Nadia Davari is a Los Angeles-based entertainment, sports, and technology attorney advising clients across film, television, music, fashion, brands and sponsors, content creator marketing, sports, and emerging technology. A frequent industry panelist and educator, she speaks at conferences, law schools, film festivals, and industry forums on the evolving legal landscape surrounding artificial intelligence, intellectual property, digital media, and entertainment law in the digital age. Her legal commentary and industry insights have been featured by PBS, KCRW, the USC Entertainment Law Institute, Wonder Women in Tech, and numerous entertainment and technology platforms. Nadia previously served on the faculty of the Los Angeles College of Music, where she taught music law. She earned her Juris Doctor from USC Gould School of Law and her Bachelor of Science in Molecular, Developmental Biology, and Genetics from University of California, Los Angeles.

Roy Samuelson has spent two decades ensuring blind and low-vision audiences fully experience the stories they watch. He works in Audio Description, the craft of translating everything a sighted viewer absorbs automatically: the dread before a door opens, the expression that gives away the lie, the background detail that matters three scenes later. With thousands of credits across Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, and other major studios, he understands what's at stake when a story has to stand entirely on its words. He created the Resonance Gap framework to name what goes wrong when AI-generated description misses the human intent behind a scene. When that happens, audiences who rely on Audio Description encounter the gap directly, and they remember when someone got it right. As founder of Parity Endeavors and creator of The Audio Description Network Alliance, Roy advises media executives on the real tradeoffs in human versus AI voice decisions to ensure that when a voice speaks, the audience believes it. He collaborated with the Television Academy to establish membership for Audio Description performers and collaborated with the SAG (Actor) Awards to require Audio Description in every nominated screener His book is A Voice Actor's Guide to Audio Description Performance. His argument is straightforward: if a story wasn't told honestly, the words will show it.

John Begakis, Partner, AltView Law Group, LLP: As a founding partner of AltView Legal Group, John has spent more than a decade working at the intersection of creators, media, and emerging business models—long before the broader industry fully recognized the creator economy as a dominant force. He began representing digital-native talent in the early YouTube and Vine era, helping structure deals for creators at a time when there was little formal infrastructure around them. That early work laid the foundation for what has now become a multi-billion-dollar ecosystem, where creators operate as IP owners, media brands, and full-scale businesses. Today, John advises a roster that includes creators and media platforms such as Zane Hijazi, Heath Hussar, Cherdleys, Nick Nayersina, Jake Webber, Pop Crave, and Daily Loud, and continues to structure complex deals across the evolving creator landscape—from podcast launches and platform partnerships to live events, IP licensing, and litigation. As the industry enters its next phase—defined by ownership, AI, and the convergence of digital and traditional media—John offers a unique perspective on the legal and business infrastructure driving that evolution.

Anthony Glukhov provides his clients with business and legal affairs expertise in nonfiction and scripted film and television series, podcasts, and short-form content, working with production companies like Boardwalk Pictures (Paul American, Chef’s Table, Welcome to Wrexham), Abu-Dhabi based Image Nation (Hokum, The Vile, Late Night with the Devil, Watcher), and Imagine Documentaries (Earnhardt), as well as independent directors, producers, writers, and other content creators. Glukhov’s breadth of experience allows him to be instrumental to solving the needs of his clients throughout various stages of projects from development, financing, production, and post-production to final delivery and distribution. Glukhov boasts expertise in utilizing artificial intelligence tools in content creation. Glukhov leads deal-making with emerging genAI tech at the content-production crossroads—innovating deal structures and negotiating with major studios and networks for groundbreaking yet-to-be-announced projects and collaborations with genAI foundational model technology providers like Adobe. Glukhov’s deep expertise and familiarity with the genAI tools driving this new wave of content bridges intellectual property law and creative technology guidance. Glukhov enables his clients to weave genAI tools into their production workflows in a way that empowers their creativity and enables them to deliver studio- and network-compliant deliverables.

Catherine Clinch, Veteran TV Writer, Hunter, Jake & the Fat Man, Love Boat, Hart to Hart: iOnce a stand-up regular at The Improv, The Comedy Store and The Playboy Club (where she was conspicuously overdressed) Catherine has written for some of television’s most popular network series including THE LOVE BOAT, HART TO HART, HUNTER, JAKE & THE FATMAN, KNIGHT RIDER, TRUE CONFESSIONS and TRANSFORMERS: RESCUE BOTS. In 2018, she created Stan Lee’s S.T.E.A.M. SQUAD for POW! Entertainment. Catherine has worked directly for a veritable who’s who of iconic television producers and executives, including Aaron Spelling, Fred Silverman, Alan Landsburg, Peter Roth, Kevin Reilly and Stephen J. Cannell, earning 26 produced credits in network television. She’s the former Associate Publisher of the print version of Creative Screenwriting Magazine and co-coordinator of the first five years of Screenwriting Expo. Looking for a new challenge, she expanded her scope into other forms of media such as marketing, technology, and mobile entertainment for which she has been awarded three technology patents. She’s also won five hackathons, including the AT&T Regionals two years in a row. Catherine wrote the story and created the art for a new graphic novel, A MILLENNIAL’S GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE, which she plans to release later this year. She dabbles in graphic design, teaches classes in Social Media Strategy and the Theory of Storytelling at local university campuses and has road-tripped through half the country. Currently, Catherine Chairs the WGAw Career Longevity Committee where she advocates for older writers to obtain equal access to the job market and equal opportunity for sustained professional growth. She is a frequent speaker at conferences in Nashville, Dallas, Orlando and Portland. Catherine is happily married with three sons.