Virginie Berger, Chief Business Development & Rights Officer, MatchTune: Virginie Berger, a seasoned professional in the music and tech industries, is renowned for her expertise in music business innovation and integrating Artificial Intelligence in music strategy and rights management. Her impressive 20-year career includes pivotal roles at Downtown Music-Songtrust, Armonia, Myspace, and Microsoft, where she played a key role in generating revenue, forging strategic alliances, and championing artists’ rights. Known for her work as a curator, professor, and artist advocate, Virginie has a rich background in music business and rights innovation. She now extends her expertise as the Chief Business Development and Rights Officer at Matchtune, a pioneer in AI-powered audio recognition, developing the cutting-edge “Advanced Audio Fingerprinting” technology.

Caroline Giegerich, Innovation Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Daily Marauder: Caroline Giegerich brings over 20 years of experience in marketing, emerging technologies and TV, a scrappy entrepreneurial mindset, and fresh ideas to tackle no-blueprint challenges. Caroline has served in a variety of Marketing and Innovation roles for iconic brands including HBO, Showtime, Smashbox Cosmetics and on the agency side, at Initiative, leading an Innovations team focused on helping clients like Lionsgate identify future-facing advertising solutions. As a consultant, she has supported Netflix in program marketing as it moved into Original Programming, Paramount Digital in social media as it began to launch digital series, and YouTube in its approach to organic shopping behavior for brands.

Will Kreth, CEO, HAND, HAND founder Will Kreth has been involved in broadband and digital media for more than three decades. Former executive director of the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR.org); director of metadata governance at Showtime Networks; and director of video product management at Charter/Time Warner. A current working group co-chair at the music industry’s standards body Digital Data Exchange (DDEX.net), a contributor member of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA.org), and co-chair of the standards register working group of the Metaverse Standards Forum. A co-founder of Wired Magazine; and alumni of the Apple Multimedia Lab - Kreth currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Remington Scott, Founder, CEO and Chief Architect, Hyperreal®:  Hyperreal.io CEO and Chief Architect, Remington Scott, is known for his work on Academy Award winning VFX for blockbuster films and the biggest selling video games. His achievements include creating Gollum / Sméagol for Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy; he created the first photo-real digital humans in film for the Academy Award-winning VFX for Spider-Man 2; and the first motion captured theatrical feature film. Scott was named to The Wrap’s 2022 “Innovators List” for, among other efforts, “giving the Metaverse a soul.” He is currently building the platform for ownership of digital identities of the worlds most recognized celebrities to monetize across Ai opportunities.

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.