Matthew Shimura

Matthew Shimura been a filmmaker for 17+ years, and his work has been featured on C-SPAN, at Tribeca, and at Cannes. Recently, he pivoted to AI filmmaking, winning awards at the Dreamforum.io Stable Diffusion Animation Competition and the Outside LLMs hackathon. He is the Executive Producer of AI Film and TV at Civitai where he be leads initiatives, such as competitions, incubators, and theatrical releases, to push AI filmmaking forward. One of his core missions right now is to help bring up the next generation of filmmakers.

​Barna Szász

Barna Szasz is an XR storyteller & filmmaker splitting his time between Budapest and San Francisco, interested in what XR can do for documentary and humanity. He is a graduate of Stanford University's MFA Documentary program where he also lectures on XR storytelling. Barna's documentary work has been acquired by The Guardian and PBS, Staff-Picked at Vimeo, screened at DOC NYC, DOK Leipzig, and other festivals. His XR projects have been part of IDFA & NewImages markets; as a CPH:LAB fellow he's developed Kvoldvaka, a multi-sensory AR doc that aims to redefine our relationship with nature, in the era of climate change, and If These Streets Could Talk, a pan-European site-specific interactive Mixed Reality experience that changes how we perceive our cities and - hopefully - AR storytelling in general.

Chantal Matar

​Chantal Matar is a Lebanese-British Architectural and Generative Designer, working at the intersection of mixed media and architecture. Chantal's work is deeply embedded in futurism and highly influenced by technology, nature, art, and media, and has been showcased internationally, including exhibitions at Galerie Fractal in Paris and the Venice Biennale's Italian Pavilion to name a few. Leveraging her deep understanding of architectural design and digital tools, she pioneers the integration of Artificial Intelligence to research and craft innovative and immersive spatial experiences.

I-Bei Lin

Dr. I-Bei Lin is Professor of Music for cello and chamber music at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Dr. Lin, a native of Taiwan, received her Doctor of Music degree with Honors and her Master of Music degree from Northwestern University. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree with Distinction from the Eastman School of Music. ​She has served as a principal cellist at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra in Germany and Denmark and the Tanglewood Young Artist Festival Orchestra in western Massachusetts. She performed with the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Japan under Christoph Eschenbach and Michael Tilson Thomas, and the New York String Seminar Orchestra in Carnegie Hall under Alexander Schneider.

Pat Pataranutaporn

Pat Pataranutaporn is a technologist and a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he explores human-AI interaction, human cognitive augmentation, synthetic virtual humans, and synthetic biology. Specifically, he focuses on the intersections between biological and digital systems. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Fluid Interfaces research group at the MIT Media Lab and a KBTG Fellow, working in collaboration with teams at NASA, NTT DATA, IBM, KBTG, UCSB, Stanford, and Harvard on advancing the future of human-computer interaction. Pat has also held a position as a researcher at the NASA SETI Frontier Development Lab.