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Paula Moreno

President, Manos Visibles

I am Paula Moreno, a legacy builder, architect of collective dreams, and engineer of social transformation. I have dedicated my life to challenging inequality and building structures of equity. As the first Afro-Colombian woman and youngest minister in Colombia’s history, I learned that profound transformations are born from imagining new futures and charting pathways to make them a reality. For over twenty years, through academia, government, philanthropy, and Manos Visibles, I have worked to impact lives, strengthen leadership, and weave networks of transformation across Colombia and more than fifteen countries.

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Mohsin Mohi Ud Din

Artist, Storytelling Activist, and Founder of MeWe International

Mohsin Mohi Ud Din is an artist, community activist, and founder of the global non profit, #MeWe International Inc. (#MeWeIntl). #MeWeIntl is a global network of artists, scientists, and community-builders who design methodologies and tools for creative expression and communication skills-building to advance the healing, equity, and social cohesion in a fragmented and polarized world. For over 15 years, Mohsin has scaled his storytelling methodology across more than 15 countries, from the valley of Kashmir, to the Syrian refugee camps in the Middle East, to the mountains of Morocco, Honduras, and Mexico. His movement has supported more than 20,000 vulnerable youth and caregivers and dozens of community building organizations fighting violence, forced displacement, incarceration, and poverty. Mohsin previously worked for human rights organizations such as Human Rights First, and worked in the Strategic Communications Division for the MDGs and SDGs for the United Nations in New York. His work has received honors from SOLVE MIT at the UN, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Open Ideo and others. As an expert in strategic communication and community storytelling, Mohsin’s documentary films are featured in TIME Magazine, and have premiered at more than 7 international film festivals. He is a 2025 Creativity Pioneer Award recipient by the Moleskine Foundation, and was named a 2024 Tallberg Leadership. Network. In 2009, Mohsin received a Fulbright Scholarship to pilot his methodologies in Morocco. Over the years his words and visual pieces are featured in VICE News, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, and The Nation.

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Cynthia Botello

Experimentation Coordination, Institute for The Future of Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Ph.D. in Philosophy with a specialization in Administration and a Master’s in Public Health Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. She is a professor at the Business School of Tecnológico de Monterrey, where she teaches courses on human capital, project management, and multigenerational leadership, integrating wellbeing-centered approaches into educational and organizational practices. Her professional experience focuses on the strategic management of projects that foster educational innovation with positive impact. She has led initiatives that merge experimental design, impact measurement, and emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence—to build healthier, more empathetic, and sustainable learning and working environments. As a mentor in experimentation and impact measurement, she supports educators and, ensuring alignment with institutional goals and evolving human needs in rapidly changing contexts. She applies data-driven, mixed-method approaches to guide decision-making processes that enhance organizational resilience and individual engagement. She is a member of the Psychopedagogical Research Group at the School of Humanities and Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Her research explores organizational factors, engagement, and burnout among students and professionals. During her research stay at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, she investigated the perception of quality of life among university students, reinforcing her commitment to designing more human-centered educational experiences. Her work combines self-directed learning, empathy in education, and the strategic application of technology to explore innovative ways of enhancing wellbeing through advanced analytics and experimental frameworks. With an interdisciplinary vision, she seeks to transform educational environments into spaces of personal and professional flourishing.

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Lou Deringer

Graduate Student Researcher, PhD Student, University of California Berkeley

Lindsey (Lou) Deringer is a rising third-year PhD student studying social-personality psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she works under the mentorship of Dacher Keltner and Serena Chen. Before coming to Berkeley, Lou earned her B.A. in English literature from Colorado College and an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Lou’s doctoral research broadly focuses on the impact of awe and aesthetic experiences on close relationships. Lou is particularly excited about a current project that explores shared experiences of visual art – in this study, she evaluates how looking at art with others can deepen our meaning-making processes, as well as bring us closer together. Overall, Lou hopes that her research may help individuals flourish while leading more meaningful, connected, and awe-filled lives.

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Luis Portalez Derbez

Experimentation and Impact Measurement Director, Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Luis Portales Derbez holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and a Master’s degree in Digital Transformation and Business Development. He currently serves as the Head of the Experimentation, Impact Measurement, and Writing Lab area at the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where he leads experimental initiatives aimed at improving teaching and learning processes in Higher Education and Lifelong Learning. He is also a professor and researcher in the field of social and administrative sciences, and has authored several books and articles in indexed journals. Throughout his career, he has led applied research projects using the Action Research methodology, contributing to academic knowledge and the wellbeing of individuals in vulnerable situations. He was a professor and researcher at the University of Monterrey (UDEM), where he directed the Center for Wellbeing Studies and co-founded the Social Transformation Lab. Since 2013, he has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (Level I).

