Gustavs Upmanis is a Forbes 30 under 30 social entrepreneur and member of the council of the Social Entrepreneurship Association of Latvia. His main focus is on empowering youth through online platform "All Opportunities", and their latest project "Go Remote" focuses specifically on improving youth employment in rural areas through remote job offerings.

Luca Koltai is the research director of HÉTFA Research Institute, holding a degree in Social Policy and European Studies. She has also completed courses on business ethics, equal opportunities, and non-profit management. Throughout her career, she has accumulated valuable experience working at Budapest Esély, the National Family and Social Policy Institute, and as a prominent member of the Hungarian organization of Habitat for Humanity. As a researcher, her focus was primarily on employment and social issues encompassing public employment, youth and people excluded from the labour market, and social enterprises.

Dr. Stelios Gialis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece, since 2014. He studied Rural and Surveying Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. and received his Ph.D. in Economic Geography and Regional Development from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2004. Between 2012 and 2015 he was jointly affiliated with the University of Georgia (UGA), US and the Hellenic Open University, Greece, doing post-doctoral research. He also served as Scientific Coordinator for  Participatory Action Research to Address Un-Under-Employment at the local level (2015-2016), YOUTHShare (A Place for Youth in Mediterranean EEA: Resilient and Sharing Economies for NEETs/ 2018-2022).He has authored, along with Professor Andrew Herod, the book Labor Geography: Labor Agency, Flexible Employment and Spatial Inequalities. Athens:Hellenic Academic Libraries Link. He has a long track record of publications in peer-reviewed journals including Geoforum, European Urban and Regional Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Economic and Industrial Democracy. His research interests include Labour and Geography, the spatial divisions of flexible/ atypical/ informal employment, Urban restructuring and labor markets.