Stephane Malagnac, is a Freelancer Consultant drawing from his 27+ years of experience in audiovisual and immersive content creation and with his former position, knowhow and network as Head of PiXii Festival and Head of Innovation at Sunny Side of the Doc.

Annette Brejner  has over two decades of experience in the media industries with the specific focus on kids content development. Following the growth of both the Forum Event and the development in kids media, she now holds the position as Senior Creative Advisor, with emphasis on designing future industry activities and focusing on international partnerships. She is maintaining an ongoing dialogue with industry and national and international stakeholders, leads the development of the Forums identity-shift, and reinforces the positioning of m:brane and independent media for Young Audiences within the industry. She has the past 13 years become increasingly curious and deeper submerged in the question about the correlation between new technology, immersive experiences, the industry and young audiences’ innate intelligence and intellectual sophistication.

Niels Righolt has been the CEO of The Danish Centre for Arts & Interculture, CKI, since 2011. CKI is a knowledge, competence and communication centre for international culture, cultural diversity and audience engagement and development. CKI have 25+ years of experience in performing tasks and screenings, skills development programmes, audience and organisational learning, seminars, conferences, workshops, knowledge programmes and projects in Denmark, the Nordics and in Europe. Before joining CKI Niels has worked as Artistic and Managing Director, Producer, Head of Information and Political Advisor within a variety of cultural institutions, public bodies and organisations over the years e.g. Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg (SE). At present Niels is vice-president for Culture Action Europe in Brussels (BE) and he is a board member of a.o. the Voksenåsen Course Centre in Oslo (NO), Teatergrad in Copenhagen (DK) and chair of the board for CommunityKulturCentrum in Malmö (SE). Niels will also be giving the Keynote, for the m:brane Learning programme, during our m:brane’s Opening Industry Day.

Anna Lyrevik has worked at Lund University since 2015, from 2021 as Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor with responsibility to integrate art and culture into the wider university. Lyrevik has spent most of her professional life in the Swedish cultural sector, as a practitioner (dance) and in managerial and specialist positions, between 2005-2014 at the Culture Department in Malmö.

Elizabeth Markevitch is the Founder of ikonoTV, an international media platform streaming visual arts. She has held various roles in the international art establishment, including at Sotheby’s Geneva and as the founder of the art advisory department of Schröder Bank. Elizabeth’s passion for democratizing art led her to co-found the first-ever online art platform, eyestorm.com in 1997. With ikonoTV, Elizabeth has created a platform that features carefully curated videos, films, and Channels with Partners as part of a VOD offering. The exponential growth of ikonoTV, with over 1 million downloads through SmartTV applications, demonstrates that art can be as accessible as music. Elizabeth’s future plans include #ArtSpeaksOut, an Open Call for video artists around climate issues as a purely visual experience and bring an emotional side to scientists’ research, the launch of a special streaming program, ikonoXpress, and a new VR Story production creating intimately interactive documentaries.

Fredrik leads IVAR Studios, an immersive studio in Stockholm, Sweden, specializing in highly interactive storytelling in new formats like VR, AR and 360-video. Fredrik co-founded IVAR Studios together with his brother Martin Edström, an award-winning National Geographic photographer, in 2016. Fredrik and the team works with commercial and documentary projects for organizations around the world, including media like National Geographic and several Swedish and international museums – often with a focus on interactive educational stories. Their immersive content for National Geographic has been seen over 50 million times. Working as a producer and director Fredrik is an experienced immersive storyteller. He thrives working in the intersection of new technologies and storytelling.