In 2007, Jan co-founded Johannes Leonardo based on the philosophy that the consumer has become the new medium. His work for Google resulted in the mobile Grand Prix at the Cannes advertising festival and his campaign for adidas contributed to the company’s turnaround. This year, it was awarded the Entertainment for Music Grand Prix at the same festival. He has won many industry accolades, including being featured twice as one of Creativity's 50 most influential creative people. Prior to launching Johannes Leonardo, he served as executive creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi New York where he worked on P&G’s Tide’s 2008 Super Bowl spot, named one of the top 20 Super Bowl ads of all time by Ad Age.

Suzanne is responsible for the strategic development of the company and its clients across all brands and regions. This encompasses leadership of strategic talent and resources, as well as the competencies that drive idea development for creative solutions across all platforms. Included in this is the Truth Central community, a proprietary intelligence unit dedicated to driving new opportunities for brands. Under her leadership, McCann has consistently been ranked as a top 3 network globally in the EFFIE awards honoring communications effectiveness and, most recently, has been recognized as a top 5 strategic network by WARC.

Suzanne joined McCann in 2013 from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, where she served as global strategy officer and led the global development of the agency, working across all CP+B offices and brands. Before this she led global brand strategy at TBWA for over 10 years.

A winner of multiple Effie's, Lions, Obies, and Pencils, Suzanne has been a frequent keynote speaker and awards show judge. She is past chairperson of the AAAA’s Planning Committee and conference chair for its Account Planning Group. In 2016, she was recognized by Advertising Women of New York with its Changing the Game award.

Most importantly, she’s the proud mom of teenage twin boys, which is like its own sociological experiment every day.

Chloe combines design, storytelling and technology for her work on brands including Nike, Samsung and Verizon. She works across six R/GA offices and hundreds of multi-disciplinary creative teams. To encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration, Chloe, who uses human-centered design skills, has developed numerous frameworks that lead to “great work that works.” These methods helped R/GA NY win Agency of the Year at Cannes in 2015 with a wide range of work including R/GA Ventures “Hammerhead,” Equinox’s “Pursuit Connected Cycling” and Ad Council’s “Love Has No Labels.” Chloe was one of Ad Age’s 2016 Women to Watch and Business Insider’s 2015 Most Creative People in Advertising. She recently served as the 2016 Cannes Lions Cyber Jury Chair and as a member of the 2017 Cannes Titanium jury.

Esther develops and drives Spark Foundry’s strategic vision. Prior to joining Spark Foundry in 2016, Esther led the creative vision for Starcom Mediavest Group’s (SMG) Human Experience Strategy, and the multicultural division of Publicis Media. At SMG, she inspired the creation of Beyond Demographics, proprietary research exploring the role of subculture in redefining communities—notably African-American, Latino, Asian-American and LGBT. She also pioneered Cultural Communication Anthropology, which explores cultural behaviors and communication consumption patterns, and spearheaded the creation of Consumer Context Planning.

Esther spent the early part of her career at Leo Burnett working on various Philip Morris brands as VP, planning director for Marlboro USA. She helped launch corporate trend initiatives including LeoShe, Foresight Matters and 20Twenty Vision.

Esther has been named an Ad Age Women to Watch and received a Changing the Game honor from Advertising Women of New York (now She Runs It). Other awards include AdColor’s Legend Award and being named multiple times to Black Enterprise’s Top Women Executives in Advertising & Marketing list. Esther is a board member of the Family Institute at Northwestern University and the Chicago Urban League. A Chicago native, she attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and received her Master's of Management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Business School.

Karl Lieberman is the ECD and creative lead of Wieden+Kennedy, New York. Alongside his Managing Director partner Neal Arthur, they oversee the office’s 12 brands and 200+ employees. Since graduating from the University of Delaware with a BFA degree in 1999, Lieberman has worked as both an art director and a copywriter. In 2006 he co-created “The Most Interesting Man in the World” campaign for Dos Equis with Brandon Henderson under Jeff Kling that ran for a decade and helped triple the brand’s business. In 2010 Lieberman penned and later creative directed the P&G “Thank You, Mom” Olympics campaign that won an Emmy in 2012 and has been named one of the most successful P&G Olympics marketing efforts of all time. In 2015 – in hopes of connecting a struggling brand back to its roots – Lieberman helped bring back “The Colonel” for Kentucky Fried Chicken in surprising and unusual ways that helped spark a strong turnaround for the brand leading to over 13 consecutive quarters of business growth. Over the years, Lieberman has also worked on a variety of businesses that include Nike, Old Spice, Delta, Bud Light, ESPN, Jordan Brand, Yoplait, Target, Sirius, Sprite and Facebook while finding himself working alongside icons like Mark Zuckerberg, LeBron James and Howard Stern. Lieberman has won a handful of accolades over the years including Titanium, Gold, Silver and Bronze Cannes Lions, multiple Gold Effies for effectiveness and his work has been added to the permanent collection of MoMA through the AICP multiple times. The work he has helped create has impacted culture and has been covered and referenced in every major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Saturday Night Live, The Onion, The Daily Show, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, ESPN, Esquire and others. Since joining WKNY in January of 2016, Lieberman has helped bring new brands and business to the office including Spotify, Duracell, Lyft, The Atlantic and FS1. Karl lives in Brooklyn with his wife Amy, their two children Edie and Ray and their dog Reggie.

