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EVENT „STRICKER VISIONS“

STRICKER VISIONS starts again from the point where he had to stop overnight. From his relentless enthusiasm to find solutions. STRICKER VISIONS, year after year, wants to give a significant impulse to the development and improvement of winter sports. The event is presented on the evening before the opening of the tradeshow Prowinter / Alpitec in Bolzano. The Erwin Stricker Future Factory is a leading initiative, supported by experts of great importance and aimed at an audience from many different sectors.

MOTTO
good visions & crazy ideas
The first edition of Erwin Stricker Visions takes the motto that he has followed throughout his life: good visions and crazy ideas!
And other two exceptional men, his fellow of adventures, will be talking about their groundbreaking ideas and innovatory approaches beyond traditional thinking and customary action patterns: Klaus Heidegger, a former Austrian slalom champion, now multi-employer, and Riccardo Maria Corato, former marketing manager for Ellesse and events manager in the music industry.

GEIERSCHNABEL AWARD
A main feature of Erwin Stricker was his straightforwardness . And perhaps this has also led to one of his most famous inventions: the "Geierschnabel" - the hooked slalom ski tip. A further emphasis to Erwin's Future Factory is given by the "Geierschnabel award ", dedicated to people who gave a extraordinary and innovative contribution to winter sports industry and designed to foster forward thinking and to drive innovation for the ski and winter sports sector.

WHEN & WHERE
17/04/2012 - Salewa Headquarter – Bolzano / Alto Adige

ADMISSION FEE & SUBSCRIPTION
Euro 80.- / www.fierabolzano.it/prowinter


The Family of Erwin Stricker, Fiera Bolzano, TIS – innovation park South Tyrol

 
PROGRAMM

STRICKER VISIONS
Tuesday April 17th 2012 / Salewa Bolzano

good visions & crazy ideas

5.30 p.m. Access & Registration

6.00 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
Moderator Gernot Mussner
Presentation "Geierschnabel" Award

6.15 p.m. Keynote speech 1 "good visions"
"There can only be one original" Klaus Heidegger
7.00 p.m. Keynote speech 2 "crazy ideas"
"The strength of inspiration" Mario Riccardo Corato

Final discussion "Visions for the sport of snow"

8.15 p.m. "Geierschnabel" Award: the winner is ...

8.30 p.m. Get-together with Flying Buffet


Klaus Heidegger
From a farmer boy to a multimillionaire. The American dream personified by the former Austrian ski legend Klaus Heidegger. In the late 70s he was a slalom champion, today he is a successful businessman in the United States.


Riccardo Mario Corato
Born in Vicenza (Italy) in 1948, Riccardo Mario Corato started to work in the communication field in the early seventies, after his studies of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Rome. From 1975 to 1980 he managed the advertising division of Ellesse, Italian manufacturer of upscale sportswear, contributing decisively to its fast international growth and world-wide awareness. Later he moved to the music industry, organizing leading events such as the Pink Floyd concert in Venice, The Three Tenors, Madonna and many others.

A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TRENTOFILMFESTIVAL AND FIERA BOLZANO SPA

Two excellences in the world of mountains inaugurate a season of cooperation
The project will be presented on Monday 30 January during the Prowinter 2012 press conference at the ISPO in Munich, Germany

TRENTO. TrentoFilmfestival and Fiera Bolzano Spa, two entities in the Alps, each a leader in its respective cultural and economic field, will begin a cooperation and partnership during the Prowinter 2012 event.
For almost sixty years Fiera Bolzano Spa has been promoting the regional economy and its excellences by hosting the business firms of the German speaking world of north Europe and those of the Italian language of the Mediterranean area on the occasion of the events organized in Bolzano’s trade fair district.

For the last sixty years TrentoFilmfestival has been the international event of greatest prestige dedicated to the culture of mountains and mountaineering. Cinema and literature, meetings with mountaineering celebrities and symbolic figures of adventure and multiform aspects of the mountains are the essence of the Festival. The many events, meetings, exhibitions and shows, presented in the Festival since 1952, have brought international fame to the City of Trento and also to the City of Bolzano that, in 1998, joined the two TrentoFilmfestival founder members, the Municipality of Trento and the Italian Alpine Club.

Within the variegated world of the mountain economy, the well-established Fiera Bolzano SpA trade fair has always presented subjects connected with winter sports, free time and mountain technologies and therefore offers an opportunity to bring the two entities together.

The Prowinter 2012 event, with the new Focus Ski Touring entirely dedicated to this rapidly growing niche, and the Free Time Fair will be the first two moments consolidating the cooperation between Fiera Bolzano Spa and TrentoFilmfestival.

The programme of Prowinter 2012 (18 - 20 April) includes an official presentation of the 60th TrentoFilmfestival and the screening of some ski mountaineering documentary films from the TrentoFilmfestival library in a special area of the Focus Ski Touring section.

The following week, on the occasion of the Free Time Fair (28 April - 1 May) some spectacular mountain, mountaineering and other extreme sports documentary films from the TrentoFilmfestival library will be shown in a projection room.

On 30 January the new partnership has been presented in the Prowinter 2012 press conference at ISPO in Munich, Germany, the most important international trade fair of sporting goods and fashions.
An alliance therefore that aims to strengthen the two entities and add value to their events.