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Eran is a Creative Technology Director and Regional Leader of Gensler's Digital Experience Design (DXD) practice. Over the past two decades, he has blended his background as a musician and broadcast engineer with a passion for spatial computing to design immersive, interactive environments. From museums to workplaces, Eran bridges the gap between design and construction to translate complex technical concepts into compelling, human-centric experiences.

Raul Leiva is a Creative Technologist at AVI-SPL's XTG in London, working on experiential AV concepts across corporate, cultural and immersive environments. He spent over 25 years in museums and cultural institutions, most recently at Royal Museums Greenwich, before moving into commercial AV in 2026. He holds an MA in Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture from the University of Westminster, has published on accessibility in museum design, and teaches a design thinking and accessibility workshop for MA Museum students at Westminster. His work focuses on bringing participatory, visitor centred design principles from the museum world into experiential technology projects.

WIth a background as a VJ, content and workflowdesigner for the live event industry, Maarten is currently cloning himself as a maker in a 4 year PhD trajectory at VUB Brussels: "AI in live entertainment and broadcast". Focussing on local, open-source agentic workflows for content generation and show control.

Mat Hale is a Creative Director and Founder of Image 8 Nineteen (IMG819). Over three decades, he has worked across animation, games, broadcast, live entertainment, experiential, and real-time production. Mat came up through the work and grew into leading teams, solving complex creative problems, and getting ambitious ideas into the real world. Many of those opportunities began the same way: “Call Mat.”

Ivan Solod is a media artist, creative director and founder of hilights.studio, a multidisciplinary new media collective. Working across immersive installations, projection, motion design and interactive environments, he brings together artists, designers and programmers to create experiences that use technology as an emotional and spatial medium. With more than a decade of experience in computer graphics and media design, Ivan's practice coalesces artistic direction and production, combining technical precision with a strong interest in perception, atmosphere and the viewer's embodied response. He develops works that often transform space into a field of light, sound and sensory tension, exploring how immersive media can unsettle the mundane, heighten attention and open a more affective encounter with the world.

Victor Lander is a creative director and co-founder of Lightscape Ventures, an artistic collective working at the intersection of art, multimedia technology and experience design. With more than 20 years in creative industries, Victor develops and curates cultural experiences for public spaces, destinations and events bringing together artists, designers, architects and technologists. His work spans immersive installations, multimedia art and cultural placemaking, with projects across Europe and the Middle East. He is also the creator of Magic Memory as Experience Design, an ongoing research project exploring how the ancient art of memory and Renaissance magic practices can inform contemporary experience design.

Harshini J. Karunaratne (they/she) is a Sri Lankan-Peruvian digital artist and new media curator working at the intersections of film, theatre and technology. Harshini graduated in Film & New Media and Theater from New York University Abu Dhabi in 2018 and in 2021 migrated to Berlin to pursue their Masters in New Media Design. Harshini has had their work shown in the UAE, Italy, Germany, Japan, at the FILE Festival in Sao Paulo, Burning Man in Nevada, the Athens Digital Art Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima, and at Art Dubai Digital. They have also moderated panels and spoken at The NODE Institute, UDK Berlin, Humboldt University, Art Dubai, and transmediale 2026. Based between Berlin and the UK, Harshini is the co-founder and lead curator for MANIFEST:IO, a symposium for new media and electronic art that launched in Berlin in February 2023, and also co-founded Berlin New Media Week in 2025. Dedicated to creating platforms for artists and amplifying new media and creative technology, Harshini is the founder and CEO of 3AM:ENERGY, a Berlin-based creative talent agency serving the intersections of art, technology and culture.

Lauren is a UX/UI Designer at 7thSense. She was drawn to the AV industry through a love of experience making and an interest in creative technology. Lauren has previously worked as a creative producer specialising in museums and heritage venues, UK festivals and nightlife venues. She now works on the product team at 7thSense designing their latest Media Server product. Her work also involves creating magical immersive experiences with Shotgun Carousel and other London based experience makers.

Twenty years at the intersection of digital experience design, brand strategy, and applied behavioral psychology has given Jenny a specific kind of pattern recognition: she sees the thousand micro-adjustments that turn creative vision into work people actually remember, and tension into the conditions where bold ideas don't die in committee. She leads with agency, clarity, and trust — creating the environments where enthusiastic curiosity replaces fear and the best work becomes inevitable.

