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<h3 class="eyebrow">06 · THE SPEAKERS</h3>
<h2 class="headline">Five practitioners who live and breathe this every day.</h2>
<p class="subtitle last">Each speaker has one goal: equip you with three concrete takeaways to use tomorrow.</p>
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<img id="speaker-img-maria" class="media" src="/files/pages/assets/2026-09-17/191_mu592utl.png" alt="Portrait of María Lucía Romero" loading="lazy" width="400" height="400">
<h4 class="speaker-name">MARÍA LUCÍA ROMERO</h4>
<p class="speaker-role role-1">Branding consultant, podcast host, serial entrepreneur</p>
<p class="speaker-bio last">She's interviewed more women about how they built a name for themselves than anyone in Luxembourg. María opens the evening with the fundamentals: what a personal brand actually consists of, and where to start. She knows how people in Luxembourg really do it. 3 practical tips you can start with tomorrow.</p>
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<img id="speaker-img-peter" class="media" src="/files/pages/assets/2026-09-17/201_mu595cbf.png" alt="Portrait of Peter Poehle" loading="lazy" width="400" height="400">
<h4 class="speaker-name">PETER POEHLE</h4>
<p class="speaker-role role-2">Serial entrepreneur, AI content, video and communication</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px;">He has produced video for the EIB, Deloitte, PwC, Post Luxembourg, FEDIL and the European Institutions. He still films plenty of things with a phone.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0;">At BRANDFLUENCE he shows you how, and how to let AI do the work you keep postponing to the weekend. No studio. No crew.</p>
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<img id="speaker-img-romain" class="media" src="/files/pages/assets/2026-09-17/221_mu599vi2.png" alt="Portrait of Romain Bour" loading="lazy" width="400" height="400">
<h4 class="speaker-name">ROMAIN BOUR</h4>
<p class="speaker-role role-3">LinkedIn strategist</p>
<p class="speaker-bio last">He fixes the gap between what you're actually worth and what people see when they land on your profile. You built your reputation through results and word of mouth. A stranger opening your profile sees none of that. Two or three real profiles go on the projector, from volunteers in the room.</p>
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<img id="speaker-img-kasia" class="media" src="/files/pages/assets/2026-09-17/211_mu58x2td.png" alt="Portrait of Kasia Vox" loading="lazy" width="400" height="400">
<h4 class="speaker-name">KASIA VOX</h4>
<p class="speaker-role role-4">Event MC and public speaking coach</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px;">You know your subject. Kasia helps you say it out loud with confidence.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12px;">She hosts business events in Luxembourg most weeks and stands a metre from people right before they walk on.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12px;">At BRANDFLUENCE she works live: a volunteer comes on stage, and together they rebuild a thirty-second introduction. Everyone hears the difference between before and after.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0;">Luxinnovation, LUNEX, Paperjam and NAXI have trusted her with their stages.</p>
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<img id="speaker-img-jeanmarc" class="media" src="/files/pages/assets/2026-09-17/231_mu58txj5.png" alt="Portrait of Jean-Marc Fandel" loading="lazy" width="400" height="400">
<h4 class="speaker-name">JEAN-MARC FANDEL</h4>
<p class="speaker-role role-5">Former CEO, board director, scale-up coach</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px;">He has run the companies he now advises. CEO of a payment company that he took to ten times its size before it was acquired, plus senior roles at Swissair and Luxair. Today he coaches scale-ups as a partner of scaleup.de, a European network of coaches working with a method used by 70,000 companies.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12px;">He sits on boards, including the Luxembourg National Research Fund.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0;">Everyone else that evening talks about what you put out. He is the person who decides what to do with it.</p>
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