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A company founder, innovator, and sustainability expert with over 25 years' experience in a variety of industries including medical technology, media, consumer products, and environmental sustainability. Extensive U.S. and global network in the environmental community. Specialties include strategy, customer research and positioning, strategic partners, marketing, communications and ESG benchmarking. Kate Sackman founded The Zenovation Group after decades of working on environmental and social challenges, including as founder of a medical software company, and an environmental media alliance, and as U.S. director of the largest plant conservation network in the world. More recently, as the director of an accelerator program for startup companies, she helped hundreds of entrepreneurs in various industries design and launch their new companies and build their social ventures. “Working with so many dedicated CEOs,” Kate says, “I have seen that amazing insights can emerge when people are willing to be open. Innovation flourishes when conversations are  forward-looking, collaborative, and experimental.” “Zen reminds us that ‘in the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few’, a transformational philosophy that applies equally to life and innovation. By opening ourselves to thoughtful exploration and persistence, together we can change the world.”

I'm a Google certified YouTube Channel Growth trainer and the CEO and founder of Zazoo Me™. We coach business owners, professionals and creatives on how to boost your business income, influence and impact with YouTube. In business, it’s important to do the right thing at the right time… and there's no better time than today to use video to market your business. Let’s face it. A lot can happen in an internet second. YouTube is still the Wild West with plenty of room for you to stake your claim. There’s nowhere else on earth that you can build a huge presence for free -and on the exact same platform with every major company! Today is the right day to establish your brand with video. We teach you how to use YouTube for branding, messaging and storytelling that’s authentic to you. Our targeted programs work with you to share your message, build your brand, and achieve your vision to succeed online and in life. Because in this day and age, that’s the only way to cut through the noise of millions of videos and actually be seen. That’s how you become an online success. It's doable today, so let's get started! https://www.sheribarbera.com/youtube-bootcamp-services/ "Everyone has the potential to be a visionary for themselves and others. Sometimes, all you need is to be pointed in the right direction with laser-focused positivity and a 'Bootcamp boost' to realize your potential." – Sheri Google Certified: YouTube Channel Growth Expert

Ms. Howard is an entrepreneurial, Strategic Information Management Professional and Empowerment Mindset Coach with extensive experience. Collaborative communicator continually focused on building relationships and promoting synergy across business units to drive positive change. Ms. Howard quickly and accurately understands the need to lead and empower women to develop the confidence, clarity, and behaviors necessary to achieve their professional and personal objectives. Voices of Encouragement strives to encourage women. Our faith-based organization provides dynamic empowerment coaching to women of all ages giving them the essential tools needed to thrive as valued and empowered Godly women. We work on many exciting initiatives to improve the lives of others and are very proud of the work we do. Learn about our exciting initiatives and what we are working on every day in order to promote change.

Experienced new technology innovator, product manager and product marketeer. Proficient at identifying market trends and customer needs, segmenting customers, developing new business ideas to address their needs, incubating, and marketing them. Proven ability to step into any situation and any technology, distinguish signal from noise, and create a vision with clear actionable steps to success and lead teams to execute to completion. Public speaker with effective influencing skills that improves the team morale and invokes a strong following of people who go out of their way to help the business and team succeed. Diverse experience spans start-ups to large companies, enterprises to service providers, products to managed services, hardware to software, R&D to manufacturing, strategy to operations and hyper growth to mature markets. This diversity enables a rare blend of strategic thinking, technical expertise, and operational experience to straddle both big picture and execution simultaneously. Infectious get it done attitude that leaves no stone unturned, finds creative means to accomplish the goal despite obstacles. Disruptive thinker who asks the right questions to diagnose issues and implement solutions that drastically improve productivity and enable new business opportunities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specialities: Demonstrated expertise in managed services, cloud, virtualization, SDN, NFV, and Security. Professional and Technical services Data Center, cloud infrastructure services Network management, SaaS, Cloud Experienced in Product Marketing, Product Management, Sales Enablement, Sales Operations, Launch management, Pre-sales business development, Go To Market strategies, and International Business for Service Provider, Enterprise and Commercial segments.

