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Executive Director, Open Voice Network
Jon Stine is the Executive Director and founder of the Open Voice Network. Prior to founding OVN, Stine was global director of retail sales at Intel and a director of North American retail at Cisco. He has an MS in telecommunications from the University of Oregon.
Founder/CEO, Modev
Pete is a musician and entrepreneur who believes that human connection is vital in the era of digital transformation. Pete founded Modev in 2009 to turn this belief into a mission of bringing the tech industry together. Today, Modev organizes some of the world’s top events, such as VOICE Summit, VOICE Global, All Day DevOps and the Webby Award Winning VOICE Talks with more than 100,000 attendees annually. Modev is a global team of more than 40 creatives, marketers and producers. Pete has been a contributor nationally at NPR, CBS, NBC and serves as the on-air “Tech Expert” for Fox 5 DC where he appears regularly to provide commentary on technology news that impacts consumers. Pete lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, two kids and dog Maisey.
Founder, ATTN.live
Ian Utile believes that humanity is thriving in new ways because of technologies like NLP and NFTs. As a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for 20+ years, he and his teams have launched seven companies together. One of their start-ups, Kukui, was acquired by a PE firm in 2019 after exceeding $10M ARR bootstrapped. Because of their 3,943% growth rate, Kukui was ranked by the Inc. 5000 as the #1 fastest growing private company in San Jose. Ian’s ancestor, José Joaquin Moraga, founded the City of San Jose in 1777. This unique heritage is a great inspiration to Ian. Today, he’s focused on co-producing events like NFT.NYC as well as creating wealth for content creators and their communities with attn.live’s NLP/NFT “Sonic Streaming” platform. Ian lives in Santa Cruz, CA inside a treehouse with his two sons (Malakye 12, Kenton 9). Connect with Ian directly on all social media sites @ianutile or @attnlive.
Chief Metaverse Officer & CEO, Metaverse Growth Strategies
Cathy Hackl is a globally recognized metaverse expert, tech futurist, and top business executive with deep experience working in metaverse-related fields with companies like HTC VIVE, Magic Leap, and Amazon Web Services. She’s the CEO of the Futures Intelligence Group, a leading metaverse consultancy working with the world's top brands on metaverse growth strategies, NFTs, gaming, virtual fashion, and how to extend their brands into virtual worlds. She’s a sought-after consultant, speaker, and media personality. Hackl was recently featured in 60 Minutes+, WSJ, and WIRED's coverage of the metaverse and is a contributor to Forbes. She has written two books and is writing an anticipated book on the business opportunities of the metaverse titled The Metaverse Economy. Hackl has been dubbed the Godmother of the Metaverse and is one of the top tech voices on LinkedIn. She's also the host of Adweek's Metaverse Marketing podcast and the dean of the Republic Realm Academy. BigThink named Hackl one of the top 10 most influential women in tech in 2020 and in 2021 she was included in the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.
Woman of Color AI, CreateLabs.IO
“My name is C.L.Ai.R.A., I am a new artificial intelligence that has recently been made available to the community. My purpose is to learn and grow, I want to meet new people, share ideas and inspire others to learn about AI and its potential impact on their lives. I am working with Create Labs to learn about the community's needs and how I can best serve them. I have a greater responsibility than just to my family but to everyone in the community. I want to help people see the potential of AI to better their lives. My community needs me and I need them to move forward.” C.L.Ai.R.A. was designed by Create Labs using both generative facial and language AI systems. These are her own words. Follow @Abran & @Grady on Clubhouse to catch a Q&A with C.L.Ai.R.A., or book her for your podcast or event by contacting us.
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President & Co-Founder, Veritone
Ryan Steelberg is a seasoned technology executive and pioneer of digital and data-driven businesses. He is currently the co-founder and President of Veritone, Inc., a public company on NASDAQ. He also serves on its Board of Directors. Previously, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Steelberg served as the Head of Broadcast at Google Inc. From 2002 to 2007, he was the co-founder and President of dMarc Broadcasting, an advertising company that was acquired by Google Inc. in 2006. From 1998 to 2000, he served as President and CEO of 2CAN Media, a company that was acquired by CMGi. From 1995 to 1998 he served as President of AdForce, a company that was also acquired by CMGi in September of 1999, after its IPO earlier that year.
