The International Youth to Youth Summit’s Team is delighted to announce that we have secured a number of prominent speakers coming from different industries to make sure that our event explores as many angles of the topic as possible.
Speakers
At the age of twenty he embarked on a journey that took him from India to Afghanistan and Iraq. His deep interest for the arts and culture led him to the studies of classical south-Indian music during his time in India.
Back in Germany in 1994, he founded the creative agency “circ” and thereafter he continuously expanded the agency’s expertise. Today the company serves as a reliable partner in content driven live communication for established brands such as BMW, Merck, Deutsche Post and E.ON. circ was repeatedly voted “the most creative agency in Germany”.
As a creative consultant of Nobel Prize winner Prof. Yunus, he has helped spread the idea of “Social Business” since 2007. Together with Prof. Yunus, he founded the “Grameen Creative Lab”. Since 2010 Mr. Reitz has been the Creative Director of the Yunus Centre in Bangladesh.
Deepak started Project FUEL at the age of 17 and has been teaching age groups 4-96 for past 7 years. From victims of human trafficking in Nepal to middle school children in Afghanistan to refugees in Europe, Deepak has been able to benefit more than 60,000 people all over the world. Project FUEL has also been featured as an educational innovation in the database of “Center for Education Innovations”.
Deepak, is a United Nations speaker, two times TEDx speaker, an educator, a writer, actor, lyricist and a gold medalist in Mass Media studies from the University of Mumbai. As a lyricist, Deepak has written songs for films like ‘Manjhi, The Mountain Man’, ‘Time Out’, ‘Dear Dad’ and ‘Wazir’. He recently featured in the fifth season of the hit show “The Dewarists”.
She is a co-founder of the project “Green Passport Goes Around the World” that commits to inspire Vietnamese youth to become global citizens, and she is soon launching an online education platform that aims to bridge gaps between people across the globe and to bring them together on the same page.
She has gained professional experience working at non-profit organizations, such as the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the Nordic Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic, the French-American Chamber of Commerce in New England, and The Global Citizens’ Initiative, at international for-profit corporations, such as Expedia and Siu & Sons International Trading Corporation, at universities, such as Charles University in Prague and Panamerican University in Mexico City, and at startup projects. Nadia is also an author and co-author of four books published in Vietnam and Bolivia.
Ole is a firm believer in the power of trust and human kindness – and that the future belongs to purpose-driven individuals, companies, and organizations. He believes that these will have strong cultures, engaged employees and enthusiastic customers, patients, users, and citizens.
In 2012 Ole first turned up at his neighboring aged care home in Copenhagen, Denmark offering trishaw rides to the residents – an act of kindness that sparked the collaboration with Dorthe and the launch of Cycling Without Age. Spreading like wildfire to 38 countries the initiative has grown to be a global movement. Ole has a Master in Business, Language and Culture.
Passioned for people and ideas that happen when two backgrounds meet. Born and raised in Reykjavik – Iceland, his parents always pointed out that where there was a problem, there must be a solution. Finnur started his first business at the age of 11 and since then work, or as he calls it “I’m just getting things done” has been his driving force. No matter if the problem/task in hand is connected to his businesses or if it is an issue in the society. He never waits if the gut feeling is “go for it”.
Malena has for the last seven years been focusing on sustainable solutions in food and agriculture. She has done research in Peru, India, and Eastern Africa examining the cultural and nutritional benefits of eating insects.
Jessica has spent the past five years studying and working in Latin America with social entrepreneurship, focusing on sustainable development. Before Dare to Eat, Jessica created the startup Carcel.
impact through disruptive technological inventions and solves perennial
problems. He is the youngest person ever to be recognized as one of the
top innovators under 35 by the MIT Tech Review for the year 2016 and was
awarded the Gifted Citizen Prize – the Nobel Prize of Social Innovation
in 2016. He recently has been bestowed upon with the National Youth
Award, the highest youth honor in the country by President of India for
his contribution to the field of national development and social service
through research and innovation in the year 2018. He is best known for
his work on Manovue, the world’s first intelligent personal assisting
system for the visually impaired suffer from braille illiteracy and
remain unemployed. Manovue combines vision intelligence and internet of
things in the form of an inexpensive wearable to deliver a technology
that would replace the 200 year old braille language and empower more
than 94% of the visually impaired people. Roopam believes that people
with passion can change the world for the better and is always inspiring
others to bring a positive change and think differently.
based on human resources. With the help of broad commitment and
ownership, he has set the course for locally based solutions that have
helped to implement policies and strategies in relation to settlement,
citizen involvement, business and cultural development. Jesper
establishes sustainable organizations that continue the solutions he
has helped to launch.
He has explored starting different companies and living in the United States and Brazil but moved to Sweden to work as a coach and lecturer. Here he founded a production company and directed the documentary Resilience – mindset that tightens our limitations and functionality.