Festival Guests 2026

J. Umeh is an author, blogger, music creator and film reviewer. He lives and works in the UK as a technologist and AI Deployment Strategist. As a creative artist, technologist and strategist, Umeh’s interests span the intersection of technology, art, business and humanity, and this is recurring theme he explores in speculative fiction works such as his short story debut “Kalabashing”, published in the Sauútiverse inaugural anthology, Mothersound (2023). Umeh is passionate about the co-evolutionary tension between emerging technologies (e.g. Generative-Agentic AI) and intellectual property (e.g. copyright), and he writes and speaks regularly about these topics, in various blogs, journals, magazines and international conferences.