**Daniel Freed** **- Awards Ceremony Panel on AI**
Daniel worked for 12 years as senior producer and writer for CNBC’s long-running white collar crime documentary series, AMERICAN GREED. He is the co-author of *Call Me Commander: A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece* America, a non-fiction book detailing an audacious charity fraud orchestrated by a man while he was wanted by the FBI for questioning in an espionage investigation. Also active in nonfiction television development, a pitch he crafted was produced for Amazon Prime as THIS GIANT BEAST THAT IS THE GLOBAL ECONOMY by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell’s company, Gary Sanchez Productions. His work for television and print has been aired or published by PBS, Current TV, *The New York Times*, and the *Los Angeles Times.* He has multiple long-form true-crime articles in development with producers and production companies in the U.S. and Europe.

**Bill T. Jones - Lifetime Achievement Award Winner**
**Bill T. Jones** (*Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts*) is a multi-talented artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, and Associate Artist for the 2020 Holland Festival. Mr. Jones has received major honors, including the Human Rights Campaign’s 2016 Visibility Award, 2013 National Medal of Arts to a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award and Kennedy Center Honors in 2010. Mr. Jones was honored with the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2010, inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009 and named “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure” by the Dance Heritage Coalition in 2000. His ventures into Broadway theater resulted in a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography in the critically acclaimed *FELA!,* the new musical co-conceived, co-written, directed and choreographed by Mr. Jones. He also earned a 2007 Tony Award for Best Choreography in *Spring Awakening* as well as an Obie Award for the show’s 2006 off-Broadway run. His choreography for the off-Broadway production of *The Seven* earned him a 2006 Lucille Lortel Award.

**Matthew Modine - Awards Ceremony Panel on AI**
Cinco Dedos Peliculas (CDP) is an acclaimed film and new media production company co-founded by actor/filmmaker Matthew Modine with producer and former Apple marketing executive Adam Rackoff. The duo have executive produced several award-winning films, environmental documentaries, and animated features, most recently AGAINST THE CURRENT (2021) about one woman’s world-record swim around Rapa Nui (Easter Island), ACCIDENTAL TRUTH: UFO REVELATIONS (2023) about the UAP phenomenon, and Signe Baumane’s new animated feature MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE (2023). Their latest documentary film, DOWNWIND (2023), chronicles the fallout from decades of nuclear bomb testing on American soil. DOWNWIND is narrated by Martin Sheen and features Michael Douglas, Lewis Black, and John Wayne’s son, Patrick. Other current and upcoming projects include the multi-award-winning and Oscar-qualifying short THE FUSE, the parapsychology documentary MIND TRAVELER, and SLUDGE: A PFAS UPRISING about farmers who lost everything due to “forever chemicals.”

**Susaye Greene - Awards Ceremony Performance**
Susaye Greene is the last member of the Supremes signed to Motown Records. She is an author, multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, producer and a powerful inspirational speaker. Susaye was honored by the Motown Museum as an innovator and influencer. Susaye has traveled the world with Ray Charles and as Stevie Wonder's featured soloist. Of her many accomplishments, she wrote Michael Jackson's hit song "I Can't Help It" with Stevie Wonder. She is also featured in Spike Lee's "Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown to Off The Wall."
She is the co-Founder of Capital Code, a tech and media company, and President of Dollface Records and Dollface Music International. Susaye is passionate about creating kindness, Art, supporting STEM, Space Science, Tech, and is an Al/VR enthusiast. She is also developing games and animated 3D films for Web3 and building in the Metaverse.

