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Grant Dudson is an award-winning multi-disciplinary Creative Director who thrives in the landscape of immersive art, experiential, digital and film. Currently, at London based creative agency Chorus, Grant leads creative for various high-profile Diageo accounts, including the global experiential account for Johnnie Walker Black and Blue Label. Recently Chorus unveiled Chorus Arts, an artist-led initiative for not-for-profit and commercial activations. In their first campaign “Art on the Highstreet” Grant developed “Waves of Wander” a concept that brought together local artists and beautified the streets of one of London’s largest Boroughs. Spanning art installations to brand storytelling to globally recognised press stunts like the HP Bending The Rules Campaign and Jaguar’s VR Experience for Wimbledon 2016 there is no job too radical or off the wall. A forever curious, dynamic client-facing people person who leads from the front. A lateral thinker who always goes above and beyond to secure the desired ROI and campaign legacy.

Corinna Kretschmar-Joehnk is the author of numerous design books. She holds a teaching position at Coburg University of Applied Sciences, is active as a jury member in various international competitions and is the founder and co-managing director of JOI-Design, one of Europe’s leading interior design studios, which she runs together with her husband Peter Joehnk and three new young partners at her side.
JOI-Design has already specialized in the development of design-oriented concepts for the international hotel industry for decades. Here, the studio deals with small privately run boutique hotels as well as young lifestyle brands and larger developments for luxury hotel chains. As a keen observer of our everyday lives, even in the most diverse cultural environments, Corinna Kretschmar-Joehnk understands how interiors affect the physical and psychological well-being of their users. The focus for the design studio is therefore on designing living spaces that are relevant to the ever-changing needs of society. Over the years and under Corinna’s leadership, JOI-Design has been involved in more than 500 hotel projects and has been honored with more than 100 international awards such as the prestigious Hospitality Design Award 2021 in New York, the Iconic Award Innovative Architecture 2021 or the German Design Award 2022.

Laura Pietruşel graduated from the Faculty of Interior Architecture in July 2019, as head of promotion. Experienced within the design offices in Romania and Poland, she collaborated in the design of spaces such as apartments, restaurants or office spaces. Winner of the Antalis interior design Award 2020 in Home Category.

He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University, majoring in Aesthetics and Cultural Studies (1999). He specializes in design, architecture and the real estate market.
He is the author of the books Internet for Architects (Grada Publishing Jouse 2003), European Design (MD Publishing, 2009), Radan Hubička: Works 2005-2012 (2012) and co-author of Houses 77 (Prostor 2008), Nuselský Bridge (IC ČKAIT, 2014).

Rūta is an architect, with passionate vision to bring interior design to the next level, not only by creating unique interiors, but also by educating other interior designers and inspiring them always learn something new and never stop. Started her career as an architect, she realized that architecture is extremely broad field, where You can empower all Your best qualities in different themes. Thus, her range of experience includes not only architecture and interior design, but managing installation of office spaces for large companies, coordinating installation projects, managing the development of a non-standard furniture production company. All these experiences combined together allow to have wide approach and share it with other professionals. Her Motto : Be brave to be creative!

After graduating from the MOME Budapest, Faculty of Textile, she was offered the opportunity to work with world-class creators of the textile industry in Switzerland, France and Germany. Since her return to Hungary, several innovations and prestigious creations have been developed under her artistic direction. She developed her glass textile technology during her textile experiments. GlassTextile–the artistic and innovative mélange of glass and textile–is her latest innovation that sets the stage for the rise of a new, unique product category, where traditional craftsmanship and industrial high-tech complement each other. She is a sought-after designer at various high-ranking international exhibitions – such as in London, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, and Budapest – and private and corporate clients alike favor her creations.

Bittor’s role is building Design Strategies that allow ACCOR’s Eco&Midscale Hotels to become Lifestyle Hubs. Bittor truly believes that Hospitality, going beyond its traditional borders without forgetting operational and qualitative obligations, has the potential to reinvent itself and become an even more relevant industry.

Linda is the managing director and owner of the well known Norwegian company Scenario Interior Architects, established in 1984. In addition to interior design, Linda has a background in architecture, furniture design and graphic design. Linda and her collaborators at Scenario have a strong platform to create unique solutions tailored to the needs of the assignment. Linda Steen has also participated in and presented a Norwegian TV series called Superoppusserne on TV3 for 2 seasons. Linda says : We are fearless, solution-oriented and have strong professional integrity. With humor and dynamic teamwork, we create the design of unique solutions.

“Julien is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Design Industriel (E.S.D.I). He has made numerous study trips on retail in South and North America, Middle East, Asia and Europe.
After experiences in retail design in the largest Parisian agencies (Carré Noir and Malherbe Paris) between 1998 and 2008, he created the Pallas agency whose projects were distinguished by the Janus du Commerce (RMN, Etat Pur). In 2012, the agency joined the Altavia group and expanded its references to the automotive services and GSA sectors. He is passionate about customer journey and truly believes in the impact of design on sales performance and brand image.”

Wojciech Kaczmarczyk is a graduate of the University of Silesia. He has been associated with the commercial real estate market since 2007. He has extensive experience in the fit-out industry. He joined the Business Development Tetris team in 2019 as Associate Director and became a Board Member in 2022. Wojciech maintains relations with clients, negotiates commercial terms and monitors the market and competitors’ activities.