Liz Rosenthal is a curator, executive producer and pioneer of immersive and interactive creative media. She is curator of Venice Biennale International Film Festival‘s Official Selection and Competition programme for Venice VR. She is executive producer of immersive content accelerator programme, CreativeXR, led by Arts Council England and Digital Catapult. She is also the CEO and founder of the trailblazing innovation company Power to the Pixel.

Independent, interactive filmmaker, story architect and a pioneer in Virtual Reality filming. His latest VR film VIENS! premiered at Sundance 2016. He is also Head of Studies for the Venice Biennale College, and Head of the Cross Media College at Scuola Holden in Torino, Italy. From 2002-2012, he was Head of Film Acquisitions at Arte France and executive director of Arte France Cinema. In 2012, in recognition for his work at Arte, Michel was named Man of the Year in film by the French trade magazine Le Film Français. For Canal+, he directed TO BE A MAN in 1999, and in 2000 directed KENYA ISLANDS for ARTE. He produced CRY WOMAN, which was in Un Certain Regard of the Cannes Film Festival in 2002, and THE GOOD OLD NAUGHTY DAYS (which he directed) was presented in the Directors‘ Fortnight in 2002.

María Laura Ruggiero is a filmmaker, narrative designer and storyteller specialising in hybrid media, transmedia and XR. She is an international speaker (MUTEK, SXSW, MIT, TEDx) and professor in the field of techno-narrative innovation, leading workshops in more than 15 countries worldwide. María Laura guides #StoryHackers and directs SeirenFilms, a studio dedicated to exploring new narrative formats. She´s currently pursuing her PhD in immersive design and XR worldbuilding.

Senior Advisor to the United Nations and award-winning filmmaker. Together with filmmaker Chris Milk he produced and directed the pioneering virtual reality, 360° 3D short documentaries WAVES OF GRACE (about Ebola-stricken Liberia) and CLOUDS OVER SIDRA (about a Syrian refugee in the Jordanian Zaatari camp) for the UN.

US filmmaker and VR pioneer. She is the principal filmmaker for VR at Google. In 2009, she joined Google's Creative Lab where she spearheaded numerous award winning shorts and documentaries before joining the Cardboard team in 2015. Since directing, WORLD TOUR – the first VR film made with the Jump ecosystem – Brillhart has continued travelling the world, filming and experimenting, all in an effort to better understand and help inform others about this emergent medium.

Senior Film Outreach Lead at Kickstarter, where he’s helped filmmakers raise over $10m for new projects. Previously, Dan served as the Associate Director of Programming at IFP, and as the Associate Editor of FILMMAKER Magazine. He’s spoken about filmmaking at festivals around the world, including Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, and the New York Film Festival. Recently, Dan spearheaded and produced COLLECTIVE:SUBCONSCIOUS, a collaborative feature in which five of NYC’s most acclaimed filmmakers adapted each other’s dreams for the screen. The film will become the first ever omnibus to premiere in Competition at SXSW in 2016.