Arts
Talented creative individuals working in the field of visual, auditory and performance arts
Anders Norås started out in arts and design, but for the last 25 years he has been creating magic with code instead of paint. Blending creativity with technical skill, he brings a perspective on technology that is as much about people as it is about ... Show more
Paul Chin Jr is a Hampton Roads native and a curious human. He is passionate about exploring technology, art, and business. He advocates for making technology accessible and growing communities to help one another. He has created new markets, guided ... Show more
Richard Plantt is a Microsoft MVP, UX designer, consultant, and Registered Graphic Designer (RGD) who is passionate about creating digital workplaces that are as thoughtful as they are functional. Richard works at the intersection of design, techn... Show more
Artiste plasticien, Architecte, UX Designer et enfin Coach Agile. Un parcours atypique, plusieurs pivotages dans ma vie m'ont porté à comprendre que c'est la valorisation de l'humain la plus grande des réalisations. Show more
Sahithya B A
Senior Software Engineer, Author, Public & Tech Speaker, MicroSaaS Product Builder, Writer, Poetess, Emcee / Host, Mentor, Digital Content Creator
Sahithya Balasubramaniam is a Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI Product Engineer, international tech speaker, author, and open-source contributor passionate about building technology that creates meaningful impact. She has delivered 25+ talks a... Show more
I have been passionate about development since I was very young, with over eight years of deep involvement in the cloud-native ecosystem. After applying my expertise at the highest levels of the French government, I joined Qim info as Head of the C... Show more
Chad Gerber is a 10x platinum and gold-selling artist, inventor, and founder of ShadowGen and Meloscene. As an artist, producer, and composer, Gerber has worked on projects across music, film, television, and interactive media. His background in s... Show more
Amanda Austin
Transforming organizations through improvisation, human-centered design, and organizational psychology.
Amanda thrives at the intersection of improvisation and organizational psychology to help transform organizations. She believes the vulnerability required to improvise and create something together on stage as a team can be translated to a profession... Show more
Ben Little is the DGCE Chair of Design Innovation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a Senior Lecturer at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, and an instructor at Harvard University’s Professional and Executive Development progr... Show more
Maurice Cherry is an award-winning creative leader, editorial strategist, and cultural producer whose work sits at the intersection of storytelling, technology, media, and design. For more than 25 years, he has built platforms, creative systems, and ... Show more
Hey, I’m Tejas. I’m technically a “computer engineer,” but I think of myself as a designer. Most of what I make lies somewhere between music, visuals and play. I've built systems where a MIDI keyboard can turn into a live visual performance. I use te... Show more
Ingeniera informática y diseñadora gráfica especializada en realidad aumentada y realidad mixta desde 2012. Ganadora de diferentes premios, como mejor Mejor App Española de XR 2017 o Mujer Innovadora TIC 2023. Actualmente soy Creative Technology M... Show more
Oyinkansola Onwuchekwa
AI Researcher and Engineer | PhD Researcher, University of Hull | Multilingual NLP and Responsible AI
Oyinkansola Onwuchekwa, also known as KKC, is an AI researcher and engineer completing a PhD in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Hull. Her research examines how language technologies handle multilingual and code-mixed tex... Show more
Ola Hungerford is a Principal Engineer supporting AI Enablement at Nordstrom, and a Maintainer and Community Lead for the Model Context Protocol. Her technical background spans over two decades, from early web platforms to personalization systems, en... Show more
I’m the founder of the Maker Counterculture initiative, exploring the intersection of technology, subversion, and creative resistance. My work focuses on TinyML prototypes and LLM projects, pushing the boundaries of AI and embedded systems. I’ve b... Show more
Youvna began writing thought pieces on sustainable design, diversity, and inclusivity while they were still a young design student trying to find their colours. They completed their BDes program in Humanising Technology from NMIMS, Mumbai, and curren... Show more
Stelvin Saji
Featured in Thinkers360 Top 50 in Design Thinking & Generative AI 2026 and Top Voices APAC 2026 | Founder of MorphAI & Serenity | Author | Full-stack Developer building AI experiences
I’m a Full-Stack Developer with 2+ years of experience building high-performance, pixel-perfect web applications that combine engineering precision with creative expression. I specialize in developing responsive, scalable systems with a strong focus ... Show more
Salvatore Contino
Founder & CEO at Animora · Cursor Ambassador · Microsoft Developer Insider · Startup Geeks mentor
I build Typewrite, a writing environment that treats a screenplay as structured data — a graph of scenes, characters and relations — instead of a text document. Most of my engineering time goes into the two hard parts: a page engine written from scra... Show more
I am an information architect training in the skill of improvisation. For nearly two decades I've helped large organization(s) design digital products by focusing on outcomes and people. I am an artist at heart, but a problem solver by day. I want to... Show more
I'm a comic artist from Toronto who draws a lot of gay positive comics, and self publish my work! I'm also the suiter of MarshmallowMaw! Show more
Rob Shanahan is a keynote speaker, Photographer to the Rock Stars, professional musician, author, entrepreneur, and creator of The ICONS Blueprint™. For more than 30 years, Rob has worked alongside many of the world’s biggest music icons, includin... Show more
Démarrant ma carrière en tant que développeur web, je me suis rapidement spécialisé dans l’univers Ruby on Rails. Entrepreneur dans l’âme, il y a dizaine d’années, j’ai créé Human Coders (https://www.humancoders.com/), un centre de formation pour dév... Show more
Ashley René is the founder of Presence Over Pixels® and a keynote speaker who helps organizations solve their biggest workplace challenge: keeping humans engaged and productive in an AI-driven world. A former senior leader at Amazon and BNSF Railway,... Show more
Ryan Moore and his crew at the Moore Creative Company enjoy helping others with their DNN solutions. Whether partnering with other agencies or working with end-clients, Ryan is found teaching, training and "diving in to the good stuff," like DNN upgr... Show more
Amadou Sall Gueye
LYCS (Love Your CustomeRs) - Marketing Team: Full-Stack Developer & Aspiring Consultant - Software Engineering Student, Aspiring Speaker & Personal Development Coach
I am a Computer Engineering student and a member of the marketing team at LYCS. In this role, I am actively engaging with the world of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), specifically technologies like Salesforce and Marketing Cloud, by blending ... Show more
Lena Chen (she/her) is an artist and Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Her scholarship examines the figure of the Asian America woman as (Tiger) Mother and Whore. Her... Show more
Anton Licht is a game designer and developer with 15 years in the industry, and CEO and Co-Founder of Sudden Forest. He has worked at Wooga, King, and 5th Planet Games, with credits including June's Journey or recent contributions to Vampire Therapis... Show more
Fredrik is a software architect thriving in the borderland between software-, product- and business development. He has written code in Visual Basic. The non-.NET kind. He is an occasional conference speaker (DevSum, Øredev and user groups in Sweden ... Show more
Valerija je inženjerka tekstilne tehnologije. Čita SF i fantasy oduvijek i jedan od hobija je obilazak konvencija po Hrvatskoj i svijetu. Kreativne radionice održava s ciljem upoznavanje djece i odraslih sa novim materijalima i ostalim zanimljivost... Show more
Erich Archer is a filmmaker and the founder of CGA Creative. He speaks about what people and organizations can now make with AI that could not be made before. His talks are built on finished work he has produced with AI, including films, data-driven ... Show more
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