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Germany

Aya Jaff

Entrepreneur & Coder

Aya has been involved in the stock market, start-up and tech scenes early in life, and has worked in Silicon Valley, Madrid and Hamburg. She is now the managing partner of her startup CoDesign Factory, and helps large companies to become more digital.

Dorsa Derakhshani

Chess Player

Dorsa is an Iranian born chess Grand Master, playing for the USA since 2017. She was born 1998 and has been playing chess for 16 years. She has also won the Asian Youth Chess championship three times. With her work she hopes to inspire more people, especially the younger generation, to pursue “freedom of choice”.

Florian Pachaly

Entrepreneur & Activist

Florian is one of the founders of recup2go. Together with his team they designed a deposit system for returnable coffee cups. With RECUP, he hopes to encourage people to rethink. The "cup", a seemingly unimportant item, that people of all cultures and levels of education use on a daily basis, has now become a talking point to encourage people to change their consumer habits.

Hani Who

Comedian

Hani Who, aka Hamid Nikpai, was born in Afghanistan in 1995. He grew up in Iran and moved to Germany in 2010 as a pubescent teenager. In addition to his studies (child education), he does stand-up comedy, poetry slam, hosts an open comedy stage and is also the lead singer of the band AAVAA.

Luisa Neubauer

Activist

Luisa Neubauer is a 23-year-old climate activist. In December 2018, she initiated the first climate strike in Berlin. Nowadays the Fridays For Future movement is mobilizing younger generations in more than 200 locations throughout Germany, fighting for an ambitious German climate policy.

Maria Piechnick

Scientist

Maria studied media informatics at the TU Dresden. In 2017 she founded the startup Wandelbots together with five colleagues from university. Today, Wandelbots is one of the most promising startups in Europe and one of the best robotics startups in the world.

Maximilian Haberstock

Musician

Max is a fourteen-year-old pianist, composer and conductor – and a student at Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. The first prize winner at the federal competition of “Jugend musiziert” is no stranger to the stage, whether the Philharmonic Hall in Munich or Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2017 he performed with Lang Lang for the German Federal President at Schloss Bellevue.

Niko Rittenau

Author & Nutritionist

Niko Rittenau from Berlin is a studied nutritionist with a focus on plant nutrition. He is a co-founder of the Plant Based Institute and author of the standard work "Vegan-Klischee ade!”. As a nutritionist, he encourages healthy, plant-based eating habits by transmitting his knowledge in a practical and aproachable way.

Paul Bühre

Author

Paul graduated from high school in 2017. How? He still doesn’t know! He started his writing career during his student internship at ZEITMagazin. One year later, he published his first book: "Teenie Leaks”. After graduating from high school, Paul travelled the world. His recent book “Das Jahr nach dem Abi” reflects about this crucial year for young people.

Slatec Music Act

Musicians

SLATEC is the new project by Roman Sladek, the bandleader of the JRBB - Jazzrausch Bigband. In SLATEC, seven musicians from his big band merge into a kind of super organism that designs live creative trap and techno music. This opens up a new musical world that is as close to the origin of jazz as it is to the future of electronic dance music.

The Ocelots

Musicians

The duo, The Ocelots, are made up of 22 year old twins Brandon and Ashley from Wexford. Together they have created their own musical style: a forceful blend of rich harmonies and bare, raw acoustic folk.