Speakers

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

Name Surname Company

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