Consumer Goods & Services

Professionals focused on products and services for personal use, working in sectors like retail, customer care, and product development

Dana Weaver

Dana Weaver

Dana Weaver is a leadership and workforce solutions consultant, coach, and speaker who works with healthcare and aging services executives, to improve their leadership around workforce. Dana focuses on driving retention, landing quality employees and developing leaders to maximize unparalleled service and profit in your organization – even if it feels like a pipe dream today.

With over 25 years in the senior living space, Dana is a proven leader who has trained hundreds of individuals on leadership and workforce solutions.

Her most recent role was focused on workforce and leadership at LeadingAge Kansas, an association of nonprofit aging services providers in Kansas. She was an integral part of creating the Center for Leadership.

She is a former nursing home administrator and is passionate about solving workforce problems in this space to create a sustainable future for anyone who may need these services in the future.

She received her bachelor’s degree in business management from Kansas State University and a Masters in nonprofit administration from MidAmerica Nazarene University.

She lives in Topeka, Kansas with her husband, two girls, and two fur babies.

Dana Weaver is a leadership and workforce solutions consultant, coach, and speaker who works with healthcare and aging services executives, to improve their leadership around workforce. Dana focuses on driving retention, landing quality employees and... Show more

Dana Randall

Dana Randall

Digital Transformation & Accessibility Expert

With over 23 years of expertise in product and brand design, Dana has a stellar reputation for applying forward-thinking transformation to digital solutions, particularly in the accessibility space. From deftly steering design, development, and execution to anticipating customer needs, she excels at navigating brands through incorporating innovation and a11y tools into their processes.

She has spoken at MIT, Wharton, CES, Shoptalk, Ad Week and many other high profile events globally.

In the earlier part of her career she was focused on digital creative direction and innovation. She won many awards and received global recognition for her work for some of the largest global retail brands. While always committed to inclusive design principals and human-centered designed, life took a sudden unexpected turn which forever changed her focus and mission as a designer.

In March of 2021 she became suddenly physically disabled due to a rare neurological condition triggered by a virus. In a flash her vision, hearing, balance & mobility and cognitive function was forever changed. She also learned late in life that she was neurodivergent, a life-changing revelation.

Dana's work includes speaking on the topics of disability inclusion and invisible disability awareness, she mentors designers, hosts workshops and trainings.

Digital Transformation & Accessibility Expert With over 23 years of expertise in product and brand design, Dana has a stellar reputation for applying forward-thinking transformation to digital solutions, particularly in the accessibility space. Fr... Show more

Zack Ritchie

Zack Ritchie

Zack Ritchie is a creative with a design and advertising background who has worked with brands such as Red Bull, Martini, and Campari. He's the founder of CactiCrew and co-founder of NFT Club. Ritchie's passion project is creating satire cartoon characters that capture his homeland Malta, with a focus on a cactus character called Beppe. This has led him to the web3 space where he has collaborated with key communities like Deadfellaz, Lirona’s Boiz, Des Lucrece, KidEight, Alphadogggs, 3landers, Jake the Degen and world-renowned fashion designers Charles & Ron. His latest project is creating a unique 1/1 cacti as an NFT daily for 300+days.

Zack Ritchie is a creative with a design and advertising background who has worked with brands such as Red Bull, Martini, and Campari. He's the founder of CactiCrew and co-founder of NFT Club. Ritchie's passion project is creating satire cartoon char... Show more

Scott Cullather

Scott Cullather

Scott Cullather is the President and Chief Executive Officer of [INVNT GROUP] ®, THE GLOBAL BRANDSTORY PROJECT™ operating across nine offices, in six countries and four continents.

For over 30 years Scott has led diverse teams driving innovative strategy, design, production, and executing thousands of large-scale live, virtual, and hybrid B2B and B2C brand experiences, in over 40 countries.

The GROUP consists of modern brand strategy firm, Folk Hero; creative-led culture consultancy, Meaning; production studio & creative agency, HEVE; events for colleges and universities, INVNT Higher Ed; digital innovation division, INVNT.ATOM; the original live brand storytelling agency, INVNT; and Hypnogram, the creative multimedia studio designing experiences that span physical and digital worlds.

