@destorm

DeStorm Power is an Emmy Nominee, American Music Award winner and Five Time Streamy Award winning Actor, Musician, Writer, Comedian and Director. An Entrepreneur, he is a Founder of the Zeus Network, Ghost Studios and Dramatik Verticals App.

With over 30 million followers across his social platforms, he has written and starred in thousands of digitally created videos. The host of Season 10's PUNK'D, well-known for his creativity, laugh out loud comedy and infectious musical hooks, DeStorm is one of the most recognizable faces in the digital space.

@tarynsouthern

Taryn Southern is an award-winning storyteller, speaker, and creative technologist whose work explores the intersection of emerging technology and human potential.

An early YouTuber with more than 750+ million views, Taryn’s groundbreaking tech experiments include composing the world’s first AI pop album (2017), creating an award-winning Google VR series (2018), directing a Tribeca Film Festival documentary on brain-computer interfaces (2019) and creating one of the first digital clones (2020).

At one of the world’s leading implantable neurotechnology companies, Taryn oversaw marketing and communications for two successful funding rounds totaling over $230M+. This past year, she taught a course for business and engineering students at the world’s only AI-first university in Abu Dhabi. She continues to advise and speak at Fortune500 companies on AI and human potential.

@rourke @genhq

Rourke Heath is the founder of GenHQ, the world’s largest Creative AI education platform, on a mission to create 100,000 new jobs in the Creative AI industry. With over 1.3M followers across platforms, he’s one of the leading consultants in the Creative AI space — working with Fortune 500 companies to integrate Creative AI into billion-dollar businesses, all while building his own company to an eight-figure valuation. Inside GenHQ, his cohort of students has generated over $500,000 in documented wins in just 10 months, most of them having never used Creative AI before. He’s partnered with leading AI companies including Magnific, and regularly speaks and trains at industry events on how creators, brands, and professionals can turn AI into real-world opportunity.

@calebwward @curiousrefuge

Caleb Ward is the CEO of Curious Refuge, an online platform and community pioneering the use of AI in film. He is deeply dedicated to democratizing the creative process by unlocking the inner storyteller inside everyone. His AI training empowers artists across the creative spectrum, from Academy Award Winners to aspiring artists looking to learn storytelling for the first time. He has trained thousands of artists worldwide and in every major studio. He believes AI is dramatically changing the creative landscape and elevating the creative potential of artists around the world.

@rebeccagrone @11.11media

Rebecca Grone is the Head of Impact at 11:11 Media, the next-gen media company founded by Paris Hilton and Bruce Gersh. Rebecca leads the non-profit arm, 11:11 Media Impact, which is dedicated to creating meaningful and lasting change worldwide. Rooted in Paris’s lived experiences, the organization leverages strategic advocacy, socially conscious storytelling, and philanthropic investments to address critical issues such as protecting children from institutional child abuse and fostering inclusion for individuals with learning and thinking differences.

Over the past five years, Grone has driven Paris Hilton’s advocacy to reform the Troubled Teen Industry, contributing to the passage of the bipartisan federal Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, the advancement of 15 state laws protecting more than 13 million children, and the launch of the federal investigation Warehouses of Neglect. She also developed Trapped in Treatment; the acclaimed investigative podcast produced with iHeartMedia and Warner Bros. More recently, Grone has expanded her advocacy into digital safety and the harms of non-consensual AI-generated content, supporting 11:11 Media’s work to raise awareness around deepfakes and advance protections through legislation such as the DEFIANCE Act. Her broader impact work includes mobilizing more than $2 million to support displaced families and female small business owners impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires, as well as significantly elevating awareness and resources for women with ADHD.

A graduate of the University of Southern California and an alum of Rise Justice Labs’ legislative accelerator, Grone previously served as Impact Producer for the PBS documentary Duty Free and as Program Coordinator for the USC Medical Clowning Program, the first U.S.-based training and research program in the therapeutic art of medical clowning.

@gioiamike @aionthelot

Mike Gioia co-founded AI on the Lot, the world's largest AI media conference. Mike works for Sean Parker at his new AI media lab designing AI systems and incubating creative projects.

@gioiamike
@aionthelot

Rebel Audio is founded by serial entrepreneur and two-time Emmy nominee, Jared Gutstadt (Jingle Punks, Audio Up), who has long pioneered the intersection of music, branded content, and storytelling.

Gutstadt’s career catalog includes projects with entertainment icons and brands like Bob Dylan, Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled, NAS, Machine Gun Kelly, Miranda Lambert, Jelly Roll, SiriusXM, Audible and The Weeknd, and was the key architect in defining the sound of global unscripted television with his award winning contributions to The Voice, Pawn Stars, American Pickers and countless sports marketing endeavors.

