Michelle Cortese is an XR designer, educator and author. She splits her professional time between Metaverse design leadership at Meta Reality Labs and teaching VR design at NYU. Her work explores immersive interaction systems; the ethical implications of embodied technology on end users; and the transmutation of human expression across new technologies and formats.

Michelle has authored AR and VR design research published via Bloomsbury, Meta, IEEE, OneZero, MIT's Immerse Journal and more; she has also exhibited work at CES, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Sundance.

Gillian is the Senior Creative Operations Manager at Anheuser-Busch's internal creative agency, draftLine.

Pam leads the Collections Management Team which is responsible for collections data at the V&A and manages the Collections Management System and DAMS. Pam trained as an archaeologist and worked on excavations in the UK and France before moving into the museum sector with a focus on collections management.

As the Collections Systems Lead, Zoë manages the V&A’s collections management system (CMS), digital asset management system (DAMS), and the asset tracking solution (ProCloud) and ensures information about the collections is accessible to both staff and the public. She also leads on work to address outdated content and language in the museum’s collections.