
Puneet Kaur Ahira
Special Advisor to Megan Smith - U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to President Obama.

Thomas Albright
Director, Vision Center Laboratory and Conrad T. Prebys Chair in Vision Research, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Steve Anderson
Associate Professor + Founding Director of the Ph.D. program in Media Arts + Practice USC School of Cinematic Arts, Author

Karl Baumann
Media Artist/Theorist; PhD Candidate, Media Arts + Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts

Botond Bognar
Ambassador of Singularity University to Hungary and the Founding Director of Singularity University's Summit Europe

Biayna Bogosian
Architect / Co-Founder of Somewhere Something / PhD Candidate in Media Arts + Practice (iMAP) at USC School of Cinematic Arts

Stewart Brand
Futurist, Co-Founder and President of The Long Now Foundation, Co-Founder, Global Business Network, Author

Michael J. Brown
Architect, Co-Founder of NAU, Co-Founder of Studio Digital-Analog, University of Fine Arts, Berlin

Kevin Carpenter
Operations Manager, Director of Hardware Development, Systems and Design Engineer, Kumotek Robotics

Juan DiazB
European Director World Building Institute; Creative Director Kosmology; Director, Writer, Narrative Designer

Evan Douglis
Architect, Designer, Principal Evan Douglis Studio, Chair of Undergraduate School of Architecture, Pratt Institute

Dr. Sylvia Earle
Marine Biologist, Ocean Explorer, Author, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society

Mike Fink
President, Visual Effects Worldwide, Prime Focus Ltd. CEO, Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Prime Focus VFX North America

Caitlin Fisher
Co-Founder, Future Cinema Lab, Director, York Augmented Reality Lab, Research Chair in Digital Culture, Yok University, Toronto

Scott Fisher
Associate Dean, Research
Professor & Founding Chair, Interactive Media Division
USC School of Cinematic Arts

Aroussiak Gabrielian
Director, foreground design agency, Doctoral candidate, USC School Cinematic Arts (iMAP)

Malcolm Garrett RDI FISTD
Graphic Interaction Designer, Creative Director, Images&Co, Deputy Master, Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry

Sergei Gepshtein
Scientist, Director of Collaboratory for Adaptive Sensory Technologies, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Howard Goldkrand
Head of Innovation Design for the global digital media creative agency SapientNitro

Perry Hoberman
Associate Research Professor in the Interactive Media Division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts

Henry Jenkins
Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education USC, Transmedia Scholar

Kilian Kleinschmidt
Global Networker and Humanitarian Expert - Founder and Chairman Innovation and Planning Agency

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Professor of Media Arts and Technology and of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara

Neil Leach
Architectural Theorist. Professor, European Graduate School. Visiting Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Richard Lemarchand
Game Designer, Visiting Associate Professor, Interactive Media Division, School of Cinematic Arts, USC

Thomas Evan Levy
Distinguished Professor; Director, UC San Diego Levantine and Cyber-Archaeology Lab, Qualcomm Institute

Greg Lynn
Architect, Founder GregLynn FORM Studio, Professor, Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles

Frank Lyons
Professor of Music and Associate Dean of Research and Impact in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulster University

Donald Marinelli
Executive Vice President at Vissman Management, Co-Founder Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University

Alex McDowell RDI
Creative Director, experimental.design; Professor, USC SCA; Director, World Building Media Lab, World Building Institute

Andrew McGregor
CEO of SymbioBotics, CEO of Graphation Comics, Founder and King of LA Chessboxing, Co-Founder of GoodBAR

David Morin
Chair, Joint Technology Subcommittee on Virtual Production Chair, Autodesk Film CTO Advisory Council

Siobhan O’Flynn PhD
Principal, NarrativeNow, Co-Founder of PlusCity Design, Co-Creator for TMC Resouce Kit, Educator in Transmedia

Ken Perlin
Professor of Computer Science, NYU Media Research Lab; Director, NYU Games for Learning Institute

Luis Rivero
Advertising Creative, 3D Visual Effects Supervisor, Architect, CEO and Founder, Urbansimulations & Invisible Corp.

Scott Robertson
Concept Designer, Author, Program Director of Entertainment Design, Art Center College of Design

Dr. Mark Sagar
Director - Laboratory Animate Technologies, Laboratory for Animate Technologies, Auckland Bioengineering Institute

Christine Schreyer
Assistant Professor - Anthropology Programme Community, Culture and Global Studies Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences

Chanel Summers
Co-Founder, Syndicate 17; Adjunct Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Interactive Media Division; Sound Designer; Composer

Mary Sweeney
Vice President of the Board of the Desert Biennial, slated for 2017 in the Coachella Valley

Amanda Tasse
Transmedia Designer, Poetic Science Studio, PhD Candidate Media Arts + Practices, USC School of Cinematic Arts

Peter Torpey
Doctoral Candidate, Center for Future Storytelling Fellow, Opera of the Future, MIT Media Lab

Glen Ward
A Music, Entertainment and Arts Crusader, Advisory Board Member, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach

Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Chair, Digital Art and New Media at UC Santa Cruz

Jeff Watson
Artist, Designer, Storyteller, and Assistant Professor of Digital Futures, OCAD University

Daniel Wheeler
Multi-Media Artist, Advisory Board, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach