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Auditorium Pallady
Bld. Theodor Pallady 40G, sector 3, Bucharest
Bucharest, București, 032266
Romania

Andreea Georgescu

CEO and Comedian

She’s a business owner in Romania. And stand-up comedian in New York. When she’s not being serious in Bucharest, most probably she’s making people laugh across the Ocean. This is how Andreea Georgescu spends most of her time, now always in between flights. Her background is so diverse and nurtures her imagination while writing funny material. Andreea started studying at the University of Pharmacy in Bucharest, but finished Journalism. At the age 23, she joined Ringier, the largest media company in Romania, and launched the project that became the largest women website in .ro: Unica. She then became the Deputy Editor in Chief for the largest Romanian newspaper. She was also in the Ringier consultants team who has launched the first integrated newsroom in Romania and settled the editorial workflow for more than 110 journalists. And then Webspire happened. Andreea started her own digital business consultancy. Quite a ride!

Ilinca Paun

CEO of The Entrepreneurship Academy, investor, entrepreneur

She wanted to build programs in business education for young people and now she’s doing just about that with the Reality University, as people call The Entrepreneurship Academy. Ilinca genuinely loves teaching, coaching and mentoring young start-up owners, basically the future of Romania. Changing the world begins with the new youth. Ilinca Paun has a long career in management as CEO of a multinational, which she changed for entrepreneurship, namely building programs in business education for young people. She has a passion for team performance and entrepreneurial leadership, and for value driven companies. She loves teaching, coaching and mentoring young start up owners and her mission is to create a large elite community of mentors and experts that provide knowledge and guidance to young entrepreneurs who build the future of Romania.

Ioana Gheorghiță

Brand communication strategist

Ioana Gheorghiță is a brand communication strategist. With 15 years experience in brand strategy and communication, Ioana works independently and collaborates with advertising agencies, creative teams and brands. Currently, Ioana studies Behavioral Economics and its applications in marketing and communication. And now she is a stage speaker for Women March Together. Ioana prepares a versatile moment, navigating through ideas, life, creative methods, behavioral economics, the Polar Circle. Yes, the Polar Circle. An exploratory moment with a lot of creative, yet useful magic on top.

Lucia

Artist & Performer

Arguably Romania’s first Youtube sensation, Lucia had her breakthrough in 2012 with „Silence”- this single has over 27 million views to date and helped spread her music to legions of fans worldwide. Lucia explores modern indie-pop sounds while carving a niche of her own on the local musical scene. Lucia’s second album, „Samsara”, released in 2018, was a meditation on the nature of death and the cycles of rebirth seen from different still light perspectives. Through her soft, fragile vocals, as well as her heartfelt lyrics, Lucia manages to convey universal questions and experiences, making her music a tremendously relatable journey. If you add the tasteful arrangements to the mix, with lush piano melodies, elegant strings and daring electro beats, you get relevant and contemporary pop songs. She already played big local festivals such as Untold (2018), but has also opened for international acts such as Asaf Avidan (2016) and most recently Kimbra (2019).

Mădălina Bălan

Business psychologist, Entrepreneur

Madalina is a business psychologist, senior consultant and Managing Partner for 14 years with Hart Consulting. Specialized in talent management and leadership development, Mădălina has worked with hundreds of leaders, men and women alike, from medium to large multinational and local companies. If we were to give some numbers about perfecting her craft, we would say: She has over 20 years of experience, + 8500 of hours dedicated to assess, coach and develop executives, managers and high potentials and more than 3000 hours of working with teams.

Mădălina Uceanu

Senior HR consultant, Career coach and Advisor

Accompanying careers since 1994, Mădălina has witnessed most of the growth stages for the local recruitment market. She trained over 500 people and touched the careers of more than 1000 people. Specialized in business development, recruitment and headhunting strategies, career management, advisory and coaching, employer branding and e-recruitment, Mădălina basically knows how to get the best out of people in professional contexts. With the right imagination that builds long-term visions.

Mihaela Miroiu

Political scientist, philosopher, writer

Mihaela Miroiu founded the first PhD school in political science, women studies and women rights organizations. She wrote more than 14 books on philosophy, politics and literature and received multiple international awards for the fight against discrimination, literature and education: Women Inspiring Europe Award from European Institute for Gender Equality, Bruxelles) and Outstanding Achievements Award from Association for Slavic Studies Eurasian and East-European Studies (AWSS), Los Angeles. She is a university professor at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA) leading a doctorate in Political Science and teaches the courses Current Political Ideologies, Ethics in International Relations, Feminist Political Theories. Her research interests focus on political theories, with a focus on feminist political theories, political ethics, current political ideologies, and gender policies.

Olivia Vereha

Co-founder and COO Code for Romania

With a solid background in communication, media and user experience design, while being passionate about digital, intuitive products changing the world for the better. After joining the civic tech non-profit Code for Romania, as a volunteer, Olivia quickly realised that was the place to be. Where technology empowers and enables people and communities to have a better life. Olivia has worked on designing software that changes systems for the public sector, NGOs, while climbing to the Chief Operations Officer role in the civic tech NGO. She is currently coordinating the Civic Labs, the program incubating and designing solutions for Romania’s most pressing in Education, Environment, Healthcare, Vulnerable Groups, Transparency and Civic Engagement.

Sebastian Armean

Psychotherapist

Sebastian Armean is a MD, PhD, valedictorian of Iuliu Hațieganu UMPh Cluj-Napoca, a specialist in Psychiatry and Clinical Pharmacology, CBT therapist and clinical psychologist. Sebastian Armean graduated Law School from Babeș-Bolyai University and served as an expert for the Romanian Academy. He now works as an Assistant Professor at his Alma Mater.