Arts

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

Samia Allaou

Samia Allaou

Georges Boris

Georges Boris

I've been working as a developer and product designer for more than a decade. I'm the Chief Design Officer at Uncover, where we are building a product design with a deep engineering foundation.

I'm deeply interested in Design Engineering, Creative Coding, Data Visualization and Functional Programming.

Mostly known in FP communities for talks and packages related to design systems, and web development. Such as elm-book, elm-widgets and lustre/ui.

I've been working as a developer and product designer for more than a decade. I'm the Chief Design Officer at Uncover, where we are building a product design with a deep engineering foundation. I'm deeply interested in Design Engineering, Creativ... Show more

Omari Harebin

Omari Harebin

Omari Harebin is a digital alchemist, mentor, and author who left behind a traditional engineering career to pursue his passion for storytelling, self-expression, and digital business. Through his journey, Omari has built a successful business helping others unlock the power of online platforms like Squarespace while navigating the ups and downs of freelance life, financial challenges, and personal growth. His memoir, The Corporate Dropout, captures the essence of rejecting societal norms to pursue one's true calling, and Omari now shares his insights to inspire others to find freedom in their own path.

Omari Harebin is a digital alchemist, mentor, and author who left behind a traditional engineering career to pursue his passion for storytelling, self-expression, and digital business. Through his journey, Omari has built a successful business helpin... Show more

Luka Pejić

Luka Pejić

Luka Pejić (1996), BA in English language and literature. So far, he has translated, from English to Croatian, several books for different publishing houses in Zagreb, among others "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon for Hangar 7. He is currently working on another fantasy project with the mentioned publishing house, as well as his own dark fantasy novel, where Monster comes out of his Empire in the boy's closet, and the boy takes his hand.

Luka Pejić (1996), BA in English language and literature. So far, he has translated, from English to Croatian, several books for different publishing houses in Zagreb, among others "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon for Hangar 7. He ... Show more

Karina Gutierrez

Karina Gutierrez

Con más de 14 años de experiencia en el mundo del diseño. Entre los que me he especializado en experiencia de usuario y diseño de interfaces.
He ayudado a empresas a encontrar su identidad y he logrado crear sistemas de diseño con los que pueden replicar sus sistemas con una imagen estandarizada.
Actualmente trabajo en Multiplica para el Banco Compartamos en el que he implementado un sistema de diseño y he ayudado a optimizar sus procesos en la manera de diseñar sus productos digitales.

Con más de 14 años de experiencia en el mundo del diseño. Entre los que me he especializado en experiencia de usuario y diseño de interfaces. He ayudado a empresas a encontrar su identidad y he logrado crear sistemas de diseño con los que pueden re... Show more

Laura Webb

Laura Webb

Before working in the Microsoft industry, Laura was working in the charity sector as a Project Assistant/Office 365 Specialist for 3 years and before that was in various support roles. She fully entered the Microsoft industry when accepting a job offer with HCL in Nov 2021. She then completed the CIT Program in March 2022, and it's been the most amazing ride of her life so far.

She loves all things creative, and Microsoft related and can't wait to see what the future holds. Laura spends her time outside of work, blogging about the Power Platform community and her journey in the hope to inspire and support others. She likes to merge her love of tech with her love of art & design, to try to bring even more fun to the topics and activities she presents to the community. Her career and general way of life have always been built around the concepts of inspiration, support, and simplifying everything! She hopes to use these concepts to make a positive impact on the Microsoft community and whoever else dares to listen.

Before working in the Microsoft industry, Laura was working in the charity sector as a Project Assistant/Office 365 Specialist for 3 years and before that was in various support roles. She fully entered the Microsoft industry when accepting a job off... Show more

Kelly Andrews

Kelly Andrews

Kelly J Andrews is a developer advocate and has been tinkering with computers for over 35 years.

He enjoys teaching new developers how to navigate through the industry, work out their insecurities, and build everyone up together.

You'll also find him doing magic somewhere.

Kelly J Andrews is a developer advocate and has been tinkering with computers for over 35 years. He enjoys teaching new developers how to navigate through the industry, work out their insecurities, and build everyone up together. You'll also fi... Show more

Przemysław Wojciech Wasilewski

Przemysław Wojciech Wasilewski

Product Designer, Art Director and Public Speaker with over 6 years of experience in the fields of product design, advertising, and marketing. Over the last couple of years, he’s had the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients, from small local courier companies to top-notch NY-based startups like Hive or Oncimmune. Continuously exceeding clients’ expectations, he has helped many great companies build better products and reach their brand-related goals.

