Program Changes

We are pleased to announce that a surprise musical guest will appear as a main opener on Friday! We regret to announce the following cancellations: Richard Reynolds,...

EXPLORATION | Shawn Westcott

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Shawn is a sustainability catalyzer and initiator working to inspire and plan for change toward a more sustainable, equitable, and just society. Utilizing a systems-based...

CO-CREATION | Johanna Lakso | Education, Youth

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Johanna Lakso is studying renewable energy engineering in Lund and is the happy cashier of Lund Students for Sustainability. She is also enjoying being the national coordinator...

MUSIC & ARTS | Sandra Kolstad (NO) | Music

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Sandra Kolstad makes electronic music. Dark and danceable, explosive and extravagant. She has seduced audiences with her strong live performances, in countries as Norway,...

MUSIC & ARTS | Titiyo | Music

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Titiyo has been one of Sweden’s most interesting and influential artists since the debut in the early 1990’s. Simply because she’s got an unmistakable voice...

EXPLORATION | Alex Haw | architecture, art

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Alex Haw is an architect and artist operating at the intersection of design, research, art and the urban environment. He runs atmos, a collaborative, explorative, design-led...

EXPLORATION | John Thackara | Design

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John Thackara is one of the world’s leading thinkers, commentators and partnership-builders in the area of community-based sustainable design. He is often called the...

MUSIC & ARTS | Bob Hansson | Culture, Music

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Bob Hansson was born on a ferry between Helsingborg and Helsingör and was brought to land in a bread bin. He grew up on land though. His debut as a poet and a writer was in...

EXPLORATION | Carolyn Steel | Food & Cities

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Does food shape a city? Yes – says author and architect, Carolyn Steel <a...

CO-CREATION | Tuuli Kaskinen | Int'l Development

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Tuuli Kaskinen is a researcher, speaker and campaigner working in think tank Demos Helsinki. Her work experience in the past decade has focused of campaigns creating...

CO-CREATION | Aleksi Neuvonen | Futures

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Aleksi Neuvonen is a philosopher and a futurist, working currently in Demos Helsinki, Finland’s first independent think tank. The special interests of Aleksi delve into...

CO-CREATION | Bjørn Brunstad | Education, Policy

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Bjørn Brunstad is an experienced scenario planner with a particular focus on long term sustainability challenges and the transformative opportunities that are always present in...

MUSIC & ARTS | Knut Larsson | Visual art

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Knut Larsson är en svensk konstnär, serietecknare och illustratör. Han debuterade i tidskriften Galago 1996. Hans serier och bilder präglas ofta av surrealism, drömmar och...

FUTUREPERFECT | Karin Dam Nordlund | OM process

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Karin Dam Nordlund is head of the CO-CREATION at FUTURE PERFECT together with Agnes Fries.

CO-CREATION | Joana Martins de Conti | Cities, Local

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Joana is a recently graduated architect and urban designer. She’s since been passionate for ecological-natural-sustainably-cool things, has got lots of optimism, energy, and...

CO-CREATION | Stephen Hinton | Communities

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Stephen is co-founder of the county of Sörmland’s first ecovillage, an early attempt at realising sustainable living according to the guidelines laid out by systems...

MUSIC & ARTS | Linn Segolson | Music

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Singer and songwriter Linn Segolson has for the last ten years been a member of several bands and music constellations, such as Anna Ternheim, Danish Hip Hop collective Nobody...

CO-CREATION | Andre Benaim | Education

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Andre Benaim is passionate about facilitating personal and collective development. Currently, with Global Action Plan (GAP) International, he works...

CO-CREATION | Inger Raaby | Education

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Inger Raaby is a former journalist/editor and has been involved in a number of NGOs and solidarity movements, such as the JAK interest free bank...

CO-CREATION | Kerstin Weijdegard | Art, Education

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Kerstin is one of the founders of Reconsider, a company seeking to inspire sustainability through the media of film, which in itself was a result of an education called...

MUSIC & ARTS | Wendy Mcneill | Music

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“Every festival offers someone to discover, and for me that was Wendy McNeill, an Edmonton musician whose sharp-edged songs with accordion and guitar seem like dispatches...

EXPLORATION | Caroline Strindmar Norström | Coaching

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Caroline Strindmar Norström has just graduated from the Bachelor program in Environment and Development at Södertörn Högskola. Besides her long fascination and true...

MUSIC & ARTS | Siri Karlsson | Music

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Behind the every day name Siri Karlsson we find a duo consisting of Maria Arnqvist and Cecilia Österholm. Together they create a new kind of folk music. With roots in old...

EXPLORATION | Simon Werbart Flato | Careers

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Simon Werbart Flato is a student and entrepreneur devoted to sustainability and better ways of creating success in business and society. He is about to finish studying with a...

