Gerald Vincent "Jerry" Casale is an American musician, composer, music video director, and vintner. Casale's music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder and bass player of the new wave band Devo, which released a Top 20 hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It". Casale is the main lyricist and one of the main composers of Devo's music and directed most of Devo's music videos. He is one of only two members who have been with Devo throughout its entire history. Casale's brother Bob also performed with the band.

Daniel Rowland is a unique combination of music producer, audio engineer, tech executive, and educator. In addition to the 5+ billion streams of the music he has helped create, Daniel is Head of Strategy and Partnerships at LANDR, co-founder of online DAW Audiotool, and longtime instructor at MTSU. For nearly a decade, his primary focus has been on the empowerment of music creators via ethical AI-driven tools and accessible design, sharing that message on dozens of panels and podcasts. Daniel has helped grow LANDR to over 5 million users, refining their industry-leading creator tools platform, AI mastering engine, plugins and services, while crafting acquisition and partnership deals with a wide range of startups and iconic brands/artists. And with Audiotool to bring inclusive, browser-based music production to millions of users, while uniting the worlds of gaming and music. As a creative, Daniel has produced, mixed, or mastered projects for Pixar (including the Oscar-winning film “Piper”), Nine Inch Nails, Jason Derulo, Seal, Jhene Aiko, Phillip Glass, Gwen Stefani, Gayle, Gucci Mane, David Foster, Burna Boy, Nina Simone, Keith Richards, YG, and Flo Rida along with dozens of soundtracks for Star Wars, Marvel, John Wick, The Fast and the Furious, and others. He was ranked as one of the top 40 mastering engineers in the world by Jaxsta, and is a voting member of the Recording Academy.

Jessica Powell is the CEO and co-founder of AudioShake, a sound-splitting AI technology that makes audio more interactive, accessible, and useful. Named one of TIME’s Best Inventions, AudioShake is used widely across the music, film, sports, and dubbing industries to help give content owners greater editing capabilities for their audio.  Powell spent over a decade at Google, where she sat on the company's management team. She began her career at CISAC, the International Society of Authors and Composers in Paris. She is also an award-winning novelist and former New York Times contributing opinion writer.

Thomas Sachson, General Manager, Dropness LLC: Thomas Sachson is an expert at the intersection of entertainment technologies, user engagement, and consumer regulatory issues. He is the General Manager of Dropness LLC, an AI-enabled user-generated content platform for the delivery of precision advertising services. Prior to this role, Thomas spent eight years at Sony Music as Head of Monetization and Strategic Partnerships for Sony Music Immersive Studios, where he focused on the fusion of fandom, music, and video game experiences. Before Sony, Thomas was a Director of Intel Labs Venturing and the General Manager of the U.S. and China Perceptual Compute teams at Intel Labs, where his team developed pioneering machine learning systems for facial gesture capture and avatar movement generation, earning him the Intel Achievement Award, Intel’s highest recognition. Thomas holds over 10 patents in related fields. Thomas earned both a B.A. degree in Economics and a B.A. degree in Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.  He is also a member in good standing of the D.C. Bar.

Steven Masur, Partner, Raines Feldman Littrell LLP: Steven Masur has over 25 years of experience advising emerging and established businesses on new opportunities and business challenges. He focuses his practice on corporate finance, M&A, intellectual property, entertainment, emerging businesses and strategic guidance. Steve has extensive experience in angel and venture capital finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and cross-border transactions in Europe and Asia. He is passionate about helping new businesses plan a path to success, and helping older businesses bridge the gap to new markets. Steve brings a unique mix of legal, business, and strategic experience to bear on client matters. He has counseled enterprise level clients including Shazam, Virgin Mobile, Liberty Media, Yamaha, Nielsen Buzzmetrics, Bob Vila and Conde Nast Publications in corporate, digital media, and new business matters. He has also helped emerging businesses in a wide variety of sectors, and is especially knowledgeable in media, entertainment, advertising, consumer products, food and technology, including mobile, games, digital music, social media, augmented and virtual reality, software and hardware. Steve has been recognized as a “Rising Star” and a “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers. He serves on a variety of corporate and nonprofit boards and industry associations, and lectures and writes about major issues in venture capital, emerging businesses, entertainment law, technology and corporate strategy.