AETHER 2025 Speakers

Ken Xu is the Solutions Architect Director at Alibaba Cloud based in Singapore, where he leads the Enterprise Solutions Architect team. With a strong background in delivering enterprise cloud and AI-driven solutions, his expertise sp...

Jawn is a Cloud & AI Solutions Specialist with expertise in GenAI, LLMs, agentic task automation, cloud-native security, DevSecOps, and Kubernetes across ASEAN. Currently serving as Regional Solution Archi...

Double-Academy Award winner Dr. Mark Sagar, is co-founder and Chief AI Officer of FaiBLE Media where he is working on future storytelling technologies. Mark was previously co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Soul Machines and Dir...

Dr. Wei Chu is Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of INF, where he leads the company’s scientific direction and the development of large language model solutions purpose-built for real-world, industry-grade deployment. A seasoned R&D lea...

Ulf Ewaldsson is a visionary technology executive and one of the global architects behind the 5G revolution. With more than 25 years in senior leadership positions across the telecom...

Ronnie Vasishta leads NVIDIA’s telecom vertical, including business management product definition, development, and go-to-market strategy. As SVP, telecom at NVIDIA, his organization is responsible for defining and architecting next-...

Jeffrey is a General Partner and architect of Physical World Ventures, an activist firm investing in the convergence of in-person entertainment and digital media. Jeffrey grew up in immersive entertainment, joining Meow Wolf while in...

Simon Fuller is a renowned British entrepreneur whose innovative thinking, creative ambition and commercial acumen has transformed global entertainment for five decades. Fuller enjoys an unrivalled history...

Uday Shankar is a global media leader and the Founder Director of Bodhi Tree Systems, a strategic investment platform focused on transforming consumer-facing sectors in emerging markets. He currently serves as Vice-Chairman of JioStar...

Josh Baillon is building Collective Imagination, a new venture focused on multisensory immersive experiences that transform how people connect with art, story, and space. With several installations already in development in both Euro...

Karthik K Raman is the Chief Marketing Officer at Flam AI, the revolutionary product transforming how enterprises deploy AI-native content. An IIT Madras alumnus, Karthik brings over a decade of global experience across product, grow...

Vicki Dobbs Beck is a veteran entertainment executive with more than 30 years of experience driving innovation and digital transformation in support of storytelling. In 2024, she was named one of the top 10 entertainment gaming leader...

Pinn is a founding member of Lightspeed Southeast Asia, a global early-stage investment fund. Prior to Lightspeed, she was at Insignia Venture Partners and Tiger Global Management, where she focused on consumer and financial technolo...

Mandar Natekar is the Founder and CEO of NeuralGarage, a company building ultra-high-quality audio-visual foundation models for the media and entertainment industry. Its proprietary solution, VisualDub, addresses long-standing challe...

Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, PhD, is the Head of the Gray School of Medical Sciences. Prof. Satchi-Fainaro is Head of the Cancer Biology Research Center (CBRC), is among the leading researchers in Israel and worldwide in the fields of...

Yahal is a 20+ year veteran of the VC industry, recognized for his expertise and hands-on work with entrepreneurs creating new industry categories. Yahal brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as an entrepreneur, mentor, and exe...

Eric Ellenbogen has spent more than 35 years running IP, entertainment and media businesses, most recently from 2019 to 2023 as CEO and Vice Chair of WildBrain (TSX:WILD), one of the world's largest animation studios, a global licens...

Sharad Devarajan has served for over 15 years as a Professor of at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, where he teaches numerous classes on artificial intelligence, media and entrepreneurship...

Anton has been working in the various domains of IT and Cybersecurity for over 20 years. He became one of the first Red Hat Linux Certified Engineers (RHCE) and the youngest Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) in the Philippines...

Vikram Sinha is a seasoned global telecom executive. He has worked in various markets in Asia and Africa and has a strong track record of driving top-line growth, increasing profitability and building teams across diverse industries...

Vivek Couto co-founded Media Partners Asia (MPA) in 2001 and leads the company’s strategy, operations, and growth. With over 25 years of experience across media, entertainment, and telecoms. Vivek is recognized as one of Asia...

Guy Piekarz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Panjaya, a deep-tech company pioneering studio-quality AI video adaptation through advanced multimodal models. A serial entrepreneur, Guy previously founded Unisfair, a leading virtual-events...

Ashutosh Srivastava is the Founder and Chairman of Veros Ventures, which he established in April 2024 to advise and scale technology-oriented, AI-driven enterprises seeking market entry and growth across India, MENA, and Asia-Pacific...

Jed Weintrob is a media executive and award-winning producer, director and writer who has been at the leading edge of adapting new technologies and techniques to filmed content ranging from the first generation of CD-ROM video games...