Gutstadt’s work can be seen in Rolling Stone, LA Times, Variety, Adweek 2022 Podcast of the Year Awards, Billboard, CBS and more.

@donalleniii

Don Allen III is a creative technologist and futurist who leads the A.R.T. Department at Asteria Studio, sits on Adobe's Creative Council, and advises WhatsApp and Meta's Ray-Ban hardware division. A former DreamWorks Animation specialist trainer, he's the author of Make a Seat and host of the Rethink Reality podcast, where he makes emerging technology feel usable to everyone.

@gioiamike
@aionthelot

Jagger Waters is a writer, producer and multidisciplinary AI Creator with over a decade of experience across film, TV, audio, immersive, live events, and digital storytelling. As an early adopter at the forefront of AI-driven video production, her work has been recognized by SXSW, the Sundance Institute, VidCon, Adobe, Cannes, Raindance Film Festival, Fox Studios, the Producers Guild of America, Forbes, and the Television Academy.

@gioiamike
@aionthelot

Verena Puhm is the Founder of Matriarch, an L.A.-based AI-native studio developing tech-influenced IP, serving Hollywood studios, and building the infrastructure for how content is made and experienced in the age of AI.
Former Head of Dream Lab LA at Luma AI, Verena built the industry's first next-generation cinematic R&D studio, pioneering scalable AI-driven production pipelines across live-action, animation, and hybrid formats. At Matriarch, she's spearheading Affective Content Intelligence, the studio's proprietary approach to understanding audience response by combining biometric signals, self-reported emotional intent, and content data, moving beyond clicks and completion rates to inform creative development, discovery, and greenlighting. Her work has been recognized by Deadline, Forbes, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Los Angeles Times.

@jennystojkovic

Jenny Stojkovic didn’t grow up with CEO parents, Ivy
League connections, or a financial safety net. Raised in a
small Canadian farm town by a blind father and a mother
who worked as a liquor store cashier, she learned early that
nothing is handed to you — you have to build it yourself.
That mindset, which she later coined the Why Not
Me?™
philosophy, propelled her from humble beginnings to the
heart of Silicon Valley. There, she led global policy work for
companies like Google, Meta, and Airbnb and built a
reputation as a trusted voice at the intersection of business,
technology, and policy.
Today, Jenny is one of the youngest female venture
capitalists in the U.S., serving as General Partner of Joyful
Ventures, and has invested over $25 million into early-stage,
values-driven startups.
Jenny is a sought-after keynote speaker, known for
delivering high-energy, insight-packed talks on artificial
intelligence, leadership, innovation, career growth, and the
future of work, especially for first-generation professionals
and underrepresented talent.
Jenny has been featured on Good Morning America,
Fortune, and Fast Company, and has spoken on global
stages including SXSW, Dreamforce, the United Nations, and
Google.
She combines deep tech experience with personal
storytelling and real-world strategy to help audiences
navigate disruption, embrace bold thinking, and lead with
clarity, no matter where they start in life.

@chriscapelyt

Chris Capel is a comedy director with over 15 years of experience bringing laughs to brands like El Pollo Loco, LEGO and Jimmy Kimmel Live! With two decades in animation and a deep background in VFX, his work blends timing, character and craft in a way that hits the sweet spot where story meets technology. He's worked on more than ten feature films at DreamWorks and Disney, directed AAA game cinematics for Blizzard and Blur, and delivered sharp commercial work for Apple, EA and Supercell.

Chris treats generative AI like a creative playground, using it to fast-track big ideas and serve up comedy with extra bite. With nearly 200k YouTube subscribers and over 100 million views across platforms, he's built an audience the old-fashioned way, with brains, heart and a knack for whip-smart comedic storytelling.

@BernieSu

Bernie is a Peabody and three-time Primetime Emmy award-winning director, producer, and interactive storyteller pushing the boundaries of narrative storytelling. He is the creator and showrunner of Whispers, Pickford.ai's groundbreaking interactive mystery series where audience prompts influence the show’s real time scene generation. He also serves as Pickford's Head of Creative.

His Emmy-winning works include Jane Austen adaptations The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved—capturing YouTube's first two Primetime Emmys and Artificial, the live interactive sci-fi series that became Twitch's most decorated original series, winning a Webby, Peabody, and Primetime Emmy.

Bernie also creates and directs commercials and branded entertainment campaigns, working with Maybelline, Samsung, Olay, New York Life, and Old Spice. He is a sought-after speaker on generative AI's transformative impact, ethics, and risks across the creator economy and traditional entertainment industry.