Eímear Noone is a Los Angeles/Dublin-based conductor and award-winning Irish composer, composing extensively for film and video games. As one of the world’s premier composers of games scores, Eímear is responsible for some of the most enduring soundscapes on World of Warcraft and other best-selling video games. Through her music on World of Warcraft, Eímear’s music has reached over a 100 million people and continually inspired players to invent and build new worlds for nearly fifteen years. Her composition portfolio of over thirty film and video-game titles have received multiple industry accolades including the Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Video Game Score. Recently, Eímear composed the score for the Channel 5’s drama series Maxine and the new production by Stephen Fry based on Oscar Wilde’s short story The Canterville Ghost. She is also currently working on further film and television scores, as well as a new video game score to be release in late 2023 and 2024. Eímear composed the score for the animated feature film Two by Two: Overboard which topped the UK Box Office in October 2020 and earned her an Ivor Novello nomination for Best Original Film Score, and is currently working on various other global film, TV, animation and game soundtracks. She has also worked on film scores for directors such as Gus Van Sant and Joe Dante, orchestrating for Oscar nominee Javier Navarrette (composer of Pan’s Labyrinth) creating haunting music for thrillers Mirrors and The Hole. Alongside composing, Eímear conducts orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, amongst others. She was chosen by Nintendo to conduct the first ever 3D filming of a game score and has recorded game scores for Sony Interactive. She has also toured as a conductor with The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, a full four-movement symphony created from the themes from this iconic video game. Eímear was invited to conduct on the 25th Anniversary recording, which set industry records for soundtrack sales. 

Diaa El All, Founder & CEO, Soundful: Diaa El All has dedicated his career to stewarding digital and technology solutions building brands that leverage and refine digital offerings. Diaa combined his deep talent and love of music production with disruptive technology to pioneer Soundful, with the goal of giving artists and creators the tools to create studio-quality tracks regardless of their experience level. Prior to founding Soundful, Diaa was a partner in digital marketing agency, Smartboost.

Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic: Known throughout entertainment and technology as a super connector, media technology evangelist and futurist, Ted Cohen is the Managing Partner of TAG Strategic, a digital entertainment technology consultancy based in Los Angeles. Ted previously served as SVP-Digital for EMI Music, Cohen led global digital business development for this iconic label and was instrumental in crafting the licensing agreements upon which the iTunes Store and Rhapsody/Napster music subscription services were built. During that time, EMI led the industry by embracing and exploiting new tech and business models such as digital downloads and streaming music subscriptions, wireless services, hi-definition audio and Internet radio. Prior to EMI, Cohen co-founded and chaired the groundbreaking Webnoize conferences. Ted also led Consulting Adults, with clients such as Universal Studios, Amazon.com, Microsoft, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio and Napster. Cohen also had senior positions at both Warner Brothers and Philips Electronics. A 40+ year entertainment media industry veteran, Cohen conceived, created & chaired MidemNet and also served on the Grammy LA Board of Governors and Grammy National Trustee Board. Additionally, Cohen served as Chairman of Mobile Entertainment Forum America, and on the board of Mouse.org, an innovative computer literacy program. In 2013, Ted received the NARM Presidential Award, previously awarded to Ahmet Ertegun and Dick Clark, among others. Ted continually looks for the next innovative technology and his next challenge, he really loves his life.

Phil Quist is a Music and Emerging Tech Agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Quist represents and has helped sign many of the world’s leading musicians, including Tate McRae, The Chainsmokers, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, 3LAU, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Mark Tuan, and Maggie Lindemann, among others. His clients in the burgeoning AI / Emerging Tech space include Daniel Allan, Futureverse, LandVault, HUME, Micah Johnson, among others. Additionally, he serves as an investor at Connect Ventures, an investment partnership between CAA and global venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with a focus on early-stage consumer-focused businesses. He is an active member of the music community serving as the head of MusiCares Foundation’s Young Ambassadors Board, where he organizes fundraising events geared towards raising awareness of MusiCares, which has distributed more than $100 million dollars since its inception in 1989. He also served as a board member for the Forbes Under 30 community, serves on the Music Industry Advisory Board for Save The Music Foundation, which helps provide music instruments and education to schools in underrepresented areas, and serves on the Advisory Board for Harlem Lacrosse. Quist was named to Variety’s “Assistants to Watch” list in 2015, and to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list in the Music category in 2018. In 2019, he was honored on Billboard’s Dance Power Players list, and was a Pollstar Impact 50 honoree in 2021. In 2023, he was named to Billboard’s Top Music Tech Investors list. Quist graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in Finance.

Martin Clancy is an IRC Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Humanities, Trinity College Dublin and a renowned Irish musician, academic, and industry consultant. He is the Founder Chair of the IEEE Global AI Ethics Arts Committee. His research on AI in music has been published in the IEEE Journal and has a book by Routledge UK, “Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem”. Martin is a Certified Ableton Live 11 Trainer and has delivered lectures on Ableton, music creativity, and industry practices at esteemed institutions such as KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Queen Mary University of London, and University College Dublin. As a solo recording artist, Martin achieved a series of Top 20 disco hits in the US Billboard Dance Charts during his residency at New York’s Seaport Music Festival from 2009 to 2011. His techno group, Valleraphon, often appears on the Beatport charts. Martin was also a founding member of the Irish group In Tua Nua and had his first song “Take My Hand” featuring Sinead O’Connor, included in the 2022 documentary “Nothing Compares”. Martin is well-regarded in the industry, serving as Jack Lukeman’s manager and working as a consultant to the international music industry. Recent media include The New York Times, Wired, BBC, Irish Times, Daily Mail, Sean Moncrief Show, NoMoreWorkHorse, Dave Fanning 2FM, Hot Press, Daily Mirror, FM104, Daily Star and LifeWire.com.