Humanities & Social Sciences

Esteemed speakers contributing their insights into human culture, behavior, and societal development

Satya Das

Satya Das

Eminent thought leader focusing on actionable solutions at the confluence of Climate Crisis, Conflict, and Corruption. Expert Futurecaster. Influential author. Seasoned strategist with service on 50+ government endeavours. Experienced Board leader in public, private, philanthropic organisations.

Eminent thought leader focusing on actionable solutions at the confluence of Climate Crisis, Conflict, and Corruption. Expert Futurecaster. Influential author. Seasoned strategist with service on 50+ government endeavours. Experienced Board leader in... Show more

Richard Friedl

Richard Friedl

Richard Friedl is the founder and general manager of ITSM Partner, Austria's market leader in ITSM training and consulting. Richard has been in the IT industry since 1989, starting in IT operations. For over 20 years he has been an accredited trainer for ITIL, DevOps and COBIT (besides others), an experienced consultant for over 100 service management projects. Together with his team he organizes Service Space, the biggest yearly Conference for Service Management and Sustainability in Austria. Richard has a Master degree in Ecomomical Psychology and works as an external lecturer for several universities. The 4 day work week (that includes 6 weeks of paid days off) leaves him enough time for traveling, gardening, reading weird books and meeting friends.

Richard Friedl is the founder and general manager of ITSM Partner, Austria's market leader in ITSM training and consulting. Richard has been in the IT industry since 1989, starting in IT operations. For over 20 years he has been an accredited trainer... Show more

Thanawat Thomas

Thanawat Thomas

Director/Founder at PACHI-FUNK - a creative lab exploring IRL x Digital experiences | Co-Founder at Anspar |Currently a mPhil/PhD (Human Rights) Law.

Director/Founder at PACHI-FUNK - a creative lab exploring IRL x Digital experiences | Co-Founder at Anspar |Currently a mPhil/PhD (Human Rights) Law. Show more

Stackie Robinson

Stackie Robinson

Meet Stackie Robinson, a pioneering entrepreneur from Philly who is reshaping the world of finance and decentralization. Stackie discovered crypto and its potential for disruption, leading her to the financial markets where she invested in traditional finance and the OTC markets for years. Determined to make a difference, she also founded Stockianas, a decentralized social media app that gamifies financial education for women. In addition to Stockianas, Stackie is co-founder of The OTC Club and an avid learner, with a never-ending thirst for knowledge. In her free time, she enjoys delving into a wide range of subjects, including history, government, economics, philosophy, and more. If you want a financial literacy that's both informative and enjoyable, be sure to check out Stockianas.

Meet Stackie Robinson, a pioneering entrepreneur from Philly who is reshaping the world of finance and decentralization. Stackie discovered crypto and its potential for disruption, leading her to the financial markets where she invested in traditiona... Show more

Lisa Gibbons

Lisa Gibbons

A self starter, blockchain advocate with a love for creative writing. Lisa began writing about post-colonial identities in 2012 and has kept up her love for the written word. She is a writer by day, crypto trader by night and loves helping to help drive innovation in green blockchain projects. She enjoys writing poetry, foraging for wild foods and scrolling through NFT's in her spare time.

A self starter, blockchain advocate with a love for creative writing. Lisa began writing about post-colonial identities in 2012 and has kept up her love for the written word. She is a writer by day, crypto trader by night and loves helping to help dr... Show more

Eraina Ferguson

Eraina Ferguson

Eraina Ferguson is a special needs advocate, journalist, and TEDx event curator, and TEDx speaker. Her company, My Good Life, enables families of children with special needs to live their best life despite their circumstances. Her recent monologue, Listen to Her, was read by actress Marla Gibbs and featured at the WACO Theatre’s 50in50 event. Her writing has been featured on NBC Universal, Red Tricycle, LA Parents Magazine, and the LA Times. Eraina lives in California with her husband and children.

Eraina Ferguson is a special needs advocate, journalist, and TEDx event curator, and TEDx speaker. Her company, My Good Life, enables families of children with special needs to live their best life despite their circumstances. Her recent monologue, L... Show more

Arno Coppens

Arno Coppens

BI Developer/architect who loves to joke around, read, tinker, or hike with his
wife and cats. Maybe some day I'll even get around to trying my hand at blogging and such.

