Henry Jenkins III is an American media scholar and currently a Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, a joint professorship at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC School of Cinematic Arts

Caitlin Burns has spent a decade working with narrative intellectual property franchises, independent artists, brands and philanthropic initiatives as a transmedia producer. Developing content strategies, overseeing multiplatform story worlds; she understands what it takes to create a success story.

Author, game designer, and entrepreneur Lucas J.W. Johnson has experimented with interactive narratives, game system design, and emergent storytelling for his whole life. He understands how players will react to a story, how to present a storyworld in an elegant way, and how to offer real, meaningful choice while still remaining inside the bounds of a particular narrative.

Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, is the world’s leading expert at expanding entertainment properties, premium brands, and socio-political themes into highly successful transmedia narratives and international campaigns.

Robert Pratten is a San Francisco-based, transmedia consultant advising clients on the development of stories across multiple media platforms. He is the founder of Transmedia Storyteller – an online service for interactive, social and pervasive cross-platform entertainment and marketing.

Liz Rosenthal is an early advocate and pioneer of cross-media storytelling, digital distribution and filmmaking.
She is the Founder and CEO of Power the Pixel (PttP), an organisation helping international film and media businesses adapt to stay relevant in an ever-evolving connected world.

Nuno Bernardo is an award winning and Emmy nominated Transmedia writer and producer and the creator of the world’s first international interactive on-line teen series, Sofia’s Diary. Is also the author of “The Producer’s Guide to Transmedia” book.

Alison Norrington is an accomplished novelist, playwright, and journalist who is also the founder of storycentralDIGITAL and Conference Chair at the StoryWorld Conference.

Jay Bushman is an award-winning writer, content strategist, and producer of digital media and transmedia entertainment, with a track record of excellence working with the largest brands and studios to the smallest indie creators.

Lance Weiler is a storyteller, entrepreneur and thought leader. An alumni of the Sundance Screenwriting Lab, he is recognized as a pioneer because of the way he mixes storytelling and technology.

Dr. Siobhan O’Flynn advises on interactive storytelling, social media strategies, and the design of convergent, multiplatform and transmedia narratives.
In her position as Faculty Mentor in Digital Storytelling & Transmedia Design at the CFC Media Lab, she has worked with many of Canada’s leading digital creatives, and has advised on over 70 projects including screen-based works, in situ & social media installations, online social networking initiatives, cross-platform projects, interactive short films, ARGs and interactive graphic novels.