Eric Shamlin, CEO, Secret Level and Co-Governor, Emerging Media Programming Peer Group, Television Academy: Eric Shamlin leads entertainment growth at Secret Level, where he heads up innovative partnerships with leading technology and entertainment brands. With a broad background in technology, visual effects and entertainment, Shamlin is pioneering the future of entertainment powered by digital, interactive and immersive technologies. Eric Shamlin is a two-time Emmy winner, 12-time Cannes Lion winner and 19-year member of the Television Academy where he holds seats on the Digital Strategy Committee, Interactive Media Peer Group and co-chairs the Experience Design Work Group.

Katya Alexander is a producer who specializes in Indie Filmmaking and new technology. Katya achieved critical acclaim with "Pretty Problems", a film that emerged as the SXSW 2024 audience winner and one of the top selections on Hulu. Beyond the silver screen, her involvement in Sphere, Las Vegas, underscores her commitment to supporting both tech teams and filmmakers, bridging the gap between innovation and storytelling. Now, Katya Alexander is the President of Pillars, an AI production studio that has the goal of putting these tools into the hands of creatives. As she embarks on her next ventures, Katya Alexander wants to create the entertainment that people want.

PJ Pereira is an industry veteran of over 20 years, known for co-founding independent award-winning creative agency, Pereira O’Dell. In 2023, PJ was also named Chief Creative Officer of independent agency network, Serviceplan Americas. Pereira is a pioneer in the marketing world, sitting at the intersection of tech, entertainment and advertising. His credentials have made him one of the industry's most influential and respected creatives. He’s been named to Adweek's Creative 100, Ad Age's Creativity 50, 4A's 100 People Who Make Advertising Great, and most recently, was named Adweek’s AI Champion of the Year for championing the ethical progression of AI in the advertising industry. PJ is passionate about the convergence of AI and creativity, which led him to co-found Silverside, an AI innovation and incubation lab that brings together AI startups and the world's leading brands to solve creative problems using AI. Outside of his work in advertising, PJ is a novelist of 12 years, and a martial artist with multiple black belts. In 2023, PJ released a novel called The Girl From Wudang, a novel about artificial intelligence, martial arts, and immortality.

Quinn Halleck is a director and thought leader at the forefront of the AI-powered revolution in both narrative and documentary genres. His newest short-film, “Sigma_001”, defines a new relationship between AI and independent filmmakers by employing AI as a collaborator across all aspects of the workflow. Quinn received mentorship from director/producer Michael Bay, known for his work in films like “Armageddon,” “Transformers,” and “Pearl Harbor.” Since his association with Bay, Quinn has packaged and produced documentaries alongside notable figures such as Mark Wahlberg, DJ Khaled, and Jeremy Irons.

Leslie Shannon, Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting, Nokia: Leslie entered the mobile communications world as a billing database analyst in the early 1990s. She joined Nokia Australia in 2000 and became the manager of the FutureLab, an early developer incubator in the days of WAP, GPRS and 3G. Building on her first-hand technical and business experience of the reality of bringing applications to market, she developed an analysis service for Nokia that examined success and failure factors for operators bringing mobile data to market for 4G that proved so successful that Nokia created a new department around her work. While in this role, she was based in Finland and worked with over 100 operators in more than 70 countries. Leslie relocated to Silicon Valley in 2015 and now focuses on identifying disruptions and opportunities for Nokia and its operator partners coming from outside the traditional telco world, particularly in the worlds of 5G, AR, VR, MR and the Spatial Internet. She is passionate not only about bringing strategic insight to Nokia and its customers, but also about introducing successful new paradigms from Silicon Valley to the telecommunications mindset, and continues to be a highly-regarded analyst and speaker. Born in Manhattan, Leslie has a BA in Psychology from the University of Virginia and a Master’s Degree in the History of Art from Yale University. She was an undefeated five-time champion in the American television game show “Jeopardy!” in 1992 and was invited to return to the show to compete in a tournament for one million dollars as one of the show’s “most memorable contestants” in 2002 and again in 2014. (She didn’t win, but still had a lot of fun.) She also got four questions away from willing a million dollars on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” in August 2017. Leslie lives in Santa Clara, California, with her husband and their two mobile-data enthusiast children.