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Alberto Alemanno

Alberto Alemanno is an academic, civic advocate and social entrepreneur. He is currently Jean Monnet Professor at HEC Paris and Global Clinical Professor at New York University School of Law. Due to his commitment to bridge the gap between academic research and policy action, Alberto established eLabEurope, a startup committed to improve civic literacy, engagement and participation by lobbying in the public interest. Alberto is now working on the launch of TheGoodLobby, the first platform aimed at connecting people with expertise with civil society organizations who need them in pursuit of the public interest.Originally from Italy, Alberto is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the College of Europe and holds a PhD from Bocconi University. He regularly publishes Op-Eds in Le Monde, the Huffington Post, IlSole24Ore and his work has been featured in The Economist, The Financial Times, Science and Nature.The World Economic Forum named Alberto Young Global Leader in 2015.

Andri Søren

Andri Søren is a musician and visual artist. In his project as Sonøren he creates a sonic universe out of "found sounds" from everyday life, his past, and in the here and now. An architect by training, he considers making music and visual art not unlike the process of design; taking elements and ideas that already exist, and composing new works out of them. In such a way distant sounds of the city, the cacophony of a passing parade, or snatched fragments from a conversation are resynthesized into often unrecognisable soundscapes; pieces of music that are also soundtracks from life itself. His performances are often highly improvised and exploratory; it is the moment of creation rather than the repetition of already existing works that drives them. Andri has performed at venues across Europe . He regularly gives workshops and talks and is a co-founder of the collective FTRSND.com housed at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels.

Camille Richman

Camille Richman is a Research Specialist in the MIT Media Lab’s Open Agriculture Initiative, which develops open source controlled environment agriculture technology platforms that promote food transparency, networked experimentation, hands-on education, and local food production. Camille is a mechanical engineer in Open Agriculture’s anti-disciplinary team of architects, computer scientists, electrical engineers, and farmers. Her work is currently focused on the development of the Food Computer, a desktop controlled environment farm that can be used to create and share climate recipes, modifications, and upgrades. Camille hopes that by creating a network of Food Computer users sharing their hardware, software, and climate data knowledge, the science behind modern agriculture technologies will be accessible to the masses.

Christian Felber

Christian Felber is an author, university lecturer and contemporary dancer based in Vienna. He has written 15 books, amongst them “Change everything. Creating an Economy for the Common Good” which has been sold 70.000-fold in 9 languages. „Money. The new rules of the game“, which was awarded the getAbstract International Book Award 2014, is the theoretical basis of the Project Bank for the Common Good, which was initiated by Christian in Austria in 2010 and which has been able to collect 2 million euros start-up capital since summer 2015. It seems therefore natural for Christian to speak today about this, i.e., one of his life's passion.

Eileen Guo

Eileen is an internationally recognized expert on social media, technology, and entrepreneurship, regularly advising and speaking before governments, international organizations, and businesses on their impact on foreign policy and international security. Eileen is the CEO of Impassion Media and Managing Partner of Impassion Afghanistan, which design solutions that mobilize communities and helps global partners engage with the world online and off. Eileen serves as an appointed member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Media, and was named one of “99 Top Foreign Policy Professionals Under 33” by Diplomatic Courier magazine. Her work has been featured in Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, Fast Company, Fox News, and Vice, among others.

Frederic Jacobs

Frederic works on improving security and privacy online. Signal, an open-source private messaging app he’s been developing, is bringing encryption to anyone. The application has been endorsed by Edward Snowden, film-maker Laura Poitras and cryptographer Bruce Schneier. In his free time, he hunts bugs in commercial software and provides help to journalists and activists working in perilous environments. Born and raised in Brussels, Frederic is now studying at the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL).

Jürgen Ingels

Jürgen Ingels is co-founder of Smartfin Capital and managing partner. SmartFin Capital is a long-term-oriented private equity fund that provides expansion and replacement capital to private growth companies in Smart Technologies with a special focus on Financial Technologies that display the potential for significant value creation in fast growing market segments throughout Europe. Mr. Ingels has just founded a European Fintech ecosystem Eggsplore operating out of Belgium. The pillars of this ecosystem are education, events and support. Exchanging knowledge and developing ideas into profitable projects will make Eggsplore a central meeting for innovators, investors and entrepreneurs. In 2000, Mr. Ingels was founder and Chief Financial Officer of Clear2Pay N.V., a leading innovative payments technology company focused on delivering globally applicable solutions for secure, timely and streamlined payments processing. Today, Clear2Pay employs more than 1,200 people in 22 countries.

