MW:M 2024
Speakers
Confirmed Speakers MW:M24
Here we announce the confirmed speakers of Most Wanted: Music 2024. This list will be successively updated until the event, so check back from time to time.
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We are pleased to present you a number of this year’s speakers and discussion partners from a huge variety of business sectors.
Our confirmed speakers
A couple more of our past Speakers
While we have not been able to announce any new speakers yet, you are welcome to take a look at who has already taken part in recent years. As soon as we have the first confirmed speakers for 2024, we will list them on this page and inform everyone who has signed up for our newsletter.
Our confirmed speakers
As a former festival producer Rob van Wegen has a very practical view on the subject of sustainable event management. After 15 years of operational work in the festival industry he has now dedicated himself entirely to sustainability.
He works as Sustainability coordinator of Eurosonic Noorderslag in Groningen the Netherlands one of Europe’s best-known music festivals. And has been active for more than five years in the Innofest project which coordinates test platforms for prototypes and products with a sustainable focus at festivals.
In 2021 he published a three-step roadmap to help other organizers translate their sustainable strategies into long-term effective planning. From his position at ESNS he has been an active member in the Green Deal Circular Festivals Programme.
Morena Piro studied Romance Studies, Italian Studies and Education in Hanover and Applied Languages at the Université Sorbonne Paris IV. From 2002 to 2006, she worked as a project manager at the MusikZentrum Hannover, where she initiated the award-winning ‘Music in Hainholz’ project.
Since 2011, she has been coordinator at the Centre for World Music at the University of Hildesheim Foundation, where she is responsible for the Master’s degree programme ‘musik.welt – Kulturelle Diversität in der musikalischen Bildung’.
In 2016, she founded the Community Service department as well as the ‘Studying after flight’ area and headed the INTEGRA team of the German Academic Exchange Service. She has been a network communicator for the ‘Fête de la Musique Deutschland’ since 2023. She is also a member of the international ‘Community Music Network’ and the German Music Council’s federal expert committee ‘Cultural Diversity’.
Prince Emrah (pronouns she/he) is a professional belly dancer, a dance trainer, a beauty and wellness graduate, a make-up artist, a DJ, and an occasional drag queen based in Berlin. After his arrival, Emrah put all their energy into becoming a presenter of the “Black & brown cabaret show”, “Whoriental festival“, and “House of Namus” community events, and the “Gayhane” and QueerBerg Soli parties.
A few years ago, she arrived in Berlin as a refugee from Turkmenistan and is of Kurdish and Azerbaijan descent. Since then, he/she has built an impressive artistic career in Berlin’s performance art scene and beyond. Emrah is the mother of an artist collective called “QueerBerg”, and the “House of Royals,” which provides a space for BIPOC LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and refugees from countries such as Syria, Malaysia, Libya, İran, Kurdistan, Palestine, Turkey and the like.
A couple more of our past Speakers
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