Souki Mansoor

Award-winning creative technologist, film director, Sora team at OpenAI

Souki Mansoor is an award-winning creative technologist who bridges artists and research at OpenAI. As the alpha manager on the video model team, she plays a crucial role in managing communication between artists, engineers, and research teams—facilitating feedback loops, managing creative projects and supporting new applications of AI. Her background in nonfiction filmmaking includes work featured at Sundance, Tribeca, TED, and streaming on Netflix, HBO, and Showtime. A recognized voice in AI, Souki has also spoken at Cannes Lions, Berlinale, Runway’s AI Film Festival, Hollywood’s AI On The Lot, RealScreen West, and institutions like PGA, UTA, USC, and UBC. When not falling down generative rabbit holes, she enjoys nibbling spoonfuls of cashew butter, writing prose, and cultivating life with her husband Axel and their 73 houseplants.

Theodore Bajard

Contemporary Art curator & founder of Rima Experience

Theodore Bajard is a contemporary art curator, and founder of RIMA, known for creating transformative artistic experiences and innovative self-development practices worldwide. With a decade-long career spanning multiple facets of the art world, Theodore began as a contemporary art specialist in prestigious auction houses in New York and Paris. He later expanded into art curation and advisory roles, notably at the Azulik Art Gallery within Tulum’s Sferik. Throughout his journey, he has organized exhibitions for emerging artists across six countries and curated numerous shows at international art fairs. This rich blend of global and local experience has informed his latest venture, RIMA, founded in 2020. RIMA offers creative solutions for high-impact individuals through innovative self-development practices and immersive artistic experiences, supported by a global community of change-makers. Drawing from extensive research and collaborations across contemporary art, theater, psychology, and philosophy, RIMA seeks to reshape how we engage with art and consciousness, both individually and collectively.

Ilana Gilovich

Chief Storyteller at Emursive Productions (Sleep No More)

Ilana Gilovich is the Chief Storyteller for Emursive Productions, the production company behind the immersive performances Sleep No More, Life And Trust, and Speakeasy Magick, as well as venues Gallow Green, Conwell Coffee Hall, The Overlook Bar, The Club Car, and The Manderley Bar. She has also performed as a cast member in Sleep No More since 2012. Ilana earned her BA in English at Cornell University, her MA in Literary Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, and her PhD in English Literature (Theatre and Performance) at Columbia University. Ilana is passionate about activating artistic expression within community: she has volunteered as a TA with the Cornell Prison Education Program at Auburn Maximum Security Prison, and has worked on Shakespeare education programs for youth with the Epic Theatre Ensemble and the Belfast Ulster Museum. Ilana also taught theater and dance practices with Cornell’s Teach and Tour at the Ndere Centre in Kampala, Uganda. Ilana’s writing can be found on Substack (https://ilanagilovichwave.substack.com/) and her poetry account (@abeingplace).

Nir Adan

Social entrepreneur, founder of Midburn, father

I’ve had the privilege of working on a few life-changing projects. Somehow, I ended up founding and running Midburn, Israel’s regional Burning Man event. It’s been a wild ride! I also the founder of “WHT IF” – a project that brings different cultures together in Egypt.

One of my passion projects is a therapeutic farm where we work with horses to help people dealing with PTSD. Oh, and I’m currently setting up a personal growth village in Thailand.

I love pushing myself out of my comfort zone and sometimes I accidentally inspire others to do the same. Music is my lifeline, and I’m always ready to lend an ear. I own two dogs, 5 cats, a turtle, and a donkey named “donkey”.
Life’s been an incredible journey so far, and I’m grateful for every moment of it.

Julia Catalán

Founder of Wakana and Wakana Reunion festival

Basque blood, Andalusian soul and Catalan first surname… His identity reflects a unique combination of naturally integrated traditions.

She grew up between travels and family adventures and learned to appreciate the beauty in diversity and to enhance it in every corner of the world through the lens of her camera. Documentary photography was her first great love, leading her to explore diverse realities in distant continents and sharing her vision in exhibitions, fanzines and a book of her own.