As a Public Speaker, he has presented his ideas at events such as UXDX Berlin, Dribbble Meetup or Creative Mikser. The latter, hosted by British Council and the City of Warsaw, was a meetup dedicated to designing for inclusion and accessibility, a subject Wojciech is truly passionate about and experienced in.

A proud member of one of the best design teams in the world (the Netguru PD team has been rated the #1 trending design team on Dribbble globally multiple times). When not working on commercial projects, our team analyzes market trends, deepens the knowledge of accessibility design, or just watches Friends.

Product Designer, Art Director and Public Speaker with over 6 years of experience in the fields of product design, advertising, and marketing. Over the last couple of years, he’s had the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients, from small lo... Show more

Nalini Garg

Nalini Garg

AI & Data leader with 14+ years of experience. Women in AI California State Ambassador. Talks about #AI in Life Sciences #Building solutions using Gemini #GenAI #Career in tech

AI & Data leader with 14+ years of experience. Women in AI California State Ambassador. Talks about #AI in Life Sciences #Building solutions using Gemini #GenAI #Career in tech Show more

Akhil Hemanth

Akhil Hemanth

Akhil is a pragmatic designer with expertise in conceptual design, augmented reality, and construction administration. Passionate about integrating AI and automation into the AEC industry, he's also a self-taught programmer creating applications for applied technology. His diverse portfolio includes single-family homes, commercial buildings, senior-living, K-12, and mixed-use developments. Actively involved in the community, Akhil has served on the board of Freedom by Design and is the President of the AIA Savannah Young Architects Forum. Committed to democratizing emerging technologies, he pushes boundaries in AEC with AI and innovative tech solutions.

Akhil is a pragmatic designer with expertise in conceptual design, augmented reality, and construction administration. Passionate about integrating AI and automation into the AEC industry, he's also a self-taught programmer creating applications for ... Show more

Giulio Aprin

Giulio Aprin

Giulio Aprin began to be passionate about photography at an early age. During high school he found himself documenting the student protests that swept the country. Those years undoubtedly marked his direction and the commitment to document events, places and people. This led him to study documentary filmmaking in London to pursue a Journalistic career.

Today Giulio is an adventure photographer, an explorer and storyteller who captures the mystery, complexity, diversity, and raw power of the natural world.

Passionate about remote places he spent the last 5 years exploring desert regions of the planet such as the Wadi Rum Desert, the Namib Desert, the Sahara Desert, travelling from the Gulf countries to Jordan, from Namibia to Mauritania.
His mission just started.

Giulio Aprin began to be passionate about photography at an early age. During high school he found himself documenting the student protests that swept the country. Those years undoubtedly marked his direction and the commitment to document events, pl... Show more

Nnamene Kenechukwu

Nnamene Kenechukwu

Nnamene Kenechukwu (Harmoni)
Nnamene Kenechukwu, also known professionally as Harmoni, is a Creative Director, digital artist, and motion designer passionate about bringing stories to life through powerful visuals. With expertise spanning branding, 2D animation, digital illustration, and motion design, he transforms ideas into dynamic creative experiences that resonate with diverse audiences.

As the founder behind Harmoni, he has worked on projects ranging from book covers and character designs to children’s book illustrations, logos, and animated content, showcasing his versatility and eye for detail. Fluent in English and Igbo, with growing proficiency in Japanese, Nnamene bridges cultural influences to create globally relevant work.

He has further honed his craft through professional learning, completing certifications in Cinematic Compositions for Video & Film and Video Storytelling for Social Media Success. Whether leading creative teams or crafting unique visuals himself, Nnamene is driven by originality, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence.

Nnamene Kenechukwu (Harmoni) Nnamene Kenechukwu, also known professionally as Harmoni, is a Creative Director, digital artist, and motion designer passionate about bringing stories to life through powerful visuals. With expertise spanning branding, ... Show more

Tin Salias

Tin Salias

Tin (Martin Salias) es artista y forma parte del colectivo Lagar.

Lleva más de 40 años desarrollando software y ha trabajado en proyectos a lo largo de América, Australia y Europa, para organizaciones tan variadas como las Naciones Unidas o Microsoft Corp. Ha desarrollado en diversas plataformas y lenguajes como Assembler, C/C++, Java, .NET, Cobol, Fortran, Python y Ruby. 

