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Michael Osterrieder

Michael Osterrieder is a creative professional, serial entrepreneur and content licensing veteran with nearly two decades of IP production experience under his belt. Combining vast experience in 3D graphics, photography and videography, Michael has sold over 500,000 media licenses and engineered dozens of commercial design and web projects worldwide.

Alongside Nicolas Menijes, Michael co-founded vAIsual in 2021, from which he is also the CEO, an artificial intelligence company generating synthetic media for the B2B IP licensing market, and was instrumental in developing its base technology. The company launched Dataset Shop, a dataset marketplace building generative AI and facial recognition technology with datasets that have full biometric and copyright clearances, providing peace of mind to corporate customers who need full assurance they are not breaking international laws.

Julia Enthoven

Julia is the CEO and cofounder of Kapwing, a video creation platform for modern teams. Kapwing now serves hundreds of thousands of creative teams using AI and cloud collaboration to speed up content operations.

Before Kapwing, Julia studied computer science at Stanford and worked at Google as an Associate Product Manager.

Javier Ideami

A multidisciplinary and award-winning engineer, researcher, creative director, artist and entrepreneur, Javier’s projects and talks have taken him from Silicon Valley to the jungles of Bali, including Stanford University and UC Berkeley, the United Nations FAO HQ, the financial center of London, the International Cultural Diplomacy Conference in Berlin and many others. Javier also shared his perspectives in the opening fireside chat at our Visual 1st conference last year.

In 2021 Javier co-founded The Geniverse, one of the first platforms in the world that facilitates access to the latest Generative AI technology.

Most recently, Javier directed Hamelin 77 – A movie about prompt engineering and generative AI, which reflects upon the topic of prompt engineering and simultaneously uses a number of generative AI techniques within the movie.

Keith Barraclough

Keith is responsible for product, technology and platform operations at Zenfolio.  Under his leadership, the company developed its "NextZen" SaaS solution to build and host photographers' businesses. He was also instrumental in integrating the application and services of Format, a provider of website building and business services for creative professionals and photographers, which Zenfolio acquired late 2021, and in overseeing the development of Zenfolio’s PhotoRefine.ai photo curation application, which won the Best Business Potential Award at last year’s Visual 1st conference.

Prior to Zenfolio Keith was the founding CTO, EVP products and Board Member at Texture, the "Nextflix of magazines" service acquired by Apple in 2018 and since integrated into Apple's News+.  Prior to Texture Keith was the co-founder of Avvenu, an online file sharing service which was acquired by Nokia in 2007.  Post-acquisition Keith was GM and head of development for a number of Nokia's mobile and online services.

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