Although she has a Master’s degree in business management, she discovered its essence when she studied psychology and later Sustainability and ESG criteria, something that guides all her projects.

Today, at 32, she is an entrepreneur who has created two unique companies:
– Wakana, a tribute to the essential: nature, adventure and personal growth. A space where the simple comes to life: stars, bonfires, guitars, friends, and the magic of the ancestral.
– Wakana Reunion, a music festival that has become a benchmark, where music, people, and the environment come together in an experience so special that it is difficult to describe… it can only be felt.

Axel Mansoor

Award-winning musician, experience designer, and psychedelic facilitator

My name’s Axel. I’m a facilitator, award-winning experience designer, and critically-acclaimed musician. My lineage is 1/4 Indian, 1/4 German, 1/2 Mauritian-Creole. I’ve spent 10+ years designing, producing, and facilitating solo & group experiences of deep connection. My music has won awards, gone viral 2x, earned me a Daytime Emmy-nomination, been placed with brands like McDonalds, Apple, Starbucks, Netflix; landed interviews in NYT; WSJ; NPR and lead to me being featured as the Clubhouse app-icon.

For the last 13 years, i’ve integrated psychedelic journeys with IFS, somatic therapy, and mindfulness to be able to compost my own trauma. All this has allowed for profound healing — learning how to embody self-love, finding clarity, purpose and fulfillment, and doing a *lot* of forgiving and letting go. As a facilitator, I now get the privilege of helping others bring more of themselves into the world. I am trauma-informed and use a mixed modality approach with improvised live music, IFS, and somatic techniques.

Max Stossel

Award-winning poet, filmmaker, and speaker, and humane technology advocate

Max Stossel is an award winning poet, filmmaker, and speaker, named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year.

He is also the founder and CEO of Social Awakening, an organization dedicated to helping young people survive and thrive in the modern world. He has spoken with hundreds of thousands of students parents and educators around the world about how social media is impacting their lives and relationships, and created resources to help manage that impact.

Caro

Creative director and a multidisciplinary artist

Caro is a creative director, a multidisciplinary artist, a visual designer, an experience designer, a world builder. She focuses on leveraging projects related to regeneration, community building, ancient wisdom, creativity, education and mental health.

Troy Dayton

Curator of open-hearted communities and experiences

Troy has spent his life building community and studying how people come to experience connection and belonging. He co-founded Students for Sensible Drug Policy which is now on more than 300 college campuses. In 2010, he co-founded and until 2019, served as CEO of The Arcview Group, the first and largest consortium of cannabis investors. He was the Director of Development at psychedelic research non-profit MAPS and co-founded the largest social network of Burning Man participants, BurnerMap. For the last decade he’s been leading workshops at Burning Man on creating immediacy and leading connection exercises to bond campmates. In addition to co-facilitating the Reflections Retreat, he also produces numerous private invite-only transformational parties, festivals, and small group ecstatic rituals with the goal of building an open-hearted culture of belonging, vulnerability, and revelry. He also coaches personal and business clients 1 on 1 to help them experience a deeper and more enduring sense of purpose, connection and aliveness.

Grace Moore

Founder of Bloom Network, a community for regenrative leaders

Grace Moore is the founder of Bloom Network, a select community of game-changing impact leaders. She hosts retreats, events and workshops to help take their vision to the next level. She previously worked as the associate producer at Big Picture Ranch, producing a number of films including Kiss The Ground, The Revolution Generation and On Sacred Ground.

Robot Koch

Award-winning artist, producer, and composer

Robot Koch, the Berlin-born, LA-based artist, producer, and composer, weaves together science and spirituality through his atmospheric electronic soundscapes. His music, both otherworldly and deeply grounded, serves as a bridge between the tangible and the mystical, exploring how sound influences both the mind and body.

With a discography that spans numerous albums and well over 100 Million streams, Robot Koch has established himself as a sonic explorer in the realm of electronic, ambient, and modern classical music. His compositions have been featured in several movies, and TV shows, and his immersive audio-visual experiences sell out venues worldwide.

Driven by an intuitive creative process, Robot Koch incorporates advanced modalities such as Brain Entrainment and Vibroacoustics into his work, aligning with research on how specific frequencies can positively affect mental and physical health.

