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Innsbruck, Tirol, 6020
Austria

Arturo Fuentes

Arturo Fuentes is an Austrian born in Mexico who has created a highly diverse catalog of over one hundred works. In recent years, he has ventured into creating scenography and directing his own music theater projects, such as the opera-monodrama Carlota (2018), which was dedicated to Sarah Maria Sun and the Klangforum Wien. His catalog includes chamber, vocal, and orchestral music, as well as mixed works with electronics and electroacoustic pieces, staged concerts, dance performances, and short films that he has directed and produced.

Carina Frei

Carina broke out of the conservative life and work model many years ago. Being free in thinking and doing is her motto, living out her own interest-creativity is her highest good. Her curriculum vitae reads like an adventure novel: The expert for performance & holistic communication has performed in more than 500 productions during her active time as an actress. After the failure of her production company in the pandemic, the successful keynote speaker wrote the book DIE GRÜNDERBIBEL during the first lockdown. As a functionary of Junge Wirtschaft Tirol, she is actively involved in promoting young entrepreneurs and supports business owners to develop their potential through soft skills training with Push Up Your Business, her company. In her keynotes, Carina Frei draws on the full treasure of her own experience: She shares her stories, anecdotes and stumbling blocks in an authentic and entertaining way that inspires.

Chris Zahariev

Film Director

Chris Zachariev is a young film director from Bulgaria. He has written & directed several short films, created a YouTube channel with over 87k subscribers, started a fashion brand; production company, wrote a best selling book called “Getting Lost on Purpose” and was awarded “Most Inspiring Person” Award by The National Television as well as “Flight in Art Award” by Stoyan Kambarev Foundation – the most prestigious award for a young artists in Bulgaria for his short films and social media projects, connecting young people to social causes.

Daniel Degischer

Daniel is a researcher and lecturer in the field of strategy, organization, and sustainability. Driven by his desire to understand and change organizations, he explores outcomes and identifies shortcomings and paradoxes in firms. As part of his academic work, Daniel has accompanied numerous strategy processes and is particularly inspired by Scandinavian approaches to sustainability in firms.

David Key

David Key is an award winning coach and Amazon bestselling author who has worked with CEO’s, elite athletes, TV stars and many more high performers since he first started coaching 26 years ago. His speciality is in sharing a paradigm shift in how our thoughts and emotions work together to create our experiences in life. This breakthrough understanding turns much of psychology on its head and accelerates the transformations anyone can experience through the sheer simplicity and long lasting effectiveness of being able to finally take back control of your inner world no matter what circumstances you experience. His contributions to the coaching industry have seen him recognised with the APCTC Outstanding Achievement Award, 2015 which was for his contribution to the coaching industry.

Fabian Hemmert

Fabian Hemmert is a design researcher and professor of Interface and User Experience Design at the University of Wuppertal in Germany. His research focuses on how people interact with technology and how we can create more intuitive and natural interfaces that facilitate communication and enhance our experience of the world around us. In his talk, Prof. Dr. Fabian Hemmert, argues in favour of play: Play enables us to adopt new perspectives and to explore new possibilities in a safe setting, helping us to learn new things with joy and immersion.

Felipe Pelaez

Felipe Pelaez is a digital creator based in Cologne, Germany, who is passionate about challenging societal norms through fashion. Born in Colombia, Felipe has lived in various countries throughout his life, however, it was his time in London that truly inspired him to express himself in new and daring ways and that also enabled his career as a digital creator. Drawing inspiration from his upbringing in different cultures, Felipe uses his platform to showcase the rich history of men’s fashion and how men have always worn clothing that society now views as women’s clothing. Through his work, Felipe aims to show that clothing has no gender and that people should be free to express themselves in any way they choose.

Jennifer Quigley-Jones

Jennifer is the CEO & Founder of Digital Voices, an award-winning global Influencer Marketing agency. Digital Voices put influencers at the heart of media plans to win and retain customers for brands. The agency has grown rapidly in the last three years to an international team of over 54 people, and runs campaigns for clients like Unilever, Diageo, Meta, the NHS and Duolingo. It was named Influencer Marketing Agency of the Year 2022. Jennifer speaks internationally and has won many industry accolades, including placing on the Influencer 50, Campaign’s 30 under 30 and Management Today’s 35 under 35. Before founding Digital Voices, she worked at YouTube.

Katarína Matúšová

Dance artist, choreographer and educator. Founder of Move-you, dance collective, focused on project in dance performing arts and education. Co-author of dance and movement intensive training program Move You Camp and dance performance Women 2020. Katarina earned her Masters at Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She studied dance at Music and Arts University of the city of Vienna and she spent half a year in Portugal at Companhia Instavel, doing a program of Dance Composition and Interpretation. Awarded by Fulbright commission, she got to spend 9 months at Movement Research in New York City as Fulbright visiting researcher to go deeper in her practice. Currently she is based in Bratislava, teaching at dance conservatories as well and learning new movement inspirations from her little toddler at maternity leave.

Lara Heiss

Lara is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder of the eco-friendly fashion brand ‚FeminIst Fair Fashion’. She studied media and political communication at the Universities of Salzburg, Istanbul and Berlin. Driven by their desire to create a positive impact, Lara and her mother – FeminIst co-founder Sibel – have worked tirelessly to build a brand with a twofold focus: Producing eco-friendly clothing and ensuring ethical working conditions for fashion industry workers. The brand’s name, FeminIst, is a play on words that highlights both the city where the women have their roots – Istanbul – and the feminist values they hold dear. By putting people and the planet at the center of their work, they have created a business that stands in opposition to Fast Fashion and is driving social change in the fashion industry.

Maria Jekova

Maria is a professional photographer and after living in Italy and Norway in her early twenties, she went back to her home town and a future in her country. Two years ago she participated in the Master Chef Bulgaria competition. Thanks to her always perceiving the beauty of nature to participate in the food she cooked – she managed to come out the winner and since then her life turned upside down but hasn’t moved from her dream to create and live in the mountains. She’s currently creating a place for local food and culture as also a home for the first artisanal food cooperative for local women.

Randal Plunkett

Randal Plunkett, Lord Dunsany or commonly referred to by the media as “The Death Metal Baron” is an award-winning Irish film director, producer and environmental vegan advocate. He is a holder of one of the oldest surviving peerage titles in Ireland and still remains in their family’s historic homestead Dunsany Castle, and its remaining estate. Over the last decade Plunkett has been one of the pioneers of the “rewilding movement”, a new and exciting form of environmental restoration. In 2014 Plunkett’s converted over a third of his estate into a rewilding project which has since seen a multitude of lost species return and a surge of biodiversity. His work is now the subject of a major documentary.