Sanne Wallis de Vries is a versatile theatre maker, comedian and actress. She began her career by winning the Leiden Cabaret Festival in 1996. She has released several successful cabaret programmes, including Vier GUT and KOM, all three of which were nominated for the Poelifinario.

Sanne has sung in musicals and even in an opera during her rich career. In 2024, she played Martha in the theatre classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Sanne has played film roles in Moordwijven, Soof and as headmistress Dreus in the Mees Kees films and series. Sanne is also known from television programmes such as Kopspijkers, Wie is de Mol? and Sanne Wallis de Show. Last year, she shone as Mother Superior in the musical Sister Act and shared the stage with Frederique Spigt in the play In Natura. Sanne is also regularly involved in the theatre sector.

Musician and innovator Chagall brings a beating heart to music and technology with compelling technological music experiences. As a singer, composer, dancer, and programmer, she interweaves sound, movement, and image into emotionally charged performances that are both intimate and spectacular.

Her work shows how technology can be a creative tool that takes artists and audiences to places that previously seemed unimaginable. Her desire for innovation led her to develop her own system based on her body: by controlling music and effects with her movements, she creates a direct and visible interaction between performer, technology and audience.

Her performances also contain an AI component: an algorithm that recognises her movements and translates them into musical and visual expression. Surprising, playful and deeply human. Chagall's work redefines what live electronic music can be.

Inge Loes ten Kate is a professor of Planetary Sciences and Astrobiology and is affiliated with Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. She began her career studying Aerospace Engineering, graduating with a thesis on how to use the Martian atmosphere for deceleration. After a year at the National Aerospace Laboratory in the Noordoostpolder, she began her PhD research on the decomposition of organic material on the surface of Mars.

With her doctorate in hand, she left for NASA, where she collaborated on the development of various instruments, including the SAM instrument that searches for organic material on Mars aboard the Curiosity rover. After five years at NASA and a year at the University of Oslo, she continued her research at Utrecht University. Her research has since expanded, and Inge Loes now focuses on investigating the conditions under which life originated on Earth, in order to better understand whether life can also originate outside Earth and, if so, where. Mars continues to play a role in this.

For the past two years, she has also been affiliated with the University of Amsterdam, where she studies, among other things, the formation of planets such as Earth and Mars.