Frédéric Hocquard is elected official within the Paris Council and appointed to nightlife policy since 2014. He is more specifically in charge of issues regarding the Paris nightlife dynamisation, prevention and mediation. He set up the Paris Nightlife Council which gather all the parties involved in this matter (residents, firms and clubs, national police, users of the nighttime, associations etc.). The Paris Nightlife Council is the heart of the nighttime policy making process, in order to develop them with partnerships. Night policy is transversal and built on 4 pillars. The first is the participation, how to involve everyone, officials and residents, no matter what they do at night. The second is the development of nighttime activities, not only commercial activities. The third (but the biggest) is the regulation of the nightlife (noise pollution, disrespectful behaviors etc.). The fourth is the promotion of the Parisian nightlife, for Parisians and tourists.

Jorge Sanza is the former Director and Curator of Madrid Music Days since 2013. Madrid Music Days is an annual event conceived in order to become a platform to support the national electronic music scene. This event has different cultural activities, in order to strengthen the communication, reinforce and spread the culture surrounding the electronic music. Last year, he organized a table (Night Majors), with Lutz Leichsenring (Berlin), Mirik Milan (Amsterdam), and Alan Miller (London), in order to inform Madrid City Hall, the advantage to have such a figure in the Night time industry. the person who represents internationally the Madrid´s Night Culture.

As spokesman and member of the executive board of the Club commission Berlin, since 2009 Lutz Leichsenring fights for the rights of Berlin’s vast underground club scene by organizing events like demonstrations, conferences, workshops and by speaking at round tables and parliamentary committees. He started his nightlife career 1999, when he founded an internet start-up right after High School in the age of 19 to run one of the largest platforms for music events in the early 2000s in Germany. 2004-2010 he owned a music club and a restaurant business. Today he runs a software company and an event agency, which is based in Berlin and London. Lutz also happens to be a member of Berlin’s Chamber of Commerce and the Berlin Music board, where he frequently votes on city development issues that serve to protect creative space affected by gentrification. 2017 Lutz started his new non-profit project “Creative Footprint” to measure, compare, and advocate for creative spaces in urban areas worldwide.