Previous Speakers

Check out all the amazing speakers from the last two years including our partner Marketing Greece.

These speakers shared their insights on topics such as the future of travel, sustainability, destination transformation, design and technology and the importance of diversity and inclusion in the travel industry. X. Design Week is a great opportunity to learn from these leading figures and to network and ideate with other professionals in the design and travel industries to see how we can improve.

Ondrej Mitas

Breda University of Applied Sciences

Dr. Ondrej Mitas (born Bratislava 1982) researches tourists’ emotions.

Ondrej Mitas

Breda University of Applied Sciences

Wiebke Nadzeika

Wiebke Nadzeika is the Co-Founder of OneGuide, the first travel guide app offering selected travel recommendations.

Wiebke Nadzeika

OneGuide

Dunja Karabaić

Dunja Karabaić is the owner of the design agency “bureau gruen.” that’s dealing exclusively with sustainability.

Dunja Karabaić

ökoRAUSCH

Viktor Waal

Viktor Waal's mission is to recreate history or cultural heritage and make this accessible to tourists and citizens using AR.

Viktor Waal

Spot AR

Claudia Neumann

Cologne Tourist Board

Since 2007, Claudia Neumann is head of the Corporate Communications department at the Cologne Tourist Board and spokesperson for the same.

Claudia Neumann

Cologne Tourist Board

Birthe Menke

University of Southern Denmark

Birthe is a PhD fellow in sustainable tourism development at the University of Southern Denmark.

Birthe Menke

University of Southern Denmark

Joan-Carles Cambrils

Visit València

PhD in Economics and Social Sciences. Master in "Public Management". Bachelor in Economic and Business Sciences.

Joan-Carles Cambrils

Visit València

Margrit Miebach

CityLeaks Urban Art Festival

Margrit Miebach works as a freelance curator at the interface of art, architecture and design.

Margrit Miebach

CityLeaks Urban Art Festival

Jonas Rothe

Born in Dresden, he studied culture and music management in Munich.

Jonas Rothe

TimeRide

Rajneesh Badal

Tech entrepreneur with > 10 years experience in Travel, Virtual Assistants and Customer Experience

Rajneesh Badal

Zoey

Küllike Tint

Guidio / Tallinn City Museum

Küllike is an archaeologist. Apart from regular museum work, she is involved in the presentation of archaeology and cultural heritage in various ways.

Küllike Tint

Guidio / Tallinn City Museum

Florian Jovy

AI Manager for the Fraunhofer Society at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems.

Florian Jovy

KI NRW

Isabel Mosk

Sherpa's Stories

Isabel helps cities, regions, islands, and countries get ready for the future and to do marketing in the era we live in.

Isabel Mosk

Sherpa's Stories

Ralph Christoph

Ralph H. Christoph is one of the founders of the c/o pop Festival.

Ralph Christoph

CO Pop

Dr Heike Döll-König

Dr. Heike Döll-König is a passionate Germanist and literary scholar. Since 2010 she has been the Managing Director of Tourismus NRW.

Dr Heike Döll-König

Tourismus NRW

Tiago Relvão

Tiago is a media and travel intelligence expert, former Amadeus, with 15+ Years of experience working with leading global brands & destinations.

Tiago Relvão

BD4.ai

Tobias Hartmann

Dr. Tobias Hartmann's work moves in a field between the poles of danceable bass music, sound experiments and interactive installations.

Tobias Hartmann

CYLVESTER

Brian Harte

Tourism Ireland

Brian is a digital marketer with 20 years digital experience.

Brian Harte

Tourism Ireland

Tim Betzin

rausegegangen.de

Tim Betzin is the founder of Rausgegangen.de, a leading platform for event inspiration in Germany.

Tim Betzin

rausegegangen.de

Filipa Maria Cardoso

Filipa is the Director of Communication and Digital Marketing at VisitPortugal where she coordinates the development of the Destination’s promotion.

Filipa Maria Cardoso

VisitPortugal

Nadia Aniff

Cape Town Tourism

Nadia is a Broadcast Media and Tourism Specialist, with a penchant for storytelling.

Nadia Aniff

Cape Town Tourism

Daniel Ferrer

Daniel is thrilled by ideas how technology can enhance cultural experiences by making them more accessible to a broader audience.