Es Certified Trainer de Scrum Alliance, y dedica gran parte de su tiempo a iniciativas sociales como Proyecto Nahual.

Tin (Martin Salias) es artista y forma parte del colectivo Lagar. Lleva más de 40 años desarrollando software y ha trabajado en proyectos a lo largo de América, Australia y Europa, para organizaciones tan variadas como las Naciones Unidas o Micros... Show more

Victoria Allen

Victoria Allen

Victoria Allen is a wellness strategist and productivity speaker who helps ambitious professionals use AI to reclaim time, protect their energy, and build sustainable success. As a Certified Weight Loss Specialist and CEO, Victoria combines her background in business, fitness, and technology to teach audiences how to thrive — not just survive — in a fast-paced, AI-driven world.

Victoria Allen is a wellness strategist and productivity speaker who helps ambitious professionals use AI to reclaim time, protect their energy, and build sustainable success. As a Certified Weight Loss Specialist and CEO, Victoria combines her backg... Show more

Dianne Shen

Dianne Shen

Dianne (she/her) is an archivist/curator living in Oʻahu. She has worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Broad Museum, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Altos History Museum, East-West Center Gallery, and most recently as Curatorial Assistant for the Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025: Aloha Nō. She is working on her PhD in American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she also works as the program coordinator for the Asia-Pacific Museum Exchange (APME). Her research looks at Asian American/diasporic visual and material culture, vernacular and family photography, and museums from the early twentieth century to the contemporary period. Her work investigates the politics of collecting and advocates for community archival praxis as an anticolonial/decolonial approach to cultural stewardship.

Dianne (she/her) is an archivist/curator living in Oʻahu. She has worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Broad Museum, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Altos History Museum, East-West Center Gallery, and most recently as Curat... Show more

Desiree Acosta

Desiree Acosta

I'm Miwok, with ancestral homelands surrounding Sacramento, California. Our stories and sovereignty are not relics of the past — they are the foundation for powerful futures. I believe technology should serve Native communities, not define us. My work focuses on using tech thoughtfully to amplify Indigenous knowledge, voices, and resilience.

Currently, I serve as President of Natives in Tech, a national nonprofit where I lead efforts to connect Native communities to technology through mentorship, education, and culturally-rooted innovation. I also work as a Cultural Technologist for a Federally Recognized Tribe, designing and implementing STEAM education initiatives, digital storytelling projects, and grant-funded programs that expand youth access to Tribal knowledge systems.

🔹 Core Values: Indigenous self-determination, ethical storytelling, cultural preservation, and community-driven innovation.
🔹 Key Strengths: Program development, digital education strategy, grant writing, cross-sector partnerships, cultural technology leadership, instructional design, eLearning technical development, learning management system integration, professional voice over coordination, evaluation and assessment, multimedia and document design

I am passionate about growing projects where Indigenous sovereignty, education, and technology converge. I’m seeking opportunities to scale my impact — leading broader initiatives that strengthen community agency, uplift Native voices, and build future-ready infrastructure for the next generations.

In my day job I am a Cultural Technologist with 15+ years of experience bridging journalism, technology, and Indigenous community leadership. My work lives where cultural preservation meets innovation: building pathways for Indigenous self-determination through education, storytelling, and digital solutions.

I'm Miwok, with ancestral homelands surrounding Sacramento, California. Our stories and sovereignty are not relics of the past — they are the foundation for powerful futures. I believe technology should serve Native communities, not define us. My wor... Show more

Francesca Sampietro

Francesca Sampietro

Francesca is a graphic designer with a background in the analogue era, which informs her approach to modern design. She is a web design professor at an academy, specializing in user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design. An Apple enthusiast, Francesca utilizes technology to enhance her creative processes. Her expertise includes prototyping and design strategy, making her a valuable resource for questions related to design principles and practices. Through her teaching, she prepares aspiring designers to navigate the digital landscape effectively.

