The first speakers for the Entrepreneurship Summit 2023 have been determined

Prof. Werner Sobek is an internationally renowned and sought-after architect and civil engineer. He is considered a great mastermind of lightweight construction and sustainable building. He is a professor at the University of Stuttgart and founder of the Institute for Lightweight Design and Construction (ILEK), chairman of the supervisory board of the Werner Sobek company and one of the initiators of the German Sustainable Building Council. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Federal Cross of Merit.

Prof. Harald Welzer is a sociologist, social psychologist and publicist. He is director of Futurzwei - Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit, professor of transformation design at the University of Flensburg and also teaches at the University of St. Gallen. With wit and astute arguments, he is committed to a better and open society and is considered one of the most influential critics of the growth economy. The Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute ranks him among the 100 most important thought leaders in the world.

Bart Weetjens is a Zen Buddhist monk and internationally acclaimed social entrepreneur. He is the founder of APOPO, a humanitarian organization that trains rats - HeroRATs - to save lives by detecting landmines and disease. Based on the shared vision that inner well-being inspires good action, he joined The Wellbeing Project to help move the culture in the social change field toward a more caring and compassionate culture.