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V Spehar is an award winning digital journalist, TikTok personality and podcaster. Spehar launched UnderTheDeskNews with the aim to make news media less intimidating and easier to understand and rapidly amassed a collective 4 million subscribers to their various social media platforms. Their original reporting has won them one on one interviews with Vice President Kamala Harris, President Biden, P...

Roberto Munoz is CEO & Founder of Munoz Comms , a strategic communications consultancy that helps businesses navigate growth, change, and transformation. With more than 20 years of experience, Roberto has shaped and protected reputations across industries—from high-growth startups to global market leaders—working with companies including HSBC, Fannie Mae, ABB, Tesco, Bristol Myers Squibb, and...

Jim Louderback is one of the top leaders at the intersection of creators, media and technology.  He has built and sold multiple creator economy startups to companies including WB Discovery and Paramount, and led editorial and ops at cable networks, event companies, magazines and digital publishers.  Jim currently writes the popular weekly newsletter " Inside the Creator Economy " on Link...

Phil Ranta , Chief Business Officer of Fixated and a LinkedIn Top Voice in Innovation & Technology, has over 18 years of experience in the creator economy. Formerly, he was the COO of the talent management and creator services company We Are Verified, managing a department focused on creator entrepreneurship, premium production, and web3 opportunities. As the former Head of Gaming Creators, No...

Starring Patricia Clarkson, John Benjamin Hickey and Thomas Sadoski and directed by Rachel Feldman, Lilly is based on the remarkable story of Lilly Ledbetter, whose fight against pay discrimination in an Alabama tire factory took her through courts and Congress despite powerful opposition. Following the transformation of an ordinary citizen into the face of an issue, Lilly illuminates the impact a...

Cathy Davenport Lee is a product design, marketing and creative leader with over 15 years of experience at the intersection of product experience, brand strategy, and cutting-edge technologies. As the Principal Creative Director at Eluvio , Cathy has led the product design of award-winning products, such as the Eluvio Media Wallet - which has received the NAB Product of the Year and IBC Best of Sh...

Dr. Jonathan Paul Higgins is an educator, professor, national speaker, freelance journalist and trailblazer who is creating, sharing, and crafting the stories their ancestors didn’t get to tell.  Their book ⁠ Black. Fat. Femme: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself ⁠ drops March 25th and has already garnered several rave reviews from Out Magazine, IntoM...

Joe Pulizzi is an absolute delight (what a treat , what a dream) and the founder of multiple startups including content creator education site, The Tilt ,  Content Entrepreneur Expo (CEX) , and is the bestselling author of seven books including Content Inc. and Epic Content Marketing , which was named a “Must-Read Business Book” by Fortune Magazine. Joe is best known for his work in content market...

Sean Atkins has a proven ability to build high-value businesses across diverse industries. Over the past 20 years, he has been a pioneer at the intersection of consumer, media, and tech, driving transformative initiatives at several of the world’s leading brands, including MTV, Discovery, HBO, Bertelsmann, Jellysmack, Yahoo!, and Disney. He now serves as CEO of Dhar Mann Studios , the mission-driv...

Alessio Pieroni is the Founder of Scale For Impact , a leading marketing agency dedicated to scaling online education businesses from 7 to 8 figures. With over a decade of experience in the e-learning space, Alessio has developed a deep passion for transforming lives through education. His journey began at Mindvalley , where he served as Chief Marketing Officer, leading a team of 50 and playing a...

Teresa Caro is the founder and CEO of Liminist, a coaching firm dedicated to empowering leaders and teams to achieve transformative growth. As an ICF PCC credentialed executive and teams coach, Teresa specializes in helping C-suite executives, senior leaders, and high-performing teams embrace change, build resilience, and drive strategic impact.   Teresa brings over two decades of leadership exper...

Lexi St. John is the EVP of QYOU Media and GM of QYOU Studios, where she blends Hollywood expertise with the creator economy to elevate digital storytelling. Under Lexi’s leadership, QYOU has captivated millions of fans through innovative content for industry giants including Paramount, DreamWorks, Sony, Hasbro, Hyundai, Activision, Hulu, and Warner Bros. Over the company’s history, her expertise...

