Anca Platon Trifan, CMP, WMEP
Joy & WellnessAI & Strategy
Award-winning speaker, AI strategist, and five-time bodybuilding champion who fuses more than 20 years of AV production and event technology expertise with her #FIT4EVENTS™ framework. CEO of Tree-Fan Event Productions, host of the top-rated Events: Demystified podcast, and a recognized voice on global stages including IMEX, SXSW, PCMA, MPI, and more. Through #FIT4EVENTS™, Anca integrates AI, production discipline, and wellness to support sharper thinking, stronger execution, and long-term performance — grounded, candid, and highly actionable. She also sits at the intersection of AI strategy, AV production, event technology, and human performance, helping organizations move beyond surface-level innovation into practical, scalable systems that work in live environments — bridging strategy and execution, reducing friction, and designing high-impact events that are sustainable for teams and businesses.
Angela Gargano
Be the FIRST is a high-energy keynote where Angela Gargano empowers audiences to take bold, intentional action in moments of uncertainty. A 6x American Ninja Warrior, former biochemist, and TEDx Speaker, Angela shares how navigating 'the hallway in between' — the uncomfortable space between where you are and where you want to be — is where real transformation happens. Creator of a global movement that has helped thousands of women achieve their first pull-up, she shows how redefining what's possible on the bar translates directly to leadership, confidence, and performance in life and work. Blending science-backed strategies and unforgettable storytelling, Angela equips audiences with her FIRST Framework to move past fear, build momentum, and lead with conviction. Featured in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal.
Eli Walker
Belonging Expert. Performer. Social Wellness Entrepreneur. The person who created the world's first yoga drinking game, then turned that viral phenomenon into a methodology used by leaders from Fortune 500s all the way to communities in rural Africa to build culture. Eli is a belonging design strategist, keynote speaker, and solo-performance artist who has spent the last decade obsessed with one question: what makes a room full of individuals feel like they belong there? Her unexpectedly viral social wellness brand, Drunk Yoga®, is where it all collided — through scaling this subversive yoga drinking game, she learned that belonging is born from the facilitator of it: the person skilled enough to hold the space between themselves and everyone in it. NOTE: Not listed in the original Directory of Talent — double-check with Liz before publishing.
Chris Vasami
A former professional baseball player, cancer survivor, coach, husband, and father — and every one of those roles shows up in how he speaks, teaches, and leads. He started his first business at 20 and has spent more than 15 years building Vasami Training and the Vasami Method, working with thousands of athletes not just to improve performance, but to help them understand who they are when the pressure is on. In 2017, a thyroid cancer diagnosis forced a hard reset that gave Chris a voice rooted in lived experience, not theory. Today he speaks to leaders, companies, associations, teams, and athletes about adversity, identity, and mindset — helping people move from pressure to purpose. Offstage, Chris is usually training, chasing his daughters around the backyard, reading, traveling, or at home with his wife Paige in Charlotte. He believes deeply in celebrating small wins.
Dallin Cooper
Joy & WellnessLeadership & Teams
From the smallest towns in Wyoming to the bustling streets of China's largest cities, Dallin Cooper has challenged audiences to rethink the way they see the world and each other. He has advised and spoken for industry-leading organizations such as Meta, Charter, RE/MAX, MGMA, and GE, empowering leaders to question long-held assumptions, break through communication barriers, and foster cultures of trust and collaboration. Dallin is a globally recognized speaker, author, and serial entrepreneur who has founded and led multiple organizations and orchestrated two successful exits.
David T. Stevens
Longevity is one of the fastest-growing forces in the consumer wellness marketplace, and it's reshaping what people expect from work and from the way we gather. David T. Stevens separates evidence-based longevity trends from hype and translates those shifts into practical implications for the corporate workplace, meetings, and live experiences. As host of the Return on Wellness podcast, his perspective is informed by conversations with world-class public health leaders, MDs, and PhDs, translated into practical, scalable strategies that improve attention, energy, connection, and learning outcomes. His talks help organizations and event leaders rethink how experiences are designed in an era where cognitive performance, wellbeing, and longevity are business imperatives, not just personal interests.
