Arts

Talented creative individuals working in the field of visual, auditory and performance arts

Randy Silver

Randy Silver

Randy Silver is a product consultant, coach & community builder who has been working in product roles across the US and UK for 20 years. A recovering music journalist and editor, he launched Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK; he’s also worked across sectors including museums and arts groups, online education, media and entertainment, retail, and financial services. Randy held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, where he also directed their 100+-person product community. Randy’s book, What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager’s Guide to Strategy in the Time of COVID-19 is out now, with all profits going to COVID-19 relief efforts. He’s the founder & co-host of The Product Experience podcast and founder/host of Product in the {A}ether, a virtual lean coffee meetup. Find out more at outofowls.com

Randy Silver is a product consultant, coach & community builder who has been working in product roles across the US and UK for 20 years. A recovering music journalist and editor, he launched Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK; he’s also worked ac... Show more

Hancisse Sylvie

Hancisse Sylvie

I'm 38, Belgian, storyboarder who became sticker placer which went into production, made friends with prepress machines than opened up to structural design.

I'm 38, Belgian, storyboarder who became sticker placer which went into production, made friends with prepress machines than opened up to structural design. Show more

Prerna Athia

Prerna Athia

I am a self-taught designer who loves to experiment and play around with my designs. I love challenging designs that help me discover interesting insights and drive revenue.

I am a self-taught designer who loves to experiment and play around with my designs. I love challenging designs that help me discover interesting insights and drive revenue. Show more

Leila Hurstel

Leila Hurstel

Founder of the AllStarsWomen NFT Club and DAO initiative to help close the gender gap.

Board Member and Chief Metaverse officer at Verse Estate, hyper realistic metaverse.

Mentor at Brinc/Animoca Brands accelerator program empowering game changers in web3.

Beyond Inclusion Ambassador, XR Bootcamp supported by Meta.

Member of WomenTech Network that unites ‪100 000‬ Women in Tech to Foster Innovation with Purpose and member of Forbes Women Forum.

Founder of the AllStarsWomen NFT Club and DAO initiative to help close the gender gap. Board Member and Chief Metaverse officer at Verse Estate, hyper realistic metaverse. Mentor at Brinc/Animoca Brands accelerator program empowering game cha... Show more

Sofia Yotova

Sofia Yotova

Hey, I’m Octophina!

I’ve been smell-blind since I was a toddler. I’ve had an eating disorder and body dysmorphia since my dad’s first suicide attempt when I was 15. I’ve experienced multiple episodes of major depression since my early 20s. My mom struggled with depression on her own when I was a toddler and my dad has battled alcohol addiction for decades. I suffered a miscarriage, and lost a loved one to cancer.

After getting to the edge of suicide, I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder in my early 30s.

But this isn’t my story.

Being creative empowers me to re-sculpt my identity, re-design my reality, and re-write my story.

In addition to being what today’s standards define as “mentally ill,” I’m also a trained journalist, smell-blind food designer and stylist with over a decade of experience in the international food space, certified Mind Body Eating coach by The Institute for the Psychology of Eating, TEDx speaker, and Forbes 30 under 30 social entrepreneur.

I sold the art I made while recovering from suicidal depression in 2021 as NFTs and the profits supported me for 6 months.

But my history doesn’t define my story. I do.

Creativity is my go-to tool for self-empowerment, which helps me practice self-care, clear out my mental cache, and process difficult emotions and experiences.

This is how I turn my pain into power and use my challenges as catalysts for growth.

Hey, I’m Octophina! I’ve been smell-blind since I was a toddler. I’ve had an eating disorder and body dysmorphia since my dad’s first suicide attempt when I was 15. I’ve experienced multiple episodes of major depression since my early 20s. My mom... Show more

Sumit Ridhal

Sumit Ridhal

Creative coder, designer, and developer. UI Lead @ Red Hat.
Interactive Developer based in Pune, India, focusing on Design, Motion, WebGL, Shaders, and JavaScript.

