MantaYaY is a Kuala Lumpur-based TikTok-first creator network and media company. It manages a network of thousands of creators, runs influencer marketing and social-media accounts for brands, operates TikTok Shop live commerce, and produces short-form drama and gaming content across Southeast Asia. Founded by former TikTok creators Yubin Ng and Joel Lim, the company positions itself as a full-stack partner connecting brands, creators, and audiences on short-form video.

nikhil trivedi is the Director of Web Engineering at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he has spent nearly two decades building open-source museum technology while simultaneously championing anti-oppression frameworks in cultural institutions. His tagline - 'Museums. Technology. Social Justice.' - is not a brand, it is a practice: he co-created Visitors of Color, contributed to the MASS Action Toolkit, received a UN Women Gender Equality Award, and built a public data API that connects AIC's collection to historical records of the transatlantic slave trade. A Desi Chicagoan, sitar player, and former high school band member, he codes in PHP by day and runs his own Mastodon instance by night.