Korneel Rabaey

Korneel Rabaey is professor at the Department of Biochemical and Microbial Technology at Ghent University. After graduating as bioengineer, he worked for almost 6 years in Australia on novel technologies for electricity driven bioconversions. Back in Europe since 2011, he leads a team working on a diverse portfolio of technologies all driven by electricity and targeting waste cleanup, bioproduction and sanitation. Until recently he was also president of ISMET, since 2015 he is listed as ISI Highly Cited Researcher

Madi Sharma

Madi is an Entrepreneur who founded and runs the Madi Group, a group of International private sector & not for profit companies, and NGOs. The philosophy is to create innovative ideas tailored to local action which can achieve global impacts beneficial to a sustainable society. She is also a member of The European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. Madi is a public speaker internationally, particularly in the field of entrepreneurship, female entrepreneurship, diversity; gender balance and her passion for corporate social responsibility CSR. Her presentations, spoken from the heart, motivate and inspire and seek to make others consider their ability to affect change. It is now tagged #MadiEffect “You must be the change you want to see”Ghandi “No Excuses” Madi

Sarah Krüg

Sarah Krüg is CEO of CANCER101, a patient advocacy organization whose mission is to help patients and caregivers navigate the cancer journey and partner with their healthcare team to make informed decisions. Sarah is the founder of Health Collaboratory, a global healthcare transformation consultancy that creates impact through patient engagement strategies, medical education strategies for clinicians, and platforms that pave the path for co-design and collaboration in healthcare such as the Patient Shark Tank® and Patient Doctor Tango™. She is the also the Executive Director and Past President of the Society for Participatory Medicine, a patient: clinician member driven organization whose mission is to enable collaborative partnerships between patients and healthcare professionals. She is Research Chair of the Cancer Patient Education Network and serves on the board of the National Organization of Rare Diseases.

Sebastien Morvan

Sébastien Morvan is a Brussels-based entrepreneur in the craft beer market. Sébastien is the co-founder of the Brussels Beer Project, an innovative craft brewery based on co-creation featured by media such as Forbes, WSJ and The Guardian for its ambition to shake up the conservative European brewing scene. Before this, he gained diverse experience as an Investment Banker in London, a microfinance officer in Buenos Aires and a consultant on entrepreneurship in Brazil. During his studies, he worked at Ashoka headquarters in DC and social entrepreneurship had an influential role in his way to address the craft beer market & economics in general. He graduated with a MSc in Management from ESSCA Business School (France) and a MA in International Relations from SAIS/Johns Hopkins University (US).

Sefik Birkiye

Sefik Birkiye was born in 1954 in Ankara, Turkey. He graduated from La Cambre School of Architecture (ENSAAV) in Brussels in 1978 and took his Master's in Town Planning from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in 1981. In 1979 Sefik founded VIZZION Architects. Some of the projects included the revitalisation of the formerly industrial district bordering Brussels canal and the renovation of City 2. The projects in Brussels have contributed in a positive way to change the urban landscape. He believes that every building has its own cultural identity inspired by its location and the history of its surroundings. In 1998 and again in 2000, VIZZION Architects won the prestigious MIPIM Award for le Jardin des Fonderies apartment building and the Green Island office complex. He founded VIZZION Europe in 1997 to create a more global approach to architecture.

Srecko Horvat

Srecko Horvat, Croatian philosopher, described by the German weekly Der Freitag as “one of the most exciting voices of his generation”. He has published more than 10 books in more than 10 different languages, most recently The Radicality of Love (Polity Press, 2015), What Does Europe Want? (Columbia University Press, 2014) co-written with Slavoj Zizek, and Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism (Verso, 2015). His texts have been published by The Guardian, Al Jazeera and New York Times.

Susana Sagento

Susana Sargento is an Associate Professor with “Habillitation” in the University of Aveiro and the Institute of Telecommunications, where she is leading the Network Architectures and Protocols (NAP) group In March 2012, Susana has co-founded a vehicular networking company, Veniam (www.veniam.com), which builds a seamless low-cost vehicle-based internet infrastructure. Veniam has now a head count of 40, and has now headquarters in Silicon Valley, Singapore and Portugal. In academia she has been involved in several national, European, and Transatlantic projects, such as the Smart Cities infrastructure. The Smart Cities infrastructure in Porto is composed by the vehicular network, denoted as CityNet, which provides Internet access to users in the buses since September 2014, and a sensing infrastructure, denoted as UrbanSense, which provides a low-cost and large range communication support all over the city.