Arne Mertz has been working with modern and not-so-modern C++ codebases for over 15 years in various kinds of embedded and enterprise contexts. He is a mentor and teacher for clean code and modern C++ for colleagues and customers at Zühlke Engineering. Since 2015 he has written more or less frequently about those topics on his blog "Simplify C++!"

Arne Mertz has been working with modern and not-so-modern C++ codebases for over 15 years in various kinds of embedded and enterprise contexts. He is a mentor and teacher for clean code and modern C++ for colleagues and customers at Zühlke Engineerin... Show more

Phd student in QUT, Australia and author of book : The Ultimate Guide to Functions in Power Query: Turn Raw Data into Actionable Insights

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Bruno Miranda (aka Spicy Bruno)

Founder of ChiliBangs | Creator of NFO (Non-Fungible Organization) | Founder of Web3 Women’s Summit

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Bio Updated (2025)

Bruno Miranda, also known as Spicy Bruno, is the founder of ChiliBangs, the largest Web3 community in Portugal and one of the most influential brands bridging Web3, culture, and innovation across Europe.
With a bold vision to democratize Web3 access, Bruno created Web3 Wednesday Lisbon, a weekly gathering connecting builders, visionaries, artists, degens, and institutions to purposefully explore blockchain and community opportunities.

He is the creator of the NFO (Non-Fungible Organization) concept — a revolutionary framework designed to merge the cooperative spirit with Web3 technology, building long-term sustainable ecosystems globally.
Currently, Bruno is rolling out NFO and the Web3 Forest School concepts across Europe, working closely with governments, universities, and local communities.

In 2024–2025, Bruno has expanded his work to East European countries (Romania, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia, Czech Republic) and is building a new international ambassador program to spread Web3 adoption across more than 20 cities.

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Ambassadorships (Active)
• Card3 (Card 3) — Ambassador
• Lumia.org — Ambassador
• Dagama — Ambassador
• Gaimin — Ambassador and Community Manager
• NBX (Next Block Expo) — Official Ambassador
• Vera3 — Ambassador

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Past Partnerships & Collaborations
• Algorand Portugal — Past Partner
• Sui Portugal — Past Partner

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Founder Roles
• ChiliBangs — Founder and Chief Visionary Officer (CVO)
• Web3 Wednesday Lisbon — Founder and CEO
• Web3 Women’s Summit — Founder and CVO

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Speaking Engagements

Confirmed 2025
• BananaConf (Talin) (Confirmed Speaker)
• ETH Lisbon (Side Event Organizer - Web3 Wednesday x ChiliBangs)
• NFC Summit 2025 (Speaker, Partner, Ambassador, Community & Media Partner)
• Potentially ICC Cannes 2025 (Pending Confirmation)
• ETH Budapest (Confirmed Collaboration and Invitation)
• ETH Cluj (Confirmed Invitation)

Past Conferences (2022-2024)
• NBX Berlin 2022 | Warsaw 2023 | Warsaw 2024 | 2025
• NFT NYC 2023
• Zebu London 2024
• WOW Summit 2022
• NFC Summit 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025
• NapulETH 2024 | 2025
• ETH Bucharest 2024 | 2025
• AI Crypto Conference Lisbon 2024
• Blockchance Hamburg 2023
• Participant at NFT Paris 2024 (Bridging and Networking)

Institutional Appearances
• ICI Private Summit — Parliament of Romania (AI and Blockchain Summit)
• Speaker at ETH Bucharest (Attended by Victor Ponta, former Prime Minister)
• Meetings with Portuguese Parliament members (from left, right, and liberal parties) during university blockchain events.
• Partnership development at Nova University (Lisbon) with ChiliBangs and Cova10 brands.

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Special Projects and Programs
• NFO (Non-Fungible Organization) — Creator and Global Expansion Leader
• Web3 Forest School — Integrating Web3 into alternative education across Europe
• Building Blockchain Bridges — Connecting Poland, Romania, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia, Czech Republic through Web3 communities.

