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Jane Frost, CEO, Market Research Society UK: “Anyone can have data. Not many people have usable insights that can change a business decision”
[Creative State] Jörg Riommi: Our egos have been pet. We can do anything. But we are more separated than connected, isolated, lonely - and therefore exposed, manageable and moldable. Easier to control
Oana Aristide: I don’t know anyone who writes well without effort. As far as I know, everyone revises and edits, rethinks, has insights even after half the book is already ‘done’
Kenji Miura: In Romania, you say what you feel. You get upset, you make up, you hug, you say 'kisses'. In Japan, even parents and children don't hug very often
Chuhan Xiao: I’m interested in how memories can be blurry, fragmented, so I explore different materials and techniques to give these intangible experiences a physical form
Maja Novaković: I think there is something particular about the way the Balkans hold history and everyday life side by side. There is intimacy, melancholy, and even absurdity in the way we look at ordinary things
Flaminjoy Brought “Branding from Within” to Asia: How Employees Become a Brand’s Most Credible Voice
Pedro Lacaz Amaral: One of the most important conversations is how to make outdoor recreation grow without destroying the very places that attract people to it
Vanessa Ree: I find like many parts of society jewelry design has become more homogenous. Safe. And consequently boring
Toulo Adl Parvar: I think the world is moving too fast, and not in a positive way. I feel the urgency even more every day
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir: Crime writing in contemporary settings requires constantly increased knowledge of the tech and science involved in crime investigations
Zygmunt Krauze: We should maybe go out from the big concert halls, and go to the younger people, but they don't come here
Erke Dzhumakmatova: Cinema became a way for me to examine reality, including realities that people prefer not to look at
Louis Chude-Sokei: Culture requires study, choice and deliberate engagement, not passive acceptance. It is something we make.
Svitlana Lohvynenko: Moving to Romania introduced us to an incredibly open contemporary jewelry community
Joan Català Carrasco: I felt the need to create something that was equally simple and profound. A kind of ritual in which a single individual begins alone and ends up surrounded by a community
Immersive Pioneer Ioana Mischie selected in CANNES Curators Network, a top-notch program matching artists and immersive museums worldwide. Exclusive Insights
Kitty Green: A lot of the studio work these days is driven by algorithms and not by lived or personal experience. I love when a film is deeply personal and authentic to the filmmaker’s voice and experience
[FITStories] Brice Butane: Everywhere we go, we encounter the same kindness, the same capacity for wonder. The desire to share a simple, almost carefree moment of joy appears to be profoundly universal
Roie Galitz: People may disagree about politics, science, or ideology, but a powerful image can bypass many barriers. It can create an immediate emotional response
Paul de Gregorio: Romania has been through things that Western European civil society hasn’t and couldn’t possibly understand. Maybe this gives people a different relationship to activism
Adam Thomas: Most people never stop to ask whether they actually want the thing they've been working toward
Armand Paulais: It is important to be able to look at the world with wonder. Cinema is a universe that opens onto travel, imagination, and poetry
Lana Bastašić: I think everyone is a storyteller. Some are just more careful with the words they use and the audience they let in
Chris Jones: We’re surrounded by reminders of how ridiculously awesome we are. Sometimes we just forget to remember that
Ivana Mladenović: I’ve freed myself from the need to “explain” the world—I now simply observe and record it
Ana Goldberg: Get to know what kind of person you are, what brings you joy, what saddens you, what makes your heart expand and beat faster
Fernando Silva: Creativity needs freedom and stimulation, and that only happens when we respect life beyond work and stop placing excessive pressure on ourselves
Pascal Faure: The theme of intellectual property in the artificial intelligence era is a priority today
Nick Docherty: There's a myth that says, particularly in the age of AI, that anybody and anything can be creative. But not everybody has a taste








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