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A French-Taiwanese artist, entrepreneur and educator. Her creative work synthesises Eastern and Western philosophies and aesthetics, using language and experience design to explore themes such as myth, narrative framing, activism, impermanence, death, spirituality and religion. Sylvie’s performance art takes the form of contemporary ritual, inviting audiences to take an active and interactive role. She uses language techniques such as Zen Koans as a bridge for the mind into direct experience, pushing beyond the bounds of the intellect into a space of greater wholeness and connection.

An author, editor, creative director and communications strategist working primarily in public climate narrative and the inner dimension of cultural change. She brings an academic background in philosophy and political communication to a decade of work with NGOs, policy initiatives, creative agencies and start-ups. Her approach combines sense-making, copywriting, and communication consultancy, helping to birth ideas and refine their shape - with clients including the Club of Rome, Climate Majority Project and Climate X.

A policy expert, researcher and writer known for his leadership within the emerging field of inner-led systems transformation. He has deepened the dialectic between ancient wisdom, modern science and public policy through a string of influential reports and collaborations with intergovernmental organisations, government agencies and politicians around the world. He currently leads on public narrative and policy development for the Inner Development Goals, and from 2015 to 2023 played an instrumental role in the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness, serving as Director of the associated policy institute, The Mindfulness Initiative.

A clinical psychologist, Dharma teacher, and transdisciplinary researcher focused on personal and political empowerment. He has worked with humanitarian organizations like UNOCHA and Doctors Without Borders in conflict-affected regions. Ordained as a Buddhist monk in 2004, he studied Mindfulness-Based Interventions (Bangor University) and leads meditation retreats across Europe. He founded NeuroSystemics, an NGO providing somatically-centered multi-level capacity building worldwide, and is a Research Scholar at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, Associate at Life Itself Research and an Education Ambassador at the Harvard Catalyst, working on bridging the gap between evidence-based interventions and field implementation. Boaz holds degrees in Business Administration, Buddhist Studies, and Clinical Psychology.

A complexity facilitator, exploring multi-disciplinary practices for sensemaking, narratives and a certified developmental psychology coach. Co-founder of Human-Equity Ltd in 2009, he specialised in qualitative metrics applied to complex organisational development, investment portfolio and change initiatives (culture and values) - in parallel with complexity facilitation processes in collaboration with Dave Snowden and the Cynefin Framework methods. Since 2020 John has been developing an artistic practice to explore the connections between the arts and complexity principles. John’s career includes 15 years in strategy consulting and business development for clients like British Telecom and Airbus, four years with an NGO (Practical Action) as Project Manager on artisan technology transfer projects in Nepal and Ghana. He holds a BEng in Engineering from Brunel University, London, and an MBA Hons from EDHEC (Theseus) in Nice, France.

An entrepreneur, activist and author as well as a long-term Zen practitioner. He is passionate about finding wiser, weller ways to live together. He wants all children (and future generations) to live in a world of love, abundance and wisdom. Rufus founded several successful for-profit and nonprofit initiatives, including Life Itself, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Datopian. His 2018 book Open Revolution is about making a radically freer and fairer information age and has been translated into multiple languages. Previously he has been the Mead Fellow in Economics at the University of Cambridge as well as a Shuttleworth and Ashoka Fellow. A recognized global expert on the information society, he has worked with G7 governments, IGOs like the UN, Fortune 500 companies as well as many civil society organisations. He holds a PhD in Economics and a double first in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.