: Richard Kastelein <expathos@gmail.com>]