In 1991, Zareh co‐founded Animal Logic with the vision to build a creative environment allowing artists and technicians to harness the opportunities offered by digital technologies for visual effects and animation.

With Zareh’s acute business skills, energy and vision he has steered Animal Logic to continually innovate and to become one of the worlds most respected digital production companies. From the outset, Zareh has been a passionate advocate of emerging digital production processes and technologies and it is this vision that has helped Animal Logic gain its reputation for creative and technical innovation and excellence.

Since its inception, Animal Logic has produced award winning digital animation and visual effects for international television commercials, film and television visual effects, and animated features. Its credits include Matrix, Matrix: Reloaded, Babe, Moulin Rouge!, Harry Potter Goblet of Fire, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, 300, Australia, Knowing, Happy Feet, Legend of the Guardians and Sucker Punch.

Zareh served as Executive Producer on Academy Award wining Happy Feet, and this year as the Producer for the 3D animated feature adventure film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole directed by Zack Snyder.

One of the 'Top Ten mobiThinkers' and '50 Most influential People in Mobile Entertainment' globally.

Neeraj Roy is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Under his leadership, Hungama today is South Asia's largest digital and mobile entertainment company. He is also the Chairman of the Asia Board of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), and was recently voted amongst the 'Top Ten mobiThinkers' and '50 Most influential People in Mobile Entertainment' globally. Neeraj was also awarded the Sun Microsystems-Economic Times Young Leader award in 2001 and voted as 25 young leaders in the new millennium by Business India. He has been nominated four times in a row, to the list of 'Top 50 Executives in Mobile Content' by the ME magazine in the UK.

Hungama Mobile is the largest aggregator, developer and publisher of BOLLYWOOD content in the world. Hungama has developed a digital distribution network spanning 37 countries with over 150 partners across Mobile, Internet, Cable VOD and IPTV services, representing over 300 original content owners across Music, Movies, TV, Sport, Lifestyle content.

Hungama Mobile has now launched a Bollywood channel with over 150 operators in 37 countries on networks such as SingTel, Maxis, MTN, O2, Telis etc and also internet based services such as Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Yahoo! Music etc

Hungama are the owners of the three biggest entertainment portals in South Asia, Hungama.com and BollywoodHungama.com, The # 1 Bollywood portal in the world and GamingHungama.com

Hungama Mobile has an active Mobile Entertainment and Marketing/Applications business, which has been engaged with over 300 brands and developed over 1000 interactive campaigns.

Hungama has won over 60 awards in Digital Marketing, including 4 ABBY Golds, PMAA-Singapore and the Globes in Miami.

Neeraj was one of the founders of TiE in India and has been on the Board of TiE Mumbai chapter for several years. He is also an active speaker at various international forums and on several domestic and international committees advising on the global Mobile Entertainment opportunity.
 

Susan Bonds is a pioneer of transmedia storytelling and driving force behind42 Entertainment’s critically acclaimed interactive experiences: genre-defining participatory and cross-platform entertainment often described as “alternative reality” games (ARGs). 

These rich worlds extend beyond film screens, game consoles, television shows, book pages, and music albums, allowing audiences to “live” the story in unforgettable ways that intersect when, where, and how they live.  More than any other form of interactive media, these ARGs create strong, passionate global communities and galvanize them into a powerful hive mind of collective intelligence.  As President and CEO, Susan builds and directs the teams that design, create, and execute 42’s diverse and innovative projects. 

In 2008, 42 Entertainment created the groundbreaking ARG, Why So Serious?, for Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight, the third-highest grossing movie of all time.  More than 10-million people around the world participated in this 3600 immersive experience as citizens of Gotham City came to life through a variety of mediums and platforms.  Why So Serious? won the Cyber Grand Prix at the 2009 Cannes Lions, the Art Director’s Club Hybrid Award; and the Webby Integrated Campaign Award.  In 2007, 42 Entertainment took the music world by storm, working with Nine Inch Nails to produce Year Zero, a first-of-its-kind concept album that combined music with multi-platform, transmedia storytelling.  This ARG also won the Cyber Grand Prix in 2008.  Past 42 Entertainment campaigns include: ilovebees, the 2004 ARG used to launch Microsoft’s wildly popular X-Box game Halo 2; Project Abraham, for the 2008 launch of Sony Playstation’s Resistance 2; and, The Vanishing Point, a 2007 global puzzle experience to promote Windows Vista.  42 Entertainment is currently working with Disney on an “alternate reality” adventure for the upcoming 2010 film Tron Legacy.

Before founding 42 Entertainment, Susan was Chief Design and Production Officer for Cyan Worlds, a company best known for creating the worlds of Myst and Riven, two of the best-selling PC games of all time, where she produced a Massively Multiplayer Online game, URU: Ages Beyond Myst, and realMyst, the popular PC game in real time 3D. 

