Diane Drubay

French and Berlin-based, Diane Drubay is a long-standing member of the museum and innovation effervescence, a specialist in museum strategy but also an event curator, community builder, writer and artist. She founded Buzzeum in 2007, a new media and communication agency which specialised in museums and cultural institutions, and the homonymous blog which gave her international fame by reviewing innovative museum news. Before founding Buzzeum she worked at the Ministry of Culture and Communication as a digital project manager, and at the Henner Museum in Paris as the online communication manager and event curator. In 2011 she co-founded Museomix, a hackathon for museums. In 2013 she founded We Are Museums in Lithuania, a yearly event and European hub at the intersection of culture and innovation which has been travelling since then to Poland, Germany, Romania, Latvia and Morocco. In 2020, We Are Museums bet on the collective intelligence and deep listening strategy via an online community of international museum change-makers. Its goal is to foster social innovation via peer to peer learning and futures visioning. It became an online community of international museum change-makers Since 2014 she has curated the programming of Museum Connections, the international trade show and conference for museum businesses set in Paris every January. For the last few years she has taught digital strategy and project management at Sciences Po Paris and EAC Paris, and regularly speaks at international conferences to share her vision of the future of museums. Diane Drubay is also a visual artist, working with photo, video and immersive spaces, investigating psychoactive and transcendental experiences through images of nature to expand the idea of the sublime.