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Areas of Expertise
• Community Building & Strategy
• NFT Utilities & Community Activation
• Blockchain Ecosystem Development
• Strategic Advisory for Web3 Projects
• Government & Institutional Blockchain Integration
• Social Impact Programs (Education, Sustainability)
• Public Speaking & Workshops

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Roadmap (2025–2035)
• Expand NFO hubs in more than 20 cities with ambassadors.
• Launch new ChiliBangs Brain Network and Web3 Wednesdays in key cities.
• Create curated exhibitions to present real Web3 innovation to governments and institutions.
• Focus blockchain partnerships on Solana, Apechain, Ordinals, Avalanche, and Polkadot ecosystems.
• Develop large-scale ambassador programs, workshops, and hackathons.
• Establish partnerships with major blockchains and expand influence across Europe.

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Online Presence
• Instagram: @bruno_spicy
• X (Twitter): @brunospicy
• ChiliBangs Instagram: @chilibangs
• Website: chilibangs.org (New upgrade coming soon)

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Sessions

How NFTs Have the Power to Create Impactful Communities

Explore how NFT technology can lead to strong, trusted communities built on shared values and impact.

Brands That Change Lives

How powerful brands like Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Netflix, and Google have reshaped human behavior and inspired innovation — and how Web3 brands can follow the same path.

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Short Professional Summary (for Sessionize or Conferences)

Bruno Miranda (aka Spicy Bruno) is a pioneering Web3 community builder, founder of ChiliBangs, and creator of the NFO (Non-Fungible Organization) concept. Recognized as one of the Top 10 Web3 figures in Europe, he leads transformative blockchain programs across Portugal and Eastern Europe, working closely with governments, universities, and private sector leaders. Bruno is the founder of the Web3 Women’s Summit and a multi-time speaker at ETH Conferences, NFC Summit, NBX, NFT NYC, and Zebu London.

Bruno Miranda (aka Spicy Bruno) Founder of ChiliBangs | Creator of NFO (Non-Fungible Organization) | Founder of Web3 Women’s Summit ⸻ Bio Updated (2025) Bruno Miranda, also known as Spicy Bruno, is the founder of ChiliBangs, the largest W... Show more

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Her credentials speak volumes: She is a regular speaker at Oxford, Cambridge, and London Business Schools, amongst other places, featured on the Discovery Channel across three continents, and founder of Heart Healer Ltd, Helen Millar and Hearty. But Helen's true power lies in her ability to bridge seemingly disparate worlds—corporate strategy and spiritual wisdom, psychological insight and business acumen.
Having transformed her own life from multiple suicide attempts, ill health and poverty consciousness to creating a thriving portfolio, doing work she loves helping people transform, and traveling the world. Helen understands that transformation is not a linear path but a courageous leap of faith. Her approach combines the latest psychological acumen, ancient wisdom teachings, emotional intelligence, and quantum physics into a unique methodology she calls “Head to Heart Living” and “Head to Heart Leadership”.
For those ready to stop playing small, and seeking more authenticity, Helen offers a radical solution to complete recalibration.

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Currently, Erin is a Senior Developer Community Advocate at Label Studio. At Label Studio — she empowers the open source community through education and advocacy efforts. Outside of her day job, Erin is a comedian, graduate technical advisor, content creator, triathlete, avid reader, and dog parent.

Most importantly, she believes in the power of being unabashedly "into things" and works to help friends, strangers, colleagues, community builders, students, and whoever else might cross her path find their thing.

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Eriol has been working as a designer for 10+ years working in for-profits and then NGO's and open-source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace-building and crisis response technology. Eriol now works at Superbloom design, research, open-source and technology projects.

Eriol is a part-time funded PhD researcher at Newcastle University's Open Lab looking at how designers participate in humanitarian and human rights focussed open-source software projects.

They are also part of the core teams at Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/) and Human Rights Centred Design working group (https://hrcd.pubpub.org/) and Sustain UX & Design working group (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/design-and-ux/) and help hosts podcast about open source and design (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/)

Eriol is a non-binary, queer person who uses they/them pronouns.

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Chanél D. Adams is the founder of The Borderline Crisis and creator of Healing Pages, a transformative journal designed to help people with complex trauma and borderline personality disorder reconnect with their bodies, stories, and sense of sacred purpose. Through a unique blend of trauma-informed care, depth psychology, and soulful creativity, her work invites others into a safe, expansive space where healing is not just about symptom relief—but soul retrieval.

Certified in Trauma-Informed Coaching through The Centre for Healing, Chanél brings both professional training and lived experience to her work. As someone who has navigated the depths of severe BPD and complex trauma, she guides others with a rare combination of clinical understanding and personal insight. Her writing is deeply informed by somatic practices, archetypal psychology, and positive psychology, helping others reframe their struggles as initiations into deeper meaning and transformation.

