48 speakers

Tom Meyers, also know as 'TomTom the health navigator' is an osteopath, body-centred stress coach, forward thinker, space enthusiast, podcast host, TEDxVilvoorde organiser and author of Futurize Yourself - Design your life on purpose. Tom's mission is to empower you to live well in this fast-changing, uncertain, and challenging world by helping you to futurize y'ourself on purpose in body, mind and spirit.

Luk teaches consultants, advisors and freelancers the strategies to grow their business by helping them transform into visible authorities. He has been in the consulting industry for almost 20 years and has had the privilege of achieving global visibility as a consultant. He has worked in companies like Deloitte Consulting, Nielsen and Starbucks.

Now, he bundled all those experiences, expertise, research, reading, successes, struggles, and failures from managing and growing that visibility in the past years to help consultants achieve financial success.

HR thought-leader, author, advisor, board member, and early stage investor in HR tech startups. Current emphasis: Agile talent, the freelance revolution and the future of work. Author of Agile Talent (Harvard, 2016), HR From the Outside In (McGraw Hill, 2012), HR Transformation (McGraw-Hill, 2009), many articles in HBR.org, Talent Quarterly, and other journals. Author of Forbes Careers blog "Freelance Revolution".

Alison describes her key skill as transforming creative ideas into a business reality. She accomplishes this with the films she produces (over 7,000 minutes of film and television produced, with both high and low budgets), the creative entrepreneurs she mentors, SMEs and freelancers she advises and in her Penguin published book, The Freelance Bible. Alison has an unique skillset in that she has formal academic training (INSEAD MBA); has worked at senior level in many media companies; is an entrepreneur who has established several businesses and is a Nesta accredited Creative Enterprise trainer and mentor. She brings her passion, knowledge and experience with her in all the work she does.

Quentin is the COO of Malt, which he joined 7 years ago as one of the first employees. His focus was on sales, finance, business intelligence, international expansion, legal, HR. Now, he is leading their international expansion in Northern Europe.

Prior to joining Malt, he spent 5 years at McKinsey & Company, where he was a project manager with an expertise in banking and multichannel retail.

After her graduation from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2018, Elizaveta started her own independent graphic design practice and at the beginning of 2020 became a co-founder of the brand identity & design studio - SEED.

She is also a member of the Moon Gallery Foundation - a project which aims to send a miniature art gallery to the moon.

Denise is the founder of SWAY - a learning & growth community platform for people mastering flexible work as the gateway to the Future of Work.

Formerly, she was a finance & operations VP at Goldman Sachs.

Geraldine guides conscious solopreneurs to clearly position themselves and to build their online presence. She believes personal branding is a "from the inside out" job. She helps you reconnect with your inner power, and from here, build your personal brand online & offline. She believes branding and communication starts with YOU - who you are, your values, your energy, your approach: when you show yourself to the world, you will attract your ideal clients and create impact.

Dario is a Strategic Art Director, freelancing since day one (he has never seen a paycheck in his entire life!) specialized in the strategic approach of communication with a strong entrepeneurial attitude toward the freelance profession. He has accumultated over 20 years of experience in strategic communication, design and freelancing entrepreneurship, working with some of the biggest brands worldwide. He is the Founder of Atabaliba Studio, The Freelander's Island and Professor at IED (Euroepan Institute od Design). He is also the former President of the Italian Society of Illustrators.

After 25 years in communication as a press officer and digital PR, Barbara switch her career to become a mentor and a business coach for people who desire to follow their values and dare to create their own freelancer career.

Assunta is a freelance journalist based in Milan. She worked for more than 15 years with Italian and international magazines. She started studying solutions journalism in 2012 and in 2019 she founded the Constructive Network, the Italian network for spreading solutions to journalism. She is the director of News48.it, a new magazine with solutions stories, and author of books about journalism and digital communication. She is a 2021 LEDE Fellow at Solutions Journalism Network; she trains journalists and students, helping them to understand and approaching solutions journalism. She also trains journalists for the Italian Association Press.

She is a consultant and trainer in storytelling tools and digital platforms for fashion, food and startup. Member of AIF - the Italian Trainer Association - and Federmanager-Minerva Group. In the last 5 years she majored in web marketing and in VR/AR Storytelling.

