Julian ran the student theatre at Exeter University and, upon graduation, started his career in theatre and film production. He "fell" into the "industrial theatre" business, as Brand Experience was then known, in 1986, joining Hamilton Perry as an Assistant Producer. He became joint-head of production within 3 years, joined the board before he was 30 and became Managing Director in 1997. In 2000, the agency, then called HP:ICM, was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, an honor which he received from HM the Queen at Buckingham Palace in 2000.

Julian joined Jack Morton Worldwide in 2002. In the 10 years that he was MD, the London office was twice named in the Sunday Times "100 Best Companies". In 2009, Julian joined the Global Executive Team, and in 2011 he became President, in which capacity he has founded offices in Dubai, Düsseldorf and Munich. In 2015, he became Vice Chairman of the worldwide agency, so becoming the most senior non-American in the company’s 83 year history.

Throughout Julian's 36 years in the industry, he has been personally responsible for award winning  communications projects for many of the world’s leading brands. He has served as a member of the Board of the IVCA, has been a columnist in industry press, and a long-standing member of the Superbrands Council.  In 2015, Julian earned the number-one spot in Campaign Live Magazine’s "Event 100 Club," voted by the readers of the magazine as the most influential person in the UK event industry, and in 2017 he received the Event & Visual Communications Association’s Fellowship Award at the House of Lords for his ‘outstanding contribution to the industry’, alongside actor Hugh Bonneville.

Ben is Chief Experience Officer at VMLY&R in London where leads the UK’s CX division, designing data-led experiences and developing customer-experience-led products and service solutions for brands. His 65-strong department includes strategists, UX/UI designers, data analysts, platform specialists, creative, media and social experts, technologists and CRM professionals.

An award-winning digital innovator and marketeer, Ben has a passion for realizing where creative and technology meet and finding new ways of adapting new technologies, both large and small, for marketing applications.

With more than two decades in the creative experience space, Ben has worked for brands including Microsoft, Yahoo and BT, driving large-scale customer success solutions, as well as building web and mobile experiences.

Before moving to VMLY&R, Ben was EMEA Chief Experience Officer at full-service WPP agency, GTB. Here, he led a large integrated team to develop holistic CX solutions for flagship brands such as Ford."

As CCO and Co-Founder of MAS, Mia excels at crafting strong brand messages married with cutting-edge technology and innovative creative. Her vision and relentless work on programs such as the Google Home Mini Launch Tour have won the agency many prestigious awards, including Event Marketer’s Best Pop Up Retail Experience of 2018. Head of YouTube Events and Experiences and Google Ads, Nikki Garvey, describes Mia as “a true visionary in experiential marketing” who has “developed some of the most inspiring work with Google over the past years from YouTube Brandcast to the Google Home Mini Donut Shop.” 

In conjunction with her role as Chief Creative Officer at MAS, Mia spent five years running Obscura Digital’s New York office. With Obscura, she oversaw the 125th Anniversary of Coca-Cola, YouTube Symphony Orchestra, and KACARE in Saudi Arabia. Prior to co-founding MAS in 2007, she was Creative Director for EventQuest, producing Mercedes-Benz tours, Sony Music Grammy events, and even the Governor’s Ball at the Oscars. Additionally, before establishing herself in the events world, Mia spent 6 years in the film industry – she served as programming director for IFP/West and the Independent Spirit Awards and also produced two independent films. Her creative vision and expert cinematography led to several accolades, including being heralded as “a top independent filmmaker to watch” by The Hollywood Reporter. Mia holds a B.A in history from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mia is an exceptional mentor and creative champion, to her team at MAS and beyond. This past spring she judged the BizBash Style Awards and counseled participants in Event Marketer’s collaborative brainchild with Uber and MAS, the Brand X Challenge competition. This extensive competition invites aspiring design and architecture undergrads across 100 colleges and universities to participate in a hypothetical brand experience campaign for Uber Health. Mia guided participants through the ideation strategy and design of their campaigns, judged the finalists, and awarded the winners a trophy, cash prize, and summer internship at MAS. Mia will be back for a second Brand X Competition in 2020 as well. Drawing from twenty plus years in events and creative, Mia brings unparalleled knowledge, experience, and perspective to her involvement in a wide variety of speaking engagements and awards competitions. 

