Justine Armour is Executive Creative Director of 72andSunny NY, leading the creative department and accounts Smirnoff, Seventh Generation, Trojan, Cheerios, Halo Top, and Marcus by Goldman Sachs. Prior to moving to NYC, Justine led the Secret, Chrysler, Dodge, and Herbal Essences accounts at Wieden + Kennedy Portland. She has been recognized at every major award show for work across multiple categories, and has been a juror at Cannes, Clio, One Show, Webbys, and others. She is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, regularly speaking on panels about gender equality, and she is a signatory of Times Up Advertising.

Shruti Ganguly has made films and VR that have gone to Sundance, Venice, Berlin and Tribeca. She has directed music videos and shorts for MTV, Planned Parenthood, Chanel, Google and crafted the #MySentence series on prison reform for the Obama Administration. Her production company, honto88 focuses on brave tv, film, video and VR that makes you stop think, look again. Previously, she was an exec at MTV, NYLON and Conde Nast, producing the CLIO-winning 73 Questions series. Shruti was on Obama’s ECCO committee and is on the Creative Council for Emily's List. She hails from India, by way of Oman.

Samantha Woolf is Head of Marketing NY at UTA, a leading talent & entertainment agency. With 20 years of experience in marketing, Samantha has worked with branding powerhouses Deutsch, Grey Global Group, and PEOPLE magazine, as well as some of the most highly sought-after talent faces across digital media, television, music, and live entertainment. She both manages all aspects of talent relationships on behalf of her clients and creates one-of-a-kind, bespoke brand-building programs for clients such as P&G and COVERGIRL. Among the talent she has worked closely with are Sofia Vergara, Queen Latifah, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, and P!NK.

Emma Reeves has an extensive background as a creative strategist, working across cultural communication and new media in the print, digital and live space.Since January 2017, Emma has served as Executive Director of Free The Bid, the non-profit initiative founded by director Alma Har'el, advocating on behalf of women directors for equal opportunities to compete for jobs within the global advertising industry, television, film and media

Lisa Sherman is President and CEO of the Ad Council, a national organization that uses the power of communications to take on the most important issues facing the nation. Through its vast network of partners across advertising and marketing, media and tech, government agencies and non-profits, the Ad Council spearheads campaigns that promote education, safety, health and community and leave a lasting impact on American life. Lisa has been named to OUT Magazine’s Power 50 and AdAge’s “Women to Watch,” and serves as a Steward for the World Economic Forum among several other boards and advisory councils.

Greg is the Chief Creative Officer of BBDO New York.Since taking the helm of the creative department in 2014, Greg has helped BBDO New York earn the title of the most awarded agency in the world according to The Gunn Report multiple times. Recognitions like Agency of the year at The One Show and the Webbys, along with gold medal wins at D&AD, Cannes, and Clio’s added to another record setting year in 2018. Recently, Greg was named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company Magazine and top 10 Creative Directors by Ad week.

Folayo Lasaki is a marketing executive, creative, and brand strategist who specializes in developing innovative campaigns for digital and traditional media. As VP and Head of Marketing at SoulPancake, she oversees brand, content, and social media marketing as well as communications, distribution, and strategic partnerships. She is a member of IADAS, the Telly Awards, sits on the board of Women in Media, and founded boutique marketing and communications firm, Striped Elephant. A graduate of Pepperdine University, Folayo resides in Los Angeles and can often be found making a mess in the kitchen or waxing poetically about representation in media

Peter has been with AB InBev for thirteen years, taking on marketing assignments of increasing responsibility around the world, most recently in Asia. Today, Peter is responsible for the premium and super premium brand portfolio of Anheuser-Busch here in the US, which includes noted brands like Stella Artois, Hoegaarden, and Estrella Jalisco. In February, Peter brought Stella Artois to the Super Bowl, with a now iconic campaign featuring Sarah Jessica Parker reprising her role as Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, and Jeff Bridges as “The Dude” from The Big Lebowski, which went on to drive growth in all marketing metrics. The spot encouraged consumers to “Change Up the Usual” to Pour it Forward, in partnership with Water.org. To date, the partnership has provided access to clean water for more than 1.7 million people in the developing world, with a goal to reach 3.5 million by 2020.

