THE STORYTELLERS

Pigalle is an Experience Designer with expertise in arts and sciences, producing experiences for various organizations and teaching at a renowned university. She also founded the School of Experience Design, offering courses and consultancy to empower individuals and companies.

Christopher Kai is a renowned author and speaker, known for his speaker training program and entrepreneurial community. He has assisted clients globally in generating $200 million and created a unique program for homeless youth called Mondays at the Mission, recognized by Elon Musk.

Anastasia Gramatchikova is an Innovation Catalyst, Facilitation Artist, Creative Leadership Coach, Founder of Innovation Orchestra, reimagining possibilities, transforming teams, shaping innovation culture, composing tomorrow's prototypes.

His current position as the German CEO of the world’s most innovative, inspiring and first carbon negative brewery is a dream come true. His professional path led him from his home town’s small brewery Allersheimer to ABInBev and Mars Petcare, focusing on business transformations for products that create great moments and happiness.

Klaus always finds the best, shortest and most effective way to the fulfilment of customers’ needs. He is a strong communicator with an entrepreneurial mindset, self-driven, quick to grasp and implement new ideas, cooperative, experienced in cross-cultural environments, has excellent negotiation skills and is creative.

Dan Podjed , PhD, is an anthropologist dedicated to developing ethnography-based solutions and innovative research methods at the intersection of different scientific fields. He is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts and Senior Advisor at the Institute for Innovation and Development of the University of Ljubljana.

Katarina is a research associate at the Anton Melik Institute of Geography ZRC SAZU, lecturer at the 3rd-level doctoral study in Environmental and Regional Studies.

Stephan is an Experienced Managing Partner with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and advertising industry. Strong business development professional skilled in Event Management, Editing, Public Speaking, and Media Relations.

Mary Kirillova is the CEO at Baltic Event Industry Club. The biggest Pan-Baltic association of event professionals.Mary is also Founder of the Baltic events news blog bestbalticevents.com. Founder of EventCV.com, a global marketing job search for event-agencies and corporates around Europe.

Aurimas is a businessman, manager and founder of the third largest event organization company in Lithuania Rekurai. Aurimas is a very creative, innovative, and reasonably person who expresses his opinion.

Janne is the CEO of Ystra and board member of The Swedish Association of Communication Agencies, IHM Business School and Gothenburg Marketing Association. He is also an International speaker at large corporate events and symposiums.

Juho is the CEO of ME Studio. ME Studio is an event marketing company, which is focused on serving companies and communities in various event marketing functions in Finland and internationally. Juho has decades of extensive international experience and a large network in different areas of events.

Marcus is the CEO of Appetite for Production, one of Norways leading event agencies. He has more than 20+ years of event experience working with communication, sponsorship- and event markering from both sides of the table. Marcus is also a former board member of the Norwegian Sponsorship and Event Association and his passion is to help the event industry grow.

Co-founder of Global Virtual Solutions and the CEO of Miltton Events. His passion for 20+ years has been helping others to create unique experiences and host different event around the world. He has helped more than 250 clients to reach their goals and make over 200 events annually, been a a key-note speaker and content developer.

Maarten established LiveCom Alliance in 2016 as a non profit foundation on the belief that the live communication industry deserves a pan-European approach and audience, and would benefit from an overarching dedicated yet independent institution. Maarten thrives the pan-European industry creating a stronger, more sustainable and more interesting playing field by introducing the first pan-European Code of Ethics (2017) and first pan-European Pitch Guidelines (2018).

Miro Antić is the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer at M2Communications, one of the leading experiential marketing and event production agencies in the region

Ivo is the owner & Managing Director of ENITED Business Events GmbH. Since 1999, he has been involved with a number of national and international educational institutions and sharing his experience and knowledge through a variety of speaking engagements. Currently, he holds a Board member position with EMBA (Event Marketing Board Austria) and with LiveCom Alliance, as well as being an active member of ICCA and 27NAMES.

Jordan Waid is a seasoned creative agency veteran, a thought leader in SMEs, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, and an innovative design thinker. As an executive consultant, his passion lies in delivering business innovation, digital transformation, and building effective leadership teams, especially in the new remote working hybrid world. Jordan's true passion is inventing: creating new scenarios, concepts, rules, ways of thinking, experiencing, and sharing.

Jens Mayer has built his career helping brands build strong relationships with the people that matter most to them, through live and digital marketing. He leads Jack Morton Worldwide’s (JMW) offices for the German-speaking market and has more than 20 years of experience in the brand experience industry.

Jan-Jaap is the owner-moderator at Masters in Moderation. He is a firm believer that a carefully selected moderator-facilitator will make meetings more effective, more fun and definitely more worthwhile. His dream is to raise the standard of meetings worldwide, by providing them with the best moderators.

