Arts

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

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

Marina Krizman

Marina Krizman

Meet Marina, a self-proclaimed Fleabag fanatic! Ever since stumbling upon the show during a lazy Sunday binge-watch session, she's been hooked on the witty humor and raw honesty of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's masterpiece. From the iconic fourth-wall breaking to the hilarious and heart-wrenching relationships, Marina can't get enough of Fleabag's antics. She's watched every episode multiple times, analyzed every character's motives, and even started a Fleabag-themed Instagram account. Her friends and family might think she's a bit obsessed, but Marina knows that Fleabag is more than just a show - it's a work of art that speaks to her soul.

Meet Marina, a self-proclaimed Fleabag fanatic! Ever since stumbling upon the show during a lazy Sunday binge-watch session, she's been hooked on the witty humor and raw honesty of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's masterpiece. From the iconic fourth-wall break... Show more

Shayna Solis

Shayna Solis

An artist, entrepreneur and climate activist, Shayna Solis is co-founder, CEO, and creative mastermind of Navteca, a technology company that creates practical applications based on new and emerging technology, such as cloud computing, immersive reality (XR) and digital twins, natural language interfaces using conversational AI, and open science tools. Collaborating with NASA and other international organizations, Shayna has led a multi-year investigation into the applications of virtual and augmented reality for NASA Earth science and disaster applications as a significant new approach to enhancing the way we view and communicate science and data in an engaging, interactive format. Shayna also founded the non-profit organization, Climate Warrior Collective, to raise awareness about climate change and make caring about the Earth more modern and relevant to diverse populations through fashion, technology, music, and art.

Navteca is a technology company with a focus on creating practical applications based on new and emerging technology, such as cloud computing, HPC in the cloud, platform engineering, immersive technology (XR), artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and natural language interfaces. Since 2010, Navteca has developed, executed, and managed unique technical solutions for government clients like NASA and USGS, non-profits like Battelle Institute, and large private entities like Meta. Collaborating with NASA and other international organizations, we have led a multi-year investigation into the applications of virtual and augmented reality for NASA Earth science and disaster applications as a significant new approach to enhancing the way we view and communicate science and data in an engaging, interactive format. Navteca is a long-time collaborator with various NASA centers and was honored to be named the 2021 Small Business Subcontractor of the Year at the Goddard Space Flight Center AND at NASA Headquarters. In 2020, Navteca launched a stand-alone conversational AI tool, Voice Atlas, that is currently being used by NASA, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, the DC Government and others to answer questions from curated, vetted knowledge bases using our responsible generative AI system, Voice Atlas.

An artist, entrepreneur and climate activist, Shayna Solis is co-founder, CEO, and creative mastermind of Navteca, a technology company that creates practical applications based on new and emerging technology, such as cloud computing, immersive reali... Show more

Carmen Lega

Carmen Lega

Carmen Lega è dottoranda presso l’Università per Stranieri di Perugia (XXXIX ciclo, curriculum in Studi linguistici, filologici e artistico letterari).
Nel 2022 pubblica, presso la casa editrice Divergenze, Canti e disincanti. Le forme fluide della letteratura del Novecento; nello stesso anno partecipa al Convegno ADI - “Scenari del conflitto” con un contributo dal titolo La sonorità della maceria: Montale e la musicalità sconnessa. Nel 2023 partecipa al convegno MOD “Contaminazioni, dissonanze ed eterotopie nella modernità letteraria”. Nel 2024 partecipa al Convegno AATI presso l’Università per stranieri di Perugia con una relazione dal titolo “Irma Brandeis: la scala della trascendenza”, al convegno Mod “Moderno e Antimoderno. Le avventure di una contrapposizione”, al convegno ADI “Rotte mediterranee. Migrazioni e ibridazioni nella letteratura italiana”. È in pubblicazione per Editoriale Scientifica un saggio in volume dal titolo “Orfeo, ma perché ti sei voltato?”

