The full lineup.
Every voice taking the humAIn stage — builders, founders, leaders and critics, in the order they appear. More are still being announced.
Tea Uglow
CMO and AI consultant
Tea Uglow is a Peabody-winning creative director & brand strategist, a non-executive director, and CMO who spent 18 years building Google’s Creative Lab working with global brands and orgs. She currently mentors creatives online & consults for clients, agencies, cultural orgs and creative leaders on AI innovation and strategy and how to bring their workforce with them on that journey.
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James Caldwell
Regional GTM Director
With nearly 20 years of experience shaping the tech landscape, James is a strategic leader driving regional commercial strategy for BytePlus at ByteDance. Armed with an MBA from Melbourne Business School, he specialises in bridging the gap between complex AI and go-to-market execution. James is passionate about helping organisations pioneer the responsible use of emerging technologies to deliver transformative customer experiences.
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Pip Bingemann
Ex-agency nerd turned Co-founder and CEO of Springboards.
Springboards helps keep creative people in the creative equation by using AI to spark ideas, not replace them. Its proprietary model, Flint, is the worlds only divergence model and designed to push AI beyond predictable outputs into more original, unexpected thinking. With 15+ years across advertising, media, and marketing, Pip is focused on building tools that keep people at the centre of the creative process.
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Karen Powell
Founder & CEO
Karen Powell is a commercial and operational leader who partners with founders of tech, SaaS and creative services businesses to turn complexity into investable growth. Over 20+ years she has helped scale B2B and media‑adjacent companies across APAC, integrating acquisitions, rebuilding revenue engines and preparing businesses for capital events. She founded Omnipresence, a GTM and Sales AI advisory, and previously built and exited an AI‑enabled sales platform developed in collaboration with major cloud ecosystems. Karen is also a cotutelle PhD candidate researching AI‑mediated B2B buying and how AI reshapes the relationships between agencies, platforms, publishers and brands. She spoke at humAIn 2024 on trust, deepfakes and “AI as media’s extinction‑level event”, and now serves on the humAIn Advisory Panel.
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Joana Barros
CMO
Joana Barros is a senior marketing executive who has been building brands and driving commercial outcomes across listed and high-growth digital-first businesses for more than two decades. She has held global and regional leadership roles in e-commerce, travel tech and consumer lifestyle spanning Temple & Webster, Expedia, Orbitz Worldwide and TouchNote. Joana has built a reputation for developing modern marketing systems that integrate brand and growth, powered by creativity and marketing science. Most recently as Chief Marketing Officer at Temple & Webster, she led marketing through the company’s growth into the ASX200. Joana brings an operator’s perspective on how AI is reshaping marketing drawn from leading brands and digital businesses through transformation and scale.
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