Elav Horwitz, EVP, Global Director of Applied Innovation, McCann Worldgroup: Elav Horwitz is a futurist and innovator with over two decades of experience helping the world’s best-known brands harness the power of new technology to drive growth. She currently leads innovation and partnerships for McCann Worldgroup, working with clients including General Motors, Nestle, Mastercard, Coca Cola, L'Oreal, Cigna, and Johnson & Johnson. As an expert curator, Elav works across technologies, distilling current advances into digestible, relevant, and growth-oriented opportunities for clients. She established McCann’s world-leading Web3&AI practice and partnerships network, designed to educate Fortune 500 clients on the future of Web3 and AI, both ideating with them and implementing their visions. Elav is a champion of a culture of inclusive innovation throughout the enterprise, creating new proprietary tools and human-centric methods that tackle businesses’ challenges while driving revenue. Her global network of startups, founders, and tech leaders has been built during a career spanning the US, Europe, and Israel; her programming experience in the Israeli army, and deep connections forged with tech companies in Tel Aviv, several of which she remains an advisor and mentor to. She remains focused on nurturing and recognizing innovation throughout the industry, from various judging roles on innovations juries (Cannes Lions Innovation, The One Show, Jay Chiat, The Webbys) to speaking at conferences (Cannes Lions Innovation, ADFEST, Advertising Week) and establishing innovation incubators for the C-suite. She is a She Runs It Award winner, founding member of Chief, member of the Meta Creative Council and host of Jealous of the Partnership podcast, exploring the world’s most innovative partnerships shaping our future through the lens of people, culture, and business.

Dustin Callif, President at Tool: As President, Dustin leads the day-to-day management of Tool, an award-winning creative production partner for some of the world's most recognized brands, ad agencies and entertainment studios. Through a mix of best-in-class live-action content, experiences and creative technology executions, Tool helps brands conceptualize and produce creative marketing that stands out. A sought-after thought leader who specializes in the intersection of brand storytelling, creative technology and commercial production, Dustin’s is at the forefront of developing advertising campaigns supercharged by Artificial Intelligence. He believes there is a game-changing opportunity to leverage AI to revolutionize the content production pipeline, and his work/speaking focuses on how marketing teams can leverage new technology to develop powerful creative tools that make the production process better and more efficient. Tool has been a leading voice in AI since 2016, having worked closely with brands such as Coke, Toyota and New Balance to develop AI-powered campaigns that leverage NLP, Generative, Prompt Based and Computer Vision technology. Throughout his career, Dustin has worked with many of the world’s most notable brands, including Amazon, Uber, Airbnb,, Chobani, Facebook, Netflix, Google, Under Armour, Landrover, Intel, Starbucks, Nike and others. His projects have been recognized with 1000+ awards, including two Emmys, a Cannes Lions Palme d'Or, and honors from the Webby Awards, AICP Next, the Clios, One Show, SXSW, Ciclope, FWA, Awwwards, MTV VMAs, AICP, OMMA and Davey Awards. Dustin has spoken and judged at many of the advertising and marketing world’s largest conferences and awards shows, including the AICP Conference, SXSW, Collision, Ciclope, TV of Tomorrow, F5 Fest, Cannes Advertising Festival, NAB Conference, Seattle Interactive Conference, DMEXCO and Digital Hollywood. He’s also a frequent contributor with Forbes on the subject of AI & advertising.

Diana Caverly is currently Global Chief Strategy Officer at MRM, where she is leading the global strategy practice (and living her geek dream), with a focus on modern relationship marketing, digital marketing, customer experience and creative commerce. She is relentlessly driving connectivity between strategy, data science and analytics, creative and technology, alongside a stellar teams of subject matter experts. In her role, she also continues to be a dedicated C-suite advisor on strategic applications of cutting edge innovation, as well as a passionate advocate for diversity, borderless ways of working, and women in tech. Diana’s iconic work has been consistently recognized for creativity, effectiveness, and sustained success with more than 50 awards, by the Effie Awards – including 4 Grand Prix, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity – including Cannes Effectiveness, WARC Award for Innovation, Fast Company Brands that Matter & World Changing Ideas, Best of CES, Best of Super Bowl, Biz “Most Powerful Women”, The Drum “Top Planning Directors in the World” and more. She’s a true globalist, having worked on both deeply local and massively complex global brands – with extensive B2C and B2B experience across multiple categories including automotive, telecom, financial services, retail and consumer goods, and across multiple clients, including General Motors, Mastercard, Sanofi/ Opella, Vodafone, The Coca-Cola Company, Yum! Brands, Beko, UniCredit Bank. Juror in Effies, Cannes Lions, Gerety Awards, Clios. Fearless believer in making an impact, Diana is a transformative leader at the forefront of business, technology, culture, and innovation. She has a two-decade-long proven track record of effective brand, corporate and experience strategies that win in culture, drive transformation at scale, reshape categories and fast track business growth. She is a proud catalyst of creatively minded and fiercely ambitious organizational cultures. Certified in Corporate Innovation & Breakthrough Uses of AI by th

