Speakers
Speakers
This year we are proud to feature creatives, researchers, industry leaders and experts from across the world’s creative industries as speakers as part of the BEYOND Global 2023 programme.
Featured
Chad Kunimoto
Panasonic Connect
Global Business Development Manager, Immersive Experiences & Themed Entertainment
Chioma Ogbudimkpa
Redbutton
Founder and Creative Director
Chris van der Kuyl
Chroma Ventures
Principal
Damien Smith
ISODESIGN
Partner
Esteban Botero
EVENT Communications
Creative Director
Hala Al Khalifa
Nuwah Foundation
Chief Executive Officer
John Newbigin
PEC International Council
Chair
Les Seddon-Brown
Rematch
CEO
Manami Yuasa
British Council
Regional Arts Director, East Asia
Michael Couzigou
NEW ART EXPERIENCES / Big incredible
CEO
Paul Owens
BOP
Co-Founder and Director
Piotr Mirowski
DeepMind
Staff Research Scientist
Rehana Mughal
British Council
Director, Creative Economy
Ryan Metcalfe
Preevue
Founder & Managing Director
Samira Ahmed
BBC
Broadcaster and Journalist
Sue Lyster
Industrial Light & Magic
Executive in Charge, London Studio
Svana Gisla
Abba Voyage
Producer
Victoria Eyton
Ida XR Studio
Co-Founder
Vilma Jurkute
Alserkal Initiatives
Executive Director
Aanchal Sodhani
Senior Manager, Arts
British Council, India
Adam Ganz
Professor of Media Arts
Royal Holloway University of London
Aiwen Yin
System Designer and Creative Research Fellow
Alex Wills
Chief Experience Officer
Disguise
Amanda Dimmock
Senior Content Designer
EVENT Communications
Ana Betancourt
Head of Sound Innovations
Black Goblin
Andrew Chitty
Creative Research and Innovation Centre (CRAIC)
Loughborough University London
Andy Hook
Technical Solutions Director
White Light ltd
Anna Stewart
Research Psychologist
I2 Media Research
Asha Easton
Immerse UK Lead
Innovate UK KTN
Ben Schogler
Founder and Creative Director
Playable Technology
Chad Kunimoto
Global Business Development Manager, Immersive Experiences & Themed Entertainment
Panasonic Connect
Charline Munzer
Project Manager
Creative Impact Research Centre Europe
Chioma Ogbudimkpa
Founder and Creative Director
Redbutton
Chris Michaels
Founder
Digital Advisory
Chris Speed
Director
Edinburgh Futures Institute
Chris van der Kuyl
Principal
Chroma Ventures
Christopher Smith
UKRI Creative Industries Sector Champion/AHRC Executive Chair
Arts & Humanities Research Council
Clare Reddington
CEO
Watershed
Damian Murphy
Director XR Stories
University of York
Damien Smith
Partner
ISODESIGN
Daniar Amanaliev
Co-founder and Band Master
ololo Group
Dawn Ellams
Senior Tutor
Royal College of Art
Donal Phillips
Business Development Manager
Queen’s University Belfast
Dora Filipovic
Filmmaker
Emma Turner
Head of Film, Animation and Future Skills
ScreenSkills
Esteban Botero
Creative Director
EVENT Communications
Floris van der Breggen
SyncVR Medical UK Ltd
Gabrielle Shiner-Hill
Co-founder
Bureau 555
Gavin McWilliams
Multidisciplinary Programmes Director
Queen’s University Belfast
Gregor White
Chair of Applied Creativity
Abertay University
Hala Al Khalifa
Chief Executive Officer
Nuwah Foundation
Hannah Robinson
Architecture Design Fashion, Senior Relationship Manager
British Council
Helen Kennedy
Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries, Faculty of Arts
University of Nottingham
Hilary Knight
Senior Consultant
AEA Consulting
Jack Lowe
Research Associate in Creative Economies
Bristol + Bath
James Bennett
Director
StoryFutures, Royal Holloway, University of London
Jane Harris
Director
Fashion, Textiles & Technology Institute, UAL
Jason Larcombe
Senior Project Manager