CO-CREATION | Christer Söderberg | Communities

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Christer Söderberg is the founder of Open World Foundation and Open World Village (AB) Chairman and CEO. Christer is also founder and co-owner of the...

CO-CREATION | Sofia Asplund

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Sofia Asplund is the project leader of Branding Berg. She is a new 29 year old environmentalist, teacher of the arts and great at creating ceramics. Sofia is the mother of Hilda...

CO-CREATION | Klara Ellström | Education, Youth

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Klara Ellström is a Human Ecologist with a background in sustainable development, youth empowerment and climate change activism. She is based in Uppsala and part of the...

CO-CREATION | Tilo Wünsch | Art, Education

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Tilo is a musician and a social pedagogue from Germany wanting to inspire children and adults through the power of music. Tilo grew up in East Germany where non-materialistic...

CO-CREATION | Jake Weigel | Art

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Jake Weigel is currently a graduate student at the University of Mississippi after receving his BFA from the University of Minnesota. His work spans...

CO-CREATION | Ingrid Westerfors | Finance

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Ingrid Westerfors currently works with Ekobanken and studies Environmental Management at the School for Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University. She has got ten...

CO-CREATION | Isabel Ordoñez | Science

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I am a Chilean industrial designer. Born in Brazil, grew up in the States and Chile. Currently living in Sweden, just finished my masters degree in Design for Sustainable...

CO-CREATION | Oleg Izyumenko | Culture, Education

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Oleg Izyumenko is a part of 350.org team that organised “the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history” (according to <span...

CO-CREATION | Marie-Louise Falsing | Foods, Economics

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Marie-Louise Falsing is 27 years has a B. OC. T (Occupational Therapist). She is a ordinary member of Kbhff. She is a volunteer at Diakonissestiftelsens hospice in Frederiksberg...

CO-CREATION | Anne Mette Glarbo | Food, Economics

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Anne Mette Glarbo is 27 years. She has a B. SC. Food Science, nutrition and health. Next semester she starts at her master in Argricultural Development. She is engaged in...

FUTUREPERFECT | How the idea was born

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John Manoochehri, founder of FUTUREPERFECT, has dedicated his life to analysing, communicating, and creating contributions to sustainable living....

PARTNERS | Karlstads Kommun

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Karlstad Kommun goes green with it’s support for new sustainable festival. Karlstad Kommun is embracing the future with a renewed and strong focus on...

EXPLORATION | Ida Auken | Cities, Politics

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Ida Auken is a Danish Member of Parliament and sustainable cities policy-maker for the Socialistisk Folkeparti. We are proud to present Denmark’s most dedicated...

MUSIC & ARTS | Parken | Music

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Parken, or Pelle Lindroth, has released the much acclaimed albums “Länge leve Parken” and “Framtiden var här”.

MUSIC & ARTS | Jennie Abrahamson | Music

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Jennie Abrahamson comes from northern Sweden but has lived in Stockholm for the last ten years, making her way through the swedish music business. She used to sing in triphop...

EXPLORATION | Constantin Dumba | Education

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Constantin works at Schumacher College, a unique international educational institution. It provides individuals and groups from across the world with the opportunity to...

MUSIC & ARTS | Asha Ali | Music

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Asha Ali’s music takes aspects from both the indie pop and soul. Her latest album “Hurricane” was released in 2009. The single with the same name bacame an instant...

LIVING WELL | Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir | Food, Inner well being

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Icelandic Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir is one of Scandinavia’s leading health and lifestyle specialists. As a trained nurse, nutrional therapist and master coach she has more...

MUSIC & ARTS | No More Lullabies | Music, Art

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The artists network No More Lullabies joins FUTUREPERFECT FuturePerfect has joined creative forces with the Swedish initiative...

EXPLORATION | Sinead Mac Manus| Careers, Internet

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Sinead Mac Manus is founder of 8fold (www.eightfold.org), a digital well-being company that helps busy people work better. She educates people about mindful 21st century working...

MUSIC & ARTS | Alma Nofear | Music (DK)

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Great Danish-Swedish collaboration Viking collaboration travels to the big lakes of Sweden to re-unite the past and the future with Scandinavian gypsy...

EXPLORATION | Joel Lindefors | Communications, Enterprise

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With Victoria Olausson, Joel Lindefors is one of the co-founders of the Futerra office in Stockholm. For five years he led the Swedish branch of the European network Clean...

MUSIC & ARTS | Loney Dear | Music

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Soulful indie folk-and-pop artist Emil Svanängen is the man behind the hugely successful Loney Dear and is one of Sweden’s proudest contributions to the international...

EXPLORATION | Karsten Stampa

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After studying economics in Berlin, Karsten started his professional life as a business consultant for several German financial institutions in strategic management,...

