Speakers 2023
Prof. Erik van de Loo
Psychoanalyst & Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD, Co-Founder & Program Co-Director of “The Executive Master in Change”
Sergei Loznitsa
Director, Author & Producer/ Ukraine
Dawn Porter
Documentary filmmaker, founder of Trilogy Films/ USA
Rula Ghani
Former First Lady of Afghanistan, Past President of WBFN (World Bank Family Network) 2008-2010, social worker
Dr. Ashraf Ghani
Former President of Afghanistan
HE Dr. Fatou Bensouda
Gambian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom/ Gambia
Elizabeth Klinck
Archive Producer & Owner E Klinck Research/ Canada
Louise Rosen
Editorial & business consultant, producer, sales agent/ USA
Lucio Mollica
Documentary Director & Producer/ Germany
Angela Steidele
Author/ Germany
Maryam Ebrahimi
Producer & director, Cat Eye Production/ Sweden
Gian Micalessin
War Correspondent, Il Giornale / Italy
Eva Wolfangel
Science & tech journalist/ Germany
Ruth Berry
Producer, director & writer/ Australia, Germany
Anil Ananthaswamy
Author & Journalist/ India
Joanna J. Bryson
Expert in Intelligence — both natural and artificial, Professor of Ethics and Technology, The Hertie School of Governance/ UK, Germany
Elisabeth Hagstedt
Head of Content & Broadcast, Histoire TV/ France
Mohammed Ali Naqvi
Producer & Director/ Pakistan
Passant Elagroudy
HCI/AI Postdoc, DFKI - German Centre for Artificial Intelligence/ Germany
Chris Hastings
Executive Producer & Editorial Manager PBS World Channel/ USA
Lucie Kon
Commissioning Editor BBC Storyville/ Great Britain
Bence Máté
documentary filmmaker, former Middle East correspondent/ Hungary
Pál Dániel Rényi
Editor, Political Reporter, and Investigative Journalist/ Hunga
Prof. Dr. Jan Hegemann
Founding partner & lawyer in media law, Raue/ Germany
Fabrice Puchault
Head of Commissioning for documentaries & magazines, Arte/ France
Andreas Hamburger
Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Moderator, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin (IPU)/ Germany
Hérade Feist
Deputy Editor in Chief, Arte/ France
William Irigoyen
Moderator, Journalist (Anchor, Reporter), Arte/ France
Igor Bergant
Journalist, TV News Host, RTV Slovenia/ Slovenia
Jason Steinhauer
Founder & CEO, History Communication Institute/ USA
Stephanie Serafyn Black
Archaeologist & public historian, Durham University/ UK
Alex Hryniewicz
Director of Content, Little Dot Studios/ UK
Igor Cașu
Director of the National Agency for Archives & Lecturer at the State University of Moldova, Chișinău/ Moldova
Cara Mertes
Founding Director of the International Resource for Impact and Storytelling (IRIS), award-winning producer & director/ US
Jade Nair
Curator of Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town/ South Africa
Ania Szczepanska
Researcher & Documentary Filmmaker, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne/ France, Poland
Gunnar Dedio
Managing Director PROGRESS - LOOKSfilm/ Germany
Dr. Dorna Safaian
Researcher Visual & Media Studies, University of Freiburg/ Germany
Adel Ksiksi
Manager of Programming, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel/ Qatar
Danny Graydon
Senior Lecturer (Screen)/ Contextual Studies Lead, BA (Hons) Digital Animation Moderator, University of Hertfordshire / Great Britain
Tom Matzek
Commissioning Editor, ORF/ Austria
Khuê Phạm
Writer & Journalist, Die ZEIT/ Germany, Vietnam
Adam Gee
Commissioning Editor, Creative Artists Agency/ Great Britain
Susan Neiman
Philosopher, Writer, Director, Einstein Forum/ Germany, USA