Aneri Amin is the Product Lead for Creators, Social and Apps at Base, where she is building an internet that empowers creators to own their content and direct relationships with their fans, while enabling seamless, portable experiences for users across apps. Before joining Base, Aneri worked on creator and consumer products at Meta.
As the Ecosystem Growth Lead at the Stellar Development Foundation, Anke Liu oversees programs and initiatives catalyzing innovation and expansion of the Stellar Ecosystem, including the Stellar Community Fund and the Stellar Ambassador Program. Her collaboration with BlockScience on the creation of Neural Quorum Governance paves the way for a new standard for reputation-based governance.
Edmond Lau is a cultural strategist focusing on internet aesthetics, trends, and taste. His viral essay "The Dark Mode Shift" drew mainstream attention, with top publications citing the piece. His work sits between brand consulting and internet anthropology, making sense of consumer trends and cultural capital one meme at a time.
Helen Yin Chen is a strategist, researcher, and artist based in New York City. Her artistic practice focuses on exploring possible futures in food systems, material ecologies, and interspecies relations. Her work on fungi research has been internationally exhibited and received design awards such as Core77.
James Tunningley is Co-Founder of Architect Systems. A former Protocol Labs exec and UK diplomat, he advises sovereigns and ecosystems on technology, innovation, and economic strategy. An Oxford-educated sinologist and Royal Asiatic Society Fellow, he co-founded Argentina’s Crecimiento Movement and served on the World Wide Web Foundation’s Future Leaders Council. Also: kitesurfer.
Makayla Bailey is a writer, curator and money doula based in NYC. In addition to serving as the Co-Executive Director of Rhizome at the New Museum from 2022-2024, Capps has held curatorial positions at MoMA and The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she co-organized the institution's first digital exhibition, titled “Hearts in Isolation.”
Mathieu Baudet (Founder/CEO of Linera) holds a PhD in security protocols and years of experience building distributed systems as an infrastructure engineer at Meta. As a researcher on Libra/Novi, he worked on an academic protocol called FastPay which laid the foundations for the Linera protocol.
Maya Man is an artist exploring identity culture online, with a focus on femininity, authenticity, and self-performance. She has exhibited globally at prestigious venues including the Whitney Museum, bitforms, SOOT, Verse, HEK, and Feral File. Man runs a curatorial project called HEART (formerly based in her SoHo studio) and maintains an online presence at mayaontheinter.net.
Tokyo-based creative/strategist since 2013. Co-founded PUSH studio in 2020, producing campaigns for Nike & Uniqlo, award-winning videos for Rosalia & Yuki Chiba, plus Megan Thee Stallion's MTV VMA-winning "Mamushi". Created activations for Flight Club & World. Writes on Japanese culture for BBC & Japan Times.
Nick Susi is a writer and strategy executive, exploring the forces - technological, societal and psychological - that shape our identity, perception and culture. He has led strategy for dotdotdash, Complex, The Fader and Jay Z’s former media brand Life+Times. His research and writing can be found in Business Of Fashion, Boys Club, Joshua Citarella’s Do Not Research, Future Commerce, and more.
Parker Ito (b. 1986, Ventura, CA) is a Yonsei/Gosei Japanese American artist, à la mode, living in San Francisco and working in Los Angeles associated with Post Internet or Zombie Formalism, depending on who you ask. In the years gone by he has exhibited his oeuvre in galleries, museums, and coffee shops on 4 continents and will continue to exhibit his work in the future (hopefully).
Ann Liu is a multidisciplinary artist and creative strategist exploring fine art, crypto markets, and decentralized aesthetics. Her paintings blend traditional Chinese techniques with airbrush and acrylic, while her onchain research as Qwant Kitty focuses on trading psychology and tokenized identity. With experience at TASCHEN and Virtuals Protocol, she bridges art and crypto worlds.
Rhianna Cohen is a digital anthropologist and researcher with 10 years leading cultural marketing for LVMH, Nike, Google, and The North Face. Specializing in youth culture and emerging tech, she focuses on trend forecasting, cultural marketing, and developing future-proof brand strategies.
Tigris is an Artist and Creative Technologist reimagining technology as a catalyst for emotional human connection. Co-founder of Lychee, a consumer electronics company reshaping DJing and cultural infrastructure, she also creates installations, electronic hardware, and sensory experiences that evoke curiosity, co-creation, and play. Her work includes collaborations with Converse, Arduino, & Visa.
Toby is a writer, researcher, and founder. He is a cofounder of Other Internet, a research organization studying the psychological, political, and economic effects of digital media technologies. He is currently building a new organization focused on Western psychology and the spiritual landscape of America.
Tony Wang is the founder of the Office of Applied Strategy (OAS), a consulting firm, think tank, and investment fund that partners with major luxury, consumer, tech, and entertainment brands. OAS focuses on enabling growth through disruptive, anti-disciplinary thinking. Wang previously served as Director of Brand & Content at SSENSE and has worked at McKinsey, IDEO, and Google.
Zane Kind, a Stanford graduate who studied 1960s counterculture's influence on tech, is CEO and cofounder of Silk, a microblogging platform for media curation. Based in New York, he aims to reshape internet infrastructure for taste and creativity. He met his cofounder Greg Wolff at Fest during its first year and has attended annually since.
