Tommy Petrov, a Tech Creative Director and artist, was born in Crimea, Ukraine. He has a rich educational background thanks to multiple scholarships that enabled him to study in Israel. He holds Fine and Applied Arts degrees from the Ukrainian Academy of Printing and a BA in Visual Communication from the Holon Institute of Technology. Artem’s career journey includes building his own successful communication agency, servicing accounts of Fortune 500 clients, and serving as Creative Director at Snap Inc, where he played a crucial role in launching the Spectacles AR glasses for Creators. He later joined Meta as a Tech Creative Director, building experiences and products for Mixed Reality, further expanding his expertise in the tech industry. He founded and led an AdTech business for a decade, collaborating with names like Disney and L'Oreal and launching products that led to multimillion-dollar exits. Made an exit in his first business and moved to the US! Artem was the CPO and co-founder of GetGen.ai, a platform that offers seamless and secure access to Generative AI models for enterprise clients. He is currently Co-founder and CEO at CopySight AI. CopySight AI’s Mission: to revolutionize the IP review process for AI-generated content, clearing the way for creativity. The company builds IP scoring models for AI-generated content and develops a service for licensing AI-generated content for commercial use. "

Dan Neely, Co-Founder and CEO of Vermillio: With Vermillio, artists, actors, musicians, studios, and more can track and authenticate the use of their IP — including their likenesses — in generative AI content, enabling fair credit and compensation for their work and control of how it is used by others. Vermillio recently announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with talent agency WME to protect clients from IP theft and give them the opportunity to monetize their image and likeness by securely licensing their data. Alongside Sony and Legacy Recordings, Vermillio collaborated with The Orb and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd to develop a project where fans “remixed” their album and created original artwork. They also launched a Spider-Verse engine with Sony where fans created their own unique digital version of themselves in the animation style of the Spider-Verse artists. Vermillio’s Authenticated AI opens doors for creators to offer fans opportunities to safely engage with their IP in new and immersive ways. Before Vermillio, Dan Neely founded and served as the CEO of Networked Insights, a machine learning software company that was backed by Goldman Sachs and acquired in 2017. He has spent the better part of the last two decades building companies that use technology to disrupt the status quo, including Scient, a former internet-based consulting company, and Deloitte’s E-surance, the first online insurance company.

Kirthiga Reddy brings over twenty years of experience leading technology-driven transformations to her role as Co-founder & CEO, Virtualness. She is Founding Investment Partner of F7 seed fund. She serves on the Board of Directors for WeWork and Pear. Previously, she was the first female Investing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), manager of the $100B+ SoftBank Vision Fund. At SBIA, Kirthiga focused on frontier, enterprise and health tech investments and managed a portfolio of $5B+. She served on the Board of Directors for Collective Health and Fungible. She also served on the Investment Committee for Emerge, global accelerator for brilliant companies led by underrepresented founders. Prior to SBIA, she was Managing Director, Facebook India and South Asia for over six years, starting as their first employee in India. Her subsequent experiences at Facebook focused on emerging and high-growth markets including Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and the Middle East. She has also served as Chair, Stanford Business School Management Board. Kirthiga holds an MBA from Stanford University, where she graduated with highest honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.E. in Computer Science from Marathwada University, India. She has been recognized as Fortune India’s “Most Powerful Women” and as Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” among other recognitions.

Meeka Bondy, Senior Counsel, Technology Transactions & Privacy Group and Co-Chair, Film and TV Group, Perkins Coie LLP: Meeka Bondy’s practice spans the content lifecycle, from the ways that such innovations as AI, AR, VR, and MR influence content creation and development, through to the impact of emerging platforms, networks, devices and apps on content acquisition, licensing and distribution. Serving as a strategic business partner to clients at the intersection of media and technology, she draws on nearly 20 years of executive experience guiding entrepreneurial ventures and innovative transactions at global media and entertainment companies. With experience on both the buyer and seller side of the table, Meeka is extremely versatile in the windowing strategies, distribution structures, and licensing models explored by movie studios, television networks, streaming services, and digital media companies. Meeka drafts, structures, and negotiates agreements involving distribution by means of theatrical, pay, basic cable, and broadcast television, linear and on demand television, subscription video on demand (SVOD), advertising-based video on demand (AVOD), and transactional video on demand (TVOD). Her knowledge includes electronic sell-through (EST), home video, digital downloads, and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPD). Her deep industry experience extends to transactions involving virtual MVPDs, Over-the-Top (OTT), TV Everywhere (TVE), direct-to-consumer (DTC), stand-alone and bundled streaming services and apps, and video game consoles and platforms. Meeka also has significant experience in international licensing matters, addressing such issues as competition law, regulatory requirements, censorship approvals, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA.)igitalhollywood.com An active member of her professional community, Meeka is a founding board member of AIM (Asian Americans in Media) and the Future Now Media Foundation and founding chair of WICT NY’s (Women in Cable Telecommunications NY) Mentoring Circle. She is a graduate of the Stanford Business School Advanced Leadership Program for Asian American Executives and the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute (Class XXII).



Steven Masur, Partner, Raines Feldman Littrell LLP: Steven Masur has over 25 years of experience advising emerging and established businesses on new opportunities and business challenges. He focuses his practice on corporate finance, M&A, intellectual property, entertainment, emerging businesses and strategic guidance. Steve has extensive experience in angel and venture capital finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and cross-border transactions in Europe and Asia. He is passionate about helping new businesses plan a path to success, and helping older businesses bridge the gap to new markets. Steve brings a unique mix of legal, business, and strategic experience to bear on client matters. He has counseled enterprise level clients including Shazam, Virgin Mobile, Liberty Media, Yamaha, Nielsen Buzzmetrics, Bob Vila and Conde Nast Publications in corporate, digital media, and new business matters. He has also helped emerging businesses in a wide variety of sectors, and is especially knowledgeable in media, entertainment, advertising, consumer products, food and technology, including mobile, games, digital music, social media, augmented and virtual reality, software and hardware. Steve has been recognized as a “Rising Star” and a “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers. He serves on a variety of corporate and nonprofit boards and industry associations, and lectures and writes about major issues in venture capital, emerging businesses, entertainment law, technology and corporate strategy.