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    A factory that makes ideas, not things.

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    Secret experiments

    Secret Dream Lab - our top secret testing event where anything can happen.

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    Incredible imagination events

    Learn from the brightest minds on the planet the secrets to creativity on an industrial scale.

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    The formula for imagination

    Our workshops can help your organisation discover the secret formula for imagination.
    Ideas are explosive!

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    Thrilling audiences worldwide

    Thousands of people find the Spark of Imagination at our workshops and events.

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    Contagious creativity

    Join a worldwide community of Factory Workers. But be warned
    Creativity is infectious!

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    The wildest experts

    Experts from NASA, Facebook, Google, CERN, Framestore, Universal Robots, and many, many more can be found inside the factory.

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Welcome to the factory that makes ideas, not things

Workshops, Events and a Community to fire up your mental machinery

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Three world class workshops

Imaginative training boosts your organization’s thinking in wild new ways.

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Two brilliant events

Secret Dream Lab and Factory of Imagination are the most exciting, innovative event formats around.

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One worldwide community

Be part of the global Friends of the Factory community

Fire up the machinery of your mind with 3 interactive creative workshops. Learn wild and wacky thought processes that will stretch your mind and bring your ideas to life. Join the most exciting production line on the planet.

Factory of Imagination LIVE is our spectacular annual special event, bringing world class experts together for Denmark’s largest imagination event, open to all.

Secret Dream Lab is the exclusive, invitation-only, “behind the scenes” experimental event full of sparks and surprises.

Join creative thinkers, tinkerers, makers and mind-benders, innovators, inspirators, and those who dare to be different. Developers, designers, entrepreneurs and inventors join movers, shakers, mischief-makers and anyone who doesn’t fit into a box. More than 20 different nationalities make up our Friends of the Factory community.

Friends of the Factory

Amazing experts from around the world contribute to the Factory of Imagination. Bringing together the most wonderful collection of artists, scientists, technologists, businesses, charities and creative champions.
Here’s who you might find in our factory.

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Dan Goods

NASA Visual Strategist

Inside NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Dan creates experimental art projects beyond imagination. Dan’s work is seen in public spaces, art museums, and even in outer space. LA Weekly calls Dan “One of the most interesting people in Los Angeles”.

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Riwa Harfoush

Red Thread

Creative thinking superstar Riwa Harfoush was the youngest member of the leadership team at Idea Couture, the world’s premier innovation firm. She helps Fortune 500 organizations to shape the future. She’s worked with global brands like Pepsi, Nestlé, Deloitte, CitiBank, and more.

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Todd Reichert

Human Flight Pioneer

Could you build a flying machine? Todd Reichert, an engineer who thinks beyond human limitations can show you how. Todd is a Canadian aerospace engineer and creates the most incredible human-powered vehicles in the world. CNN calls him “A modern day DaVinci”.

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AnnMarie Thomas

Inventor of playful technologies

Founder & director of the Playful Learning Lab, AnnMarie looks at the playful side of engineering. She teaches the science of circus, toy design, and finds new ways to use imagination to embrace playful learning. Her latest invention is Squishy Circuits, an imaginative new way to play with electricity.

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Daniel Kafer

Facebook
Country Manager for Denmark

Revealing the future of Facebook’s projects in Virtual Reality, bots, drones and more.

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Claire Lee

CERN Particle Physics expert

A particle physics expert working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland. Claire will take you on a mind-blowing journey inside the smallest elements of the universe, and will show you how to use your imagination to change the way we think about the world around us.

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Chris Barrat

Human connection specialist

An established speaker and expert in management development skills. His style puts theoretical ideas into the real world. He challenges convention and can open up big thinking. He will help give you the skills to meet new people, make meaningful connections, and improve how you communicate.

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Peter Sage

Extreme Entrepreneur

International business expert that inspires tens of thousands of people to reinvent themselves. Peter started over twenty diverse companies. While some businesses have “failed majestically&lrquo; others have become large global successes. Peter uses his imagination and experience to inspire new business thinking.

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Georgie Barrat

Tech Presenter and Writer

A technology journalist and presenter. She is a regular writer for Marie Claire, Huffington Post, ASOS magazine, Tech City News & runs the technology site hash-tech. Georgie goes behind the scenes with companies like Intel, Sony, Acer, HP, Asus & Motorola to combine her two great loves: technology and getting up to mischief!
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Enrico Krog Iversen

Leading robotic innovation

CEO at Universal Robots. He discovered a huge potential in robots that are easy, simple and flexible. He created spectacular growth and expansion of Universal Robots. Enrico’s imagination of a technologically advanced future allows him to share his robotic technology with the world.

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Mike McGee

Framestore visual effects

Co-founder and chief creative officer the world’s most well-known brands. Working creatively for 25+ years his skills as a director are welded to an exceptional understanding of visual effects. Framestore has worked on mega-blockbuster movies like The Martian, Gravity, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy and more.

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Karsten Thuen

Shelterbox - international disaster relief

Chairman of ShelterBox DK, an international charitable organization that provides relief to victims of disasters. ShelterBox provides shelter and supplies to communities overwhelmed by disaster. ShelterBox helped over 800,000 people in 57 countries suffering earthquakes, floods, and wars.

