About us
Empowering organizations and communities with narratives that spark solutions, build skills, and foster co-creation to meaningful impact on global challenges.
Inceptr was established in 2023 with a mission to harness the transformative power of interactive narratives to advance scalable solutions through skill-building and co-creation.
The spark behind Inceptr came from recognizing that traditional storytelling must evolve for the digital age, and that solutions for the 21st century cannot remain trapped in silos. We bring together top leaders, including filmmakers, game designers, researchers, health practitioners, technologists, and voices from emerging nations to co-create new forms of functional narrative based on lived realities, scalability, and impact. We connect the world through narrative, bridging exchange, production, technology, and research. We are growing a multi-stakeholder community spanning academia, government, industry, civil society, and international organizations.
By weaving creativity, technology, and community, we are empowering organizations and communities with sustainable pathways to thrive in the digital age.
Interdisciplinary
Academia
Philantropic & Impact Investors
U.N Agencies
Youth & Grassroots
Innovators
Industry
Creative & Cultural Institutions
Civil Society
Government
International Organizations
How we do it
Identify real world use cases of interactive narrative
Finding real-world use cases where Narratives can drive meaningful impact
Fast track co-creation
on priorities
Pushing the boundaries of possibilities with interactive narrative through research and prototyping
Deploy solutions at scale for global impact
Expanding successful narrative models to reach broader audiences and cultural contexts.
Contributors
Eric Bomba-Ire
Founder, Inceptr
Award-winning filmmaker and creative entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in global film production.
Co-Founder of CinemATL and ATLier Props & Design, investing in underserved filmmakers and International design artifacts.
Sundance Screenwriter-Intensive and New Orleans Film Society Fellow.
Hartmut Koenitz
President of ARDIN
Media Technology professor at Södertörn University
Researcher in theory, practice, education, and societal impact of interactive narratives in games and other digital forms
HEVGA Fellow (Higher Education Video Game Alliance)
Katherine Marshall Woods, Psy.D,
Founder, PsychMinded Media
Clinical psychologist and professor of Psychology at George Washington University
Co-leads the Psychoanalytic Views on Cinema series with the Washington, Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.
Contributor to Psychology Today and the American Psychological Association’s Division 39.
Jason James
(CIO) Aptos
Award-winning Chief Information Officer with over 20 years in digital transformation initiatives and strategic planning of complex mergers, acquisitions, and startups.
Top decision makers in the most influential tech companies in the world.
Contributor to Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, CIO.com, IDG, and The Enterprisers Project.
Dr. Lionel Mbanda
Energy Specialist in climate finance, clean energy transition, green development, geoscience, and technology industries.
Strategic programs on youth advocacy, leadership development, partnerships, and sustainability.
Member of U.N Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY), SDG 7 Youth Constituency, the Academic Council on the U.N System (ACUNS), the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN), and the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate Change (GAUC)
Michael Friedman
Senior manager, Cox Communications, Award-winning filmmaker, and content strategist shaping innovative marketing and merchandising strategies for television and movies.
Expertise in content strategy, editorial curation, social media, video production and editing, digital marketing, graphic design, copywriting, blogging, UX design, and management.
"Entertainment content guru" with an impressive command of pop culture and the entertainment industry.