Dustin leads the day-to-day management of Tool, a creative production partner working with the world's most recognized brands, ad agencies and entertainment studios across content, experience and creative technology executions. Our mission is to help clients concept and produce creative marketing that achieves earned attention.

Dustin's focus is on guiding Tool's strategic growth in developing an evolved creative production model. This includes leveraging cultural and communication strategy to take a PR incubated approach to production. Dustin is responsible for founding the Experience group at Tool , consisting of Experiential & Creative Technology.  

Dustin’s been producing experiential activations for brands since 2014, with a focus on the intersection of IRL events with the magic of creative technology. He’s excited about the future of the “real metaverse”; exploring opportunities for AR to be used in contextual and engaging ways.

Working with clients such as Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, Google, Under Armour, Landrover, Intel, Starbucks, Nike and others, his projects have been recognized with numerous awards, including at the Emmy’s (2x) and Cannes Lions (Palme d'Or 2016 Winner). Dustin maintains an active presence in the interactive advertising and marketing industry, serving as a judge for the Webby Awards, Effie Awards and AICP Next Awards.

Throughout her 17+ year career Sarah has worked with leading brands across the automotive, financial, telecommunications and technology sectors to deliver industry-leading events in various corners of the globe.

These include exclusive VIP dinners through to large, high profile conferences for thousands of attendees. At Sledge Sarah is responsible for developing key accounts and providing strategic and creative planning on client projects, and has successfully both led and grown the agency throughout the pandemic.

Passionate about nurturing the next generation, she works closely with her team, encouraging them to develop their individual talent, think outside the box, and champion innovation and creativity on every project.

A firm believer in a collaborative approach, outside of her work managing Sledge Sarah champions the event industry and connects with event professionals to share ideas and creative practice whenever possible. She regularly speaks at and attends industry events, engages in awards judging, and shares her best practice advice with the media and in podcasts.

As Global President, Brand Experiences, for Spiro, Jeff Stelmach draws upon three decades of experience representing some of the globe’s most recognizable names, businesses, and brands. One of only two professionals worldwide to secure the coveted Grand Ex Award for “Best Experiential Marketing Campaign” not once, but twice, Jeff has established himself both a visionary industry leader and a trusted, reliable resource and consultant for today’s top-tier brands.

Before signing on with GES to lead the Go To Market for Spiro, Jeff honed his skills and rose through the ranks of some of today’s best-known ad agencies, including Mosaic North America, Opus Agency and Geometry Global (now VMLY&R Commerce), among others. His portfolio features the likes of Samsung, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Intel, among other major names, and he has racked up an impressive array of awards and accolades along the way, including multiple Event Marketer Ex and Association of National Advertisers REGGIE awards for excellence.

Committed to helping brands and businesses make a successful return to live industry events, Jeff focuses his efforts on creating immersive, experiential opportunities that evoke emotion, encourage brand loyalty and increase engagement between businesses and key audiences.

As the Chief Creative Officer at BRC Imagination Arts, Christian has spent over two decades leading projects from strategy and design through production and opening day. Christian specializes in experiential design, tourism, sustainability, revenue, operations, project delivery plans and creative storytelling approaches for award-winning brand homes, flagships, tours, museums, cultural attractions, and global expo/event pavilions that excite audiences around the world, deepen customer loyalty and build emotional connections. 

Some of Christian’s notable projects include Destination Scotland (Johnnie Walker Princes St. Edinburgh, Glenkinchie Distillery), Jameson Distillery Bow St., The Museum of Liverpool, Absolut Home, Guinness Storehouse, The Heineken Experience, "Dream Big" China Mobile and China Telecom, NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Ford Rouge Factory Tour, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, "Alex & Sylvia" EU Pavilion, The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and “Story Garden” by AMOREPACIFIC.

Christian is sought after for his perspective on trends in experience marketing, storytelling, museums and sustainability. He has spoken at top industry events, including three encore performances at SXSW (2019), the Experiential Marketing Summit (2018), Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (2017), National Sports Forum (2017), MuseumNext (2016/17), Future of Storytelling (2016/17), and TEA Summit (2015/16). He has been a Forbes Agency Council contributor since 2017 and has also contributed to top business and industry publications, including Harvard Business Review, Campaign, CMO.com, Brandchannel, Attractions Management and Museums Journal. 