Lesley Chilcott (Director) is an award-winning filmmaker, and documentarian. Chilcott directed the feature documentaries A Small Section of the World and CodeGirl. She was a producer of the 2007 Academy Award®-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth and rock documentary It Might Get Loud (2008), featuring legendary guitarists The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White, and Waiting for “Superman” (2010), for which she won a PGA Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Picture. Chilcott frequently shoots domestically and internationally on shorter form projects, commercials, and branded content for a clients like Apple, Gatorade, AT&T, and Holland America.

Yvon Chouinard is an American mountain climber, environmentalist, passionate activist, itinerant adventurer and iconoclastic outdoor industry businessman. His company, Patagonia, which was founded in 1973, is known for its environmental and social initiatives. He has written about climbing issues and ethics and on mixing environmentalism with business. His bestselling business memoir, Let My People Go Surfing has been published in 16 languages and has sold more than 500,000 copies. Chouinard co-founded the Fair Labor Association, 1% for the Planet, the Textile Exchange, The Conservation Alliance, and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. He currently resides in Ventura, California.

Jim has been a professional river guide for the last 25 years. Between river trips, he is project coordinator for Columbia Rediviva, an intentional dis-organization of activists re-examining our relationship to salmon and power in the Columbia River Basin. Jim co-wrote & produced "Salmon: Running the Gauntlet" for PBS’s Nature series. This one-hour program explored the natural history of Columbia River salmon and the unnatural history of our management of their life cycle – now the most expensive species recovery effort in U.S. history. Jim has a B.S. in biology (Bowdoin College) but prefers the BS around campfires (everywhere).

Tom Vance has produced over 300 pieces of XR content since 2014. Most recently, he served as Head of Studio at Jaunt in Santa Monica, where he oversaw the creation of immersive content across multiple verticals. At Jaunt, Tom led projects with Apple, Google, Facebook, Disney, Paramount, ESPN, among others.Prior to Jaunt, Tom worked in film development for a decade. He served as VP at Hutch Parker Entertainment and prior to that held roles at New Regency and Village Roadshow. He is currently working as an independent producer and consulting on a number of XR projects.

Stephanie Riggs has been creating ground-breaking immersive projects for over two decades in game design, theme park shows, immersive theatre, stereoscopic film, and VR/AR/MR. Currently the Creative Director of Experiential at Refinery29, known for the visionary 29Rooms immersive funhouse of culture which reaches an estimated 1 in 2 Instagram users worldwide, she also leads experiential marketing activations with brand partners such as Netflix, Amazon, Intuit, and Reebok. Her forthcoming book “The End of Storytelling” explores the future of narrative in immersive environments.

Brandon Zamel is the CEO of the Los Angeles-based production company, Springbok Entertainment. Producing both traditional and non-traditional content, Springbok specializes in creating compelling experiences that aim to accomplish meaningful change through measurable outcomes. Springbok has also been at the forefront of immersive storytelling, creating some of the industry’s first examples of narrative 360° video, stereoscopic 360° video, VR documentary, and more recently, interactive volumetric video. Zamel is also the President and Co-Founder of the 501(c)3 non-profit Springbok Cares, which sponsors and supports VR-focused medical research and provides VR programs to hospitals for cancer patients.

Mia Tramz is Editorial Director of Enterprise and Immersive Experiences at TIME, overseeing enterprise projects across platforms and media. Tramz, an Emmy-winning virtual reality producer, is charged with ensuring the brand’s impact both on and off its owned and operated platforms, across all media. Throughout her career, Tramz has embraced innovative storytelling in many forms, culminating with her involvement in launching Time Inc’s company-wide immersive storytelling brand, LIFE VR, in 2016. She launched the brand’s AR capabilities the following year, and shaped the company’s go-to-market strategy in sales and business development. She is an alumna of Columbia University.

Greg Boyer is the US Entertainment & Media Consulting Leader at PwC bringing to bear over 15 years’ experience across the entertainment, media and communications industries. Greg specializes in helping clients reach breakthrough results by focusing on revenue enhancement, operating model design, performance improvement, business integration, and technology strategy. His clients span advertising, music, broadcasting, publishing, internet services, and sports entertainment. Greg holds a Masters in Business Administration from The George Washington University.