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Grace Clapham

Value Architect; Tech Humanist; Founder and Director, The Worth Club

Grace Clapham is a Tech Humanist, Value Architect, and multi-hyphenate systems thinker reimagining how we build lives, technologies, and ecosystems that foster human and societal flourishing. With over 20 years of experience spanning big tech, community design, leadership development, and social innovation, she helps individuals and institutions rearchitect how we live, lead, and build in a tech-driven world. Grace operates at the intersection of innovation, identity, and impact. As former Director of Community Partnerships (Product & Programs) at Meta, she led ecosystem strategy and product-market expansion across APAC and EMEA—supporting thousands of partners and building programs that shaped the future of digital belonging. Today, she sits on multiple boards, advises impact-driven companies, serves as a fractional executive for tech-enabled startups, coaches individuals, and teaches innovation and community strategy at leading universities. A four-time founder and global ecosystem builder, Grace has collaborated with a wide spectrum of organisations—from mission-led startups to institutions like BMW, PwC, AIA, the UN Foundation, Danone, and Hyper Island. Her work spans strategy, community architecture, leadership development, and innovation consulting—helping organisations cultivate values-aligned growth, foster internal leadership, and build solutions that meet real human needs. Known for building transformational programs, products, and movements that raise human consciousness and bridge innovation with identity, strategy with soul, and conscious tech with societal impact, Grace brings a rare versatility and depth to every engagement. Her philosophy is rooted in systems thinking: transformation must be personal, organisational, and societal. She challenges inherited narratives around self-worth, success, and wealth—supporting individuals and leaders to reclaim agency, reimagine value, and design resilient growth in an AI-shaped world. As a trauma-informed financial wellbeing educator and facilitator, she also advocates for more equitable, embodied systems of capital and care—particularly for women, minorities, and globally mobile professionals. Grace’s inquiry lives at the edges: Where does identity meet infrastructure? How can we build ethical products that reflect both individual agency and collective responsibility? What becomes possible when we embed belonging—not just efficiency—into the design of systems, platforms, and leadership? Through initiatives like The Worth Club—a movement and methodology sparking a worth revolution where individuals rewrite internalised narratives around wealth, leadership, and value, anchored in her Worth-Centred Leadership framework—and Parenting in (β)eta, a digital hub helping caregivers raise safe, empowered children in a rapidly evolving digital world, Grace continues to shape new paradigms for personal, digital, financial, and societal well-being, ethical innovation, and leadership rooted in worth. She has spoken at 90+ global events, delivered 200+ workshops, built communities of 30,000+, and been featured in over 50 publications. Recognised as one of Asia-Pacific’s most influential voices, she’s received accolades including Asia’s 50 Women Leaders and the Global Talent Unleashed Award judged by Richard Branson and Steve Wozniak. Grace is unwavering in her mission: to help us scale deeply, not just widely—and ensure our definitions of growth include dignity, justice, and joy. Her work is an invitation to rethink what we measure, honour, and invest in—so we can shape the culture and values of the future.

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Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen

Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen have created public art commissions for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, climbed on the TED stage in Boston, and their works have been exhibited and collected by art institutions worldwide, including the Barbican Centre in London, the Norwegian Museum of Photography and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. Their first sold-out book was nominated ‘Best first photobook in the world’, the sequel is available in the gallery and from the artists’ website, and the third book will be released in 2027.

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Werner Binnenstein-Bachstein

Director, Community Arts Laboratory, Porticus; Co-Founder and Chairman, Community Arts Network

Werner Binnenstein-Bachstein joined Porticus in 2013 as Regional Director for CEE/MENAT. In 2016, he assumed a new role as Director of the Community Arts Laboratory (CAL) within Porticus. CAL concentrates on arts initiatives with a social impact and on creating an international network in this field. He is the co-founder and chairman of the Community Arts Network (CAN).

Until 2013, Werner worked at Caritas Vienna, where he fulfilled multiple roles: Starting as a socio-political advisor and head of the Immigration Department, he ultimately became the CEO. Previously, he was director of the Competence Centre for NPOs at the Vienna Business University and Assistant Professor at the Department for Social Policy.

Werner has always had a close connection to the world of arts. He initiated “Tanz die Toleranz”, ((superar)) and the community art location “brunnen.passage”. Werner collaborates with many renowned artists and institutions such as Royston Maldoom, Marin Alsop, Martin Grubinger, Gustavo Dudamel, Maestro José Antonio Abreu, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna State Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Carnegie Hall.

