A classical musician and music manager by study. Specialized in the organization of classical music concerts, international tours and Viennese Balls. Experienced artist manager and artistic director. General manager of Strauss Capelle Vienna since 2018.Co-founder of the first classical music NFT made in Vienna: MozartBeats. Co-founder of the Vienna based artist collective NFTunes.

Frank Gerdes has been a part of ServusTV's cultural department in Austria since July 2009, taking on the role of Head of the department in 2010. Operating from Salzburg, he plays a key role in developing and producing television programs for the channel. This includes a range of award-winning documentaries like "Traces to Nowhere – The Conductor Carlos Kleiber" (2010) and "Karajan – The Second Life" (2012). Before joining ServusTV, Gerdes was engaged in project development at EuroArts Music International. There, he was involved in the creation and production of various cultural TV programs, including performance projects and documentaries, as well as major international projects such as "24 hours Mozart" and "24 hours Bach".

Frank accounts for the onboarding and user experience at Content.Agent, the digital search engine + B2B marketplace for film license trading. He holds degrees in Marketing and International Management from Corvinus University of Budapest and Copenhagen Business School. Equipped with an entrepreneurial mindset and the mission to boost creatives with a passion for tech, quality and people, he launched his own startup and gained experience in various projects in the creative industries.

Georgina García-Mauriño is a Spanish author and illustrator. Since 1997 she has devoted most of her works to introduce classical music, especially opera, to children, having more than 30 titles published in different formats and by different publishers. In 2020, with a small team including tech and legal advisors, and a developer, she started the development of Smartists, a dApp for artists who want to self-manage on the web3, opening their own private online studios.

Gregor Schmalzried writes and advises on tech and digital storytelling, including for German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, business magazine Brand Eins, and in his personal newsletter, coolgenug.de. He is the author and producer of the fiction podcasts Mia Insomnia (ARD) and Flüsterwelt (Podstars by OMR). For his work, he received the Goldene Blogger award in 2022 and was recognized in the "30 under 30" list by medium magazin in 2021.

Helmut Bölcskei is a professor of Mathematical Information Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. Since 2021 he has also been associated with the Lagrange Mathematics and Computing Research Center, Paris, France.
He received his PhD degree at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria and spent post-doctoral years at Stanford University, CA, USA.
He was in the founding team of Iospan Wireless Inc., a Silicon Valley-based startup company acquired by Intel Corporation in 2002. His research interests are in machine learning theory, applied mathematics, mathematical signal processing, data science, and statistics.