Raised as a bilingual child, Paola was exposed from a very young age to diverse environments and cultures. When she discovered her strong passion for Performing Arts and Nature, she completed her studies in Wildlife Conservation Biology (Master Degree) together with working internationally as a professional Opera Singer for almost 20 years.
This eclectic background results in her unique perspective on analyzing, interpreting and structuring ‘wild’, fragmented  data environments.
For over 10 years, she successfully brought this approach in building innovative platforms such as Truelinked and modernizing others such as Operabase, starting the technological revolution in classical music.
Today, as Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer at Artelize,  her unique expertise and strong enthusiasm is crucial in the mission of bettering the sector of Performing Arts to make it more structured, more directly available and inspiring worldwide.

Patrick Tomelitsch is a 33-year-old entrepreneur currently living in Vienna, Austria. He is the CEO of the OROUNDO Mobile group, a technology company that is focusing on building an international cultural platform, Cultural Places. Cultural Places serves various clients around the world across the companies five locations in Europe and South-East-Asia and has a team of 30 people. Patrick is also a partner and shareholder in Three For One Trading, a Vienna-based trading company for Magic, the Gathering cards. Patrick also owns his own IT- and Management consulting business. Patrick's current focus lies in building a DeFi-based cultural community, including decentralized funding for cultural businesses, rewards and NFT´s. All info at www.culturalplaces.com/metaverse.

Portrait XO (she/they) is an independent researcher and artist who creates musical and visual works with traditional and non-traditional methods.  In collaboration with Dadabots, they won ‘Best Experiment’ award at VUT Indie Awards 2021, and Eurovision AI Song Contest Jury Vote for ‘most creative use of AI’ in 2020.  Her development into AI audiovisual art evolved through several artist residencies from NEW NOW FESTIVAL and BBA Gallery in 2021, and Factory Berlin x Sonar+D in 2020.  She researches computational creativity, human-machine collaboration, and explores new formats & applications for forward-thinking art and sound.  She holds a monthly radio residency with her art & activism collective CO:QUO (CO-CREATE STATUS-QUO) on Refuge Worldwide Radio, and a founding member of The IASAS (International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists) and recently launched SOUND OBSESSED - sonic innovation archive celebrating the journey and milestones of new innovation in sound.  Her debut research-based AI audiovisual album 'WIRE' released on December 9th 2022 as a first of its kind NFT to Vinyl release on music NFT polygon  marketplace twelve x twelve.  
She has performed, presented, and exhibited at SXSW, Ars Electronica, MONOM, Reeperbahn Festival, International Music Summit, Amsterdam Dance Event, BBA Gallery, RE:PUBLICA, Sonar+D, Factory Berlin, Tech Open Air, Redbull Music, Future Forum by BMW Welt, KIKK Festival, Github, and more.