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Dr. Bayo Akomolafe

Hubert Humphrey Distinguished Professor; Founder, The Emergence Network; Author and Teacher

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, the grateful life-partner to EJ, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, self-styled ‘trans-public’ intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak (along with Professors Molefi Kete Asante and Augustine Nwoye), Bayo Akomolafe is the visionary founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide networking project and inquiry at the edges of the Anthropocene that seeks to convene new kinds of responsivities, sensuous solidarities, and experimental practices for a posthumanist parapolitics. He is host of the postactivist course/festival/event, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’ and curator of Dancing with Mountains, the educational consultation. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. He sits on the Board of many organizations.

Dr. Akomolafe is the Hubert Humphrey Distinguished Professor of American Studies in Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA (August 2025), a Member of the Club of Rome and an Ambassador for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. In July 2022, Dr. Akomolafe was appointed the inaugural Global Senior Fellow of University of California’s (Berkeley) Othering and Belonging Institute. He is also the inaugural W. E. B. Du Bois Scholar in Residence for Trans-public Intellectualism at the Schumacher Centre for a New Economics, the Inaugural Distinguished Philosopher-in-Residence at the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History (Onikan, Lagos, Nigeria), the Inaugural Scholar in Residence for the Aspen Institute, the inaugural Special Fellow for the Council of an Uncertain Human Future, as well as Visiting Scholar to Clark University, Massachusetts, USA (2024). He has been Fellow for The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany, Visiting Critic-in-Residence for the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (2023), and 2025 Hildegarde and Elbert Baker Visiting Scholar in the Humanities to Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, and an Expert Consultant for the Futures Literacy section at the UNESCO headquarters, Paris. He was named Centenary Philosopher (Scots Philosophical Association) by the University of Dundee in March 2024.

Dr. Akomolafe graduated summa cum laude in Psychology from Covenant University (Nigeria) in 2006, becoming the first to complete his undergraduate studies with first class honours from the College of Human Development. He has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Covenant University in Nigeria (2014). He is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies (2023) and has been Commencement Speaker at two universities convocation events ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0teyqf0AAg / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh2QmobEMFg).

He is also the recipient of the New Thought Leadership Award 2021 and the Excellence in Ethnocultural Psychotherapy Award by the African Mental Health Summit 2022. In a ceremony in July 2023, the City of Portland (Maine, USA) awarded Dr. Akomolafe with the symbolic ‘Key to the City’ in recognition of his planet-wide work and achievements.

Drawing inspiration from Edouard Glissant, Gilles Deleuze, Gregory Bateson, Maurice Blanchot, Octavia Butler, Fernand Deligny, Chinua Achebe, and the still-ongoing adventures of the Yoruba monster-trickster and crossroads figure, Èsù, Bayo seeks to organize an always creolizing planetary, para-political process of the carnivalesque that is alive to minor gestures, open to sensorial mutiny and ontological apostasy, and committed to the formulation of new modes of encountering a more-than-human planet.

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s work is widely published, cited, and – much to his delight – very often transmuted into song, lyrics, theatrical performances, poetry, paintings, public installations, and even a publicly accessible, quirky bench from reclaimed wood in Detroit, Michigan. He has appeared on innumerable podcasts, radio interviews, and television programs (most notably being the focus of a lengthy interview and secondary segments exploring his thought on Swiss public television, SRF); and, he has been featured in several film documentaries including the award-winning ‘Regenerar: Possible Paths on a Damaged Planet’ (2022), ‘Where We Find Ourselves’ by Darren Bender (2025), ‘Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis’ (2024), and ‘Three Black Men’ (2025), in which Bayo travels around the world in the company of two other Black public intellectuals and leaders to enunciate an end-time emancipatory vocation of blackness during perilous times. A feature documentary focused entirely on Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s work, life, and thought is being developed, called ‘The Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down’ – as well as a short, animated movie by Emmy-winning director Carolyn Scott, focusing on Dr. Akomolafe’s notion of postactivism.

He is currently writing his third book, ‘An Ocean of Milk: Morality, Desire, and the Monster at the Edge of the World’.

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Fabla Collective

Founded in 2023 and led by award-winning performance artists Inan Sven Du Swami and Mojca Špik, Fabla is a multidisciplinary art collective that thrives on the collaborative process. We revel in the free flow of ideas and their seamless fusion across various mediums as we hurtle headfirst into the raw underbelly of a chaotic world. Our work delves into the gritty intersections of climate change, social inequality, culture, and identity.

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