My career has been focused on helping people and businesses be more successful. I hold a PhD in Biology and I use it in a non-traditional sense: I teach people how to resolve individual and organizational pain points by working with their own biologically driven behavior. In my workshops, I highlight these topics: • Understanding biologically driven behaviors and helping them work for you, not against you • Building cooperation, and stimulating creativity and innovation by understanding the subconscious stories that regulate these processes at a neurological level • Optimizing the work environment to allow the greatest potential from all employees I help individuals and organizations overcome biological blind spots in order to optimize performance. I am passionate about the material I share and about communicating with and connecting people to create a healthier living space. icueity™ provides you with continuous, valuable, anonymous feedback from people you trust, giving you the data that confirms or contradicts what you believe to be true about yourself. From industry knowledge, to soft skills, you can test your self awareness three traits at a time. After rating yourself on our simple 1-10 sliding scale, your poll is dripped out randomly to your selected contacts over the course of seven days. These contacts will be prompted to complete your poll, scoring you on the same traits and with the same scale you used to rate yourself. Each time a contact gives you feedback you’ll be able to see how their anonymous score ranks against your own self rating.

Jeenie is a mobile platform that connects you to a video or audio call with live, interpreter for on-demand language assistance 24/7. Watch their recent television interview on Yahoo! Finance. Offering the latest in mobile video interpreting (MoVI), Jeenie is focusing on the healthcare space to help healthcare providers eliminate language barriers, reduce risk and improve patient outcomes.  Caregivers select the language they need (including American Sign Language), tap a button, and a live interpreter appears on screen to support conversations with non-English-speaking and Deaf patients …in face-to-face appointments or for Telehealth consultations. What's Innovative About Jeenie’s Solution? Jeenie is the first gig-economy marketplace in its space disrupting the antiquated language services industry built on old-school call centers and capital-intensive infrastructure. Their asset-less model and elegant technology deliver better and faster virtual interpreting at the lowest prices in the industry.

Ben Gabler is evidence that when you couple a passion for team-building with an entrepreneurial spirit, you can build technologies that simplify daily tasks, improving quality of life. With a proven record growing technology businesses, Gabler has expanded market share for major global Web hosting brands and brought technology startups from initial idea to success. Ben launched the Web hosting company Host Nine in 2006. Four years later, HostGator bought HostNine and appointed Gabler as their Chief Operating Officer. Appointed as the Senior Product Manager of Hosting at GoDaddy in 2013, Ben managed close to $500 million in product revenue, where he implemented a comprehensive redesign and relaunch of all hosting products in just over four months. In 2014, Gabler developed EasyRent.com, the first-ever all-in-one property management platform. By combining product vision with technical acumen, Ben attracted more than 12,000 users in only five months. To expand his efforts, Gabler took on a new role in late-2015: Chief Executive Officer at customer service software company Help.com. At Help.com, Ben’s mission is to build the world’s most robust toolset for online customer support. During 13+ years of business experience, he became increasingly aware that online service tools are essential and customer service is often a key differentiator. Wanting to best meet the needs of growing businesses, Gabler built a world-class customer service toolset so that his customers could provide world-class customer service. Upon completion of the Help.com Platform, Gabler joined Lance Crosby and team at StackPath as Chief Product Officer. Gabler drove the Product & Software Engineering efforts around consolidating all of the StackPath acquisitions and most notably launched the world's first true Edge Computing platform.

Building upon more than three decades of interdisciplinary research, teaching, entrepreneurship, consulting, public speaking and writing, in late 2015 I embarked on a mission to use everything I have learned to revolutionize the way people think about Diversity & Inclusion, and what they do about it. Since that time, I have taken a three-pronged approach that combines a software startup (Aleria) to help corporations understand how being more inclusive drives greater performance and employee satisfaction, a non-profit (ARC) that leverages scientific research to drive greater inclusion and equality across many societal issues, and an academic research center (QSDI) that conducts core D&I research using our unique, human-centric computer simulations. Outside of these three organizations, I am also co-organizer of the annual Diversity & Inclusion Research Conference and I write about D&I on Forbes.com.