Janice Cardinale
Mental WellbeingLeadership & Teams
Janice Cardinale is on a mission to change the narrative on mental health while ending workplace abuse. She has spent 36 years as a heart-centric entrepreneur, owning and successfully exiting two businesses. Her work focuses on training leaders and teams at all levels in psychological safety and emotional intelligence — recognizing harm in the workplace and responding with empathy, especially in the high-pressure ecosystem of events, meetings, hospitality, and incentive travel. After four years of advocacy and awareness-building, Janice has helped advance solutions that support neurodiverse individuals, those navigating mental health challenges, and professionals experiencing burnout, and believes in building brave spaces that create safer, healthier workplaces.
Dr. Jess Garza
Dr. Jess Garza is a TED Speaker with over 1.9 million views and an internationally recognized expert in cognitive performance and decision-making under pressure. For more than two decades she's worked with high-stakes professionals — special forces, senior military leadership, Olympic athletes, and executive teams responsible for complex, fast-moving decisions. On stage she translates the science of cognition, stress, and performance into practical insight audiences can immediately apply, exploring how humans actually think under pressure and how to train the brain for clarity, control, and adaptability when it matters most. Keynotes are highly engaging and grounded in real-world scenarios, often incorporating live demonstrations and experiential elements.
Kesha "Keke" Moore
Joy & WellnessEvents & Design
Kesha 'Keke' Moore is an accessibility-centered event strategist, systems thinker, and operational architect who builds experiences that honor the brilliance and the bandwidth of every body in the room. She merges corporate excellence with lived experience to create events that are joyful, intentional, and built different.
Mark Mohammadpour
Joy & WellnessLeadership & Teams
Mark Mohammadpour leads Keynote Conversations™, interactive, no-podium experiences that transform audiences into participants. As founder of Chasing the Sun®, Mark helps leaders build healthier cultures that reduce burnout, retain top talent, and drive stronger results. A former global Public Relations executive who lost 150 pounds, Mark blends Fortune 500 leadership with lived experience — audiences describe his sessions as relatable, actionable, and real. With 200,000+ lives impacted and 99% of attendees rating his talks as valuable, Mark ensures people leave inspired and ready to act.
Nelia Nunes
Joy & WellnessEvents & Design
Nelia Nunes is a keynote speaker, event strategist, and advocate who helps leaders and organizations navigate change, adversity, and growth with clarity and courage. With over 25 years of professional leadership experience, and lived experience as the parent of a young adult with a disability, Nelia brings real-world insight, empathy, and practical perspective to every stage. Her career spans decades leading complex, high-stakes work across the event and experience industry. Her signature keynote, 'When Life Happens: Turning the Mess Into a Map,' blends compelling personal storytelling with actionable mindset shifts to help audiences build resilience and transform life's hardest seasons into purposeful momentum. She also serves as an Independent Facilitator in California's Self-Determination Program, supporting individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
Robin Shear
The TEDx & Global Joy Speaker and author who turns everyday events into joy-filled gamechangers. Robin Shear blends contagious energy with practical tools that audiences can use to spark joy immediately. Her interactive keynotes break through burnout, fuel authentic connection, and keep people fully engaged (ask about the spontaneous snowball fights, kazoo battles, and dance breaks!). Planners love her because she's easy to partner with and delivers customized experiences, memorable moments, and measurable results. Robin is available for keynotes, half/full day trainings, and retreats. She speaks professionally full-time, is president-elect of the National Speakers Association (Michigan chapter), was named NSA Michigan Member of the Year, PCMA's Leading Class Speaker, and ITA Group's Trending Speaker. Her book, Messy Joy: How Joy Can Begin Before Your Difficulties End, received offers from seven publishers and was a #1 New Release on Amazon.
Steve Woodruff
Steve Woodruff is the King of Clarity. With over 40 years of business experience, Steve has consulted with and developed training for teams of every size, from startups to Top Five Pharma. He is a well-known speaker/facilitator and the author of two books on communication clarity. Steve's most popular topic is Personal Branding — he has coached hundreds of professionals on creating brief, effective messages that create interest and engagement. Besides conference keynotes and workshops, Steve also facilitates unique 30-minute 'Pre-note' sessions for events that equip attendees with personalized 15-30 second 'Memory Dart' introductions, catalyzing effective networking for everyone.
