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Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stepanian is a designer of experiences and founder of the Underground University. “I wasn’t set up to meet with any Nobel Prize winners in Physics. I’m not set up to meet with any astronaut. But I don’t give up. It’s not about stopping with one astronaut. There are 250 astronauts, so you just have to email 250 astronauts until one of them says yes.”

Dr. Aram Sinnreich is an author, musician and professor of Communication Studies at American University in Washington DC. “Jefferson himself pointed out: Listen, we just got through the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, and before that we had the Renaissance. And we did all of that without copyright. So, you don’t need to propertise ideas in order for people to come up with new ones and share them with each other. That’s what we do!”

Ariane Koek is a global leader in Art Science curation and the creator of the Arts programme at CERN. “What inspires me? New knowledge. What makes me weird? I’m really into nuclear history. What haven’t I done? I’ve never gone subatomic. Where in the world is at the cutting edge of all knowledge and technology at the moment? And I went… CERN!”

Robert Root-Bernstein is a world-leading expert on creativity in scientific research. “STEAM is going to allow us to at least graduate students who can hold a pipette and have some hand-eye coordination to go along with it and things like that. They’re also going to have a sense of what that creative process is.”

Abrian Curington is a cartographer and visual storyteller. “I started with mapping on the fantasy side. Creating journeys when I’m reading a book, mapping out where the characters were going and what this new fantastical world looks like - and I wanted to relate that to our real world as well.”

Joseph Illidge is Executive Editor of Heavy Metal Magazine and co-founder of the Access Guide to the Black Comic Book Community. “If you look at the old Marvel characters from the 60s, one of the things that those creators were brilliant about was the understanding that gaining superpowers would actually make your life more complicated.”

Ola Sars is the founder, CEO and chairman of Soundtrack Your Brand - a music streaming platform for businesses. “What we do is collaborate with independent academic platforms which is much healthier for running R&D. We have multiple research projects going on in the neuroscientific field, for example…”

Dmitri Vietze is the CEO of Music Tech PR company Rock Paper Scissors, and the founder and curator of the Music Tectonics conference. “I grew up playing acoustic instruments in the subways of New York City. I was always intrigued by how music was made and followed the path from hip hop to jazz to African music, as well as being interested in the raw materials that made the buzzy weird sounds, or the hybrids of different cultures clashing that led to things like Afrobeat and Colombian cumbia rock.”