Celebrated Emmy-nominated actress Natasha Lyonne stepped behind the camera in 2019 for her critically-acclaimed Netflix show Russian Doll. Her directorial debut, in fact, came in 2017 with the short film Cabiria, Charity, Chastity for fashion brand KENZO’s 2017 campaign. In this one-on-one conversation, Lyonne will share the story behind her stunning KENZO collaboration and her point of view on the trends of brand supported filmmaking. She’ll discuss how her creative approach to a brand partnership differs from her traditional film and TV work, as well as the unique opportunities that can be created when artists, independent filmmakers and influential brands join forces.

Brian Braiker is a journalist with two decades experience. As editor-in-chief at Ad Age since 2017, he has overseen the brand's relaunch and digital expansion. He was previously executive editor at Digiday and has been a staff writer or editor at Newsweek, Rolling Stone, the Guardian, ABC News, Adweek and, of all things, Parenting magazine. He has also contributed to the New York Times, People magazine, The Washington Post, Slate, Variety and more. He lives in Brooklyn with his two daughters, his banjo and his dog Jake. He has beautiful hair.

Lou Arbetter leads PepsiCo’s in-house Content Studio. The Studio’s work has been recognized at over 15 film festivals including Sundance and Tribeca, and has appeared in multiple Super Bowls. Previously, Lou led the communications for Pepsi in the United States, including all national advertising and consumer engagement. Lou’s teams have developed breakthrough branded entertainment including multiple Super Bowl halftime show campaigns, the ground-breaking Pepsi integration into Fox’s television show Empire, and the video sensations "Uncle Drew" and "Test Drive" starring Jeff Gordon. This work has won numerous awards including Cannes Lions, Addys and Clios

Paula Kupfer is SVP of Global Partnerships, Consumer Products and Product Placement for Lionsgate. Her responsibilities cover development of brand partnerships and consumer products programs across the Company’s film, TV, and digital platforms. During her tenure, she has secured and directed comprehensive licensing programs and brand campaigns with leading brands such as Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, etc. Prior to Lionsgate, Paula bolstered domestic partnerships for 20th Century Fox and international consumer products & promotions for Sony Pictures.Paula holds a B.A. from the University of Oregon and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.

Longino was the sole writer on Uncle Drew and also served as co-producer. Other current feature projects include 'Black Stallions', which just sold in a bidding war to Netflix, 'Homeschooled' with Erik Feig's Picturestart, and 'Son of Shaolin' at Sony with Dwayne Johnson's Seven Bucks producing. In television, Jay recently added the title of showrunner to his credits on 'Sneakerheads', a just wrapped 6-episode comedy series that he also created. Born in Atlanta, Longino now lives in Los Angeles but still has no idea why the Falcons didn't just run the ball and win the Super Bowl.

Melville works across TBWA’s collective of agencies on diversity efforts across talent outreach, culture and creative partner relationships. He’s the Executive Producer/co-host of the Disruptor Series Podcast, Madison Ave’s largest speaker platform – where he sits down with disruptive thinkers and icons, from Snoop Dogg to Maria Shriver - to talk about business, culture and life. He's also cultural curator of OneSandbox.com, a first-of-its-kind search engine for women & diverse-owned businesses, which connects them to agencies and brands looking for creative services. Prior to joining TBWA, he founded RedCarpets.com. Melville’s a graduate of Syracuse University, and a founding Board Member of ADCOLOR.

Colin Smeeton is President at PRP, a sports marketing and management company and currently represents NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, and current NBA stars Kyrie Irving, Jayson Tatum and Jonathan Issac. Smeeton has been in the sports management business for the past 20 years and negotiated deals totaling over $500M. Smeeton has been an Executive Producer of various entertainment projects including Shaq VS on ABC, ESPN 30 for 30 Documentaries (Shaq and Dale, This Magic Moment) and Feature Film, Uncle Drew with Lionsgate.Smeeton holds a Bachelor’s degree in communications from Penn State University.

