Media & Information

Esteemed specialists working in the fields of media education, digital media, multimedia and radio services

Conor McNicholas

Conor McNicholas

Conor is a multi-award-winning strategist and creative. He served as Editor of legendary music magazine NME for seven years in the 00’s where he took the brand multi-platform by launching TV, radio, touring and merchandising properties, and even hosted the NME Awards USA in LA.
He went on to be Editor of TopGear Magazine at the BBC, served on the board at Omnicom content agency Redwood and was founder and CEO of digital agency AllTogetherNow in WPP. He has produced content solutions for Adidas, Barclays, Virgin Media, The National Lottery, Argos and Lexus among many others.
He now works as a digital consultant with clients including E.ON, Compare The Market and Land Rover. Recently he’s jumped into the world of NFTs and Web3 through the B-Sides NFT animation project.

Conor is a multi-award-winning strategist and creative. He served as Editor of legendary music magazine NME for seven years in the 00’s where he took the brand multi-platform by launching TV, radio, touring and merchandising properties, and even host... Show more

Adam Culpepper

Adam Culpepper

UI Frontend Web Dev @ Univer.se, author, speaker, community organizer, kayaker, WebPerf, a11y, 11ty, biohacker + body mod enthusiast

UI Frontend Web Dev @ Univer.se, author, speaker, community organizer, kayaker, WebPerf, a11y, 11ty, biohacker + body mod enthusiast Show more

Alfredo Cramerotti

Alfredo Cramerotti

Alfredo Cramerotti
Director, Mostyn; co-Director, IAM; Adviser, British Council Acquisition Committee & UK Government Art Collection. He curated 4 national pavilions and collateral events at the Venice Biennale, EXPO Film & Video in Chicago, and the biennials Sequences VII and Manifesta 8. He is President of IKT, Board Member of AICA and ICOM UK.

Auronda Scalera
Co-Director, AIM; curator and consultant for contemporary & digital art based London-Dubai. She works with major private art collections, museums, bank foundations and investment funds – advising on their acquisition and consignment strategies, and managing their collections. Business partners include Venice Art Biennale, Sotheby’s, Macro Museum Rome, Manifesta, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Royal Photographic Society, Paris Photo.

Alfredo Cramerotti Director, Mostyn; co-Director, IAM; Adviser, British Council Acquisition Committee & UK Government Art Collection. He curated 4 national pavilions and collateral events at the Venice Biennale, EXPO Film & Video in Chicago, and the... Show more

Rafa Sansores Majul

Rafa Sansores Majul

Rafael is a speaker and content creator with extensive experience in professional development, content marketing and social media, named this 2022 as a LinkedIn Top Voice. Editor-in-Chief at INSPIRAS magazine of lifestyle.

Rafael is a speaker and content creator with extensive experience in professional development, content marketing and social media, named this 2022 as a LinkedIn Top Voice. Editor-in-Chief at INSPIRAS magazine of lifestyle. Show more

Hannah Springett

Hannah Springett

Hannah Springett is a new founder, creative director, senior product designer, lecturer and storyteller all packaged into one. Her work across Vogue & Conde Nast brands in interactive storytelling has generated 7 figure revenues and surged user engagement metrics online, all using no code platforms. Hannah and her agile team continue to chase new functionality and exciting new methods to deliver beautifully dynamic, editorial content to global audiences.

Hannah Springett is a new founder, creative director, senior product designer, lecturer and storyteller all packaged into one. Her work across Vogue & Conde Nast brands in interactive storytelling has generated 7 figure revenues and surged user engag... Show more

Dr. Vaneeta Aggarwal

Dr. Vaneeta Aggarwal

A serial entrepreneur,Producer of broadcast bizemag media, Publisher of monthly global digital magazine (Business Strategy eMagazine), Education collaboration Advisor, Coach, Speaker, Author, Founder of a skill academy, Workplace Bullying Online Campaign.
I started my career at Delhi University (India's most coveted Central University) as Assistant Professor (Physics ) and resigned as Associate Professor after more than 2 decades of an enriching experience and awards.
I was awarded with recognition as Women Entrepreneur of 2020 by a leading magazine of India.
My company L'strategyq Advisors is leading Higher Education Advisory firm (IN) creating collaboration opportunities among International Universities and Institutes.
I am producing a broadcast media - "bizemag" which publishes a monthly digital corporate magazine, produces business podcasts and webcasts, hosting several corporate and educational conferences.
My book on science fiction ,"The Missing Bot" is available on Kindle, Amazon, Goodreads.
I am a working mom, with two loving and caring sons.
I care and support cause of gender equality, sustainable education and prevention of bullying at workplace.