Creative coder, designer, and developer. UI Lead @ Red Hat. Interactive Developer based in Pune, India, focusing on Design, Motion, WebGL, Shaders, and JavaScript. Show more

Angelo Gino Varrati

Angelo Gino Varrati

Former Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Student Partner, cofounder of DotNetAbruzzo community User Group. Computer Science Student @UniMol. Enthusiast of Azure and Cloud. I'm Italian Australian.

Former Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Student Partner, cofounder of DotNetAbruzzo community User Group. Computer Science Student @UniMol. Enthusiast of Azure and Cloud. I'm Italian Australian. Show more

Thomas Webb

Thomas Webb

Thomas Webb is the founder and CEO of Worldwide Webb. A pixel art 2.5D metaverse game that pioneered NFT avatar interoperability. The Webb started out as an art exhibition and has been curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist for various exhibitions exploring how video games will change the world. He uses real-time data and how it can be applied to reveal contemporary life, while simultaneously exploring the effects of society’s dependence on technology, social media and AI on mental health.
He has been commissioned by brands such as Valentino, Mercedez-Benz and Dua Lipa, to create digital artworks, video games and experiences.
His work and video games have won numerous awards and he has delivered 2 TEDx talks on creative hacking and the future of art in a digital world

Thomas Webb is the founder and CEO of Worldwide Webb. A pixel art 2.5D metaverse game that pioneered NFT avatar interoperability. The Webb started out as an art exhibition and has been curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist for various exhibitions exploring h... Show more

Antoine Trotta

Antoine Trotta

Passionate by music but from a risk-averse family , I chose to follow a career in management of technology projects within big companies over music. NFTs are giving me the greatest opportunity to make those two worlds collide while giving all artists an equal chance not to chose between their passion and security of revenues.

Passionate by music but from a risk-averse family , I chose to follow a career in management of technology projects within big companies over music. NFTs are giving me the greatest opportunity to make those two worlds collide while giving all artists... Show more

Lauren Dorman

Lauren Dorman

Amsterdam-based design-oriented engineer. Community, culture, and subcultures.

Amsterdam-based design-oriented engineer. Community, culture, and subcultures. Show more

Marc Trensig

Marc Trensig

A passionate innovator and creative strategist. Serial entrepreneur with 20+ years in Creative-Tech, Art, and Film Production. Futurist and expert in Luxury & Fashion worlds | Gaming | Web3 | NFT | Blockchain.

A passionate innovator and creative strategist. Serial entrepreneur with 20+ years in Creative-Tech, Art, and Film Production. Futurist and expert in Luxury & Fashion worlds | Gaming | Web3 | NFT | Blockchain. Show more

Hakeem Olasupo

Hakeem Olasupo

Hakeem Olasupo is a Brand and Product Designer with over 5 years of professional experience in Design and a track record in brand communication, community management and marketing design on a global scale.

He has worked with brands across industries in unique capacities, nationally and globally, including Stealth Startup, Deposits, Swys, StonedApeCrew, Spottr, Mawu, Magnet, Braintrust, Tribesquare, Hotels.ng, Nafas, Gallarii, Alphally, Zapidhire and so many others.

He has given talks/workshops at Design, Networking, Leadership and Open Source conferences around the globe at Digital Summit Europe, Friends of Figma Ilorin, FIFO Talks, DesignwithEU, GDGIlorin, Designly, and among many others, he is currently a Friends of Figma Designer Advocates, Lead Friends of Figma, Ilorin. Co-founder, Creative Discourse, and various other communities empowering Africa and the world.


He has contributed to Bitcoin Design, Linux Foundation Public Health, Indian Open Source Organization, and Open Source Design at large.

Hakeem Olasupo is a Brand and Product Designer with over 5 years of professional experience in Design and a track record in brand communication, community management and marketing design on a global scale. He has worked with brands across industri... Show more

Bindu Upadhyay

Bindu Upadhyay

Bindu is passionate about people, their behaviour, and the ecosystems in which they interact. As a Lead Service Designer, she builds bridges across siloes, drives collaboration, and structures processes at Mendix. Having moved from India to the Netherlands, from engineering to design, working in multidisciplinary (and multicultural) teams, deeply influenced Bindu’s world view and shaped her approach towards collaboration.