Michael Al-Far is a Belgian-British Creative Director, Experience Architect and technology consultant. Founder of Malfmedia and co-founder of Virtual Innovation Partners. He works across Virtual Production, immersive experiences and live entertainment, connecting storytelling, real-time technology and complex AV systems to turn ambitious creative ideas into reality.

With a career that could best be described as varied, Dan found his way into venue and technical consultancy through concert touring, the Defence sector, and regional and West End theatre. Since starting Raven AV, this has coalesced into providing consultancy and commissioning services for all segments of the entertainment industry, with a particular focus on the “Megaprojects” of Saudi Arabia. With an enduring love of audio as a primary discipline, he works as a technical designer across the full spectrum of AVLM, with a particular focus on complex spatial audio and show control.

Caroline Moore Hinrichs is a growth strategist, facilitator, and connector working across architecture, design, media, technology, and the built environment. As founder of Moore Growth Studio, she helps experience-led companies clarify their position, build meaningful partnerships, and bring ambitious ideas to market. Her work bridges creative, technical, and commercial perspectives, with a particular interest in how media becomes part of place—shaping attention, movement, meaning, and the ongoing life of a building. A frequent moderator, Caroline brings different disciplines into conversation to surface sharper questions and new possibilities.

At Epic Games, Heather Fuller spent years producing for industry relations in film and television, and then building and leading the Unreal Engine Service Partner Program, spanning 127 games, film, live events, architecture, and other industry studios using UE workflows. She is now co-founder and CCO of an unannounced game studio partnering with a major music label on a UEFN island, proving in game activation and fan conversion.

As co-founder of FRAY, Adam's interest in live shows began with a childhood back stage visit. His work as a video designer now spans arenas, museums, and opera houses. He works in a collaborative process, treating video as one element that sits seamlessly alongside set, lighting, and sound to create a single image. Having designed live shows for artists including Joji, Chase & Status, Foals, Glass Animals, and Coldplay, he regularly directs large teams to test new technologies and expand the creative limits of live music.

Florian Mosleh is a creative technologist and media-server programmer who has spent over two decades working on productions across nearly every corner of the field: arena tours, Broadway theater, broadcast television, VP, AR, and art installations that range from temporary museum pieces to permanent works at historic landmarks. He came to the work through music and digital art before learning the crafts of media-server and shader programming. His practice has always been aimed at the same goal: the elegant structure underneath a complex show, so the technology gets out of the way and the art can move. Lately that has widened into a question he keeps circling: the shapes we all reinvent to program a show, and the shared language the field has never quite had for them. That question is what he brings to frame:work.

Catherine Minervini is Studio Director and Partner at Image 8 Nineteen (IMG819), where she leads business development, marketing, strategy, and studio operations. A Moore College of Art & Design graduate, her career has evolved from interior design through marketing, brand leadership, consulting, and creative strategy. Along the way, relationships, collaboration, and trust have been the throughline connecting one opportunity to the next.

Zoltan is an award-winning, PRINCE2-certified producer with over 15 years of international experience across CG animation, Virtual Production, XR, VFX, and AI. He has worked in Europe, Australia, and the US with studios including Digic Pictures, Rotor Studios, and S1T2, and most recently produced and taught at Cradle, the R&D lab of Breda University of Applied Sciences, leading projects in real-time technology, AI, virtual humans, and immersive media. His work has included EU-funded initiatives such as AVENUE Cove, the Virtual Production Studio Network, and Paneurama, which align education with industry needs in the creative sectors. He speaks regularly at conferences including FMX, Cannes, Annecy, MIA, VIEW, and VAF. A graduate of the Epic Games Unreal Fellowship in Storytelling, he also founded realtime.solutions, a curated platform tracking developments in real-time and Virtual Production technology.

As co-founder of FRAY, Finn began exploring video design in the early 2000s with companies like Complicite and the English National Opera. His designs have since been staged globally, including runs on Broadway, the West End, and at The Met. He shares a unified philosophy on integration, ensuring video sits naturally within the physical and sonic environment of a show. His focus is firmly on live music and theatre, where he leads large, multidisciplinary teams to unite new technologies and push what video can achieve on stage.

