MEET THE TEAM

FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

​Maxim Jago is an Award-Winning Filmmaker, Best-Selling Author, Consultant Futurist, Strategic Advisor, International Keynote, and Founder and Director of The Creativity Conference.

Maxim consults on future and emerging technology for several international organisations, and as a film director, he has produced over thirty short films, feature length documentaries and is working on a forthcoming feature film. His work has won Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor awards.

Maxim is well-known as a media technology trainer and presenter and is the author of many books and training series for Adobe and Avid.

After 20 years of speaking at conferences around the world, Maxim was inspired to establish a gathering inspired by creative thinking and its practical application, with ideas and examples presented in a beautiful environment where magical thinking might become ‘everyday’: The Creativity Conference.

CONFERENCE MANAGER

Aidan is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer from Manchester, England.

Outside of filmmaking, he is also a TEDx Speaker and Organiser, qualified drone pilot, percussionist, actor, writer and runner. He currently studies Geography at the University of Manchester.

Aidan hosts the official Creativity Conference Podcast.

He can be found online @aidan.rhode and at www.aidanrhode.com

ICELANDIC LOCAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Einar is the CEO of an Adobe Gold Certified Reseller company he founded 2012. He has continued to be involved in various projects, production exhibit prints, colour grading proofs for printing of photography books and photography exhibits.

He was the Technical Producer of the Iceland Revealed, two years Smithsonian Museum photography exhibit. He also oversaw lay outing and printing off the book published in relationship to the Smithsonian exhibit.

Einar has been closely involved in the development of The Creativity Conference in Iceland from the very beginning. When Maxim first mentioned the spark of an idea to host a meeting of minds of this kind in Iceland, Einar shared his own similar dream to make such an event happen. For years Einar had hoped to bring together creative minds from around the world and he quickly offered to collaborate with the team to enable them to establish a new annual event. Einar's perspective, experience, and vision have been crucial to the maturation of The Creativity Conference and it's fair to say it would not be happening in Iceland without his infinitely valuable support.

PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR

John is a serial entrepreneur, story teller, futurist, visionary and dreamer.

He leads IEEE-USA’s Washington, DC Communications department and has worked as General Manager of Web Development for Erol’s Internet, which at the time was the 4th largest Internet Service Provider in the USA. 

While there, he founded INTERCOT.com in 1997 – which is now one of the Internet’s oldest (25 years) and longest running Walt Disney World vacation planning websites and podcasts.

In his spare time, he is an avid photographer/videographer, podcaster, graphic designer & gadget nut.

DECOR, SIGNAGE AND LOGISTICS COORDINATOR

Ellis is a producer and operational-minded craftsperson based in New York City. Her hobbies are planning projects and identifying creative solutions for day-to-day challenges.

Her work experience has spanned many facets of event production, including lighting, design, marketing, planning, and circus entertainment. She now manages two venues that she helped design and build for the Brooklyn production company, Things to Look At Studios.

ROOM HOST

Madison French is a queer creative living in Manchester, studying drama and film. Within the last year, she has started a theatre production company called Frenchie's Theatre Company that has hosted multiple open mic nights, community events, and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival!

She helps operate and creates content for social media channels for her company (@frenchiestheatreco), a student society (@ummts) and for the University of Manchester. Her time is filled with performing, forcing her friends to dance awkwardly in public, volunteer work, and production of both film and theatre. Madison has worked with Breaking Barriers in Manchester with social media production and Blue Balloon Theatre company performing her own poetry and writing, as well.

She is delighted to be room hosting for the Creativity Conference and cannot wait to be surrounded by so many brilliant minds once again! It's going to be an amazing year!

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Zoë is a multimedia artist and filmmaker. They have worked across all forms of media such as publishing, producing, acting, and lighting.

She is excited to be a returning room host for The Creativity Conference Online.

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Creative born, multi-potential and world citizen, Laiz is a brand & lifestyle photographer empowering women entrepreneurs to unleash their brand's essence, connect, and thrive through visual storytelling.

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George Blumenthal is currently doing a Masters degree in Philosophy at the University of Saint Andrews. He graduated this year from the University of Manchester with a first class degree in English Literature.

George has a platform called ‘GeoPresents’ under which he has interviewed many high-profile musicians such as Arlo Parks and Alfie Templeman. He is also an event organiser, holding many 500-strong capacity nights in Manchester. He is a musician himself, with over 500,000 streams on Spotify.

He is beyond thrilled to be room hosting at the Creativity Conference, and to absorb wisdom from such great minds.

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Originally from Australia, Karl is a film, series, documentary, and event producer. Karl's current collaborations through his company 'Infilmpact' include BFI-backed action-thriller 'Stolen', the viral phenomenon 'Nadija' aka 'Hope', and 'The War Behind Closed Doors' (Ukraine). Leveraging his background in digital transformation, business development and post-production localisation he creates value in his projects and consultancies.

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Danny Mares just graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Theater and lives in LA to pursue an acting and filmmaking career. When he is not a web host for the creativity conference, he can be found taking an adventure to some new part of the world.

He is tremendously excited to hear from these remarkable speakers.