Bindu is passionate about people, their behaviour, and the ecosystems in which they interact. As a Lead Service Designer, she builds bridges across siloes, drives collaboration, and structures processes at Mendix. Having moved from India to the Nethe... Show more

Priyeshan Sreeneebus

Priyeshan Sreeneebus

Tech enthusiast with a penchant towards game development

Tech enthusiast with a penchant towards game development Show more

Weldon Long

Weldon Long

Weldon Long is a successful entrepreneur and author of a NY Times Bestseller. He is one of the nation’s most powerful speakers who teaches the same philosophies that catapulted him from poverty and incarceration to a life of wealth and prosperity.

Weldon Long is a successful entrepreneur and author of a NY Times Bestseller. He is one of the nation’s most powerful speakers who teaches the same philosophies that catapulted him from poverty and incarceration to a life of wealth and prosperity. Show more

Gideon Alawode

Gideon Alawode

Engineer by certification. Creative by heart.
♥ good music, sketching, watching movies, crafts & games

Engineer by certification. Creative by heart. ♥ good music, sketching, watching movies, crafts & games Show more

Alex Dovhyi

Alex Dovhyi

Digital designer and educator, working remotely.

Digital designer and educator, working remotely. Show more

Liz Hamburger

Liz Hamburger

Liz Hamburger is a curious designer who loves to learn about people, their needs and how design can make an impact. When not thinking about pixels, she runs events with Triangirls, a community for women and non-binary people in tech.

Liz Hamburger is a curious designer who loves to learn about people, their needs and how design can make an impact. When not thinking about pixels, she runs events with Triangirls, a community for women and non-binary people in tech. Show more

Ferdinand Malcher

Ferdinand Malcher

Ferdinand Malcher is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Angular, author of the German "Angular" book, passionate speaker and teacher. He works as a freelance software developer, trainer and media designer, with a focus on Angular, Node.js and TypeScript. Together with Johannes Hoppe he established the Angular.Schule company.

Ferdinand likes to take care of creative details. Many of his development projects are driven by his passion for photography, film and media technology. He's a co-organizer of the Angular Leipzig Meetup.

Ferdinand Malcher is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Angular, author of the German "Angular" book, passionate speaker and teacher. He works as a freelance software developer, trainer and media designer, with a focus on Angular, Node.js and TypeSc... Show more

Siobhan Baker

Siobhan Baker

Siobhan first entered the tech industry in 2017, as the Community Manager for a social enterprise aiming to get more women into careers in tech. Whilst there she scaled their community offering to almost triple its size - delivering over 200 activities across the UK including free coding courses.

She left this role in 2018 to pursue a coding internship through Black Girl Tech and 8th Light, which was instrumental in preparing her for her current role in software engineering.

In her own time, Siobhan is part of the Leadership Team for Coding Black Females, a non-profit which supports Black females aspiring to and/or working in tech. She is also actively questioning how to blend her interests in art, philosophy and coding.

When not doing that, she’s been escaping to her local park and woodlands for long solo walks in an attempt to combat her lockdown weight gain!

Siobhan first entered the tech industry in 2017, as the Community Manager for a social enterprise aiming to get more women into careers in tech. Whilst there she scaled their community offering to almost triple its size - delivering over 200 activiti... Show more

Dale Dowdie

Dale Dowdie

Dale Dowdie was a hacker in High School. His Computer class teacher felt there were better uses for his talent and he ended up as the first High School Student to be hired by NASA at Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt MD - working on predictive modeling for storm tracking. Afterwards Mr Dowdie went to Boston University to study computer Engineering. While still in College Mr Dowdie started the first of his companies delivering training and network integration services to the fledgling computer revolution.

