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Michelle has diverse and strategic expertise in the legal, consulting, fine arts and media industries. She brings her experience to Sugar Glider Digital, Australia's leading digital art and NFT platform, working alongside the prolific art curator Emilya Colliver to champion the digital art revolution. Michelle regularly writes on film and culture for publications including The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and The Monthly Magazine.

Thomas is a passionate marketer and sales leader who has been with HTC for 12 years. Based in Sydney, Australia, Thomas runs the ANZ market for HTC VIVE and has an extensive track record of product launches with telcos, retailers and B2B channels. With his versatile technical and marketing profile, Thomas has a holistic understanding of the VR market as it is today and how it is bound to evolve in the near-future.

Dominic directed and produced critically acclaimed VR documentary Carriberrie, a celebration of Indigenous Australian song and dance which premiered at the Australian Museum and screened at the Sydney Film Festival and Cannes. He is a multi-award-winning Australian director and as Founder and Director of Reddogs VR Dominic strives for the highest quality virtual reality, immersive 360 and multi-platform content.

Nathan is the CEO and Executive Producer of the award-winning New Canvas, a next-generation media company that produces and publishes immersive entertainment for digital-first audiences. Beginning his professional life in film and television, Nathan transitioned to a career in multiplatform digital development and transmedia content creation. He has worked with big brands such as Disney, BBC, NBC Universal, Foxtel and the ABC.

People Tech Revolution builds virtual reality solutions with people at the heart of immersion. Founded by Leonie Sanderson and Simon Lowe, People Tech Revolution bring years of experience across a wide range of industries in human-centred design to their work to create impact in virtual reality soft-skills training. The focus is on creating tech with a difference - designed with, not for, the people who use it.

Adam is the Unity Solutions Engineer for Australia and New Zealand, connecting current and future Unity users with the knowledge and tools to bring their real time needs to reality. Prior to Unity, his career spanned a decade across a number of companies in Brisbane using real time 3D to bring customer visions to life, including everything from digital twins of future road and rail construction to VR driving simulators of concept cars.

Taana Rose is a third year PhD candidate undertaking research at The University of Queensland, specialising in interactive audio, VR, AR and opera composition, under the supervision of interactive audio experts Dr Eve Klein and Dr Fred Fialho Leandro Alves Teixeira. She is the sound designer for Michelle Brown’s VR experience Allegory of Reality, exhibited at Vacant Assembly in 2019 and World Science Festival Brisbane 2021.

AURORA VR and Revolution Shopper Marketing are agencies that create unique immersive experiences. They explore the frontier of 360 film, virtual reality and augmented reality. These immersive technologies illuminate the human experience and create deep emotional connections for companies and brands. They design content for clients through META for Business, WEBAR, WEBVR, WEB3.0 and VR headsets.

Paul is the Founder and CEO of tagSpace, a location-based Mixed Reality platform company offering no-code solutions to enhance sports, city and festival experiences. Clients and partners have included Telstra, Deutsche Telekom, Splendour in the Grass and Microsoft. Prior to this, Paul started a $100M revenue video games studio, following 20 years developing graphics technologies for companies including Sony, EA and Microsoft.

Ossie founded GreenhouseFX 3DVR in the Byron Shire in 1999 with a focus on delivering world-class immersive animation, stereoscopic content and technological support to Australian and international XR creators across the fields of training, engineering, science and entertainment. Dedicated to nurturing traditional cinema culture, in 2005 he co-founded BBFF and contributes his expertise as the festival's Technical Director.

J’aimee is the Director of BBFF as well as an XR producer and strategist who established Collective Reality, a cross-platform company that develops and highlights projects which use digital technology to share human experiences. As CEO she collaborates with VFX and animation professionals to generate international and Australian co-productions, creating VR and AR capabilities which truly excite both audiences and industry.

Benjamin plays at the intersection of art, science and technology and has worked across the globe with many world-leading technology and creative companies. An international award-winning creative technologist and executive producer, his current research explores how the 4th Industrial Revolution will change the way we live, work, and play, with a strong focus on augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

Passionate about art and innovation, Priscilla drives changes in organisations to create sustainable impacts. She explores emerging technologies, mainly Web3, VR/AR/XR, the Metaverse, new ways of working, living, playing and challenges the status quo with a voracious curiosity. She also empowers others to have positive impacts by creating stories to smell. Her creative works have been exhibited in nine art galleries.

Nick is the founder of Voyager, a DAO for art, music and counterculture with a focus on launching artists, musicians, and culture-bearers into web3 space. He is a broadcaster, producer and presenter – publishing a new podcast on web3 platforms called UFO, a program for artists, musicians and web3 builders to talk about the future. For several years he also hosted and produced an arts and culture program on FBi Radio.

Marcus was born in Australia of American parents, educated in Switzerland and speaks three languages. He has written and published four books, including the first about travel information on the Internet in 1994, The Electronic Traveler. In 2021 he completed a Master of Creative Industries on virtual human systems (AI in VR). His specialty is artificial intelligence (AI) programming and creating intelligent bots in 3D virtual worlds.