The Oddie District Grand Opening An Odd, Wonderful Life

Flint Dille

Storyteller · Worldbuilder · Professional Plot Twister

Flint Dille has spent his life building worlds other people want to enter. He helped shape Transformers, worked alongside Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax, wrote for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and helped create unforgettable stories for games including Uncharted, The Chronicles of Riddick, Ghostbusters and Diablo III. Later, as Creative Lead for Ingress at Google and Niantic, he helped develop the location-based gaming architecture that became the foundation for Pokémon GO.

His grandfather published the original Buck Rogers franchise, so it is entirely possible that worldbuilding runs in the family. Flint's career has crossed animation, movies, games, technology and tabletop adventures, rarely by following the expected route. He brings a lifetime of lessons about imagination, reinvention and treating your own life like a world worth building.

He Built Imaginary Worlds for 40 Years. Then He Turned the Real One Into a Game.

Danger Ranger

Prankster · Pathfinder · Co-Founder of a City That Disappears

Before Burning Man became a global phenomenon, Michael Mikel was Michael Michael, a member of San Francisco's wonderfully unruly Cacophony Society and one of the people willing to ask, “What if we took this thing to the desert?”

At the first gathering in the Black Rock Desert, Michael drew a line in the dust and invited everyone to cross it. That simple act marked the entrance into a different kind of world. He later founded the Black Rock Rangers, helped guide Burning Man through its formative years and became known as Danger Ranger, instantly recognizable by his top hat, goggles and desert-frontier style.

Danger understands that remarkable communities do not begin with perfect plans. They begin when a few curious people cross a line together. He brings stories about creative mischief, radical participation and turning an improbable gathering into a culture that outgrows its creators.

He Didn’t Join a Culture. He Built One.

Julian Guthrie

Storyteller · AI Founder · Professional Chaser of Impossible Ideas

Julian Guthrie has spent her life chasing people with ideas that sound slightly unreasonable. She has followed billionaires and mechanics across the ocean, renegades into space, women through the locked doors of Silicon Valley and scientists racing to save millions of babies. After 20 years as an award-winning journalist and several bestselling books, Julian did something wonderfully inconvenient: she became one of the founders she had spent her career writing about.

Today, Julian is the founder and CEO of Alphy, an AI company building technology to help humans communicate without accidentally causing a legal crisis, damaging a workplace culture or sending the email they will regret five seconds later. Alphy's flagship technology, HarmCheck, is a little like spell-check for human decency. She brings the curiosity of a journalist, the instincts of a storyteller and the battle scars of an AI founder who decided to build her own impossible idea.

She Wrote the Book on Moonshots. Then She Took One.

Jerry Snyder

Attorney · Artist · Adventurer · Patron Saint of Productive Chaos

Jerry Snyder is a fifth-generation Nevadan, a Reno attorney with more than 25 years of experience and a founding board member and longtime president of The Generator. But that only begins to explain Jerry.

He is also an artist, builder, longtime Burner, legendary paella maker and experienced leader of adventures that are often easier to join than define. Since 2013, Jerry has helped shape The Generator into a home for monumental art, improbable ideas and the wonderfully unusual people willing to bring them to life.

Jerry believes art is not simply something you observe. It is something you build together, preferably with interesting people, ambitious ideas and at least a little dust involved. He brings the hometown perspective of what happens when a serious attorney makes room for creative chaos.

A Serious Attorney Who Makes Room for Creative Chaos.