Jay Latta
Creativity, Innovation, Mobility
Jay Latta is a Technology Visionary with over 35 years of experience and presence in the industry and on stage.
He is the creator of CrossInnovation used by industries around the world, teaching Multiperspectivity and Ecosystemic Thinking and exploring in his articles emerging technology and trends from different perspectives.
His TechThinkTank “STINT – Strategic Intelligence for New Technologies” is focused on humanitarian purposes, scientific research and advanced ideas, which bring benefits to mankind. With “The Fusionists”, Jay has set up an entity for impact investment, especially in Middle East and Africa.
Jay develops open innovation networks – such as PANAFRIN or EERIC – and builds partnerships to promote ideas and technologies that add value to all of us.
Munich, Germany
Jay's Sessions
AWE EU 2022 Day 1 Main Stage: The WHY Behind the Metaverse
AWE EU 2022 Day 2 Main Stage: How Do AR Glasses Go Mainstream?
Jay Latta - Changemaker of Status Quo | JOIN Spotlights Platform| DO you dare?
Rika Nakazawa
AI, Immersive/XR, Metaverse, Sustainability
Rika is a senior leader, angel investor, best-selling author, and frequent public speaker on technology-powered industry transformation. She is Global Vice President within NTT’s New Ventures & Innovation team where she is building Agile Co-innovation practices for emerging technologies like 5G, Edge, AI and IoT. In her additional role as Head of Sustainability for Americas at NTT, Rika is driving NTT’s sustainability ambition in operations while also orchestrating the go-to-market for NTT’s climate-positive solutions across their portfolio of digital infrastructure solutions. In 2022, Rika was awarded “Power 70” recognition for the Women of Channel awards with The Channel Co’s CRN network.
Trilingual in Japanese, German, and English, Rika attended Princeton University and has since worked internationally for over two decades in senior executive roles in strategy, business development, consulting, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies.
Rika is the best-selling author of “Dear Chairwoman”, featuring the trials and triumphs of global women corporate board leaders. Her next book will focus on the intersection of ESG, Digital Innovation, and the Pandemic, called “The White Swan”.
Austin, Texas
Rika's Sessions
Rethinking 'Artificial' - The Creativity Conference
Welcome Address: Conference Rapporteur | Rika Nakazawa
2018:Remote Collaboration/Documentation in the XR Era
Amy Peck
AI, Creativity, Immersive/XR, Innovation
Amy Peck is the Founder & CEO of EndeavorXR, a leading global XR strategy & consulting firm. She is one of the world’s foremost experts on immersive technology, the Metaverse, Web 3.0 and Blockchain. She advises Fortune 500 companies, government entities, digital media/production companies and tech startups on emerging tech strategy, digital transformation and insights into the future of work. She is a globally recognized futurist, and gives lectures, workshops and keynotes on emerging technology, business and innovation with XR, Ai and Blockchain.
Amy was recently named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech for 2023 and Top 100 Women of The Future which was published as a book and series of NFTs. Amy is an angel investor and Venture Partner at the Capital XR Accelerator. Amy is on the Board of Advisors for multiple companies and is Board Co-chair of Prospera Women, a global organization supporting female-led startups. She participates as a business and technology coach and mentor for many global organizations and is a member of several Women in Tech, venture-backed accelerators & STEM Education programs.
Her own personal mission is to see technology accessible to all - fundamentally improving every aspect of our lives and elevating the way we work, learn, communicate and play.
San Francisco, California
Creativity, Innovation, Mobility
Amy's Sessions
"The Metaverse Isn't Going Anywhere" - Forbes
Storytelling in the Virtual World
Interview with Amy Peck - DES 2022
VNCCII aka Sami Tauber
Creator Economy, Multimedia Storytelling, AI
Samantha Tauber [VNCCII] is the Founder, Multi-Media Artist, and Chief Metaverse Officer at VNCCII. She is a creative technologist that adopts the virtual persona of the fictional SuperHeroine Super Sentient A.I character, VNCCII.
Since 2018, Sami Tauber has been representing her project VNCCII as a 3D avatar character which has enabled cross-media integration. She has been listed as one of the Top 10 Personalities disrupting the music industry in 2022, a Global Icon by Passion Vista in 2022, a Top 100 Women Thought Leader of the Future, and the next MetaStar by IPSOS 2022.
Samantha is also the Chair of the Entertainment Working Group at World Metaverse Council and has consulted for various Web 3 and Metaverse startups regarding creative and marketing strategy for both the Metaverse and Web 3. Speaking at various conferences and events around the world such as World Economic Forum, 100 Davos Women, The Creativity Conference, and Immerse Global Summit Europe, it’s VNCCII’s intention to provoke creative, divergent thinking that benefits culture and the future of humanity, especially in the new creative, technological, and financial renaissance of Web3 and the Metaverse.
London, UK
Creativity, Innovation, Mobility
VNCCII's Sessions
"Attuning to Our Creative Divinity" - The Creativity Conference
My Forever Studio: VNCCII's Utopia is Synth-Filled
I Came, I Saw, I Conquered (Music Video)
Mike Pell
AI, Data Visualization, Futurism
Bold, insightful, and uncompromising, M. Pell has spent over three decades pushing the tech industry’s boundaries well past innovative design and technologies into the realm of true breakthroughs. Today, many of those world-changing breakthroughs are imbedded in our everyday lives – such as creating Adobe Acrobat and PDF (1990), pioneering the first version of the web-based Metaverse (1995), creating the WYSIWYG Font menu (1985), and designing early Smartphone experiences (2002).
Widely recognized as a world-class designer and inspiring thought leader, Pell currently leads The Microsoft Garage in New York City, part of the company’s worldwide innovation program for moving ideas forward quickly to foster a culture of experimentation. Pell’s first book, “Envisioning Holograms” is considered a must-have for tomorrow’s most influential storytellers and explorers.
His second book “The Age of Smart Information” details how the fundamental nature of communication is transforming with the combination of AI and Metaverse technologies.
Mike’s third book “Visualizing Business”, due out May 2023, shows our most complex and dynamic businesses in an entirely new light.
New York City
Creativity, Innovation, Mobility
Mike's Sessions
Bold, Brilliant and The Best of Both Worlds | In partnership with Microsoft Garage
How Great Leaders Unlock Innovation with Josh Wolfe and Mike Pell - Nasdaq
Creativity On Demand
Maxim Jago
Creativity, Education, Futurism
Maxim Jago is an Award-Winning Filmmaker, Best-Selling Author, Consultant Futurist, Strategic Advisor, International Keynote, and Founder and Director of The Creativity Conference.
He has consulted on future and emerging technologies for several international organizations, including NASA, The BBC, Nvidia, Adobe, and Google, and published a book exploring futurism for IEEE-USA in 2020 (with four more titles planned).
Maxim is a well-known media technology educator and keynote and is the author of multiple popular books and training series including the official Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book, the Adobe Audition Classroom in a Book, and thousands of tutorials exploring media post-production and production, many of which have been presented as official learning materials for popular creative applications. He has also recently completed work on a practical philosophy book, entitled, How To Be.
London, UK
Creativity, Innovation, Mobility
Maxim's Sessions
The Creativity Conference, with Maxim Jago (Interview)