White Light
Jess Turtle
Co-Founder and Director of Museum of Homelessness
Museum of Homelessness
John Newbigin
Chair
PEC International Council
Jon Hymus
Managing Director
Innerva
Jonathan Freeman
Managing Director
i2 Media Research Ltd
Jorge Lopes Ramos
Professor of Interactive Theatre & Performance
University of Greenwich
Julia Glenn
Design Innovation Lead
Healthy Ageing Challenge, UKRI
Jung In Jung
InGAME R&D Fellow and Lecturer in Creative Computing
Abertay University
Justin Lewis
Director
Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University and Media Cymru
Kirsty Fairclough
Professor of Screen Studies/Deputy Head
School of Digital Arts (SODA), Manchester Metropolitan University
Lara Carmona
Director of Policy and Engagement
Creative UK
Laura Solomon
R&D Fellow
Fashion, Textiles & Technology Institute, UAL
Laura Partridge
Strategic Lead, CoSTAR
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Leah Kurta
Co-Founder
Ida XR Studio
Leo Tarasov
R&D Science and Analysis Portfolio Programme Manager
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Les Seddon-Brown
CEO
Rematch
Lewis Turner-Brown
Quantitative research specialist
i2 media research ltd
Liz Roberts
Senior Research Fellow
University of the West of England
Manami Yuasa
Regional Arts Director, East Asia
British Council
Mark Grimmer
Company Director
59 Productions
Matthew Bett
Lecturer, Division of Games Technology and Mathematics,
Abertay University
Matthew Shaw
Director and Co-Founder
ScanLAB Projects
Melissa Terras
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Director of Creative Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Michael Couzigou
CEO
NEW ART EXPERIENCES / Big incredible
Michael McKenna
CEO and Co-Founder
Final Pixel
Miguel Blanco-Carrasco
Advisor
Royal Commission for Riyadh City
Nicola Osborne
Programme Manager
Creative Informatics
Nusrat Mahmud
Co-founder
Bureau 555
Oliver Bown
Associate Professor
The University of New South Wales
Paul Moore
Director
Future Screens NI
Paul Owens
Co-Founder and Director
BOP
Persis Jade Maravala
Co-Founder / Artistic Director
ZU-UK
Peter Bazalgette
Pro-Chancellor & Chair
Royal College of Art
Peter Richardson
Head of Virtual Production at StoryFutures and Professor of Creative Industries
Royal Holloway
Piotr Mirowski
Staff Research Scientist
DeepMind
Polly Dalton
Audience Insights Lead
StoryFutures, Royal Holloway
Rachel Coldicutt
Executive Director
Careful Trouble
Rachel Lyske
Chief Executive Officer
DACCI
Rehana Mughal
Director, Creative Economy
British Council
Ruth Falconer
Head of the Division of Games Technology and Mathematics
Abertay University
Ryan Metcalfe
Founder & Managing Director
Preevue
Samira Ahmed
Broadcaster and Journalist
BBC
Sara Coppola-Nicholson
Head of Research Programme
disguise
Sara Pepper
Professor of Creative Economy
Cardiff University
Sarah Ellis
Director of Digital Development
Royal Shakespeare Company
Simon Moreton
Director Bristol+Bath Creative R+D
UWE Bristol
Sol Rogers
Global Director of Innovation
Magnopus
Stephen Hilton
Director
Bristol Futures Global Ltd
Sue Lyster
Executive in Charge, London Studio
Industrial Light & Magic
Sue Rainton
Associate Director
Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour (LITAC) / University of Leeds
Svana Gisla
Producer
Abba Voyage
Tateo Nakajima
Arup Fellow
Arup
Tita Larasati
Executive Committee
ICCN
Toby Bennett
Lecturer of Media, Culture & Organisation
City, University of London & University of Westminster
Victoria Eyton
Co-Founder
Ida XR Studio
Vilma Jurkute
Executive Director
Alserkal Initiatives