#AIShowBiz Summit 1.0
January 8. 2017
Hollywood, CA

Trailblazer Talks 2017
Speakers, Panelists & Judges


Nova Spivack
Founder, CEO, & Angel Investor
Magical

John Smelzer
President
ScoreStream

Robit Hairman
Founder & Interactive Director
Protagonist Studios

Spurlock
AI Prototype Robot
Invented by Dr. Gunnar Newquist
Brain2Bot, Inc.

Daniel Egan
Technical Evangelist
Microsoft

Thor Freudenthal
Director

Dr. Lance B. Eliot
CEO
Techbrium Inc.

Jon Kraft
Managing Partner
LiftOff

Jane Nemcova
VP & GM, Global Services for Machine Intelligence,
Lionbridge

Dr. Ali Arsanjani
Distinguished Engineer
IBM

Poonacha Machaiah
CEO & Co-founder, Jiyo
Founder & CEO, ABOVE

David Goldman
Chief Operating Officer
Virtuosity

Steve Ardire
‘Merchant of Light’ & Software Startup Advisor

Ed Lantz
President & CTO,
VORTEX
Immersion Media, Inc.

Jonathan Kim
CEO
Aicon

Douglas Fidaleo, PhD.
Principal R&D Imagineer
Walt Disney Imagineering

Ann Greenberg
Founder & CEO
Entertainment AI™ & Infinite Story™

Brett Leonard
Award-winning Filmmaker/Futurist
Chief Creative Officer, Virtuosity

IAMEVE
Electronic Artist/Composer “Starman,” Musical Theme & Featured Performer

Michael Terpin
CEO
Transform Group

Wei-Min Shen
Associate Director
Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory

Constantine Roussos
Entrepreneur and Musician
Manages Roussos Group of Companies
Founder and CEO, DotMusic

Yves Bergquist
CEO Novamente
Project Director, Data & Analytics
Entertainment Technology Center,
University of Southern California

Jeffrey Stansfield
CEO and FounderAdvantage Video Systems

Arjun Metre
Board Member

Mary T Duda
CEO/President
Scioart

Michael
Mac Mahon
Sensei
EXPERT DOJO

Greg Panos
Futurist and Strategic Planning Consultant

Bill Klein
CEO
Rival Theory

Jeff Kleiser
Visual Effects Supervisor
Synthespian Studios, Inc.

Alex Lightman
Author, Entrepreneur, and Futurist