Charlotte Förster is a Junior Professor of European Management at Chemnitz University of Technology. Her research focuses on resilience of and within organizations. Since 2024, she has also been leading the cross-national study “Don’t Knock Me Out.” The project systematically investigates the prevalence of suspected drink-spiking incidents across the German-speaking DACH region and the barriers that affected individuals encounter when seeking support. The study is conducted in close collaboration with interdisciplinary experts from the fields of psychology, toxicology, criminology, and violence prevention and victim protection.

Dominique Schori heads the Drug Information Centre (DIZ) of the City of Zurich. The DIZ provides counseling and information services for people who use illegal psychoactive substances.

Nina Schwarz is a well-known figure in Zurich’s nightlife scene. She has worked at various clubs, including Spacemonkey, and most recently served as a host and co-managed staff scheduling at Club Zukunft. Through both her personal and professional experiences, she has encountered issues related to date-rape drugs and drink spiking.

Alexander Bücheli (he/him) Managing Director and Media Spokesperson, Bar & Club Commission Zurich; Swiss Bar & Club Commission Alexander Bücheli is from Zurich and was responsible for the city's nightlife prevention programme, saferparty.ch, from 2001 to 2015. In this role, he played a key part in establishing Zurich's mobile drug checking service and developing the Drug Information Centre (DIZ). He is a co-founder of Safer Clubbing Switzerland and the Bar & Club Commission Zurich. Since 2015, he has worked as an independent consultant for the Safer Dance Swiss, Safer Nightlife Switzerland, and Safer Clubbing Switzerland networks. He also serves as a lobbyist and media spokesperson for the Bar & Club Commission Zurich, the Swiss Bar & Club Commission, and PromoterSuisse. In addition, Alexander Bücheli co-curates the NIGHTS – City After Dark Conference and Zurich Music Week (ZMW). He is a board member of the Nightlife Empowerment & Well-being Network (NewNet), a European organisation dedicated to promoting safer and healthier nightlife. In 2024, he initiated the founding of the IG Zürcher Gastfreundschaft (Zurich Hospitality Interest Group). He also contributed as an expert to the Night-Time Economy Studies conducted in Stuttgart (2023) and Freiburg, Germany (2024).

Lukas Nyffenegger was born in 2003 in Ipsach, near Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. He trained as a plasterer and drywall installer. In his private life, he is an active participant in the nightlife scenes of Bern and Zurich. In 2022, he was the victim of a suspected drink-spiking incident involving incapacitating substances (commonly referred to as "date rape drugs" or "knockout drops").

Rosanna doesn't like labels. Growing up in downtown Zurich—back then a melting pot of young intellectuals and the early Street Parade, an open heroin scene, and the feminist strike movement—she absorbed two things from the moment she was born: politics and music. While her mother demonstrated on the streets for Swiss women’s rights and her brother learned the art of playing the dulcimer at the jazz conservatory, Rosanna found her niche in the electronic music and club culture of her hometown—as a DJ, media professional, and activist. “Rave is my utopia,” she says. “Nowhere else do people meet on such equal footing as at 6 a.m. on the dance floor.” Rosanna works tirelessly to ensure that electronic music remains a boundless space for connection: As a booker at Zurich’s Club Klaus, through her commitment to greater diversity in nightlife (such as the series “Call me DJ!” about women in techno for ARD), and especially through her DJ sets, which successfully defy any pigeonholing. “I don’t like rigid genre boundaries,” she says, “I play Alice-in-Wonderland-Bubble-Funk-Techno!”