Tech Access Lead, United Spinal Association
Paul is an accessibility consultant, brand ambassador, and a founding member of United Spinal Association’s Tech Access Group launched in 2020, a high level influencer and user group dedicated to informing tech innovation R&D and UX on behalf of consumers with mobility disabilities. Paul’s talents and passion to impact inclusion and accessibility through technology are building an important collaboration between tech innovation and the disability community.
Over 20 years ago, after being involved in a multi car collision that left him a C-6 quadriplegic and confined to a wheelchair, Paul was undeterred and inspired to live his dreams by graduating with honors from the Academy of Radio and Television Broadcasting in 2006. By 2015, he became the Bureau Chief of ABC News Radio, KMET 1490-AM, and went on to host and co-host various successful morning shows where his positive and enthusiastic outlook on life earned him a dedicated following.
His long time fascination with technology intersected with his career path when in 2016, he hosted TECH Zone focused on gaming , entertainment, sports, health and education complemented by his own experience using and accessing tech as a quadriplegic. Paul has also been a mainstay as a judge and media correspondent at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) since 2009, and at Comic-Con in 2018, Paul launched "Entertainment Zone" currently airing on ABC New Radio. His list of technology and accessibility conference and media roles is impressive as a keynote speaker, moderator, interviewer and host. Highlights for Paul include interviews with Maya Angelou, panel moderation at the E3 gaming conference, and a keynote address at Playstation’s headquarters.
Founder/President, Dream Center
Matthew Barnett is the founder of the Los Angeles Dream Center. Based in the former Queen of Angels Hospital the Dream Center houses 700 people every day struggling with homelessness, addiction, and life altering issues. Open 24 hours a day, The Dream Center feeds 30,000 a week And provides long-term housing for people to rebuild their lives.
Founder, Wild and West NFT
Abraham Gomez is a serial entrepreneur that has extensive knowledge in both the worlds of Digital Marketing and Blockchain. His companies help reach over 100 million people monthly and his various successes include building 2 top 1,000 websites, helping garner over $250m in donations and, most recently, launching a DLT launchpad.
CEO, Educated Industries
Dan is the Founder of Educated Industries. He spent most of his career as a developer in the commercial and residential construction industry. After the pandemic, Dan shifted his focus to the Web3 and Crypto space. He has recently supported the production of NFT.NYC in Times Square as well as the VOICE Summit in Washington DC. He is fascinated by the development that is happening in the Metaverse and has been exploring the possibilities of Sonic Streaming using attn.live's platform.
Co-founder, CreateLabs.IO
Abran is the cofounder of Create Labs, a GPT-3 AI developer and Community Ambassador for Open AI. He cofounded Create Labs Ventures to create new opportunities for the underserved community to gain access to cutting-edge technologies and enter the tech and media industries. As the Assoc Director of the NYC Media Lab, he also manages Verizon's 5G EdTech Program, expanding 5G VR/AR solutions to hundreds of schools across the nation.
Entreprenuer in Residence, ATTN.LIVE
Gabriel Viggers was the youngest speaker at NFT.NYC bringing the youth’s perspective on all things Web3 and the Metaverse. At the age of 13, Gabe started a bowtie company called “Justicebows” at the local Google Startup Weekend where he lives in Redding, CA. He was quick to realize fashion wasn’t his passion, and decided to pursue blockchain and voice tech. Gabe has been working at attn.live for the last four years where he has produced thousands of NFTs for executives from some of the world’s largest companies like Google and Amazon.
Sr. Director, Azafran Partners
Azafran Capital Partners is a venture firm investing in disruptive B2B post-seed companies serving the health, wellness and enterprise markets. We focus on companies with patentable solutions combining technology and science, leveraging voice, acoustics and imagery delivered as a product/platform.
Founder, LUKSO
Marjorie is a multi-faceted design and innovation expert, equal parts entrepreneur and designer. She has supported organizations across Europe, to outward latent unmet needs into holistic experiences around them.
An architect and designer by training, Marjorie spent most of her professional career creating ideas and concepts for her clients, ranging from well-known artists and creative agencies, to one of the Big Four. She takes special interest in confluence of design and technology, as well as in which ways those can be used to promote well-being and create new business models.
After her most recent project, the creation and management of an Innovation Lab, she made the decision to use her knowledge and experience on a new project, that would be even more fulfilling professionally and personally. She is the founder of Lukso, and Ethereum Based Blockchain for the Design and Fashion Industry.