Lou is an energetic, humorous and inspirational speaker, business development strategist and performance mentor. For over 25 years he has delivered winning tactics that have increased results of leading performers from companies all over the world. He is the CEO of THRIVE, a company focused on helping brands become even more amazing through the power of connecting. When he isn't speaking or working on his top-rated Thrive LOUD podcast, he is watching his kids grow up too fast, obsessing over how bad his sports teams are, listening to country music…and playing some ‘not-so-great’ golf. If you or your organization are trying to find the right way to make the connections essential to achieve your business goals, Lou Diamond is the man to help you make it happen.

"There is nothing greater in life than empowering others to succeed. Artificial Intelligence is my tool of choice to help people achieve their personal aspirations." Francesco Rulli, Founder, and CEO have leveraged a life-long interest in entrepreneurship, media, fashion, and technology. Previous enterprises include the John Malkovich fashion line, and Film Annex, an online film distribution company. The company promoted independent films with revenues generated through a custom ad server and player. The site hosted 300k independent films that reached up to 40 million viewers per month. Other business ventures soon followed. BitLanders, a social media platform with 1 million registered users. Now an industry leader in gamification, BitLanders has several pending patents, including the content ranking system Buzz Score, and BitMiles, a rewarding system inspired by the Medici family’s double ledger accounting system. Francesco is a board member of the GMRF, an organization which aids children who have lost the use of limbs or eyes or have been severely burned, injured due to war, natural disaster or illness. Francesco’s philanthropic efforts extend to Afghanistan, where he sponsored the construction of 13 classrooms, providing young women with the tools and opportunities of digital citizenship. This project led to the introduction of Bitcoin payments in 2013. Francesco has since cast his eye on Dubai, a city committed to becoming a leader in artificial intelligence. In 2015, Francesco launched Querlo providing a robust environment for “conversational AI” and data performance analytics. Applying proprietary software, Francesco and his team developed tools to improve interactions between customers, employees, and brands. Today, the chatbots employ algorithms that mimic the neural connections of the human brain, a revolutionary development that promises to unify the arts and sciences with technology, long the dream of an Italian-American born and raised in Florence.

The appearance of SARS-CoV-02 has given Global Health Epidemiology it's most challenging foe since HIV/AIDS. It has moved through the global populace with purpose, and strength. It has also introduced us to the term "syndemic" during it's first 6 months of ubiquitious expansion. With these novel, and medically brutal, challenges ahead we are seeing the most dangerous set of co-morbidities in medical history. We are currently at the starting line of what will become a battle for a new set of constructs for human survival with multiple Covid outflows. The concept of Covid combining with TB, Hep B/C, Malaria, all NCD's, in LMIC's and increasing chronicity of preexisting morbidities, will put us squarely in the crosshairs of yet another Global Health mortality spike. We need to push our diagnostic platforms with testing and data compilation to control, and prepare for what lies ahead. At this point in time (10/20) there is an incredible spike in Mental Health comorbidities that is creating a need for vast expansion of mental health practitioners to join with the Infectious Disease Docs to reign in the depression, despair and anxiety that is sure to lead beyond what the first rung of the SARS-CoV-02 ladder has already served us with. The time to act on all SARS-CoV-02 fronts is our mandate. This is not a battle for vaccines, it is a battle for human life, and human potential through a minefield of novel co-morbid medical brushfires. The concepts of vaccine, anti-viral agents, and symptomatic cures will only be the start, as we travel down the wormhole of the most epic battle in disease complexity. Global Health organizations will need funding for increased preparedness and control for systems already severely challenged. These challenges will define Global Health for the coming decades. Our innovation and outcomes will create the level of our resiliance for the coming century. The most challenging landscapes for the opening salvos in this public health challenge will be fought in large institutions, particularly in schools and the high density populations of the urban core. To be successful, we need to overprepare, rather than assume our medical knowledge to be historically logical. SARS-CoV-02 is an entirely new landscape, and should be treated as such. The rise of this syndemic will continue to create novel infection rates and comorbidities until we focus with more innovation and intention across all political landscapes, and all geographies. We are now, most certainly, entering the Covid Century.

