Chris Pfaff is a leading new media and technology producer and strategist. He is renowned for integrating leading-edge technology into the media and entertainment community. He was the first to use IRC for an interactive corporate webcast; produced one of the first DVDs, in March, 1997; produced the first HD animated logo; produced some of the first mobile short films in 2002-2003, and produced numerous multipoint broadband events in the late-1990s.

His company, Chris Pfaff Tech/Media LLC, provides strategy and marketing services for leading technology service providers, technology firms, and new media companies worldwide. Since founding Chris Pfaff Tech/Media LLC in 2002, Chris has represented a wide range of clients, including strategic ventures from Eastman Kodak, PRIMEDIA, Cantor Telecom, and ASCAP, and firms ranging from mobile content distributor Thumbplay, video encoding firm On2 Technologies (sold to Google), and 3D face and body animation production studio face2face animation. He leads a global team that works with a large, and growing, number of European ventures, including Finnish companies such as MultiTouch Ltd.; Digia Ventures; Ixonos; Panphonics; AudioDraft, Senseg, and ventures from Austria (uma information technology, Soup.me); France (Mobile Network Group; AppCity.com); Germany (Ceiton Technologies); Netherlands (SiTel Semiconductor), and Sweden (Mobiento).

Prior to launching Chris Pfaff Tech/Media, Chris was involved with the early-stage ventures GeoVideo Networks and MobileQ, and previously had helped launch more than 16 ventures with the Lucent New Ventures Group and Bell Labs, including Lucent Digital Radio (now iBiquity Digital), SyChip (sold to Murata), e-Ink, Flarion (sold to Qualcomm), and savaJe (sold to Sun Microsystems), among others.  While at AT&T Corp., he helped launch AT&T WorldNet Service and the AT&T NetWare Connect Service, and also helped launch the AT&T Personal Online Services division. Prior to this, he represented such clients as Sony Electronics; Viacom New Media, Sharp Electronics, and Kyocera, among others.  He began his career in the music industry, representing clients including Yamaha Corporation; Hal Leonard Publishing, and working with a wide range of musical artists and producers, including such notable figures as Walter Becker, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, and Phil Ramone.

Chris is currently chairman of the Producers Guild of America New Media Council East; a delegate on the national board of the Producers Guild of America, and vice chairman of the Producers Guild of America New Media Council.

David Logan is a co-founder of the video game studio Night Light Interactive, which is currently developing console and mobile games. In 2013, Night Light had a successful Kickstarter raise and obtained additional financing from OUYA for its first title "Whispering Willows," a horror puzzle game which is set to launch in June 2014 on OUYA and Steam.

David also is a Producer at Animax, an Emmy winning digital production company where he has worked with clients such as Disney, Sony, Paramount, and NBC on properties such as Anchorman 2, Django Unchained, Where's My Water?, and Community. He has spoken on crowdfunding at GDC Next and the Art Institution of California and is a member of the Producers Guild of America New Media Council.

Over the past 14 years, Jim has created PR campaigns for a wide array of companies, from Nike to PlayStation, from TCL to Oculus VR. Since starting theRednerGroup in 2009, he has handled seven successful Kickstarter campaigns totaling $12M in crowd source funding. Campaigns include Oculus Rift ($2.4M), Obsidian Entertainment ($3.9M) and inXile Entertainment ($4.2M).  In addition, he has generated PR to increase VC funding (Oculus) and acquisition (Gaikai & Oculus) levels.

Showrunner, Producer, Writer, Host and one of Comic Con’s “Most Dangerous Women,” Kristen Nedopak is the creator of many Sci-fi/Fantasy series and films, including the award-nominated The Skyrim Parodies, Fight Class, Outta This World: The Art of Fantasy and Sci-Fi and the first-ever Hollywood award show for geeks: The Geekie Awards.

An advocate for independent entertainment and art, Kristen is a public speaker for several organizations, such as ‘Geek Girls Create’—a traveling panel of creators aimed to inspire people to follow their passions in filmmaking, art and business (Nedopak is the Founder as well), and Women 2.0—coaching women to become entrepreneurs and leaders in their industry. She also speaks on panels for San Diego Comic Con, WonderCon, DragonCon, GeekGirl Con and more.

She’s been the cover girl of and featured in numerous publications such as The Hollywood Reporter, LA Times, Zap2It, Tubefilter, New Media Rockstars, Cupcake Pin-up Magazine, The Mary Sue, Geek Tyrant, Pop Culture Monster and a multitude of other popular outlets for her work in film/web. With an extensive network in the geek world, digital media, and tech, Kristen brings the passion and means to support her creative community and artists everywhere and put on one hell of a show.

Lisa has worked both in the studio system and in the independent filmmaking community, the former utilizing crowdfunding platforms and independent finance to bring projects to life. 

Born and raised in San Rafael, California, Elizabeth Manashil supplemented her high school curriculum with film classes at the College of Marin. She knew she wanted to be a filmmaker at age 16 while watching Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses in a class on Auteur Filmmakers taught by Sandy  Handsher. In 2002, she earned her B.A. in Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where she founded and lead a film production and appreciation society, SPLICE, for two and a half years. She has worked under John Morrison of the California Film  Institute, Michael Shamberg of Double Feature Films and Adam Goodman at Paramount Film Group.

Elizabeth received her M.F.A. in Film and TV Production from the University of Southern  California’s School of Cinematic Arts in May 2010, with an emphasis in Directing and Documentary. She is currently in post-production on her first feature, “Bread and Butter," which stars Christine Weatherup, Bobby Moynihan, Micah Hauptman, Lauren Lapkus, Sean Wright, Dawn Didawick and Harry Groener. She works part time for distribution consultant Peter Broderick, and is an on-air film critic for National PBS Broadcast Television series, "Just Seen It."

Michael Melamedoff is a writer, director and producer, as well as the Director of Business Development for Dogfish Accelerator. Mr. Melamedoff was one of 20 filmmakers selected for Dogfish Picture's first Accelerator program; he was subsequently acqui-hired by Dogfish Pictures to advance their distribution, marketing and production initiatives. As a filmmaker his credits include WEAKNESS starring Bobby Cannavale and the critically acclaimed midnightmovie THE EXHIBITIONISTS starring Laverne Cox. Mr. Melamedoff also heads up creative development for Cowboy Bear Ninja, a digital media company specializing in branded content and documentary. Prior to producing Michael spent six years in talent representation and two years at the world renowned Public Theater. He is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.