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Josh Bongard

Evolutionary robotics specialist

Josh will teach you how to train your own robot with an artificial brain. Josh runs an evolutionary robotics zoo of weird and wonderful animal robots that YOU can design. He doesn’t just build robots, but gives them the spark of life, and evolves them into a fascinating new species of creatures. When robots can think for themselves, what will they imagine?

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Torstein Nielsen

Chief Emergency Manager

Torstein is on the front line of international disaster relief. He delivers emergency shelter and vital aid to people affected by disasters worldwide. 60 million people around the world have been made homeless by natural disaster and conflict. He’s working to change this.

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Amy Smith

Head of Recruitment
Framestore

Amy finds, and hires, the extraordinary creative talent behind Oscar Winning VFX studio Framestore. She knows what it takes to build a career out of turning imagination into a reality.

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Cameron Robertson

Human Flight Pioneer

Cameron creates aircraft and aerostructures. He creates novel aerospace technologies and applications, and works with advanced composite materials. Highlights of his work include the Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter, which won the AHS Sikorsky Prize, and the Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter, the World’s first successful flapping-wing aircraft.

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Morten Just

Google Interface Designer

Designing interfaces for Google Glass, Android phones and smart watches, Morten’s designs are wildly imaginative. From an app that “makes your phone worse as you gain weight” to the “one button TV remote” and even “An app that measures how boring a movie is”, helps inform him of how we might interface with the computers of tomorrow - and it’s not what you might expect.

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Paul Hughes

Ten Meters of Thinking

An internationally renowned speaker who uses “Ten Meters of Thinking” to stimulate creative development. Ten thousand people in 35 different countries have been inspired by Paul’s imagination.

What people are saying

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“Star quality - all In all: an awesome event with great potential.”

— Claus Koch, Knowledge Center leader

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“The Factory of Imagination was Magic all over! Your team was great, the atmosphere was relaxing but at the same time businesslike.”

— Hans Hendriks, CEO In-Core Group

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“What an amazing event. A great credit to the energy, inventiveness and generosity of spirit - I was super-impressed.”

— Ian Coxon, Ecology of Care

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“Highly inspirational, highly professional and some of the best speakers I have ever seen.”

— Mads Fugl, Coworking Odense

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“The workshops participants LOVED it and we got so much excited feedback.”

— Nora Wolloch, World Summit Awards

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“It’s a fantastic concept, an inspiring atmosphere paired with top-class speakers!”

— Marko Haschej, Impact.global

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Powered by Volunteers

Amazing volunteers from 20 different countries come together to create, design, build, innovate and celebrate the power of imagination.
The Factory of Imagination is powered by the passion, hard work, ambition and dreams of our dedicated volunteers
Become a volunteer

The factory belongs to those who build it. Would you like one in your community?
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Questions and Answers


The team is currently working on the next event. It is scheduled to take place in the autumn of 2017. You can follow our Facebook page to make sure you get the most current updates.
Tickets will be released via this website, and our Facebook page. Tickets go on sale in 2017.
The Secret Dream Lab is an invitation-only event for the most creative people on the planet. If that sounds like you, send us an E-mail explaining why you’re awesome, and we’ll let you know. But shhhh... it’s a secret after all.
You can book 3 exciting, engaging, and interactive workshops for your company, organisation or school. Perfect for groups from 20 participants to 100+ who want to boost their creativity in extreme ways. Our workshops come in 3 unique formats:

Factory Fundamentals - a one and a half hour, fun, energising creative session, to get your teams’ creative juices flowing.

Factory Foundations - a half-day advanced workshop, with high level creative techniques.

Industrial Imagination - a full-day mega session, for those who take creativity seriously.

The best way to get involved is to join our Friends of the Factory global community, online. As we like to say “The factory belongs to those who build it”.
The Factory of Imagination is run by an amazing team of hard working volunteers from over 20 different countries, speaking 15 different languages. It is co-ordinated in Denmark, by Belgian Steffie Limere and Adam Montandon from Britain.
Yes! - Send your ideas, suggestions, collaborations, via E-mail to Steffie@factoryofimagination.com
We’d love to! At the moment our team is working on bringing the Factory of Imagination to different places around the world. Maybe you’d like to help us in Brazil, California, Denmark, Belgium, the UK, or somewhere else entirely. Join our Friends of the Factory community online and tell us where we should go next.

Still have questions?
E-mail Steffie@factoryofimagination.com for answers

Take a look inside our factory

This short video takes you behind the scenes at the Secret Dream Lab and Factory of Imagination LIVE events. Designed and created by our amazing community.

Our 2016 teaser

See what went on at the 2016 Factory of Imagination LIVE event, with this short video featuring some of the expert minds that you can find inside our factory.

The story behind a factory

In this video, Factory of Imagination co-founder and teacher Adam Montandon explains the story behind its creation. Learn the ethos, the thinking, and the thought processes that helped build the “best lesson in the world”!

Steffie’s story

Factory of Imagination co-founder Steffie Limere talks about what it feels like to build a world class special event in Denmark. Steffie will explain how your dreams can grow if you step outside of your own environment into something new.