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Antoine Airoldi is a freelance copywriter/author/speaker. During his third year of university, he wrote his first book. After looking at where the educational system and its students were, he decided to write to book. His goal was to inform others about careers without attending an expensive institution and to be aware how others gain success.
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Marlin G. Williams has over 20 years experience as a Global Diversity and Inclusion Officer for two Fortune 500 Organizations, speaker, media contributor, Deputy Chief Information Officer and Technology Entrepreneur. Passionate about diversity, inclusion, and empowering women in tech, Marlin founded Sisters Code. Most recently Marlin was appointed to serve as the Diversity and Inclusion Entrepreneur-In- Residence for TechTown Detroit. After college, Marlin was an aspiring mortician until she learned to code in seven languages in 13-weeks. In less than a year she emerged as a mainframe programmer developing and maintaining code for the automotive and banking industry. During this time Marlin noticed that she was often the only woman and person of color at the technology table, thus her passion for diversity and inclusion emerged. Marlin was ultimately asked to serve as the first Global Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Compuware Corporation and later held the same position at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. During her time as the Deputy Chief Information Officer for the City of Detroit, Marlin and her team successfully developed the City’s first e- government initiative and led the collaboration across ten unique agencies to support the technology and infrastructure required for Super Bowl XL. Marlin founded Sisters Code with a simple goal to educate, empower, and entice women ages 25 – 85 to explore the world of coding and technology. Essentially she wanted to “Awaken the Mature Geek.” Most recently Sisters Code was featured on MSNBC highlighting their effort to bridge the gender gap in tech and empower women to believe they could excel in the field of technology. Marlin is also the co- founder of CodeConnect. Code Connect is a single site that connects people exploring the tech industry with education and training resources, job opportunities, and other people who are on the same journey. We believe that we can bridge the diversity gap in tech by providing the resources and guidance to untapped talent. As a diversity and inclusion leader Marlin works passionately to bridge the racial and gender gap in technology by engaging organizations and the tech ecosystem in candid conversations related to barriers, unconscious bias, real experiences, and solutions to create an inclusive environment for “untapped” individuals and communities. Marlin’s speaking and media contributions include Microsoft Corporation, SXSW, Techonomy, MSNBC, Meeting of the Minds, Yes We Code and WDIV amongst others.
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Since 1997, David Adler has managed a boutique Intellectual Property law practice focused on the overlapping areas of Technology Innovation, Media, Entertainment, and Communications. Specific practice areas include: Copyright, Trademark, Contracts, Corporations, LLCs, Advertising & Marketing, Ecommerce, and related transactional areas. David has been designated by his peers as an Illinois Leading Lawyer since 2016 and an Illinois SuperLawyer® since 2012 in the areas of Intellectual Property and Entertainment & Sports Law. His articles also appear in Illinois State Bar journals and trade journals such as The ABA’s SciTech newsletter, and Landslide, the magazine of the ABA Intellectual Property Section. David is licensed in Illinois and New York, a member of the Illinois State Bar, New York State Bar, Federal General Bar and Federal Trial Bar, has previously led the Illinois State Bar Association Privacy and Information Security Section. David has been admitted pro hac vice in federal court in California, Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. The five key areas of my practice are: • Intellectual Property Law • Entertainment, Media & Arts Law • Business & Corporation Law • Digital Business/Electronic Commerce, Information Technology & CyberLaw • Privacy & Security Law
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Jen is CEO of Communication TwentyFourSeven LLC, a communication skills training firm and host of the Communication TwentyFourSeven podcast. She taught human communication, business communication and public speaking classes at the college level for 17 years. She was the first woman Marine to be awarded the Sgt. Maj. Dan Daly Award from the Marine Historical Foundation and was the first woman Marine to be appointed Editor of the Marine Corps' oldest newspaper, The Quantico Sentry. She is a first generation college graduate, veteran, cancer survivor, and mom. All of these experiences has helped inform her no-nonsense approach to coaching and public speaking. If you want an authentic and inspirational talk, Jen is your speaker.
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Erik M. Francis is an author, educator, and speaker who specializes in teaching and learning that promotes cognitive rigor and college and career readiness. He is the author of Now That’s a Good Question! How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning published by ASCD. He is also the owner of Maverik Education LLC, providing professional development and consultation on increasing student achievement, teacher effectiveness, program compliance, and overall school performance. Erik works with K-12 schools nationwide on developing learning environments and delivering educational experiences that challenge students to demonstrate higher order thinking and communicate depth of knowledge in detail, insightfully, and in their own unique way. Erik is an ASCD Faculty Member, a professional development consultant for the Association for Middle Level Educators (AMLE), a presenter and consultant for First Educational Resources, a presenter for Staff Development for Educators, Inc. and a presenter and instructional coach for FACTS Management. Erik is also one of World's Top 30 Education Professionals for 2019 by the research organization Global Gurus. Erik's professional development seminars and workshops have been featured at national, state, and regional education conferences hosted by organizations such as ASCD, Learning Forward, the College Board, the New Teacher Center, the Southern Region Education Board, and the Association for Middle Level Education. He has also been a keynote speaker and featured presenter at education conferences addressing topics such as gifted education, school leadership, Title I, English language learners, dropout prevention, charter schools, and social work. To order Now THAT'S a Good Question, please click on www.tinyurl.com/ntagqascd.
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Dr. Rob Bogosian is a renowned speaker and thought leader for Fortune 100 organizations around the globe. Rob advises audiences about leadership and culture development to better prepare them for the digital age. He is principal at RVB Associates, Inc., and has been featured in Business Insider, CNN Money, Fortune, CEO Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Bloomberg Radio, Entrepreneur Magazine, and more. The firm advises global organizations on linking culture and leadership development to business strategy. Areas of specialization: • Shaping Transformational Leaders for the Digital Age • Developing an Agile Organizational Culture • Creating an Inclusive and Diverse Workplace • How to Shape and Sustain Cultures of Voice Prior to establishing RVB Associates, Rob was Vice President of Performance Development at Wachovia Corporation (a Wells Fargo company). In that capacity, he was responsible for developing consistent leadership practices and organization development initiatives throughout Wachovia’s asset management line of business. In addition, he oversaw the development of high performing, high potential talent, and played a pivotal role with executive teams and individuals helping them achieve their performance development goals. As one of Wachovia’s executive coaches, Rob worked with senior executives across the enterprise. Before joining Wachovia in 2001, Rob was Program Manager at the State Street Institute where he was responsible for the education and development of mid – to senior-level managers in the US, UK, and Europe. Rob was coach to State Street’s global leaders at all levels of the organization on a broad range of performance and strategic business issues.
$5,001 - $10,000
As Co-Founder of Speaker Express, Elliot knows what it takes to build great stage presence and how to use speaking as a transformative business growth tool. Using his passion for speaking to help build 3 successful businesses himself, Elliot has spent more than 6000 hours on stage, speaking to audiences across the world. With a passion for stretching speakers to their full potential, Elliot’s charismatic approach helps to enable aspiring speakers and business owners to quickly get the results they are looking for in an authentic and empowering way. Elliot is the author of 5 books including the best-selling Power to Succeed and is the founder of the Thriving Entrepreneur Conference.
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My first professional job involved playing video games for 9 hours a day. After the first signs of brain rot, I decided to teach myself how to write software. I'd like to say my entire career is characterized by this “why not?” attitude. Over the last 20 years I've worked with a range of companies - from pre-investment startups to large corporations - to bring high-tech consumer products to life. Much of my recent focus is in product management and product marketing with a concentration on SaaS, iOS and Android product development. I'm also well versed in product lifecycle management, product roadmaps, product positioning, business models, product requirements documents, user stories, UX and interaction design. Throughout the course of my career I've either directly managed, launched, or developed software for the following: - An online video advertising network - An interactive music video network - A 3D body scanning system to help women find great fitting clothes - Video set top boxes for hotel pay-per-view services - A personal video recorder akin to TiVo - Audio sound cards for the music and video game industry - A SaaS marketing automation platform that helps businesses connect with their customers I've been included in a few lists of Product Managers to follow. The best way to do see what I'm up to is via Twitter @JoeCotellese or my website https://www.JoeCotellese.com
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Scott Dailey is on a mission to arm every business in America with the tools to make their websites a #1 revenue generator. Since 2001, Scott Dailey has spearheaded multimillion dollar digital initiatives for giants like Bausch & Lomb, Gallus Biologics, The Home Depot, Dow Jones, Godiva Chocolate, Furniture Brands International and many others. Today, Scott is a popular business speaker that travels the country, passing along the “real truth” about what it takes to make your organization’s website a revenue-acquiring powerhouse. Dailey has spoken coast-to-coast at some of the largest trade association and industry conferences in the US. He is well-known for his unforgettable, high-energy speaking style and always leave his audiences wanting more! Scott has been building disruptive, sustainable business and brand identities since 2000, with an emphasis on integrated, accountable digital strategies tied to lead generation goals. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Single Throw Marketing, and Director of Digital for Marke Communications, Scott possess a proven track record of elevating brands from virtual digital anonymity, to go-to mainstays in many categories, including biopharma, retail, professional services, manufacturing, distribution and a host of other B2C and B2B categories. As a creative thinker with a strong technical background, Scott has a unique skill set that allows him to deliver on the big idea, while managing teams and supporting a campaign's technical requirements with precision and sensitivity to the technical underpinnings that fuel digital strategies. Scott is a sought after digital marketing and business speaker and has lectured at the world-renowned NAMM Show in Anaheim, along with the National Parking Association in Atlanta and the Healthcare Internet Conference in Las Vegas and many others. Scott has also worked with a host of New Jersey Chambers of Commerce and business associations to help lend a clarifying voice to the marketing challenges facing local, small and mid-sized businesses too. Scott has over 17 years of web design and user experience expertise, along with a deep background in the technologies that power modern, digital marketing initiatives. He has worked with cash-tight startups, brick and mortar consumer brands, in addition to well-known, multinational corporations.
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Shelley has gained a reputation among her clients and peers as a highly effective, tenacious and extremely responsive lawyer with a successful track record of representing corporate clients in disputes in numerous areas, including contract disputes, business torts, federal banking claims, antitrust violations, securities fraud, patent, copyright and trademark infringement, ERISA, and class actions. She has extensive experience defending clients in civil and criminal investigations and prosecutions instituted by the United States Department of Justice and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Clients have entrusted this broad range of cases to her care based on their trust in Shelley’s ability, her integrity, her sensitivity to the goals of the business, and her talent in finding solutions to even the most intractable legal challenges by combining creative legal analysis with a complete mastery of the facts. Shelley has: • Successfully defended a multi-national corporation in the jury trial of a $40 million patent and tortious interference suit in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware; • Obtained a multi-million dollar settlement for a client in a patent infringement case after representing the client in a Markman hearing which led to partial summary judgment on claim construction and validity; • Represented a prominent real estate developer in a jury trial over claims for payment of exclusive broker fees where the verdict saved the developer millions in fees; • Defended a major Japanese electronics manufacturer in criminal prosecutions for price-fixing in the U.S. and Canada and in four related class actions; negotiating favorable plea agreements and pre-trial settlements in the criminal and civil matters respectively. Over the last several years, Shelley has sharpened her substantive knowledge of the law as a professor of commercial law, global and electronic banking, contracts and alternative dispute resolution. Specialties: Banking litigation, contract disputes, antitrust and intellectual property infringement. Her bar admissions include the State of Illinois, the State of New York, the Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar), the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Seventh Circuit, and the Fifth Circuit.
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About me: Entrepreneur – Gabriel Schandl was raised in an entrepreneurial family. Already at a young age and directly after graduating from the National Academy of Commerce, he helped to build a team of trainers and specialists that, through the professional support of companies in the area of advanced education and training, grossed more than 20 million Euros in the past 10 years. University Degrees – While studying business in Linz, he spent a semester abroad in Italy (Siena) at the Universita degli Studi, in order to gain more in-depth knowledge of the field. He visited various advanced courses of education in Germany and Austria, as well in the USA and Switzerland. University Lecturer – Gabriel Schandl worked for several semesters at the University Puch-Urstein as an assistant professor of social skills with the emphasis “Peak Performance in Sales and Presenting”. Confident negotiating and communication skills and clear customer orientation are an absolute must for business students, the management elite of the future. Background – Gabriel Schandl has a variety of roots. His mother was born in Hungary; his father was born in Germany and raised in the USA. As such, he developed at an early age a love of traveling and curiosity about different cultures. Due to these multicultural experiences, it is easy for the expert in peak performance to pick up on international impulses and adapt them in his activating presentations perfectly to the needs of your company. What makes up a person? Why are some capable of peak performance, while others are satisfied with being average? Gabriel is married and has 4 children. He lives with his family in the Berchtesgaden region of upper Bavaria.
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Mr. Ware began his career in the SEO industry in 2006. He has established himself over the course of his 10+ years as an industry thought leader and has spoken around the country on Digital Marketing - check out his Twitter @wolfofseo. He possesses over a decade of experience in the business operations and strategic initiatives within the digital marketing landscape. As a former Sr. Associate at the big four consulting firm; KPMG LLC, he found the ability to bridge many of the operations risk management methodologies, to the world of search engine optimization as it relates to KPI based metrics, analytics and algorithm trends. His ability to articulate strategy and develop holistic solutions while working with executives, collaborating with teams, and helping sales and he has been a standout in the industry. He is passionate about understanding the client success & their operations while being committed to delivering sustainable integrity based content marketing strategies. He has spoken around the country at various conferences on the topic of SEO and strategic content initiatives including webinars and Google hangouts. He attended Arizona State University, is an alumni of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, and is involved in various community roles including having coached the East Scottsdale Little League, an alumni of the Citizens Police Academy of Scottsdale, supporting member of the Active 20-30 club of Phoenix and volunteering to various charitable causes around the valley. In his spare time, he also enjoys the outdoors, mountain biking, golfing, surfing, anything sushi, and hanging with friends and family. One of his motto’s and favorite quotes is "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
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