A serial entrepreneur,Producer of broadcast bizemag media, Publisher of monthly global digital magazine (Business Strategy eMagazine), Education collaboration Advisor, Coach, Speaker, Author, Founder of a skill academy, Workplace Bullying Online Cam... Show more

Michel Ferreira

Michel Ferreira

Michel Ferreira is a Brazilian designer living in Sydney, Australia where he works full-time as an Experience Design Manager at Atlassian, building the future of world-class Enterprise products like Jira. Previously worked at Shopify in Canada and Booking.com in the Netherlands. Michel is also the host of LatinXs Who Design and By us not biased podcasts.

As a writer and public speaker, Michel has delivered numerous presentations to audiences around the world to introduce new design ideas and examine best practices in A/B testing. He's also written articles for Net Magazine and company blogs such as: Would you like fries with that? For Booking.com and 11 Lessons from the NBA Bubble for your newly remote team for Atlassian.

Michel Ferreira is a Brazilian designer living in Sydney, Australia where he works full-time as an Experience Design Manager at Atlassian, building the future of world-class Enterprise products like Jira. Previously worked at Shopify in Canada and Bo... Show more

Leena Haque

Leena Haque

Leena is currently a Senior UX Designer and also Neurodiversity Lead for the BBC initiative called BBC Cape (Creating A Positive Environment) aimed at researching interactive design through the lens of cognition and neurodiversity. Autism & ADHD are Leena’s super power. She is passionate about raising awareness around the subject Neurodiversity and promoting different thinking styles. She has also developed training workshops, produced some short films and written various guest blogs for different online publications. In her spare time, she is a full time geek.

Leena is currently a Senior UX Designer and also Neurodiversity Lead for the BBC initiative called BBC Cape (Creating A Positive Environment) aimed at researching interactive design through the lens of cognition and neurodiversity. Autism & ADHD are ... Show more

Ritzie Williams

Ritzie Williams

I'm a multidisciplinary designer specializing in UX design but experienced in graphic design, business, marketing, and development. I've worked at large companies, startups, and design agencies to create award winning products.

I'm a multidisciplinary designer specializing in UX design but experienced in graphic design, business, marketing, and development. I've worked at large companies, startups, and design agencies to create award winning products. Show more

Justine Benoit

Justine Benoit

Justine Benoit is a UX/UI Designer in Arlington, Virginia. She was born and raised in the Philippines, and moved to Last Vegas, Nevada for college, where she earned a BS in Entertainment Engineering and Design from the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV).

Justine started her career as an Automation Technician at Cirque du Soleil. She later moved to Texas, where she worked as a CAD drafter at a civil engineering firm.

She has since worked as a UX professional for both a large international company, as well as a smaller government contractor. She is UX Certified by the Nielsen Norman Group.

Justine Benoit is a UX/UI Designer in Arlington, Virginia. She was born and raised in the Philippines, and moved to Last Vegas, Nevada for college, where she earned a BS in Entertainment Engineering and Design from the University of Nevada Las Vegas ... Show more

Bailey Lewis

Bailey Lewis

As director of content strategy at user experience consulting firm truematter, Bailey oversees the content and writing initiatives for all UX projects. Her work is informed by researching and testing digital products with real users. She works with regional, national, and Fortune 500 clients on UX and content strategy projects, from definition through implementation.

A writer her entire career, Bailey advocates for straightforward, user-centric web content with the right words in the right place doing the right job. She regularly writes, speaks, and teaches about content strategy, writing for the web, usability, user experience strategy, user research, and user testing.

You can find UX articles by Bailey at blog.truematter.com.

As director of content strategy at user experience consulting firm truematter, Bailey oversees the content and writing initiatives for all UX projects. Her work is informed by researching and testing digital products with real users. She works with r... Show more

Gennaro Avolio

Gennaro Avolio

Gennaro has been at Pac-12 for the past two years and has been working in Drupal since D6. At the Pac-12 he leads both front and back-end work as well as complex microservice integrations–all orchestrated through our Drupal platform. His experience has primarily been in large media companies, with a focus on television networks.