Carmen Lega è dottoranda presso l’Università per Stranieri di Perugia (XXXIX ciclo, curriculum in Studi linguistici, filologici e artistico letterari). Nel 2022 pubblica, presso la casa editrice Divergenze, Canti e disincanti. Le forme fluide della ... Show more

Rynardt Koen

Rynardt Koen

Rynardt is an experienced Technical Lead with over 15 years of experience. Rynardt has a Higher Certificate in Information Technology from Richfield College and completed a degree in Information Technology from the University of South Africa. Currently, Rynardt is working at Agile Bridge as a Technical Lead. Rynardt has also worked as a Senior Software Developer for 3 years and a Project Director for 2 years at SAICA, where he was responsible for all phases of the system development cycle. Rynardt has a diverse range of experience, having worked in various roles throughout his career. He has also completed several courses and holds several certifications, including The Complete Graphic Design Theory, Hypnosis Practitioner, AgilePM Foundation, and AgilePM Practitioner.

Rynardt is an experienced Technical Lead with over 15 years of experience. Rynardt has a Higher Certificate in Information Technology from Richfield College and completed a degree in Information Technology from the University of South Africa. Current... Show more

Scott Hermes

Scott Hermes

Scott Hermes is your average run-of-the-mill tech guy. Like most software architects, he has an MFA in Acting, has appeared on Jeopardy!, and is the 3rd victim in a straight-to-VHS cult classic slasher film. He has been working in the software business for 35 years. He began his tech career by manually moving 0’s and 1’s with a very tiny pair of tweezers until it was brought to his attention that programming languages exist to make things like that much easier.

Scott Hermes is your average run-of-the-mill tech guy. Like most software architects, he has an MFA in Acting, has appeared on Jeopardy!, and is the 3rd victim in a straight-to-VHS cult classic slasher film. He has been working in the software busine... Show more

Vanessa Osuka

Vanessa Osuka

Vanessa Osuka is an IT professional specializing in backend technologies. She primarily works with Javascript Nodejs. Her other interests include the arts and music.

Some examples of her results include:

• Delivering scalable backend solutions for multiple clients.

• Authoring comprehensive technical articles for SaaS products.

• Contributing to open-source software with successful PR merges
• Mentoring new developers, sharing her journey and experiences.

• Speaking at conferences and meetups

Vanessa Osuka is an IT professional specializing in backend technologies. She primarily works with Javascript Nodejs. Her other interests include the arts and music. Some examples of her results include: • Delivering scalable backend solutions... Show more

Naama O. Pozniak

Naama O. Pozniak

NFT artist, collector, Curator, and Founder/CEO of Paz Holding, Inc. dba RightPlan.com. A lifelong yogi, Primordial Sound Meditation coach Naama O. Pozniak brings Web3 panels to many industries around the globe. She shares a unique style and balance of proven women leadership in Web3 and corporate wisdom across industries. With the mind of a rock star, the heart of an artist, and the generosity of an avid volunteer, Naama’s programs inspire and educate as a professional speaker and author.

Her latest NFT speaking events include:
Metanoise Denver - 2-morning meditation sessions (July 2022)
NAHU Annual Convention Austin Marriot – Web3-Blockchain-NFT (Moderate a panel June 2022)
NFT. NYC @theedition – Lead 20 minutes of morning meditation and on the Wellness Panel (June 2022)

NFT artist, collector, Curator, and Founder/CEO of Paz Holding, Inc. dba RightPlan.com. A lifelong yogi, Primordial Sound Meditation coach Naama O. Pozniak brings Web3 panels to many industries around the globe. She shares a unique style and balance... Show more

Eriol Fox

Eriol Fox

Eriol has been working as a designer for 10+ years working in for-profits and then NGO's and open-source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace-building and crisis response technology. Eriol now works at Superbloom design, research, open-source and technology projects.

Eriol is a part-time funded PhD researcher at Newcastle University's Open Lab looking at how designers participate in humanitarian and human rights focussed open-source software projects.

They are also part of the core teams at Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/) and Human Rights Centred Design working group (https://hrcd.pubpub.org/) and Sustain UX & Design working group (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/design-and-ux/) and help hosts podcast about open source and design (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/)

Eriol is a non-binary, queer person who uses they/them pronouns.

Eriol has been working as a designer for 10+ years working in for-profits and then NGO's and open-source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace-building and crisis response technology. Eriol now works... Show more

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