Dr. Burcu Kilic is the Head of Policy for the Frontier Technology initiative at Minderoo Foundation. Burcu is a global influencer, experienced thought leader, advocate, and strategist. She has researched and written extensively on digital rights, intellectual property, innovation, and trade and provided technical advice and assistance in numerous countries in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. Before joining the Minderoo Foundation, Burcu directed the Digital Rights Program at Public Citizen and Public Citizen’s research on access to medicines. She was named as one of the 300 Women Leaders in Global Health in 2015 in recognition of her work on health and trade policy. She was also a practitioner fellow at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab in 2021-22.

Alx Preston, Founder and Creative Director at Heart Machine, is an artist who seeks to express himself through games, a medium so complex and challenging that only the truly determined/mad/angry at themselves would pursue a career in it long-term. And yet, here we are, some 10 odd years later after the launch of Hyper Light Drifter, a game with measured success and "bleak" written all over it. Heart Machine has grown a fair bit over the years, including releasing the game Solar Ash. He credits that to the kind people who decide they want to lend their time and talents to the wild whisperings of a starry-eyed cave dweller. Typically you'll find Alx talking, drawing or writing, all things he heard were "cool" at some point (and likely from a stranger that seemed trustworthy and bullish enough to be convincing) and never looked back.

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Gabo Arora is a world renowned multi-award winning immersive artist, professor, entrepreneur and former UN diplomat who works with the most cutting-edge emerging technologies, including virtual and augmented reality, to tell some of the most important stories of our time. Widely recognized as a pioneer of new documentary formats, his work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), has been described by the BBC and LA Times, amongst many others, as “game changing”, “powerful, moving and without precedent”, and “transcending all the typical barriers of rectangular cinema.”

Kellee Santiago is Head of Production at Niantic Games Studios, with a focus on original IP.  As former president and co-founder of thatgamecompany, she developed one of the most prominent brands in independent and innovative game development. In 2013 she moved into Publishing and Developer Relations at OUYA, the Kickstarter Android console. She later joined Google to similarly build out the developer pipelines and content strategy for their VR and AR platforms. Last year she moved back into original game development, working on Ingress, which celebrated their 10th year as a live game, and the upcoming AR-first mobile game, Peridot.

One of the most prolific executive producers in the history of the games industry, Mike has been a part of bringing more than 100 games to market with more than 20 original million-unit sellers — all from small independent teams around the world. He and his partners at Devolver Digital have forever changed the measure of success for an independent publisher and he is now fully focused on facilitating opportunities to bring medicinal media to the next generation of creators.

A noted expert and innovator in the fields of mental health, artificial intelligence, and surgical robotics, Ryan has been on the frontline of major paradigm shifts in healthcare for over 15 years. He has participated in the commercialization of over 20 medical devices, including treatments for depression, hypertension, women's health, chronic pain, and related neurological conditions. Ryan holds pivotal patents for medical AI, robotics, and systems and frequently has achieved FDA clearance for breakthrough therapies.

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