Francesca is a graphic designer with a background in the analogue era, which informs her approach to modern design. She is a web design professor at an academy, specializing in user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design. An Apple enthusiast,... Show more

Rosemary Candelario

Rosemary Candelario

Rosemary Candelario is an artist-scholar with research interests in Asian American and Asian diasporic dance, butoh, ecology, site-related performance, and representations of sex and reproduction in performance and popular culture. She was awarded the 2018 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research for Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma's Asian/American Choreographies (Wesleyan University Press 2016) and the 2024 Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award for Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices (Routledge 2023, co-edited with Matthew Henley). She received the 2022 Mid-Career Award from the Dance Studies Association. Rosemary has published articles in journals such as Choreographic Practices, Dance Research Journal, Post45: Contemporaries, and The Scholar & Feminist Online, among others, and is the co-editor with Bruce Baird of The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance (2018). Recent choreographic premieres include aqueous (site version 2021), aqueous (stage version 2019), and 100 Ways to Kiss the Trees (2018). Rosemary is Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, with affiliations in the Center for Asian American Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She serves as the President of the Dance Studies Association and holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA. www,rosemarycandelario.net

Rosemary Candelario is an artist-scholar with research interests in Asian American and Asian diasporic dance, butoh, ecology, site-related performance, and representations of sex and reproduction in performance and popular culture. She was awarded th... Show more

Yaamin Mohamed

Yaamin Mohamed

Hailing from the Maldives, Yaamin has been working in multiple fields for the past 10 years, ranging from UIUX Design, motion design & strategic marketing. He is currently working with LottieFiles, a global platform to discover and create animations, collaborate, testing among designers, stakeholders, and developers, as there Global Partnerships lead, working on there education and awareness initiatives across the globe.

In his free time, he works on his own startup called Sparkhub (https://www.sparkhub.mv), a company working on empowering the Maldives startup culture.

Hailing from the Maldives, Yaamin has been working in multiple fields for the past 10 years, ranging from UIUX Design, motion design & strategic marketing. He is currently working with LottieFiles, a global platform to discover and create animations,... Show more

Amber Herbert

Amber Herbert

Amber Herbert is a (mostly) speculative fiction author living in Colorado Springs, CO with her husband and two gremlins. She self-published her debut novel, Lipstick Covered Magnet, in 2022 and has since been penning an epic fantasy series and various horror stories she hopes to traditionally publish. She graduated the University of Colorado with a BA in English literature and worked as a freelance editor for eight years. She now writes full time (when she isn't minding children or rescue dogs).

Outside of writing and reading, Amber enjoys baking, going to emo/punk/post-hardcore gigs, playing complicated board games, and watching and critiquing TV and film.

Amber Herbert is a (mostly) speculative fiction author living in Colorado Springs, CO with her husband and two gremlins. She self-published her debut novel, Lipstick Covered Magnet, in 2022 and has since been penning an epic fantasy series and variou... Show more

Ben McCardell

Ben McCardell

With 20 years in live events and higher ed, Ben focuses on student leadership, sustainable systems, and transforming scattered knowledge into operational clarity.

With 20 years in live events and higher ed, Ben focuses on student leadership, sustainable systems, and transforming scattered knowledge into operational clarity. Show more

Kristiyan Nikolov

Kristiyan Nikolov

Meet Kristiyan Nikolov, the cloud wizard behind innovative transitions to AWS and masterful Kubernetes deployments on MacOS. As a Terraform Certified Associate, AWS Solutions Architect, and Jenkins Engineer, Kristiyan crafts cloud solutions that not only solve complex problems but also push the boundaries of what's technologically possible. With deep expertise in infrastructure as code and container orchestration, he transforms complex cloud architectures into elegant, scalable solutions. Join him for a journey through the clouds where cutting-edge technology meets creative problem-solving, all delivered with a dash of fun and a passion for pushing the limits of what's possible in the cloud!

Meet Kristiyan Nikolov, the cloud wizard behind innovative transitions to AWS and masterful Kubernetes deployments on MacOS. As a Terraform Certified Associate, AWS Solutions Architect, and Jenkins Engineer, Kristiyan crafts cloud solutions that not ... Show more

Pablo Rodríguez-Tembleco

Pablo Rodríguez-Tembleco

Apasionado por la narrativa, el sonido y los videojuegos, ha tratado de reunir varias facetas artísticas para hacer de ellas su profesión, de forma que ha participado como integrante en diferentes bandas de música como la agrupación de música folk "Aljibe", investigador a través del título de musicólogo, y desarrollador de videojuegos durante más de 7 años en empresas indie, doble A, triple A e incluso iGaming en puestos como director de audio, lead game designer y narrative designer entre otros.

Apasionado por la narrativa, el sonido y los videojuegos, ha tratado de reunir varias facetas artísticas para hacer de ellas su profesión, de forma que ha participado como integrante en diferentes bandas de música como la agrupación de música folk "A... Show more

Andrés Snitcofsky

Andrés Snitcofsky

Diseñador gráfico en situación de visualización de datos. Activista del acceso a la información y la transparencia, docente y trollsko en redes. Entusiasta de mejorar la Experiencia de Usuario de la vida urbana.

