Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Track II: Ahmanson Hall, Live Webcast

The Influencer Lifestyle - Defining Your Life - Your Voice - Your Future

Goldie Chan, Founder, Warm Robots, Leading Linkedin Influencer

Eylul Savas, Founder, Lw/ND Media, Influencer, “Llama With No Drama”

YiZhou, Influencer, Actor, Director & Founder Global Intuition

Sam Leigh, Media Strategist, inArtists (iA)

Brendan Kane, Author, Best Selling Book, “One Million Followers”

David Bloom, Columnist/Contributor, TVRev / Tubefilter / Forbes, Moderator

Goldie Chan is the top LinkedIn Video creator, global keynote speaker and digital strategist. Her video channel won LinkedIn Top Voice and is the longest running daily show on the LinkedIn platform with over 4 million views and counting.  She's known as the "Oprah of LinkedIn" by Huffington Post. Her current partnerships include global brands such as WeWork, Skype and Amazon. She also runs Warm Robots, a social media strategy agency based in Los Angeles and writes for Forbes on “Personal Branding and Storytelling in the Digital Age.” In 2018, she represented the US in the UK as part of an inaugural Women in Tech delegation through the Mayor of London's office and is a Forbes Fellow. She is a proud member of the Producer’s Guild of America, New Media Council, Stanford University graduate and has been featured as a fresh voice in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Fast Company and more

Eylul Savas is a Digital Influencer and the Founder of Lw/ND Media. She is listed as one of Business Insider's 2017 Top 30 Social Media Stars. In the last decade, she worked with various international clients from  numerous industries. She is best known for the success of her travel blog and social media sensation, Llama With No Drama - featured in over 300 major media channels in 29 countries and 21 languages. She attended UCLA and Bahcesehir University, and has worked for Saatchi & Saatchi and Havas Worldwide in Istanbul. Her interests include traveling, photography, food, equestrian activities, jazz and the arts.

Brendan Kane is a business and digital strategist for Fortune 500 corporations, brands, and celebrities.  He thrives on helping his clients systematically find and engage new audiences that reward relevant content, products, and services with their attention and spend. Brendan’s greatest strength is unlocking value. He transforms complexity into simplicity with tools and methods that amplify growth and enable execution. Starting his career at Lakeshore Entertainment, Brendan oversaw all aspects of their interactive media strategy. He worked on 16 films that generated a worldwide gross of $685 million dollars and pioneered the first ever influencer campaign to effectively promote Lakeshore’s movies. He then went on to build applications and platforms for celebrity clients such as Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Xzibit, Charles Barkley, Michael Strahan, super model Adrianna Lima, and pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler. He also served as vice president of digital for Paramount Pictures and helped scale one of the largest social optimization firms in the world that works with brands such as Disney, Fox, NBC, Netflix, Xbox, LinkedIn, and many notable fortune 100 companies. Brendan is most recently known for publishing the best selling book “One Million Followers”, that breaks down how he was able to generate 1 million followers in 100 countries in 30 days.

YiZhou: Influencer, Director & Founder Global Intuition: Chinese multimedia artist, influencer and entrepreneur Yi Zhou is widely known in the international creative community for her artistic, fashion, branding  and film work.  Her work is admired by a highly diverse group  of distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood A-listers, wealthy patrons and the young social media audience. In recent years, Yi Zhou has endorsed a number of global campaigns including Persol, DFST – Galleria, Levis, and others. She was named the first ever brand ambassador for China for Clarins in 2010. Since 2011, she has collaborated with such prestigious brands as Chanel, Hogan, Pringle of Scotland, Lane Crawford and YOOX. She also collaborated with French couture Jewelry house Gripoix, launching a special collection titled “Pineapple Secret.  Her animations have also inspired a clothing collection by popular French brand Each X Other. In 2013, she was invited as the first ever Chinese talent to be hired as a designer and creative director of a brand,  to create a 360 degree project ranging from menswear, womenswear and accessories for Italian luxury brand ICEBERG.  The “Breaking the Ice” capsule collection was released worldwide in December 2013. In 2010, she created Yi Zhou Studio, creating employment opportunities for young Chinese talent to collaborate and experiment together on international projects. A major social media influencer, Yi Zhou has been named Tudou’s art director, art and fashion advisory member at SINA.com, and beauty and fashion ambassador for Tencent A passionate promoter of East-West relations, she is frequently asked to speak at conferences and events around the globe, including TEDx (Paris 2012, Beijing 2013, Zheijang 2014), LVMH  Labour Day in Paris in 2013 and Financial Times Luxury Conference in 2014. Yi Zhou has contributed to many NGOs by creating art pieces for the UN Conference for World Climate Change in South Africa in 2011, the UNDP China Rio+20 Projection in 2012, as well as World Oceans Day in 2015. Most recently, she worked with Natalia Vodianova’s Naked Heart Foundation by participating with an artwork commissioned by ETAM. Yi Zhou ‘s short films have been shown at Shanghai Biennale, Venice Biennale, Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival.  She was selected by Venice Biennale to showcase her 2011 works, as well as new works from her solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome titled “Fragments of Rome, past, future, parallel worlds.” She is currently working on several international media projects and  is developing her first feature motion picture. She has a degree in politic science and economics from the London School of Economics, and is now continuing her education at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She speaks fluent French, Italian, English, Spanish and Mandarin.

Sam Leigh, Media Strategist, inArtists (iA): An Entertainment & Marketing Firm Specializing in the Convergence of Digital & Traditional Talent & Media. Sam comes to this field with years of experience working with top and emerging digital and traditional creators and performers, in partnership with new- media and legacy buyers, to package and deliver multi-format high quality content. Sam’s past employers include Collab Studios, AI Film, and Creative Artists Agency. Sam knows despite the hyper-speed at which mass-media evolves and carries us deeper into the era of digital communication there remains a desire intrinsic within The Arts for deep personal connections and a strong sense of community. He believes in the unique age-old power of story-telling and its ability to shape cultures, break down barriers, build bridges, and offer hope and joy for the masses.  A U.S. Navy vet and former active duty military police officer, he began his career in entertainment working for a veteran power-agent at a top agency, followed by a stint producing alongside a preferred film financier, all the while privileged to work with some of the industry's foremost figures in motion pictures and television. Sam then shifted his focus toward digital and new media talent, outlets, and audiences, where he sought to apply a traditional approach to new-media artist-management and content-packaging, development, and sales.

David Bloom advises on communications strategy, media relations and social media for prominent companies, institutions and individuals in politics, technology, entertainment and business. Bloom previously was associate dean and chief communications officer for the USC Marshall School of Business, and vice president of corporate communications at movie studio MGM Inc. He previously worked 20 years as an award-winning journalist for such publications as Variety, Red Herring, the Los Angeles Daily News and the Dallas Times Herald.  Bloom writes regularly on technology, media, politics and art at the blogs Bloom’s Day and Post Mad Bills; guest lectures at USC, Pepperdine and Chapman University, and is a frequent moderator and panelist at conferences such as Digital Hollywood, Ad:Tech, Produced By, NATPE and OMMA. He is vice president of the Board of Directors of Outpost for Contemporary Art.