A young Italian entrepreneur with 8+ years of Digital Marketing expertise. His mission is to simplify becoming a digital nomad through my innovative platform "Nomads Embassy". Along with taking data-driven decisions, he loves to dance, but the dancefloor disagrees...

Branding and digital communication for freelance and small business.

Fergal is an experienced leader and entrepreneur with 20 years of business achievements in the professional contractor sector. He facilitates forward thinking enterprises to drive growth through increased use of independent contractors in their workforce.

Fergal is a passionate believer in the skills and agility that independent contractors can bring to enterprises and helps them access independent talent through leveraging technology. He has a proven track record in leading, developing and motivating teams to deliver transformational change for some of the world leading brands.

Above all, Fergal enjoys the responsibility and challenge of working with creative companies looking for innovative approaches to grow their independent workforce.

In 2020 he sold his business to MBO Partners Inc and continues to lead the UK and Ireland operations.

Andrea Chase is a Business Development Consultant and entrepreneur from Ottawa, Canada. Her most recent venture, ProCabby LTD., is a Canadian technology startup; a free mobile app aiming to help modernize and rebuild the Taxi Industry. She is passionate about Entrepreneurship, women in business, and helping others find their own paths to success on their own terms. Andrea has a Degree in Psychology from Concordia University, and a Diploma in Small & Medium Enterprise Management from Algonquin College.

Born in Sweden, part Sri Lankan, part English, with Dutch ancestors, Annelie was raised as a true Third Culture Kid and was an Interculturalist long before she even knew what it meant. With an academic background in Sociology and Cultural Studies from the University of Warwick and an MSC in International Relations from Cardiff University, she develops her innate passion for bridging, crossing and examining cultures. She helps promote diversity and inclusion in ABN AMRO Bank and through her training and event appearances.

Jean-François has been working in sales for over 20 years, as well as 10+ years as a freelancer and interim manager for Belgian and international companies (small and corporates). His passion is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow by solving challenges and exploring and developing opportunities. He is convinced every business has the potential to grow and helps provide a solid foundation and guidance for the process.

Jasmine Haria is CEO of Nuway CFR Pte Ltd, Singapore, and a charismatic Senior Business Development Professional with over 20+ years of experience in Strategic Project Management and Talent Acquisition in fast-paced and international environments, Sales Adoption, and quality improvement projects.

She recently co-founded a new venture "FluidTal" for on-demand vetted freelance talent for Digital transformation. She aims to make a platform of vetted talent and bridging the gaps between internal talent and external fluid talent.

Katrina Cobb is a speaker, business coach and consultant, supporting freelancers & entrepreneurs to scale through systems & strategy. She believes in entrepreneurship as the vehicle to create more freedom in life, and she helps people achieve this by improving their strategy, creating predictability and leveraging systems to scale.

You may know her as a digital nomad who is obsessed with photographing old doors and street art through Latin America while living the laptop lifestyle. A few years ago she made the decision to start living her own ideal of freedom, and she's obsessed with helping others do the same, however that looks for them.

Matt Saunders is a web developer and business coach for freelancers. He helps individuals and teams build a business doing what they love by coaching them on finding ideal clients, managing projects confidently, generating leads and sales and more.

His work helps create more fulfilled people, who do better work for happier clients. As a result, the freelance creative industry can have a positive impact on the world.

Kamila applies behavioural science to business, design, and marketing, incorporating such innovative concepts as gamification and nudges. Her education covers two separate degrees, Psychology and Social Anthropology, which gave her the perfect background knowledge for international design projects. Her achievements include amendments for the European Globalization Adjustment Fund, made during her Internship at the European Parliament. She is currently applying her skills to grow personal development projects and develop as a successful freelancer and entrepreneur.

Luisa Ferrario is the founder and CEO of Elle Effe Consulting Ltd., a ground-breaking organization which specializes in unmasking the hidden forces leading teams, and organizations in our place, to activate human-centric transformations, that exponentialize the business impact.

Leadership mentor, advisor to Boards & C-Suites, speaker, entrepreneur, and writer, she has been chosen for over fifteen years by Fortune 500 Companies and World Leading Organizations, start-ups and scale-ups from 20+ Countries, willing to implement cutting edge business transformation.

Rebel Transformative Leader, she owns the inexplicable and astounding power to get the unspoken heard, the hidden revealed, and the unfelt perceived.