Named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Voices in Technology, Shelly Palmer is CEO of The Palmer Group, a strategic advisory, technology solutions and business development practice focused at the nexus of media and marketing with a special emphasis on machine learning and data-driven decision-making. He is a trusted strategic advisor to the C-Suite of leading digital media, content, broadcasting and technology firms and a key driver of market, technology and strategic direction, as well as acquisition strategies, for his clients.

On-Air: Palmer is well known as Fox 5 New York’s on-air tech expert and for his work on the Emmy-nominated television show, Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He is also a regular technology commentator for CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox Business News.

Technologist/Inventor: He is the patented inventor of the underlying technology for Enhanced Television used by programs such as ABC’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and ESPN’s Monday Night Football and response-based advertising systems.

Creative: An award-winning composer, producer, writer and director, Palmer has worked with hundreds of brands, agencies, broadcasters, publishers and tech platforms on advertising and marketing campaigns such as, Meow Mix, Burger King and The City of Las Vegas.

Subject Matter Expert: Palmer is a popular speaker and moderator at technology and media conferences hosted by industry organizations, like: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), The National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB), PromaxBDA, The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), CTIA – The Wireless Association, and other major trade events. He is a guest lecturer at the MIT Media Lab, Stern Graduate Business School at NYU, The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia University, Tsinghua University, Rutgers Business School and other top tier colleges and universities.

Emmy Awards: Palmer is a past president of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy Award and the creator of the Advanced Media Emmy Awards held annually at International CES.

Author: Palmer is the author of Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV (Focal Press 2006; 2nd Edition, York House Press, 2008) the seminal book about the technological, economic, and sociological forces that are changing everything, Overcoming The Digital Divide: How to use Social Media and Digital Tools to Reinvent Yourself and Your Career (York House Press, 2011), Digital Wisdom: Thought Leadership for a Connected World (York House Press, 2013) and Data-Driven Thinking: A collection of essays on data-driven decision making.(Digital Living Press, 2016)

Jayanta leads the #Studio team to conceptualize global brand campaigns. Prior to this role, he served as global creative director of advertising with Apple/Beats by Dre. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in fashion art advertising, Jayanta began his advertising career at The Martin Agency in Richmond, Virginia. He then went to Wieden+Kennedy, where he created integrated campaigns for Nike Basketball, Nike Running and Powerade, and then TBWA/Chiat/Day, where he worked on Gatorade. Follow Jayanta on Twitter @Jayanta.

Kirk McDonald is a media and technology industry leader with over 25 years of experience working with the world’s leading brands, media companies and technology providers. He is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at the AT&T advertising and analytics company. The new company, established in fall 2017 in anticipation of the closing of the Time Warner merger, will create a new, innovative advertising platform focused on transparency and brand-safe placement in premium content across screens. As CMO, Kirk is responsible for the creation and implementation of the marketing strategy for the company.

Before joining AT&T, Kirk was President of PubMatic, Inc. a leading marketing automation software company sitting at the intersection of media and technology. Prior to PubMatic, Kirk was President of Digital, Time Inc. He also served as Chief Advertising Officer of the Fortune|Money Group, overseeing worldwide advertising sales, integrated marketing, and the events business. He's previously held senior sales, marketing and client success positions at Aquantive's DRIVEpm and Atlas Enterprise, CNET, ZiffDavis and Condé Nast.

Kirk has been fortunate to receive many professional awards, including: Adweek’s 2015 “50 List of Vital Leaders in Tech, Media and Marketing,” Adweek’s 2014 “12 Stars of Ad Tech Who are Building the Future of the Industry Right Now,” Business Insider’s 2014 “The 46 Most Important African-Americans in Technology,” Business Insider’s 2013 “The 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology,” and Business Insider’s 2012 “THE SILICON ALLEY 100: The Coolest People in New York Tech This Year”.

Kirk’s expertise and commentary on key technology trends and the future of digital media have been published in leading industry and trade publications including The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Beet.TV, AdExchanger, Adweek, The Drum, and many more.

Kirk serves on several professional and not-for-profit boards including the IAB Board of Directors and the IRTS. Additionally, he was a former advisory board member to LUMA Partners. Kirk also plays an active role as Board Chairman with CI, a 501(c)(3) organization focused on inspiring and equipping underserved students with the skills in computing, leadership, and professionalism needed to thrive in the future business economy.

Kirk lives in North Stamford, CT with his wife and two children.