Auronda Scalera – Institution Multiplicity

Doha


Auronda Scalera is an internationally renowned artistic director, curator, cultural strategist, and lecturer, named one of NYC Journal’s Top 20 Inspiring Women of 2023. With two decades of experience in contemporary art and emerging technologies, she creates exhibitions and cultural programs that sit at the forefront of art, innovation, and global discourse. Her curatorial work spans major institutions, biennials, and art fairs worldwide. In 2024 alone, she served as Lead Curator for Art Dubai Digital, advisor to Noor Riyadh Festival, and International Committee and curator on the Lumen Prize x Sotheby’s initiative

She co-directs Multiplicity–Art in Digital, a global platform promoting women artists working at the intersection of art and technology, and Web to Verse, a curated exhibition project on digital poetics. Together with Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti, director of mm:museum in Doha, she forms a strategic curatorial duo that bridges art, theory, and tech on a global scale.

In 2025, she is co-organizing the IKT International Symposium across Dubai, Sharjah, Doha, and Abu Dhabi, convening over 160 leading curators, museum directors, and cultural innovators. She is an active member of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) and UN Women UK.

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Jenny Thibault – SAT Montreal

Montreal
With the kind support of the Québec Government Office in Germany

With over 20 years of experience in cultural management, Jenny Thibault is recognized for her positive and unifying leadership, as well as her strategic and creative vision. Throughout her career, she has helped shape some of Quebec’s most dynamic cultural ecosystems, always at the intersection of art, technology, and community.

After studying cinema and anthropology, she quickly moved into event production, co-founding the Festival de musique émergente (FME) in her hometown of Rouyn-Noranda in 2003 — a now-acclaimed event with which she continues to evolve. In 2004, she joined the National Film Board of Canada, where she contributed to the rise of interactive works and helped expand the reach of its pioneering studios, both locally and internationally.

In 2017, she took the reins of Xn Québec, where she repositioned the association to reflect and support the fast-evolving world of digital creativity, helping unite independent studios, artists, and industry stakeholders.

Since 2021, she has served as Executive Director of the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) — a unique hybrid institution dedicated to research, creation, training, and the dissemination of digital arts. With its iconic dome, its creative labs, and its commitment to collective experiences, the SAT is a space where her passions converge: music, immersive storytelling, innovation, and public engagement.

As the SAT approaches its 30th anniversary in 2026, Jenny is leading the organization into a bold new phase — one that honors its pioneering legacy while building a resilient, inclusive, and forward-thinking vision for the future.

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Noam Segal – Solomon R Guggenheim

NYC

Noam Segal (PhD) is a distinguished curator, scholar, and academic in contemporary art, specializing in the intersection of art, technology, and society. She is the LG Electronics Associate Curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and previously served as Director of Curatorial Research in the MA program for Curatorial Practice at SVA. A former visiting scholar at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she has lectured internationally and contributed to leading art publications, artist catalogs and books, and peer-reviewed journals.

Segal has collaborated with major institutions, including Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Performa NYC, Castello di Rivoli Torino., BAM NY, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and MoCo Contemporain, among many others. She has been on the curatorial teams of the 12th Berlin Biennale, 15th Gwangju Biennale, FRONT International, and the Aurora Biennial. Her expertise also extends to major art fairs such as Art Basel and Frieze.

She has curated significant solo exhibitions, including Neïl Beloufa: The Enemy of My Enemy in 2018; Pope.L: One Thing after Another in 2018; and Anri Sala: No Names, No Title, in 2015. Her curatorial practice consistently challenges conventions, fostering critical discourse and expanding the role of technology beyond traditional frameworks.

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William Board – Dark Euphoria

Marseille

William Board holds a Master’s degree in Artistic Direction of European Cultural Projects and works as production and distribution manager at Dark Euphoria. On a daily basis, he supports new media art projects, coordinates professional events, oversees European programs, and manages the distribution of works from the organization’s catalogue.