As the Chief Marketing Officer of Squarespace, Kinjil leads the company’s world-class marketing and PR teams. Prior to joining Squarespace in 2017, Kinjil served as CMO at Foursquare where she successfully repositioned the company’s brand to accelerate growth in both the consumer and enterprise location intelligence businesses. Kinjil spent the previous decade building technology competencies for retail giants, most notably as Vice President of Digital Marketing for Saks Fifth Avenue. She has been named to Adweek’s ranking of the top 20 Tech Savvy CMOs driving innovation and one of Adweek’s Young Influentials, along with Forbes’ inaugural CMO Next list. Kinjil holds a bachelor’s degree with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin in Management of Information Systems and Finance.

John Osborn is Chief Executive Officer of OMD USA. John joined OMD in 2017 after 25 years with BBDO, where he served as President and CEO of the New York Agency for 13 years. Under John’s leadership, BBDO New York more than doubled revenues, expanded its client base to include categories like BtoB, retail, healthcare and more, and diversified its workforce. He also led the agency’s transformation into data, marketing science, communications planning and social and digital innovation.

Iranian-American director Nabil Elderkin was raised in coastal Australia and is best known for his music video and photographic work with artists such as Travis Scott, John Legend, Frank Ocean, James Blake, The Weeknd Sza and Kendrick Lamar. His commercial work has resulted in several Super Bowl ads amongst others. Nabil is also an accomplished documentarian through his photojournalism work in place like the Somalia, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo — which exhibited in the United Nations — and art-focused books such as Glow in the Dark with Kanye West. Gully is his narrative feature debut.

Patrick Milling-Smith is a Producer and the Co-Founder/CEO of international production company, SMUGGLER. With a focus on innovative storytelling and working with first-class creative talent, Patrick has produced a multitude of award-winning projects across various mediums, garnering numerous ​Tonys​, Grammys, Cannes Lions, Palme d’Ors, Grand Prixs, Webbys, Clios, and Emmys.

Kim Gehrig is a multi-award-winning director. She has helmed numerous iconic films including Sport England’s “This Girl Can”, John Lewis’ “The Man on the Moon”, Gillette’s “We Believe”, and “Dream Crazier” for Nike, starring Serena Williams. Her music videos for Wiley’s “Cash in my Pocket” and Chaka Khan’s “Like Sugar” have also won top honours at the UKVMAs. Kim was the most awarded female director in 2016’s Gunn Report and was named Campaign Magazine’s Director of the Year in 2015. She was awarded the first ever Glass Lion as well as multiple Gold Lions at Cannes, alongside Creative Circle awards, D&AD Pencils, British Arrows and UKMVAs. Prior to joining Somesuch, Kim was a Creative Director at Mother having graduated from London’s Central Saint Martins. She is originally from Sydney, Australia.

For the past decade, Jason Kreher has created effective, award-winning work for clients such as Netflix, KFC, Old Spice, Instagram, Target, Coca-Cola, Heineken, and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He is currently the creative director of W+K Studios, the agency's development and production arm, overseeing IP and original entertainment properties. In 2018 Ad Age selected him as Creative Director of the Year. In addition to his work in advertising, Kreher recently debuted his first short film (with director Todd Selby) at the independent Slamdance Film Festival in Utah. In 2015 he published his first book with Adams Media – a collection of cruel Popsicle stick jokes named SchadenFreezers – and created an online comedy series with standup Maria Bamford. Kreher’s long-running creative collaboration with indie rock band Portugal. The Man has resulted in more than 200 million YouTube views and a spot on Thrillist’s Top 25 Music Videos of 2018. He currently lives in Portland with his husband and newborn son.

Roy Lotan is a creative director and co-founder of Any_, the global experience design agency, crafting brands, products and IRL experiences for clients in lifestyle, media, and tech. He is also the co-founder of As Promised Media, publishing a quarterly Levantine culture magazine. Lotan believes in culture as a driver of change in individuals, brands, and societies. In 2017, he launched Any_good, the pro-bono pillar of Any_ where impact meets design for brands focusing on humanitarian efforts. To date, their work has helped crowdfund over $100k and millions of views on social media. Born in Jerusalem, Lotan started his design career in London in 2003 at St. Martin’s college, gained a degree from Bezalel Academy in 2008 and went on to launch his creative consultancy firm in 2009. In 2015, he launched his partnered design agency in NY and LA. Roy takes inspiration from travel and noodles. He believes that everything in our life deserves attention, whether it's a building or bowl of soup.