Foreign guests
Agata Etmanowicz
Agata Etmanowicz is an expert in cultural management, focusing on audience engagement, inclusion and accessibility in culture. As President of Impact Foundation, she helps cultural organisations across Europe develop audience-oriented strategies. She has been involved in cultural policy at EU level and has led educational programmes for European Capitals of Culture (Wrocław 2016, Kaunas 2022).
Since 2011, she has been working with Fabryka Sztuki in Łódź, where she co-created ART_INKUBATOR, a space to support creative entrepreneurs. She is currently working with České Budějovice 2028, where she leads the “Audience Amplifier” programme and curates the “Open Season” initiative. Her approach connects cultural policy with practice and shows how to build an open and inclusive cultural environment.
JP van Seventer
Jan-Pieter (JP) van Seventer is a key figure in the European games industry with over 27 years of experience in game design, entrepreneurship and start-up acceleration. As the director of Dutch Game Garden, the leading game studio incubator in the Netherlands, he has helped over 300 game companies launch and scale their projects.
He started his career as a game designer and 3D artist, later co-founding a game studio. His expertise combines business, creativity and innovation, which allows him to advise governments and universities on strategies for developing creative ecosystems. He is a frequent speaker at European conferences and consults game incubators around the world.
Laco Oravec
Laco Oravec is a dramaturge and fundraiser at the largest creative and cultural center in Slovakia, Nová Cvernovka. He studied law at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and began his professional career at the organization Fenestra, which helps victims of domestic violence.
For fifteen years, he worked as a program director at the Milan Šimečka Foundation, where he was dedicated to supporting human rights and civil society. He is currently the vice-chairman of Antény – the network for independent culture and a member of the Slovak Government Council for Human Rights. In his work, he connects cultural organizations with public administration and actively supports independent culture and creative centers in Slovakia.
