...and it turns out that our "recap" is actually a speech Tiny is holding during an economic forum - which happens to be hosted on the campus of Gernsbeck University, the working place of the Cryptida main characters.
Now I am trying to imagine how that would be in a movie version. The sound mixing people would perhaps somehow have to smoothly change the sound of Tiny's voice from "recording booth" style to the "microphone lecture in large room" style...
The attendees sitting in the first row are, from left to right, Bridget Flint, Takahashi Takatoshi, Freder Roseland, the Mayor of Gernsbeck, Madeleine Waite and Prof. Lidenbrock.