FUTURE PERFECT | Nina Louise Jensen | FP Festival Designer

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Nina Louise Jensen is Future Perfect’s festival designer – and she is orchestrating the entire festival experience – in close collaboration with founder John...

CO-CREATION | Maria Richter Simsek

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Maria Richter Simsek is the project leader for Lärande Bygd/Learning Village. She was born in Berg 28 years ago, and has moved back after 10 years away from Berg. She has...

EXPLORATION | Victoria Olausson | Communications, Enterprise

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With Joel Lindefors, Victoria Olausson is one of the co-founders of the recently opened Stockholm office of Futerra. She has written the book Grön kommunikation and has been...

EXPLORATION | Nathaniel Corum | Architecture

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Nathaniel Corum is an architect, and Head of Educational Outreach for Architecture for Humanity. He and AFH work with communities, architects...

LIVING WELL | Anna Hallin

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Anna has spent many years exploring the field of yoga and personal development. She has studied with different teachers in India, USA and Sweden. For...

LIVING WELL | Mikala Kissi

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Mikala Kissi is a Copenhagen based dancer, Pilates and yoga instructor and nutrional therapist. For more than 15 years Mikala has worked professionally in both London and...

EXPLORATION | Cameron Tonkinwise | Design, Education

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Previously the Co-Chair of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, which oversees the New School’s Environmental Studies degree programs, Cameron came to the New School...

EXPLORATION | Cheryl Hicks | Enterprise, Policy

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Cheryl is the team leader for Sustainable Lifestyles at the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption &...

EXPLORATION | Vinay Gupta | Civilisation, International Development

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Weaving together threads from a variety of fields, Vinay has made substantial contributions to disaster relief, contingency management and environmentalism. While at the Rocky...

EXPLORATION | Thomas Ugo Ermacora | Cities, Local

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Thomas Ugo Ermacora, Creative Platform Curator, is a passionate dano-italian urbanist and geographer acting mostly as a creative social entrepreneur focused on sustainability....

EXPLORATION | Lyla Patel | Design, International Development

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With a background in Sustainable Development, and a gift for communicating TRAID’s complex work, Lyla runs TRAID’s Education Department working directly with...

FUTUREPERFECT | Agnes Fries | Co-Creation Design

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Agnes Fries is head of the CO-CREATION at FUTUREPERFECT together with Karin Dam Nordlund. Agnes is a product designer...

CO-CREATION | Pontus Dahlberg

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Pontus Dahlberg (on right) is a former information designer with a university education in Innovation Management. Pontus has founded Scandinavian Hemp Systems together with Mats...

CO-CREATION | Peter Froberg | Enterprise, Economy

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Peter works as a business model consultant, with a focus on business models based on sharing core products freely. He writes the blog <a...

CO-CREATION | Linda Petersen | Internet, Economy

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Linda Petersen holds a Masters’ degree in Modern Culture from the University of Copenhagen and has worked many years as a project manager. She has experience with internet...

MUSIC & ARTS | Vera Vinter | Music

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Singer songwriter Vera Vinter grew up in the small village Stora Lappträsk in nothern Sweden. This year she made her debut as a solo artist, singing in her mother tounge. The...

EXPLORATION | Johanna Stål | Media, Communications

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Johanna Stål is editor-in-chief, and one of the owner and founder of the sustainable lifestyle magazine Camino. After four years, many articles and lectures Johanna is...

MUSIC & ARTS | Jesper Waldersten | Visual art

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Jesper Waldersten is one of Sweden’s most popular illustrators, with numerous international awards in his career, a number of published books and a frequent exhibitor of...

EXPLORATION | Folke Tersman | Philosophy, Planetary Wellbeing

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Chair Professor of Practical Philosophy at Uppsala University and Honorary Research Fellow at Auckland University. Born 1964. I received my Ph.D. 1993 at Stockholm...

FUTUREPERFECT | A Day In The Life

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wake up no alarm smell the forest – last nights dance still humming in my legs – dreams filled amazing ideas – slow sunlight on the tent – another...

EXPLORATION | Anna Maria Orru | Systems, Food

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Anna Maria Orru has over 11 years of experience working as a sustainable architect and researcher both in the UK, Sweden and abroad. The foundation of her work is deeply...

EXPLORATION | What kind of festival do YOU want?

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Isn’t it time for FUTUREPERFECT? Are you tired of the classical drunken, noisy, chaotic festival experience? Well, then...

EXPLORATION | Eric Corey Freed | Architecture, Local

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Eric Corey Freed, LEED AP, Hon. FIGP, is Principal of organicARCHITECT, an architecture and consulting firm in California,...

MUSIC & ARTS | Goran Kajfes | Music

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Goran Kajfes is of Croatian heritage, grown up in Sweden in a family of musicians and artists. He is, since many years, an obvious authority at the very core in the Swedish...

