Caspar Llewellyn Smith - Digital platforms editor and Head of Culture, Guardian News & Media

Caspar Llewellyn Smith is the Digital platforms editor and Head of Culture at Guardian News & Media. He was previously the music editor, and the editor of the Observer Music Monthly magazine, and has worked as an editor on the Observer New Review and at the Daily Telegraph.

Chris Michaels - Founder, Digital Advisory

Chris founded consultancy Digital Advisory in 2022 to create new intersections between art, research and technology. His clients include some of the world’s leading universities, museums and foundations, plus a portfolio of creative technology startups. He is the Deputy Chair of English Heritage; an Associate of Human Economics; Digital and Strategy Director for Bolton & Quinn, and a former Sr Visiting Fellow at King’s College London. He is the author of “Creative R&D: Art | Ideas | Technology” a weekly newsletter on new trends in culture and creativity.

From 2017-22 Chris was Director of Digital, Communications and Technology at the National Gallery and ran National Gallery X, an innovation lab for the future of art and technology. Chris has a PHD from the University of Bristol and a Masters in Innovation Economics from UCL.

Mike Sarna - Director, Programming & Exhibitions, Royal Museums Greenwich

In July 2012, Mike joined Royal Museums Greenwich (National Maritime Museum, Queen’s House, Cutty Sark and Royal Observatory) to deliver a dynamic public facing offer of exhibitions, programmes and digital content, shifting to an approach on how today’s audiences engage. This has led to development of dynamic offer from augmented reality on a grand scale - The Great Map to five star exhibitions Turner & the Sea, Ansel Adams and Visions of the Universe. He is now excited to be delivering a mammoth scale families offer with the amazing theatre company Punchdrunk - Against Captain’s Orders.

He is interested in how museums “unlock the case”, releasing content in engaging and surprising ways. He challenges the notion of “feeding facts” and engages in ways that involve audiences directly. He has written and presented widely on participation and dialog in museums along with the importance of creating experiences that are authentic and unique. He has worked in numerous museums in the UK and the States from the Natural History Museum, London where he helped develop their groundbreaking exhibitions including the award winning Sexual Nature and was curator of the biggest and best science museum in the world, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

Tom Panton - London Studio, Sonos

Joining Sonos in 2014 from a background in the independent music industry, Tom Panton heads up the forthcoming London Studio.

Sonos Studio London follows two years of successful operation of the Sonos Studio in Los Angeles and temporary residencies in New York, Amsterdam and Paris. Sonos Studio is a social space dedicated to the art of listening, that explores the intersection of music, art & technology through a programme of exhibitions, artist talks, workshops, listening events and film screenings.