For an experience built around the communities of music festivals and visionaries of SpaceX, NASA, the United Nations, Disney, Burning Man, Stanford, and more transformative organizations, the curators of Iceland Eclipse, Secret Solstice and IMXP are preparing an extended stay on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula.
While totality is on the 12th of August, people will be setting up shop and settling into living in Iceland for 10 days or more. The interactions, artistic expression, and lessons to be learned during this liminal time should spur the curiosity of the most adventurous and nerdy. What new legends and noetic insights will arise?
The world-class duo from Tulum, AWARË will host the opening ceremony for the festival itself on August 11th, but the build begins on July 26th, a songwriting camp at The Portal starts on August 8th, RJD2 plays at Trod on the 9th, and a Midnight Spiritual Swim at Lýsulaugar with edible flowers takes place on the 10th.
A truly rare collectible at this festival is that people will get the chance to acquire a ‘higher self portrait‘ by Android Jones. In what Android Jones calls his ‘Electro-Mineralism,’ each portrait will capture the person’s archetypal essence: who you are in myth, memory, and spirit. Becoming part of the art, how much more of an immersive experience could we have?
Nick Warren is likely to supply the progressive house, then ANNA and Marbs the techno, while for the ‘Into the Glacier’ days, people will descend into Langjökull, Europe’s second-largest glacier, where ancient blue ice tunnels lead to a hidden chamber. Artists playing in the glacier on the 13th and 14th will include Hólmar B2B DJ Margeir and Nightmares on Wax.
Instrumental to the lineup, Desert Hearts, Above & Beyond, Test Shot Starfish, Apashe, Clozee, Meduza, RJD2, Bloomurian, Fredrik Ferrier, East Forest, Traveler, Elliot from Earth, and more have been masterfully selected to create an atmosphere on the dance floor like never before.
For the Eclipse ceremony, Patrick Kronfli of Unify.org and Isis Indriya of The Academy of Oracle Arts serve as hosts. Poranguí, Snow Raven, Tina Rodriguez, Ruby Chase, Júlía Óttarsdóttir, Scarlett De La Torre, Emily Fletcher, local Icelandic musicians, Indigenous elders, and more than 15 additional ceremonial singers come together in a coordinated symphony. If rubbing elbows with astronauts and some of the universe’s brightest minds is your thing, then you should go.
Check out the Iceland Eclipse lineup and continue reading to discover who we can learn, connect, and grow with during Iceland Eclipse.
Iceland Eclipse Lineup
Space & Exploration
Dr. Sian Proctor made history as the first African-American woman to pilot a spacecraft on SpaceX‘s Inspiration4 mission, and as a geoscientist and space artist, she creates artwork that captures Earth’s beauty and fragility as seen from orbit.
Sara Sabry is an Egyptian engineer and citizen astronaut who made history on Blue Origin‘s NS-22 mission in 2022 as the first Egyptian, first African, and first Arab woman to reach space.
Dr. Chris Boshuizen, Co-Founder of Planet Labs, is an Australian astronaut and physicist who flew on Blue Origin’s NS-18 mission and helped pioneer the era of nanosatellite fleets — and now backs the next generation of deep-tech startups via Interplanetary Capital.
Kyle Schember is Co-Founder and CEO of Subtractive Inc., a production company with a history of working on the SpaceX webcasts, Boiler Room streams, Paul McCartney and Tom Petty music videos, Coachella aftermovies, and immersive experiences with next-generation companies such as Cosmic Wire.
Antonio Peronace serves as a Program Manager with Space for Humanity‘s Citizen Astronaut Program, working to expand access to space for people from all walks of life so the transformative “orbital perspective” can drive positive change on Earth.
Janeya Griffin is a space equity advocate with the Equity Space Alliance Association, working tirelessly to ensure that the future of space exploration reflects the full diversity of humanity.
Christopher Huie is a Virgin Galactic astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on the Unity 25 mission, and is passionate about making the space economy a vehicle for reducing inequality on Earth.
Colleen McLeod Garner is Business Development and Marketing Manager at Paragon Space Development Corporation and a PhD researcher in human factors in space, blending expertise across global innovation, space policy, and hospitality to help make life beyond Earth feel like home.
Daniel Leeb serves as Executive Mission Director at the Iceland Space Agency, helping to shape Iceland’s growing role in the global space landscape.
Emily Bilbao is a public policy expert whose career has spanned the White House and State Department, and who now focuses on the emerging frontier of space-based illumination and its potential applications on Earth.
Lóránt Czárán is a space law and policy researcher specializing in international space governance, working to define the legal and regulatory frameworks that will govern humanity’s expansion into the cosmos.
Ben Nowack is Founder and CEO of Reflect Orbital, a space technology company with an audacious goal — reflecting sunlight from orbiting satellite arrays back to Earth as a source of sustainable solar energy.
Ben Haldeman, Founder of LifeShip, is a veteran space architect who has designed hundreds of spacecraft and dozens of telescopes, and is now turning his vision toward something far more poetic: building the first sacred sanctuaries on the Moon.
