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- Dan is an experienced, engaging and dynamic event moderator who speaks several languages fluently. He is a frequently sought-after host for events focused on digitalisation, sustainability and mobility topics. He has worked for numerous EU institutions, start-ups and global corporations.
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About Dan Sobovitz
Dan is a Digital Communication Strategist for VIPS and international organisations; moderator and lecturer on tech and innovation; and civil society activist. He is the Founder of spreadable.io, a micro agency for macro projects; Senior Adviser on Digital Communications at BCW, and the CCO of the EU Startup Prize for Mobility.
For five years, Dan has led the digital presence and publications of the Vice President of the European Commission, making use of live interactive interviews from a self driving car, VR of EUsatellites shot into space, crowdsourcing EU policies among youth through digital platforms, livestreaming the first solar plane crossing the Atlantic, using smartphones for voting on startup pitching competitions, and more. Previously, he had worked on large-scale digital campaigns with various international organisations, such as the EU Humanitarian Aid Dept., UNICEF, UNESCO, the Slovak Foreign Ministry, and others.
In the field of tech, Dan presents and moderates at events such as Viva Tech, Beautiful Software Awards, Huawei Academia Salon, ChangeNow, Michelin Movin’on Challenge, and others. He also blogs and lectures about the interplay between technology, society, and politics. In 2013, he co-founded ‘Ceci n’est pas une crise’, a civil society organisation which analyses the current wave of populism and advocates for an inclusive and tolerant alternative. He is also on the board of Dialogue & Diversity, which strives to build bridges between Europe’s cultural, ethnic, and religious communities. Dan is a citizen of Israel, Switzerland, and Hungary and lives in Brussels with his husband and their two children.