AJ Eckstein is the Founder & CEO of Creator Match, the leading B2B Creator Marketing Agency that has paid out millions to Creators, and helps B2B/SaaS/AI Brands (ie. Notion, Anthropic, Zapier, Lovable, Fiverr, and more) build and scale their Creator programs. Outside of Creator Match, AJ is a Journalist for Fast Company, focusing on articles in the Work/Life section.

And he is one of the youngest LinkedIn Learning Instructors totaling 150,000+ Learners. He is also a TEDx and keynote speaker.

Debora Prossomariti is a fractional communications and personal branding advisor who helps established founders and CEOs become more visible, build trust, and strengthen their reputations without sounding performative or overly polished. With experience at Meta and Pinterest, she brings a unique perspective on executive visibility, strategic vulnerability, and the challenges of building an authentic public presence. Her work focuses on helping leaders communicate with confidence, connect with audiences, and turn their personal credibility into a meaningful advantage for their businesses.

Katie Swett Miller is Chief Product Officer at Kit, the leading email marketing platform helping professional creators build, own, and monetize their audience, independent of algorithms. She's spent her career building technology that makes creating online simple, delightful, and empowering.

At Kit, she’s focused on helping creators not just own their audience but truly understand it, through products like Subscriber Signals, Kit’s audience intelligence tool. Previously, Katie built products at Square and Weebly, working at the intersection of AI, commerce, and platform ecosystems to help creators turn ideas into sustainable businesses.

Scott Shigeoka is an internationally recognized curiosity expert, TED speaker, and the award-winning author of Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World. His work focuses on how we can strengthen our well-being and relationships, including as a Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and as the Head of Curiosity Cultivation at the Eames Institute. He is also the host and creator of the Curiosity Mobile, as well as a playwright and artist.

Sharon Mussalli is a media, entertainment and tech executive with a reputation for building and scaling brands from nascent stages to large, profitable businesses with viable longevity. She is currently the CEO of NowThis, the hub for entertainment-focused, series-based, and social-first digital content, leading the brand into its next phase as a network. She works closely with the team to accelerate revenue growth and develop best-in-class, innovative programming that defines the NowThis brand. Under her leadership, NowThis has become a profitable and sustainable business primed to lead the digital media industry.

Sharon has held senior positions at large multinationals like iHeartMedia and Meta, venture-backed startups like Some Spider Studios (exited in 2021 to Vox Media and BDG), and longstanding digital properties like Bustle Digital Group. Her 20+ years of experience have spanned finance, revenue growth and operations, yield optimization, organizational development, operations and general management.

Sharon holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University. She has held several advisory board positions within MIT’s Delta V startup accelerator program and has contributed to MIT’s pricing curriculum at the Sloan School of Management.

Jared Kleinstein is the Founder & CEO of Gondola, a platform helping creative professionals get discovered, credited, and hired, and the founder of Fresh Tape Media, an award-winning creative agency working with some of the biggest brands, leagues, and athletes in the world.
Previously, Jared helped shape the early days of social video at Vine and Twitter, where he led sports content partnerships and worked at the forefront of how teams, athletes, and creators connect with audiences on the platform. And before that, he led strategic partnerships for StreetEasy (acquired by Zillow).
Having experienced the evolution of digital media from the platform, agency, and technology sides, Jared brings a unique perspective on the intersection of sports, storytelling, entrepreneurship, and the creator economy. He lives in Denver with his wife, two kids, and best friend/dog Manchego.

Sara Mengesha is a community strategist and cultural architect with 15+ years of experience at the intersection of culture, entertainment, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Across four continents, she has helped produce and shape more than 10,000 live experiences, from intimate concerts and festivals to global creator communities. Her work spans organizations including Sofar Sounds, Lighthouse, and Creator Now/vidIQ, as well as projects involving artists and creators such as Billie Eilish and Morgan Jay.

As Head of Community & Culture at Stan, Sara leads efforts to turn audiences into active communities, creating spaces where creators and entrepreneurs can connect, collaborate, and build sustainable businesses.

Her philosophy is simple: Community isn’t an outcome. It’s a decision. It takes intention to bring people together and purpose to make those connections matter.

Mikhail Naliukhin is the Global Director of inlab, inDrive’s in-house creative agency. He leads a global multidisciplinary team working across creative strategy, campaigns, design, production, localization, digital and emerging technologies.

Under his leadership, inlab has evolved from an internal production function into a global creative partner supporting one of the world’s fastest-growing technology companies across diverse markets and cultures. His focus is on building creative systems that combine strong human judgment, local relevance and new technology and using AI not to replace talent, but to help people work faster, expand their capabilities and create greater impact