Christian earned a degree in Design and Marketing at College of DuPage, a BS with Honors in Entertainment Design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Executive Education from Wharton Business School with a certificate in Business Analytics and Data Insights. Christian is a LEED Accredited professional with U.S. Green Building Council and an industry leader on sustainable and inclusive design solutions. And a past SEGD (Society of Experiential Graphic Design) Board Member. Christian is a proud veteran of the United States Navy.

Across a portfolio of world-shaping businesses—including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and many more—Brent and his Opus Agency teams are forming and fueling the future of brand movements. As a member of the Opus Agency executive team and head of their strategy and solutions groups, Brent drives business success at the intersection of experience, content, and community.

Before joining Opus Agency, Brent was the chief digital officer for MIT, held executive leadership positions at renowned global marketing agencies, successfully sold his own agency, and survived two startup-to-IPO adventures. His three-decade-long career is filled with the achievements (and scars) that come from sharing intrigue, obsessing excellence, and rallying global teams. 

Connect and see what’s coming together next at https://returner.is 

Varghese Chacko is the Founding Partner and President of Nightlife United, an advocacy organization that supports cultural businesses and workers affected by the pandemic. He also serves on the National Independent Venue Association's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Task Force. Varghese launched Coachella’s Panorama festival as well as the TEDxBrooklyn conference. He creates experiential partnerships with brands such as Disney, Patron, Lyft, Rockstar Games, Pandora, and Beam Suntory. Varghese thrives in collaborating with companies that sponsor the arts. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and loves to camp. nycnightlifeunited.com

Alasdair Lennox is Group Executive Creative Director of Experience, Americas for Landor & Fitch. Based in San Francisco, Lennox oversees more than 70 employees across North America, comprised of creative directors and designers who will continue to elevate the transformative work of Landor & Fitch. Lennox is the first Group Creative Director across both Landor & Fitch studios in any region. He began his career in FITCH London and rose to become Executive Creative Director for EMEA in 2014 before moving to the US in 2018. Lennox now works across all Landor & Fitch studios in North America, integrating Landor’s brand consulting and strategic design capability and FITCH’s experience design and retail consultancy.

Julia grew up in the small state of Rhode Island, and ironically, she moved to one of the biggest states for college, graduating from the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Creative program. Julia has worked at agencies including Hill Holliday, Johannes Leonardo, and BSSP where she is now a senior copywriter. Proudly, Julia has created a range of work for clients such as ESPN, Volkswagen, adidas Originals, Amazon Music, Bank of America, Blue Shield of California, and more. She credits any success to all the influential mentors she’s had the privilege to learn from along the way.

Will is Co-Founder and Strategy Director of The Park, the marketing-led experiential agency and creators of Brand Proof. The Park works with brands that stand for something and helps them prove it to their customers and internal stakeholders. Those brands include H&M, Acast, NBC, Red Bull, Amazon Prime Video and Dreamworks.  

Prior to founding The Park in 2018, Will was Controller of Marketing & Media at ITV, where he led the shift to younger audiences with the rebrands of ITV Hub and ITV2, and launched the youth cultural phenomenon that is Love Island. Prior to his four years at ITV, he worked at Channel 4, where he launched 4Music, and held several strategy and management roles in creative and media agencies in the UK and Australia. 

Will’s client-side experience means he is passionate about measurement and proving the effectiveness of experiential marketing in delivering tangible business results for The Park’s roster. He is an international speaker, regular contributor to industry press and is passionate about creativity and the importance of combining people from mixed backgrounds to create great ideas. 

Kevin McGlone is a Cannes Lions, Art Directors Club, One Show, D&AD, and CLIO award-winning creative director with over 18-years experience working on many of the largest brands in the world at legacy advertising agencies like Leo Burnett in Chicago. As creative director at HoneyWired, Mr. McGlone has provided creative digital and experiential solutions for major brands and boutique projects in the arts and culture realm. 

Mr. McGlone has worked with non-partisan political organizations like RepresentUs, the largest grassroots anti-corruption campaign, to launch Ugly Gerry, a font created by gerrymandered congressional districts. With youth advocacy groups, like The Allstate Foundation to create empty pedestals on the National Mall with aspirational achievements to inspire young people to become future leaders. And with anti-bullying initiatives, like a live-streaming assembly featuring nearly half a million students across the country with Zendaya and Google. 