Leksana is the founder of Strategic Solution Center, a catalyst for leadership and organization transformation. He has coached the big-four's partners, C-suites in private enterprise and MNC in Asia-Pacific for the past twenty years.

Leksana facilitates leaders to unleash the entanglements in their systems and embody the creative responses that allow business and people to thrive. His humble and intuitive approach helps leaders to quickly tap into their inner resources and generate new field of breakthrough possibilities.

Leksana's passion is to work with leaders to elevate and expand the collective consciousness that achieves sustainable value creation.

Katrien Rennemeier is a Senior CSR/ Sustainability professional with more than 9 years of experience in Corporate Responsibility and Business & Human Rights. She has worked in Multi-National Corporations, social profits and international institutions in Europe, Africa & Asia, such as BNP Paribas, UCB and Toyota.

She decided corporate culture wasn't for her and went freelance 2 years ago, in order to have more autonomy to work on different issues she believes collectively contribute to systemic change.

Anaí is a certified master in meditation and emotional management. She helps people achieve the successful life they want and deserve by removing mental and emotional blocks. Through Solano Consulting, she has developed her Self Mastery Program, which offers a comprehensive path to self-knowledge and empowerment.

Anastasiia is an ethical marketer for community-focused organizations, a personal development activist, and an event facilitator and speaker.

She is involved as a project leader and mentor in several organisations such as Open Bulgaria, Freelance Business Community, Changemakers Academy, Mediahuis. Ana guides international teams to create better businesses, run better marketing and be better leaders. She also produces content on personal development and leadership, and is in the process of writing her first book on self-improvement.

Haikuhi is an experienced SMM strategist, working for small, medium and big corporate clients from across the globe. She has over 4 years of customer marketing experience and has been working as an SEO specialist for more than a year. She supports clients with their social media activities, driving targeted traffic to their websites and increasing brand awareness.

Ashmita is the owner and creative strategist of Sparkling Gems. Her personal mission is to create a fair and just society with equal opportunities for all. So everyone can cultivate their talents. She helps organizations with creating inclusive (virtual) work environments. Next to that she is working on publishing her first book on inclusion and diversity.

Fanny Marcoux has developed her digital marketing skills during her work as a marketing expert for companies like TEDx, AbbVie, Globify, ConversionStack and more. She focuses on helping freelancers and businesses streamline their digital marketing processes and focus on one thing at a time, so they have more time to do their actual job.

Frederik helps entrepreneurs and freelancers to increase their personal freedom by optimising and simplifying the internal communication in their company, creating time and space to work on the business instead of in their business.

He believes in the power of freedom and helps independent professionals not get caught in the loop of working more and having less free time, but instead, to design their work in such a way that it supports their lifestyle.

Mariann started her journey as a teacher, after graduating in Zagreb as a teacher of English and German. She decided to branch out into other areas and in 2015 started translating. In 2020, she founded her own small company, where she also does copywriting. For almost a year now she has been actively engaged in showing people how they can grow with the help of Linkedin. If you're into quirky, positively strange and authentic content, then you should look into her work!

Sanne is a digital marketeer with a passion for lifelong learning, collaboration, data and all things that benefit the User and Customer Experience.

Working with her father's company Digital Architect she helps companies bring out the best of themselves in an ever-changing online landscape by creating or organising their digital communication and executing it for them, so they can focus on what they do best.

Michelle O'Connor is a copywriter and a tone of voice creator, working with individuals and organisations to help them tell their story in a way that will ensure the right people hear it. She's been working under the name Specky Scribbler since 2016 and has developed the tone of voice for large and small companies all over the world, including the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

As a freelancer, she understands the importance of consistency in communication and knows the problems freelancers face. She has been running workshops since 2019 and loves using her knowledge and expertise to help others find their voice.

Dominic has been running his own UX Consultancy - Siso Solutions, in Wellington, New Zealand for the past 10 years. The company has worked with major corporations, government departments and start-ups, such as Westpac, Ministry of Social Development and Medical Assurance Society.

Renske is a Solutions Collector and Dot-Connector! This means that when you come to her with a problem, she can fix it either herself or assist you in outsourcing it with help from her network.

She is passionate about tech, organizing, streamlining, working smarter not harder, devising creative solutions and coming to the rescue to make the lives of her clients easier. Furthermore, she considers herself a citizen of the world, and working (mostly) virtually allows her to work and connect with people all over the world.