She is also a guest contributor for the CPTSD Foundation, where she shares practices that help trauma survivors regulate their nervous systems, rebuild trust with their bodies, and access the healing power of writing. Her journal Healing Pages and upcoming workshop series create sacred containers for people—especially women navigating the aftermath of trauma—to rediscover their creative spirit, establish boundaries with compassion, and return home to themselves.

With a voice that is both grounded and visionary, Chanél offers a much-needed alternative to the pathologizing frameworks of mainstream mental health. Her message is clear: true healing is nonlinear, deeply personal, and always possible when we dare to face our pain with both tenderness and truth.

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Ashleigh Pandora Montford is a dynamic entrepreneur, strategist, and Founder/CEO of The Opia Designs Company, specializing in business development, grant writing, and marketing. Super passionate about growth and community impact, she empowers individuals and organizations to scale their visions through strategic funding and innovative solutions.

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Tomislav is involved in raising innovation culture in the organizations, scouting new technology trends, creating innovation programs and a new kind of innovation campaigns. He has more than a decade of experience in Innovation and Technology Management. During years, he was the author of several innovation reward programs which raised innovation culture and a special series of inno-challenges tailored for software developers.

Through many trainings for corporates, but also entrepreneurs and students he tries to encourage different ways of thinking using future scenarios and build a capacity to innovate.

He is author of the book "Developing Innovation - Innovation Management in IT Companies" where he writes about the examples of the innovation process in various IT companies. A book on innovation management and creativity on Croatian “Free your Creativity” is a manual for starters in this topic. He is also the author of “Creative Cards” – a tool for raising creativity capabilities, idea generation, idea reshaping and self-evaluation.

He strongly believes in bottom-up innovations, creativity of everyone in the system, intrapreneurship and simple and fast innovation campaigns. He is a history lover, and many of his works connect history and future.

Find more on 7innovation.net

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Kolapo Imam is the Founder and Lead Facilitator at Prodcademy, an institute focused on raising the next generation of Product Leaders. He is a Product Manager with experience in building API products that power payments, virtual accounts, and funds transfer across Africa. His work focuses on developer experience, product strategy, and cross-functional delivery of scalable fintech infrastructure.

Prior to this, Kolapo served as a Product Marketing Manager at Nexford University, leading initiatives across product adoption, B2B positioning, and competitive intelligence. He has also worked in product and growth roles at PropertyPro Nigeria, Versus Africa, and through multiple consulting projects.

With a unique background spanning product marketing, technical product management, and tech sales, Kolapo brings a deep understanding of how to build and position business, enterprise and consumer products for growth. In 2022, he was nominated by HackerNoon for Product Management, Business Growth and Strategy.

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Leontin Čapo Milenić, poznat i po autorskom pseudonimu Eric Johansson, hrvatski je književnik, lektor, glazbenik i prevoditelj. Član je Društva hrvatskih književnika, a po struci je magistar hrvatskog jezika, književnosti i povijesti. Sa svojim bendom Lyran Lions je napravio prvu eurovizijsku navijačku himnu kao podršku glazbeniku Baby Lasagni.
Piše i objavljuje fantasy, horor i SF romane i priče, nerijetko s elementima humora, satire i groteske. Objavljuje priče i pjesme u časopisima i zbirkama u Hrvatskoj, Srbiji, Sloveniji, Sjevernoj Makedoniji i Bosni i Hercegovini.
Objavio je žanrovske knjige Kordina šaka (Edicije Božičević, 2011), Izlet smrti (Udruga Krug knjiga, 2019), Kraljevstvo nade (Hangar 7, 2020) i Djeca crnih očiju (Planjax Komerc, 2021), "Kordine kronike - Magija alkohola" (Zagrebačka naklada, 2022), "Posljednji princ Lire" (Planjax Komerc, 2022), Put za nikamo (Planjax Komerc, 2025.)

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I'm a programming enthusiast pursuing Computer Science at Imperial College London. I started writing code about ten years ago, majorly covering the fields of Android App development and Full Stack Development.

