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M44 Meeting Center
Johann-Krane-Weg 44
Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, 48149
Germany

Bernhard Wolff

performer, creativity expert

Bernhard Wolff is an expert in creativity. Even as a child he fell in love with the stage and discovered his talent for surprising people with language. As a student he studied Business through the day and thrilled audiences with his comedy performances in the evenings. He went on to become the youngest copywriter in one of Germany's most creative advertising agencies, Springer & Jacoby. He has been invited to over 50 TV shows to perform his act of speaking backwards - most recently on the new Eckart von Hirschhausen show “Was kann der Mensch?”. On our stage, he will talk about what it means to be playfully creative and unique.

Daniela Marzavan

Design Thinker, facilitator, pracademic

Daniela is a “Change Darer” - that is what she named her company and that is how she lives and works. She was born in Romania, grew up in Germany and spends her work and private life between the Iberien Peninsula and Antananarivo. She describes herself as a “Pracademic” (half practitioner, half academic). She was one of the first academics to bring the innovative method Design Thinking into university teaching, she was Community Manager at the Berlin coworking space betahaus, and she has worked for the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) as well as other well-known organisations. Daniela has made it her goal to promote and relish change.

Ele & Julia Janke

trapeze artists

Duo Elja are originally from Frankfurt, but you could say that their real home is on the trapeze. With their unique blend of gymnastics and talk they have toured the whole world, being on stage at the Cirque de Soleil and other renowned shows.

Heike Mersmann-Hoffmann

English teacher, AI expert

Heike has taught in various institutions. Currently, she teaches English at the University of Münster Language Center to students from a wide range of disciplines. She has been using digital tools and learning platforms in her foreign language classes since the 1990s - whether for organizing student exchanges, planning lessons, carrying out research, or learning. This has allowed her to combine her interests: a passion for teaching English as a foreign language, and experimenting with digital tools in the classroom.

Michael Buttgereit

brand expert, design professor

Michael is a designer by training. In 1992, he founded his own design agency Gute Botschafter. In 2023, he was appointed professor for design at the ecosign Academy for Design in Cologne.

Paula Menninghaus

Entrepreneur & paramedic

Paula is an entrepreneur and a paramedic, a yoga teacher and a boxing coach. At the age of 18 she founded her company “Strong Partners” and was one of Germany’s youngest women ambulance drivers. She co-hosts the conference format “12MIN.ME” in Münster, she holds workshops for crisis management and as if that was not enough, she does a lot of charity work.

Stefanie Voss

Coach, author, keynote speaker

Stefanie led a business career in a big corporate, from sales to corporate communications, for more than 15 years. Since then, she's been working on a self-employed basis as a coach and speaker. Although Stefanie has always been fascinated by pirates, she was very glad that she didn’t meet any when she sailed around the world.

Tobias Gantner

Healthcare futurist

Doc_tobi carries out experiments in the future of medicine. After studying medicine, philosophy and law in Germany and abroad, and working with some of the most renowned pharmaceutical companies in the world, he founded his own company - HealthCare Futurists, an “adventure playground for health solutions”. He tours Germany with his MakerMobil and tries out digital solutions for the health provisions/care of the future.