Gennaro has been at Pac-12 for the past two years and has been working in Drupal since D6. At the Pac-12 he leads both front and back-end work as well as complex microservice integrations–all orchestrated through our Drupal platform. His experience h... Show more

Yashar Hoang

Yashar Hoang

Yashar is a multi disciplinary creative based out of Toronto, Canada. A self-taught designer who through sheer will, creativity, tears and a healthy dose of luck, managed to make what he thought was just a hobby into a career.

Yashar is a business owner with a full service agency helping businesses and individuals with designs, print production, apparel production, and multimedia production. He currently hosts the YDZ flagship podcast, Trà Time, where he discusses and shares the stories of Asian North Americans and their journey and struggles from the past to their present day.

In his spare time, he enjoys ranking in Valorant, streaming a variety of content on Twitch, and moderates multiple Discord and Twitch communities.

Yashar is a multi disciplinary creative based out of Toronto, Canada. A self-taught designer who through sheer will, creativity, tears and a healthy dose of luck, managed to make what he thought was just a hobby into a career. Yashar is a busines... Show more

David Yarde

David Yarde

David Yarde is an award winning multi-disciplinary creative with a passion for creating more than just pretty pixels on a screen. He specializes in User Experience Design and Branding and has spent over 16 years working with various brands, teams and companies uncover problems and implement solutions.

David Yarde is the co-founder of Sevenality, a Branding firm that specializes in design, and user experience with the aim of building better communities by helping build better brands.

When David isn’t working on Sevenality or volunteering, he’s busy being Batman and spending time with his family.

David Yarde is an award winning multi-disciplinary creative with a passion for creating more than just pretty pixels on a screen. He specializes in User Experience Design and Branding and has spent over 16 years working with various brands, teams and... Show more

Jon Ballard

Jon Ballard

Jon Ballard is responsible for day-to-day operations, including finance, sales, marketing and human resources. Ballard has been an entrepreneur for more than 22 years, founding several successful start-ups. He is a thought leader in the online marketing industry who regularly presents at conferences and seminars around the country.

Jon Ballard is responsible for day-to-day operations, including finance, sales, marketing and human resources. Ballard has been an entrepreneur for more than 22 years, founding several successful start-ups. He is a thought leader in the online market... Show more

Robert Collings

Robert Collings

Robert Collings is a marketing director at Tiny, the company sponsoring the open source WYSIWYG editor project TinyMCE. He's presently responsible for Tiny's partnership, channel and co-marketing programs. Previously, he delivered Tiny's brand, content, email, and marketing operations functions. A former manager of rock bands, and founder of Australia's leading publishing service business, he now calls enterprise B2B software and California home.

Robert Collings is a marketing director at Tiny, the company sponsoring the open source WYSIWYG editor project TinyMCE. He's presently responsible for Tiny's partnership, channel and co-marketing programs. Previously, he delivered Tiny's brand, conte... Show more

Ahmed Khalifa

Ahmed Khalifa

Ahmed Khalifa is an experienced freelance WordPress SEO consultant, where he works with businesses to grow the visibility and engagement of their WordPress sites.

With over 10 years experience in the industry, Ahmed has worked across various industries; from a small local retailer to a publishing company to a national high-street national retailer. Ahmed is also part of the WordPress community and contributes by co-organising the local meetup in Edinburgh and as a lead organiser of WordCamp Edinburgh.

Ahmed is also deaf/hard of hearing, have been since birth and is gradually experiencing a decline in his hearing. Combining his professional and personal experiences have allowed him to understand how important it is for everyone to have access to content and how it can benefits the content creator too. While most people assume that captions can benefit the deaf and hard of hearing, it can also benefit more people than you think and plays a great part in improving many users' experience.

As well as running his consultancy business at https://iamahmedkhalifa.com, Ahmed also create blogs and podcasts about celebrating the d/Deaf culture at https://hearmeoutcc.com.

Ahmed Khalifa is an experienced freelance WordPress SEO consultant, where he works with businesses to grow the visibility and engagement of their WordPress sites. With over 10 years experience in the industry, Ahmed has worked across various indus... Show more

Peter Salib

Peter Salib

Peter Salib is a contributing writer at Thrive Global, Grit Daily, and Influencive. He has been going to CES in Las Vegas consecutively for the past 7 years since the age of 21 and is an avid attendee of events nationwide.

