Georgia Haddad Nicolau is a freelance researcher, consultant, curator and cultural manager working with public policies, open innovation and civic tech since 2009. From 2013 to 2016 she was the director of Cretive Economy of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil. She worked as communications coordinator of: CulturaDigital.Br Festival in Rio de Janeiro and Picnic Festival in Amsterdam, and has worked as an assistant curator at the transmediale festival in Berlin. She has also been a reporter for several newspapers in culture and content coordinator for Cultural Production in Brazil: a multimedia panorama of Brazilian culture.