Dr. Alexander Layendecker, Founder and Director of the Advanced SpaceLife Research Institute, is pioneering one of the most unexplored frontiers in human spaceflight — researching sexuality and reproduction in off-Earth environments, drawing on his background as a former USAF Combat Search and Rescue pilot.
Dr. Amelie Schoenenwald is a member of the ESA Astronaut Class of 2022, having been selected from a pool of over 23,000 applicants across Europe, and channels that extraordinary achievement into igniting passion for science in everyone she meets.
Roberto Carlino has spent a decade turning science fiction into reality, from free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station to solar sails and next-generation satellites — embodying what it looks like when engineers refuse to be bound by convention.
Jason Achilles is a touring multi-instrumentalist and aerospace innovator who was featured in WIRED Magazine after successfully working with NASA to capture the very first sounds ever recorded on Mars.
Ravé Mehta is Founder and CEO of Rise Space and an award-winning concert pianist who guides leaders and artists to the edge of space to experience the overview effect — then brings that same transcendence to concert halls through immersive piano sound bath performances.
Ubaldo “The Space Ace” Ciminieri is a cosmic connector, podcast producer, and space entrepreneur on a mission to unite humanity’s brightest minds and pave the way for a sustainable future among the stars.
Nik Halik is a #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, entrepreneur, astronaut candidate, and Founder of 5 Day Weekend, who has explored 175+ countries and pushed human limits from the skies above Everest to the depths of the Titanic.
Arts, Culture, Consciousness & Human Potential
Yasmine El Baggari is a travel and experience researcher with Voyaj, designing meaningful, transformative travel experiences for conscious tourists who believe that how we explore the world matters just as much as where we go.
Darren Aronofsky is the Academy Award-nominated director behind Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, and The Fountain — a lifelong environmentalist who famously filmed Noah in Iceland, the land that continues to shape his visionary work.
Imogen Heap is a British musician and technology innovator who created the Mi.Mu Gloves — wearable instruments that translate hand gestures directly into music — fundamentally changing what live performance can look and feel like.
Gwen Bethel Riley is a music and content executive who has collaborated with icons including Beyoncé, The Beatles, and Lady Gaga, bringing her experience as a former leader at Disney and Peloton to bear on redefining how global audiences experience sound and story.
Dr. Rick Doblin is Founder and President of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), a 40-year-old organization he built from the ground up to develop legal, therapeutic frameworks for the beneficial use of psychedelics and marijuana.
Dr. Ben Rein is Chief Science Officer of the Mind Science Foundation and an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, with over 20 peer-reviewed papers on the neuroscience of social behavior and a new book, Why Brains Need Friends, making his research accessible to the world.
Dr. Jordan Amadio is a neuroscientist and consciousness researcher who explores the intersection of brain science, human potential, and transformative experience — asking what it truly means to be human at the edge of our understanding.
Justin Natoli, JD, LMFT, is a psychotherapist, psychedelic educator, and Founder of the Queer Medicine Community, who speaks internationally on the intersection of psychedelics, sexuality, and authenticity, and advises the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines.
Enamory holds a singular distinction as the world’s only integrated clinic, training institute, and research foundation dedicated to psychedelic-assisted couple therapy, exploring love and relationships through a uniquely transformative lens.
Anouk Wipprecht is a pioneering FashionTech designer and engineer whose robotic, interactive garments sit at the cutting edge of wearable technology, making her one of the most visually distinctive voices in the world of tech-driven fashion.
Richelle Ellis is an artist, curator, and Founding Director of Supercollider, whose work explores planetary connectivity through immersive art, storytelling, and research that spans the full breadth of human experience.
Bryant Maxwell works at the nexus of art, science, and systems thinking through SciArt Exchange, crafting experiences that translate complex visions of the future into human stories capable of inspiring real action.
Michael Jelen is a media-tech founder building Ekho, a platform that transforms music into a fan-powered force by merging technology, live performance, and collective energy to turn passive audiences into active participants.
Ruth Daniel is CEO and Artistic Director of In Place of War, a multi-award-winning international NGO that uses music, art, and activism — including the EarthSonic project — to connect artists and communities worldwide as a catalyst for social and environmental change.
Samantha Tauber is Founder and Creator of VNCCII and the Galacta.i.ssance Universe, whose debut novel VNCCII: The Awakening of a Divine Warrior is literally on its way to the Moon, preserved for one million years via NanoFiche in the Galactic Library Preservation for Humanity.
INNA is a nutritionist, music therapist, DJ, and Founder of BEEATS, creating immersive gastromusical events that merge taste, sound, and movement into full-body sensory experiences.
Lara Matossian is a multilingual performer, educator, and Chief Facilitator of Fun at Happy Hub, using storytelling, imagination, and interactive performance to spark curiosity and wonder in children across stages, classrooms, and festivals.
Michael Zuckerman is Founder of Kisoro Art Island in Uganda, working at the intersection of art, ecology, and global human migration to build creative communities that transcend borders.
