Evo Heyning, CEO, Realitycraft: Evo teaches generative and participatory media methods with agencies, governments and creative teams worldwide and designs worlds from her design lab, Realitycraft where she serves as a producer, writer, strategist and showrunner for global art and media clients. Over the last year Evo has co-produced over 100 generative videos for clients and partners and over the last 4 years has streamed over 500 hours of live participatory media. Her multimedia musical group Auricles focuses on the art of collective intelligence using AI tools to reveal our humanness and creativity while expanding our capacities in Promptcraft, a book she published in 2023. Evo serves as producer on the Holo Art team, curator at the Virtual Worlds Museum and works as a US-based producer, strategist, showrunner and multimedia artist creating protopian and participatory futures that merge physical and digital media into interactive stories and creative play. Mixing generative works with physical art and antiques, Evo creates immersive and interactive worlds with AI, XR and metaverse tools, projection mapping and crystalline structures that connect people to new visions and futures. Her recent showrunning production work can be seen in The Polys: WebXR Awards where virtual production, live and virtual worlds are blended into a single video event along with art galleries and museums where her recent generative music videos have been featured in exhibitions and talks. Evo curates and creates out of Realitycraft in Oakland; she has exhibits work around the world including projection mapping at Art Basel, large scale mural and collaborative tile projects in Providence, RI and Los Angeles, glass art and painting works in Los Angeles, painting and photography in Boston, MA galleries. Together with local teams she has designed large scale street games, immersive theatre, VR and interactive stories from game shows to livestreaming programs with metaverse exhibitions spanning 6 continents. Evo's metaverse and XR works have won international art, screenwriting and media awards over 2 decades since contributing to the Metaverse Roadmap formation in 2005. Her current original productions include a series from the Virtual Worlds Museum, a feature film, live XR shows, television series, games, interactive installation art and an upcoming book on AI and concept worldbuilding as a design process.

Russell Palmer is the CEO & Co-Founder of CyberFilm AI, building SAGA - the first app for screenwriters and filmmakers powered by Generative AI. He founded the company in 2021 with his brother Andrew, who is an Assistant Director on Hollywood productions, and an indie writer / director / producer. Their software, SAGA, combines Hollywood expertise with cutting-edge technology. This integration places powerful filmmaking tools directly into the hands of storytellers, empowering them to create high-quality films. It offers comprehensive script writing assistance and storyboard creation, acting as the perfect "script doctor" and writing companion. Stewart Lyons, Producer of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, gives SAGA a rave review, stating, “It asks the questions you need the answers for,” while Rhys Ryan, CEO of Ekkobar and Co-Creator of Scenechronize, praises it as a "great writing partner" that helps users build compelling stories collaboratively.

Joanna Popper  was most recently the Chief Metaverse Officer at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Based in Los Angeles, Popper led emerging technology and metaverse initiatives for the agency and its clients. Popper joined CAA in 2022 from HP, where she led its XR initiatives for Go-To-Market, overseeing the launch of award-winning technology, such as the HP Reverb G2 VR headset (winner of Red Dot Design Award, CES Innovation Award, IF Design Award) and HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition (winner of VR Hardware of the Year, Entertainment Technology Lumiere Award, Red Dot Best of the Best, CES Innovation Award, IF Design Award). While leading HP’s VR go-to-market, the business grew 10x to a multi-million dollar business. Previously, she was Executive Vice President of Media & Marketing at Singularity University, a NASA-based, Google-backed organization founded by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis to train leaders on the future of technology including artificial intelligence, VR/AR, robotics, blockchain, and digital biology. She was also the Vice President of Marketing at NBCUniversal, where she worked across properties, including television, film, digital, and parks, and launched top-rated hits in primetime, music award shows, sports, news, daytime, and more for Telemundo. She started her career as an investment banker in New York and Brazil and then a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She served as Executive Producer on BREONNA’S GARDEN, FINDING PANDORA X, and FIGHT BACK, the award-winning immersive content, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and SXSW. FINDING PANDORA X won Venice’s Golden Lion for Best Immersive Experience and SXSW’s best Virtual Cinema Award. BREONNA’s GARDEN received awards and recognition for social impact from PGA Innovation, Unity, Auggie, Filmgate, and Aurea. FIGHT BACK won an audience award at Venice. She was selected as “50 Women Can Change the World in Media and Entertainment,” ”25 Pioneers in the Metaverse,” “Top 50 Original Thinkers in VR,” “Top Women in Media: Game Changers,” “Top Women in Media: Industry Leaders,” “Digital It List,” and “101 Women Leading the VR Industry.” She has sat on numerous boards and in advisory roles including as Metaphysic Board Observer, the Coalition for the Women in XR Fund, Unity Charitable Fund Advisory Board, Vidcon Industry Advisory Board, AIXR Steering Committee and CES Consumer Technology Association AR/VR Working Committee. Popper graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s degree, and The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania with an MBA. 

Emily Golden, Head of Growth Marketing at Runway: Emily Golden has worked in a variety of roles over the past decade. In 2012, they began their career as a Wealth Management Intern at Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. In 2013, they moved on to BMO Capital Markets as a Sales and Trading Analyst. In 2015, they joined theSkimm as a Growth Partnerships & Sponsorship Sales. From 2018 to 2022, they worked at Grubhub in three different roles: Growth Marketing Manager, Virtual Restaurants; Sr. Associate, Virtual Restaurant Marketing; and Sr. Associate, Enterprise Marketing & Partnerships. Most recently, they joined Runway as the Head of Growth Marketing. Emily Golden obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) from the University of Notre Dame in the field of Finance, General. Emily also obtained a Series 63 certification from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in August 2013, as well as a Series 7 certification from the same institution in the same month.