In the art world, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Monuments Men and Women Foundation dedicated to the recovery and restitution of artwork stolen during WWII, Mr. McGlone created a deck of playing cards to help find the most-wanted missing WWII masterpieces. Mr. McGlone launched events for David Bowie's personal archive "David Bowie Is" and the Vernissage opening of the International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art (EXPO Chicago) with The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. He crafted multiple creative events at private arts and media club, Soho House. And on the French Riviera, Mr. McGlone lent a hand to help produce and art direct the official opening and closing galas of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and the first-ever beach dedicated to diversity, equality and inclusion.

Victoria Buchanan, Executive Creative Director at Tribal Worldwide London, started her career in digital advertising more than two decades ago. A pioneer in pure digital, she is obsessed with interactive behaviour and passionate about creating work that allows people to experience brands in a more immersive way. Victoria is one of the few female Executive Creative Directors in the industry, and is passionate about nurturing talent. In 2015 she was a mentor at the 3% conference and regularly mentors for SheSays. She champions diversity to help develop more female Creative Directors and leaders. Victoria recently won IPA’s Women of Tomorrow Awards aged 42, showing you can be a visionary at any age.

After finishing her Electronics Arts Master at Middlesex, Victoria freelanced in advertising, software dev, interactive TV and the interactive art world before she settled with DDB and the pure digital group at Tribal over 20 years ago.

She is a multi-award-winning Creative Director, producing creative digital work for a wide range of clients such as Volkswagen, O2, Guinness, Fitness First, Harvey Nichols, Hasbro, Philips, Oxfam, Guardian, Unilever and Budweiser.

Henry Peemen is Managing Creative Director at experiential agency WINK. With a natural instinct for interdisciplinary and unconventional approaches, he nurtures creativity in every concept and execution his team is able to turn their eye to.

With a degree in fashion management and engineering under his belt, Henry developed a broad toolset of talents after finishing up art school. A true creative across multiple fields, his career has taken him on a whirlwind tour through fashion, media, retail, spatial design and brand activations before applying his hybrid approach to WINK's world – working for brands like: Budweiser, Glenmorangie, Polestar, Wrangler, Levi’s, UGG, Zalando, Bacardi, Eastpak, Corona, Jack Daniel’s and Netflix to name a few.

He believes in instinct above all and is a passionate firestarter for finding surprising connections in the most unexpected places. That might very well be why he joined WINK right after meeting them at a party one day.

Susan joined BBH in 2010, became a Partner in 2018 and moved into the Head of Experience Production role in early 2022. She has extensive experience in innovative digital projects, CRM and global communications, having worked at major companies including Popworld, XIX Entertainment, MindShare and McCann throughout her career. At BBH she manages the delivery of sizeable digital projects for clients, such as ASOS, Britvic, Virgin Media, Christie’s, Johnnie Walker and Samsung to name but a few. Most recently Susan’s team was responsible for delivering an immersive experience for the launch of Netflix Stranger Things 4 and award winning digital meeting / event for Roche Ophthalmology.

Gerdine leads all promotion of FIFA and its events and assets, and is responsible for FIFA’s major experiential platforms: the FIFA Fan Festival™, FIFA Trophy Tour and FIFA Sound. Together with her team of experienced marketeers, she aims to inspire a new generation of football lovers through engaging activations and campaigns.

Executive Creative Director - INVNT- EMEA - Curating experiences with narrative for challenger brands. Boom!

Paul has worked across theatre, film, music and live events for over twenty years, producing experiences globally for clients such as Nike, Converse, XBOX, Ministry of Sound, Apple, Levi’s and Lego. He co-founded XYZ in 2012 where he is the Executive Creative Director, with the agency being named Campaign’s Creative Experience Agency of the Year in 2020 and shortlisted for the same award in 2021. He has also completed a Master of Science degree in Innovation, Creativity & Leadership at Bayes Business School (City University, London) and is a mentor with 2020 Change, a youth empowerment organisation renowned for helping young people realise their true potential.

Global Experiential manager in Pernod Ricard leading on XP strategy for Jameson Irish Whiskey and the wider portfolio. In the industry for 15 years plus. Have loved watching the industry grow and evolve in that time and excited by what's next!

Carina Filek is Global COO of Elevate, the people powered staffing agency with offices in the UK, US, Germany, Austria and France where she focuses her time on business health and operational growth.

