Mike Hollier
- Vice President of Technology Incubation, Dolby Labs
Dr Mike Hollier is an accomplished international executive with a strong track-record in corporate-venturing, start-up, founder-sales, multiple operational roles, and board-service. His experience embraces start-up, large company dynamics, and organizational scaling. He is driven and entrepreneurial and has led the creation of transformational new products and services supported by extensive new intellectual property.
Mike’s passion is matching significant industry challenges with bleeding-edge innovation. Commercial success has resulted from building world class teams across multiple countries, disciplines, and business models.
Through the 1990’s Mike worked at BT Labs (UK) creating a new generation of perception-based performance management tools for communications over IP-networks. From 2000 he led Psytechnics, an international VC backed startup, through funding, pivots, and exit. From 2010 to 2019 he was based in Silicon Valley (USA) working for Dolby Labs on adjacent opportunities. He has also held advisory roles for AI and SDN start-ups in Silicon Valley. Mike currently leads Technology Incubation for Dolby.
Douglas Nunn
- Course Leader and Senior Lecturer, Audio & Music Techology, Anglia Ruskin University
Douglas Nunn is an academic, composer and visual artist. His research interests include polyphonic music transcription, lossless compression, sound analysis and synthesis, live audiovisual performance and vector graphics.
Philippe Pasquier
- Professor at School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), Simon Fraser University
Philippe Pasquier is a professor at Simon Fraser University's School for Interactive Arts and Technology, where he directs the Metacreation Lab for Creative AI. Philippe leads a research-creation program around generative systems for creative tasks. As such, he is a scientist specialized in artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary media artist, an educator, and a community builder. His contributions range from theoretical research on generative systems, computer-assisted creativity, multi-agent systems, machine learning, affective computing, and evaluation methodologies. This work is applied in the creative software industry as well as through artistic practice in computer music, interactive and generative art.
Philippe's artistic work has been shown in prominent venues on six continents, including at Ars Electronica (Austria), Centre Pompidou (France), Les Bains Numériques (France), Eastern Block (Canada), Earzoom festival (Slovenia), GMEA (France), IRCAM (France), ISEA2012 (Turkey), ISEA2014 (Dubai), ISEA2016 (Honk Kong), ISEA2017 (Columbia), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (Canada), Mutek Festival (Canada), Plus One Gallery (USA), Space One (Korea), Sydney Biennale (Australia), Vooruit (Belgium), ZKM (Germany), ICST (Switzerland), and Akbank (Turkey). The Metacreation Lab research is being applied widely by the likes of Teenage Engineering, Steinberg, Generate, Elias, Schocap, Spliqz, and Microsoft.
Along with the Metacreation Lab fellows, Philippe has co-authored over 180 peer-reviewed contributions presented in the most rigorous scientific venues. His MOOC class on Generative Art and Computational Creativity on the Kadenze platform has served thousands. To further advance the Creative AI community, Philippe instigated and chaired the International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME) and the MUME concerts series, which led to the creation of the Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity. He also founded the International ACM Conference on Movement and Computation (MOCO), and was the director of the Vancouver edition of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2015). Philippe is a Senior Program Committee member of the Joint International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).
Philippe's projects are finding industrial applications in the creative industry at large and have gained support and recognition from more than 20 scientific or cultural institutions including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), MITACS, the Canadian Council for the Arts (CCA), the Australian Research Council and the Australian Council for the Arts, the French Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, and the European Community.
Philip Sheppard
- CEO & Co-Founder, LifeScore
Philip Sheppard is CEO of LifeScore. He is also an award-winning film, television and video game composer, producer, virtuoso cellist, and inventor.
LifeScore has been cited as the ‘world’s leading adaptive music company’ – and represents a completely original way to experience music. Its endlessly adaptive platform creates unique, real-time soundtracks for some of the world's leading brands. From the iconic Abbey Road Studios in London, they work with world-class musicians and composers to record and compose musical building blocks. That musical raw material is then processed by a proprietary AI platform to generate soundtracks that adapt to the listener’s environment and inputs, creating an authentic and interactive musical experience that is unique on every engagement.
LifeScore is unique in the quality of its musical building blocks, its methods for representing and applying compositional ideas, and its ability to adapt to the listener’s environment and inputs in real-time with music that sounds as if it were written for that purpose. The result is the best of human and machine contributions: human professionals create music that is of the highest quality recorded music, and the machine assembles it into endlessly varying renditions that can be unique on every listen and play for long durations without sounding repetitive or synthetic.
Philip has produced many large scale and high stakes projects including the 2008 Olympics Closing Ceremonies, all of the world’s national anthems for the 2012 Olympics, the Rugby World Cup, the Tour de France, The Commonwealth Games and the Montreal Grand Prix. He has composed more than 65 film, television, gaming and theatrical scores and has had 11 films premiere at The Sundance Film Festival in the last 10 years.
Philip regularly performs with Odesza, Pretty Lights and UNKLE and has been a guest artist for music legends such as, Scott Walker, Queens of the Stone Age, Grace Jones, Jimmy Page, Jeff Buckley, David Bowie, Sia, Suzanne Vega and Jarvis Cocker.
He regularly works as a creative consultant for large enterprises including, Google, EY, Deloitte, Kering, Kyu Collective, IDEO, and TTi Vanguard, specialising in innovative thinking and communication.
Philip is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures (Oscars), and a member of the Emmys Academy. He was honoured with BBC’s Music Production of the Year and was recently named as one of Origin Magazine’s “Top 100 Creatives in the U.S.” He is also the recipient of a RAM Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award from the Royal Academy of Music for his services to music and education.