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Manny Faces is an award-winning new media journalist and podcaster based in the New York Metropolitan area. Manny studies, documents, and shares innovative, inspiring, and often surprising ways that Hip-Hop Culture can improve lives, livelihoods, and communities across a wide range of fields. Manny is also the producer and host of News Beat (www.usnewsbeat.com), a groundbreaking, multiple award-winning podcast series that melds hard-hitting social justice journalism and expert interviews with music and original hip-hop lyrics crafted by independent hip-hop artists. News Beat was awarded Best Podcast at the 2018 New York Press Club Journalism Awards. Manny is also an accomplished DJ, producer/remixer, event host, and public speaker, advocating on behalf of hip-hop music, culture, and community. He has spoken at, moderated, and participated in panel discussions, workshops, and conferences at universities, organizations, and festivals throughout the country and the world.
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I’ve dedicated my 20-year career to understanding human behaviour. In particular, I have focused on how humans interact with technology and businesses. I’ve learned a lot about the elements that shape an experience and what makes an experience memorable for the right reasons, and of course the wrong reasons. I’ve worked in UX agencies, and for large organisations including the BBC, National Air Traffic Services, and Bournemouth University. For the last 12 years, I have run a user experience consultancy working with top-tier clients including Financial Times, Siemens, Vitality, and Burberry. My current role at Ipsos is UX Director for Europe where I inspire UX teams to deliver best practice UX for our clients who range from Google, Facebook, Amazon, BMW, and L'oreal.
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IT leader for business transformation and Innovation with a passion for generating business value through strong business collaboration, building future state strategies aligned to business growth, creating leading edge IT architecture, delivering on commitments, strong focus on project execution while optimizing cost, engineering solutions in partnership with business using CI/CD methodology, and mentoring and growing IT talent. Helped several companies leverage IT as a growth catalyst including Rubrik, VMware, Logitech, Mercury Interactive, Scientific Learning and Siebel Systems.
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I am glad to introduce myself I am Prashanth Ganesh. Here is a brief profile about myself.. I pursued my Masters in Software Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology and I have been working as a Devops lead and I have been in the industry for the last 11 years. I currently work as Devops Lead at RFPIO INc My area of talk would involve 1) My personal experiences at college and work 2)Career Options in and out of college 3) Personal and Career Management 4) Sharpening Entrepreneurship Skills 5)Interaction and Questions with the students for the above I faced a lot of difficulties and hardships during my time in school and college placement and I intend to solve the similar crisis that certain students fall into. I have addressed over 40000 students in the last 2 years across TamilNadu
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I love public speaking and I am passionate about my topic. Because I've got ADHD, I've got the attention span of a gnat and can't bear to bore anyone. So you'll find my talks peppered with jokes, stories, fun facts and genuinely useful information that attendees can actually use in their daily lives. I'm autistic too, so I over-deliver on pretty much everything. I develop each presentation with the dedication of a master craftsperson, because I figure if people are going to give up their time to listen to me, I should give them the best experience I possibly can. I've had public speaking training (I never present with notes), and I've even had voice coaching to improve my delivery. My background is in communications and I have been an entrepreneur for 16 years. I run a neurodiversity consultancy - training organisations on being inclusive and why it will actually benefit them. I do a lot of speaking and advocacy in my free time too - I'm passionate about promoting the positives of conditions like autism, ADHD and dyslexia and bringing this knowledge to a wider audience. Did you want a bit of personal stuff too? OK. I live with 5 boys (1 adult, 2 small, 2 feline) in a suburb of Manchester that estate agents call "leafy". I worry about banana monoculture and wonder what that weird noise is that my car is making.. I love nature and food and also you - for managing to read to the end of my bio. Thanks!
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When companies want to excel at creativity and technology, they book expert and keynote speaker G. Kofi Annan. In his 10+ -year career Kofi has led teams at two of the largest creative agencies in the world (Ogilvy and Saatchi & Saatchi) and worked with companies such as PUMA, Mercedes-Benz, and Novartis. He leverages his background in design, technology, and entrepreneurship to help leaders and teams rethink business strategies, refine approaches to employee engagement, and change the way they interact with and attract local and global customers. Kofi's high-energy talks have set the tone for conferences and meetings at Harvard University, the Smithsonian Museum, the United Nations, Global Entrepreneurship Week, and the SXSW Interactive Conference. He designs and delivers talks that use inspiring stories, cutting-edge research, and actionable takeaways to create a space for attendees to learn, connect, and grow. Kofi's programs (trainings, keynotes, or facilitations) are always customized and focus on one overarching goal: Helping leaders and teams use creativity, culture, and human-centric technologies to build resilient brands and authentic communities. Kofi has been featured and quoted in Entrepreneur Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the LA Times among others.
