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.
James Caldwell
Regional GTM Director, ByteDance
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.
Pip Bingemann
Co-Founder, Springboards.ai
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.
Karen Powell
Founder & CEO, Omnipresence
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.
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.
Dave King
Co-founder, Radical Intelligence
Dave King is co-founder of Radical Intelligence, an AI-native transformation company that builds radical AI capability inside organisations across Australia and APAC. He has been building AI products and systems since 2017, working across creative industries, legal, finance, property and more. Prior to Radical Intelligence, Dave founded The Royals, an independent creative agency with clients including Spotify, Qantas, Mercedes-Benz and AustralianSuper. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Deakin University and has spoken at TEDx, SXSW and Vivid Sydney and others.
Bridget Cleary
Co-founder and CEO, BRX
Bridget has extensive experience in marketing, advertising and tech to drive growth for major businesses. She is passionate about leveraging technology to achieve better outcomes, and simplifying the complex in brand science, data, tech, team building and life.
Marie-Céline Merret
Creative Director, MC&V
Marie-Céline Merret identified the commercial potential of AI in production early and has spent the past two years proving it under real agency conditions. Her career spans experiential design and creative technology at Fake Love NYC (A New York Times Company), delivering global work for Google, Samsung, Lexus and 7Up, co-founding Monks ANZ, and leading AI-native production as Head of Creative Technology & AI at MADE THIS Clemenger BBDO. With a foundation in creative technology, digital production and experiential design, MC brings rare fluency across code and craft. At MC&V, MC leads creative direction and production, curating specialist AI artists globally to deliver emotionally resonant work that ships on time, on budget, and to brand and business objectives.
Kent Boswell
Co-Founder, Head of Production, AiCandy
With over 20 years across advertising, television, and film, Kent has led high-end productions at the intersection of storytelling and craft, partnering with leading global agencies to deliver award-winning work across multiple platforms. His career spans three continents and a wide range of formats, consistently exploring new ways to bring ambitious ideas to life. He is now focused on the future of AI film production, helping define a new model of filmmaking where emerging tools are used to unlock ideas that were previously impossible to make while maintaining the highest standards of cinematic craft. He has also served on international award juries including Cannes Lions, London International Awards, Effie Awards, Adfest, The Webby's, New York Festivals, and Spikes Asia, where he was Jury President.
Marcus Tesoriero
Co-Founder, Head of Creative, AiCandy
Marcus is an award-winning creative leader with extensive experience building brands at some of the world's leading integrated agencies, including Ogilvy, DDB and Dentsu Creative. Beyond filmmaking, his career has spanned a range of specialised marketing disciplines, giving him deep expertise across mobile, social, data, PR, health, commercial architecture and AI. His work has been recognised at every major creative and effectiveness award show globally, including D&AD, One Show, Clio, LIA, the Effies, London IPA for Effectiveness, Spikes and Cannes Lions. As Co-Founder of AiCandy, Marcus now combines creative excellence and craft with commercially-driven thinking to push the frontier of AI filmmaking, making impossible ideas possible for brands of every size.
Vinne Schifferstein
Strategy & Partnerships, MC&V
For over two decades, Vinne Schifferstein has built production companies balancing creative ambition with commercial reality. Trained in Marketing, Media Economics, and Law, she's led businesses across four countries from Publicis and Omnicom to startups. At Monks, she co-founded the ANZ operation and delivered global production for BMW across 29 markets. Her AI approach is business-focused: after seeing ChatGPT's client impact, she completed MIT's AI program and built production capabilities at MADE THIS Clemenger BBDO. A former marketer herself, she translates production complexity into business outcomes. At MC&V, Vinne leads strategy, partnerships, and delivery ensuring every project is commercially sound and operationally flawless.
Annie Liao
Founder & CEO, Build Club / Solaris
Annie Liao is the founder and CEO of Build Club, the company behind Solaris, an AI adoption platform helping enterprises become AI-native. What started as a global community of 70,000+ AI builders across 60+ cities has evolved into a platform for enterprise AI transformation, combining diagnostics, upskilling, champion programs and ROI tracking. Annie was named in Forbes Australia 30 Under 30 for her work making AI more accessible.
Jeremy Somers
Founder, Not Content
Jeremy Somers is the founder of Not Content, an AI creative agency working at the frontier of what AI makes possible in brand and creative work. Before that, he founded We Are Handsome, the cult Australian fashion label that pioneered digital-first fashion globally, and spent years as a creative at agencies. Jeremy brings a rare combination of founder instinct, creative craft and first-hand experience building with AI tools — making him one of the most practical and provocative voices on what AI actually means for creative work.