Diseñador gráfico en situación de visualización de datos. Activista del acceso a la información y la transparencia, docente y trollsko en redes. Entusiasta de mejorar la Experiencia de Usuario de la vida urbana. Show more

Margaret Lee

Margaret Lee

Margaret Juhae Lee is the author of Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House). A former editor at The Nation, she received a Bunting Fellowship from Harvard University and a Korean Studies Fellowship from the Korea Foundation. Her articles have been published in The Nation, Newsday, Elle, ARTnews, Writer's Digest and The Rumpus. She lives in Oakland with her family and Brownie, a rescue dog from Korea.

Margaret Juhae Lee is the author of Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House). A former editor at The Nation, she received a Bunting Fellowship from Harvard University and a Korean Studies Fellowship from the Korea Foundation. Her artic... Show more

Lukas Hüttis

Lukas Hüttis

Lukas Hüttis has successfully managed IT projects for music distributors & led development teams for over 10 years. Since 2018, the musician also runs his own recording studio Strong-Minded Productions. Now he shares his knowledge and experience in the field of NFTs & Web3 as a coach for individuals, musicians and companies and assists them in their entry into Web3. In 2022, he and his co-host Chris Wieduwilt launched the first German podcast focusing on music NFTs and music in web3 called "Digital Punks".

Lukas Hüttis has successfully managed IT projects for music distributors & led development teams for over 10 years. Since 2018, the musician also runs his own recording studio Strong-Minded Productions. Now he shares his knowledge and experience in t... Show more

Kate Jonuska

Kate Jonuska

Kate Jonuska is an author, freelance writer and yoga teacher based in Boulder, CO. Her short fiction was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her first novel, Transference, was a finalist for the BookLife Prize. She's also the author of The Dictionary of Fiction Critique, now in its second edition. Details: http://katejonuska.com.

Kate Jonuska is an author, freelance writer and yoga teacher based in Boulder, CO. Her short fiction was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her first novel, Transference, was a finalist for the BookLife Prize. She's also the author of The Dictionary... Show more

Opher Vishnia

Opher Vishnia

Opher is a multidisciplinary creator, with expertise spanning web development, design, music, and game development.

He currently leads development as principal engineer at Hud.io, imbuing magic into the field of development tools and observability. Previously, as director of technical innovation and creative developer at Eko, Opher worked at the intersection of art and technology, collaborating with development teams as well as design, art, and film-making teams to redefine interactive media on the web. His notable work includes open source projects like react-animation-orchestrator, Lance JS multiplayer server and the VR film Broken Night, which was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival in NYC.

Opher is a multidisciplinary creator, with expertise spanning web development, design, music, and game development. He currently leads development as principal engineer at Hud.io, imbuing magic into the field of development tools and observability... Show more

Daniel Isler

Daniel Isler

Bachelor in Arts of Representation. With certifications in Social Engineering, Red Team & OSINT. Team Leader of Fr1endly RATs, the Social Engineering unit at Dreamlab Technologies Chile.
Specializing and developing techniques and methodologies for simulations of Phishing attacks, Vishing, Pretexting, Physical Intrusions and Red Team.

Bachelor in Arts of Representation. With certifications in Social Engineering, Red Team & OSINT. Team Leader of Fr1endly RATs, the Social Engineering unit at Dreamlab Technologies Chile. Specializing and developing techniques and methodologies for ... Show more

Mohit Bhoite

Mohit Bhoite

Mohit Bhoite works as a senior hardware engineer at Particle, where he designs and builds their flagship IoT products. He is also an avid maker who dedicates his personal time to building free-formed electronic circuit sculptures. He combines his background in electronics and robotics to create static and kinetic sculptures that convey information fetched over the internet through sound, light, and motion. These sculptures sometimes take on an anthropomorphic form thereby leading the viewer to attach personalities and emotions to them.

Mohit holds a master’s degree in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania. He spent his time there as a research assistant at the ModLab helping build the next generation of modular robotics. Prior to this, he worked at a startup in Mumbai, India, developing robotic kits and conducting STEM focused workshops for high school and university students all across the country.

Mohit Bhoite works as a senior hardware engineer at Particle, where he designs and builds their flagship IoT products. He is also an avid maker who dedicates his personal time to building free-formed electronic circuit sculptures. He combines his bac... Show more

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