Thursday, November 14th, 2019

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Track II: Herscher Hall, 3rd Floor, Room 305

IEOs, STOs, Blockchain and Alternative Financing for Film, TV, Games AR/VR, Music, and Media Ventures

Moderator - Mariana Danilovic, Founder and Managing Director, Hollywood Portfolio

Timothy E. Burke, Co-Founder | CCO || RUON AI™

Stuart Bullard, CEO, Airthereum

RB Botto, Founder & CEO, Stage32

Jim Sellers, Co-Founder & CEO, Buttrfly

Euan Macdonald, CEO & co-founder, Dreamview Studios

Jason Hicks, Chief Security Officer, Kudelski

Mariana Danilovic, CEO, hollywood portfolio: Ms. Danilovic is the Founder and CEO of hollywood portfolio, a crowd-centric accelerator that develops and operates Augmented, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and digital media companies. Through hollywood portfolio, Ms. Danilovic launched and helped develop numerous technology and digital media companies, and served as the President, CEO and Director of ultralivetv, served on the Board of Directors of Emerge Digital, serves on the Board of Advisors of Transmosis, LoveTV, and NightFlight. Ms. Danilovic was the EVP Business Development for NTN Buzztime, Inc. (AMEX:NTN) and Head of Business Development, Content

Aggregation and Programming for MediaZone, broadband video company owned by NASPERS/MIH media conglomerate. She also founded and directed the Digital Media Incubator at KPMG LLP, which launched about two-dozen digital media companies. The companies Ms. Danilovic helped develop received institutional funding from KPCB, Sequoia Capital, Hummer-Winblad, Constellation Partners, Softbank, North Star Ventures, HP, and Intel. Ms. Danilovic headed business development for Peter Guber’s Mandalay Entertainment and was on the management team of the venture fund at Sony Pictures Entertainment, investing in media companies worldwide. Ms. Danilovic also worked for Michael Milken’s Knowledge Exchange and at the Twentieth Century Fox International Television Group. She serves on the Board of Directors of C3, the Arts and Media Node of the Millennium Project, served on the Board of Directors of the Producers’ Guild of America, and is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Tim Draper’s Zone Club and was a member of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's Digital Coast Roundtable. Mariana earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, with a Minor in Biomedical Engineering from University of California, San Diego.

Jason Hicks, Chief Security Officer, Kudelski: Jason Hicks is a veteran information security and risk management executive with deep technical & risk management expertise, bringing more than 15 years of information risk experience into his current role. As an Advisory CISO in Kudelski Security’s Global Consulting Services, Jason leads Advisory Services strategic and business development practices. He also serves as a Virtual CISO to select clients. Prior to Kudelski Security, Hicks served as global chief information security officer (CISO) at Ares Management LLP, a multi-national alternative asset manager, with more than $100 billion in assets under management.

Stuart Bullard, CEO, Airtherium: Stuart is the CEO of Studio 10-4, Chairman of FLY by Airthereum, Advisory Board Member at AI companies SZL.it/TanjoHQ and Shift, and a Business Council Board Advisor for LA Mayor Eric Garcetti. Stuart is a music producer, writer, and composer fluent in 13 instruments who brought the “Pittsburgh Sound” to the music scene in the mid 90’s. He achieved multi-platinum record sales through collaborations with top recording artists Dr. Dre, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Ne-Yo and many more. Maintaining his passion for music and production, Stuart owns a high-end professional recording studio in Los Angeles. Stuart is concurrently a multi type-rated commercial pilot and a UAS remote pilot. He has a deep expertise in various aircraft technologies including UAS management, video game / app development, and digital securities. Stuart combined these interests as a leader in executive level autonomous systems solutions at DreamHammer.

Timothy E. Burke, Co-Founder | CCO || RUON AI™: Tim Burke is the founder and visionary Inventor of RUON AI & SovereignSky, the concept of SovereignAid, Founder of Hollywood's now famous MovieFund, currently being rebooted on SovereignSky blockchain, Writer and Co-Director on "Planet X" and executive producer on Lionsgate's "Killers Anonymous" which stars 2018's Oscar winner Gary Oldman and Jessica Alba. He and Marvel's Jeff Habberstad - (Doctor Strange, Iron Man 3, Captain Marvel, Antman and the Wasp) will co-direct his ancient alien epic which has been described in the Huffington Post as like 'Star Wars on Steroids'. The very concept of SovereignSky and beaming cryptocurrency from space, in fact came from - and will make up - part of the currency in the Planet X Movie. His vision is clear. Like no other social media, banking and shopping platform on the planet, RUON AI is set to completely revolutionize life online and aims to help eradicate global poverty at the same time.

Richard “RB” Botto founded and runs Stage 32, the world’s largest platform for connecting and educating film creatives. Called “LinkedIn meets Lynda for film creatives” by Forbes, Stage 32 boasts a member base of over 500,000 and features over 1,000 hours of film craft and business related education taught by over 500 industry executives across the globe. RB is also a working actor, producer and screenwriter. As a producer, his films have played at dozens of festivals including Sundance and include the award winning feature,  “Another Happy Day,” “Crutch,” and shorts,  “All Things Hidden” and “TAXII.” His latest screenplay, “The End Game,” was purchased and is in development by Covert Media. RB was also commissioned to write the very first book on film crowdsourcing by Focal Press under the American Film Market (AFM) imprint, which was published in 2017. A sought after speaker and mentor, RB has been a keynote speaker and panelist at such festivals and conferences as Cannes, Venice, AFM, Tribeca, Raindance, SXSW and Winston Baker, and has taught at institutions such as Harvard and Columbia University on the subjects of filmmaking, producing, film finance, screenwriting, social media, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, entrepreneurship and business.

Jim Sellers, is a recognized pioneer in advanced matching through social data intelligence, which is derived from mapping the global social graph. Previously, Jim was the Founder/Chairman/CEO of Tagger Media, where he architected, built, and deployed their award-winning enterprise SaaS platform. He implemented a global team that powers the social initiatives for clients like VaynerMedia, Omnicom Group, Mediacom, Weber Shandwick, Universal Music Group, Atlantic Records, and Ketchum PR. 

Euan Macdonald, CEO/CTO, Dreamview Studios: With over 30 years at Industrial Light + Magic, Electronic Arts, Disney’s ImageMovers Digital, and Pixar, Euan Macdonald has been at the bleeding edge of 3D CGI & visual effects innovation, with credits from Harry Potter to Jurassic Park and Star Wars. Expanding into immersive media and virtual reality in 2014, he led 3D VR on “The Recruit : R U In” a MetaVerse production, for Samsung and JauntVR, and went on to found immersive media company Holor (aka Cryworks) in 2015. Overseeing strategic direction as CEO, Euan secured unprecedented access to the set of Michael Bay’s Transformers 5 to deliver world-first VR footage using Holor’s proprietary VR 360 cameras. Euan’s latest venture, DreamView Studios, capitalizes on the commercial application of these technologies, creating and managing 3D CGI photoreal and real-time virtual products and worlds, for the e-Commerce market, enabling virtual photos shoots and AR apps for retailers such as Amazon, Wayfair and Overstock. While also building a soon to be released blockchain and cloud enabled platform DreamView.io, in partnership with Suku.world, to facilitate the creation, production and management of CGI products and media for e-commerce.