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Kagonya Awori is the User Experience and Design Lead at Safaricom PLC. She has over 10 years experience in UX from all over the world including in Kenya, the UK and Australia. Kagonya guesstimates that she is one of less than 10 women in Africa with both a strong academic background and seasoned professional experience in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) - which is the field from which UX stems. It is no wonder that at her current role, she is leading the structure and practice of UX at the largest company in East and Central Africa ( that is Safaricom PLC). Kagonya gained her academic background from four continents, a feat that makes her educational journey quite unique. She has a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Melbourne, , Australia ( she specialised in Human-Computer Interaction); a Masters in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University (USA); and a Bachelors in Business Information Technology from Strathmore University, Kenya. The fourth continent is Europe given that her Masters degree was a dual one from CMU USA and CMU Portugal. In 2012, Kagonya was part of the team that founded the iHub UX Lab, which was the first Design lab in East Africa dedicated to UX. She then went on to found WananCHI, an ACM SIGCHI local chapter, and co-hosted the first Tajriba, an annual UX workshop for students and entrepreneurs. Also in 2012, Kagonya co-created the Umati project, with the aim of investigating and curbing online hate speech. Umati was the first project globally to collect, analyse and synthesise hate speech reports en masse using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Intent on promoting Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in and from Africa, Kagonya was technical co-chair for the inaugural conference for HCI in Africa, AfriCHI, in 2016. In 2014, Kagonya received the Google Anita Borg award for demonstrating outstanding academic achievement, leadership and community involvement in Computer Engineering, and received the Human Computer Interface/ Interaction Design Award sponsored by Microsoft Research SocialNUI Centre in 2016. All these achievements and experiences have motivated Kagonya to explore technology design outside academia and employment. Together with her elder brother, Kagonya is the co-founder of Acacia Neuron, a health technology company that builds intelligent solutions to improve the experiences of clinicians and patients. Acacia Neuron has two products at various stages of growth. The first is a touchless biometric platform for facilitating secure access to information, while the second is a digital assistant based on Natural Language Processing of African languages. What motivates Kagonya is the creation of technologies that solve African problems in ways that closely resemble African cultures, peoples, resources, knowledges and ways of life. In her free time, Kagonya greatly enjoys road trips, swimming, occasional hiking and mentoring young women.
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Dr Peter Bleackley is a self-employed data scientist. He first became interested in Artificial Intelligence while working at the BBC's Research and Development department and has since worked for clients ranging from startups to multinationals. He is particularly interested in the field of natural language processing, and does citizen scientist work on Kaggle. His talks on the topic has have been well-received at data science meetups.
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Like the Titanic, venture failure is nearly always the result of a series of errors that are not obvious—problems that lurk beneath the surface—that are a consequence of navigating uncertainty in the early stages of development. Authors of The Titanic Effect: Successfully Navigating the Uncertainties that Sink Most Startups, speakers and business professors Dr. Todd Saxton and Dr. Kim Saxton will draw on lessons learned from the Titanic, as well as case studies of failed and successful startups, to show your audience similar patterns for entrepreneurial ventures. For instance, they will demonstrate how hidden debts accumulated early in the life of even the most promising startup can subsequently sink them. They will help startups as well as their investors navigate the uncertainties they will face, and improve their odds of success. Dr. Todd Saxton is an associate professor and Indiana Venture Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business and an award-winning professor of strategy and entrepreneurship. Todd has advised, helped launch, and invested in hundreds of startups spanning life sciences, software, sports, consumer products, and services. Todd serves on the board of multiple entrepreneurial ventures, including VisionTech Angel Partners, the largest angel investing group in Indiana; Diagnotes, a venture-funded health IT firm he helped found; and Fight for Life Foundation, a not-for-profit providing social and emotional learning for the deserving but underserved. Dr. Kim Saxton has over thirty years of marketing and market-research experience, working with large corporations, startups, and medium-sized businesses. Currently, she is a clinical professor of marketing at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Her teaching success has been recognized through numerous teaching awards, including an across-Indiana-University President’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Kim’s research on market segmentation, branding, promotional strategies, venture success, and venture ecosystems has been published in numerous international academic journals. She also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Advertising Research. Kim is an active angel investor and advisor to high-potential startups. She is a member of the advisory board for The Startup Ladies, a community-based organization helping women launch their startups through training and access to investors. She has served as an executive mentor for a wide variety of women-founded startups.
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I lend a fresh perspective on leadership, project management often left off the table.
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Scott G Huish is an experienced CEO focused on real estate and global technology. He has directed a technology company based in a variety of real estate-related industries including agriculture, energy, construction, and finance.
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Dr Jaylan Azer is an enthusiastic speaker who is so passionate about training and skills development. In addition to the professional experience, she also enjoys positively changing someone's life or perception in workshops &/ or seminars. She has both the industrial and the academic experience which allows her to enrich her keynote speech with interesting practice-based experience and make it easy to keep the interest of the audience. She has been invited as a keynote speaker to the Scottish Government events held by Holyrood Magazine in Edinburgh. This is in addition to her international presence in conferences and events held in various parts of the world such as France, Italy, Sweden, Singapore, Australia and Egypt.
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