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Amelia Winger-Bearskin is a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts, at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She is also the founder of the AI Climate Justice Lab, the Talk To Me About Water Collective, and the Cloud Hackathon.

In 2022 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Award as part of the Sundance AOP Fellowship cohort for her project CLOUD WORLD / SKYWORLD which was part of The Whitney’s Sunrise/Sunset series.

In 2021 she was a fellow at Stanford University as their artist and technologist in residence, made possible by the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning (VAF).

In 2020 she founded Wampum Codes, an award-winning podcast and an ethical framework for software development based on indigenous values of co-creation, while a Mozilla Fellow at the MIT Co-Creation Studio.

In 2019 she was a delegate at the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion for His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama, at his World Headquarters in Dharamsala, India.

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Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary media artist, curator, filmmaker, DJ, and cultural producer.

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Founder of Screen Industry Training Inc.; designs training programs in film, television, interactive art, VFX, animation, and virtual production.

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Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor specializing in 3D computer graphics and virtual set creation.

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XR developer and AI researcher with expertise in Indigenous language preservation using emerging technologies.

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Indigenous cultural consultant and media producer specializing in XR projects that promote cultural preservation and storytelling.

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Renae is a Cree/Anishinaabe, multifaceted, intertribal artist involved in music, theatre, film, and television within various communities across Turtle Island. Through her community-oriented art practices, she has been a director, writer, and facilitator, dedicating herself to sharing Indigenous stories that move beyond resilience to create hope and love.

She has been the manager and vocalist for M’Girl Music, an Aboriginal Women’s Hand drum vocal ensemble, for almost two decades. Her musical works have been featured in films such as Broken Angel (2022), Angela’s Shadow (2024), and Heartland (2009), as well as in Public Service Announcements related to the COVID crisis (2020) and in theatrical productions like The Secret to Good Tea (2025), White Noise (2023), and Weaving Reconciliation (2017).

Moreover, Renae has directed documentary television programming, including Down2Earth (2014) and Quest Out West (2023, 2024), for its second and third seasons.

Recently, she finished writing her debut feature film and is exploring the subsequent steps for its production.

Currently, Renae is an instructor in the Indigenous Digital Film Program at Capilano University.

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nêhiyaw-Scottish/Irish musician and educator; drummer and soundscape artist behind ASKO, creating immersive works rooted in nêhiyaw ways of living and cultural storytelling.

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Born November 3rd, 1976 and raised in Waterhen Lake First Nation in Northern Saskatchewan, Rueben Martell was enamored with the oral tradition of storytelling. Having heard Cree stories from his grandmother from a young age, his imagination pushed him to make the images more physically represented in visual media. His first experience came as an extra in a CBC movie “Revenge of the Land”. The experience changed his opinion on the industry, where he wanted to be behind the camera. Starting as a production assistant for Seventh Generation (1999,2000) for two seasons. After working with Big Soul Productions, they pushed him from production assistant to 1st assistant trainee for Season One (2003) of “Moccasin Flats”, then 3rd AD for Season 2 (2004). Rueben was asked to teach aboriginal youth the basics of filmmaking. Detour Youth Centre(2007) and at the University of Saskatchewan’s Aboriginal Peoples Program (2008).

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Dallas Flett-Wapash is an Ininew/Saulteaux digital artist working with video game design, expanded reality, and other interactive technologies. His practice is an ongoing digital reconstruction of his cultural identity – including cosmology, culture, language, and lifestyle – using video game aesthetics. Raised primarily by Swampy Cree Matriarchs in the educational sector, the sharing of practical and technical knowledge is one of the key elements of his Arts career. He has taught digital arts workshops for many arts and educational organizations. Recent exhibitions include After Effects: Emerging New Media Artists in Winnipeg at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown PEI, Azimuth Nitehi at VideoPool in Winnipeg MB,and DAiR v1:Video Games by Artists at the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina SK.

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