Cindy Lo
AI & StrategyEvents & Design
When Cindy Y. Lo started RED VELVET in 2002, she did so with the mission to Outplan, Outplay, and Outparty! RED VELVET is a full-service experience agency helping global brands ideate, design, and execute their vision. As of August 2023, Cindy is also the owner and CEO of Strong Events — celebrating 35 years in business, it's the longest running and largest warehouse of specialty event rentals and custom fabrication servicing the Texas Hill Country area. Cindy is the author of Behind the Red Velvet Curtain, and calls Austin, Texas home with her husband of 20 years, their 2 children, and Darwin, their French Bulldog.
Dax Callner
Dax Callner is a strategist and experiential marketing leader known for helping organizations design live experiences that are intentional, measurable, and rooted in human connection. With more than 25 years in the industry, he brings a pragmatic, strategic lens to how events drive business outcomes, not just attendance. Dax is especially recognized for his work around event measurement and strategy, pushing teams to move beyond vanity metrics and toward insights that actually inform decisions. His sessions are grounded, direct, and highly relevant for audiences navigating increased scrutiny, tighter budgets, and rising expectations around relevance and impact.
Megan Martin
If you're looking for a speaker who can make strategy feel simple — and spark real change in the room — Megan Martin always delivers, in-person or online. She brings sharp insights, clear frameworks, and a no-fluff approach to every stage, whether she's unpacking the future of events, decoding data, or helping teams think differently about growth. Audiences leave with more than inspiration — they leave with clarity and next steps. Megan is also a great facilitator who excels at bringing ideas out of everyone with free-flowing human connection and engagement.
Marisa Cali
AI & StrategyLeadership & Teams
Marisa Cali helps leaders and solopreneurs create clarity in how they work, show up, and communicate. With nearly two decades of experience across events, marketing, and technology, she's known for turning meaningful conversations into aligned, practical action. Her talks focus on reducing overwhelm, strengthening decision-making, and helping people use modern tools in ways that support real work, not constant output. Marisa is the creator of Empowered Efficiency™ sessions and the curator of the Aligned & Affirmed retreat — an intentional small-group experience for business owners to step away from constant output, gain clarity, and return to their work with renewed focus and confident, conscious leadership.
Phil Putnam
AI & StrategyLeadership & Teams
Trust matters now more than ever before. Constant, radical change, fear, and painfully low trust between employees and leaders are the biggest obstacles to consistent business growth today. Through his GIVE TO GET™ methodology, Phil Putnam helps leaders build constant trust to overcome constant change and achieve consistent growth. With more than two decades of experience in world-class organizations like Apple and Adobe, in roles spanning from entry-level to executive leadership, Phil brings a rare blend of strategic business expertise and an incisive understanding of human behavior — he knows how to lead, and he knows what it's like to be led. His human-centered leadership framework, GIVE TO GET™, is grounded in the core truth that drives all performance: people work to get the life they desire.
Trevor Sookraj
AI & Tech for the Average Professional. Trevor Sookraj is our 'been there, done that' speaker. Over the past 10 years he's run growth at tech companies like Shopify, Clearbit, and Shiftsmart, and scaled his own marketing agency, Divisional, to 7-figure revenue. He's worn hats across marketing, sales, and operations, so he's uniquely positioned to tailor content to each audience. His presentations are highly practical, demonstrating real AI workflows and sharing takeaways attendees can bring back to their teams.
DJ Big Papa G (Greg Horta)
BPG Entertainment provides more than just music. If you need someone to motivate your crowd — more than just play a CD — you need an emcee like Big Papa G! Greg Horta's love for music and fun led him to launch BPG Entertainment, a fully insured company specializing in corporate events, fundraisers, community events, and sporting events, handling DJ, entertainer, and emcee services. Big Papa G personally deals directly with clients, contacts them prior to the event, and is willing to set up the day before. His great radio voice and charming, funny personality help him steer a fantastic party. The biggest challenge for any DJ is enticing people to the dance floor and keeping them entertained — Big Papa G sets the tone for the entire event, never misses a song on the client's request list, and keeps every guest entertained with the right music for the crowd.
