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Founder

Heydays

Keisha Mabry Haymore is a connector, convener and social entrepreneur on a mission to change the world one connection at a time. She is the owner of Heydays, a business incubator and coworking space for founders and creatives to connect, create and curate anything. Keisha has been featured on National Public Radio, The Daily Show, Success Magazine, Huffington Post, Essence, Black Enterprise, Fox 2 News, Nine Network, The Business Journal and more. In addition, Keisha is the Grow With Google Digital Coach for Missouri—a program that provides free digital skills training to entrepreneurs to close the digital divide gap. Keisha is also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Missouri, an Aspen Ideas Scholar, a Hatch Fellow, a TEDx speaker and her book Hey Friend: 100 Ways to Connect with 100 People in 100 Days is a movement to make the world friendly again, or at the very least, friendlier than it’s ever been. She’s delivered more than 150 keynote speeches for Fortune 500 companies and top brands like Spotify, Mastercard, Edward Jones, Square, Bayer, Meta, YUM!, Ikea, SHRM and US Bank. Learn more at keishamabry.com and heydayshq.com.

Founder

The Futur

Chris Do is a self described loud introvert, recovering graphic designer, middle child, serial entrepreneur, Emmy award-winning director, educator and founder of The Futur. He has an audacious mission of teaching one billion people how to make a living doing what they love.

Mr. Do has given talks and conducted workshops on: Negotiations, Pricing Strategies, Branding, Typography, and Content Marketing.

He has served: as the chairman of the board for the SPJA, advisor to Saleshood, advisory board member for AIGA/LA, Emmys Motion & Title Design Peer Group, Otis Board of Governors, Santa Monica College and Woodbury University.

He has taught Sequential design for over 15 years at ArtCenter and Otis College of Art and Design. Additionally, he has lectured all over the world including: EO GLCx, Pinterest, Dribble, AIGA National Design Conference, Adobe MAX, Birmingham Design Festival, Awwwards New York/San Francisco/Amsterdam, AIGA Miami, The Design Conference Brisbane, Hulu, Creative South, Digital Design Days Milan/Geneva, Lu Xun Academy Fine Art Dalian, Motion Conference Santa Fe, VMA Design Conference, MIT Boston, Bend Design Conference, Graphika Manila, Create Philippines, Rise Up Summit Cairo, RGD Design Thinkers Toronto, California Institute of the Arts, LA Art Institute, UCLA, MGLA, Cal State Los Angeles/Northridge/Dominguez Hills, Post Production World, Adobe Video World and San Diego University.

Cofounder & CEO

SparkToro

Rand Fishkin is the cofounder and CEO of SparkToro, makers of fine audience research software. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his writing, videos, speaking, and his book, Lost and Founder. When Rand’s not working, he’s usually cooking a fancy meal for the love of his life, author Geraldine DeRuiter. If you bribe him with great pasta or fancy cocktails, he’ll pull back the curtain on big tech’s dark secrets.

Lead Product Designer, AI

Miro

Ioana Teleanu is a UX Designer specializing in AI products, who has worked with renowned companies such as UiPath and ING Bank. She has also provided consulting and design services for several early-stage startups across the world.

Ioana is a seasoned Design Educator who has established a community of over 250,000 UX enthusiasts through her social channel UX Goodies. She has created multiple educational initiatives such as the Honest UX Talks podcast, a UX design course on Domestika and an AI & Design course on Interaction Design Foundation.