Strategic designer and urbanist. Dan’s previous leadership positions have produced innovative, influential projects and organisations ranging across built environment (Arup, Future Cities Catapult), education and research (Fabrica), government (SITRA), and media (BBC, Monocle), each one transformed positively via digital technology and a holistic approach to design. Dan is currently the director of strategic design at Vinnova, Sweden's innovation agency, and visiting professor at Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London, as well as an adjunct professor at RMIT in Melbourne and at UTS in Sydney.

Eisuke's works revolve around two main goals: implementing social context to create a beautiful future with social design and structuring design knowledge to clarify different ways of thinking and increase the number of innovators who will lead the evolution of society. To fulfill these two goals, Eisuke Tachikawa promotes "Evolution Thinking", a method that helps generate ideas and inventions by comparing innovation with the evolution of living things. He is an innovative educator who teaches at universities and companies; and also the creative director of NOSIGNER, a design studio that advocates design in social contexts. Led by Tachikawa, the studio seeks for the highest quality in each design field such as architecture, product, and graphic design. Eisuke is also involved in preparations for EXPO 2025 in Osaka - he is Project Creator of Japan Pavilion.

Jose Luis de Vicente is the curator and cultural researcher of Sónar +D, the congress of digital culture and technologies of the Sónar Festival of Barcelona. He researches the current and future impact of social and technological innovation through artifacts, objects, and narratives that explore emerging social and political scenarios. His projects are strongly anti-disciplinarian, creating contexts of collaboration and dialogue between artists, designers, architects, technologists, scientists, activists, and communities. He was the cofounder and codirector of Tentacular, a new festival of Critical Technologies and Digital Adventures in Matadero, and is member of the programming team of Llum BCN, the light festival of Barcelona. He has curated multiple exhibitions on design, science, art and innovation like the internationally touring show “Big Bang Data”, “After the End of the World” (CCCB Barcelona), “Atmospheric Memory” (Manchester International Festival) and most recently “Radical Curiosity: in the Buckminster Fuller Sphere”, cocurated with Rosa Pera (Fundación Telefonica Madrid).

Senior Designer at Tellart, experience design studio for engaging with the world
in new and transformative ways. Laila embraces the idea of design with a focus on end user usability, and particularly enjoyes applying that philosophy to the design of intangible interactions for new technologies. As a designer at Tellart, Laila works to understand and communicate complex systems through diagramming, mapping, and other documentation tools. With strong analytic and conceptual skills she works across a wide variety of projects including Chrome Web Lab for Science Museum London, Color Visualizer for California Academy of Science, Asain Gallery Interactives at the Detroit Institute of Arts, as well as experience design and strategy for corporate clients.

Liam Young is an Australian born architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms. Building his design fictions from the realities of present, Young also co-runs the Unknown Fields Division, a nomadic research studio that travels on location shoots and expeditions to the ends of the earth to document emerging trends and uncover the weak signals of possible futures. He has taught internationally including the Architectural Association and Princeton University and now runs an MA in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI-Arc.

David Delgado loves ideas that elevate our spirit and make us feel part of something bigger than ourselves. As a Visual Strategist with The Studio at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, David draws from his background in anthropology, advertising, and art/science learning to create experiences that activate our imagination and invite us to think more deeply about the questions that drive science and technology forward. A central theme to his work is the relationship between imagination and the desire to explore. Outside of JPL, David works as an independent artist and co-founder of the Museum of Awe, developed to leave visitors feeling the gift and privilege of being alive.

Strategist and facilitator, Board member at the Association of Polish Graphic Designers (STGU). She graduated in Polish and German philology at the University of Warsaw and in digital media production at the Film School in Lodz. Since 2009, he has been running Leniva Studio together with Mariusz Neon Mitek. Author of the Past Present Print project (www.przedruk.org), dealing with ethics in design and sustainable production.
Currently, most of her professional and private attention is devoted to the issues of sustainable development and sustainability management.

Pedro Russo is University Professor in Astronomy & Society at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Dr. Russo was the global coordinator for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. Pedro obtained his University degree in applied mathematics, physics and astronomy from the University of Porto, Portugal. Pedro was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany. Pedro is involved with several international organisations, like the European Astronomical Society, Europlanet (European Planetology Network), the International Astronautical Federation. His work has received several awards, such as Seeds Special Award 2009, Scientix Best Educational Resource in 2015 and 2016, Most Innovative Educational Activities in 2017 and 2018 by HundrED and 2018 Leiden University’s K.J. Cath Prize.

