Sebastian is an entrepreneur and consultant in the cultural and creative industries with a focus on digital innovation and blockchain technology. Sebastian started his professional career in book publishing, in 2005 he founded the first ebook distribution service in the German market. Later he worked for arvato (Bertelsmann) and other media organisations on the intersection of business and technology. Sebastian is co-initiator of the International Standard Content Code, convenor of the ISO working group on the ISCC, and co-founder and co-director of the ISCC Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation based in the Netherlands.

Seda Röder, aka “the piano hacker”, is an author, entrepreneur and philanthropist devoted to cultivating creativity in society and organisations. She is a sought-after speaker, consultant to DAX listed companies and the founder of the Sonophilia Foundation; a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the scientific research of creativity and critical thinking. Seda is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at The Mindshift, a consultancy on creative technologies and leadership. Furthermore, Seda is a fellow and a member of the Salzburg Global Seminar Corporate Governance Forum, angel investor and network partner at the European startup accelerator Silicon Castles. In 2018 Seda received the Game Changer Award at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce for her business merits. Before relocating to Europe, Seda taught music performance, theory and history at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an Associate and Affiliated Artist.

Shannon Chen See (she/her) is a mission-driven storyteller passionate about the intersection of people, creativity, and technology. She is the Product Marketing Lead at Async, an NFT platform for experiencing interactive and generative art & music. Shannon is also involved with Holdersland, a community empowering Caribbean creatives with Web3 technology. As a poet and a marketer, she wants to leverage her dual experience to make lasting impact in the NFT space.

Silke Noa is a lawyer and mathematician with a passion for disintermediation and privacy tech. Silke has advised blockchain projects since 2014 focusing on legal product design that is both pragmatic and dispute-resistant. She regularly advises on DAO structures and their interaction with legacy legal systems. Silke is admitted to practice law in England & Wales, New York and Germany and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Simon de la Rouviere the co-design of the ERC20 token standard, inventor of token bonding curves, created the first music royalty splits on a blockchain, and now telling stories using NFTs.

Former Danish opera singer with an international career and successful serial entrepreneur in ""performing arts tech"". Founded the company Truelinked that later acquired Operabase. To this day the most successful casting tool in the world for Opera. In 2020 he left the company to build an even more ambitious company, Artelize. Artelize is AI-powered data aggregation creating a one-stop discovery platform for the world of performing arts. The very experienced team behind Artelize is on a mission, not only to get the audience back, but to build a new connection with a wider, younger, and more diverse audience. In short to empower a new renaissance for the most underserved classical art forms ...as a starting point. Artelize launched in the US in August 2022 and their specialized AI aggregation engine (called Loligo) has begun the enormous task of mapping and connecting the entire industry into one single platform. With tremendous speed and accuracy, they will cover both the US and Europe in less than 12 months.

Sven Sören Beyer is founder and artistic director of the Berlin based artist collective phase7 performing.arts. In terms of staging, he focuses on combining media and high-tech with dance, language and music. He works as a director and choreographer as well as a media and video artist. In 2020 he started working on the AI opera chasing waterfalls as producer and director of the piece, which premiered in 2022 at Semperoper Dresden and Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival. Beyers cross-media aesthetics, his fascination for high-end technical developments and his mesmerizing combination of performing arts and media art lead him and phase7 across the globe.

A 24 year old independent artist, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. TAROT graduated from Belmont University in 2019 with a degree in Songwriting and Music Business. Currently TAROT has been immersing herself in web 3 as she paves a new path to release her debut album experience “Wake” to be released July 2022. She released 28 music NFTs on her own smart contract that she produced, wrote, recorded, and mixed every day for the Tarotsings Music NFT Marathon collection.

Thierry is co-founder of SpielFabrique and offers a unique expertise in funding strategy for the creative industries. SpielFabrique is European Eco system catalyst with major programmes for the sustainability of European indie games developers. He is the director of a group of companies involved in the financing of 4 main sectors: Audiovisual, Gaming, MusicTech and FashionTech including Media Deals which is a pan European investment network of private investors. His past experience include executive roles at Vivendi (London and Los Angeles) and Studio Babelsberg in Berlin. He is a graduate of an MBA at Bocconi (Italy) and UCLA (Los Angeles). He has also been involved in various public policy projects in access to funding at European, national and regional levels in many European countries. He is also an active investor in different creative companies.