has edited the Modern Love column in the New York Times since it began in 2004 and now manages the global franchise it has become: 2 weekly columns, 3 books (“Modern Love,” “Love Illuminated,” and “Tiny Love Stories”), a weekly podcast with more than 150 million downloads, and the “Modern Love” streaming series on Amazon Prime Video, on which he serves as co-producer.

is a Brazilian photographer and historian, awarded on 4 continents, published 10 books and held exhibitions in 50 countries. His current project revolves around the influence of the Anthropocene on the cold zones of the world. He carried out 27 expeditions to Antarctica, Himalayas and Andes. His main theme of interest is the freedom to walk in silent landscapes.

stands as a brave voice in global reporting. As an Emmy-nominated television journalist and EURONEWS’ International Correspondent, she unveils human stories from the heart of conflicts worldwide. Her 2022 Emmy nomination stems from her comprehensive coverage of the turbulent US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Recruited in 2018 by EURONEWS, Anelise’s journey started as Paris Correspondent but she was soon made International Correspondent and as of 2019, she was already reporting from the forefront of crises in Venezuela, Iran, and Afghanistan, leveraging her extensive Middle East, Africa, and Europe experience. Beyond field work, Anelise is a highly accomplished news anchor with more than a decade of experience at EURONEWS, TRT World and France 24, and she is fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

is an american visual artist and design theorist, whose work dissects cultural production’s interplay with image, environment, and technology in shaping experiences across photography, design, fashion, and performance. In 2020, he made history as the first-ever Black photographer to shoot a cover for Vanity Fair, featuring Viola Davis. Dario founded The Institute of Black Imagination (IBI), a platform celebrating Black creativity through podcasts, online archives, and an upcoming Oculus World Trade Center presence. A 2022-23 Loeb Fellow at Harvard, he advises Estée Lauder, teaches at Parsons School of Design, collaborates with Pyer Moss, and crafts Adobe Lightroom presets for people of color.

is a graphic artist who combines a knack for simplicity that packs a punch with analogue craft skills and powerful, positive messages. While his pieces all bear the marks of his letterpress process, Burrill’s direct and multidisciplinary approach is constantly evolving, combining tradition with bold new approaches and technologies. His work is held in the permanent collections of the V&A and The Design Museum in London, The Cooper-Hewitt in New York, and has been exhibited in galleries all around the world.

is a designer and writer whose work has appeared in Fast Company, Forbes, and CNN, and generally involves designing new technology and industry practices. She has led global design projects for Google Maps, The World Resources Institute, and The Gates Foundation. In 2022, she petitioned for the Silenced No More Act in the US, prohibiting employers from silencing workers on issues of discrimination, retaliation, and wage violations.

is an Emmy award-winning writer, director, and experience design architect. His works have been selected to Cannes, Sundance, IDFA, and SXSW; featured in New Yorker magazine, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times; and have garnered an Emmy for new approaches to documentary, and two world press photo awards for immersive storytelling and interactive documentary. He is currently the founder and executive director of the experience design studio The Skin Deep.

is a dynamic poet, translator, and independent researcher who defies disciplinary boundaries. He seamlessly navigates literature, philosophy, contemporary art, architecture, media, politics, and ecology, treating them as integral perspectives on the world. With over 20 poetry books, essays, and 80 translations of French thought and literature, his influence is profound. As president of ArtLit (Romanian Association of Literary Translators) and a board member of PEN Romania, his impact is palpable, making him a sought-after speaker at art and architecture events. His voice resonates on Radio România Cultural, and his writings feature in Observator Cultural and LiterNet.

is a wine critic, author, and juror in international wine and spirits competitions such as Mundus Vini and Meininger’s International Spirits Awards. She is the organizer of RO-Wine | The International Wine Festival of Romania, and a professor at the Italian Chef Academy, in Rome. Representing Foss Marai as Brand Manager and Vinars Brâncoveanu as Global Brand Ambassador, recently Marinela became the wine consultant for one of the largest modern retailers in Romania, Carrefour.

is a musical project that delves into a variety of influences to create its own unique sound. To create an immersive musical experience, elements of blues, soul, R&B, and house are combined, thus creating a tide full of sounds that envelops the listener’s spirit.

is a dancer, choreographer, and educator. She is involved in artistic and pedagogical projects cultivating continuous and shared research practices with various art and education institutions, as well as national and international dance companies. She is a master at bringing her passion for artistic practices, intricately crafting interconnections. Her mesmerizing performance, NINGUÉMMESOLTA (Don’t lose me), is a living, poetic-political sensorimotor work where no one abandons the call for pulsation and vitality.

