Ellen L. Weintraub (@EllenLWeintraub) has served as a commissioner on the U.S. Federal Election Commission since 2002 and chaired it for the third time in 2019.

During her tenure, Weintraub has served as a consistent voice for meaningful campaign-finance law enforcement and robust disclosure. She believes that strong and fair regulation of money in politics is important to prevent corruption and maintain the faith of the American people in their democracy. Weintraub sounded the alarm early–and continues to do so–regarding the potential for corporate and “dark-money” spending to become a vehicle for foreign influence in our elections. She has published articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and leading law reviews and is a frequent speaker on news shows and at conferences at home and abroad. Weintraub is a native New Yorker with degrees from Yale College and Harvard Law School. Prior to her appointment to the FEC, Weintraub was Of Counsel to the Political Law Group of Perkins Coie LLP and Counsel to the House Ethics Committee.

Lisa Oratz has more than 35 years of experience representing clients at the various intersections of technology, intellectual property (IP), and entertainment law. She currently serves as the co-lead of the firm’s Film & Television industry group. Her practice involves product counseling work for clients, with a focus on IP matters, content liability, and privacy and regulatory compliance. Lisa also routinely helps clients with drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts (including development agreements), collaboration and strategic partnership agreements, master services agreements, and license agreements. She devotes much of her practice to emerging technologies and is known for her innovative work on legal issues involving artificial intelligence (AI). This includes extensive work in the area of generative AI, including product counseling and developing IP protection and risk mitigation strategies. Lisa counsels clients regarding the clearance, protection, and licensing of copyrights, trademarks, right of publicity, and other IP rights, and assists clients with obtaining, maintaining, and enforcing copyright and trademark rights and registrations. She works with technology, digital media, AI, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), and traditional companies on a broad range of topics including privacy, name image and likeness, content liability, social media issues, site terms, and contracts. Lisa also represents artists, athletes, authors, and musicians as well as game developers, AR/VR platforms, sports teams, publishers, and individuals on a wide variety of entertainment, sports, and marketing-related matters. Lisa works with a wide variety of clients, ranging from small, cutting-edge startups to Fortune 500 companies and other industry leaders. Representative clients include Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Adobe Systems, Nintendo of America, Magic Leap, The Seattle Mariners, and The Seattle Storm. She is a frequent writer and speaker on IP, licensing, and contracting issues relating to AI and has presented on these topics before major technology companies and leading legal organizations such as the American Bar Association (ABA).

Albhy Galuten, Senior Fellow, Intertrust Technologies: Founder & CEO, Agora Media/Senior Fellow, Technology Initiatives, Intertrust/Grammy Award Winning Producer-Songwriter/Technology Executive/Inventor/ Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, Albhy Galuten is an American technology executive and futurist, and a Grammy Award-winning record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator, and conductor. He has numerous inventions and has produced 13 number one hits with singles and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies. He has been nominated for seven and won two Grammy Awards, a Dramalogue award and a BMI award and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His productions include the Bee Gees, Eric Clapton, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand, Rita Coolidge, Jellyfish, and more. As an innovator, Galuten invented the first drum loop for Saturday Night Fever. The technique was shown to Toto who used it for the song Africa. Drum loops are now part of the basic fabric of today’s recorded music. After inventing the Enhanced CD, Galuten went to work as a Vice President at Ion where the technology was refined and brought to major labels for releases by groups as diverse as Alice in Chains, Keb' Mo', No Doubt, and Sarah McLachlan. After working at Ion, Galuten went to Universal Music Group where he established the first technology/business development division at a major record label, eventually growing to a 45-member team. After Universal Music Group, Galuten was an executive for 15 years at Sony Corporation of America and Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation). Galuten has 9 issued patents.

Danielle Van Lier is senior assistant general counsel, contracts and compliance at SAG-AFTRA where she is responsible for managing SAG-AFTRA’s third-party contracts and intellectual property, as well as other efforts aimed at protecting the rights of SAG-AFTRA and its members. Van Lier has written several amicus curiae briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the California Supreme Court rights of publicity, copyright, and other issues impacting the entertainment industry. She is an adjunct professor at Southwestern Law School where she has taught courses on the Entertainment Guilds and Trademark Law and she previously taught Sports Law and Entertainment Law at Western State College of Law. She is a sought-after speaker and has spoken to global audiences on topics such as deepfakes, rights of publicity, copyright, and the entertainment guilds. Van Lier earned her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. She has a B.A. in Japanese Language, Literature and Cultural Studies from UC Santa Barbara. In 2019, she earned an LL.M with merit in innovation, technology and the law through University of Edinburgh. She is currently pursuing an MBA through Oxford Brookes University.

Santiago Lyon, Content Authenticity Initiative, Adobe: Santiago Lyon is the Head of Advocacy and Education for the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative, working to combat misinformation through digital content provenance. He has more than 35 years of experience in photography as an award-winning photojournalist, photo editor, media executive and educator. As a photographer for Reuters and the Associated Press, he won multiple photojournalism awards for his coverage of 8 wars around the globe between 1989 and 1999. In 2003, he was a Nieman Fellow in journalism at Harvard University before being named VP/Director of Photography at the Associated Press, a position he held until 2016. Under his direction, the AP won three Pulitzer Prizes for photography as well as multiple other major photojournalism awards around the world. He was Chair of the Jury for the 2013 World Press Photo contest. Santiago serves on the boards of directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop and the VII Foundation. He also teaches regularly at the International Center of Photography in New York..