Janos is an Experienced International Sales Director with a demonstrated history of working in the events services industry. Skilled in Translation, Sales Management, Event Management, Digital Marketing, and Project Management.

Henrik von Arnold acts as a speaking partner/advisor to DMOs in their ambition to start or further develop their convention bureaus' strategy and actions. He also does lecturing at universities and acts as an inspirational speaker for DMOs.

Jose is the founder of the Eventoplus Group of event and MICE related publications and events. He is an entrepreneur, trainer and speaker. Jose has been fully dedicated to the events and MICE industry for the last 18 years, as an organiser, as a final client and as a professional media publisher.

Kim Myhre is the Founder and Managing Partner of Experience Designed, a strategic advisory and creative ideas agency that applies purpose-led design principals to create transformative brand experience strategies. He is an experience designer, consultant, speaker, guest lecturer, writer, creator, innovation activist and brand storyteller.

Thiemo is an Austrian entrepreneur, digital leader, passionate maker and curious mind. Having dropped out of high school at the age of 15, he is a true believer of life-long learning and a strong advocate of leading continuous change and driving innovation. He is the co-founder of Fifteen Seconds.

Ivan M. Petrovic is at present President of the Managing Board at EXIT Foundation and responsible for running social activities and public affairs of EXIT Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia), Sea Dance Festival(Budva, Montenegro), Sea Star Festival(Umag, Croatia), Get EXITed Strumica (North Macedonia) and Founder of Public Idea Consulting Agency.

Dragan is responsible for development of the SPORTO brand and Head of Content at SPORTO Conference, the leading sports marketing & sponsorship event in SE Europe. In the role of strategist at Sport Media Focus agency his specialized fields include sponsorship strategy, Olympic marketing and athlete branding.

Boris Kovaček is the Co-owner of Pepermint, responsible for managing agency projects as well as conducting business operations. He is executive director and co-owner of the Weekend Media Festival as well as Project Manager at the World Handball Championship, the European Water Polo Championship, Terraneo Music Festival, Asian Beach Games 2010.

The former tennis player pursued his education in London, studying Sports Management and Marketing. Now a creative director at Sport Media Focus, he plans concepts, develops sponsorship strategies, creates brand stories, and directs ads and short films. He has also been involved in organizing major sports events in Slovenia and holds a Ph.D. in Marketing Communication. Additionally, he occasionally lectures at the Faculty of Sports.

Boris Kovaček is the Co-owner of Pepermint, responsible for managing agency projects as well as conducting business operations. He is executive director and co-owner of the Weekend Media Festival as well as Project Manager at the World Handball Championship, the European Water Polo Championship, Terraneo Music Festival, Asian Beach Games 2010.

Ivan M. Petrovic is at present President of the Managing Board at EXIT Foundation and responsible for running social activities and public affairs of EXIT Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia), Sea Dance Festival(Budva, Montenegro), Sea Star Festival(Umag, Croatia), Get EXITed Strumica (North Macedonia) and Founder of Public Idea Consulting Agency.

Thiemo is an Austrian entrepreneur, digital leader, passionate maker and curious mind. Having dropped out of high school at the age of 15, he is a true believer of life-long learning and a strong advocate of leading continuous change and driving innovation. He is the co-founder of Fifteen Seconds.

Ivo is the owner & Managing Director of ENITED Business Events GmbH. Since 1999, he has been involved with a number of national and international educational institutions and sharing his experience and knowledge through a variety of speaking engagements. Currently, he holds a Board member position with EMBA (Event Marketing Board Austria) and with LiveCom Alliance, as well as being an active member of ICCA and 27NAMES.

Norbert is the CEO of Event Arena and co-creator of EVENTVERSE, a comprehensive system of companies and products connected with events and live marketing. He is a believer in personal contact and live communication and a builder of a community of event professionals.

Miro Antić is the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer at M2Communications, one of the leading experiential marketing and event production agencies in the region

Manuela is the founder of one of today's leading communication agencies in the region, Komunikacijski Laboratorij. The agency is the organizer of the internationally awarded project Future Tense Conference, a future-oriented, internationally awarded B2B conference focusing on the future of business. She is also the ambassador of female entrepreneurship in Croatia and an active member of a number of business associations.

Janos is an Experienced International Sales Director with a demonstrated history of working in the events services industry. Skilled in Translation, Sales Management, Event Management, Digital Marketing, and Project Management.

Juraj, former Chief Meeting Designer at Slido, brings vast experience in designing and moderating meetings. Leading Conventa Crossover 2023, he'll inspire greatness among speakers and the audience.