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MICHELA MAGAS
/ Innovation

Michela Magas has a track record of 20 years of innovation. Her work bridges the worlds of science and art, design and technology, academic research and industry. She co-founded Stromatolite Design Innovation Lab in 2000, developing futures concepts for international clients including Apple, Nike and Nokia - stromatolite.com. Her practice-based Ph.D. research investigated music interpretation systems and led to her co-authoring Sonaris, an innovative music search technology, as well as launching the Open Product Licenses, enabling design by attribution. Michela directed MIReS.cc, investigating the future of music technology with seven top European research centres. She founded the global Music Tech Fest - musictechfest.org, which brings music industry, SMEs, innovators and researchers under one roof. Her work has received the 'art meets science' NEM art award twice, several TSB and EU FP7 awards, and was selected for the exhibition showcasing the best of British innovation at the Science Museum during the London Olympics. Michela Magas is named as European Woman Innovator of the year 2017.

DANIELA UREM
/ Education

Daniela Urem is art producer, curator, and designer of innovative higher educational curriculums with a track record of over 20 years of international experience. She is the founding president of the Creative Cultural Alliance (CCA), founder of the Doors Art Foundation, New York, and partner at the European Master degree Module in Arts, Science and Technology (MAST), where from the 2018 she is creating innovative transdisciplinary master degree curriculums for the European universities. Through the CCA, Daniela establishes close connections and interdependencies between teaching, research as well as international collaboration, large scale projects, and events currently collaborating with Troubleyn Jan Fabre, SITI Company Anne Bogart, Ulay Foundation, Ars Electronica and others. Her offline and online educational design has been accredited at the University of Graz, University of Nova Gorica, University of Madera and University of Rijeka. In 2012 Urem initiated the Arts and Cultural Affairs Office within the University of Rijeka. In 2013, as part of the city of Rijeka nomination for the European Capital of Culture, Daniela designed Unicult2020, the International Arts & Cultural Management and Cultural Policy study program, featured by the European Commission at the Culture Forum in 2017. Urem graduated from Pace University, New York. In 2004 she founded the Doors Art Foundation in New York City, working as artistic director and curator, producing more than 70 innovative artistic programs at the Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Museum of the Moving Image, Tribeca Cinemas and others. Daniela curated the internationally well-known artists Jeanne-Claude, Christo, Vitto Acconci, Ulay, Jan Fabre and others while promoting the European heritage to the international audience. At present, Daniela works on several educational, art and cultural platforms; educational developments and art and cultural policies projects, capacity building, career developments for young artists while advocating holism in her overall work. Daniela Urem is a regular international advisor, lecturer, and speaker.

GAELLA ALEXANDRA GOTTWALD
/ Social Ecology

Gaella Alexandra Gottwald is vice-president of the Creative Cultural Alliance.
Art director, creative consultant and artist graduated from Brown University with a degree in History of Art and Architecture, she pursued courses at the Film Academy FAMU and Applied Arts Academy UMPRUM of Prague and graduate studies at the European Institute of Design IED in Milan, Italy. In the years that followed she worked in a number of institutions from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to Cinecitta Film Studios in Rome. She has experience in a variety of creative fields from curating to documentary filmmaking, gallery work and art dealing.  For years Gaella traveled the world working and collaborating with local communities in Africa, Europe and Asia doing projects that worked on traditional crafts to sustainable design, to using art as a means of empowerment.  She was director of the Croatian Association of Artists in Zagreb (HDLU) from 2010-2014, where she created new programs such as Artomat unconventional art fair, Upcycling Festival, and Art for All projects to promote cultural entrepreneurship, ecological awareness, innovation and social inclusion.  Since 2015  she has been working for the City of Dubrovnik, as creative consultant for their ECoC bid for 2020 and currently as Art Director of the Lazareti complex (1-5) where she has created the foundations for a multidisciplinary art, science and community space. Her innovative and socially aware programs have gotten her various awards: National prize for Innovation in the Arts for Artomat (DKI 2013), EU Grant for Cultural Managers (Eunic 2013) and was the recipient of the Global Ambassadors Fellowship by Vital Voices for emerging female leaders Belfast, Ireland (2014).  She is an elected member of The Cluster for Competitiveness in the Creative and Cultural industries and has been a jury member of the Global Shapers Community.