Nick Lane
Nick Lane is a British biochemist and writer. He works as a researcher and lecturer in evolutionary biochemistry at University College London. He has published four books which have won several awards. Educated at Imperial College, London, he earned his PhD at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in 1995 with a thesis entitled In vivo studies […]
Andreas Kaufer
Andreas Kaufer is a senior science leader at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). He earned his PhD in astronomy at Heidelberg University (1996) and joined ESO in 1999, contributing to the start of operations of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. His scientific work focuses on high-resolution spectroscopy of massive, luminous stars, probing how their atmospheres, winds, and circumstellar environments evolve and vary over […]
Rusanda Panfili
Rusanda Panfili is an award-winning violinist, composer, arranger, and recording artist whose work spans the worlds of film music, classical performance, contemporary composition, and international touring. Based in Austria and originally from Moldova, she has established herself as one of the most versatile and distinctive musical voices of her generation. In 2026, Rusanda received the […]
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 […]
Giancarlo Erra
UK based Italian composer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Giancarlo Erra started his career in 2005 with one man studio project Nosound. In 2008 Erra signed the project to the acclaimed UK based experimental label Kscope and moved to the UK to establish and expand his career. Being both writer and producer, his music inventively combines […]
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneering computer scientist widely regarded as one of the “godfathers of artificial intelligence.” His research on artificial neural networks and deep learning laid the foundations for many of the modern AI systems used today. Hinton was a professor at the University of Toronto and a longtime researcher at Google, where his […]
Johannes Winkler
Johannes Winkler is a Vienna-based composer, producer, orchestrator, and multi-instrumentalist whose work spans contemporary classical music, film scoring, and immersive electronic sound design. Recognized for his cinematic approach to composition and genre-defying productions, he has established himself as one of the most versatile voices emerging from Austria’s modern composition scene. With a Master’s Degree with […]
