Biography: Anatola Araba is a futurist, filmmaker, and creative technologist whose work sits at the intersection of culture, technology, and design. She is the founder of her studio Reimagine Story Lab and a professor at Pratt Institute, where she teaches foresight and game design.

A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Anatola has advised the United Nations Development Programme on digital innovation for people and planet, and spoken four times at the UN — and on stages at the Museum of the Future, Afrotech, and universities worldwide. Her films and multimedia work have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, and she made history when her art traveled to the Moon on NASA's first Moon mission since 1972.

She holds an MFA in Art and Technology from CalArts and graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her writing has been published in ELLE and Harper's Bazaar, and her work has been featured in Vogue and the Wall Street Journal. She has partnered with Snapchat, Google, and Mozilla on innovative storytelling initiatives.

At the core of everything is a simple belief: imagination is infrastructure — and the futures we inhabit will be shaped by those bold enough to dream them.