Yuji Hirayama is a legendary Japanese climber and pioneer who helped redefine modern climbing standards. Rising to prominence in the 1990s, he became known for his exceptional finger strength, disciplined training approach, and groundbreaking ascents in sport climbing and bouldering. Beyond performance, Hirayama has influenced routesetting, training culture, and the evolution of climbing both in Asia and internationally.

Urban Climb is Australia's leading group of indoor climbing centres. Climbing has been a defining thread in David's life for over 20 years, stealing time from his university studies and career in management consulting to climbing throughout Australia and overseas, to now supporting the most ambitious team in Australian climbing. His mission is simple: to foster and grow climbing community.

Jérôme Meyer is a 3 time bouldering World Cup winner and European Champion.
He is the founder of Circle Climbing, that aims at creating a market place for climbing routes, Circle is also a founding partner of the Titan World League, a world wide inclusive and permanent challenge. Before as Sport director at World climbing, he played a key role in adding the sport to the Olympic Games.

Patrick Andrey is a business developer at Camp5 Climbing Gym, Managing Director of SMA, and also represents Walltopia in the Asia Pacific region. With over four decades in the climbing industry, he has worked as an athlete, route developer, coach, instructor, designer, and wall builder. After moving to Kuala Lumpur in 2000 to establish BLOCX, he co-founded Camp5 in 2005, developing a gym franchise tailored to the Asian market.

Volker Schöffl, is a German sports medicine doctor with focus on climbing medicine. He is the team doctor to the German Climbing Team, the German Skimountainering Team and author of “One move too many” and „Climbing Medicine“.
Volker climbs since 40 years and did more than 100 first ascents, mostly in Laos, Thailand, South East Asia and the Frankenjura, Germany. He is a pioneer to Rock climbing in Thailand since 1990.