Katharina Weber is lead project manager at Bonn Promotion Department (BN*PD) and is as such also heavily involved in YOUROPE – The European Festival Association. In the various projects the association is a part of, Katharina works on creating tools and guidelines that help festivals become fit for the future. Her most recent key topics are event sustainability and DEI at festivals. She is part of the pan-European sustainability think tank GO Group (Green operations Europe) and YOUROPE’s WIRE (Wellbeing, Inclusion, Responsibility, Equity) Group. At German festival Das Fest, Katharina is part of the awareness management team, supporting the development of an awareness concept and co-leading the awareness team on site. Before joining the music industry, she had worked as a journalist at newspapers and radio stations in Germany for seven years. She received degrees in English Studies and Applied Linguistics from the University of Bonn, Germany.