MUSIC & ARTS | Eating Pebble | Music

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Eating Pebble aim to be a great live band with strong hit songs, always improving their show and communicating a solid message.

MUSIC & ARTS | ASS | Music

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After half a decade of living room recordings whilst backing up the Swedish top list artists, versatile punk rocker and instrumentalist Andreas Söderström has made his debut...

EXPLORATION | Edmund Colville | Design, Localisation

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Edmund is spearheading the development of West Lexham, the renaissance of a redundant farm and large section of a village in rural England. His vision is to make West Lexham a...

EXPLORATION | Johan Rutherhagen | Music, Enterprise

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Born and bred in Stockholm, Sweden (with a piece of his heart left in Berlin and another one in Copenhagen), Johan Rutherhagen is a graphic designer by profession. Among many...

EXPLORATION | Bengt Mossberg | Localisation, Food

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Bengt Mossberg is a beekeeper and nature conservator based in Molkom. bengtmossberg.se...

EXPLORATION | Ramia Mazé | Design, Technology

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I specialize in participatory and critical methods for designing systems and products that alter social practices and public life. In leadership and management positions at the...

EXPLORATION | Donnie Lygonis | Education, Innovation

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Donnie has a background in entrepreneurship and teaching and now works as a technology transfer manager at KTH Innovation in Stockholm. That...

EXPLORATION | AnnaMaria Larson | Cities, Nature

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Landscape architect Anna Maria Larson is one of the partners in the Urban and Nature Planning firm Ekologigruppen in Stockholm. Educated at the Agricultural University in Alnarp...

EXPLORATION | Jan Forsmark | Cities, Local

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Jan Forsmark is the coordinator of Transition Sweden. It started when he visited a Transition seminar outside London in 2008 as one of the participants of Sustaniable...

EXPLORATION | Thomas Bjelkeman | International Development, Technology

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Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson: co-founder and co-director of Akvo, a software company leveraging simple technology for international development. Thomas founded Akvo with...

EXPLORATION | Chris Butters | Architecture, Cities

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Chris is a Norwegian citizen, living near Oslo; born 1950 in South Africa. B.A.Literature (Stellenbosch), Architect DPLG (Montpellier), Energy...

EXPLORATION | Thomas Melin | Cities, Policy

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Thomas Melin is Senior Policy Advisor for the Global Division at UN-HABITAT, where he specializes in local governance and decentralization,...

EXPLORATION | Jesper Pagh | Architecture, Design

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Jesper Pagh is an architect and designer living in Copenhagen.

EXPLORATION | Johannes Fruehmann | Coaching

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Johannes Frühmann is a coach, entrepreneur and reseracher in the field of sustanable development. As a partner of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute he has researched...

EXPLORATION | Jacob Malthouse | Internet, Enterprise

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Jacob Malthouse is a digital eco-entrepreneur, who previously was Head of Investment at the United Nations Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (<span...

EXPLORATION | Eric Usher | Business, Systems

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Eric Usher is Manager of Seed Capital Programmes within the United Nations Environment Programme, charged with engaging the finance sector in the shift to greener low carbon...

MUSIC & ARTS | Eating Pebble | Music

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It’s with great pleasure that Eating Pebble can be part of such an amazing event that is Future Perfect. Eating Pebble’s recent album release ‘The Knife Show’ was a...

EXPLORATION | Dougald Hine | Systems, Civilisation

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Dougald Hine is a change guru (not his phrase) Change guru, imagining and creating projects and institutions that help people understand and participate positive social...

EXPLORATION | Maria Westerberg | Business, Design

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Maria Westerberg graduated 2008 from Konstfacks Interior Architecture and Furniture design. Since then she has made a Recycle interior collection for Indiska, made conceptual...

EXPLORATION | John Manoochehri | Cities, Design

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John Manoochehri is an architect and sustainability designer who lectures, consults, designs and teaches in Stockholm and internationally on sustainable living...

EXPLORATION | Marilyn Mehlmann | Systems, Education, Policy

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Marily Mehlmann, is the General Secretary of Global Action Plan International. Marilyn has lectured and consulted internationally for more than thirty years...

CO-CREATION | Annika Gilljam | Food, Politics

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Annika got interested in politics in her early teens, and at the age of 17 she took part in her first session of the European Youth Parliament. The <span...

CO-CREATION | Susanna Silversol | Food, Politics

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Passionate for languages and international politics, studying abroad was a natural choice for Susanna. Her engagement started early in the student council and a group...

EXPLORATION | Pooran Desai | Cities, Enterprise

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Pooran Desai is One Planet Technical Director and Co-Founder of BioRegional Pooran studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities before co-founding BioRegional...

EXPLORATION | Sue Riddlestone | Enterprise, Policy

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Sue Riddlestone is Executive Director and co-founder of BioRegional Development Group, an award winning social enterprise which she co-founded with her husband Pooran...