Mr. Dowdie founded Intellitech Consulting Enterprises in 1993, which was the 3rd company he had started. The goal of Intellitech is to provide intelligent technology solutions for business and educational institutions. Over the past 20 years, Intellitech has provided Software Development, Management/IT Consulting, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity and Consulting Services for organizations, banks and institutions including Liberty Mutual Insurance, Citizens Bank, TJX Companies, Staples and McCormick, to the Government of St. Lucia and Harvard University. Intellitech has also developed a core vertical market software development team that designs industry specific web/mobile enabled solutions.

One such Solution is BlackFacts.com. Blackfacts is the brain-child of longtime friend and collaborator Ken Granderson, and over the past 20 years it has been running and providing historical facts-of-the-day to our community. Mr. Dowdie was brought in early on to help husband the idea to the next level. However, for years the site remained just a source of black history facts, and in time it grew to be the #1 source for Black Facts on the internet. That all changed in 2017, as Mr. Dowdie and Mr. Granderson finally gave the project the focus it deserved and thus began the process of turning Blackfacts.com from just a historical reference site for Black History into the 'Black Wikipedia' and a showcase of the cultural contributions of people of color and a showcase of the type of technology solutions that can be provided by and to people of color. Those efforts can be seen in this, the latest evolution of BlackFacts.com. There is so much that can be done with the platform, and we hope that you stick around to enjoy the journey with us...

As a leading edge business based in Boston, MA, Intellitech has a diverse staff of team members with the background and expertise to satisfy clients from around the world. “Human connection is not lost in the Internet, it is only expanded. Our solutions always keep that fact in mind and in the forefront of the minds of our customers.”

Intellitech Website: www.intellitech.net
Black Facts Website: www.blackfacts.com
BlackFacts News: www.blackfacts.com/news

Dale Dowdie was a hacker in High School. His Computer class teacher felt there were better uses for his talent and he ended up as the first High School Student to be hired by NASA at Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt MD - working on predictive... Show more

Mischa Ramseyer

Mischa Ramseyer

Als Gründer von pragmatic solutions fasziniert mich seit jeher, wie Menschen zusammen arbeiten und sich organisieren, um gemeinsam Ziele zu erreichen. Als Unternehmensarchitekt unterstütze ich Führungsteams das volle Potential für mehr Innovation und robustes Wachstum in ihrem Unternehmen zu entfalten. Das Performance Potential liegt in der Zusammenarbeit. Der kritische Erfolgsfaktor in jeder Business Transformation ist die Führung, denn sie schafft die Rahmenbedingungen. Wenn Geschäftsprozesse, Technologie und Organisation optimal auf einander abgestimmt sind und Teams barrierefrei arbeiten können, sind unglaubliche Resultate möglich.

Als Gründer von pragmatic solutions fasziniert mich seit jeher, wie Menschen zusammen arbeiten und sich organisieren, um gemeinsam Ziele zu erreichen. Als Unternehmensarchitekt unterstütze ich Führungsteams das volle Potential für mehr Innovation und... Show more

Zahrina Robertson

Zahrina Robertson

Leading Branding Photographer, Videographer, Author of 10 books and Speaker
Helping Speakers+Leaders with dynamic visual assets, to connect to a wider audience, get paid their worth & be in demand

Photographer and Videographer at ZahrinaPhotography.com
Speaker at Zahrina.com
Artist at ZahrinaGallery.com

Leading Branding Photographer, Videographer, Author of 10 books and Speaker Helping Speakers+Leaders with dynamic visual assets, to connect to a wider audience, get paid their worth & be in demand Photographer and Videographer at ZahrinaPhotograp... Show more

Etisha Sinha

Etisha Sinha

I am a marketeer by profession.
A sentiment marketeer by passion.
A creative content marketeer by obsession.
A positive attitude promoter by expression.

