Elizabeth Valleau (US)

Native New Yorker Elizabeth Valleau is an award-winning multimedia artist, entrepreneur and currently, Global Creative and AR lead for Facebook / Instagram, London. She’s parlayed her passion for creative technology and platform hacking into new disciplines, formerly as Experiential Lead at Grey NY, ECD at Trollback leading work on the United Nations, BBC and Al Jazeera, and co-founding the experiential department at R/GA NY. She's continuing the mission by heading up augmented and mixed reality for Creative Shop, Instagram. Her work has won advertising and design’s highest awards, including Clio’s, Webby’s, Pencil’s and multiple Cannes Lions. She speaks and writes often about the power of true diversity, advocacy for LBGTQ and women and the urgency to build a better world through creative, inclusive tech.