**Carlos Salum**
**Workshop: Performance Science Lessons from Formula 1 Racing**
**Carlos Salum** is the Founder of Salum International Resources, Inc., a Leadership Performance Strategy consultancy based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He’s the developer of ***Performance Architecture***, a process that helps corporate leaders design a blueprint for achieving peak performance, based on key training principles utilized by world-class athletes and sports teams. His international clients have headquarters in four continents and belong to the private banking, diplomacy, insurance, medical, IT, management consulting and sports management industries, among others. He’s the author of **“The Glass is Full and a Half,”** a memoir in which he documents breakthrough transformations through his work as a consultant for over three decades.
As an executive, Salum held top management positions in the sports marketing and information technology industries. As a peak performance expert, he has participated in ground-breaking research with some of the world's leading sport scientists, with whom he coached some of the world's top athletes. He contributed to the careers of outstanding tennis players such as Gabriela Sabatini (U.S. Open champion, 1990) and Sergi Bruguera (French Open champion, 1993-94) and the Argentine and Italian Davis Cup Teams, among many others. He currently coaches international race car drivers Pietro Fittipaldi (Formula One Team Haas, 2017 World Champion Formula Renault V8 3.5) and Enzo Fittipaldi (Formula 2 Red Bull Academy, 2018 Formula 4 Italian Champion, former Ferrari Driver Academy), as well as sisters Amna and Hamda Al Qubaisi (F1 Academy, Formula 4, from Abu Dhabi).
Salum collaborates as a Mentor with LEAD Sports & Health Tech Partners created by the grandsons of Adi Dassler (the legendary founder of Adidas), as well as their ADlegacy operation based in the Bahamas. He is the co-founder of Synergize Sports, an international sports innovation consultancy and the co-producer of the Tennis Innovation Conference.
In addition, Salum organizes the SIR Conferences, sponsored events featuring world-renowned creative thinking experts like Dr. Edward de Bono, Richard Saul Wurman and Dudley Lynch. He was the opening speaker at TEDx Charlotte in 2010 and promoted The Nobels Colloquia, an exclusive event featuring Nobel Laureates in Economics based in Venice, Italy, where spoke in 2011. In Charlotte, NC, he founded TheSircle Executive Club, organizing private dinners for local leaders since 2009 at The Ritz Carlton. Salum is an international tennis coach, a radio and television journalist, a produced playwright (London, Tampa, and Buenos Aires) and a TV documentary film producer (associated with 360 PowWow Sports, an international production company).

**Ana Fraile - VR Creator, Library of all things**
Ana Fraile is an argentine screenwriter, director and producer and has extensive experience in documentary filmmaking. Her work includes the feature films 'Un fueguito, la historia de César Milstein', '¿Quién mató a mi hermano?', 'Buenas Noches Malvinas' and 'Las Fronteras del cuerpo', and most recently 'The Library of All Possible Things'. She founded Pulpofilms with Lucas Scavino and they are currently directing and producing new feature-length documentaries on human rights and science. Ana is developing The library of all possible things, an immersive/VR experience combining science and film. In the academic field, she works on the link between documentary as a tool for social activism and human rights. She is a PhD student in Human Sciences at the Universidad de San Martin (Argentina). Ana is Professor of Audiovisual Production at the Universidad Scalabrini Ortiz (Argentina) and teaches a training course on film and human rights at the Global Campus of Human Rights-UNSAM (Argentina).

**Kevin Grazier,** PhD is a planetary physicist by education and is currently on the faculty at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY. Grazier was previously a scientist on the Cassini Mission to Saturn. He has served as the science advisor for several television series and feature films and is the co-author of the Hollyweird Science series of popular science books.

**Carlos Pitarch** is an audiovisual producer, photographer, and cameraman specializing in mountain and adventure sports. He has created various documentary cinematographic and videographic pieces that explore travel, adventure, and risk in remote and inhospitable natural environments.
With extensive experience as a mountaineer from a young age, he has participated in expeditions and ascents around the world, giving him exceptional mastery of the camera in challenging environments and extreme situations.