She is a relentless change-maker, that drives to inspire and support her teams through curious and compassionate leadership and mentoring. Leading and effecting tangible change across purpose initiatives in the business, and more broadly across the industry, is a key ambition for Carina, ensuring action and not just words.

Currently, Carina is a founding member of the Advisory Board for non-profit organisation Isla, which will see the next 12 months focus on strategy for cross-industry stakeholder engagement, direct action and alignment.

As a mentor, Carina supports The Girls' Network and Like Minded Females (LMF) network, empowering women to think differently about the roles they ‘think’ they should play in working environments. In 2021, Carina was responsible for leading and launching Elevate's inaugural mentoring programme which saw 92% of mentees report that they would encourage their co-workers to sign up to the programme.

Carina’s expertise in experiential marketing and event staffing has enabled her to drive the business forward by expanding into new markets and building world-class teams. Carina has developed long-term, strategic partnerships and delivered successful global brand engagement campaigns for leading brands including Coca-Cola, Google and Meta and agencies Jack Morton, Octagon and Wasserman. She is passionate about the power of human connections.

Having worked with industry trade group IAB, native advertising platform Outbrain, as well as professional network and content marketing platform LinkedIn, Chuck has unique expertise on all sides of the experiential marketing ecosystem. He grew up in Atlanta, spent ten years full-time in New York City, and is now residing part-time in Saint Petersburg, Florida. In his free time, he loves traveling, creative writing, and bad reality television.  

After almost 30 years in the industry from major networks to independents, I'm a brand and relationship builder at heart. I'm at my best surrounded by a wide variety of talent who are not afraid to share, listen and learn. I'm currently leading the charge at 22Squared as their ECD, helping to prepare the 100 year old agency for the next 100 years.

Joining Pixel Artworks in 2008, Gavin is now Senior Creative Director. During his time at Pixel Artworks Gavin has specialised in projection mapping, working complex and extraordinary briefs for the likes of Concorde, Faberge and The Macallan. A hands on creative, Gavin is involved from concept to delivery and still practiced the craft of design, often sketching out full concepts.

As an early member of the Pixel Artworks team, he helped pioneer projection mapping as the technique entered into the advertising industry and revolutionised experiences. He also played a key role in helping LEGO innovate their retail experience by creating ‘The Brick Lab’. With a genuine passion for bringing ideas to life, and comprehensive knowledge and understanding of creative experiences, Gavin has led and delivered stunning projects across the globe.

With highly developed project management skills she has a track record of skilfully bringing out of the box ideas to life, including the WWF Nature Phone Box, an immersive takeover of The O2’s main entrance to relaunch the ‘Follow the Rabbit’ campaign, and a recent experiential pop up for Bang & Olufsen to attract a new generation of consumer.

Elizabeth has spent the past years creating memorable and impactful experiences from managing large corporate events to shaping cultural events for global clients within creative industries. An experienced event professional, Elizabeth is the Head of Events & Communications at KINDE where she heads up events & experiential for partners including the likes of Paramount Pictures, Amazon Prime Video, Sky and Youtube.

I'm a brand marketer with a background in creative strategy and planning, currently leading efforts for Brand Marketing for YouTube EMEA. Feel most at home at the intersection of culture, technology and positive social impact. Living in London with my husband James and cheeky French bulldog Charlie, previously based in Amsterdam and Chicago.

Jason Alan Snyder is an inventor, technologist, and futurist. As Global Chief Technology Officer at Interpublic Group (IPG) company Momentum Worldwide, he brings decades of experience leading technology, innovation, and transformation in advertising and marketing.

Jodie is a senior marketing executive and business leader with 20 years experience in designing and delivering award-winning creative platforms for brands.

Jodie is Co-MD for M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment and specialises in using creativity to make brands culturally relevant through passions, by building authentic and meaningful platforms in entertainment, sport and culture.

As well as day to day agency management, she oversees the Entertainment division at M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment and has led long-standing relationships with brands such including Barclaycard, Virgin Media, EE, Absolut, Ballantine’s, Jameson and Natwest.

Jodie is a passionate people leader, committed to the belief that diversity of thought is a creative and commercial imperative. She is a vocal champion of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and an industry change-maker.

