Catarina Gomes makes and develops media, innovation and journalism projects on human rights in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. She was a part of the global and multi-award-winning Love Matters’ funding team, and passed through NowHereMedia, a producer of immersive documentaries in virtual and amplified reality. Now she is at MANICÓMIO, where she manages programs, and where she’s going to launch a magazine and a radio. In parallel, she continues to develop media projects, like the ANTECÂMARA radio, the latest one and the first architecture radio in Portugal.

Guto Carvalho Neto is a Brazilian Fashion Designer. His work is mainly developed in Rio where he created his homonymous brand, in 2011. In 2016 he participated in Rio Fashion Week and in the short film Primeiro Grito. He also develops several artistic interventions, like the exhibition “O Nome do Medo”, exhibited at MAR (Rio arts Museum), in 2017 and, years later, at Aargauer Kunsthaus Museum, in Zurich (2021). Furthermore, he presented the Inquietudes da Carne Performance (2018), at Casa França Brasil; The “Ognuno il suo stile'' exhibition (2019), at Centro Cultural dos Correios; and MASP Moda (2021), at MASP (Saint Paulo Art Museum).

Graduated in Marketing by IPAM and a postgraduate at the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, Henrique Prucha began his professional activity at Makro Cash & Carry. With extensive experience in the agrifood sector and in large distribution, he is, since 2016, the Commercial and Marketing Director of Água Monchique.

Liz Ricketts is an educator, designer and the co-founder of The OR Foundation, a USA and Ghana-based non-profit working at the intersection of environmental justice, education and fashion development. The OR Foundation has been researching the impacts of the secondhand clothing economy since 2016. Today, The OR is on a mission to catalyze a Justice-led Circular Textiles Economy in Accra.

Most of Marcelo Nico's professional career was developed at the Philip Morris International Group (PMI), which he integrated in 2003, having been connected to the commercial, sales and marketing areas, in markets such as Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Latin America and, for the past decade, the South Africa and Indian Islands regions, where he assumed roles of increasing responsibility, until he was appointed responsible for the entire region. Born in Argentina, Marcelo Nico is currently the General Manager at Tabaqueira, one of the biggest production centers from the PMI Group in Europe.

Ricardo Silva is graduated in Chemical Engineering. His passion for science and innovation helped Tintex become the worldwide reference in sustainable materials and textile technology. Experient in sustainable practices, he and his teams constantly investigate and search sustainable solutions to develop. This is a journey to create opportunities for a sustained and global improvement of their textiles interaction in different aspects of life, by combining creativity, science and technology.