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Tyler Riewer is the Creative Director at charity: water, the nonprofit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in need around the world. He travels the globe to meet the people charity: water serves, collects stories about the transformative impact of clean water, and dreams up new ways to share those stories with the world.

Austin Kleon is a writer, artist, speaker, and New York Times bestselling author. His work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, TIME, The Atlantic, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. He’s brought his depth and range of experience as a creator to his book, Steal Like An Artist, an illustrated manifesto for creativity in the digital age.

While Mike Caguin has worked at agencies from coast to coast, including Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners and TBWAChiatDay, it’s his impact as CCO at full-service creative agency Colle McVoy that shows the power of his diverse and dynamic, yet subtle, approach to creativity.

Claudine Sokol is a self-described Evangelist of Nielsen and has worked for over twenty years in the media industry. With a wide range of experience working in the media, including national, mobile, movies, digital, local television and local audio.

Joe is the founder & creator of The Pop-Marketer, a content strategy consulting firm based out of Kansas City. Joe has worked with brands like Hershey, Dairy Queen, Anheuser Busch, Square Enix, Wingstop, Red Bull, and Coca-Cola. He's a co-host of the Explicit Content podcast & the Pop100 vlog and talks w/ brands and marketers about the power of Pop Culture marketing across the country.

A 28-year veteran of the marketing industry, Mark Freid is the owner of Think Creative, an award-winning branding and marketing firm that is driven by a “Culture of Gratitude” and the founder of Happiness Counts (happinesscounts.com), the company’s consulting arm that focuses on organizational culture and leadership.