Paul Dennett

City Mayor

Salford City Council

Oonagh Murphy

Director

Responsible AI Cultural Leaders Academy Arts Council England

Kim-Leigh Pontin

Interactive Experience Creative Lead

Merlin Entertainments

Marta Foresti

Founder and CEO

LAGO Collective

Hannah Williamson

General Partner

Edge VC

Siân Prime

Academic Lead: Enterprise, Innovation & Incubation

Goldsmiths

Thomas Keane

Co-Founder & Creative Director

Meaning Machine

Myra Appannah

CO-DIRECTOR / ARTIST

BRiGHTBLACK

Hilary Knight

Director

Change&

Gidon Freeman

Senior Vice President and Managing Director

Universal Destinations and Experiences

David Edge

Associate Director

Arup

Julie McCarthy

Strategic Lead for Creative Health

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Hooman Samani

Creative Robotics Reader

University of the Arts London

Joanne Evans

Investment Director

AXM Venture Capital

Veronika Liebl

Managing Director

Ars Electronica

Kate O’Connor

Executive Chair

Animation UK

Deepa Mann-Kler

CEO

Neon

Cat Drew

Chief Design Officer

The Design Council

Garry Crawford

Professor of Cultural Sociology

The University of Salford

Giorgio Fazio

Director of Research; Professor of Macroeconomics

Creative PEC; Newcastle University

Nihal Arthanayake

TV Presenter and Broadcaster

Richard Koeck

Director

Music Futures

Aaron McPeake

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

University of the Arts London

Nicola Osborne

BRAID Creative Industries Lead

Institute for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Alice Webb

Chief Executive Officer

MediaCity

Hannah Long

Portfolio Manager

Creative UK

Pod Bluman

Project Director

Bluman Associates Ltd

Emma Hardie

Executive Commercial and Brand Director

Aardman

Keri Elmsly

Founder and Chief Curator

PACT

Keisha Thompson

Artist / Poetic Evaluator

Freelance

Lucy Jarjoura

Chief Marketing Officer

Wake The Tiger

Simon Wilkinson

Co-Director

BRiGHTBLACK Productions Limited

Tateo Nakajima

Chief Development Officer

Therme Group

Lamberto Coccioli

Director

CreaTech Frontiers

Richard Cox

Senior Investment Manager – Translation and Commercialisation

AHRC

Richard Cole

Senior Lecturer in Digital Futures

University of Bristol

Audra Gill

Head of Creative Industries

Arts and Humanities Research Council

Ken Wilder

Professor of Aesthetics

University of the Arts London

Sarah Atkinson

Professor of Screen Media / Director ADAPT-AI

King’s College London

Kwame Safo

Co-Founder

BLACMEX

Charlotte Gislam

Researcher

The University of Salford

Octavio Kulesz

Director

Teseo

Iain Bennett

Creative Alchemist

The Fifth Sector

Andy Miah

Chair of Science Communication & Future Media

University of Salford, Manchester

Joanna Choukeir

Deputy Director Creative Industries

Innovate UK, UKRI

Angela Chan

Professor of Creative Industries

CoSTAR National Lab

Caroline Meaby

Head of Programmes and Engagement

OKRE (Opening Knowledge across Research and Entertainment)

Cathy Kerfoot

Creative Industries Programme Director

UKRI

Polly Dalton

Professor of Psychology

Royal Holloway, University of London