GrowthTank 2026 – AI, marketing and creativity conference in Prishtina, Kosovo

Charlotte
Stavrou

Founder, SevenSix Agency · Award-winning entrepreneur

Charlotte Stavrou is an award-winning entrepreneur and founder of SevenSix Agency, a leading influencer talent management agency. Over the past decade, she has helped brands and creators build powerful, authentic identities. An influencer and keynote speaker herself, Charlotte is also the creator of the acclaimed Influencer Pricing Report. This first-of-its-kind resource has been featured in The Guardian, Forbes and Business Insider and is recognised for helping shape industry standards for fair influencer pay.

• The Guardian
• Forbes
• Business Insider

Chris
Heemskerk

Innovation Management Expert, Ex-Apple & Google Innovation Labs USA

After more than a decade at Google and Apple, including leading Scaled Acquisitions for Google in North America and advising Google's Innovation Lab, Chris now heads The Innovation Alliance. He is a Senior Facilitator at Harvard Business Impact, helping senior executives advance their innovation and AI initiatives, and features in two Harvard Business School case studies on Google's Innovation Lab. He created The Innovation Scorecard™ and has spoken to 50,000+ people in 17+ countries, from the United Nations to Amazon, Salesforce and Coca-Cola.

• Building an AI-First Company
• World-Class Innovation Culture
• Innovation for CEOs

Joel
Marlinarson

Founder, Coldest Creative · Creator & social strategist

Joel Marlinarson is a creator, social strategist and founder of Coldest Creative. Known as ‘the weatherman of marketing’, he helps brands forecast where social media trends and the creator economy are heading next, and is followed by over 100,000 marketers, founders and creatives. Educated in branding at University of the Arts London, he landed Chicken Shop Date as his first client aged 18. Hailed as a “marketing guru” by The Guardian, in 2026 he was recognised as a SXSW Visionary Voice and was one of three official British Cannes Lions Ambassadors.

• Meta
• Snapchat
• Coach

Sevda
Albers

Creative director & photographer · AI image-making

Sevda Albers is a multidisciplinary creative director and photographer working at the intersection of AI, fashion and visual culture. With almost 30 years in the industry, her path began in code and evolved into art direction, photography and now AI-driven image and video-making, working with brands such as H&M, New Yorker, Zalando, ASOS and Urban Outfitters. Influenced by her Turkish background, she uses AI not as a shortcut, but as a tool to challenge aesthetics, authorship and the idea of reality itself.

• AI
• Fashion
• Visual culture

DAvide
Colla

Founder & Creative Director, 150UP · Professor, IED

DAvide Colla is the founder of 150UP, a Milan-based creative agency built on one bold idea: design is not a job, it’s a way of shaping stories, disrupting the obvious and building visual worlds worth stepping into. He has led creative projects for global brands including Alessi, Armani, Ferrari, Prada, Salvatore Ferragamo, Tod’s and Amazon. A professor at IED – Istituto Europeo di Design and an international keynote speaker, he explores how AI is reshaping creativity, skill and identity.

• Ferrari
• Armani
• Prada