Daniel Ferrer

Explorins

Carolina Mendonça

Azores Regional Government

Carolina is committed to bringing solutions to improve the sustainable management of tourism.

Carolina Mendonça

Azores Regional Government

Chris Carmichael

Chris is Head of Corporate Innovation at Intercruises Shoreside & Port Services, the world’s leading cruise specialist.

Chris Carmichael

TUI Musement

Josefine Carlsson

Tourism in Skåne

Josefine has worked within tourism and marketing for 7+ years at Tourism in Skåne.

Josefine Carlsson

Tourism in Skåne

Ave Pill

Estonian Tourist Board

Ave has designed services and solved digitalisation issues in the travel agency and hospitality industries.

Ave Pill

Estonian Tourist Board

Camillo Stark

Mr. Stark founded an AR Agency (appear2media) in 2012 which merged in 2019 into the MSM.digital Group.

Camillo Stark

MSM.digital

Giannis Giatas

Marketing Greece

Giannis is a 29-year-old marketeer working at Marketing Greece as a Content Marketing Manager.

Giannis Giatas

Marketing Greece

Olivér Szabó

Olivér Szabó found greencentive in 2019 to get everyday people involved in the fight against human made climate change.

Olivér Szabó

Greencentive

Johannes Brauckmann

Johannes has been in the gaming industry for 20+ years through various stations.

Johannes Brauckmann

gamigo

Regis Cazanave

Regis started his career in 2001, when the company he set up created machine-learning based recommendation engines for the entertainment industry.

Regis Cazanave

ForwardKeys

Tomas Andersson

Visit Stockholm

In 2020 he started a position at the City of Stockholm to lead digital transformation at Visit Stockholm.

Tomas Andersson

Visit Stockholm

Adriana Ballón Ossio

Adriana joined the CSCP in November 2021 as a project manager in the Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship (SBE) team.

Adriana Ballón Ossio

CSCP

Maksim Izmaylov

Maksim Izmaylov is a serial entrepreneur with the background in software engineering and law.

Maksim Izmaylov

WIN

Sven Weber

Sven is a an omnichannel expert with a strong focus on engaging social augmented reality experiences.

Sven Weber

MSM.digital

Sophia Adampour

'verse gallery nft

She took a break from her studies to start the Nordic region's 1st permanent physical NFT gallery in central Oslo.

Sophia Adampour

'verse gallery nft

Lucho Pérez

Being in love with marketing for the Travel Industry Lucho Pérez joined VisitBenidorm in 2013.

Lucho Pérez

Visit Benidorm

Max Schweder

Max Schweder is a digitalist, musician, performer and producer.

Max Schweder

CYLVESTER

Wendy Weijdema

Wendy Weijdema is responsible for creating actionable insights for MarketingOost and the province of Overijssel.

Wendy Weijdema

MarketingOost

Stefan Liehr

Label founders Markus Scholz and Stefan Liehr give insights into Cologne's music history around Jazz, Electronic music, and Krautrock.

Stefan Liehr

Founder

Sveinn Birkir Björnsson

Sveinn Birkir Björnsson has been orchestrating the Inspired by Iceland campaign for Visit Iceland since 2011.

Sveinn Birkir Björnsson

Visit Iceland

Tirsa Ramos-Pedersen

Tourism in Skåne

Tirsa is a UX Designer from Tourism in Skåne and has process led multiple innovation projects.

Tirsa Ramos-Pedersen

Tourism in Skåne

Chiara Loos

Helsinki Partners

Chiara is a German who was cool enough to embrace the Finnish way of life. She made Helsinki her home in 2020.

Chiara Loos

Helsinki Partners

Kaisa Kosonen

Kaisa is an experienced, energetic and self-driven digital development, travel industry and B2B sales professional.

Kaisa Kosonen

Visit Finland

Franco Losi

Franco Losi, a graduate in Information Sciences, has thirty years of experience in the field of new technologies and start-ups.

Franco Losi

CINELLO

Markus Scholz

Modularfield Records

Label founders Markus Scholz and Stefan Liehr give insights into Cologne's music history around Jazz, Electronic Music and Krautrock.

Markus Scholz

Modularfield Records