Stephanie is the founder of We Are Rosie, a consultancy that connects brands and agencies with talent in the advertising and marketing space. She has created a human-centered approach to marketing that celebrates diversity and facilitates happiness. Stephanie was the 2020 Ad Age Visionary/Founder of the Year Creativity Awards Finalist.

Flynn's creativity is fueled by his passion for food and the food scene since the age of 12. This propelled him to become a celebrity chef and one of the most famous restaurateurs in New York at the age of 19. He considers today's chefs' role to be more akin to that of a creative director and describes the intricacies of successfully translating the brand through its various manifestations and components throughout his various ventures - be it a restaurant, an event, a book or a bakery.

"5% of what we actually do at the restaurant is a normal thing to do at a restaurant."

Nonny also touches upon the use of VR by marketers in brand activation, with a real life use case by Cartier in New York as well as museums such as the V&A and the British Museum in London.

“Journalism in VR is immersive journalism. People said it would never work, but Hunger in LA was the first VR piece shown at Sundance.”

“When people put on a VR headset, that’s undivided attention, and we know that’s great for storytelling purposes.”

Nonny is a pioneering journalist, filmmaker, and the founder and CEO of Emblematic Group, an award-winning immersive reality company which uses cutting-edge technologies to tell stories - both fictional and news-based - that create intense, empathic engagement on the part of viewers.

Andy shares stories and tips about the ingredients for a brand to get content distributed through earned media by bringing the human elements to life.

“Anybody can come up with a pretty good video idea, but how do you get people to see it? We are obsessed with distribution.”

"The biggest ingredient to making a video PRable is that's not all about a brand!"

Andy is founder and CEO of Praytell, a creative communications agency, and has been leading integrated PR campaigns that cover social, digital, and traditional PR for nearly a decade, earning him a spot on PRWeek’s 40-under-40 list in 2015 and The Holmes Report’s Top 25 Innovators list in 2019.

Parinaz draws on her experience in direct to consumer marketing roles she held in companies such as J Crew and Ralph Lauren to clearly articulate the marketing teams' pain points in accessing and fully benefiting from customer data analytics.

This inspired her on her entrepreneurial journey to create solutions adapted to the need of today's CMOs.

“People making line of business decisions should have access to data in a way that doesn't involve them having to email the data science team.”