Anna Mauersberger is an Educational Artist, Experience Designer and Facilitator working at the intersection of arts, technology, education and social activism. She is a certified Ontological Coach and Mental Trainer and soon-to-be-certified Somatic Experience Practitioner and Wilderness Trainer. Before reclaiming her independence, she worked for the Berlin-based film production company UFA, where she started the award-winning educational initiative Mesh Collective, a pioneer project in the field of digital, extracurricular youth education. As Co-Founder of HeartWire, Laboratory for Soulful Civic Education, she seeks to combine the "best of all worlds" by weaving psychological insights, body based theories and indigenous wisdom into entertaining, accessible and yet challenging formats for all types of audiences.

Niki Smit is co-founder and Creative Director at Monobanda, where he explores and expands the boundaries of play and interaction. His work focuses heavily on researching and developing news forms of play. His passion lies in creating work that connects the human body, physical space and the virtual world in surprising ways, creating meaningful play that fills the space between art, science and education. 

Additionally, Niki co-founded ExploreDEEP, where he creates meditative, breath-controlled VR experiences, and loves teaching visual & interactive storytelling at art academies.  

Monobanda is on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Ágnes Karolina Bakk (1986), PhD-researcher (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Innovation Center), conference founder, producer and curator. She is the founder of the immersive storytelling conference entitled Zip-Scene, that will take place for the third time in March 2021. She is the cofounder of Random Error Studio, a lab that supports various VR productions and is currently the curator of Vektor VR section in the frame of the Verzio Film festival. She is teaching escape room design, immersive & VR-storytelling and speculative design at MOME. She presented her research on immersive theatre and VR at various conferences and platforms from Moscow (CILECT, 2019) to Montreal (SQUET, 2019).

Krzysztof Garbaczewski (born 1983 in Białystok, Poland) is a director, set designer and author of adaptations of, among others, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Gombrowicz, Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, Reymont, Jelinek, Roussel, and the poets Leśmian, Białoszewski and Dante, which form the basis of his so-called "Meditations" combining performance, visual arts and music. The first Polish theatre director working in Virtual Reality technology. Founder of the Dream Adoption Society collective, which focuses on developing the language of digital arts - virtual and augmented reality in the space of theatre and performance art. In his practice he combines new technologies with performance art and installations. Dream Adoption Society uses such solutions as: scanning and implementation of actors into a virtual 3D live environment, applications enabling multiple viewers to experience virtual reality at the same time, creation of digital avatars and VR environments (Virtual Reality) combined with real scenery and props or use of holographic characters generated in real time in augmented reality.

Currently researching the integration between dance and technology as part of Bristol & Bath R&D Expanded Performance Fellowship. I am a queer XR producer seeking to better understand and shape how we can use creative technologies to tell OUR stories.

I am Diva Miyake-Mugler from The Iconic Legendary International House of Miyake-Mugler. I am known as the First Lady of The London Ballroom Scene and The Queen of Oldway Performance. I am Trans, I am a Teacher, I am a Leader, I am Diva.