Tobias Klose is a facilitator working at the intersection of sauna culture, sound journeys, entheogen-assisted therapy, nature immersions, and men’s work — weaving ancient practices with modern therapeutic insight.
Lindsay Brandon is Founder of Permaculture Canada and Armagarden, reading the stories written in the landscape to weave people back into the fabric of nature through regenerative design systems.
Taylor Bright is a mycologist, naturalist, and educator pursuing her MSc while researching fungal biodiversity in rare and threatened California ecosystems — exploring how the cryptic world of fungi quietly shapes life on Earth.
Dr. Robin George Andrews is a doctor of volcanoes and multi-award-winning science journalist for the New York Times, National Geographic, and Scientific American, as well as the author of Super Volcanoes and How to Kill an Asteroid.
Sævar Helgi Bragason is an Icelandic astrophotographer and astronomy educator with Iceland at Night, revealing the magic of the aurora and night sky to audiences around the world through his extraordinary imagery.
Moli G.ott. is an innovation hacker who led the permaculture movement in Iceland, connecting to the land through rituals and reflection — and bringing that same depth to conversations about AI as an ethical imperative.
Gunnar Ólafsson is an 11th-generation fisherman and keeper of Icelandic coastal heritage, living the ancient rhythms of the sea and sharing centuries-old stories of a way of life that has defined this land for generations.
Rohan Roberts is a Dubai-based education strategist, author, and speaker with over 25 years in international education, exploring the intersection of technology, consciousness, and culture to help people become citizens of the cosmos.
Technology, Governance & Future Systems
Steven Blumenfeld is CTO of the Burning Man Project, managing the technology infrastructure behind one of the world’s most ambitious experiments in radical self-expression — and argues that nothing prepares you for life in space quite like a week in the Nevada desert.
Lambert Hogenhout is Chief Data and AI Officer at the United Nations Secretariat and a researcher at the Institute for Calculated Futures, studying the effects of technology on society while helping one of the world’s largest organizations navigate the AI era responsibly.
De Kai is an AI pioneer who built the first global online translator that paved the way for Google Translate, and now researches how machines can better understand the nuances of human language and communication.
Gabor Szórád has led companies ranging from 5 to 8,200 people and has worked full-time on AI since the launch of GPT-3.5, operating through SaferAI while writing a book that asks not what AI can do, but what it gives back to us as human beings.
Kevin Russell is a futurist and Co-Founder of The Observatory Project, exploring the future of human-AI collaboration and what it means for humanity’s long-term trajectory.
Ari Eisenstat is an International Futurist at the University of Hawaiʻi Research Organization, bringing a uniquely lived perspective to futures studies as a person with disabilities — reimagining how we design more inclusive worlds.
Katy Bohinc is Founder and CEO of The Ratio, working at the intersection of technology, policy, and equitable access to ensure that the benefits of emerging technologies reach those who need them most.
Brittany Kaiser is a data rights activist and whistleblower best known for her appearance in The Great Hack, who now advocates globally for digital privacy, data ownership, and decentralization in the age of AI.
Robert Bjarnason is Co-Founder of the Citizens Foundation, developing digital democracy and civic engagement technologies that give ordinary people a genuine voice in the decisions that shape their lives.
Mason Lee Lynaugh is Executive Director of Stand With Crypto, America’s largest crypto advocacy organization with over 2.7 million advocates, and as the organization’s first-ever hire, he built its entire grassroots operation from scratch — culminating in the GENIUS Act being signed into law.
Sara Ahmadian is a Venture Advisor across emerging markets, building startup ecosystems and expanding access to frontier technologies like AI in regions that are often left behind by the pace of technological change.
Freyr Friðfinnsson works with KLAK Icelandic Startups, supporting founders and strengthening the Nordic innovation ecosystem as Iceland’s startup scene continues to punch well above its weight globally.
David Helgason, Founder of Unity, is now a climate tech investor at Transition, searching for solutions to global warming and championing the entrepreneurs tackling the planet’s most interconnected crises.
Henk Rogers, creator of Tetris, has dedicated his later career to fighting climate change, founding the Blue Planet Alliance to accelerate renewable energy transitions and advance environmental sustainability worldwide.
Joycelyn Longdon is an award-winning doctoral researcher, technologist, and writer who bridges ecology, technology, and environmental justice, bringing a justice-led lens to conservation technology.
Tony Cho is an urban planning researcher and futurist with Future of Cities, working on sustainable urban development and smart city initiatives to build more livable, resilient environments for the humans who will inhabit them.
Hjörtur Smárason is a strategist and storyteller who led Greenland’s tourism recovery and now advises organizations on branding and resilience — proof that the best stories can reshape how an entire place is perceived.
Carl Hayden Smith is Co-Founder of the Cyberdelics Society and Museum of Consciousness and an Associate Professor at UEL, with 30 years of experience exploring how technology can serve as a catalyst for expanding human perception.
Dr. Tim Mullen is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and investor with over two decades of leadership in neurotechnology innovation, and a founding figure in multiple neurotech companies who now leads neurotech investments at Lionheart Ventures.
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