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Hi there !
For the past five years, I've been on a rewarding journey as an engineering manager—leading teams, learning continuously, and striving to make work just a little more human (and fun!).
Before stepping into management, I rolled up my sleeves as a 3D developer then a full stack engineer, building web and mobile experiences and solving bugs :)

Today, I have the joy (and sometimes the challenge!) of managing both a vibrant team of software engineers and a dynamic group of RPA engineers. My mission? To design reliable and scalable systems and to foster a culture where experimentation is encouraged and where everyone feels they’re in the right place.

People, communication patterns, and the ever-evolving world of work fascinate me. I’m especially intrigued by how AI will reshape our jobs.

At PayFit, I’m currently navigating our transition to Domain-Driven Design while experimenting with team topologies, the 360 impact on the organization business, people and tech wise is fascinating.

I believe in tackling technical debt gracefully and my goal is to do so while delivering business value and empowering teams to take ownership and make decisions.

More than happy to share my learnings and acquire new ideas on the way!

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Frank Köhne is co-head of viadee's Data Science division. He has a research background and has spent the last 15 years coordinating the company's collaborations with universities in the region, but he has also spent a lot of time on software development and architecture, often in insurance or logistics.
He is currently leading a BMBF-funded consortium with the goal of leveraging process workarounds in the context of Industry 4.0 for process innovation.

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She is the cohost of the Empathy in Tech podcast and a LinkedIn Learning instructor, where over 75,000 learners have taken her courses on effective communication. A sought-after keynote speaker, Andrea brings a unique blend of deep technical knowledge and human-centered leadership to the stage, helping organizations improve collaboration, reduce friction, and scale with clarity.

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Dr. Elayna’s work has been featured in global media, including FORBES, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, SUCCESS Magazine, Inc., Authority Magazine, KTLA, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Yahoo!, CNN en Español, the CW, Real Leaders, Entrepreneur on Fire, Reader’s Digest, The Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, Univision, Thrive Global, Telemundo, LATINA, Good Morning America, BRAINZ Magazine, Despierta America, and more! She’s a contributing writer for Entrepreneur.com. She’s also been named one of the Top Latina Influencers in the USA and named one of the Top 125 Impactful Leaders and a Woman of Influence by SUCCESS Magazine.

To learn more, visit thepositivemom.com/ef, connect on LinkedIn, and follow her @thepositivemom.

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A sought-after keynote speaker and panelist, Kenisha delivers transformative sessions on women’s leadership, workplace equity, antiracist parenting, and inclusive organizational change. She is passionate about empowering leaders, dismantling systemic inequities, and shaping policies that drive lasting impact. Whether working with executive teams, government officials, or grassroots movements, Kenisha brings bold leadership, deep expertise, and a commitment to driving equity-centered transformation.

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Tom Ridge is a father of 4, an engineer, and long time remote worker and leader.

When he does find a scrap of time, he's known to run a D&D game or three.

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Dr. Sandra So Hee Chi Kim is a cultural studies scholar working at the intersections of transpacific Asian American studies, critical Korean studies, and the study of modern empire. Her research has appeared in "Diaspora," "Positions," "Korean Studies," and "Occasion," among other journals, and is currently working on a book manuscript entitled _Kinning Empire: Transcoloniality, Kinship, and Korean Historical Trauma_. She is also the founder of the grassroots community organization Asian American Justice + Innovation Lab (https://www.aajil.org).

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Pai da Cecília e do Inácio, esposo da Ana Lúcia, membro da Comunidade de Vida Cristã (CVX), curitibano e sofredor do Coritiba. Desde a pandemia, optou por morar na zona rural de Piraquara (Região Metropolitana da capital paranaense), onde cria galinh... Show more

Roman Rackwitz is an international authority in the field of gamification and intrinsic experience design. Already recognized as one of the top 10 experts worldwide in 2012, Rackwitz develops, communicates and advises government institutions and commercial enterprises worldwide with the school of thought of 'non-Skinnerian gamification'. He is also regularly invited as an expert in media such as TV, radio and print.
In addition to the consulting company Engaginglab and the software Tabi, Rackwitz founded CBO Media, a publisher that focuses on topics related to behavioral economics in order to bring this knowledge to the board levels of companies in a practical way.

Roman Rackwitz is an international authority in the field of gamification and intrinsic experience design. Already recognized as one of the top 10 experts worldwide in 2012, Rackwitz develops, communicates and advises government institutions and comm... Show more