Monica Landers is founder and CEO of StoryFit, a rapid-growth technology company which provides AI analytics for the media and entertainment industry. With two media technology patents, Monica’s deep experience in media extends from producing for ABC News and Good Morning America to executive leadership at multiple content companies. Monica has deep roots in Austin's startup community and is an advisor to Techstars and Comcast accelerators, University of Texas and Texas State universities, and organizations such as SXSW and Women@Austin.

Nadira Azermai is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ScriptBook, a high-tech company that provides artificial intelligent screenplay analysis and forecasts the commercial & critical success of film & television projects from script to screen. ScriptBook was conceived when Nadira wrote her Master’s thesis on using artificial intelligence to quantify story-parameters into a predictive model that would enable stakeholders in filmed entertainment to assess their projects objectively and avoid financial failure. Nadira has been on a mission to unify A.I. with entertainment ever since. ScriptBook ScriptBook is an artificial intelligence company with a mission to assist studios, producers, distributors, sales agents and financiers by providing automated screenplay-analysis and financial forecasts. ScriptBook’s intelligent solution guides stakeholders in filmed entertainment with automated, predictive decision support form script to screen.

Mark Goffman currently is an executive producer for the upcoming NBC series, THE IRRATIONAL. Prior to this, Goffman was an executive producer and writer on THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, BULL, SLEEPY HOLLOW LIMITLESS and WHITE COLLAR. Goffman first started on THE WEST WING, and went on to run the writers' room for STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP. Goffman has been nominated for two Writers Guild Awards and won the Entertainment Industries Council SET (Science, Engineering & Technology) Award. He began his career as a writer in Brussels, for the magazine Commerce in Belgium. He has a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote speeches for state and federally elected officials, consulted to the U.S. military, Intelligence, Department of State and White House.

Mike Gioia, COO, Pickaxe: After working in Hollywood writers rooms for several years, Mike developed LLM pipelines that could produce realistic, high-quality, highly variable outputs from models. Now Mike is committed to building the no-code infrastructure that will usher in the mass adoption of AI as a consumer tool. He loves the rain.

Petula Miller, Screenwriter and novelist, "Writers League of Texas 2024 Fellow": Originally from Barbados, Petula Miller immigrated to the US and recently became a citizen, sadly losing her awkwardly cool ‘alien’ status. She is a Writers League of Texas 2024 Fellow and screenwriter and works in augmented reality development, building systems at the intersection of technology and art. Once upon a time, she was even in a reggae band.

Christian Cantrell, Writer, Former VP of Product, Stability AI: My two lifelong passions are storytelling and technology. While they might not seem like they have much in common, I believe they complement one another perfectly. A good modern product should be part of a larger narrative. You don't just buy a new phone; you incorporate a device into your life that helps you stay connected to the people and issues you most care about. You don't just download video editing software; you learn a new workflow in order to amplify your voice. You don't buy an EV to save money on gas; you make an investment in a better future. Just as stories unlock the potential of products, technology unlocks the types of stories I like to tell. I don't write near-future thrillers and science fiction to indulge in futurism; I explore science and technology that don’t yet exist in order to put characters in situations in which they can discover things about themselves that would otherwise have been impossible.