BI Developer/architect who loves to joke around, read, tinker, or hike with his wife and cats. Maybe some day I'll even get around to trying my hand at blogging and such. Show more

Vidya Raman

Vidya Raman

Vidya Raman is an award-winning speaker whose passion for making meaning out of the mundane and living your potential is respected and admired by her corporate clients. She spends most of her free time digging into the latest research in personal development. Her authentic, captivating presentation style is designed to motivate her audiences to take immediate action and reap its rewards. Using her own story of being underestimated at work to finally finding her voice and charting a successful career path as a foundation, she has crafted a program that is sure to kickstart a growth journey for anyone who desires satisfaction at work. Her mission is to share her framework for finding meaning and fulfillment at work with audiences across the world. Nothing gives her greater joy than witnessing the positive impact of her message.
She has over 25 years of experience in Financial Services engaged in technology, project leadership, and executive roles in Fortune 500 companies. Her balanced approach to employee engagement, and strategic results helped build her transformational leadership credentials.
Vidya holds a Master of Computer Applications(MCA) degree and is a certified Project Management Professional(PMP), Distinguished Toastmaster(DTM), and Maxwell Leadership Certified Speaker and Coach.

Vidya Raman is an award-winning speaker whose passion for making meaning out of the mundane and living your potential is respected and admired by her corporate clients. She spends most of her free time digging into the latest research in personal dev... Show more

Luke Humphries

Luke Humphries

I am a Missionary in Guatemala and have been working here for 18 years in the Guatemalan highlands with a Mayan tribe, the Kaqchikels, helping my parents bring free education to hundreds and hundreds of children. After getting into Cyrpto and NFTs, I embarked on a journey to further help those in need by creating Mandox LLC, that not only benefits its holders, but also supports the mission work going on here in Guatemala and helps improves the lives being helped here.

I am a Missionary in Guatemala and have been working here for 18 years in the Guatemalan highlands with a Mayan tribe, the Kaqchikels, helping my parents bring free education to hundreds and hundreds of children. After getting into Cyrpto and NFTs, I... Show more

Svet Nunev

Svet Nunev

Music & Digital Consultant based in London. Clients include musicians, crypto companies and record labels. Degree-qualified in music business and technology with a recent master thesis on infrastructural sustainability of the music NFT market. Former music writer and producer for artists and corporate clients like Shell, Astra Zeneca, Yahoo.

Music & Digital Consultant based in London. Clients include musicians, crypto companies and record labels. Degree-qualified in music business and technology with a recent master thesis on infrastructural sustainability of the music NFT market. Former... Show more

Hugo Seureau

Hugo Seureau

Hugues (“Hugo”) is Equalithon.com co-founder and CEO. With a background in software strategy, HR entrepreneurship, sales, and marketing, he is the strategic lead behind the Equalithon concept and community.

“I wanted to create an HR company with a purpose, back in 2017, when the #MeToo movement started”. That led to building something for the cause of all underrepresented talent in tech.

Hugues (“Hugo”) is Equalithon.com co-founder and CEO. With a background in software strategy, HR entrepreneurship, sales, and marketing, he is the strategic lead behind the Equalithon concept and community. “I wanted to create an HR company with ... Show more

Sofie Schönborn

Sofie Schönborn

Sofie is a researcher at Technical University of Munich, studying the interplay between actors in the tech industry, political decisionmakers and the public. She combines a degree in Technology Policy at University of Cambridge with previous experience in the cloud industry and cybersecurity. Sofie is a passionate internet policy advocate, representing youth voices in the discourse such as in the 16th UN Internet Governance Forum. Currently, she engages in several initiatives on engaging young people in matters of privacy, future technologies, and the EU's digital policies.

Sofie is a researcher at Technical University of Munich, studying the interplay between actors in the tech industry, political decisionmakers and the public. She combines a degree in Technology Policy at University of Cambridge with previous experien... Show more

Marie Jarry

Marie Jarry

J’ai commencé à travailler en mode Agile, utilisant les principes et valeurs associés en 2009, année où je suis devenue maman. Pour moi, faire le parallèle entre ma vie professionnelle et mon rôle de parent est devenu une évidence et une nécessité au fil du temps. D’un naturel pragmatique et ayant besoin d’être dans l’action, j’accompagne mes enfants,  tous deux ayant des troubles DYS,  avec mes pratiques agile depuis maintenant plus de 10 ans.