Jodie has recently led the launch of M&C Saatchi Sport Entertainment’s dedicated DE&I offering, Step Up, helping clients use their partnerships to make passions more inclusive.

Jodie is also an executive committee member of WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications Leaders) - the industry leading gender equality organisation, and a special advisor to Limitless, a social mobility ideas platform using creativity to inspire young people to reach their potential.

Natasha comes from a marketing and events background and has worked in the news media industry for over 20 years. Natasha is currently Operations Director of the News UK events business, working across The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, Virgin Radio, Times Radio, talkSPORT and talkradio. Natasha has also worked at The Independent and The Telegraph prior to News UK, with a short stint agency side. At News UK Natasha oversees the operational output and strategy of the News UK events business, generating commercial revenues and supporting key brand objectives. The News UK Events Team deliver over 200 events a year across its portfolio in various formats including conferences, awards ceremonies, festivals, subscriber events and experiential activity.  

For over a decade I've had the great fortune to get to apply my mind to ideas, campaigns, product design, experiential events and film for some of the world's most respected brands, organisations and personalities.

I’ve worked across the automotive, fashion, entertainment, FMCG, tech, travel and charity sectors and have led and learnt from creative teams in the UK, USA, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. I’ve also acted as a mentor for a variety of organisations, including AKQA Future Lions, D&AD New Blood Academy, D&AD Shift and The Dots.

I lead the strategy team at independent global brand company, venturethree. We partner with business from Sky to Sports Direct to imagine and engineer their brand across every possible touchpoint. Before v3 I was Creative Director at integrated creative and brand experience agency, RPM.

Jennifer Black is Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Special London, the UK office of the New Zealand-born independent creative network Special. Acknowledged as one of the UK’s top account directors, Jen joined the agency from Havas London, where was managing director and helped win business from the Department of Education, Asda and Molson Coors. She is Campaign magazine’s Gold winning Account Person of the year for 2022 after being part of the team to lead Havas to its most successful new business period. Before joining Havas, Jen ran Fabula, a boutique agency specialising in the retail sector where she led the rebrand of Boden. She has also worked at Fallon as a client services director and was business director at Mother, where she ran the IKEA account and oversaw Coca-Cola’s 2012 Olympics campaign.

Jess’s experience spans across digital, film and experiences. She specializes in applying Human Centered Design across broad spectrum of experiences, including innovation centres, spirits destinations – and more. Since joining Imagination New York in 2018, Jess led strategy on global Mastercard business, including the seven global Mastercard innovation centers, the Priceless.com redesign, and the B2B Global Event Strategy.

Mary Fagot is Head of Creative at Imprint Projects, a post-advertising creative agency with a mission to replace advertising with cultural production and dialogue. Mary is a multidisciplinary maker, mentor, and a creative’s creative. Her 20+ year career includes collaborations with museums, foundations, bands and brands, from the Smithsonian to Google, to OK Go, whom she served as Creative Director for 15 years. Mary’s sharp eye and human-centered approach inspires her team and client partners to make industry-leading work. Her creative and cultural leadership contributed to Imprint Project earning “Experience Agency of the Year” in The Drum’s 2021 Experience Awards; a showcase in which her team also won gold for a program supporting the launch of “All In”, a documentary film about voter suppression featuring Stacey Abrams. Mary believes that how work gets done is as important as the work itself. Her diverse experience, instincts for nurturing talent, and independent creative projects make her an inspiring leader for Imprint Project’s teams, clients and the LA arts community. Previously, Mary worked as Creative Director-at-Large for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, ECD for digital production company Stopp, CD at BBH Los Angeles, owner and director of content production studio Blip Boutique, and Creative Director for Capitol and Virgin Records. Mary is a board member of The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, and co-chairs the theater’s DEI Committee. And this summer, Mary installed an arts installation called F L O W ! at OXY Arts (Occidental College, Los Angeles). Geared towards youth ages 5-12, but captivating for all ages, the installations offered an encounter with fundamental principles of physics through interactive art experiences, inspiring wonder and curiosity along the way.