Cathy Hackl is a globally recognized tech & gaming exec, futurist, & speaker focused on spatial computing, virtual worlds, augmented reality, AI, & gaming platforms strategy. She’s the co-CEO of Spatial Dynamics, a spatial computing and AI solutions company & a top tech voice on LinkedIn. Hackl has worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Magic Leap, and HTC VIVE and has worked with companies like Nike, Ralph Lauren, Walmart, Louis Vuitton, & Clinique on their emerging tech & gaming journeys. As a sought-after keynote speaker, she’s spoken at Harvard Business School, MIT, SXSW, Comic-Con, WEF, CES, MWC, & more. She’s one of Ad Age’s Leading Women of 2023, was featured on the cover of Forbes Latam’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2023 issue, and is on the Vogue Business 100 Innovators inaugural list. She hosts Adweek’s highly successful TechMagic podcast and is popularly known in tech circles as the Godmother of the Metaverse. Cathy has been a fixture in the world of immersive technology for almost a decade with many media appearances in CNBC’s Squawk Box, 60 Minutes, CNN, Good Morning America, GQ, Time, The Economist, Bloomberg, and is a guest editor for Vogue Singapore. In 2022, she became the first human to ring NASDAQ’s opening bell and open the financial markets both in physical and avatar form while doing so on live television.

Eric Shamlin, CEO, Secret Level and Co-Governor, Emerging Media Programming Peer Group, Television Academy: Eric Shamlin leads entertainment growth at Secret Level, where he heads up innovative partnerships with leading technology and entertainment brands. With a broad background in technology, visual effects and entertainment, Shamlin is pioneering the future of entertainment powered by digital, interactive and immersive technologies. Eric Shamlin is a two-time Emmy winner, 12-time Cannes Lion winner and 19-year member of the Television Academy where he holds seats on the Digital Strategy Committee, Interactive Media Peer Group and co-chairs the Experience Design Work Group.

Tony Gemma is Vice President, Global Head of Yahoo Creative. In this role, he leads a diverse team of strategists & creators around the world supporting clients with industry-leading omni-channel creative solutions across display, native, digital OOH, CTV, dynamic, and more. Previously, Tony held roles as Head of Innovation at Verizon Media, Head of Mobile at AOL and Regional Vice President at Millennial Media in which he was responsible for accelerating new ad solutions and driving strategy for US business lines. Tony began his career in marketing strategy roles at Starcom MediaVest Group and SAP working with flagship brands such as Microsoft, General Motors, Sara Lee, and Allstate Insurance, often breaking new ground in arenas such as video, mobile, social, and immersive, as they emerged alongside more traditional offerings. Tony lives in San Rafael, CA with his wife and two children. When not watching Paw Patrol with his kids, you can often find him biking, hiking, skiing, running, pickleballing, or marching in the occasional music processional to get himself from point A to point B.

Natalie Comins, former, Senior Creative Principal, Huge : Natalie is a multi-disciplinary creative leader with nearly 20 years of experience spanning design, storytelling, experience and innovation for brands across a diverse range of industries. At Huge, Natalie has led the creative vision and execution for global clients, harnessing the power of transformative technology for novel brand experiences and engagements. Noteworthy highlights include multiple large-scale activations at Art Basel and SXSW for blockchain brand Tezos, in-store retail activations for Foot Locker, VR product innovation for Meta Quest Store, experience innovation for Planet Fitness, conceptual XR experiences for Kohler and P&G brand SK-II, and 4+ years working in the APAC region with SK-II on immersive retail innovations and physical-digital experiences. Beyond her role as Senior Creative Principal for clients, Natalie was the Global Craft Lead for the Visual Design community at Huge—a team of 75+ visual, motion, and experience designers—and served as a mentor committed to creative excellence, inspiring her team to elevate standards and foster a culture of inclusivity. Prior to Huge, Natalie has worked with various creative agencies in New York City creating visual brand content and experiences for notable brands such as JetBlue, Aer Lingus, Sharp, General Mills, P&G, American Express, Delta, Johnson & Johnson, Penguin, and Loews Hotels among others. Natalie is passionate about exploring open-ended questions in creative innovation and has published her perspective across various media, has spoken as a guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts and has joined panel discussions for AIXR and CES on technology’s impact on the future of brand experiences.

Elizabeth Kiehner is Chief Growth Officer at Nortal, a multinational digital transformation company leading sales and business development, marketing, and strategic growth through M&A. She has 8 years of experience as an executive in the global technology services space with a 25 year career history as an entrepreneur, keynote speaker and award-winning author. Before joining Nortal, Kiehner was a Vice President of Enterprise Transformation at Capgemini Invent. During the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, she set up the Digital Transformation Office of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Before that, she spent over 5 years at IBM, establishing a global Experience Design Center of Excellence within IBM Services as well as a sales team focused on IBM’s largest global accounts.