Dhiru A. Thadani, AIA, APA, FCNU, ISOCARP, NOMA, is an architect, author, educator, and urban planner in practice since 1980. He has worked to spread the principles and techniques of traditional urban planning on five continents by sharing research, lecturing, mentoring and working on projects. He has been a leading designer of new towns and cities, urban regeneration, neighbourhood revitalization, academic campuses and densification projects. He received seven CNU Charter Awards for master plans, for which he was the lead designer.

A climate change specialist with over a decade of expertise in climate adaptation. She began her career at the Slovak Republic’s Ministry of Environment and now contributes to the European Environment Agency’s work. A graduate of Comenius University in Bratislava. Her current agenda centers around the European Climate Law and Governance Regulation, enhancing data transparency for 27 EU member states and beyond. She is a contributing author of the Agency’s policy assessments on national adaptation actions, including the 2023 EEA briefing, Is Europe on Track Towards Climate Resilience?

A Senior Policy Officer with the European Builders Confederation (EBC), the organisation representing construction SMEs and crafts from across Europe, based in Brussels. His work focusses on sustainable construction policy in the EU, including energy, environment, renewables, circularity, economic, social and health & safety policies.

Founder of Business Solution Europa within the World Green Infrastructure Network, which is responsible for liaising with the European Commission.

specializing in geo-information systems for disaster risk management related to extreme weather. He started his career at the EC’s Joint Research Centre, contributing to development of the EU and Global Early Warning and Flood Monitoring Systems (as part of Copernicus EMS). At KAJO, he leads projects in climate adaptation and risk management, focusing on developing tools for forecasting extreme events, improving regional adaptation plans, implementing nature-based solutions, and engaging communities in climate change mitigation through innovative, participatory approaches.

Landscape architect at the Swedish consulting company Edge, who has more than ten years of professional experience with blue-green infrastructure in Denmark, Sweden and the Czech Republic, with activities ranging from planning to design and innovation of BGI systems.

A graduate of the Faculty of Architecture in Bratislava, after several years of work experience in New Zealand as a 3D Architectural specialist, he has been working intensively in the field of digitization in the construction industry for more than 15 years. He holds several Autodesk, UNCC, ESG certificates and is also a director of Dimatz s.r.o., which has been dealing with the collection, processing and evaluation of 3D digital data for a long time. He is a graduate of doctoral studies at the TUKE Institute of Environmental Engineering, where his dissertation topic is the creation of a low-carbon methodology for urban sub-urban zones based on 3D digital map data.

Licensed architect, graduate of FAD STU in Bratislava and Carleton University School of Architecture in Ottawa with an interdisciplinary specialization in environmental sciences. Author of the first passive apartment building in Slovakia. Founder of the ADAPTUJ.SK Educational Center for Adaptation and Resilience in Trnava, who focused his professional and educational activities on climate change, adaptation measures, architecture and communities resistant to climate change.

Project manager for the heat removal system and combustion products. He is responsible for the design and coordination of the construction project from the design to the complete handover to the customer. Experience with the design, solution and final setting of the entire system of heat removal and combustion products. Vice-president of the Passive Fire Protection Association in Slovakia. Author of several national standards for fire safety. Actively cooperates with the Institute of Standardization and Metrology of the Slovak Republic. Passionate creator of educational materials related to fire safety.

He works as a zoologist at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Charles University in Bratislava and mainly researches the ecology of animals, mainly insects. It was the study of ants that directed his focus of knowledge to soil biology, but in recent years topics related to pollinators have also been added to them. He also likes to connect scientific knowledge with the lay public. For the last four years, he has been researching the biodiversity of green roofs, which was able to combine all his personal and scientific interests.

Sustainability Manager at KPMG in Slovakia, where he helps clients in various industries to implement and improve their sustainability and ESG practices. With more than 16 years of professional experience in this field, he has extensive experience in the implementation of environmental, health and safety (EHS) and ESG management systems, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission calculations and environmental due diligence audits. He has a doctorate in environmental engineering and is a certified auditor for ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 50001 standards. He speaks at professional conferences and workshops as an expert on ESG and sustainability.

Lawyer and consultant specializing in environmental law in the areas of circular economy, nature protection and environmental impacts, and consulting in the field of corporate sustainability. He obtained a doctorate in administrative and environmental law at the University of Trnava. He completed educational online courses in the field of environmental management and sustainability at the Technical University of Denmark and the Center for Environmental Sciences at the University of Maryland (USA). He worked as an environmental lawyer at the MŽP Slovak Republik and the NDS. He currently works as an environmental lawyer and circular economy consultant for the consulting company CYRKL.