Evan Babins
With more than 15 years of experience across agency and client-side roles, Evan Babins' work is grounded in strong stakeholder management, operational rigor, and the ability to manage multiple high-complexity events simultaneously. Evan is widely recognized as an industry trendsetter, earning honors from EventEx, BizBash, Bizzabo, and Meetings Today.
Gabriella Robuccio
Events & DesignLeadership & Teams
Gabriella Robuccio is a nationally recognized speaker, consultant, and leadership strategist who helps professionals at all levels master the most underutilized tool in the workplace: relationships. After more than a decade managing high-pressure, high-profile projects for ESPN — including the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euros, and an Emmy Award-winning season of College GameDay — Gabriella saw a pattern: success wasn't about working harder, it was about working smarter with people. Today she teaches leaders and teams how to reduce conflict, build buy-in, and communicate with clarity when stakes are high. Her workshops and keynotes blend emotional intelligence, ethical persuasion, and leadership development into actionable strategies. At the core of her work is the R.E.A.L. Relationship System™, a four-part framework designed to turn misalignment into momentum.
DJ Graffiti (Martin Smith)
DJ Graffiti is a DJ, emcee, and experience curator who understands one essential truth: music is not background noise, it's a leadership tool. With decades of experience behind the decks and on stages around the world, he brings a rare blend of musical intelligence, crowd psychology, and facilitation to corporate events, conferences, and brand experiences. He doesn't just play music — he reads rooms, shapes energy, and inspires audiences to move from passive attendance into shared momentum. His work sits at the intersection of performance, participation, and atmosphere, helping events feel less like programming and more like experiences people actually want to be part of.
DJ Herbert Holler
DJ Herbert Holler was raised on a wildly eclectic soundtrack, growing up in Atlantic City with a father who managed casino nightlife — immersed early in sound, spectacle, and the electric energy of rooms full of people. Now more than 20 years into his career, he's played nearly every lounge, bar, and dance floor New York City has to offer, with residencies and guest spots around the world. His client and collaborator list includes artists such as Snoop Dogg, Diplo, Benny Blanco, Boyz II Men, John Legend, the Weeknd, and Blondie. He's the creator of Herbert Holler's Freedom™ Party, an award-winning institution that has run for over 23 years and 1,000+ events, named Best Dance Party by the Village Voice. His work is rooted in one simple goal: bringing people together through music, movement, and joy.
Kelly Kingman
Kelly Kingman is the CEO and principal artist of Kingman Ink, a boutique visual communication firm based in New York. Kelly transforms conversations and keynotes into hand-drawn summaries that help audiences better recall and retain key ideas. A passionate advocate of visual literacy, she inspires people to use simple sketches to brainstorm, collaborate, and communicate more effectively — no artistic skills required. Her interactive sessions empower audiences of any size, virtual or in-person, to pick up a pen and draw for increased creativity and clearer communication.
Phil Mershon
Phil Mershon is a master of creating memorable event experiences that captivate audiences, boost retention, and drive revenue. Through his Unforgettable Experiences program, he teaches event planners to design gatherings that leave lasting impressions and build strong attendee loyalty. Phil, Founder of Unforgettable Experiences and Director of Experience for Social Media Examiner, offers a comprehensive suite of services including coaching, keynote speaking, and strategic event design consultations. His book, Unforgettable: The Art and Science of Creating Memorable Experiences, provides insights and strategies for anyone looking to create events that foster engagement, increase revenue, and drive brand loyalty.
Seth Weiner, Your Rocktioneer®
Seth Weiner — Your Rocktioneer® | The Fundraising Producer. Seth is an entertainer, emcee, professional fundraising auctioneer, and game show host known for creating high-energy, interactive experiences that drive engagement and results. His personality shines through the microphone, blending humor, heart, and sharp instincts to elevate events of all sizes. Seth is the co-host of Inside Out w/ Turner and Seth, a podcast spotlighting the music industry and performing artists. Through years of producing game shows at music festivals, corporate conferences, and fundraising events, Seth brings a deep bench of creative concepts designed to loosen the vibe, spark connection, and get audiences fully involved. As Your Rocktioneer®, Seth doesn't just run programs — he produces moments that create lasting memories, meaningful impact, and a whole lot of fun.
