Ágnes is a Brooklyn-based theoretical physicist, documentary filmmaker, producer, science communicator, inclusion/equity activist. She made significant contributions in nuclear physics investigating how matter formed microseconds after the Big Bang. She developed innovative physics and astronomy courses at Yale and Pratt teaching science through its intersectionality with the arts. After making Smashing Matters, currently she is directing and producing Rare Connections, documentary rooted at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, where she is now Visiting Professor, on leave from her tenured Professor position at Pratt Institute. She is Fellow of the American Physical Society, Yale University Fellow, and Humboldt Fellow. Ágnes held positions at The Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark, at the Goethe University, Germany, at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and visiting appointments at École Polytechnique and Saclay, France and at Yale University. Find more on her website https://www.agnesmocsy.com/
Alex Winter is a director, writer and actor who has worked across film, television and theater. Winter entered show business as a child actor with co-starring roles on Broadway in The King & I and Peter Pan, and came to prominence in movies such as Warner Bros’ hit The Lost Boys and the wildly popular Bill & Ted franchise. As a filmmaker, Winter’s narrative features include the cult classic Freaked, and the critically acclaimed Fever. In 2020, Winter released two new documentary feature films: Showbiz Kids premiered on HBO to widespread critical acclaim; and Zappa, the first all-access documentary on the life and times of Frank Zappa. A Critics Pick in the New York Times, Zappa was nominated for Best Music Documentary by the Critics Choice Awards. Winter also returned to screens in the highly anticipated Bill & Ted Face The Music, which opened in August 2020 as the number one movie in the U.S. and the UK. Previous documentary work includes The Panama Papers, Trust Machine, Deep Web, and Downloaded. Just completed is Winter’s next feature documentary, The YouTube Effect, produced by Winter/Trouper Productions in partnership with Gale Anne Hurd/Valhalla Entertainment and Glen Zipper. The film had its world premiere at Tribeca in June and will be released later this year.
Honor Harger is responsible for the integrated resort’s attractions, including the iconic ArtScience Museum, Sands SkyPark, Digital Light Canvas and Sampan Ride. In this expanded role, she will also be instrumental in creating a range of new attractions as Marina Bay Sands embarks on its reinvestment of the property in the coming years. As Vice President of ArtScience Museum, Honor will continue to chart the direction and strategy at this leading cultural destination, which she has been overseeing since March 2014. Previously its Executive Director, Honor curated the Museum’s first permanent exhibition, FUTURE WORLD: Where Art Meets Science and has been credited for uplifting the span and depth of the museum’s programming and vision. Under her direction, ArtScience Museum have staged large-scale exhibitions by some of the world’s major artists, including Leonardo da Vinci and M.C. Escher, as well as showing work by contemporary artists including Theo Jansen, Lynette Wallworth, Ryoji Ikeda, Yang Yongliang, Semiconductor, Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, Mariko Mori and many more. During her tenure, the museum also presented significant exhibitions that explore aspects of science, including big data, particle physics, natural history, marine biology, cosmology and space exploration. Before joining Marina Bay Sands, Honor was the director of Lighthouse in Brighton, United Kingdom, from 2010 to 2014. In that role, she curated projects which showed the cultural impact of scientific ideas, such as Laboratory Life, Invisible Fields and Solar Systems. She was director of the AV Festival the UK's largest biennial of digital art, film and music from 2004 - 2008, and was also the first curator of webcasting for Tate Modern from 2000-2003. Honor has delivered lectures at many conferences including TED, LIFT, Webstock, and MuseumNext, as well as at the European Space Agency, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, California Institute of the Arts and the American Film Institute. Born and raised in New Zealand, Honor currently resides in Singapore.
Jamie Lochhead is a Director and Executive Producer with Windfall Films. He wrote and directed Einstein's Quantum Riddle, an award-winning documentary about quantum entanglement for NOVA, the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service's flagship science program, and the BBC. His projects have won numerous accolades, including BAFTA awards for Inside Nature’s Giants and Jabbed!, the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Silver Award for Ozone Hole: How We Saved the Planet, and two Emmy nominations for Inside Einstein’s Mind. His most recent project is the BBC documentary Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard.
José Ignacio Latorre was appointed Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies in July 2020. He is also Professor and Provost’s Chair in the National University of Singapore's Department of Physics. A leading figure in particle physics and quantum information, José Ignacio joined CQT, NUS from the University of Barcelona. He has been heading a research group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center to build the first quantum processor in Spain. He is one of the founders of the NNPDF collaboration for research on high-energy physics. José Ignacio is also the founder and director coordinator of the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual. José Ignacio produced two documentaries, one of them on the last voice of the Manhattan Project, and was one of the curators of the exhibition, Quantum, held at the CCCB in 2019.
With a mechanical engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Neal Hartman worked as an engineer at CERN, the European Laboratory for High Energy Physics, for 18 years. He has been actively involved in science/art outreach since 2007, and co-founded CineGlobe, the International Film Festival at CERN, showcasing films of all types inspired by science and technology. Neal was director of production for TEDxCERN for five editions, and worked as a local producer for TED Global>Geneva. As Chairman of the World VR Forum in 2017, he has organised multiple events in virtual reality, and conducted a year of research into virtual reality at the Swiss Polytechnic University in Lausanne (EPFL). Neal is a founding member of the Foundation Board for the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF). With degrees in both engineering and film directing (from the University of Westminster), his passions are equally shared between art and science. Between 2020 and 2021, Neal served as director of Science Gallery Venice, the Italian node of the international Science Gallery Network.