Tracey Ryans

CO-Founder and face of NeueHouse and Tracey Ryans Agency he isa unique consultant which facilitates alchemy at the intersections of integrated marketing and strategic partnerships.

Tracey is a member of Hive, a social impact company created by Katie Harrison, Sheila Roche, Erin Thornton, and Jenifer Willig, experts in strategy, policy, advocacy, marketing, and communications. Hive is a collective that helps companies, nonprofits and individuals maximize their social impact while building their brands. Hive has played key roles in the creation and global expansion of innovative organizations including (RED), ONE, Every Mother Counts and Whole World Water. Since Hive’s inception, we have worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Participant Media, VF Corporation, Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan and Princess Mabel of the Netherlands.

Tracey Ryans acts as cultural counsel for Tavistock Development Group's Lake Nona project, a 17 square mile live, work, play, wellbeing community surrounding nearly 2.5 sides of the Orlando International Airport. One of nine designated Iconic Cisco 1GB Smart + Connected Cities, Lake Nona is the innovation, medical and sports hub for Orlando, attracting corporations looking to expand their footprint where the cost of living is affordable, and the quality of life, cost of doing business and tax environment are favorable and supported by a strong workforce

Tracey is a public speaker represented by the Outspoken Agency, stand up phenomenologist, a practitioner of Chi Gong, Tai Chi, Soto Zen Buddhism, an avid sailor, and will continue to remind you that he came in first place at the 2014 BDDW Club of Archers Championship.

Abbe Aronson heads the eponymously named firm Abbe Does It, focusing on public relations and marketing, editorial, event planning, image and design consulting, fundraising and what she refers to as “artful schmoozing”—business intros that truly count. Now in its 12th year in business and based in and around the Hudson Valley and theNew York metro areas,Abbe Does It boasts nearly 100 clients globally. They include not-for-profit organizations, brand and advertising agencies, authors, restaurateurs, entrepreneurs, arts and music festivals, hoteliers, chefs, artists, performers and media companies. With a B.S. in Magazine Journalism from the lauded S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University (as well as a creative writing minor degree from the college’s exceptional program that included authors Raymond Carver, Stephen Dobyns, Hayden Carruth, Tobias Wolff and Junot Diaz), Abbe credits her many years in editorial and publishing as giving her an edge over other publicists and marketing consultants, as she understands how to approach and pitch media so that they take note of her clients and their projects. Likewise, her writing skills lend themselves to any number of projects where a strong and well-crafted voice is needed. She is co-author of several books and continues to write and edit, most recently tapped to create an international design and trend quarterly for the home and interior design industries. Abbe has been quoted as a source in, among others,The New York Times,TheWallStreet Journal, Huffington Post,Better Homes & Gardens,Interior Design, Associated Press and Good Housekeeping.She regularly coaches entrepreneurs in best business practices for successful marketing and media outreach, via public speaking engagements as well as niche conferences and retreats for not-for-profit organizations, small businesses and women in business.

Tom De Block

Solution architect | Chairman of the AIOTI WG on Distributed Ledger Technologies and EU-OS TWG on Data Interoperability | Co-founder of the BFO. Tom is a serial entrepreneur, with 20 years of experience in ‘IT quality and governance’, specializing in the validation of complex software systems. Amongst his impressive list of clients are institutions such as SWIFT, the National Bank of Belgium and the SCHENGEN Homeland security system. Tom is a driving force at the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) where he is chairing the working group on Distributed Ledger Technologies. More recent he was also asked to chair the EU-OS TWG ‘Data Interoperability’ under the StandICT initiative. With is driver mentality, Tom does lots of efforts around proof-of-technology especially around DLT and Blockchain convergence with IoT and other emerging technologies. Over 11 DLT Use case Demonstrators have been registered in the recently published AIOTI Test beds catalog. While AIOTI WG DLT itself operates two big Test bed initiatives to benchmark different DLT protocols in terms of Performance and Energy efficiency. Comparative reporting is announced for 2022.

HG MAXWELL KING

HG is a NYC based software engineer and consultant, with a focus on driving innovation and business value using an Agile and scrappy approach to build products with clients. His works at the cross section of technology and sustainability, relating to how technology is connected to modern social issues in the form of problems or solutions.

Specialties: API Design, Data Visualization, SQL Databases, Cloud Infrastructure, Docker & Containers, Javascript, Rust, Python, Ruby, etc.,Scrum & Agile Software Processes

Anthony fatato

Anthony is an artist creating surreal oil paintings and social innovations for a peaceful and profitable world. He is is the founder of The World Education Endeavor, 501c3, WE-Endeavor.org. In his 27 year career he has dipped in and out of the innovation, marketing and film industries providing conceptual art and story development. He is currently producing a solo show of surreal paintings and NFts called "no dark place," as well as a video series that gives you intimate insight into the work. The series is about the people and places that inspire his work.