Annika is compaigns assistant at change.org, the world’s platform for change, where people everywhere are starting campaigns, mobilising supporters, and working with decision makers to drive solutions.

At the SenseCamp she will be our keynote speaker, talking about two big and very inspiring campaigns of engaged citizens.

After working in CSR for large public companies and as a consultant for Arte, Héloise moved to CivicTech and joined Civocracy. She is also a member of MakeSense and FutureLab Europe.

Civocracy facilitates discussion, decision-making, and engagement in communities. A civic tech platform bringing together local government, companies, NGOs and citizens and bridging the gap between them.

Jana is project manager for Liquid Democracy e.V.. At LIQD she is responsible for the platform mein.berlin.de. In online participation she is focused on open source solutions and low thresholds to participation.

She has been working as an event /project manager and facilitator somewhere between politics, citizen participation and the collaborative development of organisations and neighborhoods for a couple of years. She especially likes that this way she can bring people together and support them talking about a whole bunch of important topics. As a political scientist her focus is on the quality and inclusiveness of participatory methods. Her passion is the wide field of communication methods.

She will do an interactive workshop about „good citizen participation and mobilisation”

Moritz Borchardt, an inter-disciplinarily trained social scientist, NGO-administrator and writer, will talk about: “Past + Future = Present, The Role of Civil Society in the 21st Century”

Having studied in Jena, Vilnius and at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Erfurt, Moritz left university with degrees in Governmental Studies and Public Policy and has been writing about the impact of the web on society writ large and structural challenges to today’s societies since the late 2000s.

In his day job as a project manager for Culture Goes Europe e.V., he develops and implements projects on structural problems in today’s Europe such as the future of the European idea, how to effectively combat far-right populism by means of remembrance and education, and a more solution-based and positive outlook on the ongoing challenges in Europe.

Beyond that, he is a co-founder of the Futures of Europe initiative and the Global Public Policy Watch.

With her Bachelor degree from Maastricht University in the pocket, lots of knowledge on European politics in her head and a great gang of four women around the kitchen table, she founded the social startup CUBE. Your Take on Europe in the summer 2016. With CUBE, she aims to make European Youth participation more inclusive, facilitating Dialogue between youngsters from all walks of life and European decision makers. And she is only 21 years old, grew up in Munich, studied European studies in the Netherlands and then embarked on a social entrepreneurship journey throughout Europe.

She will present her project for the MKS Room on the 14th of July and will be our social entrepreneur for the hold up on the 29th of July.

After working in media agencies and cultural institutions in Paris, NYC, London and Shanghai, Ronan de la Croix co-founded the media branch of MakeSense with Vincent Hejduk. Passionate with media and Culture he is convinced that journalists and artists are the leaders in creating a culture of Change. He will speak about Waynak, the first impact documentary produced by MakeSense, giving tools for passive viewers to turn into active players on the Refugees cause.

Lars Zimmermann is an Artist, Economist, Author and Keynote Speaker based in Berlin. He is cofounder and member of the Board of Stewardship of the Open Source Circular Economy Days (oscedays.org) – an international project and community to develop a sustainable, waste free Circular Economy by using and exploring the collaboration methodologies of Open-Source-Hardware and Software. The organization produces and shares documentation of circular solutions and invites people to test and implement them across the globe. Next to this project Lars Zimmermann explores Open Source as a key driver for a global sustainable economy with several other organizations and artistic projects like the Open It Agency (openitagency.eu) a consulting agency for Open-Source-Hardware, Mifactori (mifactori.de) a company for open and circular furniture and construction and The City Is Open Source (thecityisopensource.de) a street art and city transformation project. More about him you can learn on his personal website: larszimmermann.de

During the SenseCamp he will deliver a talk with a Q&A on following topic:

Make Open Source Circularity! Openness as a way to include citizens in the invention of a sustainable circular economy and circularity culture and allow them to own it.