I started almost a dozen ventures on three different continents. I joined LinkedIn as member number 733 and built a network of 30,000+ connections. Serial entrepreneur, Growth Hacker, Online Marketer, Out-of-the-box thinker, Investor My strength is to think outside-the-box and profiting from experience to set up successful ventures in different industries. I have held CEO, CTO, CMO, COO positions in the companies I worked with/ started in the past.

Aircraft designer and engineer. Founder and CEO of Wind Craft Aviation, a stealth aerospace start-up with proprietary energy and airframe technology enabling a quantum leap in the performance of electric aircraft. I'm an effective altruist, impact entrepreneur, and disciple of Jesus Christ. Our Mission Pioneering electric aerospace. Not for the richest among us, but for the benefit of every man. Creatively engineering disruptive hardware. Selflessly pursuing a new vision for aviation. The Impact Our platform was engineered to have the greatest utility in the most demanding applications so that those in underdeveloped nations without access to healthcare, transportation, or basic infrastructure will one day see their economies accelerated and quality of life increased by something as simple as an airplane. This is not "augmented consumerism", this is selfless ingenuity, this is aviation with an impact.

CEO and Founder at A-malgam Technologies Inc / MOOVIN a Smart City infrastructure / Public Speaker A-malgam Technologies Inc. Developing blockchain technology and IoT devices for mobility Big Data and AI. Creating a quality, robust, and secure systems with "outside the box"​ thinking. Working on new technologies in 5G networks, Edge Computing, And Quantum Zero-Knowledge Proof. At MOOVIN.io we are working on developing Blind Asset Management and Blockchain technology for a citizen-centric future of the connected smart city.With a solid background in tech, design, communication, and leadership, always looking ahead for better human and technological interface (UI or UX). Father, son, brother, and friend I thrive to make the world a better place through integrity, honesty, compassion, understanding, and honor. 

Jeffrey Menaged does his best thinking on airplanes, an appropriate setting for a man who is known as a visionary in his profession. Menaged, founder and CEO of Chief Executive Air (www.chiefexecair.com) in New York City, relishes airborne trips to the West Coast, because as the earth begins to take shape beneath him, so do his ideas. Founded in 2003, Chief Executive Air is a market leader in providing world wide private jet charter services. Driven by the desire to provide clients with a simple, user-friendly way to buy charter services, Chief Executive Air was founded on the principle of placing the client’s needs first and meeting this unmet industry need. In today’s ultra competitive business climate, producing the best product and the best service is a mandate for success. The strategic imperative for Chief Executive Air is providing bold, fast, innovative and tailored services for its customers spanning North America, South America, Europe, Australia and beyond. This is a reality whereby Menaged has created a corporate culture at Chief Executive Air where the staff is empathetic, flexible, inventive and is able to deliver on even the most impossible request when it comes to a customer demand. From Menaged’s perspective, the customer is king and a trademark of his success rests solely in his ability to provide an excellent product with legendary customer service – whether it is a gourmet meal, special beverages, in-flight entertainment, or any other amenity, in-flight or on-ground. In addition, Menaged’s “Charter Jet Price Guarantee” and Chairman’s Club Program have transformed the industry standard by introducing the idea that the price you are quoted, is the price you pay. Dynamic, direct and down-to-earth, Menaged was born and raised in New York City. From his days attending the Stern School of Business at New York University, Menaged quickly developed business acumen about how to create and deliver a stellar product and service experience that customers feel they can’t find anywhere else.

Silicon Valley veteran and entrepreneur who’s been instrumental in launching products used by ~500M monthly global users, netting $100B+ in revenue across LinkedIn, MSFT, eBay, and One Kings Lane. My mission is to inspire people to be trusted change-agents within their professional and personal lives. To create empathy-driven products that are smart, approachable, and life impacting.