Whether you are drawn to the science of sound, the spiritual depths of music, or its potential to bring about social and personal change, his work speaks to the need for harmony between the technological and the natural in today’s world.

Natalie Lampert

Award-winning journalist, Fulbright scholar, & author of The Big Freeze

Natalie Lampert is an award-winning writer and author of THE BIG FREEZE: A Reporter’s Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility (Random House, 2024), which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. A TEDx speaker and former Fulbright scholar, she has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Elle, and The Guardian, among other publications. A faculty member at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, she has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University and has received fellowships and grants from Investigative Reporters & Editors, the Logan Nonfiction program, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She lives in Boulder, Colo.

Majeed Mogharreban

Professional speaker & founder of The Expert Speaker Institute

World-traveling father and professional speaker, Majeed Mogharreban is the founder of The Expert Speaker Institute, the premier resource for experts to grow their business with public speaking.

Majeed, Like Magic, will help you go from the best kept secret to the go-to person in your field with a signature speech that attracts your ideal client.

Jonathan Hiller

Award-winning content executive, filmmaker, & Youtuber

Jonathan is an award-winning Chief Content Officer who specializes in translating complex issues into emotional narratives + social media strategies that have significant public impact.

He’s led content teams for over a decade which have yielded over 4 billion impressions across digital platforms.

His content has been featured in The New York Times, Netflix, Hulu, CNN, National Geographic, TIME, Discovery Channel, Huffington Post, Bloomberg Politics, CBS News, The Washington Post, Glamour, Fortune, Think Progress, and Mic.

Korneel Desmet

Serial entrepreneur turned 1:1 mentor, retreat host, & breathwork facilitator

Korneel is a serial entrepreneur turned 1:1 mentor, teaching the véry ambitious mental fitness, and hosting highly curated health & wellness adventures worldwide.

After a decade of building companies in events, pyrotechnics & video marketing, Korneel burnt out twice. Committed to finding the proper tools to support his health, he co-founded high-end retreat company Re-Treated.

Re-Treated curates a limited series of intimate offline gatherings and private retreats at remote, surreal locations in Europe and the Americas. Clients include entrepreneurs, creatives, investors, government officials, elite athletes, Fortune 500 CEOs, celebrities and senior leadership from companies like Google, Uber, McKinsey and Youtube.

In his journey, some of the most potent tools Korneel studied are breath work & sound. He’s now sharing these practices and tools at some of the most prestigious wellness hotspots in the world.

Laetitia Murguet

Founder of ŌANI Studio, designer of transformative spaces

Laetitia Murguet, founder of ŌANI Studio, has developed a diverse and dynamic career that encompasses interior design, real estate development, and the performing arts. Over the last decade, Laetitia has led groundbreaking projects across Portugal, New York, London, and Courchevel, venturing into property development and integrating an entire value chain of design and construction. Her expertise extends far beyond aesthetics, as she incorporates ancient wisdom and holistic approaches into her work. In addition to her design and development work, Laetitia is also a healer, channeler, and facilitator, guiding individuals through transformative experiences. She combines her artistic direction with spiritual practices, creating immersive performances that connect deeply with her audiences, blending her expertise in design with her passion for holistic well-being. Her work redefines how we relate to space, art, and personal growth, always driven by a vision to merge innovation with deep, human-centered understanding.

Alan Mark Paukman

Architect, designer, teacher, photographer, & writer

Alan Mark Paukman designs, teaches, photographs, and writes about architecture, focusing on how built environments impact our senses and well-being. A licensed architect from New York City, his work emphasizes honest materials, precise geometry, and physical experience. A passionate traveler, he has documented architectural masterpieces in 50 countries. Alan’s career spans his solo practice, roles at Foster + Partners, and retail design for Calvin Klein and Khaite. He also co-founded Nikolai Rose, a jewelry studio, and Swelter House, creating saunas for private residences. Over 30 publications have recognized his work, including Architectural Digest, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. He holds degrees from Columbia University (M.Arch) and NYU’s Gallatin School (BA). Alan has taught at NYIT and served as a visiting critic at Columbia, Cornell, and Barnard. Currently, he explores the intersection of architecture and mental health, advocating for spaces that foster presence in an increasingly digital world.

