Organizer, Russia World Music Awards and Scythian Horn agency
Apsina, Ilze
Director, World music festival Porta (Latvia)
Founder of OXUS Culture LLC (Uzbekistan), organizer of Sharq Taronalari festival (Uzbekistan), co-founder of CACAN “Central Asian Culture and Arts Network”
Basman, Dan
Owner: Dead Sea Recordings & Sound Ports Festival, Manager: MEM Artists (Israel)
Founder and Artistic director of Méra World Music Festival (Romania)
Co-founder, senior adviser of Førde Traditional and World Music Festival (Norway), chairman of Norway Festivals
Bobrowski, Szymon
Dikanda (Poland)
Bogner, Birgit
CEO of art.e.m. artists & event management (Germany)
Editor-in-chief of Songlines magazine (United Kingdom)
Celms, Justs Patriks
International Relations Coordinator, World music festival Porta (Latvia)
Coduto, Domenico
Director: Musica e altre cose, manager and producer: Ipe Ipe Music (Italy)
Del Favero, Andrea
Artistic Director, FOLKEST – International Folk Festival (Italy)
Curator of the Audio Collection, Museum of Romani Culture, Brno
Director, Ring Ring and Todo Mundo Festival (Serbia)
Researcher in REACH (RE-designing Access to Cultural Heritage for a wider participation in preservation, (re-)use and management of European culture) project, from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)
Huttunen, Riitta
Freelance producer/ maetka.fi (Finland), WOMEX samurai 2018
Secretary General of European Music Council
Jukkara, Jaana-Maria
Artistic Director, Etnosoi! festival (Finland)
CEO of Müpa, Budapest, Hungary
Deputy Director of Katowice City of Gardens, Krystyna Bochenek Cultural Institution, head of Katowice – City of Music application
Kelbie, Dave
Music booking agent & concert promoter, owner, Lejazzetal Records (United Kingdom)
Director, UNESCO City of Music Mannheim, Director, Enjoy Jazz Festival
Knapik, Wojciech
Director, Pannonica Folk Festival (Poland)
Košir, Rok
Founder, Voices of Minorities (Slovenia)
Kubański, Krzysztof
Concert promoter, Fiesta Music (Poland)
Deputy State Secretary for Social Inclusion at the Ministry of Human Resources (Hungary)
Martin, Gianni
Event Director, FOLKEST – International Folk Festival (Italy)
Journalist, PR manager, SoundCzech, Czech Music Crossroads
Navracsics, Tibor
European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
Executive Director for Timisoara 2021 – European Capital of Culture (Romania)
Noga, Martin
World Music Slovakia
Culture & Media manager, coorganizer of Pannonica Folk Festival (Poland)
Pires, João
Director, Musica Mundo International Showcase (Brazil)
Ristić, Dragan
Manager & musician, Kal Band (Serbia)
Consultant and Director of consultancy and special projects at the World Music Expo (WOMEX), European Culture Programme expert
Director of Music Estonia, board member of European Music Export Exchange Network
Freelance journalist (fRoots, Songlines, Afropop Worldwide site), presenter and producer Concert Radio in the Netherlands
Curator and head of the Romani collection of the Hungarian Ethnographic Museum
Tanasijević Anđelija
Manager, Kal Band (Serbia)
leads the Artistic Unit at Timisoara 2021 – European Capital of Culture (Romania)
Deputy Director Programming World Music of BOZAR (Brussels, Belgium)
Artistic director, Etnofest, Jazziré and Kanjiža Jazz festivals (Serbia)
Varga, Zoltán
Founder and artistic director of Méra World Music Festival (Romania)
Artistic Director, Israel International Showcase for Jazz and Worldwide Music
Witzak, Ania
Dikanda (Poland)