is a Paris-based gallerist and curator known for his avant-garde galleries, often described as idea laboratories. He’s renowned for his support of international artists spanning different generations. Jean-Kenta specializes in exploring the intersection of art, public spaces, and social infrastructure, contributing to intellectual discourse within the art world. His work bridges the realms of philosophy and contemporary art, making a notable impact on the international art scene.

is a Romanian physicist, inventor, and researcher, who pursued his education in both the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Physics in Bucharest. In 2002, he earned his PhD in physics from the University of Groningen and currently, he serves as a researcher at Philips in the Netherlands, with a specialization in medical sensors. Alongside his team, he invented and brought to market the first watch measuring athletes’ pulse rates using solely optical sensors. He holds several patents and has published articles in specialized journals. He is intensely active in popularising science in Romanian through writing physics books, textbooks, and engaging with the public by radio, TV, newspapers, and social media.

has been building ways for people to meet others beyond the dating apps for almost 15 years. She was recruited by Match.com as their Director of Event Design, then became WeWork’s first Director of Workplace Connection. She delved into the art of setting people up with Paired By The People, and co-hosted Vox Media’s award winning podcast series, Land of the Giants, focused on the overlooked history of the dating industry. Now she is excited to reimagine what it means to date later in life with the recently launched The Later Dater Today.

seamlessly integrate Avi’s ‘inner silence’ workshops, rooted in Prakriti School of Yoga with Bogdan’s immersive Gong baths and sessions, featuring antique instruments. Avi’s vast experience as a seasoned Yoga teacher, Ayurveda practitioner, and wellbeing consultant, joined with the expertise of sound practitioner Bogdan, creates an immersive session, guiding participants on a journey of deep relaxation and connection. Their harmonious fusion offers participants a unique exploration of self-discovery and holistic rejuvenation.

is a partner at Mesa Company, and a mastermind who works with some of the most brilliant decision-makers of our time, helping them make bold movements in a world of constant change. She started Mesa Company’s American operations in 2016, winning clients like Google, Coca-Cola, Bayer, Meta, Nestlé, and Nike, just to name a few of them. She also leads Leadership Excellence inside Mesa, working together with leaders to make sure every project meets the company’s highest standards.

has crafted a unique path merging graphic and product design, fuelled by his passion for engineering and arts, and using limitations as creative challenges. He is the mastermind behind Editura Publica’s book designs, and co-author of RO-KIT – Romanian identity in 50 components. UNARTE lecturer, he’s been shaping young minds in Basic Design since 2020, while also pursuing a PhD, focused on the use of Origami in upcycling and education. His works have been exhibited at G15D Gallery, Romanian Design Week, UNARTE Gallery, Galeria Galateca, Design Monat Graz, European Commission in Romania – Climate Pact, Holon Design Museum – Tel Aviv, and many more.

is an architect whose journey transcends boundaries. Beginning in film production design, he has evolved into a leader in innovative interior design, architecture and object design projects featuring his special personal blend of eclecticism and irony. Since 2008, he’s led a team specializing in hospitality, retail, and workplaces. They’ve claimed awards and nominations at the most prestigious design competitions including: FRAME Awards, Dezeen, Restaurant and Bar Design Awards, Architizer and the Architectural Annual and Biennial, to name but a few. His work, featured in over 40 international design books and magazines showcases his extensive influence.

is a key figure in the European Film Academy and the brains behind the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), ranked among the world’s top 50 film festivals by Indiewire, as well as the initiator of the GOPO Awards. He’s also a 2014 Eisenhower Fellow, an honor given to only 24 global leaders. As a filmmaker with over 50 film productions under his belt, Tudor’s productions received various awards like  “Superman, Spiderman or Batman” secured Best European Short at the 2012 European Film Academy Awards.

is a vibrant fusion of mantras, beats, medicine music, and soul-nourishing sounds. Their music creates a tapestry of ritual celebration, extending an ecstatic invitation to the singer and dancer within us all. This grassroots and avant-garde devotional music ensemble specializes in collective participation. For over a decade, The Hanuman Project has traveled the world, singing and dancing, collecting, composing, and pollinating ideas. Featuring, in this special performance, Pavan and Pao Pamaki.

is a Creative Director at Wieden + Kennedy. Born and raised in Romania, she spent her 20s working in NYC and now enjoys her 30s living in Amsterdam. For more than a decade, she has been zig-zagging between design and advertising in an attempt to transfer knowledge between those two worlds and make work that shifts + shapes culture.

is the founder of the Music Is My Sanctuary collective, the 24 Hours of Vinyl event series and a TED speaker featured about Vinyl Records culture and giving forgotten music another chance. He works as a music curator for brands, spaces and various cultural projects. He is deeply passionate about the transformational nature of music and how the rituals in which we preserve, share, discover and listen, are at their most magical when humans are at the center of that cultural exchange rather than algorithms.

