#AIShowBiz Summit 3.0
May 2.-4. 2019
Silicon Valley, CA

Trailblazer Talks 2019
Speakers, Panelists & Judges


Tim Draper
Founder at
Draper Associates/DFJ/
Draper University

John D. Canning
Executive Producer
Digital Domain

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

Debbie Zmorenski
Cultural Engineer & Former Leadership Executive
Walt Disney World

Eliot Sakhartov
Business and Technology Strategist / Media and Entertainment
Microsoft

Mark Rickard
Film and VR Producer
Virtuality

Taarini Kaur Dang
14-year old VC. Speaker, Forbes Author and Women Empowerment Champion

Raffaella Camera
Global Head of Market & Innovation Strategy
Accenture Extended Reality (XR)

Tara Subkoff
Artist, Filmmaker, Entrepreneur

Constantine Roussos
Founder & CEO
.MUSIC

Moses Ma
Founder
FutureLab Consulting Inc.

Dr. Michal Kosinski
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
GSB Trust Faculty Scholar for 2018-2019, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Jean Yves Chainon
Founder and CEO
JYC

Layne Fox
CEO
Tarantula.ai

Zlata Stanislavovna Sushchik
Transcendent Technologies Expansionism Activist
A.I. Consciousness Media & Empirical Coach

Patrick Costello
Senior Director, Business Development
Qualcomm

Joe Devon
Co-Founder
Diamond

Jennifer Richey
Chief Strategy Officer
Gravity Jack

Michael Winter Berkeley, CA
Founder
AIorDie

Marie Smith
Chief Information Officer
Data360

Stuart Bullard
Chairman & CEO, Airthereum LLC. Founder, Studio 10-4 INC

Robin Rowe
Managing Director
Venture Hollywood

Keith Montgomery
Co-founder
CyberOi

Shaun Paga
Director of Business Development
Soul Machines

Séon O’Shannon
Software Engineer
Brain2Bot Labs

Jannicke Mikkeslen
New-Tech Film Director,
QUEEN: VR The Champions

Chris Yeh
Investor, Co-Founder, Global Scaling Academy, Co-Author, “Blitzscaling”

Michael Gates
Workstation Specialist
Lenovo

Jeremy Gu
Data Science Manager
on Finance Team
Uber

Daniel Smalley Ph.D.
Engineering Professor and Holography Expert/BYU
“Princess Leia Project”

Terence Mills
CEO, Moonshot and AI.io Incorporated. Member, Forbes Technology Council

Mark Bünger
Deep Tech Agent, InnovationLab. Founder, AI & Creativity
Meetup Silicon Valley

Lori H. Schwartz
Principal
StoryTechTM

Darryl Adams
Technical Program Manager
Intel

Christopher Bellaci
VP, Business Development
Sensing Places LLC

Sandra Ponce de León
Principal
Blue Economy Agency

Sean Gourley
CEO
Primer

Carole Chainon
Founder and COO
JYC

Mikael Laine
Tarantula AI Machine Learning Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer and Tech Team Lead, Digitalist USA

Yev Muchnik
Impact Lawyer; Legal and Tech Futurist
Launch Legal

Amy Seidman
Founder, CEO
EverSimple | Noble Profit | BFLO

Jessica Balke
Data Analyst
CreatorIQ

Sheri
Byrne-Haber
Head of Accessibility
VMware Inc.

Paola Santana
CEO & Founder
Social Glass

Don Pickering
CEO
Olis Robotics

Juan Carlos “JC” Riveiro
Co-Founder and CEO
Vilynx

Kate McCallum
Founder and Executive Director, c3: Center for Conscious Creativity. Producer/Writer, Producers Guild of America. New Media Council Board Delegate & National Board Member

Derrick Oien
CEO and Co-founder
ScoreStream

Adryenn Ashley
Serial Entrepreneur, Speaker and Co-Founder,
Slay Ventures

Guy Kawasaki
Silicon Valley Icon
Bestselling Author

Pilar Manchon
VP of AI
Roku

Shivon Zilis
Project Director
Neuralink / OpenAI

Monica Landers
CEO
StoryFit

Ashley Crowder
CEO and Co-Founder
Vntana
Interactive Hologram Technologies

Kathleen Cohen
Experience Strategist
The Collaboratorium

Brian
Mac Mahon
Sensei
Expert DOJO

Ben Taylor
Chief AI Officer
Ziff.ai

Todd Terrazas
Founder and President
AI LA Community

Will Kleidon
CEO/Founder/Futurist
Ojai Energetics

Alex Bates
CTO, Mtell
(Aquired by Aspen Tech)
Director, Neocortex Ventures

Chris Paine
Writer/Director
Papercut Films
Introducing screening of:
“DO YOU TRUST THIS COMPUTER?”

Kevin Kelly
President & Chief Growth Officer
@ Bigbuzz Marketing Group

Kyle Hounslow
TAI Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Digitalist Global

Ross Ingram
CEO
Maslo

Gregg Katano
Partner and Vice-President of Strategy and Growth,
Hologate

Kenny Lauer
Chief Experience Officer for the AI company, Rival Theory

Gunnar Newquist, Ph.D.
Head of Science and Technology, Reach SAI. Founder, Brain2Bot Labs

Paul Hynek
Entrepreneur, Professor, Futurist

Nova Spivack
Founder, CEO, & Angel Investor
Magical

Liané Thompson
CEO
Aquaai

Tony Winders
Founder and CEO
The Winders Group

Ali Arsanjani, PhD.
SVP AI and Machine Learning, DeepContext Founder @ deep-context.com

Omar U. Florez, PhD
LatinX in AI

Yves Bergquist
Founder, CEO | CORTO
Program Director | AI & Neuroscience in Media Entertainment Technology Center at USC

Brett Leonard
Co-Founder, Studio Lightship
Producer/Director
/Writer

Jeff Chao
Vice President of Finance and Business Development
Digital Domain

Alastair MacPhail
VP Marketing
Cerebri AI

Mark Bessen
CTO
StoryFit

Aaron Edell
Senior Director of Product Management, Veritone Inc.

Patrick
Levy-Rosenthal
CEO – Founder
Emoshape

Steve Ardire
‘Merchant of Light’ & Software Startup Advisor

Arjun Metre
Board Member

Farah Allen
CEO/Founder
The LABZ

Nga Nguyen
Principal Experience Design Strategist
VisionFwd

Aarti Borkar
Vice President, Product Management
IBM Security

Liam Mac Mahon
Kid Advisor
cocoon

Michael Schaiman
CEO/Founder
The LABZ

Jaymes Hines
Founder
Fanverse/ FanHacks

Narayan Sundararajan
Senior Principal Engineer and Director, Intel

Prof. Frank Chindamo
Founder
Virtual Film School

Jillian Ogle
Founder and CEO
Let’s Robot

Jacques Vallee
President
Documatica Financial

Laura Montoya
Managing Partner
Accel Impact, LLC

Sivan Levi
CEO and Founder
Vision to Reality

Rebecca Krauthamer
CEO
Quantum Thought

Ann Shin, D.Ed.
Founding Partner
Ultrafund Capital

Nathan Shedroff
Executive Director
Seed Vault Ltd.