Jan is a curator interested in the Art and Science of Visualizing the Invisible, with the focus on quantum physics and astronomy. He is the leader of artsci ensemble Instytut B61, repeatedly exhibited in Poland, Portugal, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and India. Instytut B61’s projects include large-scale site specific immersive performances, pop-up exhibitions and disruptive digital storytelling. Jan loves art, science and trains. He was the head of Cosmic Underground, an artistic railway journey from Estonia to Portugal. Under his guidance 40 artists, scientists and designers traveled for 2 months throughout Europe by an adapted cargo train composed of 10 wagonstallations, in which an immersive exhibition about the Special Theory of Relativity was installed. He is a director of a creative cluster and co-owner of a Nicolaus Copernicus University spin-off focused on edutainment. Jan is also a researcher at Center for Communication and Culture in Lisbon and a guest researcher at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at University of Copenhagen.

Geographer – polar researcher, a graduate of geography at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He defended his PhD at prestigious Durham University, UK. He devoted his post-doctoral research to the mechanisms controlling the development of rocky coasts in polar climates and received habilitation at the University of Wroclaw. Before return to Poland, he worked in leading polar research centres in the UK, Norway and Germany. He is the head of the UWr Polar Station in Spitsbergen and leads research groups focused on coastal evolution and paraglacial landscape transformation in polar regions. He is a member of Polish Young Academy and The Committee on Polar Research of the PAS. He investigated landscapes of Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland, islands of Scandinavia and Antarctic. The main goal of his research is to find out how climate change is transforming the polar coasts and threatens communities living in those sensitive zones. Privately, a Republican and a father of four.

A creative producer, classically-trained cellist, passionate about establishing technology-driven cultural initiatives, with a strong commitment to the social responsibility of arts. The programmer of the technology-immersed part of NOSPR, Katowice; she also works with the Science Now creative studio. CEO of Automatophone Foundation which focuses on sound art-contemporary music projects. Previously, Kasia co-founded ONSTAGE mobile app and developed international projects at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute: I, CULTURE Orchestra and the Polska Music Program. An alumna of Google for Startups Founders Academy (’20) and Aspen Young Leaders Programme (’17).

PhD in Astronomy, co-founder at Science Now. Her scientific interests focus on the subject of double stars and extrasolar planets. She is a member of the OGLE group - a large-scale sky overview using the Polish telescope located in Chile, and the Solaris project - aimed at searching for exoplanets using a network of robotic telescopes in the southern hemisphere. She cooperates with the international consortium of the BRITE program using the nano-satellite constellation to observe the brightest stars in our Galaxy. In her free time, he promotes science as a coordinator of the educational program UNAWE in Poland and a board member of the New Space, MultiŚwiat foundation, and the Polish Astronomical Society.

Creative producer and entrepreneur involved in developing new, commercial and social innovation projects. Chief Development Officer at Science Now and Stellar Fireworks, Visiting Policy Fellow at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Creative director of the permanent exhibition of the Polish Pavilion at EXPO.2020 Dubai. Initiator and director of the ART + DESIGN + SCIENCE programme. Lukasz’s role at the crossroad of creative industries, science and business follows his earlier interests in innovation policy and research. Earlier, Project Lead at Platige Image special projects team — Fish Ladder, researcher and analyst at the Future Cities Catapult as well as political assistant to the Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland. Laureate of the annual “New Europe 100” award, a recognition by Res Publica, Google, Visegrad Fund and the Financial Times for emerging central and eastern European innovators.

Permanent associate of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Leiden. Founder of the portals Astronomia.pl and Kopernik.pl, and their publisher in 2001-2013. Editor-in-chief of the magazine "Kosmos" in 2010-2014, and previously the publisher of the TV program "Magazyn Astronomia". One of the creators of the action. From 2012, he was also associated with the creative industry through cooperation with Platige Image, where as Associate Studio Director he co-founded Fish Ladder - a special task team. He was the initiator and producer of projects created in partnership with ESA - "Ambition", "Ambition - Epilogue" and "Rosetta VR". He is also the founder of Science Now - a company implementing projects in the field of science communication.