Michela Magas

Michela Magas is an entrepreneur and innovation specialist, of Croatian-British nationality,[1] who won the first place prize in the EU's 2017 European Woman Innovator of the Year.[1][2]

Michela Magas
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Websitehttps://michelamagas.com/ 

She is the daughter of the architects Olga and Boris Magaš,[3][4] and was raised in Rijeka, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), where she was educated at Italian elementary and secondary schools, before graduating in design from the Royal College of Art in London.[4] From 1995 until the end of 2000 she worked at the Financial Times, as a designer.[2]

She is the co-founder, with Peter Russell-Clarke, of the London-based design innovation lab Stromatolite,[5] whose clients include Nike, Nokia and Apple.[4]

She is the founder of Music Tech Fest,[6][7] and chairs the Industry Commons Foundation.[8]

In December 2019 she was recognised as an "Outstanding Peer Reviewer" by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.[9]

Since about 2015,[4] she has lived in Umeå, Sweden, and works nomadically.[2]

Publications
  • Magas, M. and Koek, A., Lerhman-Madsen, O., Beetz, K., Curley, M., de Waele, W., Herlitschka, S., 2016. CAF Innovation Recommendations, H2020 Work Programme 2018–2020. DG Connect Advisory Forum, European Commission.
  • Magas, M., Fledderus, E. and Herlitschka, S., et al. 2016. CAF's recommendations for H2020's work program 2018–2020. DG Connect Advisory Forum, European Commission.
  • Magas, M. and Dubber, A. 2016. Final Public Report. #MusicBricks European Commission H2020 project report.
  • Magas, M., van der Klauw, K. et al., 2015. Report on Analysis and Recommendations for Innovation Ecosystems: The Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI). Published by the European Commission in October 2015.
  • Magas, M., Lidy, T., and Schindler, A., 2015. MusicBricks: Connecting digital Creators to the Internet of Music Things. ERCIM NEWS, 101, pp. 39–40.
  • Magas, M., Dubber, A., Sterne, J., Baym, N., et al., 2014. Manifesto for Music Technologists. Published by Microsoft Research.
  • Magas, M., Serra, X., Benetos, E., Chudy, M., Dixon, S., Flexer, A., Paytuvi, O., 2013. Roadmap for music information research. EU FP7.
  • Magas, M. and Proutskova, P., 2013. A location-tracking interface for ethnomusicological collections. Journal of New Music Research, 42(2), pp. 151–160.
  • Magas, M., and Rea, C. 2012. Synaesthesia: Innovative music components for collaborating and creating music with objects in real space. Proceedings of the NEM Summit, Istanbul.
  • Magas, M. and Proutskova, P., 2009. A location-tracking interface for ethnomusicological collections. In Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces.
  • Magas, M., Stewart, R. and Fields, B., 2009, August. decibel 151. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Gallery (p. 21). ACM.
  • Magas, M. and Proutskova, P. 2009. Beyond the metadata, new intelligent audio content search for large music collections. Unlocking Audio 2, British Library, London, UK.
  • Magas, M. and Proutskova, P., 2009. A location-tracking interface for ethnomusicological collections. Proceedings of ECDL. Corfu, Greece.
  • Magas, M., Casey, M.A. and Rhodes, C., 2008, August. mHashup: fast visual music discovery via locality sensitive hashing. In SIGGRAPH New Tech Demos (p. 26).
  • Magas, M., Rhodes, C., Casey, M., d’Inverno, M., Knopke, I., and Slaney, M. 2008. Dark Media Navigation With the Audio

References
  1. "EU Prize for Women Innovators: 2017 Contest". European Commission. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017.
  2. Arnold, Harriet (2 May 2017). "Michela Magas: my nomadic working life". Financial Times. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  3. Nobilo, Igor. "British-Croatian Michela Magaš European Innovator of the Year". www.total-croatia-news.com. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  4. Pleše, Mladen (12 March 2017). "Michela Magaš europska je inovatorica godine, a ovo je njezin prvi životni intervju za naše medije". Telegram.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  5. "EU Prize for Women Innovators: Meet the 2017 finalists!". European Commission. Archived from the original on 21 June 2017.
  6. "Michela Magas – Founder, Music Tech Fest; Design Innovation & Music Tech Specialist". MusicTank. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  7. Peschl, Florian. "Bunte Vielfalt". Forbes Austria (in German). Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  8. "Foundation". Industry Commons. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  9. "Recognition of Outstanding Peer Reviewers". Leonardo/ISAST. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
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