**Philip T. Johnson - Red Carpet Host + Director**
Philip T. Johnson is the writer/director of the cult sci-fi film “Einstein’s God Model”, which was a winner at the 2016 Raw Science Film Festival. He has a Masters of Science from the University of Southern California and a certificate in Film Production from NYU. In addition to working on productions with industry leaders such as Anthony Russo, Eric Stoltz, the DiCaprio family, and Kevin Richardson, Philip is a practicing anesthetist at Yale New Haven Hospital. His films promote STEM careers using compelling narratives that illustrate advanced scientific concepts. He is currently in production on the feature film “Proteus Entangled” which explores quantum entanglement and FTL communication.

***Bhumika Bio:***
Bhumika is an award-winning creative leader who has worked for more than a decade on storytelling and building meaningful campaigns that support young women and underrepresented communities around the world to raise their voices. Currently as Director of Digital Communications and Creative, Bhumika leads Malala Fund's global digital communications strategy and serves as a creative advisor to the organization and the girls' education activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai.

***About Malala Fund:***
Malala and Ziauddin Yousafzai founded Malala Fund in 2013 to champion every girl’s right to 12 years of free, safe, quality education. With nearly 120 million girls out of school today, Malala Fund works to break down barriers that hold girls back.

**Keri Kukral - Festival Founder, Executive Producer**
Keri Kukral (founder) is a former professional ballet dancer and was awarded a full scholarship to the Ruth Page Foundation after being hand selected by Ruth Page from the Arie Crown Theater stage as a child. She has a degree in bio/ electrical engineering from Purdue University and a long career in the medical device industry most recently as Global Design Quality Engineering Manager at Celestica for drug-device combination products and electromechanical surgical instruments. Keri is the Founder and Executive Producer of the Raw Science Film Festival.

**María Laura Ruggiero** is an Argentine filmmaker and narrative designer specializing in transmedia storytelling and immersive media. Her internationally recognized work has been featured in programs like Mutek, Power to the Pixel, and Digital Jove. As a professor and PhD student, María Laura shares her expertise at events such as SXSW, TEDx, and MIT ODL. She is a Berlinale Talents Alumni and mentor, a member of Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School, and a recipient of the Alicia Down the Rabbit Hole Award for her work in emerging media. María Laura leads StoryHackers Lab and SeirenFilms, where she blends science, tech, and film in projects like *The Library of All Possible Things* and *Wave 201: The Unwanted Atlantis*. She also serves as a mentor and judge at MIT Reality Hack. Her latest project, focused on environmental narratives, is part of the MIT Worlding Project's Community Cohort.

Douglas Chin, MD, FACS (Associate Producer) – Douglas Chin is a reconstructive surgeon who splits his time between the fields of plastic & reconstructive surgery and humanitarian medicine.

Doug applies the science and art of medicine to advance global health and human rights. A founding member of Physicians Against The Trafficking of Humans, he employs public health models to study human trafficking and violent radicalization. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. (PCUSA), Doug is Commissioner to the Presbytery of San Francisco and elder at First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, where he was one of the principal instigators of the church’s efforts to promote social and spiritual transformation through the elevation and advancement of women. Since 2010, he has worked to advance the wellbeing of communities by promoting access to healthcare, economic opportunity, and education for women and girls. Doug has served as an Advisor and Mentor to the iconic Afghan Dreamers Girls Robotics Team since 2019. On August 13, 2021, the Producers were completing Afghan Dreamers while the team was in competition in Herat, when the Taliban took possession of that city and province. Doug and other members of the production team had to quickly pivot to evacuating members of the team, their families, and other at-risk Afghans to safety. Temporarily shuttering his surgical practice to devote himself full-time to evacuation and sustainment efforts, Doug has since helped to evacuate and/or resettle 164 Afghans in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Doug directs a telehealth clinic for displaced Afghans. He examines Taliban torture and human trafficking victims and has submitted evidentiary reports to UN Special Procedures and the UN Human Rights Council and works as Advisor to the U.N. and various human rights organization.

Doug is an Associate Producer of Rebecca the Musical and Executive Producer of Healthcare & Human Trafficking, a training video that explores the interface of healthcare and human trafficking. He is Co-Founder of the Harvard Christian Alumni Society.