Angus Kneale is a globally recognized, multi award-winning creative pioneer, innovator and entrepreneur. In 2020, Angus launched creative and technology studio Preymaker, a future facing collective of creatives and technologists who utilize an advanced custom cloud platform to craft content for leading brands and studios. Preymaker creates linear content, interactive and immersive media, and develops custom content for ’spatial computing’ and the Metaverse. Additional content includes commercials, branded entertainment and original short films such as award-winning original animated short, BLUE, one of the first created entirely in the cloud using Unreal Engine’s real-time technology. Angus continues to pioneer the use of new technologies utilizing the latest in computer vision, A.I. machine learning and cloud technology to push what is possible and help define the new world of content creation. Angus has been recognized by Adweek as part of their Creative 100, which celebrates the most inspiring minds in marketing, media and culture. Prior to Preymaker he co-founded The Mill US and was a key architect and inventor of Cannes Gold Lion Innovation winner Blackbird®, the breakthrough IP unique vehicle for automotive content that creates photoreal computer generated vehicles. 

Michael Olaye, EVP, Managing Director, Hero Digital: With an illustrious career spanning over 25 years in the digital industry, Michael has seamlessly intertwined technology, creativity, growth, and product development to establish his distinguished reputation. Currently holding the position of Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Strategy and Innovation at R/GA, he brings forth his exceptional expertise and visionary leadership. He works with industry-leading organizations, creating products and services powered by automation within Health, automotive, travel, and finance. Michael has held a variety of C-suite roles that give him a unique insight into how technology turns organizations on or off, from being the CEO of ad agency Dare, where he was responsible for repositioning the agency as an experience-driven digital company - and as Group Chief Technology officer at Oliver Agency and Head of Technology & Innovation at Havas London. Between 2001 and 2010, Olaye worked at digital creative agency U-Dox, where he was a founding member and head of digital and served clients including Adidas, Nickelodeon, and EMI. Earlier in his career, Olaye worked as a software engineer and flash animator. Olaye studied Electrical Engineering at the London Metropolitan University. Michael's outstanding contributions have garnered widespread acclaim, reflected in his receipt of numerous prestigious accolades, including Cannes Lions, LIA, D&AD, Guldagget, Eurobest, Cristal, and Clios.

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist who innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that positively impact our community and the environment. She is a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts, at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She is the founder of the UF AI Climate Justice Lab and the Talk To Me About Water Collective. She founded Wampum.Codes which is both an award-winning podcast and an ethical framework for software development based on indigenous values of co-creation. Wampum.codes was awarded a Mozilla Fellowship embedded at the MIT Co-Creation Studio from 2019-2020 and was featured at the 2021 imagineNative festival. She continued her research in 2021 at Stanford University as their artist and technologist in residence made possible by the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning (VAF). In 2022 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Award as part of the Sundance AOP Fellowship cohort for her project CLOUD WORLD / SKYWORLD which will be part of the Whitney’s Sunrise/Sunset series in late fall 2022. In 2019 she was a delegate at the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion for His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama, at his World Headquarters in Dharmsala, India.The non-profit she founded, IDEA New Rochelle, in partnership with the New Rochelle Mayor’s Office, won the 2018 $1 Million Bloomberg Mayor’s Challenge for their VR/AR Citizen toolkit to help the community co-design their city. In 2018, she was awarded the 100k Alternative Realities Prize for her Virtual Reality Project: Your Hands Are Feet from Engadget and Verizon Media.

Johannes Saam, Futurist/Creative Technologist, Framestore/atara.xyz: Senior Creative Technologist / Futurist Johannes Saam took an early interest in 3D, teaching himself critical skills at a young age. He started self-taught, then studied at ScanlineVFX in Munich, and after earning a Master's in Computer Animation from Bournemouth University, he worked in Visual Effects for 15 years. He has worked on feature films, including Mad Max 4, Thor, Captain America, and Prometheus. Since joining Framestore, Johannes has worked on many projects in emerging technology for high-profile partners, including Apple, Google, Time Inc, BMW, and Facebook. He holds a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his many achievements and honors for developing, prototyping, and promoting technologies and workflows for deep compositing. As well as an Emmy Award for his contributions to the Free Solo 360 project, he was part of the Platinum Lion-winning team of the 'Long live the Prince' campaign in Cannes. Beyond his numerous awards, Johannes has spoken at various events, most recently SXSW, GDC, Siggraph, and NFT NYC. He is currently researching creative ways to tell stories in all transmedia contexts. He profoundly understands machine learning technologies and focuses on discovering new avenues to excite audiences globally. Johannes is also known under the artist pseudonym 'ATARA'; His first NFT collection used generative art rooted in the blockchain. It sold out, and he is continuously expanding his presence as a web3 Creative. Most recently, Atara created Jeff the artist, a virtual being in the web3 space. And made the Dalle-Punks a unique and AI-created NFT project. Johannes is also an advisor for Luxy.io and several NFT projects.

Annie Hanlon is an accomplished executive and an award-winning producer with expertise spanning immersive and virtual production, traditional film and series, digital, advertising and commercials, merging technology, and documentary production. After leaving Netflix in 2023, she co-founded Playbook PLBK to help clients navigate business opportunities, foster impactful partnerships, and implement strategies that drive innovation to help tell the best stories using responsible AI, real-time, virtual production, multi-platform, and advanced technology across all mediums. As a key member of the Virtual Production team at Netflix, Annie worked closely with Production and VFX title management teams to ensure seamless organization and effective execution of Series and Film productions on projects leveraging advanced technology, while also overseeing the build and deployment of LED Volume stages. An early adopter in the medium of virtual reality, Annie was VP/Head of Content Partnerships at Light Field technology company Lytro (acquired by Google). She has produced award-winning immersive projects on a global scale including the VR documentary “The Protectors” (dir Kathryn Bigelow) which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival during her tenure as executive producer at VR production company Here Be Dragons. Annie is a sought-after industry speaker (NAB, CES, U.S. Space & Rocket Center, LG Nova Innovation Festival, PI Apparel, among many others) and a member of VES, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and a board member of the Infinity Festival. A recent graduate of Space Camp (Huntsville, AL) she has served as an instructor for graduate students at Boston University and has mentored filmmakers at Meta as well as students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.