Kathi Hendrick

Multi-media artist, regenerative designer, embodiment guide, facilitator

Kathi is a multi-media artist exploring the intersection of poetry, dance, illustration, film, photography, music, and other emergent mediums. A more recent focus on exploring the mythic body of self and world through poetry and dance has taken shape through her first full-length poetry book and short experimental film, ‘PORTALS.’

As a designer, facilitator, and guide, Kathi has built a multidisciplinary practice that integrates living systems principles, embodiment, mindfulness, astrology and esoteric systems, art, experience design, engineering, and regenerative strategy methods in service of co-creating wellbeing and positive transformation at the level of self, community, nature, and world.

You can learn more about her and her work [here].

Adam Delehanty

Writer, founder & community builder

Adam’s mission is to help artists, entrepreneurs and creators find the words that their work deserves. He is the CEO of Writing for Founders, an agency that supports builders and creators of all kinds on their storytelling, content and public communications. (Last year, he wrote and published a book with the founder of Hinge.) Most recently, Adam was CMO at Variant, the leading seed-stage venture fund in web3. New York born, he began his career organizing for then-Senator Barack Obama and as a producer for NPR. Outside of work, Adam is a musician, community builder, aspiring teacher, mountaineer and lover of all things language.

Raul Espinoza

World traveler, activist, social impacter, emotional intelligence coach, & content creator

Raul has been working with impact initiatives around the world, utilizing photography, film, and coaching to empower oppressed communities. He is the founder of LiveLOUD content creation for visual branding and impact storytelling.

Raul is also the Executive Director for All Kings men’s group which supports and empowers formally incarcerated men and at risk young men. Raul leads this New York based non-profit developing the emotional intelligence for men impacted by the justice system to transform marginalized communities from the inside out.

Speaker | coach | activist | storyteller | content creator

Michael Riemer

Multi-instrumentalist and healer

As a classically trained guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, he tours with his best friend as part of Wildstrings and co-leads Stegreif, an improvisational symphony orchestra. His performances encompass a wide range of musical styles. Recently, a tracking expedition in the Kalahari Desert rekindled his love for nature, inspiring him to co-found the Remember Earth Collective, sharing performances that celebrate the more-than-human world.

Sebastian Caspar

Performer | Artist | Musician

Sebastian Caspar is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and singer based in Berlin. He studied classical violin at The Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, completing his masters degree in 2016 summa cum laude. As a violinist, he has received multiple awards at international competitions, such as 1st prize at Giovanni Talenti in Italy, 3rd prize at the Ibolyka-Gyarfas Contest in Germany and the special prize for outstanding ability of interpretation at the Brahms Competition in Austria.

Samuel Kern is a creative director,  TEDx speaker, experience designer, and world traveler passionate about leveraging technology and live events to foster deep human connection. He has a diverse background as a startup founder, event producer, filmmaker, and technologist. He loves the outdoors, is a classically trained musician, has recently made his DJ debut, and is perpetually fascinated with asking better questions.

Reem Haddad is a Lebanese-Jordanian experience designer and long-time producer behind globally recognized events like Formula 1 in Abu Dhabi, Envision Festival in Costa Rica, Tech Open Air in Berlin, and HATCH impact summit.

Reem lives to create experiences that seem unimaginable until they happen, unforgettable once they have. She joined Experience House as the Senior Producer after attending the first edition in Guatemala in 2021.

Lindsay Veenstra brings expertise in operations, development, and community building to Experience House. With a deep passion for well-being and lifestyle, she has collaborated with organizations like MAPS, Rythmia, and Flow. A Canadian who’s lived in Guatemala for over 6 years, her local know-how helps secure the top insider connections and unique ideas to support unforgettable experiences.

Pablo A. Fernandez is the founder of Secret Table – a company that offers live experience design, consulting services, and connection facilitation for leaders, entrepreneurs, and high-performing community changemakers that want to make a positive impact in the world.