Brianne Fleming is a marketing educator, speaker, and the creator of #PopChat , a weekly livestream that has become a national trending topic. Through #PopChat and her podcast, Making the Brand, Brianne explores marketing lessons inspired by pop culture. Her newsletter, By Popular Demand, was featured in Forbes as one of the top marketing newsletters. With over a decade of experience in branding a...

Bridget Lohrius is the Founder and CEO of SANDWINA , a full-service leadership consultancy and coaching company on a mission to unlock growth for progressive organizations and their people.  For more than 20 years, Bridget has coached c-level executives from some of the world’s largest and most recognizable brands, including Ulta, Walmart, McDonalds, CVS, Mars Wrigley, Lockheed Martin, Follett, an...

Jacklyn Dallas started making tech explainer videos for her grandma as a 13-year-old on YouTube and has built a wildly popular channel, NothingButTech , that educates and excites people about technology through deeply researched, high-energy explainers and field shoots with industry leaders and CEOs like Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai. She also guest lectures on tech and YouTube at Cornell, MIT, and r...

Danielle Wiley is the founder and CEO of Sway Group , an agency that supports a large community of influencers and connects them to the right brands for high-impact marketing campaigns. Prior to founding Sway, Danielle ran social strategy for Edelman’s Chicago-based digital group. Between working on the social campaigns for household-name brands and channeling her passion for cooking into a food b...

Lisa Welborn, Director of Media at Civilian , has over 15 years of expertise in crafting data-driven media plans that effectively reach and influence target audiences in the unique places and spaces they frequent. Lisa led the media planning and placement for the Live Beyond campaign, winning Media Planner of The Year. Her strategic approach, particularly in understanding the unique Social Determi...

Dan Portrait is Kamp Grizzly’s Chief Creative Officer and founder. Portrait’s artistic upbringing in Portland’s hotbed of subcultures, music and film during the early 90’s helped to shape the young creative’s approach to founding and running Kamp Grizzly, one of the most accredited and forward-thinking creative agencies, known for blurring the lines between advertising and entertainment. Portrait’...

Nycole Hampton is a results-driven senior marketing leader with two decades of experience in integrated marketing and brand strategy, including 13 years in leadership roles. At her core, she is a builder—of brands, in-house teams, global agency practices, marketing frameworks, content engines, and full-funnel strategies that drive measurable results.  Throughout her career, Nycole has worked with...

The ad that has everyone saying, "whoa." Lyle Yetman | Co-CCO The best thing that ever happened to Lyle’s advertising career was not getting hired as an account person at BBDO. He would have sucked at that. Instead, he became a writer. After getting his master’s at the VCU Brandcenter, Lyle left his Boston roots, moved out west, and started his career at BSSP, where he worked on MINI, Chipotle, an...

In nearly two decades in the communications field, Amy Widdowson has guided organizations through inflection moments and critical public relations challenges, with work across executive visibility, messaging and storytelling, thought leadership, and crisis management. Prior to her role as VP Communications at Medium, she spent over ten years agency-side in both corporate and public affairs leaders...

Growing up in Brooklyn with modest means, Cheryl Toussaint knows first-hand how sports can change the direction of one’s life. After discovering a local track meet by chance at age 12, she ran her first race in a pair of borrowed sneakers and went on to earn the silver medal in the 1972 Olympic Games, even after an early mishap forced her to run with only one shoe! Now, Cheryl has turned her lifel...

Andy Lambert is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of building and scaling successful software businesses over the past 12 years. As a founding member of ContentCal, a social media marketing platform, he helped grow the company from inception to acquisition by Adobe Inc. in 2021, raising $10M in funding and serving thousands of customers globally. Andy is passionate about education a...

Foram Mehta is a leader in the social impact sector with over 13 years of experience driving initiatives in sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and youth empowerment. As the Global Partnerships Manager at Women First Digital, Foram has spearheaded innovative solutions to address access gaps in abortion care, contraception, and digital security, particularly in underserved regions like...

Labeled a leading voice in the intersection of marketing and technology by Forbes, Keith is the Vice President of Strategy at Linqia , the leading influencer marketing agency for enterprise brands. Keith also co-hosts the renowned Creator Economy Live podcast, is a contributor for Forbes on influencer marketing, and speaks at conferences around the world on the topic of the creator economy. Keith...