Past Speakers

R. Brian Stone is a practicing designer, educator, and researcher in the area of interaction design, information design, user experience, and communication through motion. He teaches Visual Communication in the Department of Design at The Ohio State University and is a principal partner in the...

Artist, Design, Filmmaker - Nok Empire Mapack is the founder of NOK Empire a multifaceted production company and creative design agency with offices in Nigeria and the U.S. Mapack Ron Mapis comes from a creative background, a graduate of the renowned Columbus College of Art and Design,...

Fashion, Entrepreneurship, Branding My name is Marcus green a 30year old husband , father, R&D specialist for Abercrombie and Fitch, and owner of Draped22 clothing store and art gallery. Born and raised in Columbus I've grown to learn many different dynamics of this fine city....

Comic Book Illustrator / Publisher A small kid with a huge imagination to create. Ever since the sixth grade Michael has known he wanted to create comics. After honing his craft at Cleveland School of the Arts, He took his talents to Columbus College of Art...

"I've come along way from the cart boy at my local grocery store, in fact just one year after I stood in a room of millionaires accepting a check to launch my start up consulting company StayFreshOnline, Inc. Through it all, it never set in...

A quarter of the age of Jazz, Gerald Clayton stakes his claim in the history and the present of this vital music with the following words, “Tradition and innovation can peacefully coexist.” In libraries and on drawing-boards around the country this statement might be true,...

Valerie Thompson is a 29 year-old native of Toledo, Ohio. She is a Marketing Strategist, Graphic Designer and owner of Leap Graphics, a full service graphic design firm specializing in print and web graphics. A graduate from University of Toledo with a B.A. in Graphic...