Bo Jackson

One of the most decorated athletes in American sports history, Bo Jackson electrified both the college and professional sporting worlds. A two-sport standout, Jackson is best-known as an unprecedented athlete, and also a national figure for his “Bo Knows” Nike campaign.

Jackson burst into the national spotlight in 1982 as a freshman at Auburn and went on to win the 1985 Heisman Trophy. Following famed college football and baseball careers, Jackson played professionally in both sports. Bo enjoyed four successful years in the NFL and eight in the MLB. Jackson stands alone as the only athlete to ever be named both an MLB and NFL All-Star.

Off the field, Jackson hosts “Bo Bikes Bama”, an annual charity bike ride. On the ride, Jackson leads a pack of participants on their choice of either a 62 or 22-mile route that includes a trip through the campus of his alma-mater, Auburn University. All proceeds from the event go directly to the Governor’s Relief Fund, which provides crucial disaster preparedness and emergency management resources for his home state.

 Mitch Lowe

Mitch Lowe is a top business and entertainment keynote speaker, former President of Redbox, and founding executive of Netflix. Today, Mitch gives inspirational speeches around the world to corporations, conferences and students sharing stories of innovation, disruption and facing the challenges of building new products and services.

 Fernando Machado

In April 2021, Fernando Machado joined Activision Blizzard as CMO. During his career, he has been recognized several times for his work and his contribution to the gaming industry.

He is known for pushing the creative boundaries to drive business growth and was recognized by Adweek as a Grand Brand Genius, by the AD Club of NY, as Marketer of the Year, by Business Insider as top 5 most innovative CMOs and by AdAge as top 50 most creative people in the business. Today, he is responsible for marketing initiatives for some of the most important titles in the gaming industry, such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch among others.

 Juan Pablo Montoya

Juan is known internationally for being one of the few drivers participating in Formula 1, Indycar, NASCAR, CART & F3000, Daytona and other race competitions.

During his career, he had a large number of awards in F1 and today remains a benchmark in the sport. His whole career he's been an advocate of developing sports in Colombia.

 Roberto Romero

Ranked as one of the top 100 creative Spanish businesspeople in the world (Forbes), Roberto is a pioneer in the production of virtual reality content and immersive media.

Having worked exclusively in immersive virtual and augmented reality media with Oculus, Sony Pictures, HTC, Facebook, Digital Domain, and Disney, among others, his vast experience in immersive virtual content makes him a great reference to understand the transition to a virtual world with infinite possibilities.

 Caitlin Burns

Caitlin Burns (she/her) is Director of Story at Palm NFT Studio, where she’s creating superfan experiences for partners including DC, Warner Bros. Discovery and UMG. A pioneer of transmedia storytelling, she has spent more than a decade creating multiplatform content strategies for well-known IP including Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean, Tron, James Cameron’s Avatar & Halo and more in addition to work for companies including Sony, Hasbro, UNICEF and Wieden+Kennedy. Caitlin is recognized as a global specialist in emerging media production and sustainable development. Find more about her work here.

Tobias Sherman

Tobias Sherman is the co-founder and CEO of Foundry IV, a consulting and game development studio; while currently serving as the CEO of Color Collab. In his role as CEO, he leads a team in continuing to make transformative strides in gaming, this time through the mobile genre. The two-time “40 under 40” winner began his foray in gaming by developing the first esports agency, representing the major esports brands in bulk. Over the years, Sherman and his teams have consulted for the likes of T-Mobile, AB InBev, Arbys, MGM & Turner Broadcasting, running point on the creation and execution of the Emmy-nominated show Eleague, which remains one of the longest-running and most viewed esports leagues across both linear and digital media. Tobias’s creative vision drives the project as his team hustles to bring these ideas to fruition in a joint effort to create the best Metaverse-compatible digital coloring tool on the market with Color Collab.

 Vander Caballero

Vander has more than 20 years of experience. He is an established leader of Canadian video game innovation. He is no newcomer to virtual reality (VR); Vander was working with this technology before he entered the games industry.

He is founder & CEO of Meta4 Interactive. In 2010, he foresaw the emergence of digital distributors (Playstation Network, XBLA, Steam) as a shift in game publishing power dynamics. Following his sharp business instinct, he left EA after nine years and founded Minority Media, building a new team of veteran game creators. He confirmed his vision two years later when Papo & Yo – Minority’s debut – captured a loyal following through exclusive digital distribution at a fraction of the marketing budget spent by larger studios.

He has also developed virtual environments for world-class architects.

 Koda Skurzewski (Host)

As the Senior Vice-President Gaming & Metaverse at Teleperformance, Koda will share how being the largest CX & PX Company in the World means betting on new technologies to revolutionize how we interact and communicate. She will show us how to move into the next phase of digital transformation by managing and monetizing customer expectations to drive long-term growth in emerging virtual worlds!