Rector of the University of Maribor, Danijel Rebolj

Minister Žiga Turk

President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Felix Unger

Feguš String Quartet

Chair: Marko Robnik

Keynote speaker: Denis Noble, University of Oxford, UK

The music of life

Invited speaker: Ivo Boscarol and Gregor Veble, Pipistrel, Ajdovščina, Slovenia

The obstacles only exist inside people's heads!

Invited speaker: Tomo Križnar, Naklo, Slovenia

How to make the world and humanity aware of the worst sufferings of people: The case of Sudan

Invited speaker: Thomas Ruzicka, LM University of Munich, Germany

"New development in the therapy of basal cell carcinoma" 

Chair: Dejan Dinevski

Keynote speaker: Steven Bishop, University College London, UK

The creative use of visual and spoken narrative to help people and policy-makers understand our connected world

Keynote speaker: Piero Ferrucci, Firenze, Italy

Does beauty make us kinder?

Chair: Dušan Repovš

Invited speaker: Tassos Bountis, University of Patras, Greece

Complexity science and the role of mathematical modeling

Invited speaker: Sara A. Solla, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

Observing the brain to know ourselves

Invited speaker: Maja Rupnik, University of Maribor, Slovenia

What can we learn from microbes?

Invited speaker: Andreas Kornherr, Mondi, Ulmerfeld-Hausmening, Austria

From flirt to innovation
How to establish network ties between science and industry

Ipshita Bansal and Ms. Niharika Bajpai, Banastahli University, Rajasthan, India

Insights on self management from life of Mahatma Gandhi

10:00 - 12:00

Special session

His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Denis Noble, University of Oxford, UK

Life as process: a systems biology reply to the question "what is life"?

Dirk Helbing, ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland

New ways to promote sustainability, resilience and well-being in our complex world: The FuturICT approach

Siegfried Grossmann, University of Marburg, Germany

"The n-fold road" - Towards better way(s) of life

Chair: Sara A. Solla

Invited speaker: Dušan Petrač, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, USA

About the Cultural Center of the European Space Technology-KSEVT

Keynote speaker: Thomas Bauer, University of Vienna, Austria

After media industry:  Media culture - the future dispositive of society’s  development

Keynote speaker: Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki, Finland

Towards a biophilic future: Culture and human nature

Chair: Marjan Slak Rupnik

Keynote speaker: Mirjam Cvetič, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

String theory and quests for unification of fundamental forces of nature

Invited speaker: Dušan Repovš, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

How to improve fundamental research in developing countries:

UNESCO diploma program in mathematics and physics at ICTP

Chair: Denis Noble

Invited speaker: Tomaž Prosen, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Quantum physics out of equilbrium:
A new paradigm of computation and information

Invited speaker: Roman Jerala, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Synthetic biology announcing the coming technological revolution

Invited speaker: László I. Komlósi, University of Pecs, Hungary

The lure of the media: Discourse as social cognition

Chair: Steven Bishop

Keynote speaker: Dirk Helbing, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

FuturICT – Global participatory computing for our complex world

Keynote speaker: Amarjit Singh, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Sustainability of automobile fuels

Chair: Mirjam Cvetič

Invited speaker: EU Commissioner John Dalli, Brussels, Belgium

Innovative ways to improve the culture of living towards health and wellness

11:30 - 12:00 

Invited speaker: Marjan Slak Rupnik, University of Maribor and CIPKEBIP, Slovenia

Beta testing

Invited speaker: Volker Ribitsch, University of Graz, Austria

Omnipresent sensor systems - the pros and cons of monitoring almost every aspect of our world – environment, processes, humans

Invited speaker: Rosanna Santesso, UNESCO, Venice, Italy

UNESCO’s contribution to global challenges

Keynote speaker: Siegfried Grossmann, University of Marburg, Germany

Challenge higher education

Andrej Kirbiš and Sergej Flere, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Conventional religiosity and new age beliefs as predictors of subjective well-being in Europe

Invited speaker: Geshe Ngawang Samten, Central Univ. of Tibetan Studies, India

Buddhist philosophy and modern society

Lecture of Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Social Business: A way to solve society's most pressing problems

Venue: Maribor Cathedral, Slomškov Trg

Concert: The Grazer Universitäts Orchester

Chair: Danijel Rebolj

Out of the Box Conference follow up event

11:00 -

Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize Laureate (for Chemistry)

From matter to life: Chemistry ? chemistry !