Unknown Origins

Brian Smale provides perspective about using the camera like a wand to blend his artistic eye with technical know-how by capturing snapshots in time that demystify the complex to convey its verbal description by portraying some of the world's leading businessmen and women, scientists, inventors, and politicians. Assignments for magazines such as Fortune, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fast Company, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, Spin, and commercial clients including Microsoft, Panasonic, Boeing, Fuji, and Seattle Children's Hospital.

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Roy Sharples and Gary Burt provide perspective on imagining if the world was rebooted,  what would you do differently if you had no constraints? 

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Brian Homman provides perspective on being the creative bridge between brands and the talented team at Loaded Pictures, which he co-founded, to overseeing all aspects of video production, motion design, animation, and branded content across a diverse range of clients from Microsoft, T-Mobile, Fox Sports, MTV, and McDonald's to Pizza Hut, AT&T, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  

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Culture is the engine that drives our momentum. It is the sum of what we feel, believe, and do, shaping and defining our work's input and output. A culture is defined by the people who live and operate within it. When people come together in service of something greater, they retain their own unique personalities, passions, hopes, and dreams - it is their shared experiences, and constant interactions between themselves make up a culture.

Dave Gartenberg has been at the forefront of industry for over 30 years,  from economic analyst, teaching fellow, to various executive HR leaderships (including Chief People Officer) at companies like Microsoft, Avanade and Slalom. Where he has captained all aspects of human resource management, industrial relations policies, practices and operations. Dave provides perspective on organization effectiveness and culture transformation to accelerate innovation and optimize business performance.

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Blending the art and science of aesthetics to create elegant, engaging, and brand-positioned products by making the connections in everyday life, and proactively anticipating and responding to culture, lifestyle, industry trends by turning your imagination into art and design by combining art, engineering and commerce to make products that relate to human usage, behavior, and appeal, that people use a benefit from in their every day life. 

Corey Jones is the Chair of Industrial Design at California College of the Arts. Corey provides perspective on Industrial Design through his extensive  experience as a multidisciplinary designer in fabrication and media processes. His personal work is focused on objects that blur the line between functional and fine art. Outside of the college, Corey is a freelance industrial designer, working on product design, identity development, and brand strategy for clients like Sony, Lexus, American Eagle Outfitters, SpoonRocket, and Lifefactory. 

In his professional work, Corey has been involved with projects and installations displayed around the world, featured in ID Magazine, have won the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award, and are part of the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He also helped create a number of public exhibits, including the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial and the Ice Falls in Norman Foster’s Hearst Tower in New York.

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Craig Whittet is the Head of the Department for Product Design Engineering, a collaborative program taught at the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow. Craig provides perspective about how great product design engineering involves connecting between past and present ideas, infusing economic, political, socio-cultural, and technological perspectives in parallel to produce new products that positively impact people's lives and society by lighting the way into the future.

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From founding Division 11, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Design at Hurley, to Vice President, Global Creative Director at Nike Retail, Adrian Nyman has mastered the art and science of by dreaming up and guiding the creative vision of some of the world’s most loved brands by manifesting that vision through digital and physical installations and maintaining cohesion across product segments, marketing campaigns, fashion lines, by ensuring the visuals, messaging, interactive and motion designs deliver unforgettable experiences.

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Fiorenza Plinio is the Head of Creative Excellence at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, where she nurtures creativity across all the company's products and services as well as creating continuous innovation and engagement with the global creative community and organizations to build programs that bring to life the highest levels of creativity at the largest gathering of the advertising and creative communications industry and beyond.

She provides perspective on creative excellence and her approach to nurturing creative talent and community engagement. 

Fiorenza was a journalist at the news agency ANSA in Paris and wrote for several international publications. She holds a Masters's degree in Media and Journalism from the LUMSA University in Rome and the Sorbonne in Paris. 

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Gary Burt is an eclectic and visionary thought leader who has guided the success of multiple breakthrough products and services at technology companies: Microsoft, O2, Siemens, Atos, and Blue Prism. He has set the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition to maximize business value and drive positive societal impact by being deeply committed and continuously honing his craft through quality execution and completeness of the entire product lifecycle with a focus on the design-based human-centered approach, aesthetic and technical excellence. Gary provides perspective on creativity related to product leadership and his creative process for dreaming up, making, and bringing novel products and services to market profitably and effectively. 

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Jonathan Keith is Founder and CEO of Feelr Media, a Los Angeles-based creative agency that focuses on content strategy and development. Jonathan has a background in entertainment and the traditional media, and, today, he applies the sensibilities and production values learned there to creative marketing for the advertising and tech industry. 

From DJ to radio & TV personality to artist manager to digital media entrepreneur, Jonathan has had a multifaceted career. But at the heart of all this work has been content and storytelling that engages and inspires people. Jonathan is the producer of the monthly Web TV show "The Download" and the daily podcast "Insights," both products for Microsoft Advertising.

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