He oversees the implementation of projects, from initial concept to distribution. He pays close attention to ensuring artistic coherence between content and form, while also handling budget management and the technical and human aspects of production. With a strong focus on the visibility and outreach of Dark Euphoria’s creations, he works closely with artists from the early stages to define tailored distribution strategies for each project.

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Martin Posta – Signal Festival

Prague

Martin Posta is a leading figure in digital and immersive arts. As founder and CEO of Signal Festival, he has built a major European platform for creativity and innovation. Under his leadership, the festival has become a key event in the European arts calendar.

He has also been a guest curator for Llum Barcelona, Lux Helsinki, and Spotlight Bucharest and created Lux Doral in Miami. Now, he is preparing Signal Space, a new immersive arts gallery in Prague, further expanding access to digital art.

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Rachel Parent – HUB Montréal

Montreal
With the kind support of the Québec Government Office in Germany

Present at HUB Montréal since 2021, Rachel Parent has held key positions, including project manager and programming director. Now Executive Director, she plays a crucial role in the strategic development of this event which is dedicated to creative and digital technologies. Thanks to her exceptional interpersonal skills and deep knowledge of the industry, Rachel has built lasting business relationships within the digital ecosystem, both locally and internationally.

Her ability to foster successful collaborations while showcasing Quebec’s creative talent makes her an indispensable leader in the industry. Under her leadership, HUB Montréal continues to shine as a flagship event, offering an international platform for Quebec’s creators and innovators.

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Tina Lorenz – ZKM

Karlsruhe

Tina Lorenz came of age in the Chaos Computer Club but went on to study theater studies and American literary history in Vienna and Munich. They were a lecturer for theater history at the Academy for Performing Arts Bavara. later dramaturge at the Landestheater Oberpfalz and finally consultant for digital communication at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, before founding and leading the Digital Theatre department at the State Theatre of Augsburg from 2020 to 2023.

Tina Lorenz is a founding member of the hackspaces metalab Vienna and Binary Kitchen Regensburg; since January 2024, they had the department of artistic research and development >>Hertzlab<< at ZKM I Karlsruhe.

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Elie Levasseur – Cannes Film Festival

York

Elie has been appointed as Head of Immersive by the Festival de Cannes and the Marché du Film in 2024. He successfully launched the first edition of the Immersive Competition last year. He has previously served as Head of Cannes XR, Head of NewImages XR Market and head of programming at Cross Video Days, three marketplaces focusing on immersive & interactive creation. In the last 10 years, he has pre-arranged 500 1-on-1 business meetings every year between artists and decision makers among the most emblematic online platforms location-based distributors and funding bodies.

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Melanie Lenz – V&A Museum

London

Melanie Lenz is curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum where she is responsible for developing the V&A’s digital art collections. She has organised multiple exhibitions, most recently co-curating Patric Prince: Digital Art Visionary (2023-2024). She co-edited the book Digital Art: 1960 to Now (2024) and has published on diverse topics including generative art (2024), early computer art in Latin America (2018), gender, art and technology (2014), collecting and conserving digital art (2011).

Melanie has led on a broad range of public programmes including developing a digital art season, convened conferences on art, design and new technologies for health, and has initiated art partnerships with a variety of organisations including Women Who Code and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Based in London, Melanie also works as a freelance curator. She is a judge for the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology and a panel expert for the National Archives.

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Eva Jäger – Serpentine

London

Eva Jäger is Arts Technologies Curator and Creative AI Lead at Serpentine. She commissions artists working with advanced technologies, and is a collaborator in conceptualising novel approaches, workflows, and philosophies of emerging tech. At Serpentine she has worked with artists such as Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Hito Steyerl, Suzanne Treister, and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, amongst others.

Eva is researcher and writer for the annual Future Art Ecosystems briefing, and Co-Investigator of the Creative AI Lab (Serpentine and King’s College London). Eva also has an independent design practice that investigates applications of emerging computation, information, analysis, and predictive technologies, in order to better understand how they form our belief systems. This work manifests as tech-integrated performances, object design, installations, and film.

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