Having attended hundreds of events, he is now a co-founder of Event Integrity, the first integrity-based, vetted marketplace for event professionals. He also frequently works with startups to consult and advise on media, strategy, events, and fundraising.

Salib was an early guest on the Gadget Flow podcast and his dog, Scruffy, was featured on the Today Show with Kathy Lee & Hoda and was dubbed "Scruffy the Wonder Dog."

Peter Salib is a contributing writer at Thrive Global, Grit Daily, and Influencive. He has been going to CES in Las Vegas consecutively for the past 7 years since the age of 21 and is an avid attendee of events nationwide. Having attended hundred... Show more

Augusto Santos

Augusto Santos

Augusto Santos began his professional life as a COBOL developer in 1985 and in 1990 started the 1st of 6 tech companies. Augusto graduated in Marketing Management and works in marketing consulting since 2004, worked in marketing and sales for 10 yrs. in two multinational companies. Augusto is the leader of fintech.Portugal since 2015 with the mission to empower Portuguese Fintech Ecosystem. Augusto is also the publisher of The Portuguese Fintech Guide.

Augusto Santos began his professional life as a COBOL developer in 1985 and in 1990 started the 1st of 6 tech companies. Augusto graduated in Marketing Management and works in marketing consulting since 2004, worked in marketing and sales for 10 yrs.... Show more

Warren Whitlock

Warren Whitlock

Advisor to Blockchain, AI, Emerging Tech, and E-commerce companies. Keynote Speaker, IBM Futurist,, Influence Architect at TopLine Revenues. Digital Marketing & Growth Consultant, achieving real-world business goals from digital marketing. Host of Distributed Conversations Founder and CEO Stirling Corp. Publisher of Free-ebooks.net, BestSellerAuthors, and other publications. Top 10 Social Media Influencer, Top 20 Blockchain influencer, Top 100 Tech Influencer, Top 50 Martech Influencer
warren@warrenwhitlock.com

Advisor to Blockchain, AI, Emerging Tech, and E-commerce companies. Keynote Speaker, IBM Futurist,, Influence Architect at TopLine Revenues. Digital Marketing & Growth Consultant, achieving real-world business goals from digital marketing. Host of Di... Show more

Silke Hahn ✨

Silke Hahn ✨

Hi! I am part of the Advisory Board of the WeAreDevelopers World Congress. Since 2020, I support the conference in various roles, e.g. coverage as a journalist and stage performance as a moderator, hosting topic stages, previously for my employer Heise.de (Germany's biggest news outlet on Tech & IT).

Emerging technologies, the developer ecosystem, programming languages, Open Source, GovTech and digitization are my field of interest — however, since 2019 my focus is on AI/ ML and its disruptive potential. I broke the news on upcoming GPT-4.

Hi! I am part of the Advisory Board of the WeAreDevelopers World Congress. Since 2020, I support the conference in various roles, e.g. coverage as a journalist and stage performance as a moderator, hosting topic stages, previously for my employer Hei... Show more

Jason Dinkelmann

Jason Dinkelmann

I have much experience in many things

I have much experience in many things Show more

Adryenn Ashley

Adryenn Ashley

Adryenn Ashley is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and ranked the #1 Woman in Blockchain Influencer for 2002. As a Startup Advisor her advice is sought after, whether for her abilities to viralize a global conversation, or increase a company's revenue while streamling costs. Her expertise ranges everywhere from breaking into banks (security testing in the 1990's), to being one of the first females in AI in the 2000's, giving Ashley decades of experience in navigating the bleeding edge of what's next. Having immersed herself in blockchain full time since 2012, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality, Ashley's newest disrupt, the globally broadcast talk show Minting the Future, was inspired the content for her newest book, Minting the Future (Fall 2023).

In addition to being a tech entrepreneur, Ashley is a best-selling author and award-winning filmmaker. In 2015, she skillfully turned fan engagement into #SocialTV profits with CrowdedTV, the world's first crowdfunding platform for broadcast television, soon to be rebooted as a DAO. Going a step further than just raising funds, CrowdedTV also recruited sponsorship and secured distribution. Using the CrowdedTV platform, Ashley's first show, Wake Up!, went from idea to national broadcast television in under four months, and is in pre-production for a second season, as well as development for their first 360 sitcom, and a crypto-centric comedy news show.