Judy Lee is the Head of Global Brand Experiences and Programs at Pinterest. She leads the teams that bring the Pinterest brand to life through events, experiences and programming to different audiences around the globe. Judy is a passionate advocate for inclusion and mentorship, especially for people of color in the tech, advertising and marketing industries. At Pinterest, she is the executive sponsor of the Asian employee community. She currently serves on the Adweek Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council, is an Adweek Executive Mentor and an ADCOLOR Futures Champion. She was also recently featured in the WSJ for her vocal advocacy for the AAPI community. A thought leader and champion for women, Judy has won numerous awards for evolving Pinterest's brand experiences from Brand Innovators, BizBash, and Event Marketer and has been recognized by Adweek as one of most inspired Women Trailblazers of 2021. She regularly judges award competitions including Cannes Lions, Effies, Campaign Magazine awards, ANA B2B awards, and recently served as the Jury Chair for the Shorty Social Impact Awards. A builder at heart, Judy held marketing roles at high growth companies including Facebook/Instagram, Pandora Radio, and AOL. She began her career and love of technology and media at CNET and her love of retail at Gap, Inc. She currently resides in Brooklyn and is dreaming about her next big trip.

Poppy founded Creative Experience Agency We Are Family London in 2016 and has grown it to a team of 38 event professionals who deliver for a host of global clients. She works on briefs that require a fresh approach and strong focus on creative ideation and detailed delivery. Clients include Netflix, Snapchat, Meta, BP, Johnson + Johnson, Spotify, Kantar, and Swatch amongst others. As active Founder and ECD she brings a dual lens of standout creative and commercial acumen that drives both the Agency and Client success. She champions creativity, diversity and collaboration between different skill sets and fields of expertise to ensure the creative is amped at any given opportunity whether in people, briefs or creative solutions to harness the power of what’s possible. Passionate about people and experience- the who, why and the therefore, she steers her team to be unafraid to buck trends and go leftfield whilst remaining passionate about blue sky thinking to create something original, connective, that focuses on people and creates meaning - and ultimately delivers a creatively impactful and slick experience. She is currently shortlisted for The Drum CEO of the Year in 2022.

Memory maker, entrepreneur, creative director, neuroscience lover, wordsmith, mixologist, Reiki master and mountain climber. Kristy is a deliciously moreish cocktail of wildly creative contradictions. She is about what makes our brains engage and our minds whirr, what makes our jaws drop and our subconscious stir. Kristy is passionate about vivid, one-of-a-kind, enchanting experiences that create positive long-lasting memories. After she was struck down with a neurological illness in her 30s, Kristy became fascinated by how our minds work and the impact of breaking negative memory patterns and making new positive ones. Having re-written her memories to aid her recovery, she made it her mission to put this knowledge to good use. So, in 2013, Kristy founded Rebel & Soul - The Memory Makers® - a multi award winning, socially conscious brand experience agency with a neuroscience twist. The agency applies their proprietary Neuroscience methodology INVOLVE® to optimise environments to accelerate learning and enhance memorability. Rebel & Soul are leading the way in brand memorability and hold the coveted 2020 and 2021 Agency of the Year awards in Brand Experience and Event & Experiential Marketing by Marketing Magazine and Campaign Asia. Think one-of-a-kind moving art installations to world-first cinematic whisky experiences, emotion tracking wearables to oversize holograms (of Sir Richard Branson no less) teamed with attention inducing audio, synapse enhancing aromas and an ice cold drink served up by a dancing robot. Kristy’s personal resilience, ‘unassumingly effervescent’ nature and fierce tenacity are clocking her a host of personal accolades too. From Innovator of the Year to Entrepreneur of the Year, Woman to Watch to a Woman Leading Change, it’s clear that her unique application of science to experiences is making positive memories in all the right places.

Krystal Chryssomallis is a global leader in music and entertainment working as an executive for over 15 years and has produced more than 500 live events in 60+ countries. Her clients and partners include brands such as Disney, PBS, Kings of Leon and Yanni. Many of the events she produced hosted over 30,000 in attendance and were executed in collaboration with world governments. Much of Krystal’s work focuses on promoting peace through the power of music. As a global music executive, Krystal develops artists and manages productions around the globe. She has designed multimedia productions, integrated traditional and digital branding and marketing projects and PR initiatives in partnership with major multinational companies and organizations including NASA, the World Wildlife Fund, and UNICEF in addition to the Governments of China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil, among others. Krystal is a Panda Ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund, an advocate for children’s rights collaborating with UNICEF, Certified in Feng Shui and a writer. You can find her embracing life in Los Angeles when she is not touring.