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Ariel Emanuel is Chief Executive Officer of Endeavor (NYSE: EDR), a global sports and entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events and experiences.In 2009, Emanuel orchestrated the largest talent agency merger in history when Endeavor, the original agency he founded in 1995, joined forces with agency William Morris to form William Morris Endeavor (WME). Three years later, WME forged a strategic partnership with Silver Lake, a global leader in private investments in technology. In 2014, the group acquired premier sports, fashion, events and media company IMG before acquiring premier mixed martial arts organization UFC® in 2016 – Emanuel helped accelerate the growing sport’s popularity through a series of blockbuster media rights deals, including a multi-year broadcast partnership with ESPN. UFC® now produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world, broadcasting to nearly 900 million TV households across more than 170 countries. One year later, Endeavor was formed as the holding company for the global portfolio of businesses. Since then, Endeavor has been named one of Inc.’s Fastest Growing Companies in America and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, debuting on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021.A graduate of Macalester College, Emanuel is an associate member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. He is based in Beverly Hills.

J.J. Abrams, Chairman & CEO of Bad Robot Productions, is a renowned director, producer, screenwriter and actor known for films such as Mission: Impossible III (2006), Star Trek (2009), Super 8 (2011), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: Episode IX (2019) and series such as Alias (2001–2006), Lost (co-creator, 2004–2010) and Fringe (co-creator, 2008–2013). As is evident from his filmography, Abrams has extensive experience in rendering and is well-versed in the use of visual computing in film. His perspective has been key in helping the RNDR team identify and clarify the needs and challenges of GPU processing for the media industry.

Brendan Eich is widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet revolution. In 1995, Brendan invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internet’s most widely used programming language. He went on to co-found the mozilla.org project in 1998, serving then as chief architect, and still serving as a board member of the Mozilla Foundation since its inception in 2003. Brendan helped launch the award-winning Firefox Web browser in November 2004 and Thunderbird e-mail client in December 2004. One of the most well known technologists worldwide, Brendan currently serves as the CEO and co-founder of Brave Browser and BAT (Basic Attention Token).

With a degree in Applied Mathematics and an MBA in Finance, Jennifer Zhu Scott completed her academic profile with the public policy and leadership program at Yale. She co-founded one of the first education companies in China before moving to the UK as a senior advisor to the education subsidiary of Daily Mail & General Trust. She’s the Founding Principal at Radian Partners and Radian Blockchain Ventures, an investment community that focuses on private investments in artificial intelligence and the blockchain for family offices and UHNWIs, applying blockchain technology to scale climate-change-related projects (such as solar infrastructure and carbon credit trading). Jennifer is a member of the World Economic Forum and a Council Member at the Future of Blockchain Council.

David is the CEO and founder of the Sia project (since 2015). His contribution to reinventing cloud storage through blockchain technology has opened up new possibilities to the computing industry and created a necessary storage layer to a distributed cloud storage market.