For ten years, Susan was Creative Director and Senior Show Producer for Walt Disney Imagineering, where she directed the design, development, and construction of major attractions, themed architecture, internet entertainment projects, and proprietary new ride systems.  Her portfolio included such blockbuster “E-Ticket” attractions as the Indiana Jones Adventure,Alien Encounters, and Mission: SPACE.  Susan produced the signature exterior design of the ABC Times Square Studios in New York, seen every day on Good Morning America, and led the Disney Concept Studio charged with creating innovative ideas for the company.

Susan has an Engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, an MBA from Georgia State University, and is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America.

Tonny Sorensen Danish born entrepreneur, Tonny Sorensen, is a visionary who believes in the expansion of creative ideas among many artistic disciplines including fashion, fine and lowbrow art, music performance, multi-media entertainment, the kustom kulture and culinary art.
 
Honoring what he loves best, Mr. Sorensen, an Olympic athlete who has held the title of World Heavy Weight Tae Kwon Do Champion, combined all of these artistic voices into one unified creative space called Planet Illogica.

Tonny’s main role is “conceptualist”. His avant-garde business philosophy, legendary ‘one-second rule’ and unique creative vision contribute to a personal mantra that delivers unlimited possibility, originality and artistic freedom to artists and corporations with a creative agenda.

Tonny is no stranger to lending his vision to successful enterprise, as his business and life experiences have proven wildly successful for his companies Von Dutch Originals, 1984, GLADSAXE dojo school in Denmark, and the recently launched clothing company, Civil Smith.

August de los Reyes is the Principal Design Director for Microsoft Surface whose team is dedicated to pioneering intuitive ways to interact with technology.

De los Reyes is a member of the Advanced Studies Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he received an MDesS with Distinction in product design through which he explored the relationship of emotion and design intent. An affiliate design faculty member at University of Washington, de los Reyes was a visiting associate at the University of Oxford, and a 2009 juror of the International Design Excellence Awards. He is researching his next book entitled The Poetics of Everyday Objects.
 

Chris Deering has led multicultural motion picture video and computer game publishing for nearly 3 decades, initially as Vice President – International for Atari game consoles and computers, and subsequently as Executive Vice President and COO for Columbia Pictures International Video, and from 1995 to 2005 as President of Sony Computer Entertainment - Europe (SCEE).

At SCEE he led the team that has sold over 80 million consoles and facilitated the sale of over 1 billion games. Most of SCEE's original management team, set up by Chris, remains at the core of PlayStation leadership, now including the management of Sony's worldwide game development studios.

From 2006 to 2010, Chris served as Chairman of the Board for Codemasters, the world’s leading independent video game developers; and as Chairman of the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival.  He was a board director at Malmo based Wayfinder Systems, a GPS navigation software firm, before it was acquired by Vodafone in 2009.  Chris was also a board member of Malmo-based Sony Ericsson in 2004 - 2005.

Chris currently serves as Chairman of Stockholm based Music Myne and is a board member at PlaySpan of Santa Clara, California.

Xiaoping, Principal of BAZO, has over 22 years of urban and real estate related experience of which 12 have been focused on the China market.  He is a leader in China's urban development and renewal. 

Since establishing BAZO in 2000, Xiaoping has advised 20 of China's city governments in over 1.400 square kilometers of urban development and large scale infrastructure projects, including the development of brand new hi-tech digital cities.
 
XIaoping's book Creative China City sets new international standards for urban developments through its emphasis on a balanced process of positioning - planning - promoting - financing.  He is a highly sought after speaker at international conferences on China's investment opportunities.
 
Xiaoping graduated from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA) with a professional degree in Architecture.  He also serves as the Vice Secretary General of the China Commercial Real Estate Association.  He has taught at the China Pudong Executive Leadership Academy where aspiring city mayors learn urban development theory; and at the Harvard GSD Executive Program for institutional investors on China investment.

Jason DaPonte is Managing Editor, BBC Mobile Platforms.

He is responsible for overseeing the content across the BBC’s mobile web, messaging and A/V offerings as well as looking at emerging areas including mobile broadcasting and out-of-home entertainment and information services.

He is also Chair of the BBC Future Media Editorial Forum.

 Previously, he was Executive Producer for bbc.co.uk, the world’s largest English-language website that covers a range of content from news to entertainment and user generated content. He was responsible for working to shape the overall editorial portfolio and strategy in line with audience needs and emerging technologies.

 As part of this work, he led a change programme across the BBC’s online producers called “Ensuring Excellence.” This programme aimed to build a stronger culture of excellence across hundreds of editorial staff in different production areas. It focussed on how editorial standards, guidelines and training need to change in the rapidly changing environment that is digital media. The programme is part of the corporation’s BBC 2.0 initiative, which aims to fundamentally re-invent and improve the website over the next three years.

