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I’m heading to Kronberg later today for the welcome dinner with the BraunPrize team as well as the 5 finalists!

So far I neither know their names nor their submissions or nationalities and you can trust me that I’m quite excited to meet them … OK, if I think carefully I have one submission in mind which I’ve spotted right from the start earlier in March 2007. Let’s see if the ‘gadget’ makes its way to the finale ;-)

What is different this year from previous BraunPrize forums is that I will be hosting a part of the ceremony. I actually feel quite honored by this as there will be some 200 design experts present from across the globe! My task will be to moderate the time slot where the 5 finalists will present their BraunPrize entries to the public. More on this ‘experience’ when the mission is fulfilled ;-)

Accordingly my schedule for the next two days will be quite tight and we’ll meet tonight at 19:00 hrs. for a briefing dinner with Peter Schneider, Gerlinde Kress, the jury members and the rest of the crowd.

I will spend tomorrow morning together with the finalists and we will discuss the strategies of their 10 minutes presentation. For sure we will do some fine tuning as well as a rehearsal on stage.

Around 15:00 hrs. most of the BraunPrize forum members will arrive and the ceremony starts around 15:30 hrs. with a keynote by Peter Schneider. Some more information is to be found here at the BraunPrize website.

Finally around 18:00 hrs. I think the winner of the BraunPrize 2007 will be announced and afterwards Braun/Gillette will host a great dinner at the Braun/Gillette Headquarter with lots of food, wine, beer and the likes ;-)

My plan is to conduct some short audio interviews with some interesting guests. More on this later on this week. For those of you who can not join us there will be the opportunity to follow parts of the event via the well known webcam to be found at the entry page of the BraunPrize.