SPEAKERS 2019-05-23T08:41:22+00:00
The International Youth to Youth Summit’s Team is working hard to bring the most inspiring and innovative young speakers, significant scientists and outstanding experts in the field. Stay tuned for the lineup of 5th International Youth to Youth Summit! The list is being constantly updated.

Speakers

Brea Baker
Brea Baker
Brea Baker is a queer black millennial woman working at the intersections of race, gender identity, public safety, and community. She has been organizing around social justice issues for 6 years: first as a student activist at Yale University, then as the youngest national organizer of Women’s March. You can also find Brea fighting for criminal justice reform with Justice League NYC, making space for diversity in the animation industry with Black Women Animate, and supporting bold progressives running for office. For her work in coalition with other activists and organizers, Brea has been recognized as a 2017 Glamour Woman of the Year (Women’s March) & has spoken on her activism at Yale University, Yale Law School, the United Nations’ Girl Up Campaign, ABC’s The View, Elle Magazine, and more.
Yasir Syed
Yasir Syed
Yasir believes that “everything that happens in the universe has an impact on every thing in this world, and every action of every single individual in this world has an impact on the whole universe”. This principle has always been part of Yasir’s DNA as a change maker. He has been a social entrepreneur and a social innovator now for more than 15 years and has devoted his life in translating global challenges into local actions around the globe. Besides his own foundation, “Culture Clash4U”, which has been very active in youth work, intercultural dialogue, gender equality, talent development and human rights education in the Netherlands and across Europe for almost 12 years, he also has initiated several civil actions and social enterprises in almost 60 countries. He truly believes that in order to make significant change, we need to reconnect our energies. And as energy cannot be created nor destroyed merely transformed from one form into another, why not try to convert this collective energy into a form from which we all benefit? That’s the mission of his life.
Roopam Sharma
Roopam Sharma
Roopam Sharma, FRSA is a cognitive scientist and inventor creating social impact through disruptive technological inventions that solve perennial problems. Named among the top 100 most influential global thinkers in the world by Foreign Policy Magazine in 2019, Roopam is the inventor of Manovue: the world’s first intelligent wearable visual assistant. Manovue employs artificial intelligence and the internet in the form of an inexpensive wearable glove and an earpiece, allowing the visually impaired read printed text, eliminating the need for braille language. Roopam is the youngest person ever to be recognized as an innovator under 35 by the MIT Technology Review in 2016 and was awarded the 2016’s GiftedCitizen Prize, an international prize that honors the best social entrepreneur with an ability to Benefit 10 million people over the next six years. Roopam has been inducted to the Asia Society’s 2018 Class of Asia 21 Young Leaders and has been earned the prestigious National Youth Award in 2018, the highest youth honor in India given annually by the President of India for a person’s contribution to the field of national development and social service through research and innovation. In 2019, Entrepreneur Magazine named Roopam in their annual “35 Under 35 List” and Forbes Asia named Roopam in their annual 30 under 30 2019 list.
Gaël Brulé
Gaël Brulé
Gaël Brulé is a researcher, author and entrepreneur. Trained as an engineer in Rouen(France)/Stockholm(Sweden)/Columbia(United States), he completed a PhD in sociology on the theme of happiness in Rotterdam (Netherlands). Since then, he wrote several books on the topic of what makes people happy. He currently works as a researcher at the university of Neuchatel (Switzerland). He has also founded/co-founded two companies that intend to promote quality of life in cities and organizations.
Helen Tung
Helen Tung
Helen Tung is the Founder of NewSpace2060 focusing on empowering the NewSpace ecosystem through events, blogging and networking. She spent the last 6 months as an Emergent Tech Advisor and MINERVA fellow at the EU- Japan Centre focusing on EU- Japan NewSpace collaboration in Tokyo. She works with entrepreneurs and startups including coaching, training, pitching and strategy. Helen’s background is in law and policy, and she is a member of the Moon Village Association and active as Co-chair (UAE 2020) for the joint session on space debris and space operations and also Co-Chair (UAE2020) for IP space resources session. Currently, Helen serves as the Vice- Chair of the Enterprise Risk Management Committee & rapporteur in space resources of the International Aeronautical Federation.
As TedXRome (May 2019) speaker, Helen speaks on ‘Living on the Moon’.Helen’s vision is to empower the NewSpace ecosystem so by 2060 we would live as inter-planetary species engaging in interstellar travel.
www.newspace2060.com
Paolo Petrocelli
Paolo Petrocelli
Paolo Petrocelli, PhD, is passionate, innovative and dynamic cultural entrepreneur, musicologist, violinist.
In order to serve as an active citizen and support non-profit activity, he has become a leading member of some of the most prestigious international and cultural organizations, such as UNESCO, United Nations, Junior Chamber International, World Economic Forum, Aspen Institute, European Cultural Parliament, International Music Council.
He is the Co-Founder and President of the Italian Youth Association for UNESCO, Founder and President of EMMA for Peace, Cultural and Music Diplomacy Officer of the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Assistant to the Superintendent of Rome Opera House for International Development and External Relations, Advisor for International Development and Special Projects at Royal Opera House Muscat (Oman) and Director of Institutional Relations and International Affairs at Foundation Franco Zeffirelli. Today, he serves on numerous boards of directors, including, Conservatory of Music of Venice and Opera Lebanon.
Petrocelli got a PhD in Economics of Culture at IULM University in Milan and is a graduate of both the La Sapienza University of Rome and Middlesex University of London and holds an MA in Violin Performance from the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia. He is a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, Visiting Researcher at MIT Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
To help shape the next generation, Petrocelli lectures at leading universities about management and international cultural relations at LUISS University in Rome, John Cabot University and European School of Economics.
Eva-Lisa Janssen
Eva-Lisa Janssen
Eva-Lisa Janssen is a social entrepreneur from the Netherlands and founded Ucademy at 23 years old. The 21st century asks for a complex set of skills and knowledge. The way universities are organized are no longer sufficient to arm students for the great challenges of this century. With a refugee problem, a climate change, and global political instability, students need to be braced with more humanistic and worldly knowledge.
Eva-Lisa took this matter into her own hands and changed the Dutch educational system. As a student, with a group of other interdisciplinary students, she created her own academy inside her university: Ucademy. At Ucademy students are mobilized and facilitated to create their own education. This education created courses like Intrinsic Motivation, Creative Thinking, and Judgement and prejudice, among other courses. Within months this movement reached national newspapers, grew to an international movement, was published in a book and won the Avans Innovation prize in 2017.