DaPonte originally joined the BBC in 2002 as an editor and has also led the corporation’s efforts in the areas of Search & Navigation, which has resulted in a multi-million pound programme of work in this area being recently kicked off.

Before working at the BBC, DaPonte was Producer of Economist.com where he product managed the website and launched the digital brand into various new editorial areas.

Before moving to the UK in 2000, he worked in New York for CitySeach/Ticketmaster where he managed the design and production of a network of city guide websites and at FOX where he was a web producer and production manager.

His early career began with working on the early versions of a number of major American media sites. He is proud to have been a member of the launch team for WashingtonPost.com and worked on an early site for U.S. News and World Report. He also worked as a consultant and freelancer for a number of small start-up companies during the “dot com boom.”
 

Nam Do is a serial technology entrepreneur. Prior to forming Emotiv, Nam co-founded and ran SASme, a pioneer in providing SMPP platforms to telecommunication carriers and content aggregators in Australia and Asia.

SASme is one of the companies largely responsible for the creation of Australia's SMS application market. Nam helped grow SASme from its humble beginnings to a thriving company with multiple markets worldwide.

Nam's background is in Strategic Planning and Management, and he is also an expert in Information Technology and Multimedia. At the age of nine, Nam was selected to join a special program in Mathematics and Physics at the National School for Gifted Students in Vietnam. In 1995, Nam won one of Vietnam's most prestigious scholarships for study abroad. In 1996, Nam came to Australia's RMIT University under a scholarship program for students with exceptional academic ability and leadership potential. Nam started his first technology company when he was a final year student at RMIT University in Melbourne.

Nam has been a driving force of Emotiv since co-founding the company in 2003. In 2007, Nam was voted as one of Australia's Top 10 Digital Entrepreneurs.

Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is a composer, Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music, and a researcher in multi-modal media systems content and facilities design. 

Her years of experience in digital media research led to the creation of a multi-million dollar sponsored research program for the University of California—the Digital Media Innovation Program. She was Chief Scientist of the Program from 1998 to 2003. 

The culmination of Professor Kuchera-Morin’s creativity and research is the AlloSphere, a 30-foot diameter, 3-story high metal sphere inside an echo-free cube, designed for immersive, interactive scientific and artistic investigation of multi-dimensional data sets. Scientifically, the AlloSphere is an instrument for gaining insight and developing bodily intuition about environments into which the body cannot venture—abstract higher-dimensional information spaces, the worlds of the very small or very large, and the realms of the very fast or very slow.  Artistically, it is an instrument for the creation and performance of avant-garde new works and the development of new modes and genres of expression and forms of immersion-based entertainment.

Professor Kuchera-Morin serves as the Director of the AlloSphere Research Facility located within the California NanoSystems Institute, Elings Hall, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin earned a Ph.D. in composition from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.

Julien has worked in the computer games industry for over 16 years. 

After studying "Architecturing Microprocessors & Designing Programming Languages", he started as a programmer at Shen in Paris, programming 2 games on the Atari Jaguar in assembly language, and a 3D Engine for Jaguar and PC.

In 1994 Julien joined Ubisoft Entertainment and worked on programming for Rayman and POD.  He then became lead programmer on Tonic Trouble. In 1999 after focussing on Rayman 2 and on the R&D for the Playstation 2, Julien became the Worldwide Technical Director of Ubisoft Entertainment.  In this role, he focused on Studios creation and organization, technology and production pipeline design, multi-platform strategy, as well as AAA features integration. He also took responsibility for middleware and development strategy, communication and cooperation
strategy, and hardware manufacturers and middleware relations.

At the end of 2005, after having worked on next generation Technology Strategy, Julien saw the opportunity to pursue his career at Eidos, where he currently serves as Worldwide CTO, focusing on the Technology Strategy, the Online Strategy and the Outsourcing Strategy.  Julien was also involved in setting up Eidos Montreal and Eidos Shanghai.
 

Heralded as the Mark Zuckerberg of China, Wang Xing has been awarded “Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneur 2008”.

Wang Xing launched his first website Xiaonei.com in 2005.  Xiaonei.com has the same interface as Facebook and has become the most popular social network for college students throughout China.  Xiaonei which literally translates as “on campus”, was so successful that Wang sold the site to Oak Pacific interactive less than 12 months after launch.

Wang now manages two new sites: Hainei.com, a social network for working adults, and Fanfou.com, a microblogging service for people to stay connected through the exchange of text and photos via the Web, instant message, or mobile phone. 

Wang graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing with a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering and from the University of Delaware with a Master’s in Computer Engineering.

Rob has been working with cutting-edge technologies since the early 90s and is focused upon creating tangible experiences that change the way you see technology, business and the world around you. MOB create innovative iPhone, Mobile and Internet based Applications and have created Augmented Reality (AR) applications and ARt installations for public display and consumer markets.

