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Benedikt Meyer

Benedikt Meyer is a historian, writer and comedian. His passion for history leads him to write and talk about what the past means for the present. His self-invented “Historic Cabaret” is a clever and entertaining mix between stand-up-comedy and a history lesson. He’s the person to talk to if you want to get wiser while having a good laugh. Growing up in the basel area, Benedikt has invented city tours, written historic novels, danced in music videos and cycled across the United States.

Bert te Wildt

Prof. Dr. med. Bert te Wildt is a medical doctor, scientist and author. As professor for psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy he is affiliated with the Ruhr-University Bochum and the technical university in Munich, Germany. His scientific and clinical field of expertise is behavioral addictions such as gaming disorder, internet addiction and workaholism that led to the publication of the popular science book “Digital Junkies”. Bert is the chief doctor of the Psychosomatic Hospital at Dießen Monastery, which he co-founded and where he conceptualized the “Burn On” concept.

Cecilia Ben-Salah

Cecilia is the founder of the Instagram account @migrantsinswitzerland, an account that tells the untold stories of migration. Passionate about good stories, Cecilia has developed a unique interviewing style that focuses on the protagonists. In her method, the interviewee leads the way. The stories she publishes aim to challenge our own narratives and beliefs, and thus give us food for thought.

Daniela Fuentes

Daniela is a Mexican-born Swiss designer and a bodywork/Yoga facilitator based in Basel. Her work intersects artistic and design practice, Yoga and Somatics, with a framework inspired in eastern philosophies, transpersonal psychology, nature and biomimicry, Mexican, Shamanic and First Nation wisdom, science-fiction, as well as Decolonial theory. As a creative independent professional, Daniela has worked in diverse fields like graphic and editorial design, photography, documentary film, music, as well as created works for museums like the Museum der Kulturen Basel. She taught Yoga for 20 years and is the creative director and main teacher of B.Yoga Basel, the yoga studio she founded in 2006.

Daniele Diana

Daniele is a sports professional with football in his "blood". Born and raised in the suburbs of Naples, where as a kid ,he started kicking football on the streets, has attended hundreds of matches, and worked at the organization of many football tournaments and events all over the world, including the last two world cup finals.

Debora Monfregola

deb. is a young jazz-pop act born from the creative mind of Basel-based singer and composer Debora Monfregola. In a very special duo formation with the talented trombone player Lukas Reinert, deb. was formed from the lead singer’s desire to test her own limits and compose a full piece of work by herself. Her strong influences in Jazz and Pop eventually shaped her sound of today. Her debut album Balancing Act tells the story of relationships and the highs and lows that come with them. Balancing between emotions is sometimes destabilizing. This title is an ode to the way relationships strive for balance and a reminder that it is ok for them to change and evolve into different directions. In Balancing Act you will discover sounds from two worlds blending together to form another: classic and catchy jazz orchestrations mixed with dreamy pop melodies.

Flavio Donato

Flavio is an assistant professor in Neurobiology at the University of Basel since 2019. Italian of origin, he received his B.S. and M.S. in Biotechnology from the University of Rome, and PhD from the FMI in Basel for his studies on microcircuit remodeling processes underlying learning in the adult. While working in Norway, in 2017 Flavio was awarded the Eppendorf & Science prize for neurobiology for discovering network mechanisms driving the development of brain's circuits for the representation of space. Since Flavio moved back to Basel to start his own independent lab, he has been investigating how memories are encoded and stored in the brain of infant and adult mammals. When not in the lab, he can be found enjoying the vibrant musical and artistic Basler scene, or feeding his schoggi weggli addiction in one of the city bakeries, one of the main reasons he moved back to Switzerland.

Jo Filshie Browning

Jo Filshie Browning is a communications coach dedicated to helping people understand the benefits of science and medicine. Over more than 25 years she has helped scientists and physicians speak with impact and authority about their work and her book ‘Scientifically Speaking: How to speak about your research with confidence and clarity’ is an Amazon best-seller. Jo began her career as a journalist before moving into communications, training and consultancy. She studied English at Oxford University and holds a Diploma in Public Relations and a Post Graduate Diploma in Science and Society. She’s trained more than 11,000 people across 43 countries and four continents.

Marcel Barelli

Marcel Barelli is an animation filmmaker and author of books, born in Ticino and graduated visual arts at the Haute École d ’Art et de Designs in Genève. He is passionate about animals and he develops all his projects around this theme, bringing difficult human topics to life through the simplicity of nature. His award-winning short films at GYPAETUS HELVETICUS (2011), VIGIA (2013), LUCENS (2015) and IN NATURE (2021) became huge festival hits and received numerous prizes at prestigious international festivals.

Mary Meaney Haynes

Mary is the founder of Solidarite Ukraine, a non-profit effort that has supported hundreds of Ukrainian women and children in France, where she lives with her husband and six kids. Mary also serves as an investor and board member of several leading international organizations such as Imperial College London. With a passion for impact, she is also author of a book: Leading Organizations: Ten Timeless Truths with Scott Keller.

Reto Odermatt

Reto is researcher and lecturer at the Center for Research in Economics and Well-Being (CREW) at the University of Basel. After obtaining his doctorate he held positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, financed by a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Reto conducts research using data on subjective well-being in the interdisciplinary field linking economics, psychology, health, and public policy.

Tyler Burns

Tyler is a California native who moved to Berlin for a work opportunity only to get married to a local and stay a little longer. He is a computational biologist trained at Stanford and who has worked for years in the field of single-cell analysis. He values the day-to-day flexibility that his self employment brings, which allows him to be more in tune with his creative process, and to take on a wide variety of research and open-source software projects.