Balzhan Orazbayeva

Balzhan Orazbayeva is the strategic initiatives manager at UIIN. Balzhan has undertaken research around university-business collaboration and social innovation and has run a number of training programs and workshops around entrepreneurial universities, future of universities and university-business collaboration.

Rui Coutinho

Rui is the Executive Director for Innovation, Development and growth at the Porto Business School, Portugal. He has an outstanding career in the field of innovation, communication and university-businesses interaction. Rui, beyond professor, defines himself as a strategist, a researcher, a mentor and entrepreneur.

Todd Davey

Todd Davey has an established global track record of leading innovation and entrepreneurship in the higher education field. He works as an Associate professor at Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, where he teaches entrepreneurship. Todd defines himself as an academic entrepreneur, a policy transformer, and a creative change-maker.

Konstantinos Kourkoutas

Konstantinos is the coordinator of CORE Smart & Sustainable Cities at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), a collaborative network of diverse research groups, centres and institutes performing city-related research within the UAB Campus. He defines himself as a city enthusiast, a design thinker and a social catalyst.

Sara Arko

Sara works as a researcher at the Institute for Innovation and Development of the University of Ljubljana, connecting knowledge, research, and education, promoting creativity and innovation and transferring research results into practice. She is specialised in anthropology & ethnography applied to the industry and defines herself as a passionate researcher.