Ariel Emanuel is Chief Executive Officer of Endeavor (NYSE: EDR), a global sports and entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events and experiences.

In 2009, Emanuel orchestrated the largest talent agency merger in history when Endeavor, the original agency he founded in 1995, joined forces with agency William Morris to form William Morris Endeavor (WME). Three years later, WME forged a strategic partnership with Silver Lake, a global leader in private investments in technology. In 2014, the group acquired premier sports, fashion, events and media company IMG before acquiring premier mixed martial arts organization UFC® in 2016 – Emanuel helped accelerate the growing sport’s popularity through a series of blockbuster media rights deals, including a multi-year broadcast partnership with ESPN. UFC® now produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world, broadcasting to nearly 900 million TV households across more than 170 countries. One year later, Endeavor was formed as the holding company for the global portfolio of businesses. Since then, Endeavor has been named one of Inc.’s Fastest Growing Companies in America and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, debuting on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021.

A graduate of Macalester College, Emanuel is an associate member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. He is based in Beverly Hills.

Irving Wladawsky-Berger retired from IBM in May 2007 after 37 years with the company. During his time at IBM, he was responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments that are critical to the future of the IT industry. Since then, he has collaborated with colleagues at IBM on a number of initiatives including Cloud Computing and Smarter Planet. In March 2008, he joined Citigroup as Strategic Advisor, working on innovation and technology initiatives including the transition to mobile digital money and payments. Irving holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago.

Richard Kerris is a visionary product leader at the forefront of entertainment and technology. With a career spanning Apple, Lucasfilm, and Amazon/AWS, Kerris has the unique combination of marketing savvy and product wizardry to bring new ideas to life. At Apple, he directed developer relations and also managed Final Cut Pro, Logic, and Aperture. At Lucasfilm, he served as CTO, managing R&D, IT, and IS. With a present focus on AI, VR, and AR, Kerris has given keynote addresses at nVidia GDC, Asia Broadcast, China Joy Expo, and multiple Apple WWDC presentations. Kerris also serves on the Bay Area Board of the Visual Effects Society.

From January 2003 through December 2011, Sam Palmisano was chairman, president and chief executive officer of IBM. Under his leadership, IBM achieved record financial performance, transformed itself into a globally integrated enterprise and introduced its Smarter Planet agenda. Sam began his career with IBM in 1973 in Baltimore, Maryland. In a 39-year career with IBM, he held leadership positions that included senior vice president and group executive of the Personal Systems Group, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Global Services, senior vice president and group executive of Enterprise Systems and president and chief operating officer. Sam is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and currently serves as senior advisor to IBM, as well as, Chairman of The Center for Global Enterprise.

George Gilder is the Founder and Partner of The Gilder Technology Fund. He is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington and is the Founder and Chairman of Gilder Publishing, LLC. He has been a Director of Wave Systems Corporation since 1993 and is a Member of Executive Committee. George served as a Director of K12 Inc. and was the Chairman of the Lehrman Institute Economic Roundtable. George is the author of several books, including Life after Television, Microcosm, The Spirit of Enterprise, Wealth and Poverty and, most recently, Telecosm. He is also a contributing editor to Forbes Magazine and was the recipient of the White House award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from President Reagan.

Emad Mostaque is a business executive, mathematician, and former hedge fund manager. He founded Stability AI, a key company behind Stable Diffusion, and served as its CEO until March 23, 2024.

Brendan Eich is widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet. He is the co-founder and CEO of Brave Software and the Basic Attention Token. Brave Software’s fast, privacy-oriented browser, combined with its blockchain-based digital advertising platform, is reinventing the Web for users, publishers, and advertisers.

Eich previously served as CTO, then CEO of the Mozilla Corporation. Prior to that, he co-founded the Mozilla project (1998) and foundation (2003). While at Mozilla, Eich helped launch the award-winning Firefox web browser (2004). Eich is also the inventor of JavaScript (1995), the Internet’s most widely used programming language. He holds a bachelor of science in math and computer science from Santa Clara University and a master of science in computer science from the University of Illinois.

Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer living in Charleston, SC, USA who does a variety of digital artwork including short films, Creative Commons VJ loops, everydays and VR / AR work. He has done work for Apple, Space X, Nike, Coca-Cola, Adobe, Pepsi, Samsung and many more.

After he began releasing a set of widely used Creative Commons VJ loops he has worked on concert visuals for Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Childish Gambino, Imagine Dragons, One Direction, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Zedd, Skrillex, deadmau5 etc,

Beeple’s artwork was featured on Louis Vuitton’s Women’s Spring 2019 ready to wear collection as well as window displays at their flagship stores all over the world. They also worked together to build a bespoke custom handbag featuring bendable LED screens that featured his videos.

One of the originators of the current “everyday” movement in 3D graphics, he has been creating a picture everyday from start to finish and posting it online for over thirteen years without missing a single day.