Efecto Pasillo
Efecto Pasillo, formed by Iván Torres, Javi Moreno, Arturo Sosa, and Nau Barreto, is one of the most important Spanish-language music groups with over a decade of experience. Their fusion of pop, rock, and Latin rhythms has created an unmistakable quality, earning them over 450 million streams, more than 400 million YouTube views, and several […]
Macaca Radiata
Macaca Radiata is a band founded in 2022 by pianist Sonia Martell and guitarist/vocalist Jorge Pérez, both from La Palma, Canary Islands, now based in Madrid. Awarded the 2024 Best New Artist by Los 40 Principales Canarias, they have made a significant impact on both the Canary and Madrid music scenes with their original compositions […]
Pietro Barabaschi
Pietro Barabaschi is a Director-General of ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor). ITER is the world’s largest fusion experiment. Thirty-five nations are collaborating to build and operate the ITER Tokamak, the most complex machine ever constructed by humans. Pietro Barabaschi has been working since 2009 in Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Union organisation responsible for […]
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Emmanuelle Charpentier is a French researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. After defending her dissertation, she worked at several universities and hospitals in the United States including Rockefeller University, New York University Langone Medical Center, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine (all in New York) and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. After five years, […]
Javier Santaolalla
Javier Santaolalla was born in Burgos and brewed in the Canary Islands. He studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and, with time to spare, simultaneously pursued a degree in Physics, graduating from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he also completed a master’s in Fundamental Physics. In between, and […]
Flangr
Flangr is a Chilean astro-pop band led by Joaquín Macaya, known for its innovative approach to music by incorporating sounds from space. Formed in the early 2020s, Flangr collaborates with the ALMA Observatory, using real electromagnetic oscillations captured from space to create their unique soundscapes. This collaboration has made them pioneers in blending astronomy with […]
Visac DJ
DJ VISAC is an emerging talent from El Paso, known for blending his music with the natural beauty of his island, creating a unique showcase for tourism promotion. After becoming a certified DJ in 2019, he began performing at events while balancing his career with his work as a bicycle mechanic. VISAC draws inspiration from […]
Tony Fadell
Mr. Anthony “Tony” Fadell is an active investor and entrepreneur with a 30+ year history of founding companies and designing products that profoundly improve people’s lives. As the Principal at Future Shape LLC, a global investment and advisory firm coaching engineers and scientists working on foundational deep technology, he is continuing to help bring technology […]
John Mather
John Cromwell Mather (USA) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot, measuring the cosmic microwave background radiation, showing it came from the early universe, and discovering that it has hot and cold spots that […]
Rafael Yuste
Dr. Rafael Yuste is a Spanish neurobiologist based in the United States, renowned for his groundbreaking work in neuroscience. Born on April 25, 1963, in Madrid, he studied medicine at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He later moved to the United States for his PhD at Rockefeller University, where he developed the calcium imaging technique, […]