Kate Tellers is a storyteller, Senior Director at The Moth, host of their live events, podcast and Peabody Award winning Moth Radio Hour and co-author of their fourth book "How to Tell a Story” which debuted on the New York Times bestseller list. Her writing has appeared on McSweeneys and The New Yorker.

Cory Choy is a director, Emmy Award-winning sound mixer, producer, owner of Silver Sound in NYC, eternal optimist/believer in the human spirit, husband to Rachel, and father to Grace and Jakob. Esme, My Love is his feature length narrative directorial debut. “Aisha” is his Tribeca-winning short narrative audio piece. Cory is currently developing and creating several narrative fiction podcasts and two feature films.

Cindy Olivo is a Global Industry Strategist for Media and Entertainment in the Performance PC business at Dell Technologies. She works closely with independent software vendors (ISVs), customers and technology partners spanning a range of workflows and marketing activations within M&E. For more than 15 years, she has been selling, supporting, or marketing the vast portfolio of Dell solutions.

is the host and creator of The Truth, an anthology fiction show distributed by Radiotopia. He recently directed, sound designed, and composed the score for the The Missed Lives of Max and Judy on BBC Radio 4. He has contributed a wide range of work— to all sorts of programs: RadioLab, Studio 360, This American Life, All Things Considered, and PBS’s Nova, to name a few. His work has won many awards, including the Peabody, and the Gold Mark Time Award for Best Science Fiction Audio.

is an Emmy award winning Foley artist and sound editor. An alumna of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Joanna apprenticed under Foley artist Leslie Bloome. In 2021, Joanna transitioned into game development and began working for Sony Playstation where she currently co-leads their new Foley department and is their first in-house Foley Artist in over 15 years. In 2016, she was recognized by the Television Academy as the first openly transgender woman of color to win a Primetime Emmy for her Foley and sound editorial work on A&E’s Cartel Land.

is an American computer programmer who brought MP3s to the mainstream with Winamp (it really whips the llamas ass), invented the Gnutella peer-to-peer network, and founded Cockos Incorporated, which creates music production and development software such as the REAPER digital audio workstation, the NINJAM collaborative music tool and the JesusSonic expandable effects processor.

Arielle Nissenblatt is on the community team at Descript. She’s the founder of the EarBuds Podcast Collective and hosts two podcasts about the podcast industry: Feedback with EarBuds and Trailer Park: The Podcast Trailer Podcast. She is on the board of governors at The Podcast Academy and is one of the founders of The Podcast Taxonomy. She consults on podcast marketing and content strategy with Tink Media and is always always thinking about ways to grow the pie of the greater audio industry. She wants to help you find your next favorite podcast.

Davy is a writer and creator whose work on networks like Radiotopia, Wondery, and Audible, among others, has won multiple awards and honors. He launched and oversees Tribeca Audio, a division of Tribeca that develops and produces original series and live events for various platforms, partners, and global audiences. As Curator of Audio Storytelling he leads all aspects of the audio program at the Tribeca Festival. He is also a screenwriter, director, playwright, and performs and writes comedy for The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City.

Mark Blumberg moved from Austin to Brooklyn as a fledgling filmmaker hot off the release of his feature-length documentary, a funny/strange movie about reading Moby-Dick. He soon found Silver Sound and started producing fictional and documentary podcasts at the studio while continuing to work as a documentary editor. Upcoming projects include “My Phantom Memory,” an actor’s memoir of his 20+ years with Broadway’s longest-running musical.

Emily Reeves is an award-winning audio producer, podcaster, and storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, where she produced a documentary about a Moby Dick-inspired blues opera about heroin addiction. The piece won a Silver Award, the highest for the category, for Best Student Documentary at the New York Festivals Radio Awards. Emily previously served as a judge for the Signal Awards and the New York Festivals Radio Awards.