16th European Trend Day

Douglas Rushkoff

USA

Author; documentarist; professor for Media Theory and Digital Economics, City University of New York. Rushkoff is named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals" by MIT. The media theorist is a multiple bestselling author (including "Team Human") and works as a tech commentator for various media (including "CNN"). Rushkoff has received several awards for his work.

Priscillia Ludosky

France

Co-founder of the yellow vest movement ("Mouvement des Gilets jaunes"). In May 2018, Ludosky published an online petition signed more than a million times to reduce taxes on general-needs goods and the pensions and salaries of high-ranking civil servants. With her demands, Ludosky triggered a wave of protest throughout France against the government's and elite's behavior.

Bas van Abel

Netherlands

Founder and non-executive board member, Fairphone. Van Abel is an awarded social entrepreneur (a.o. Ashoka Fellow, German Environment Award 2016), designer (a.o. Dutch Design Awards) and innovator (a.o. Greentec Award). His goal with Fairphone is to have smartphones manufactured under fair conditions and to make the supply chains of raw materials and working conditions transparent.

Glenn Manoff

Great Britain

Chief Communications and Brand Officer, Trustpilot. Trustpilot is the leading consumer reviews site with more than 80 million reviews of 250 000 companies worldwide and whose mission is to create a universal symbol of trust. He was previously Director of Social Business & Sustainability for Telefonica, Group Corporate Affairs Director at Camelot and Communications Director at O2 where he helped transform the former Millenium Dome into The O2 and was named the UK's top communications professional. 

Helen Job

Great Britain

Head of Insight, TCO London. Job has worked in future forecasting for two decades, leading multi-disciplinary, global futures, and strategy teams in New York and London. Alongside her corporate work Job is an educational practitioner. She conceptualised e.g. the Global Trend Forecasting Curriculum for Parsons School of Design in New York. She was recently named one of “The Drum’s” 50 best female speakers in the UK.

Luke Robert Mason

Great Britain

Media producer and curator, Futures. He is the host of the Futures podcast and director of Virtual Futures. He has contributed to BBC One, BBC Radio, The Guardian, Discovery Channel, VICE Motherboard and Wired Magazine.

Kaiser Kuo

USA

Co-founder and host of the Sinica Podcast, the leading English-language podcast on current affairs in China. Also, Kuo served as director of international communications for Baidu, China’s leading search engine. Kuo is an expert on topics related to politics, international relations, and technology in China. He co-founded China’s first heavy metal band, Tang Dynasty.

Adam Harvey

USA

Researcher and artist based in Berlin. Harvey is focused on computer vision, privacy, and surveillance. Previous projects on surveillance include CV Dazzle (camouflage from face recognition), the Anti-Drone Burqa (camouflage from thermal cameras), SkyLift (a geolocation spoofing device), and MegaPixels (interrogating face recognition information supply chains). His work has been featured widely in media publication including the BBC, “Spiegel”, “Washington Post”, or “New York Times”.

Jacquelien van Stekelenburg

Netherlands

Professor of Social Change and Conflict, Director of Research of the Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Van Stekelenburg research interests are mainly in the area of protest participation and societal polarization, e.g.. protest mobilization and participation in professions where it is not-done (i.e. the military) or protest under severe repression (e.g. Iran).

Isaac Thomas

Israel

CEO, VeganNation. Thomas’ passion for promoting a healthy planet and lifestyle goes back to his earliest years in business 20 years ago. His vision with VeganNation: to bring the global vegan community closer together by using technologies such as blockchain or AI and through an own economic system.

David Bosshart

Switzerland

Dr. David Bosshart was CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for consumption, economic and social studies from 1999 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been President of the Gottlieb and Adele Duttweiler Foundation.

Julian Thorner

Switzerland

Moderator. Until 2015 Thorner hosted his daily news show "Noiz" on the youth channel Joiz. From 2016 until 2022, Thorner could be listened to on Radio SRF 3 in his own show "De Samstig – mitem Julian Thorner".