Alison Keable
Singer, Songwriter, and Teacher
Londoner singer-songwriter who has been composing songs with manifest melodic influences from alternative rock and popular folk for over twenty years. After winning the VII Álava Demo Competition in 2013 with her band Similar Interests, she began her solo acoustic project with a view to offering a more intimate experience of her music.
Álvaro González de Langarika
One-man Band
Off-road journalist, consultant, sound technician. Álvaro stands out for the periodic need to reinvent himself and simultaneously work in different sectors. He is president and founding partner of APIA (Association Palomista Iradier de Álava), dedicated to preserving and making the habanera La Paloma by Sebastián Iradier known.
Anelise Borges
Journalist
Journalist. Euronews NBC’s Paris Correspondent. She is interested in migration and integration issues. Her work aboard the charity vessel Aquarius when Italy decided to close its ports to migrants and refugees rescued in the Mediterranean was compiled into the documentary “10 Days at Sea, the real story of The Aquarius”.
Asier Vallejo
Professor and Researcher
Professor / researcher in the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the UPV / EHU. He combines his teaching and research work with scientific divulgation in Basque. His passions are football, cooking and his children.
Audrey Tang
Digital Minister of Taiwan
Serving as Digital Minister of Taiwan since 2016, where she works in the Taiwan National Development Council’s Open Data and K-12 curriculum committees, Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.
Carlos Garbisu
Researcher on Conservation of Natural Resources
Head of the Department of Conservation of Natural Resources of NEIKER - Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, where he coordinates the Soil Microbial Ecology Group. Currently, a large part of his work focuses on antibiotic resistance.
Cassandra Vera
Author and activist
Author, History student, LGTB activist, and content creator. Some years ago, she was involved in a judicial process that led her to being sentenced to one year prison, a sentence that the Supreme Court invalidated afterwards.
Dani Villanueva
NGO Director and Jesuit
Jesuit. Computer engineer and Theologian, with post-graduate studies in Humanitarian Assistance, NGOs Management, Leadership and Social Innovation, and a Global Executive MBA. He is the Executive Vice President of the NGO Entreculturas/Alboan. His obsessions are education, networks, and communications.
Eneritz Zubizarreta
Tester
Computer engineer and businesswoman, director of services at Globe Testing, a company dedicated to software testing so that users of computer services live in peace.
Iosu Martín
Triatleta
Born, raised, and living in Pamplona, Iosu was a kick boxing aficionado. However, in 2012 he was diagnosed with renal insufficiency and he was transplanted in 2016, thus, he had to abandon kick boxing. As soon as he left hospital, he started running… and never stopped.
Videogame Analyst and Comedian
Video game developer and analyst. He has worked for the American intelligence writing software to detect metaphors in Persian. He also is a stand-up comedian.
Marco Springmann
Researcher in Environmental Sustainability and Public Health
Senior researcher in environmental sustainability and public health in the Department of Public Health and the Oxford Martin Program for the Future of Food at the University of Oxford. He advocates putting a rate on meat consumption.
María Salgado
Researcher in Virology and Immunology
Researcher in virology and immunology, and especially focused in the pathogenesis of HIV-1 as the aetiological agent of AIDS. Her commitment to her field of study has been rewarded with a total of 6 Spanish Government competitive fellowships and 9 International Young Researcher Awards.
In(ter)dependent Professional
PhD in Political Science and Administration and Master in equal opportunities between women and men. Regular editor of Wikipedia and dynamizer of WikiEmakumeok, a project to reduce the gender gap in the construction of open knowledge with and for all people.
Silvia Carretero
Historian and Documentalist
Historian and documentalist in the library of the Artium Museum. Her passion for archeology has led her to dig into the project of the Vizier Amen-Hotep Huy in Luxor.
Tatyana Kanzaveli
Entrepreneur
Tatyana was a chess champion in the USSR, where she played in the same team as Gary Kasparov. Her startup, Open Health Network, based on big data and artificial intelligence, is considered as one of the 50 women-led companies that are crushing tech.