Speaking
Daniel Atz brings original data and lived experience to subjects usually covered in anecdote. Keynotes, panels and moderated conversations in English, French and Portuguese.
On Camera
Full sessions, not clips — a chamber-of-commerce webinar in English, a keynote to the Luxembourgish diaspora in Brazil, and a briefing delivered in Portuguese in Florianópolis.
Talks
What government data across 88 countries actually says about Americans moving abroad — who leaves, where they go, and why the most-quoted figures are wrong. Built on Mapping the Americans Abroad and a decade of intake data that has tracked every U.S. political inflection point since 2016.
Why people reclaim an ancestral citizenship, and what it changes in them. Drawn from more than 3,500 Luxembourg dual-citizenship cases, the surveys behind The LuxCitizenship Study 2024, and Daniel’s own path from Nebraska to Luxembourg citizenship in 2014.
Delivered in Portuguese as a keynote at HackTown 2025: what historical consciousness and ancestral memory can teach us about building technology — and artificial intelligence — that people can live with.
Keynote · conference panel · moderated conversation · film screening with Q&A · webinar.
Presents in English, French and Portuguese.
Innovation festivals, chambers of commerce, cultural institutions, universities, newsrooms and diaspora associations across Europe and the Americas.
Stages
A full webinar on Brazil’s startup-visa route to permanent residency — what the investment threshold actually buys, what the process demands, and why a country most people never weigh belongs on the list.
Canada removed the first-generation limit on citizenship by descent in December 2025 after a court challenge. This session works through what the ruling changed, who it newly reaches — including people several generations from a Canadian ancestor — and how the claim is actually made.
Luxembourg’s selection for the 10th European Arthouse Cinema Day. The documentary follows descendants of the Luxembourgers who emigrated to Argentina in the 1800s as they go looking for what their families left behind. Screening followed by a conversation with the audience.
A keynote in Portuguese at Brazil’s festival of creativity and innovation, on the intersection of global migration, data and storytelling — and what historical consciousness has to say about building technology, and artificial intelligence, that people can live with.
An evening panel with trade representatives and founders on the citizenship and visa routes available to LGBTQ+ business owners scaling a company into Europe — and which markets are actually welcoming once you arrive.
A full session with the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce on what LGBTQ+ Americans face when they move themselves or their company abroad: surrogacy, gender transition, travelling on an X gender marker, and work visas. The recording runs in full.
An inside look at Luxembourg’s school system for dual-citizen families weighing relocation — how the national Luxembourgish system and the international European system each work, and what that means for a child arriving mid-education.
A conversation in Portuguese with the lawyer Jasmin Singh on what a Brazilian and a Luxembourgish passport each open and close in the United States. The differences run far past who needs a tourist visa.
Daniel’s segment on the transatlantic consequences of the U.S. election ran between those of Luxembourg’s Defence and Foreign Ministers.
A talk and open floor for the Midwest’s Luxembourg diaspora — the largest concentration of Luxembourgish descent in the United States — on reclaiming citizenship and on what the community actually looks like in the data.
A full conference talk to the Luxembourgish-Brazilian community: the emigration history that put Luxembourgers in Santa Catarina, how the 2008 nationality law reopened the door, what the application figures show, and where Luxembourgish Brazilians and Luxembourgish Americans differ. Ends in an open Q&A.
Recorded with Europe’s borders shut: what travel looked like from the Americas, conditions on the ground in Luxembourg, and the campaign to amend the 2017 nationality law before the reclamation window closed at the end of 2018’s extension.
Daniel is also a regular commentator in the Luxembourg and Brazilian press, and was the subject of RTL’s special Sunday interview program. See press coverage →
