Our speakers
(in alphabetical order)
54 personalities from 16 countries
Politics, diplomacy, economics, science, media and culture.


Christian Stocker
Federal Chancellor
Republic of Austria


Bernhard Auinger
mayor
City of Salzburg

Werner Balika
Innovation Salzburg
Austria

Jan Peter Balkenende
eh. Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Royal Minister of State

Michael Baminger
CEO Salzburg AG
Austria

Kurt Bauer
Head of Long-Distance Passenger Transport & New Rail Business
Austrian Federal Railways ÖBB AG

Ralph Beisel
Chief Executive Officer
German Airports Association (ADV)
Germany

SE Siniša Bencun
ambassador
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Alexander Biach
Director General SVS
Austria

Josip Brkić
Deputy Foreign Minister
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Magnus Brunner
EU Commissioner for Migration
European Commission

Gerhard Christiner
CEO Austrian Power Grid AG
Austria

Kristin De Troyer
theologian
Belgium

Ilka Dubernet
German Aerospace Center
Germany

Bohdan Dzyurakh
Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainian Catholics of the Byzantine Rite
Ukraine

Karoline Edtstadler
Landeshauptfrau
Salzburg

David Engels
historian and theologian
Belgium

Sebastian Gann
Director for Sustainability ZUMTOBEL AG
Austria

Miroslav Geljić
Head of EU Integration Department
Brčko District, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cristina Gherasimov
Prime Minister Visa
Republic of Moldova

Tobias Gotthardt
State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Energy
Bavaria, Germany

Severin Gruber
Secretary General
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy and Tourism

Daniel Gutschi
State Councillor for Health
State of Salzburg

Karl Habsburg
entrepreneur
Austria

Johannes Hahn
Member of the European Commission
(2010 - 2024)

Vera Hofbauer
Head of Transport Section
Federal Ministry for Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure

Taras Kachka
Deputy Prime Minister
Ukraine

Christian Hutterer
Head of Research AustroCel Hallein
Austria

Andreas Kiefer
expert on federalism
Austria

Khatia Kikalishvili
Program Director Eastern Neighbourhood
Center for Liberal Modernity Berlin
Georgia/Germany

Sophia Kircher
Member of the European Parliament
Austria

Daniel Musat
Regional Director SEE ZUMTOBEL AG
Romania

Tamara Myers
SDG expert SOURCE
Switzerland

Tibor Navracsics
Minister for Regional Development
Hungary

Jürgen Osterbrink
Board of Directors, Institute for Nursing Science
PMU Salzburg

Oleksandr Pertsovsky
CEO Ukrainian Railways
Ukraine

Sirpa Pietikäinen
Member of the European Parliament
Finland

Claudia Plakolm
Minister for Europe
Austria

Stefan Schnöll
Deputy Governor
State of Salzburg

Wolfgang Schüssel
former Chancellor
(2000 - 2007)
Republic of Austria

Markus Schwinghammer
Expert for FIMI and anti-disinformation
Austria

Igli Hasani
Chairman
Foreign Affairs Committee
Albania

Vinzenz Stimpfl-Abele
Procurator of the Order of St. George
Austria

Harald Stranzl
ambassador
Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs
Austria

Brigitta Triebel
Head of the KAS office in Moldova
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Germany

Peter Lehner
Chairman of the SVS
Social insurance for the self-employed
Austria

Christine Vallaster
Circular economy expert
University of Salzburg
Austria

Franz Vranitzky
former Chancellor
(1986 - 1997)
Republic of Austria

Lisa Warth
Head of Population
UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Switzerland

Åsa Ågren Wikström
Member of the Regional Parliament of Västerbotten
Chairwoman of the SCANDRIA Alliance
Sweden

Amelie Zema
Agency for Economic Cooperation & Development
Österreich

Orkhan Zeynalov
Deputy Minister for Energy
Azerbaijani
Our presenters

Gundula Geiginger
Puls4

Heidi Huber
Journalist

Andreas Heyer
Journalist ORF Salzburg

Michael Kretz
Editor-in-Chief MeinBezirk Salzburg

Michael Martens
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Claudia's Reiterer
journalist and presenter

Stephan Schweighofer
University of Salzburg

Werner Sejka
Pulse 4

Christian Ultsch
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Die Presse

Michael Stellwag
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Our artists

NAPREDAK
Croatian Cultural Association HKD "Napredak" Brčko-Distrikt, Bosnia and Herzegovina

DANICA Cultural Association

Music class
Music Middle School Maxglan Salzburg

Dušan Sretović
Pianist at the Mozarthaus in Vienna
Serbia
