Duncan Stutterheim is co-founder of ID&T, the company that put Dutch dance culture on the world map. From its beginnings in the early 1990s, ID&T created iconic concepts such as Sensation, Mysteryland and Thunderdome, which drew hundreds of thousands of visitors and were exported to dozens of countries. Under his leadership, ID&T grew into one of the world’s leading event companies, culminating in a sale to the American SFX Entertainment.

Duncan is the archetypal entrepreneur who turned a passion into an industry. Together with his partners, he helped build what is now a multi-billion-euro global dance-event sector, long before anyone took it seriously as a business. His story is full of bold bets, creative breakthroughs and hard lessons, making him the ideal speaker on what it really takes to build something the world has never seen before.