Now, three years later, Eva-Lisa is a speaker at educational congresses, she consults school board members, and is a Ucademy community manager for multiple universities.
Sarah Durieux
Sarah Durieux
Sarah Durieux is Executive Director, France for Change.org, the world’s largest online petitions platform. Sarah participated in the launch of Change.org in France in July 2012. Change.org France has seen major social mobilization emerge through citizen campaigns on its platform in the recent years. She meets every day policy makers and media to bring the voices of Change.org users into public debate.
Prior to Change.org Sarah has worked for various NGOs such as the WWF or SOS Children’s Villages.
She studied political communication at the University of Paris XII and is an active contributor on french debates around public participation and people powered social change campaigns.
Ayad Nasser
Ayad Nasser
Ayad Nasser is a citizen of the world. Born in Lebanon, Ouzai in specific today known as Ouzville. He is a businessman, investor, revolutionary and visionary. He is best known as the cofounder and CEO of “Loft Investments”, a development company that transforms neglected lands into Iconic projects.
Nasser is a self-made man, who became an entrepreneur at a very young age. He left his home country Lebanon and moved to France at the age of 17 to study while working several jobs. By the age of 18, he was already developing his vision to work in real estate and to create “Loft Investments”.
Ayad Nasser has been credited with the construction of many landmark buildings and lofts notably in France and Lebanon. He always strives for perfection in everything he does.He changed the image of real estate.
In 2012 he sold everything and start making a change in the country by bringing Urban Dawn 2 to Lebanon and through art he started uplifting neglected and dangerous areas mainly Ouzai that you first see when you Land in Beirut, Karm el Zaytoun,Tareek El Jdideh and some areas in Tripoli north of Lebanon.
Ouzville is the pilot project in Lebanon that brought hope, colors, unity, beauty and created job opportunities. Today Ouzville is touristic, artistic and safe area.
Martin Su
Martin Su
Since building up the recycling system for his high school in the US, Martin was convinced that “One person can make a difference.” He then dived into the world of environmental issues such as waste, energy, food, agriculture, and more in college. He was a leader in the most influential environmental club on campus as well as an avid intern at the campus sustainability department. After graduation, Martin has taken environmentalism as his life mission as he first started to work in the waste management sector in the US. Then when he returned to Taiwan, he worked with Taiwan Circular Economy Network to promote Circular Economy ideas. After all that preaching, Martin joined a circular startup to get his hands dirty. Currently, Martin is transforming his family business in traditional textile to a circular model. In addition, he is the country coordinator of 350 Taiwan, a non-profit organization that focuses on climate change work in affiliation to the global 350.org network.
Céline Quervel
Céline Quervel
Céline Quervel works as a Product Manager at World of VR, a Virtual- and Augmented-reality software company in Cologne, Germany. As a Product Manager, she is responsible for the project Future Education. The basic idea behind Future Education is to implement a platform for Augmented- and Virtual-reality learning content for school education to visually enrich students‘ knowledge transfer. To do this, Céline is building a network of schools, education start-ups and other interested educational institutions in order to create public awareness and enthusiasm for the project. She will speak about her vision of future learning and will show some interesting examples.
Hamza Chraibi
Hamza Chraibi
Hamza Chraibi is the Founder and President of ArabExcellence (www.arabexcellence.org), a global organization based in 5 countries. ArabExcellence aims at inspiring and empowering the next generations of leaders with role models they can relate to. These programs help them nurture a mindset of excellence and provide them with tools and methods to achieve it.
Hamza has provided such programs for key organizations such as INSEAD, UAE University, Stanford University, J.P. Morgan, Unilever and other institutions worldwide.
Hamza was also selected as the Young Ambassador of Morocco by the International Olympic Committee for his work to empower the youth and is regularly invited to advise the Committee’s president, Thomas Bach, on issues related to youth empowerment and legacy.
Prior to founding Arab Excellence in 2013, Hamza had an experience within the investment team of the French Sovereign fund (BPI) followed by an experience in Investment Banking (M&A) at J.P. Morgan London.
Fatoumata Kebe
Fatoumata Kebe
Fatoumata Kebe has completed a PhD in Astronomy at Sorbonne Universités on space debris which are the remains of the human activity in Space accumulated over time. She was trained in Space Engineering for a year at the University of Tokyo, and passionate about Astronomy, she has also completed internships at the European Space Agency and other institutions specialized in the field of Space.
Fatoumata was recently appointed co-chair of the Young Members working group which is composed of the early careers professional astronomers coming from all over the world of the International Astronomical Union.
Fatoumata also dedicates her energy to inspire vocations through “Ephemerides”, an association she founded 5 years ago which provides Astronomy courses to people living in the disadvantaged areas of Paris region. Her main goal through her association is to help young people embrace their ambitions and accomplish their dreams.
Anett Soti
Anett Soti
Anett Soti believes that every job is someone’s dreamjob and every workplace is someone’s dream workplace. She always empowers generations in shaping and enhancing the labor market, we all are a part of, adopting an agile trial-and-error methodology to working and learning at our workplaces. She graduated in 2013 with a MA in Operations of Cultural and Creative Industries at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Today, she is Cofounder and Chief Caring Officer of DreamJo.bs New Generation Job Portal & The Loveable Companies to Work For “Szerethető Munkahelyek” Award in Hungary, act as a HRPR professional, business and impact developer, creative industry entrepreneur. She also worked previously at Boston Consulting Group, in the Global Marketing team in New York where she worked on employer storytelling strategies as well as marketing business intelligence. Later on, she transferred to the BCG Budapest office where she worked in the local marketing, recruiting, career development and alumni team. She was also Talent Management Officer at the For Technology Education Foundation (Skool). She has already worked with hundreds of SMEs and some big players such as Nokia, National Instruments, Eisberg, Alcoa or MOL on the market to build their own employer brands. In 2015, she attended the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, selected by her Edutech idea, thanks to the Telenor Youth Forum. Currently, she is also working on an online gamified Future of Fabric Academy, for both employees and customers of a leading textile manufacturer in Taiwan.

