Dawn Ostroff is the Chief Content & Advertising Business Officer at Spotify, the leading global music streaming service, joining the company in August 2018. As Chief Content and Advertising Business Officer, Ostroff leads all aspects of content, advertising and distribution operations, including all original content, and industry and creator relationships globally while driving partnerships with brands and marketers worldwide to deliver impact for their businesses and Spotify alike. She oversees Music, Studios, which includes podcasts and video, Content Business & Strategy, Ad Sales, Revenue Product Development, and Ads Business Marketing departments at Spotify.

Prior to her role at Spotify, Ostroff served as President of Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE), a studio and digital distribution network with entertainment content across film, television, premium digital video, social, and virtual reality. Ostroff helped found Conde Nast Entertainment in 2011.

Ostroff was previously the president of entertainment for The CW broadcast network – a joint venture of CBS and Warner Bros. that she helped found and launch in January 2006.  As president, she developed several groundbreaking hit series, including “Gossip Girl” and “The Vampire Diaries.”

From 2002 to 2006, Ostroff served as president of the UPN Network, a subsidiary of CBS, and before that, served as executive vice president of entertainment at Lifetime Television.

Darnell Strom is a Partner & Head of the Culture and Commerce Division at premiere entertainment agency, UTA. Strom represents the most transformative figures, brands, and organizations across entertainment, media, sports, fashion, the arts, entrepreneurship, politics, and thought leadership. He works with pioneers whose creative vision shapes culture and recalibrates the ways we see the world.

Prior to UTA, Darnell Strom was an Agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) working with clients such as Dwyane Wade, Will Smith, will.i.am, Trevor Noah, Vice President Joe Biden, and Gayle King. Strom also advised top global brands like Google, YouTube, Salesforce, Target and Nike on talent partnerships and marketing campaigns.

In 2005, Strom was named Deputy Director of Scheduling to President Bill Clinton, working in the former President’s Harlem offices. He served in this role until 2006, when he was asked to create a program that reflected President Clinton’s vision of engaging the next generation of leaders, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs in the work of the William J. Clinton Foundation. Strom formally launched this program in 2007 as the Clinton Foundation Millennium Network. The Millennium Network has been recognized by President Clinton as an essential fundraising component to the future of the Clinton Foundation.

Peter McIndoe is a performance artist, filmmaker, and founder of the “Birds Aren’t Real” movement – a satirical conspiracy theory which posits that birds don’t exist and are really drone replicas installed by the U.S. government to spy on Americans. For his first 18 years, Peter grew up in a deeply conservative and religious community in rural Arkansas. After dropping out of college in 2018, he spent 4 years in-character with journalists and the world, using conspiracy theorist cosplay by way of Andy Kaufman to rally a community around the absurdity. A real parody movement grew around this character, with hundreds of people mobilizing in real life to protest the “bird drone agenda” and embodying the character along with Peter. The movement has amassed millions of followers on social media, and hundreds of official chapters have popped up at colleges all across the nation.

Sara Baumann is the artist and founder behind the Women and Weapons NFT collection.  She dreamed of being a full-time artist since she was a young girl, but until NFTs, she worked as a full-time Occupational Therapist in the hospital system and sold her art on the side.  Through the power of digital art, NFTs, and Web 3.0, she can finally pursue her dream of being a full-time artist.

Ashley Smith is Co-Owner of Fame Lady Squad, the first all-female generative PFP NFT collection with an epic origin story highlighting the drama, community, and optimism of NFT’s early days. As Co-Host of From The Blockchain podcast, she aims to empower women seeking professional advancement and business innovation via web3. Also known as “Bored Becky”, Ashley runs around the internet as her Bored Ape cartoon character, and looks to leverage its cultural relevance and IP in unprecedented ways (check your cereal aisle). As a 14-year Realtor pre-NFTs in Vancouver, Canada, Ashley was heavily involved in the governance and leadership side of the profession. Exploration of the inevitable impact of blockchain and smart contract technology on the industry was her gateway into this crazy world of web3.

Anna is a choreographer, dancer, director, singer and artist performing and creating for stage, tv and film for the last 31 years. From The Royal ballet school in London to the Swedish ballet School to touring in Europe with dance companies she has been in musicals like Chicago, Singing in the rain, Mamma Mia the Party to performing with some of Swedens major artists from Zara Larsson, Molly Sandén, Tomas Ledin to Symphony Orchestras. Creating for the Eurovision song contest has contrasted with 13 years at The Stockholm State Theatre where productions like Sweeney Todd, choreographing Lehman Trilogy, Fun Home and more has lead to directing for the stage. Recently Anna directed the artist Lisa Nilssons show and is now writing and performing for The State Theatre in her own creation. Since her motto is “creating is living”, her drawings and artwork is also being integrated to set design.

Bonus: On the side Anna sings and writes electro house/soul music and has released music in colab. with Style of Eye (Galantis) and Hannes Lindén (Broke n Tipsy, Cleo)

Sorosh Tavakoli, CEO, previously founded, ran and eventually sold a software company, Videoplaza, with close to 100 employees across 8 offices.

Before starting Stockeld Dreamery, Sorosh spent two years exploring new business ideas where climate impact could be built into the business model. He deep-dived into the world of alternative proteins, micro algae and duckweed, before deciding to go all in on creating the world’s most ambitious cheese together with Anja.

Sorosh was born in Iran, raised in Sweden, lived four years in London and two years in NYC before moving back to Stockholm in early 2017. He holds a Masters from the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm School of Economics.

Rickard Gustafson is the President and CEO of SKF Group since 2021. Some of his previous positions include President and CEO of the SAS Group for 10 years, CEO of the insurance company Codan/Trygg Hansa. Rickard has held several roles within General Electric and he holds an MSc from the Institute of Technology at Linköping University, Sweden.

Patrick J. McGinnis is a venture capitalist, creator and host of the hit podcast FOMO Sapiens, and author of Fear of Missing Out: Practical Decision-Making in a World of Overwhelming Choice.  Patrick coined the term FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and the related term FOBO (Fear of a Better Option) in a 2004 article in the student newspaper of Harvard Business School.  FOMO has since been added to the dictionary and FOBO has become an increasingly popular framework to describe choice paralysis.

Patrick is also the author of international bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job. He has been featured in The New York Times, Politico, The Financial Times, and The Guardian, and gave a popular 2019 TED Talk on decision-making.  Originally from Maine, Patrick is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Business School. He has visited 104 countries and lives in NYC.

Oscar Stege Unger is the founder and CEO of the AI-driven company Canucci, a company founded in 2020 that uses the prediction power of neural networks to capture human input and behaviours to identify patterns in organizational data and turn them into actionable insights for leaders. He is also Senior Advisor to the Wallenberg Foundations within the fields of strategy, communication and governance.

Oscar is also the co-founder of several cross societal engagements such as Future Work Forum, DigitaIidag (Digital Day), the Skill Shift Initiative as well as the recent A Safe Start in Sweden (housing for Ukrainian refugees). In addition, Oscar serves on the board of Scandinavian Airlines,  SAS.