Dr Adam Rutherford is a scientist, writer and broadcaster. He has written and presented award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including Radio 4’s Inside Science and The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Frywith Dr Hannah Fry. He is the author of Creation, shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, the Sunday Times bestselling How to Argue With a Racistand the co-author of Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged).

Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher and author of bestselling books including The Good Ancestor,Empathy, and How to Find Fulfilling Work, published in over 25 languages. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing and founder of the world’s first Empathy Museum. Named by The Observer as one of Britain’s leading popular philosophers, his TED talk How to be a Good Ancestor has over 1.5 million views. Roman’s work has influenced political campaigners, educators, and social entrepreneurs worldwide. An acclaimed public speaker, he has delivered talks from Google’s California HQ to a London prison. Raised in Sydney and Hong Kong, he earned a PhD in political sociology and has worked as an academic, gardener, and human rights campaigner.

Ella Saltmarshe is a writer, strategist, and founder focused on culture, narrative, and systems change. She co-founded The Long Time Project, inspiring long-term thinking through public imagination and collective action. She hosts The Long Time Academy Podcast, winner of multiple awards, and co-founded Inter-Narratives, a network aligning storytelling in environmental and social justice movements. With a background in anthropology, she has worked globally and pioneered systems change initiatives like The Point People and Systems Changers. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Financial Times, Wired, and more, exploring the intersection of fiction, futures, and societal transformation.