Trainers

Michelle George
Michelle George
Michelle is the founder of Rubix Potential – a Germany-based NGO that brings out the best of everyone by unleashing and finding happiness, purpose and potential for a positive social change. She believes that every individual has something unique. A soon as they manage to unleash the hidden potential – everything is possible – a life full of happiness, self-fulfillment and energy. From Michelle’s experience, happy people are ready to be changemakers. For this reason she choose the path of a social entrepreneur and trainer, empowering people to find their own path and work together for a sustainable future. In addition, Michelle’s RubixPotential works in collaboration with different partners across Europe on health, well-being and sustainability.
Aleksandra Jarosz
Aleksandra Jarosz
Aleksandra is a psychologist that combines being a youth coach and a certified trainer with her business interests. She is currently working as a coach with ambitious Polish youth helping them discovering their path and arming them with tools for personal development. In her career she wants to empower the youngsters, helping them achieving their dreams and ambitions – regardless of the limitations life might throw at them.

Aleksandra is a certified trainer facilitating various workshops and trainings – both in various areas of positive psychology and soft skills, as well as strategic workshops for companies. She also works as a business consultant using the Design Thinking methodology when designing new products or services.

Alfie Chung
Alfie Chung
Alfie is a project associate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation. Under the spatial team, his work involves research and generating solutions to urban-social issues such as “double aging” – the aging of population and the building stock – through co-creation and dialogue. Alfie is also 1 of 63 Google Earth Education Experts and a member of the former Google Earth Education Advisory Board, tasked to explore the potential of Google Earth products in education. Previously, Alfie created and led urban design education programs focusing on sustainability and inclusivity under UN Ambassador and renowned conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall.
Karolina Mazetyte
Karolina Mazetyte
Karolina is a meditation and mindfulness teacher, the Co-founder of International Youth to Youth Initiative which empowers youth to develop their ideas. She founded Malmo Meditation where she is looking at the well-being at work. Together with the knowledge from the Master in Leadership for Sustainability which she is finishing in 2017, she wants to consult business and public sector in creating a well-being strategy at work which would incorporate mindfulness, happiness, sustainability elements.