Oriol Alamany (1958) has traveled across Arctic landscapes, mountains, and deserts around the world to photograph the wildest nature, often in extreme conditions. His work, which has helped to describe the lives of animals such as the snow leopard, the Etosha elephant, the brown bear, and urban falcons, has been published in prestigious magazines such as National Geographic and BBC Wildlife.

When he was 17, Pau Palaus saw a show by clown Leandre Ribera for the first time, and it changed his life. "I went to see him for three days in a row. My friends asked me, 'What does he do?' And I didn't know what to answer: he did nothing, and he did everything," explains Palaus. Although he studied forestry management, Pau left a steady job as a tree arborist to embark on the performing arts: "I started a clown course at the Rogelio Rivel school, but I only lasted two weeks because I didn't understand anything they were explaining to me; they didn't teach me how to do what that clown did."

In the office where Esther Gómez works, there is no sign with her name or that of her company. "It's common in the sector; it's done for confidentiality reasons," she explains. Esther wanted to be a private detective since she was little and ended up studying Private Investigation. Later, she added two specialties to her resume that have ended up taking up a large part of her work: handwriting expertise and what is technically called credibility assessment, "although everyone calls it lie detection".

Xavi Forné began designing concert posters for the bands he played in when he was still a teenager. Twenty years later, those flyers The black and white sketches that were passed from hand to hand have become international tour posters for bands like Metallica, Depeche Mode, the Black Keys, Soundgarden, and Foo Fighters, and are seen all over the world.

"There are organisations that talk a lot about innovation but when you ask them what innovation means to them they don't quite know what to answer." During the six years that he was director of technology for the United States Olympic Committee, Mounir Zok, born in Lebanon in 1977, travelled around the world speaking at conferences where he explained how technological innovation was revolutionising the world of sport and how many of these advances would end up being applied to other areas such as health or nutrition. In 2018 he decided to settle in Barcelona with his own consultancy, N3XT Sports, where he coordinates a team of professionals spread across France, the United States, Italy, Switzerland and Lebanon. With the pandemic he has changed constant flights for video calls and a more settled lifestyle: "We created the company in Silicon Valley but we wanted to move it to Europe. We made a list of cities where the sports and innovation industry was strong. London, Paris, Stockholm and Barcelona were pretty evenly matched. We made another of cities with the best quality of life, a place that was attractive enough to attract foreign talent. And in this Barcelona was unrivalled".