I believe technology is the KEY in creating an environment where consumers better understand and manage their health. Healthcare Executive with 17+ years of experience in (with 500+ Providers and Healthcare Organizations, 40+ Health Systems): Patient and Consumer Engagement, Product Development and Strategy, Client Services and Consulting, Process Improvement, and Strategic Market Research. Expert in assisting healthcare technology companies drive provider to provider collaboration and patient/consumer engagement and innovation. * Mobile healthcare solution innovator revolutionizing communication and collaboration between providers on iOS and Android application platforms * Healthcare expert providing direction for product development in patient engagement and patient experience technologies including integrating with HIT systems (EHR, RTLS etc.), and effective corporate and product marketing initiatives. * Business dev executive enhancing growth through subject matter expert level sales support and cultivation of partner relationships. * Assist provider solutions that want to focus on care transitions and provider to provider coordination in facilitating bundled payment reform and migrating focus on ACOs * Process improvement and strategy specialist in areas such as Consumer Engagement, Mobile Care Coordination, Population Health, Interactive Patient Care Technology, Patient Satisfaction (Throughput), Patient Education (Delivery and Content), Workforce Productivity, and Service Line Growth. Specialties: •Competitive analysis, data analysis, channel partner review, strategic growth (corporate and product), effective marketing initiatives •Patient/consumer engagement, patient satisfaction, patient education, nursing productivity, and workforce development •Product development, patient/user experience design, product road mapping, design and product requirements, and product marketing •Lecturer, presenter, customer training, brand promoter, client manager

In 2015, I became depressed over the state of affairs. Political rhetoric was out of control, hate crimes were up 67% and things seemed dismal at best. One day after reaching my breaking point I called my little brother Brad and I cried on the phone for almost 2 hours about all of the negativity. My brother didn’t know what to do or say but he sent me a meme. It was a picture of a little guinea pig wearing heart shaped glasses and it read “I can’t see the haters with my love glasses on”. It was at that moment that I decided to go out and buy a pair of heart shaped glasses. I felt like it was a shield to go out in the world and that if anyone said or did anything negative to me, I would be ready. However, that is not what happened…not even close. I would wear my love glasses to the grocery store and it never failed that someone would say, “Oh I love your heart shaped sunglasses!” and I would respond “they are my love glasses!” and then they would ask “Where can I get some?” Each and every time I went out I would have an interaction and it was often times around my glasses. Things started to change and I looked forward to going out and find new people to meet and share a kind word or a smile.

I think therefore I learn."Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave has had kings among his ancestors." - PlatoYou can rest assured that thoughts become things.I am CEO at Emerging Rule, an education technology Public Benefit Corporation researching and developing artificial intelligence for digital education. I also co-founded and serve as Chief Executive Officer at GENIA Latinoamérica, an organization harnessing the power of machine learning to connect Latin America to a regional matrix of artificial intelligence R&D.Career highlights:✓ Dual MBA✓ Deep Learning Specialization✓ Virtual Teaching Specialization✓ 1776 Incubator Alumni✓ NYU Steinhardt Edtech Accelerator powered by StartEd Alumni✓ VentureOut Alumni✓ Singularity University at NASA Fellow✓ NVIDIA AI Inception Member✓ Forbes Artificial Intelligence Executive Advisory Board Member✓ Virtual Educa Connect Advisory Board Member✓ Hyper Accelerator IX-MMXX Cohort 

Adam L. Levine is CEO and Founder of Words Matter Media – a digital media platform featuring podcasts and video content. Most recently, Adam has served in senior public affairs positions in the financial services industry – first at Goldman Sachs & Company, under Chairman & CEO Hank Paulson and later as Managing Director of Global Public Affairs for one of the world’s largest private investment firms, TPG. From 2001-2003 Adam served as Assistant White House Press Secretary and Director of Television News for President George W. Bush. Before joining the White House, Adam was a television producer and executive for both NBC News and the ABC television network where, among other positions, he was Senior Producer of Hardball with Chris Matthews and Editorial Producer for The McLaughlin Group. Adam began his career with legendary U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He joined the staff as an intern in 1989 and later became a senior adviser to Senator Moynihan, including service on the Senate Committee on Finance. Adam holds a BA from George Washington University and an MA from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.