I am a marketeer by profession. A sentiment marketeer by passion. A creative content marketeer by obsession. A positive attitude promoter by expression. Show more

Conlin Durbin

Conlin Durbin

Conlin is an engineer in Indiana, building frontends at Lessonly. When programming, he focuses on accessibility, performance, and usability. He also works to build diverse, inclusive workplaces for engineers of all skill levels, through writing and working with local diversity and inclusion groups.

Conlin is an engineer in Indiana, building frontends at Lessonly. When programming, he focuses on accessibility, performance, and usability. He also works to build diverse, inclusive workplaces for engineers of all skill levels, through writing and w... Show more

Marie-Cécile Godwin Paccard

Marie-Cécile Godwin Paccard

Designer systémique, facilitatrice, oratrice, mentor, moteur d'écosystèmes, écoféministe intersectionnelle, j'appréhende le complexe pour comprendre, converger, structurer et construire. Je donne des conférences et je publie sur mon métier et sur des thématiques comme le burnout ou l'anthropocène. Mes valeurs conduisent ma pratique du métier et je pratique un design inclusif et éthique. Depuis bientôt 15 ans, j'aide les personnes et les organisations à définir leurs fondamentaux et leurs objectifs et à construire une communication cohérente en fonction. Je suis membre du chapitre lyonnais d'IxDA avec qui j'ai co-organisé la conférence Interaction 18, des Designers Lyonnais et de groupes locaux d'entraide. J'ai créé et co-anime le think tank Common Future(s).

Designer systémique, facilitatrice, oratrice, mentor, moteur d'écosystèmes, écoféministe intersectionnelle, j'appréhende le complexe pour comprendre, converger, structurer et construire. Je donne des conférences et je publie sur mon métier et sur des... Show more

Sarbbottam Bandyopadhyay

Sarbbottam Bandyopadhyay

Sarbbottam is a frontend engineer at LinkedIn focusing on UI/UX for Sales Navigator, LinkedIn's Sales Solution. He has previously worked at Yahoo and contracted for several global companies not limiting to Experian, nPower, British Telecom. He has been developing web applications since 2006, using Java, PHP, NodeJS. He is proficient with modern web technologies and frameworks.

Sarbbottam joined Linkedin as a member of the LinkedIn's core accessibility team, focusing primarily on web accessibility. He has been passionate about digital accessibility since his Yahoo days and firmly believes that an accessible user interface is a better user interface. He often blogs, primarily about web accessibility at https://sarbbottam.github.io/.

When he is not wearing his technical hat, he enjoys painting with watercolor, flying his Mavic Pro, driving around with family, hiking, playing with his 7 years old daughter.

Sarbbottam is a frontend engineer at LinkedIn focusing on UI/UX for Sales Navigator, LinkedIn's Sales Solution. He has previously worked at Yahoo and contracted for several global companies not limiting to Experian, nPower, British Telecom. He has b... Show more

Ramesh Kumar

Ramesh Kumar

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Laura VanArendonk Baugh

Laura VanArendonk Baugh

Laura is an award-winning writer of fantasy, non-fiction, and a few other things. She's a professional instructor with a weakness for fair-trade chocolate and the lure of the far horizon.

Laura is an award-winning writer of fantasy, non-fiction, and a few other things. She's a professional instructor with a weakness for fair-trade chocolate and the lure of the far horizon. Show more

Maxi Moscardi

Maxi Moscardi

Once upon a time I grabbed a commodore 64, then an Amstrad 1512, also a Gibson Les Paul a little later, Music, Psychology books, then Unix manuals, Cisco systems CCNA trainings, Aws and kubernetes administration certifications.

Working in Customer Success of software companies, my instinct tells me to build a bridge with everyone that comes my way.

I am proud of all the lessons learned from strangers that later became mentors (and some even friends!)

The list of things I want to talk about has no end.
Le'ts start from, how can we find a way to understand each other better.

Once upon a time I grabbed a commodore 64, then an Amstrad 1512, also a Gibson Les Paul a little later, Music, Psychology books, then Unix manuals, Cisco systems CCNA trainings, Aws and kubernetes administration certifications. Working in Customer... Show more

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