Sundar Raman is a Creative Engineer. He is the co-founder and CTO of the innovative Experience Design firm PRESENT (NowPresent.co). Sundar was the Director of Technology at the Museum of the Future in Dubai, from Oct 2019 to Dec 2024, and Director of Technology at Local Projects, New York from 2011 to 2019. Sundar's background includes community media, Internet telephony, social gaming, and interactive experience design. Sundar believes that technology is a facilitator for art and user experience, and that it should be easy and fun for everyone. Sundar is currently making "bi-directional interactive environments," which allow visitors to engage in active dialog with immersive spaces.

Tupac Martir is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work redefines the boundaries of lighting design, performative reality, and the integration of cutting-edge technology across music, theatre, fashion, opera, and immersive exhibitions. With over two decades of experience at the intersection of technology, science, and art, Tupac’s recent practice explores the creative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs), Virtual Reality (VR), and Virtual Production (VP). His pioneering projects, Unique and Cadence of Altered Illusions (CAI), which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the summer of 2026, seamlessly merge entertainment, media, and the visual arts. In both works, Tupac explores narrative technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Extended Reality (XR), to enable real-time content adaptation in live performance. Cadence of Altered Illusions (CAI) is the culmination of a two-year collaboration with the European Union's Transmixr research project, contributing to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Extended Reality (XR) tools for digital media production and audience experiences. In 2024, Tupac received the Profile Award for Outstanding Achievement in Innovation for his lighting design on Find Your Eyes, the acclaimed work by British choreo-photolist Benji Reid. His expertise also extended to the Virtual Production team for Amazon Prime Video's Fallout, which received widespread critical acclaim and won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2024.

Sergei Ivanchuk is a motion designer, art director, educator and co-founder of Lightscape Ventures, an artistic collective. His practice spans motion design, immersive arts and large-scale multimedia experiences, with a particular focus on how moving image can transform architecture and physical space. Alongside his creative practice, Sergei teaches and develops professional education in motion design and immersive media.

With 30+ years’ experience across lighting, video and creative technology, Nigel’s early experimentation with video projection helped lead to the creation of Green Hippo’s Hippotizer media server. He spent more than two decades helping develop Green Hippo and advance media server technology worldwide, and today works with HIVE Media Control on ambitious immersive and large-scale video projects.

Peter leads the Innovation team at Disguise, driving improved workflows for production teams working across live and immersive entertainment. Actively defining and executing the company’s innovation strategy around AI, web technologies and spatial computing, Peter works at the intersection of product, R&D and engineering to introduce new integrations and tools across Disguise software. Since joining the team in 2015, Peter has helped bring some of the biggest AV systems in the world to life, including Dubai’s Al Wasl Plaza, the Illuminarium, and U2’s concert on the world’s biggest indoor LED screen at the Sphere in Las Vegas.

Greg Schlechter is a technologist with more than 25 years of experience across IT, embedded computing, and networking. He began his career at Intel working on Pentium-based PC systems and has since contributed to numerous technology initiatives as computing evolved from personal computers to distributed and edge-based systems. Most recently, he led time-coordinated computing and time-sensitive networking initiatives at the intersection of compute, industrial automation and professional AV industries including industry standards. Greg now consults and advises companies and organizations on technology strategy, architecture, and ecosystem development.

Miriam Agrell is a partner at The Fraction Collective, helping accidental entrepreneurs in live events and creative production answer "What's Next?" With over thirty years of experience, from theater to agency CEO, Miriam has scaled organizations and led them through acquisitions and ownership transitions. She's grounded in the core belief that with the right support and clear options, agencies can grow and thrive long past their founders.

Michael Luck Schneider is the Director of The Periphery Center, a living culture lab exploring technology, space, and ritual. An expert in spatial computing, he previously served as CEO of Volvox Labs, led Media Architecture Products at Gensler DXD, and was Creative Tech Director at ESI Design. He also spent two years in South Korea apprenticing under a master of traditional folk singing.

Rafa Roeder is a cybernetic artist and creative technologist based in London. She works across performance, DIY electronics, installation and moving image. Her practice reworks the ways people relate to the technological and narrative systems shaping their lives. She has shown at MUTEK, Somerset House, MACBA, and CTM, and holds an MFA in Computational Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London.