Adryenn Ashley is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and ranked the #1 Woman in Blockchain Influencer for 2002. As a Startup Advisor her advice is sought after, whether for her abilities to viralize a global conversation, or increase a company's revenue... Show more

Luca Ingianni

Luca Ingianni

Luca Ingianni is an experienced consultant, trainer and engineer, and has created several training materials in the DevOps space.

During his earlier career as a consulting engineer, he observed many teams and their way of working.
This experience made him increasingly aware of the importance of interpersonal communication in the creation of great products.

Eventually he discovered the world of DevOps, which he considers human first, technological second.

Luca has created multiple courses, some of which are to be used worldwide.

He is active in the DevOps community in many forms: speaking at conferences and meetups, co-authoring DevOps
books, appearing on multiple podcasts as well as co-hosting a German-language DevOps podcast, and blogging more than he should.

Luca Ingianni is an experienced consultant, trainer and engineer, and has created several training materials in the DevOps space. During his earlier career as a consulting engineer, he observed many teams and their way of working. This experience... Show more

Crispin Bailey

Crispin Bailey

Crispin Bailey, RGD, is Kalamuna’s Director of Design & UX, and a seasoned digital strategy expert and web accessibility champion. He actively coordinates design and technical efforts throughout discovery and in key times during implementation, building the bridge between research, design, and development.

Crispin Bailey, RGD, is Kalamuna’s Director of Design & UX, and a seasoned digital strategy expert and web accessibility champion. He actively coordinates design and technical efforts throughout discovery and in key times during implementation, build... Show more

Nicole Smith

Nicole Smith

I am currently an Executive Producer at a global video game studio, overseeing all creative and development goals for new games around the world for millions of players. For nearly fifteen years, I’ve led digital transformations of small to fortune 100 teams embracing iterative delivery between development, design, and business through design thinking and sketch-collaboration. With over half my tech career in video games, I’ve also held numerous product development roles such as team coach, product owner, product manager, delivery manager, enterprise business agility coach, and more, continually challenging the old way of “how we do things” to better include neuro-divergent and emerging DEI needs on a daily basis.

I am currently an Executive Producer at a global video game studio, overseeing all creative and development goals for new games around the world for millions of players. For nearly fifteen years, I’ve led digital transformations of small to fortune 1... Show more

Donna Edwards

Donna Edwards

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Applications Technology Strategist, MCT, 10 Year Microsoft MVP award recipient (2009 - 2019). Experienced strategist, mentor and coach improving the readiness and growth of individuals, teams, and organizations.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Applications Technology Strategist, MCT, 10 Year Microsoft MVP award recipient (2009 - 2019). Experienced strategist, mentor and coach improving the readiness and growth of individuals, teams, and organizations. Show more

Carly Slater

Carly Slater

Carly Slater (she/her) is a culture and experience producer, "white hat social engineer" and public speaker. She has created learning, innovation, and culture programs for enterprise orgs and small businesses alike, most recently leading innovation, learning, and change management programs for 80,000 employees in the Experiences + Devices division of Microsoft. Carly speaks at companies and conferences around the world on a variety of topics that all have one thing in common: creating a space for people to be the greatest version of themselves.

Carly Slater (she/her) is a culture and experience producer, "white hat social engineer" and public speaker. She has created learning, innovation, and culture programs for enterprise orgs and small businesses alike, most recently leading innovation, ... Show more

Sina Rezaei

Sina Rezaei

Hello there! My name is Sina, and I’m a digital marketing, instructor, YouTuber, and influencer with over five years of experience in the field.

Hello there! My name is Sina, and I’m a digital marketing, instructor, YouTuber, and influencer with over five years of experience in the field. Show more

Tanya Lindsay

Tanya Lindsay

Tanya is passionate about the potential of blockchain technology to provide micro-earning opportunities in gaming and other industries. She is Co-Founder of CryptoMibs, an arcade-style gaming platform based on NFT marbles, running on both Ethereum and Polygon. Tanya is also Co-Founder of a successful consulting business in the Systems Integrations space that gives her unique insights into both centralized and decentralized worlds.

Tanya is passionate about the potential of blockchain technology to provide micro-earning opportunities in gaming and other industries. She is Co-Founder of CryptoMibs, an arcade-style gaming platform based on NFT marbles, running on both Ethereum an... Show more

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