Author, entrepreneur and media maven, Bill Lessard has executed thousands of successful media campaigns. He loves startups and big companies that think like startups. His clients have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg News, NPR, the Washington Post and thousands of other mainstream and specialty outlets. He loves what he does for a living. He only works with people who feel the same way. His writing has been featured in Wired, NPR, McSweeney's and the San Francisco Chronicle. He co-authored two books about working in the age of the Internet. He has been profiled by PBS NewsHour, the BBC, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Wired and NPR. He enjoys teaching PR workshops to startup founders. He curates tech tours of NYC and San Francisco, drawing upon his 20+ years in the technology industry.

Dylan Tweney is the founder of Tweney Media. The former editor-in-chief of VentureBeat, he is also a former Wired editor and an award-winning tech journalist. At VentureBeat, he managed a global news team of more than a dozen staff journalists and many freelancers from 2011-2015. During that period, the editorial staff doubled, while the site’s audience more than quadrupled, from 1.5 million to 6.5 million monthly visitors. He continues to write the site’s “Dylan’s Desk” column, which is a weekly series on Silicon Valley, the tech industry, and the impact of technology on business strategy. He also writes on LinkedIn, where he is a LinkedIn Influencer, followed by over 71,000 people. Dylan’s motto is “If you’re bored, you’re not paying attention.”

LA provides business and marketing strategy for enterprise and consumer technology companies, with an emphasis on bringing new companies or products to market. Her programs catalyze business growth via a targeted narrative (messaging) that resonates with the audiences intended (across all digital channels). She has worked closely with executive management and product development teams to build content marketing programs that work. Additionally, She coaches SMB proprietors in art, design, music, and tech, teaching them how to build and run their own growth marketing and communications campaigns She has worked with Porter Novelli and Access PR, among others.