Speakers

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  Shervonne Cherry

  Shervonne Cherry is a Creative & Social Strategy Lead for Mindgrub, a Technology Innovation Agency that fuses technology with user-centric design. Her recent projects include design for wearable technology applications and developing client strategy around interactive triggering technologies such as iBeacon. Shervonne has worked in the government, educational and private sectors for over 10 years providing creative strategy, social media marketing and mobile application design. She has a passion for design & technology and is actively involved in the Baltimore technology community as a co-organizer for the Baltimore Washington Tech Meetup and evangelist for diversity in technology. Shervonne holds a BS in Visual Communication Design from Stevenson University.

  @NoOrdnryCherry
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  Aaron Brazell

  I am a 4 time entrepreneur, 2 time business owner, and have over 10 years of experience building for the internet. Seven of those years have been involved in open source development with WordPress on all sides of the product - content production, large and small scale deployments, consulting, core contribution, and hosting. I have been a Director of Technology, Founder, Manager and Consultant and am open to opportunities that expand my career experience in mobile, open source and technology innovation.

  @technosailor
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  Michael Reider

  Mike is the Chief of Media Innovation with Innovative Consultants LLC. As the CMI of an international technology consulting firm, Mike pulls from more then a decade of video experience to help businesses understand media strategies & implementation. Having worked on the million dollar commercial to basic Vlog, he has seen it all. Mike also is part of Sheffield Institute for the Recording Arts’s advisory board. Helping shape the minds of future media specialists. Mike has set out to blur the lines between video & web for business. By bring video to the middle markets and helping companies create consumable media.

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  Monica Lopez-Gonzalez

  I'm a trilingual English-Spanish-French speaking Cineaste, Cognitive Scientist, Dramatist, Educator, and Entrepreneur with a PhD in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University interested in the cognitive relationships between creative artistic, emotional, musical, and linguistic behavior. My work lies at the intersection of Art and Science to better understand and unleash our creative thinking and making capacities as human beings.

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  Dr. Elliot King

  Elliot King is professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Loyola University Maryland, where he is a founder of a M.A. program in Emerging Media. He has written six books and hundreds of articles about new technologies including Free for All: The Internet’s Transformation of Journalism and Best Practices in Online Program Development, one of the first deep dives into online education. He is also the founder of the Media History Exchange, a social network and archive for media historians and chair of the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, an annual interdisciplinary conference for people studying media and communication history. He is currently writing a book about thought leadership in the age of social media. Follow him on Twitter @elliotkingphd. He blogs at university5dot0.com.