(gree-o) is a storytelling performance duo. Different paths brought them to the land of opportunity (Los Angeles).  Although done differently, (one dropping out, working an unfulfilled job, the other graduating, working an unfulfilled career) their journeys led them through similar obstacles/victories. Their experiences fuel their stories. Bosco, the passionate prose. KO, the purpose-filled poet, make-up the drama-comedy that’s Griot.

is a visual communications artist born in Jerusalem. Studio Roni Levit specializes in information design, examining the limits of objective and subjective facts while also attempting to measure concepts that lay beyond quantification. Levit’s studio produces visual storytelling for Israel’s major newspapers, information design for NGOs, and data visualization for reports for private and governmental agencies, as well as data-oriented artworks to be displayed in exhibitions and art events.

is an old school DJ with an electronic edge. He’s always been extremely passionate about music and is an eager supporter of underground culture. It’s true that our differences make us unique, but Andi thinks that in these divisive times, music has the ability to help us connect and unite, under a common emotion. 

is a Sustainable Entrepreneur whose why is “to be persistent so that together we can progress toward a sustainable future.” He has 8 years of experience in volunteering and entrepreneurship in the construction sector. He loves nature and he’s passionate about sustainable development, which in his sector means carbon-neutral buildings.

is a rising artist with a unique journey. Trained in classical music since age 5 by her father, Modest Cichirdan, a classical music conductor, she later transitioned to pop music, composing her own songs. After releasing the album “Facelift” in the UK in 2018, Leyah explored cinematic music, composing for the short film “Anonymously” and crafting tracks like “I don’t deserve this” and “I’ll be fine.” Her upcoming album, “Remember who you are” (2024), introduces Romania to Cinematic Pop, merging classical and pop with a captivating twist. Leyah’s music, notably “Time” and “Peace is the only thing we need,” elegantly combines storytelling and music.

Driven by a raw passion for music and an unapologetic curiosity for experiments, this fresh international combo of three uses music to tell stories and express their fears and hopes. Eugenia, Florentin, and Catrinel: one whose friendship with the cello celebrates more than 40 years, one self-taught, and one trained on multiple instruments. DARADAIK is about embracing the unknown; an experimental fusion between a cello and 2 handpans, own compositions, a little bit of improvisation, and no regrets.

is a chromatic and sonorous phenomenon, urban and bucolic, crafted from a sublime balance between extremes. Their music blankets reality with a delicate and immersive glow, whose energy resonates through spaces, leading us to explore lush synesthetic and dreamlike landscapes. Ceah and Odaya are offspring of São Paulo, a city as impactful as their music, and as prismatic as their performances, where textures and tones collide to generate vivid scenes, abundant in nuances and noises.

Tobi Ibitoye is a Nigerian born singer/songwriter and actor based in Bucharest, Romania. He came to limelight in the year 2015 after his participation on the Voice of Romania. On the 3rd of August, 2023, he released the first single of his debut album “Fear to Freedom” air-marked release next spring. He plays the role of Harry in Sky Italia’s television series “Django” and features as Calu in the Broadway adaption of The Full Monty for Romanian theaters.

is a Romanian actress known for her versatility in film and theater. Her notable film roles include “Păcatele Evei” (2005), “O luna in Thailanda” (2012), “Dogs” (2016), and “Selfie 69” (2016). Her contributions to the theater, including performances at Teatrul Național București, have further solidified her reputation as a talented artist. Raluca has also left her mark on television with appearances in the TV series “Ruxx” (2022) and continues to captivate intimate stage audiences, as demonstrated in her recent solo performance at ACT.

is a versatile Romanian actor with a wealth of experience in both theater and film. Graduating from the University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 2009, he has impressively appeared in over 45 theatrical productions and numerous films and TV series. In 2022, he portrayed Dr. Kleiniger in “LIBERTATE,” directed by Tudor Giurgiu, showcasing his enduring talent and dedication to the world of performing arts.

is a multidisciplinary studio established in 2011 in an apartment in Bucharest. Over the past 12 years, it has operated in various spaces, including the Pionieru factory, Moxa 20, and ISAF. Currently, its main activity is screen printing, overseen by Aleksandru Grigore. primitivprint‘s skilled hands have produced a wide range of magazines, matchbooks, zines, books, posters, stickers, merchandise for various events, punk bands, and intriguing characters.