Scott Cullather is the President and Chief Executive Officer of [INVNT GROUP] ®, THE GLOBAL BRANDSTORY PROJECT™ operating across nine offices, in six countries and four continents. For over 30 years Scott has led diverse teams driving innovative ... Show more

Lee Quessenberry

Lee Quessenberry

I am a professional and motivated web developer, community builder, and media producer looking to grow and build wonderful multimedia projects, interactive web experience, and develop new methods for problem-solving, data integration, and social interaction on the internet.

I love what I do and have a passion for web development.

I am a professional and motivated web developer, community builder, and media producer looking to grow and build wonderful multimedia projects, interactive web experience, and develop new methods for problem-solving, data integration, and social inte... Show more

Steven Martin

Steven Martin

Dr. Steve Martin is an industry-leading agile expert, consultant, coach, trainer (CST, CAL Educator), and facilitator with over 25 years of experience in multiple industries in companies from startups to the Fortune 500. Steve specializes in working with senior leadership (CxOs) and management teams, iterating on transformation strategies, organization design, and reengineering business processes using agile and lean startup principles. Steve is also an expert team coach, helping teams and organizations define and deliver amazing products and services to their customers.

Steve has served on several non-profit boards, including as COO of Agile Austin, as well as multiple board roles, including role of President, with the PMI Massachusetts Bay Chapter in Boston.

Lastly, Steve is also an Adjunct Professor at Franklin University in the Doctorate of Business Administration program.

Dr. Steve Martin is an industry-leading agile expert, consultant, coach, trainer (CST, CAL Educator), and facilitator with over 25 years of experience in multiple industries in companies from startups to the Fortune 500. Steve specializes in working ... Show more

Brian Bell

Brian Bell

Open Source and Open Standard Evangelist

Open Source and Open Standard Evangelist Show more

Denis Makogon

Denis Makogon

Software enthusiast, a fan of designing and developing platform and software as a service application for various cloud infrastructures. He’s a principal software developer, developer advocate at Oracle, concentrating on product development along with bringing well-designed and production-ready integration with cloud solutions, a contributor to various open-source projects, cloud-related technologies along with having fun with IoT devices and photography.
Blogger, photographer, traveler. Denis is a regular attendee and speaker at OpenStack summits (Atlanta, Austin, Paris, Barcelona, Boston) and PyCons (Hong Kong, Singapore, Italy), PyLondinium, Decompile.De. Co-author of OpenStack Application development, OpenStack Trove Essentials.

Software enthusiast, a fan of designing and developing platform and software as a service application for various cloud infrastructures. He’s a principal software developer, developer advocate at Oracle, concentrating on product development along wit... Show more

Benjamin Dyer

Benjamin Dyer

Community leader and supporter, educating NFT creators on developing meaningful content to support their brands.
Writer behind the character stories and series "Inxpression", a unique NFT collection bringing the journey of self-expression and acceptance to your fingertips.
My goal is to bring local business's access to NFT creators in collaboration to grow their online presence and reward active community members.

Community leader and supporter, educating NFT creators on developing meaningful content to support their brands. Writer behind the character stories and series "Inxpression", a unique NFT collection bringing the journey of self-expression and accep... Show more

Manik Rao

Manik Rao

– Cyber Security consulting to global clients with Secure by design - Use case Engineering for Transformation with SASE, ZTNA, Cloud Security, threat detection response with Infra Security (InfraSec, EDR, SIEM, SOAR, Threat Intel) Automation Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. - Analytics, Situational-Awareness and Intelligence - Observables, Context and IOCs - Events and Flows

– Cyber Security consulting to global clients with Secure by design - Use case Engineering for Transformation with SASE, ZTNA, Cloud Security, threat detection response with Infra Security (InfraSec, EDR, SIEM, SOAR, Threat Intel) Automation Tactics,... Show more

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