THE 2025 SPEAKERS
You'll see, this year, we have amazing people!
Jessica Huie MBE
We Are Not Who We Think We Are
What if there’s only one idea? The idea that life invites us to strip back our identities and discover who we truly are. In this deeply personal and transformative talk, Jessica Huie MBE shares her journey from external achievement and loss to profound freedom and healing, revealing that our greatest power lies not in the identities we construct, but in the essence we uncover when they fall away. With raw honesty and lived wisdom, she explores how releasing our attachment to identity opens the doorway to oneness, resilience, and a deeper connection to ourselves, each other, and life itself.
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Jessica Huie MBE is an entrepreneur, author of Purpose, and publicist whose career spans two decades raising the profiles of change-makers and cultural icons. Drawing on her own remarkable journey from teen mother to award-winning businesswoman honoured at Buckingham Palace, Jessica now helps individuals and organisations uncover deeper purpose and authentic expression.
Jenna Rydh
The High Achiever’s Paradox: Why Success Alone Won’t Make You Happy
Founder & Coach, Jenna Rydh Coaching | PCC, ICF
Jenna is a certified High-Performance Coach who helps executives from leading global companies excel in their careers without losing themselves in the process. Once a rising star at a Fortune 500 company, she discovered firsthand that traditional success can come at too high a cost. Today, she blends her past corporate experience with over 500 hours of coaching to guide high-achievers toward a sustainable success that feels as good as it looks. Her mission: to show that true success comes not only from achievement, but from alignment with who you really are.
Daphne Kobia
The Invisible Suitcase
What does it mean to belong everywhere and nowhere? In this talk, Daphné unpacks the “invisible suitcase” she has dragged through 9 countries in 22 years, not filled with clothes, but with labels, masks, and performances. From Congo to Myanmar, from Belgium to Singapore, she reveals how identity is never halves or fractions, but a constellation of all we carry. This is a story of rootlessness, resilience, and the quiet alchemy of turning estrangement into empathy. A journey that may begin with her suitcase… but will speak to yours, too.
Eva de Groot
The Relief of missing out: why doing everything won’t make you successful
FOMO is all around us, whether it’s parties, vacations with friends or social gatherings. Yet we rarely hear about the FOMO that comes with career opportunities. My speech will focus on the overwhelming feeling every student has experienced at least once in their lives, the feeling of losing control. We are told our success depends on our GPA’s, endless test scores and countless extracurricular activities, whatever they may be.
But that isn’t always the surest path to success.
Sometimes, its the relief of missing out that guides us there.
Dr. Dino Vajzovic
Why Your Voice Is The Bridge
Dr. Dino Vajzovic is a scholar of law and rhetoric, and a pioneer in the art of public speaking. He holds a doctorate in the law of attention-capturing and has dedicated more than thirteen years to coaching leaders, diplomats, entrepreneurs, and students in the power of words.
Founder of the Geneva Debate Club nearly fifteen years ago, he has trained close to a thousand people in the craft of rhetoric. As a lecturer in law and rhetoric at university, he has been master of ceremony at major oratory contests, laureate of several competitions, and has taken part in the world of debate and eloquence as participant, organizer, judge, and moderator. He has also designed programs that combine classical rhetorical pillars with modern communication techniques, making eloquence both accessible and transformative.
Today, his mission is to show how rhetoric is not only a tool for persuasion but also a path of personal growth and collective empowerment. For him, speaking is not about performance—it is about existence, connection, and transformation.
Michael Liechti
Should we, as humans, be allowed to reach for the stars?
Michael Liechti, is a 49-year-old high school teacher from the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and for nearly 25 years he has been teaching German and philosophy at various schools in the canton of Vaud.
His academic interests lie in modern literature, foreign language teaching, and philosophy as an interdisciplinary school subject.
In his TEDx talk, he speaks about the fragility of human existence, the oftenoverlooked influence of chance and fortunate circumstances that lead to undeserved success, and the importance of teachers constantly questioningthemselves.
Empathy and compassion may not guarantee our collective success as humanity—but they are certainly an important step toward it.
Melchoir Rüfenacht
The Art of Doing Things You’re Not Ready For
Melchior Rüfenacht, is a 18 years old second year EPFL student in Communication Systems, splitting his time between music, tech projects and studies
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Through the legacy of a grandfather who experienced the beaches of Normandy and his own beginning journey of innovation, music, and bold challenges, he questions today’s pressure to “make it”, and reveals how audacity, excellence, and a fearless rejection of mediocrity are becoming our greatest weapons in our society.
Angelo Rachou
How do we build long lasting discipline ?
Angelo Rachou, a French student studying industrial engineering and a passionate content creator. Coming from a scientific and engineering background, he has been trained to see the world as systems, processes, and repeatable patterns. During his year abroad, he combined this mindset with his experience as a top student and creator to reverse-engineer a practical framework for discipline.
In this talk, he will share the CORE System—a clear, actionable approach to building discipline that lasts. Rather than cold showers or endless hours of grind, he shows how structure, alignment, and small consistent steps can turn chaos into clarity and create habits that stick—discipline anyone can learn and use to build a meaningful, fulfilling life
