Chris Conrad is an American actor from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He is best known for his roles playing Jason in the series “Young Hercules” and Dennis McClaren in the Amazon series “Patriot”. Conrad started his career in the entertainment industry as a high school student improvising comedy skits. He then went on perform in Florida’s Funniest Man competition alongside his... read full bio
Kate Flannery is an American actress who is best known for playing Meredith Palmer on the television series “The Office”. Flannery graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and has been a member of The Second City’s National Touring Company and Chicago’s Annoyance Theater. She has been apart of The Lampshades, which is a cult comedy lounge act... read full bio
Jacques Colimon is an actor. He earned his BA in Theatre and dance and his BS in radio, television, and film from the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known for playing Will LeClair in the Netflix series “The Society”. He made his acting debut playing Taylor in the short film “In the Dark”. Since then, Colimon’s film... read full bio
Eli Brown is an up-and-coming actor. He is best known for his debut television role, playing Dylan Walker in the Freeform series “Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists”. Apart from his role in The Perfectionists, Brown has also been in the short film “Cupid’s Paradise” where he was a club partygoer. Upcoming projects for Brown include playing Brett Blackmore in the... read full bio
Kelton DuMont is a young up-and-coming actor. He made his television debut playing Mark Grissom in the series “The Astronaut Wives Club”. Since then, his television credits have gone on to include, “The Parallax Theory”, “SEAL Team” and “Mosaic”. DuMont has been in a commercial for Chevy and has been in theatre productions of ‘Macbeth’, ‘Annie’, ‘How The Grinch Stole... read full bio
Gabriel Rush is an up-and-coming actor who made his film debut playing Skotak in the Wes Anderson film “Moonrise Kingdom”. Since then, Rush’s film credits have gone on to include, “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, “The Duff”, and more. Rush’s television credits include, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”, “Blue Bloods”, “Gotham”, “Madam Secretary”, “TURN”, “Better Call... read full bio
Sky Brown is a young girl who is a professional skateboarder and surfer. She is the world’s youngest professional skateboarder who is set to become Britain’s youngest summer Olympian at the start of the Tokyo Games if she qualifies. Brown was born in Miyazaki, Japan and grew up with a Japanese mother and an English father. Recently, Brown has been... read full bio
Nilufer Yanya is a British indie rock musician and singer. She was born in London and grew up in Chelsea, London. She grew up listening to Turkish and classical music and she learned how to play the guitar when she was 12 years old. Later on in life she started uploading her music to SoundCloud and was asked by Louis... read full bio
Nina Tandon is a biotech specialist. She is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, a “grow your own bone,” bone reconstruction company. Utilizing patient stem cells, EpiBone is able to reconstruct and repair bone-related injury. Apart from her work with EpiBone, Tandon is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cooper Union and an electrical and biomedical engineer at Columbia... read full bio
Sammy Brue is a musical prodigy originating from Oregon. Now in Utah, Sammy first started his musical journey at the age of 10. By 13 he was opening for artists like Lukas Nelson, Joe Fletcher, Lydia Loveless, Asleep at the Wheel, and Hayes Carli. At 14, he started dropping EPs and by 16 he had released his debut studio album,... read full bio
Sonny DiPerri moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music. After moving to Los Angeles, he landed an apprenticeship with the producer, Flood. He has worked with Alan Moulder, and as an in-house programmer and engineer for Dave Sardy, M83, 30 Seconds to Mars, and Trent Reznor. He has also worked alongside such bigger names such as Animal... read full bio
Tayler Buono is a pop singer and songwriter who got a career boost from her famous cover of “Sorry” by Justin Bieber, which got over 5 million views on YouTube. As a young girl, she studied voice, acting, and dancing, and she learned how to play the guitar and started writing songs as a teenager. She released a self-titled EP,... read full bio
The Rua is a three-piece family pop band based out of Windsor, England. The band is made up of two sisters and a brother: Alanna on piano and backup vocals, Roseanna as guitarist and lead vocalist, and Jonathan Brown who plays violin, guitar, and sings. The band member/siblings have been playing and singing together since they were children, and they... read full bio
Jennifer Paige is an Atlanta-based singer and songwriter especially known for her hit track, “Crush.” Jennifer’s musical talent was revealed at an early age, as she started singing and performing at local coffee houses, venues, and restaurants at the age of 5 with her older brother. She landed a touring gig at the age of 17 and traveled across the... read full bio
Jeff Kaplan is founder of Cloud Computing Showplace and managing director of THINKstrategies, Inc. He founded THINKstrategies to focus on the new on-demand services such as Cloud Computer, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Managed Services on IT, Big Data, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Kaplan graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in Urban Planning and went on to earn his... read full bio
David Robertson is an innovation and product management expert. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Robertson is well-known for his study of the LEGO Group. He was the LEGO Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at the Institute for Management Development in Switzerland. Robertson authored the award-winning Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the... read full bio
Kimberly Bryant is an American electrical engineer who has founded Black Girls Code, which is a training course that teaches basic programming to underrepresented black girls in technology careers. Since the founding of Black Girls Code, Bryant has been featured in Business Insider as one of the ’25 Most Influential African-Americans In Technology’. Bryant graduated from Vanderbilt University with a... read full bio
Ross Smith is an author, thought-leader, innovator, and Director of Test at Microsoft. He has been working in the technology industry for over 20 years and has worked on everything from handheld devices, PC’s to mainframe systems. He started his career with Microsoft in Product Support and has since gone on to be a Test Lead, Test Manager, and Test... read full bio
Michael Nelson is the former IBM Director of Internet Technology and White House IT Advisor, Cloud Computing Expert, and Georgetown Technology Professor. At Georgetown, Nelson has researched and taught courses on “The Future of the Internet” and technology trends, consulting, and speaking on Internet technology and policy. While working at IBM, Nelson helped implement IBM’s Next Generation Internet strategy. He... read full bio
Dr. Hugh Thompson is a computer security expert who has been an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University and the Chief Technology Officer of Symantec. He has also been the Program Chairman of RSA Conference and is co-author of the book “The Plateau Effect”. Thompson is also well known for his role in the HBO documentary... read full bio
