Currently Vice Chair of the Producers’ Guild of America New Media Council, Caitlin Burns is a world leader in franchise storyworld development, multiplatform strategy and connecting sustainable business models to emerging creative technologies.

As a transmedia producer for over 15 years, she has developed storyworlds with creative visionaries and technological pioneers ranging from global blockbuster feature films, award-winning television shows, AAA console games to 360° video, VR, AR, Mixed Reality and WebVR.

Brian Schrank is assistant professor and chair of Game Design at DePaul University in Chicago. His MIT Press book “Avant-garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture” places games within the context of art history and the avant-garde. He has two major research goals. The first goal is to affordance mine emerging platforms to develop intuitive, toylike games that increase their accessibility and experiential diversity.