Award-winning Creative Director, Jay Pond-Jones, has worked at many of the world's best advertising agencies including – Mother, HHCL, BMB, and GGT. Having created the internationally renowned FCUK logo for French Connection, Pond-Jones has been widely recognised as a leading light in the UK advertising industry. A life-long music fanatic – Jay worked in a record shop aged 14, recorded as a child singer at Abbey Road - and wrote the first-ever six-minute music video to appear on MTV - for none other than Iron Maiden. Alongside leading Dirty Soup’s immersive audio production, Jay also writes, produces, and directs comedy – creates music documentaries for radio, produces podcasts, live events and most recently, live streamed music and entertainment. Jay is represented by United Agents and is a member of PRS, BAFTA and The Royal Television Society.

Katherine Templar Lewis is a creative scientist, futurist and hybrid. Specialising in neuroscience, neuroaesthetics and human science, she accelerates cutting edge scientific research from the lab out into the world through artistic and creative collaboration. On a mission to blow the lid off what is possible, she is a specialist on the impact of immersive technology on the human condition. Katherine helps join up the dots with world-class academics, creatives, disrupters, and industry thought-leaders. Creating award-winning immersive multisensory collaborations with the likes of NASA, Marshmallow Laser Feast, Unit 9, Mother, Ogilvy, and BBH - and regularly appears as a leading voice on the intersection of science, technology and culture on media outlets including the BBC, NBC, CNN and VICE - Katherine believes that the future should not just happen to us, we should, and can, create it.

Dirty Soup's Immersive Cinema Director, Mandy Kean, believes that now is the time to push the boundaries of the ultimate cinema experience - with ever-emerging technical advances in both sound and vision heralding a dynamic future for the platform. Founder and CEO of Mustard Studio, a consultancy providing services to the cinema industry, Kean was previously International Director of Cinema for Soho House & Co for over twenty years, where her expertise covered many different areas of entertainment and brand including the world-renowned Electric Cinema brand. Having spearheaded the launch of Soho House’s internationally revered Dolby Atmos enabled cinemas, many of Kean's ground-breaking ideas for how to create the ultimate Cinema experience have gone on to lead the way in enhanced cinema audience experiences across the globe.

Andy Orrick is a creative director, strategist and creative EP specialising in inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural, inter-generational collaborations. A long-time collaborator with Robert Del Naja (3D), Massive Attack and West Management (MA, Young Fathers, Soulwax...), he also co-founded and ran Grand-Prix winning immersive and innovation studio, Mill Digital, inside VFX power-house, The Mill. It focused on multi-sensory experience and storytelling using emergent technologies. Alongside Andy’s work in Music and technology, he is Creative Partner in Adoreum, a global network of investors, CEOs, philanthropists and academics focused on unleashing humanity’s compassionate entrepreneurial spirit to create a better world for all. Andy studied Anthropology at Goldsmiths and is passionate about using the subject’s methodologies across his research & development work.