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PLNT Leiden - Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Langegracht 70
Leiden, Zuid-Holland, 2312 NV
Netherlands

Alexia-Teodora Matei

Student at Leiden University

Alexia-Teodora Matei is a student at Leiden University who advocates for the rethinking of our systems of living and the concept of de-growth. She invites the audience to reflect on the normative foundations of de-growth and how they propose to prioritize human and planetary well-being.

Cyril Moulin-Fournier

Change Catalyser

11 years ago, Cyril Moulin-Fournier was taken captive while on holiday in Africa for several months. This experience completely changed his relationship with uncertainty. He learned that in life one has to let it go, instead of adapting to conformity and what society pushes us to be. In his talk, he’s going to share how we can do it too.

Jordi Khoso Hussain

Student at Leiden University

Jordi Khoso Hussain is a student speaker from Leiden University. Jordi’s speech draws from his own experience as a university student who wants to become an entrepreneur. He explains four of the main tenets of stoicism and links them to his personal experience while giving us tools to engage with them. For him, both successes and failures are lessons whose learnings can be used to achieve our goals.

Mélina Colbaut

Student at Leiden University

Melina is a student speaker from Leiden University. Through her speech, Melina demonstrates how music taught her the biggest life lessons, both as an artist and as a human.

Namita Tiwari

Forbes Council Leader

As a marketing leader, Namita Tiwari centers her talk on the promise and potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) —the Genie marketers have been dreaming of!

Perazim Singo

Student at Leiden University

Perazim Singo is a student speaker from Leiden University whose diversified cultural background led to her awareness of agri-food production. Growing up in Zimbabwe, Mongolia, and Uganda, she discovered different food cultures which pushed her to engage in agri-financial technology.

Rummana Syeda

Transformational Coach

Rummana Syeda will discuss how constantly suppressing our ego leads to feelings of guilt, shame, sadness, and overall deep internal conflict. Going through a divorce, losing time with her toddler, and losing her job - all at the same time caused her to re-evaluate this narrative. When we understand and accept our EGO, we can embrace our duality, which will bring us peace.

Serafine Beugelink

Science Communicator

Serafine Beugelink argues that we should all be more encouraged to expand our horizons and learn new things, even if they do not concur with our natural predisposition. By breaking through these mental restrictions (e.g. "I can't do maths"), we can experience many personal and societal benefits and get to know new versions of ourselves. Being a mathematics and physics teacher herself, Serafine wants to share the benefits of school diversification.

Sonia den Dubbelden

Psychological Safety Artist

Using her experience of growing up in several orphanages around the globe and repeatedly being told she would not amount to anything, Sonia Den Dubbelden will inspire the audience to refuse to be tamed by worthless words. Looking at life from a game science perspective, she will dissect the world's aesthetics from its cultural dynamics and society's hidden mechanics.