Pau is the Founder of Domestic Data Streamers, founded on the 28th of September of 2013 with a simple idea: That the world couldn’t be understood without numbers, but it wouldn’t be understood with numbers alone. We believe that any meaningful interchange of information between people needs to carry emotions and experiences to create knowledge or change. 

Monika Bielskyte is a futurist in residency @Nike, speculative designer, foresight strategist & founder of @ProtopiaFutures.

With expertise in information technologies and immersive media (AI, spatial computation, VR/XR, UI/UX), Monika examines both the promises and perils of innovation as the blurring boundaries between the digital and physical worlds become increasingly weaponized through strategies of hybrid warfare.

Monika is passionate about the value of disability & neurodivergence inclusion: from tech, to policy, to built environment, in order to design a more resilient future for most of humanity.
Her career in Hollywood includes futurist consultancy for Disney / Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Monika has done speaking and advisory work for BBC, DreamWorks, Google, Huawei, IDEO, KSA, L’Oreal, McKinsey, Meta, Microsoft, TATA ,Technicolor, Telefonica, UAE, Unesco, Universal, Warner Media, WEF, among others.
Monika has given lectures at academic and scientific institutions including: CERN, Rockefeller University, Royal Society, Royal College of Art, IIT, OCAD.

Cece works in the sweet spot where science, design, and business meet to dream up future-focused innovations. At Futurity Systems, we're the crew guiding companies and government agencies to not only imagine but actively build brighter tomorrows.

Chris Earney is a seasoned professional working at the intersection of multilateralism, innovation, foresight, and culture change. With over 17 years of experience at the United Nations, Chris currently heads the UN Futures Lab, an initiative aimed at leveraging foresight to support the UN to anticipate the future of global challenges, crises, risks and opportunities. He co-founded the UNHCR Innovation Service, focusing on leveraging technology and collaborative intelligence to address issues such as forced displacement and refugee welfare.

Gem is an author and senior academic specialising in the interrelations between human behaviour, speculation and spatial design.

Currently teaching at the Royal College of Art, she was awarded a coveted National Teaching Fellowship in 2019, is Senior Fellow of AdvanceHE, and founding chair of QuEAN – Queer Educators in Architecture Network. Gem’s work in the future(s) space comes to life through her advisory, research, teaching and leadership of superFUTURES at the RCA, her directorship of the Experimental Realism platform and consultation services offered through her Office for Speculative Spatial Design (O-SSD).

Gustavo works at the intersection of futures thinking, design, and systems change. His practice focuses on helping organisations and communities navigate uncertainty through speculative methods, participatory processes, and long-term thinking. He is particularly interested in how futures literacy can support more resilient, plural, and regenerative ways of organising society.

Monika currently leads The Oneliness Project, an ongoing experiment in transforming loneliness. What was once a source of pain has become the lens through which she explores how we can reconnect with ourselves, with one another, and with the world we share. It is the work of humanizing loneliness, of seeing it not as an individual flaw but as a path into care, community, and new ways of relating—in oneliness.

Sohail is one of the world’s most influential futurists and the originator of Causal Layered Analysis, a foundational method in futures studies. His work spans policy, education, and organisational transformation, helping leaders question underlying assumptions and imagine alternative futures. He has advised governments, international organisations, and institutions across the globe.

Payal is a digital anthropologist and globally recognised scholar examining how technology shapes everyday life, particularly in the Global South. Her work challenges dominant narratives of tech pessimism by highlighting how people creatively adapt digital tools under conditions of inequality. Through research, writing, and public engagement, she advocates for more inclusive and human-centred digital futures.

Simon works on redesigning the deep structures that shape our economies, institutions, and social systems. At Dark Matter Labs, he contributes to projects that explore new economic models, governance mechanisms, and infrastructures capable of supporting long-term collective wellbeing. His work combines systems thinking, design, and experimentation to address complex societal challenges.

Sheng-Hung P.h.D is a designer, engineer, and educator. He leads the MIT Age Lab, inspired by multiple domains of knowledge and different perspectives, his award-winning work has been recognized globally.

Nyangala is a Policy Learning Designer at the Innovation Growth Lab (IGL), based between Barcelona, CAT & London, UK. They support policymakers and wider policy communities to share and learn from new ideas and evidence. Nyangala is pursuing a PhD in Design at BAU, Barcelona, CAT, and lectures Master’s student on Social Innovation and Collaborative design. In 2023, they received a research fellowship from the Creative Impact Research Centre Europe (CIRCE), Berlin, DE. Nyangala previously worked at Nesta, UK.

Nicklas Larsen is a Director and Head of Impact and Development at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. A leading futures practitioner with over a decade of experience, he is an educator, author, and public speaker committed to advancing the political representation of future generations.

Nicklas equips learners and leaders with the critical skills and tools needed to imagine, plan for, and navigate emerging futures. His work drives systemic change, promotes intergenerational fairness, and contributes to shaping transformative policies across sectors.

With 11 years old, Leila moderated the lab "Kids Own The Cities", a session thought to imagine the future of cities, designed and lived by kids.

Ina is the Head of Futures, Insights and Emerging Technology at the Ministry of Justice UK. She is also a Product Lead and Innovation Strategist

Lex works as a Creative Coder at Google Arts & Culture Lab in Paris, creating new ways to play with GenAI. He also spends time leading a small team of designers and coders at COMUZI, a London based design studio creating future-positive products, services and experiences for governments, organisations and charities. He explores speech generation trained on rap and hip hop lyrics by black artists. Lex was an associate lecturer at the University of the Arts London's creative computing institute teaching a module on computational futures and AI.

Zinzi de Brouwer (she/her) is a Fashion Practitioner, Entrepreneur, Academic and founder of Studio Palha, an equity-centred community design studio based in Mozambique and the Netherlands in which artisanal communities of the Global South take the central stage in bridging craft and design to form new fashion narratives.

Through fashion, she links institutions, academia, brands and industry to foster transformational justice in specific regard to radically approaching storytelling within the context of the Global South and Indigenous sovereignty.