Eux me permettent également d’enrichir la manière dont j’accompagne la mise en place de l’Agile en entreprise.  

Grace à tout cela je continue à explorer, expérimenter, m’adapter, recommencer, avec mes enfants et mes confrères agilistes.

J’ai commencé à travailler en mode Agile, utilisant les principes et valeurs associés en 2009, année où je suis devenue maman. Pour moi, faire le parallèle entre ma vie professionnelle et mon rôle de parent est devenu une évidence et une nécessité au... Show more

Paul Gibbons

Paul Gibbons

Paul wrote the first book on The Science of Organizational Change - and since then it has been his mission to bring science, particularly behavioral science, to the change world.

He has degrees in neurochemistry, philosophy, and organizational behavior, and has done graduate level work in neuroscience, economics, and sociology.

In 2001, he founded Europe's first "integral" consulting firm, specializing in "teal" organizations. After selling that firm, and before joining IBM, he was a professor of Business Ethics and Leadership.

Paul wrote the first book on The Science of Organizational Change - and since then it has been his mission to bring science, particularly behavioral science, to the change world. He has degrees in neurochemistry, philosophy, and organizational beh... Show more

Fernanda Souza

Fernanda Souza

On social media aka @leitoraincomum, she is a student of Systems Analysis and Development, is currently coordinator of the Feministech community, host of the podcast Criando Monstrinhos, where she talks about being a mother of a teenager, in addition to having done programming study lives on twitch, where he shared his knowledge and his challenges in graduating after the age of 30.

On social media aka @leitoraincomum, she is a student of Systems Analysis and Development, is currently coordinator of the Feministech community, host of the podcast Criando Monstrinhos, where she talks about being a mother of a teenager, in addition... Show more

Lisa Kuntze

Lisa Kuntze

Find Lisa Kuntze on LinkedIn or Google Lovable Curves

Find Lisa Kuntze on LinkedIn or Google Lovable Curves Show more

Michael Buchmiller

Michael Buchmiller

Michael has had artwork in museums, been interviewed about his views on the Smurfs, garnered a cult following for his robot-fronted band, taught college classes, and been taught as the subject of college classes. In the future, he would like to add to that list.

Michael has had artwork in museums, been interviewed about his views on the Smurfs, garnered a cult following for his robot-fronted band, taught college classes, and been taught as the subject of college classes. In the future, he would like to add t... Show more

Rafa Sansores Majul

Rafa Sansores Majul

Rafael is a speaker and content creator with extensive experience in professional development, content marketing and social media, named this 2022 as a LinkedIn Top Voice. Editor-in-Chief at INSPIRAS magazine of lifestyle.

Rafael is a speaker and content creator with extensive experience in professional development, content marketing and social media, named this 2022 as a LinkedIn Top Voice. Editor-in-Chief at INSPIRAS magazine of lifestyle. Show more

Sam Kabert

Sam Kabert

Sam Kabert is a successful serial entrepreneur turned spiritual seeker. He is known for his ability to put together teams to execute the vision. He is the Author of the #1 Bestselling book SOUL/Life Balance, Founder of SwagWorx & Clone Yourself University, and hosts the Soul Seekr Podcast. Despite all of Sam’s ventures and business success and being recognized as one of Silicon Valley’s “40 Under 40” at just age 31 years old and “Rising Star” in the promotional products industry, he soon recognized that something was missing. Sam realized that despite his success, he was unhappy. This understanding catapulted him on his most recent exploration of his life’s purpose.

He is on a mission to bridge the gap between the way we conduct ourselves in business, mindful practices, how we communicate with everyone, especially oneself, all through prioritizing psychological safety and mental health first.

Sam Kabert is a successful serial entrepreneur turned spiritual seeker. He is known for his ability to put together teams to execute the vision. He is the Author of the #1 Bestselling book SOUL/Life Balance, Founder of SwagWorx & Clone Yourself Unive... Show more

Mija Rabemananjara

Mija Rabemananjara

Née à Madagascar, Mija Rabemananjara a grandi à la Réunion, à Bordeaux, en
région parisienne et décide de tenter l’expérience de l’Amérique du Nord en Septembre 2019 en
s’installant au Québec. Avec une forte expérience dans l’IT, elle devient coach agile en 2015 et
construit 2 cursus de formations :
 Devenir coach agile Agilopathe®
 Devenir un manager/gestionnaire agile avec Montessori Extended®

Son ambition est d’accompagner les organisations vers plus d’auto-organisation et au-delà pour
plus d’engagement, plus de performance, plus d’innovation, pour une société plus saine.

