Christof Straub started his professional career at the beginning of the 1990ties as artist, music producer and songwriter. Since 2008, he is working on the disruption of the traditional music industry via digitalization, with a focus on fair artist remuneration.Christof is the founder of Global Rockstar, a Music NFT Company enabling fans to become shareholders of hit songs: in 2021 globalrockstar.com has launched the first platform worldwide to offer Music NFTs with royalty participation.

Christopher Lindinger is an Austrian innovation researcher, computer scientist, and cultural manager who has served as the Vice-Rector for Innovation at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in recent years. He was among the founding members of the Ars Electronica Futurelab in 1997 and played a key role as co-director in shaping the research and innovation agendas. Since 2023, he holds the newly established professorship for Art & Digitality at the University of Mozarteum Salzburg. Lindinger is also a member of the founding convent of the Interdisciplinary Transformation University Linz (IT:U).

Music composer and digital artist with more than a decade of experience in creating immersive sound content. Since 2014 his constant study into neuroscience and research about soundscape environments brought Claudio to produce and compose spatialized audio. From his studies, spatial audio emerged as a more accurate way of recreating the natural way of listening also called real world listening and to enhance the impact on the auditory system and amplifying the emerging emotions. Over the last few years he has extended his research to other immersive disciplines such as virtual reality, augmented reality and ethnomusicology.

Dr. Clemens Trautmann (born 1977 in Braunschweig) has been President and CEO of Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, part of Universal Music Group, since December 2015. He previously held various executive roles at Axel Springer SE, most recently as Chief of Staff to Chairman and CEO Dr. Mathias Döpfner, as well as Managing Director and CFO of its online property portal, Immonet. In these roles he was responsible for a variety of strategic projects focusing, for example, on digital transformation, new business development, corporate acquisitions, innovative management methods and organisational culture. Clemens Trautmann earned his doctorate in law while simultaneously studying music, including at The Juilliard School, New York. As a member of a European working group on intellectual property, he served on the research staff of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. He has given solo and chamber music performances, for example, at Lincoln Center's ‘Mostly Mozart Festival’ and at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall in the ‘Debut on Deutschlandradio’ series, and has been awarded prizes by the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the German Music Council.
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Cristina Spinei is a Juilliard-trained composer who has written for numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles. She is best known for her work with dance, having been commissioned by the Joffrey Ballet, Nashville Ballet, Parsons Dance, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and many more. Self-described as “minimalish,” Cristina anchors her musical ideas in melody, movement, and loops, informed by her love of multimedia collaboration. Her work Prelude, recorded by the Gateway Chamber Orchestra, was the first new orchestral piece to be released as an NFT. Cristina’s other NFTs include a programmable string quartet for Async Art, audiovisual Triptych with artist Marterium, and Occulta Verba — an audiovisual cryptogram created with artist luxpris.

After studying media arts at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, he joined digim in 1999. He introduces new technologies into day-to-day production of the Studio Halle Group, with a strong focus on customer and business development.

David S. Rosen is the CEO and founder of Dopr, the discovery and valuation layer for music's web3 future. David earned his B.A in psychology from Emory University and his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Drexel University, where his research focused on music cognition, the neuroscience of creativity, STEAM education, and music information retrieval. David's award-winning research on music preference formation in pop music, drives Dopr's technology to help make music NFT collecting easier. From an early age, David has been composing and performing music with various bands, which has been the inspiration for his career. David also has a regular hot yoga practice which he credits to helping him stay centered and balanced in a potentially chaotic world.