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Musikaliska Kvarteret
Nybrokajen 11
Stockholm, Stockholms län, 111 48
Sweden

Chris Rodriguez

With 10 years of work experience, Chris Rodriguez has changed careers over 10 times. In 2020, Chris was laid off due to the pandemic. Losing his job felt like losing himself which led him to question his own self-worth. Through self-discovery, unemployment taught him a valuable lesson: that he's more than just his resume and his achievements.

Jessika Sillanpää

Jessika Sillanpää is an advocate for the children and relatives who are impacted in one way or another by crime and sometimes forgotten or left without a voice. She is a certified grief counsellor, working both in the private and public sector, and campaigns for better support for child crime victims and greater awareness of the problem.

Louis Pax

Louis Pax is an independent three-piece pop band from Malmö, Sweden, doing music professionally since 2014 when they won the Swedish leg of Emergenza, under their then name Royal Prospect. The band consists of two brothers and their childhood best friend. They all play instruments and compose and produce their music themselves. The band focuses on continuously developing new elements whilst maintaining their signature modern pop sound. They developed an international following on their tours around the world as well as maintaining a steady following in Sweden and Denmark. Their first independently released single, Motion received more than 1,2 Million streams on YouTube.

Lova Unge

Lova Unge is an experienced lawyer with a particular interest in human rights, anti-corruption and sustainability in general. She spent two years in Peru working for human rights NGOs and for the United Nations. She has also spent over ten years working at law firms in Sweden focusing on labor law, business and human rights.

Melanie During

As a child, Melanie During was an outsider, collecting fossils and devouring books, and she decided to embrace it. That's why she studied earth sciences and delved into extinct life forms. Now, she's a vertebrate paleontologist and currently working on her PhD at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is interested in extinctions and adaptations and everything in between.

Nickole Li

Nickole Li is a systems designer in the video game industry, and enjoys picking systems apart to see how they work. She worked on games like Ghost Recon to Battlefield and Minecraft. After working for Ubisoft Singapore, she moved to Sweden to work at DICE and now Mojang. She is currently looking into the ways AI will revolutionize lives.

Peter Mattsson

Peter Mattsson is Managing Director of EliteSports2030, a joint project of the Swedish Sports, The Swedish Olympic Committee and the Swedish Paralympic Committee, formed to increase the funding put into Swedish high-performance sports, and to strengthen the support for high performance athletes and teams.

Pixelgrooves

Pixelgrooves is a duo created by Per Olev and Servando Barreiro. Inspired by digital art, music technology, computers, DIY and many years of tinkering, they started to work together in 2019 while both were resident artists in the Rumtiden creative space in Stockholm. In summer of 2022 during ‘Futureless festival’ they got the chance to do their first public improvised audiovisual performance, which happened to be seen & heard by the curators of the piksel festival in Bergen, Norway, where they ended up performing in November 2022. Expect synth infused sounds, electronic beats and highly reactive visuals.

Revin Baban

Revin Baban is a true music enthusiast and industry expert with over 15 years of experience. Having held significant sales and marketing roles at renowned entertainment companies such as Warner Music and Activision Blizzard, Revin has gained valuable insights and diverse experience. For the past five years, she has been running her own artist management company, focusing on artist development.

Tobias Wahlqvist

Tobias Wahlqvist is a dedicated multi-talent who has been running his own communication and media production business for over 20 years. Tobias is driven by a healthy academic complex and always seeks to learn something new about everything (except for sports and accounting). Over the years, he has also been a concert photographer, run an art gallery, and written a book.