Lauren Fried, Partner, Loeb & Loeb, LLP: Lauren Fried is an experienced litigator representing high-profile clients in the entertainment, technology, and media sectors. Her practice includes representing production companies, studios, satellite and network broadcasters and high profile celebrities and athletes in a range of matters including business disputes, copyright and intellectual property litigation, right of publicity, false advertising, and unfair competition. Lauren has extensive hands-on experience researching and writing dispositive and other substantive motions in state and federal courts, and she works closely with clients to develop and manage case strategies. She advises clients on their most sensitive business matters. Lauren has tried multiple cases in both state and federal courts and has represented clients in commercial arbitration. Outside of her entertainment practice, Lauren has experience with eminent domain litigation. Prior to her private practice, Lauren served as associate counsel for Zebra Technologies Corporation and has conducted mediations in Illinois courts for the Center for Conflict Resolution. Lauren is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law teaching sports law and business.

Erik Passoja leads initiatives in AI ethics and digital identity protection, currently developing "A Human-Centric Blueprint for Safe AI Ethics." As SAG-AFTRA co-chair for the Los Angeles New Technology Committee, he champions performers' rights in the AI era, drawing from his extensive acting career and firsthand experience with unauthorized digital likeness use in gaming. His ongoing technical work includes developing granular provenance data, consent matrices, and cooperative systems for digital identity protection. Also a member of the SAG-AFTRA LA Government Affairs and Public Policy committee, he advocates for legislation like the NO FAKES and COPIED Acts, has authored eight bills (5 Federal, 2 California, 1 Tennessee), and is creating technological solutions to ensure informed consent and fair compensation across entertainment, and to preventing deepfakes globally."

Greg Young has over 30 years experience in cybersecurity. As Vice President of Cybersecurity at Trend Micro, he is responsible for guiding and communicating cybersecurity strategy. He was a Gartner analyst and Research Vice President for 14 years where he led research for network security and threat trends authoring more than 20 Magic Quadrants for firewall, IPS, WAF, and UTM, and was Conference Chair for 4 Gartner Security Summits in the Middle East region. He cowrote the first research note coining "Next Generation Firewall". He headed several large security consulting practices, was CISO for the Federal Department of Communications, Chief Security Architect for a security product company, and was a commissioned officer in the military police and counter-intelligence branch. Greg is also the Industry Co-Chair at ISED (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada), which is responsible for a number of the federal government's functions in regulating industry and commerce, promoting science and innovation, and supporting economic development.

Christopher Kenneally is host of The Spoken World, a podcast covering audiobooks and audio publishing. He created the Beyond the Book podcast series for Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) in 2006; later renamed Velocity of Content, the show ran until 2024. As an independent journalist, he has reported for the New York Times and Boston Globe, among many other publications, as well as for WBUR-FM (Boston), National Public Radio, and WGBH-TV (PBS-Boston). At book fairs and publishing conferences in Europe and North America, he has developed and moderated dozens of programs covering audiobooks and podcasting as well as on intellectual property law and artificial intelligence. He contributes opinion columns regularly to the Boston Business Journal.