2024

He was born in 1989 in Krakow, into a family with musical traditions. At the age of ten, he won his first national piano competition, and one year later he made his debut with the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed in Europe, Asia and North America, including Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Great Britain, Russia, Israel, the USA, Japan, China, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Estonia, Romania, Croatia, Georgia, Canary Islands, Ukraine and Hungary.

Future(s) Strategist, leading strategic R&D projects for future products and services.

He utilizes research along with trends, forces, and drivers (mega, macro, micro) to identify opportunities and materialize long-term innovations.

On a daily basis, he works at infuture.institute as a Business Foresight Advisor. He is a lecturer at SWPS University in Warsaw, AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków.

Ersan Pekin is a Turkish writer and former journalist. He is the author of Kadınlar Yedi Bitirdi Beni (Consumed by Women), published in 2013, which tells the story of a man suffering from sex addiction. He self-published the Puzzle trilogy (2019-2021) as well as three novels in English: "Roots" (2021), "Pathetic and Synthetic Thoughts in a Jar" (2021) and "Earthscraper" (2021). His novels explore the dynamics of relationships between men and women, and blurred lines between reality and dreams.