Marlow D. Guttmann works in HR and Organizational Development, guiding leaders and young talent through transformation. As a consultant, author, speaker, and mentor, he brings a Generation-Z perspective that bridges generations, and is a sought-after voice on the future of work and AI ethics, featured at conferences and in leading HR and business media. He serves as an honorary judge at Hamburg’s Social Court and co-founded the Rotaract Club Hamburg International - part of the Rotary Network - promoting diversity, cultural exchange, volunteer action, and developing young leaders.
In his talk, he shares a personal mentoring story that shows how an AI-driven world accelerates change while leaving early-career professionals feeling lost and unsure of their direction. His message: technology sets the pace, but purpose sets the path: anchored in values, empathy, and human connection.
Dr. Fadi Alshalabi is an educator, researcher, and co-founder of Niuversity, a digital learning platform that has empowered thousands of learners across the Arab world to rebuild their skills and careers through online education and entrepreneurship. After moving to Germany, Fadi discovered that migration is often described as a story of survival - but rarely as a story of creation. His journey inspired him to ask a different question: Why not let newcomers build, not just belong?
In his talk, Fadi explores how entrepreneurship and digital learning can transform integration from a process of adaptation into one of co-creation, replacing dependence with dignity and turning migration into one of humanity’s most powerful startup accelerators. His message is a call to both newcomers and host communities to build belonging through what they create together.
With a background spanning geochemistry, marine geosciences, sustainability, nanoscience and nanotechnology, Dr. Patricia Jovičević-Klug has always been driven by curiosity - exploring new materials and the stories they tell. From metallic materials to rocks that have journeyed across galaxies, she studies how the smallest elements can help solve our biggest challenges. Her passion lies in developing sustainable solutions for critical raw materials (CRMs) - the hidden ingredients behind clean energy, semiconductors, and advanced technologies. Her work bridges chemistry, physics, cryogenics, and catalysis, advancing innovative ways to extract, recycle, and optimize the materials that power our world. She has contributed to cryogenic processing, sustainable extraction, oxide reduction, and hold two patents in thermochemical catalysis - all aimed at making materials science more circular and sustainable.
In her TEDx talk, she connects Earth and space—using meteorites as storytellers of our planet’s magnetism and technological future—to show how what falls from the sky can inspire cleaner, more resilient innovations on Earth.
Dr. Vanessa Maybeck is a bioelectronics researcher with expertise in molecular cell biology and neurobiology. Her work investigates how neurons and man-made devices can communicate through light, electricity, and touch. Leading a multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists, and bioengineers she explores how to program information into neuronal networks and interpret their outputs. Her work aims to reveal how living systems process and exchange information—and how this knowledge can inspire new bioelectronic technologies. Previously a lecturer in biochemistry, she has authored 32 peer-reviewed publications with more than 1,400 citations.
In this talk she proposes, the hardest part of discovery isn’t collecting data - it’s knowing when to doubt it. And when to stand by it.
For Dr. Matic Jovičević-Klug, research is more than a profession - it’s a calling shaped by curiosity, imagination, and the desire to make a difference. As a materials engineer in science, he sees engineering as storytelling through matter, transforming atoms, energy and their form into new possibilities. A journey that has taken him from uncovering the invisible beauty of magnetism to leading the research forefront of transforming waste into resources and designing magnets that will power a greener, more sustainable world. But beyond the science, his work is a story of imagination - of seeing possibility where others see limitation, of turning curiosity into creation.
In his talk, he shares how being an engineer means not just solving problems, but imagining futures—crafting the unseen and unknown into the tangible, and shaping a future where innovation and sustainability walk hand in hand.
Being an art enthusiast and hobbyist, Uzair believe that everyone can and should use art as a utility of expression. It can be in the form of drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, or anything that helps us connect better with this world and those around us. Uzair believes everyone can draw and that they should invest time in it once more as they did when they were kids. In his words: "I draw cities, buildings and nature whenever I travel, to capture a souvenir of the places I have been to." He has compiled such drawings with poetry into two self-published books.
His message: Art is a therapy that people can and should lean into