Sur son site http://lesagilopathes.com vous retrouverez ses publications, des vidéos de ses
conférences précédentes, la description de ses offres et les événements à venir !

Née à Madagascar, Mija Rabemananjara a grandi à la Réunion, à Bordeaux, en région parisienne et décide de tenter l’expérience de l’Amérique du Nord en Septembre 2019 en s’installant au Québec. Avec une forte expérience dans l’IT, elle devient coa... Show more

Rebecca Bowers

Rebecca Bowers

Rebecca is a dynamic professional with over 18 years of experience across multiple industries and careers. Rebecca's most profound experiences and insights stem from her time at companies like Vail Resorts, Google, NASA, Northrop Grumman, and her most recent role as a new mom. From communications to engineering, from the start-up world to the corporate 9-5, Rebecca inspires new graduates, early-career hires, experienced professionals, and executive leaders by offering unique perspectives on career growth, professional development, and how to break through our society's antiquated understanding of what it means to be "successful."

Rebecca is a dynamic professional with over 18 years of experience across multiple industries and careers. Rebecca's most profound experiences and insights stem from her time at companies like Vail Resorts, Google, NASA, Northrop Grumman, and her mos... Show more

Sydney Heller

Sydney Heller

Syd started his career as a full stack web developer in the public sector in 2012, after graduating from UCLA with a degree in Russian Language and Literature. As a result of his undergraduate work, as well as his participation in the Russian Language Flagship, Syd is passionate about acquisition and pedagogy of both spoken and coding languages. Syd first learned about in-prison programs after volunteering with the Prison Education Project in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Syd’s first position at The Last Mile involved working with the Web Developers at the TLM Works Development Shop. Syd then transitioned into an administrative role outside the classroom environment and currently serves as TLM’s Executive Director. Syd continually draws on his experience as a language learner, self-taught web developer, and day-to-day work with TLM students and in-facility staff to inform his decisions regarding the TLM program, platform, and vision.

The Last Mile has a "tech for good" approach to disrupting the system of mass incarceration, by providing opportunities for personal and professional growth for justice-impacted individuals through education and technology training. Currently, the Last Mile has programs in Web Development and Audio & Video Production, with a Chromebook Pilot Program underway, first-of-its-kind, providing 24 hour laptops to students in the TLM program.

Syd started his career as a full stack web developer in the public sector in 2012, after graduating from UCLA with a degree in Russian Language and Literature. As a result of his undergraduate work, as well as his participation in the Russian Languag... Show more

Sangeeta Rajan

Sangeeta Rajan

A HR professional with 24+ years of total work experience in Learning and Development. Currently focused on transformation our Learning and Development organization to Agile ways of working.
A Scrum Master Certified, CAL(E)(T)(O) certified, a coach and facilitator

A HR professional with 24+ years of total work experience in Learning and Development. Currently focused on transformation our Learning and Development organization to Agile ways of working. A Scrum Master Certified, CAL(E)(T)(O) certified, a coach ... Show more

Valerie Genzano

Valerie Genzano

Valerie is a software trainer during her work week - but spends her free time reading, cooking, exploring her home city of Philadelphia, and hanging out with her cat (Jane Fonda). She is a home coffee roaster, avid fan of reality television, and knows the lyrics to just about every Paul Simon song there is.

Valerie is a software trainer during her work week - but spends her free time reading, cooking, exploring her home city of Philadelphia, and hanging out with her cat (Jane Fonda). She is a home coffee roaster, avid fan of reality television, and know... Show more

Ariel Griffin

Ariel Griffin

Ariel Griffin taught for seven years in private, charter and public schools in the Dominican Republic, México, Texas and Missouri. While teaching, she served on a district-wide committee for Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) and the school site team for AVID – a national program committed to closing the achievement gap in education. Prior to teaching, she was a Fulbright scholar through the U.S. Department of State and holds two master's degrees - teaching and global policy studies (international development). Now, Griffin works as a Program Officer for Education at Children International in Kansas City which allows her to combine her policy education along with her practical experience in the classroom. For the last year, she has led the organization in a launching their Digital Learning work so that children all over the world have access to quality learning programs, virtually.

