Katie Gallus – geographer & moderator with a massive crush on all things digital. She reins from a family farm in the south of Germany and is filled with wanderlust. She worked for German public broadcasters Deutsche Welle, ARD and ZDF before working for the United Nations in New York City. Following her passion as an explorer and storyteller, she did research in the Caucasus of Georgia, Egypt, Kyrgyzstan and Brazil, Iraq, Eritrea, Ethiopia. She’s also lived abroad: in Cameroon among cocoa plantations and in Sierra Leone working alongside filmmakers. Katie is a sought-after presenter on subjects of digital ideas in (international) development, climate change, agriculture, world food security and development policy.