Sonia Wargacka

Sonia Wargacka (she/her) is a storytelling powerhouse - part high-end TV production pro, part activist, and now also an agent behind Powerhouse Talent Management (www.thisispowerhouse.com).

Based in Bristol, Sonia has spent the past decade working across some of the UK’s biggest television productions, including Sex Education, Industry, His Dark Materials and Wolf Hall. Alongside premium drama, her work consistently centres on stories that create real-world impact.

She produced the award-winning documentary Rave On for the Avon, described by The Guardian as “joyous”, as well as acclaimed short films exploring social justice, culture and power. In 2018, she co-founded a global social-impact video collective working with social impact organisations across five continents. Her latest venture, Powerhouse Talent Management, aims to empower grassroot media creatives.

Sonia’s talk explores Koorsoo - a quiet but persistent glimmer of hope that appears when certainty fades.

Rather than offering grand solutions, Sonia looks at imagination as something practical: a tool for survival, collaboration, and change. Through shared thinking and real-world examples, she invites us to imagine beyond inherited limits, and to see hope as a deliberate act of attention rather than a dramatic gesture.

At its heart, this is a session about small sparks and collective momentum - how ideas, when nurtured together, can gently light new paths forward. Not an escape from reality, but a guide through it.