Ariel Griffin taught for seven years in private, charter and public schools in the Dominican Republic, México, Texas and Missouri. While teaching, she served on a district-wide committee for Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) and the school site team for... Show more

Mohit Gupta

Mohit Gupta

Mohit is an accomplished UX leader who is an avid advocate of problem-solving by uncovering user insights. He believes research, empathy, and intention are critical to creating a human-centered experience. He is a thoughtful team leader, manager, expert researcher, designer, and visionary who echoes the sincere voice of the users using mixed methods research. He has been practicing design and user research for more than a decade across three continents and various industry domains.

Mohit is an accomplished UX leader who is an avid advocate of problem-solving by uncovering user insights. He believes research, empathy, and intention are critical to creating a human-centered experience. He is a thoughtful team leader, manager, exp... Show more

Jan van der Spoel

Jan van der Spoel

As a conceptual thinker, Jan van der Spoel is constantly looking for patterns and hidden laws of nature that can contribute to a more pleasant society. As a designer and creative director, he was responsible for various communication studios for over 25 years and worked for clients such as Unilever, the Dutch Football Association, Nutricia (now Danone) and Philips.

"The part of the brain that controls decision making has no capacity for language.” This quote by Simon Sinek has put him on the trail of neuro- and behavioural sciences and strengthened his fascination for human behaviour and the topic of 'trust' in particular.

Jan developed several effective models to better understand people, such as the Motivation scan, the Lymbics sentiment dashboard and the Grip on Trust model, an approach to transform ordinary relationships into high-trust relationships.
The Grip on Trust method is a practical approach that can be used to investigate the quality of a relationship, to find out where improvements can be made and what actions can be started.
All this with the aim of being able to have strong trusting relationships with leaders, organisations, brands, corporate culture, customers and much more. In strong relationships of trust, everything runs much more smoothly and with less resistance. It saves energy, time, money and makes life more enjoyable for everyone!

In the fall of 2022, his first book about trust in companies will be published.

Jan van der Spoel is former president (2019-2021) of the Professional Speakers Association Nederland. (PSANL)

As a conceptual thinker, Jan van der Spoel is constantly looking for patterns and hidden laws of nature that can contribute to a more pleasant society. As a designer and creative director, he was responsible for various communication studios for over... Show more

Juliette Chevalier

Juliette Chevalier

Currently leading Developer Advocacy at Aragon, Juliette is the Software Engineer and writer behind the "nerd splash" newsletter. She is also the co-founder and Engineering Lead for Surge Women, an organization focused on securing women’s place within Web3.

Currently leading Developer Advocacy at Aragon, Juliette is the Software Engineer and writer behind the "nerd splash" newsletter. She is also the co-founder and Engineering Lead for Surge Women, an organization focused on securing women’s place withi... Show more

Christophe HERAULT

Christophe HERAULT

Ce qui donne sens à mon engagement est d’aider les personnes, les équipes et les organisations à réussir en développant leurs ressources internes et leur capital humain. Je crois à la nécessité de réinventer le management pour réussir dans un monde toujours plus complexe. Ainsi je forme et j’accompagne les responsables à changer de posture, à apprendre à cultiver l’intelligence collective et à générer motivation et performance.
Je suis coach et formateur en leadership, management et organisation.
Je participe au développement de la Gouvernance Cellulaire pour offrir au monde une démarche qui permettra aux organisations humaines de se développer, d’atteindre leurs objectifs et de fonctionner en harmonie.

LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopheherault/
Gouvernance Cellulaire : https://cellulargovernance.org/membres/christophe-herault/
www.coeffy.fr

Ce qui donne sens à mon engagement est d’aider les personnes, les équipes et les organisations à réussir en développant leurs ressources internes et leur capital humain. Je crois à la nécessité de réinventer le management pour réussir dans un monde t... Show more

Ryan Bn. de Ropp

Ryan Bn. de Ropp

Data Engineer by day, Dungeons and Dragons nerd by night. I have a passion for 5th Normal Form, well crafted plots, and playing with my dog, Dovah.

Data Engineer by day, Dungeons and Dragons nerd by night. I have a passion for 5th Normal Form, well crafted plots, and playing with my dog, Dovah. Show more

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