Megan Elliott is a creative, visionary leader in the digital, creative, emerging media, and education sectors. With experience in management, program development, influencing, fundraising, marketing, and negotiating, she's a dynamic executive with an excellent industry and business awareness. Megan co-founded X Media Lab, one of the world's most forward-looking digital media and entrepreneurship programs, held in over 70 events in 22 cities and 14 countries worldwide. She was named one of the "Leading 50 Women for the Future" by Advance Australia and one of the "Global 50 - Australia Unlimited - Global Achievers" by the Australian Government. She's also the recipient of the 5th China Creative Industries Award for "International Contribution" to China's creative sector. Megan is currently the Founding Director of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, and has previously held positions in various organizations including ACM SIGGRAPH, the Australian Writers' Guild, and the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance. Megan Elliott boasts a high-value international network of A-list digital media, creative industries, screen and technology professionals, government leaders, state agencies, universities and research institutions, incubators, industry associations, technology parks, investors, national broadcasters, telcos, technology and platform providers.