MOB's customers include the Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney Opera House, The Royal Eastershow, IAG, Warner Music and St George to name a few.  

Recently MOB have created a Mobile Augmented Reality experience using historic images of Sydney that the Powerhouse Museum released to the Flickr Commons and MOB regularly contribute to the Open Government/Open Data movement in Australia.

Ken Goldstein’s spirited role in Pi is best described as “motivationalist”.

This is no small task, as Ken reaches out to corporate Alliance Partners with a personal invitation to connect with the Pi community and endeavors. Ken ensures that all creative opportunities are dynamic experiences filled with the spectacle of live performance, high-profile events, productions and global response.

A native of Chicago, Ken is an accomplished filmmaker with several Emmy Awards under his belt. Mr. Goldstein’s professional history includes work with Oprah Winfrey, John Hughes and Barry Levinson, as well as successful productions for A&E Television, HISTORY Channel, BET, FOX and NBC.

An accomplished songwriter and musician, Ken has placed his music in film and television, and performed on stages world wide.
 
In 2001 he opened a marketing firm/commercial production company, which eventually led to meeting Tonny and developing a Los Angeles based Artist-in-Residence program which became the foundation for Planet Illogica.

Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist whose practice spans video installation, photography and short film. In her current body of work, she specialises in the creation of immersive installation environments that offer tactile gateways.

Frequently, the works are developed in series to provide a sense of a cumulative process that changes over time. The environments are not passive spaces but rely on activation by the participant/viewer. The interplay between the moving image, sound, space and visitor as component elements in the ecosystem of a work is the artist’s primary focus.

Wallworth's work is about the relationships between ourselves and nature, about how we are made up of our physical and biological environments, even as we re-make the world through our activities. The activation of the work by the viewer becomes a metaphor for our connectedness within biological, social and ecological systems. She uses technology to reveal the hidden intricacies of human immersion in the wide, complex world.

Lynette Wallworth was awarded a Synapse Residency in 2008 to develop new work with marine biologist Dr Anya Salih by The Confocal Bio-Imaging Facility (CBIF) at University of Western Sydney. In 2003–2004 she was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts New Media Arts Fellowship which enabled her to undertake residencies in Iran, Italy and New Mexico. In 2006 she completed an Arts Council England Fellowship residency at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK.

Her exhibitions include Invisible by Night, commissioned by Experimenta for the 2004 Melbourne Festival; Still: Waiting1, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney as part of Terra Alterius, which toured to galleries throughout Australia during 2005; the premiere of Still: Waiting2, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK, 2006; her first major European solo exhibition Lynette Wallworth – Evolution of Fearlessness, New Crowned Hope Festival, Vienna, Austria, 2006; her first UK solo show, Lynette Wallworth, National Glass Centre in Sunderland, 2007; Auckland Triennial, New Zealand, 2007; Regarding Fear and Hope, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne 2007;Hold: Vessel 2, BFI Gallery, London, UK, 2007; Still Waiting2, John Curtin Gallery, Perth; a solo exhibition Evolution of Fearlessness, Festival International d’Art Lyrique, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2008; Invisible by Night, Mostly Mozart Festival, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York, USA, 2008; Evolution of Fearlessness was presented at the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008, and in 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival, Utah.

Hael is an international and award winning executive with over 25 years experience in the creative industries, including film, digital media, broadcast, and the visual and performing arts.

As a pioneer in the ascending field of digital media, Hael has held roles as senior executive and producer for several of the world’s leading film and entertainment studios. Most recently, he was the Executive for Production Strategy at OmnilabMedia Group, Australia and New Zealand’s largest, independently owned, vertically integrated media company. Prior to this, Hael was the Group Head of Production and Associate Producer on the Oscar winning, digitally animated feature film, Happy Feet for Australia’s Animal Logic. 

Hael previously held the position of Director of Digital Artists Production for Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light + Magic. 

Hael served in several production management roles at DreamWorks Animation, and was the
Entertainment and Science Bureau Chief for MSNBC/ZDTV, which pioneered the use of online communication in conjunction with simultaneous broadcast.

An active industry advocate and champion for digital media development, training and education, Hael is the co-founder of the Presidential Scholars in the Arts’ film and video program for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, USA.

Since 2003, Hael has been a member of leadership teams working with economic development
groups, area planners, leaders in education and other sector representatives to create strategies for developing digital and emerging media as part of sustainable, economic growth in several regions of the world, including Australia, the USA, and Singapore.  He was a member of the federal and state task forces that advised the Strategic Industry Leaders Group (SILG) for Australia’s Digital Content Industry Action Agenda.

Hael is a member of the international jury and senior advisor for Copenhagen’s INDEX: Design to Improve Life.