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Milan Šveřepa is the Director of Inclusion Europe, an organization representing people with intellectual disabilities and their families. Before joining Inclusion Europe, Milan worked on replacing segregated “care” institutions with community-based support systems for people with disabilities in Central and Eastern Europe. His efforts in deinstitutionalization were recognized as Project of the Year and Project Manager of the Year 2013 in Czechia.

Milan is a co-author of several publications on managing the transition from institutional care to community-based support. You can learn more about Inclusion Europe at inclusion.eu and follow Milan’s writing and speaking at sverepa.eu. He is also active on Twitter and LinkedIn.

With over 25 years of experience in transformation projects, leveraging technology, optimizing processes always with people at the center. He began his career at EY, which was complemented by an international journey across more than eight countries, gaining experience in sectors such as Retail and Consumer Products, Telecommunications, Health, and the Public Sector. Notable projects include the transformation of Unilever’s Europe Foods Business and Portugal Telecom.

Since returning to EY in 2010, Niguel has been dedicated to large transformation programs in the public sector. He is passionate about digital transformation in public administration and Health, seeing innovation as the driving force behind these changes. Aligned with EY’s purpose of building a better working world, Miguel strongly believes that diversity and inclusion are critical foundations for meaningful innovation within the community.

Miguel holds a degree in Management from the Catholic University of Portugal and a postgraduate degree in Information Systems from Instituto Superior Técnico (POSI). He currently leads the Business Consulting Sub Service Line and oversees the Government and Public Sector, Health, Science, and Wellness sectors within EY’s Consulting practice.

Dr. Kenny Jansson is the Coordinator for Age-friendly Uppsala at Uppsala Municipality, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Human Geography and an MA in Archaeology. With a background as a researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University, Kenny currently works as a strategist at Uppsala Municipality.

Social sustainability is central to Kenny’s professional interests. He has researched residential segregation and, as a municipal strategist, is responsible for Uppsala’s active membership in the WHO Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities (GNAFCC). In this role, Kenny coordinates and facilitates cross-sectoral work for age-friendliness within the municipal organization and collaborates with pensioner associations, civil society organizations, academia, and local businesses. He manages, implements, and monitors Uppsala’s Age-friendly Action Plan.

Kenny has also served on the board of the independent association Fyrisgården, a community center in Uppsala that serves as “a meeting point for all.”

Jim Thomas has over thirty years of experience in all aspects of social care workforce development, training and education. He has worked locally, regionally and nationally on policy, strategy and practical solutions to a broad range of workforce issues. This includes developing one of the first comprehensive joint social care, health and police adult safeguarding training programmes, creating a national set of principles on how to implement workforce redesign and setting out the key principles for successful workforce integration. Jim has worked with national and local government to advise and implement the workforce development element of a range of policy and strategy, including workforce capacity planning to support the implementation of England’s Care Act (2014) and the creation of a set of shared workforce priorities.  Jim continues to work nationally and regionally supporting local government social care teams and provider organisations with workforce strategy, workforce integration and workforce productivity. He is also involved in work with colleagues on how to improve coproduction and is leading work on the impact of poverty amongst social care workers on the quality of care and support.

Duncan Dunlop is a qualified youth worker and an experienced chief executive who specialises in care system reform. Duncan has a wealth of knowledge, expertise and over 25 years’ experience of working with and for vulnerable young people in the UK, New Zealand, West Africa, post-communist Lithuania and post-conflict Western Balkans. He has always worked to support vulnerable young people to develop as individuals, but to also help them grow their societies, whether transitioning out of conflict or in poverty.

For nearly a decade he was the Chief Executive of Who Cares? Scotland, which he transformed into a globally respected advocacy organization, refining its focus to boldly represent care experienced voice and champion their rights. He was the chief advocate with overall responsibility for over 2000 advocacy cases for children in care every year.

Duncan led the case for reforming care in Scotland which created the Scottish Care Review (2017). He was the expert independent adviser to the English Care Review (2022) and New Zealand Review (2015). Alongside care experienced people, he engaged political leaders to make sure the reform of care became a political priority on a par with climate change.

Duncan continues to support organisations from New Zealand to the UK to hold governments to account and refine their practice so children have the best chance to form life-long loving relationships.

Delphine Chilese-Lemarinier is the Head of EU Affairs at Edenred, a global company operating in over 40 countries. Her career spans various roles in the private, public, and non-governmental sectors. Notably, she served as Project Manager and Editor at the Jean Monnet Association (1999-2002), Project Officer at the French Ministry of European Affairs (2004-2007), and Senior Consultant at Publicis Consultants (2007-2010). Delphine holds a degree in Political Science from Institut d’Études Politiques de Grenoble (1999) and has specialized in communication (DEA, Paris IX Dauphine, 2001) and European policies (Institut d’Études Européennes, Brussels, 2003).

Cormac is a social explorer, an author and a much sought-after speaker. He is the Founding Director of Nurture Development and a member of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, at DePaul University, Chicago.

Over the last 25 years, Cormac’s work has demonstrated an enduring impact in 35 countries around the world. He has trained communities, agencies, NGOs and governments in ABCD and other community-based approaches in Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe and North America.

His most recent books are The Connected Community- Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods (Coauthor John McKnight); Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022, and Rekindling Democracy – A Professional’s Guide to Working in Citizen Space; Cascade

Colum is chief executive of Social Work England, the regulator of all social workers in England. He previously led the Northern Ireland Social Care Council. He spent 6 years as chief executive of a not-for-profit providing care services across Ireland. As a former social worker, Colum worked in statutory family and childcare services, early years policy, funding and service provision, and family systems support services.