Katharina Jung is a 23 year old change maker from Germany. Already at the age of 14 she traveled to South Africa, later to Uganda and Ruanda. In this journeys she experienced the engagement of various NGOs in the humanitarian, educational and financial sector. Furthermore she conducted researches on post-genocidal Rwanda and the actions of rebel groups in northern Uganda. In her academic life – studying Politics, Sociology and Geography in Bonn (Germany), Madrid (Spain) and Porto Alegre (Brazil) – she focuses on (post)colonialism, nation state theories and international relations. While working for the federal ministry of economic cooperation and development she gained practical experiences of governmental relations with the so called Global South. In 2015 she founded GlobalMatch,  a platform that connects people from different parts of the world – via Skype, e-mail or messenger – in order to discuss ideas, work together, share opportunities and learn about new perspectives. Moreover she is a passionate Greenpeace activist and Project Coach.
At sense camp she will talk about the problematics of (post)colonialism and eurocentrism and about how to leave these thought patterns in order to enable equal participation in a globalized world.  

Sima is a local in Toronto, Heidelberg and Berlin and grew up in a family where migration and mixed identity consistently played a formative role. While writing her M.A. thesis on the international exchange of migration and urbanisation initiatives, Sima also began teaching German to asylum seekers and creating an on and offline community connecting her students with Heidelberg locals and international students, called “Meet & Greet Heidelberg”. Interested in how social entrepreneurship can be used to create innovative solutions to existing challenges, Sima recently moved back to Berlin to co-found SINGA Deutschland.

At the SenseCamp she will lead a discussion during the SenseTour of Friday afternoon about the projects that SINGA is supporting here in Germany.

Balázs is the founder of Taqanu, a bank for all. It was his concept to be able to provide banking to anyone regardless of background and available documents. His background combines a mixture of Architecture, Sailing, and Entrepreneurship that is giving him the routine to solve problems that have never been visited before. Passion for creating real value for everyone is what drives Balazs and Taqanu, but it should not come as a surprise as he is a millennial.

In his session “#Superpower of identity & what happens without it” Balazs will hold a mind opening presentation in regard to the problem Taqanu is working on and how the solution is coming from technology, followed by a workshop about how to reach people (you, me, refugees, people in rural places) & organisations working with them.

Hadi is an architect from Homs city from Syria. He loves working (beside being architect) in marketing field and design thinking. He will speak about The Architectural Post, a project that helps people to revive and rebuild their Crisis/wars torn-cities.

The Architectural post is a crowdfunding platform that connects engineers, workers, volunteers, property owners with donors, lenders, investers to manage and executive projects.

Coby is the Founder & GLUE of Sapient Social & Environmental Enterprises, Foodwaste fighter, Democracy renewer, Social business helper, SenseMaker & ChangeMaker.

He is trying to change things that are wrong, trying to improve things to be better and he believes in a more horizontal structure to organisations and society. Carpe Diem & Nullius in verba

Sarah studied science of theatre, journalism and theatre directing and is an expert on board games and game mechanisms. She works as theatre director and social game designer and as one of the funders, she works as artistic director for the initiative „Kleiner Fünf“.

She and Paulina will speak about their campaign “Unser Ziel: Kleiner Fünf” (our goal: less than five). It was founded to achieve that right wing populist parties gain less than five percent of the votes in the next German federal election. They contribute to the political debate, want to refresh it, and question the positions of established political players. They want to reset issues on the agenda and reason with substance. They do not fear for change and the future, as they are convinced that the best times still lie ahead of us.

Rebecca Sunshine is a California native who followed her soul mate to Berlin via Tel Aviv. She’s worked for several technology startups in Berlin (including social change organizations), and over the past 5 years has balanced her business endeavors with yoga and meditation. She’s participated in Vipassana meditation retreats; completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Zen Yoga by Dynamic Mindfulness; completed a CI + Somatic movement workshop in Cambodia; and an Intro to Thai Massage workshop in Berlin. Rebecca teaches Zen Yoga which is an integral exploration of mind, body, and breath rooted in Zen Buddhist wisdom. Her classes express mindfulness in movement and in stillness giving participants time between transitions to scan their bodies and truly experience the happenings of their inner landscapes. She teaches holistic movement from the deep core line of the body based on biomechanical principles while taking a contemporary approach to Hatha and Vinyasa flow. She is driven by love and strives to teach humans from all walks of life how to balance effort and ease on and off the mat.