99U Local: Los Angeles
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We’re thrilled to invite you to join us for an intimate, new 99U talk series about how to kill it in your creative career.
The program will feature three short talks offering practical creative career and business advice from exceptional Angelenos who are making ideas happen.
Come for the road-tested, no-bullshit advice. Stay for the drinks, food, and networking!
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We are pleased to announce our three exceptional speakers:
Adam Fisk is the Founder of Lantern (http://thehubla.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de3ddc48509101ba66733bf80&id=0f206f007a&e=485e9dd024), a free Internet proxy tool that provides fast and reliable connections to the open Internet, focusing on individuals living in censored regions. The Lantern team is also responsible for creating FireTweet, an Android app that gives people in censored countries access to Twitter. Adam is also President and CTO of Brave New Software Project, a nonprofit dedicated to building software tools such as Lantern, that keep the Internet open and decentralized. Adam was formerly a lead developer of the peer-to peer file sharing service LimeWire and founder of LittleShoot. He was also one of the creators of the uProxy project at Google. Adam speaks widely at events and conferences around the world and was part of the 2014 TechWeek 100 List.
Amanda Slavin (listed on last year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 for Marketing and Advertising) is a Millennial and Generation Z expert and the CEO/Founder of CatalystCreativ (http://thehubla.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de3ddc48509101ba66733bf80&id=71b7c4a7bf&e=485e9dd024), an experience studio that’s focused on helping cities, brands and institutions flourish by developing educational and inspirational strategy, along with on and offline campaigns to engage Millennials. CatalystCreativ is funded by Zappos CEO and venture capitalist Tony Hsieh as part of the Downtown Project. Slavin and CatalystCreativ have worked with brands spanning from NPR, Dell, Ekocycle, and Starwood Hotels.
Kel O’Neill is one half of Jongsma + O’Neill (http://thehubla.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de3ddc48509101ba66733bf80&id=54c3f4ed04&e=485e9dd024), a Dutch-American filmmaking team working at the intersection of documentary, art, and technology. Jongsma + O’Neill are the creators of the Emmy-nominated interactive documentary “Empire” (POV/PBS). They are currently working on two new project: “Exit,” a mobile storytelling project produced by Amsterdam’s Submarine Channel; and “The Ark,” a VR documentary which recently won the inaugural Tim Hetherington Visionary Award. Their work has been exhibited by such world-renowned institutions as Lincoln Center, REDCAT and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, and has appeared at the New York Film Festival, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and South by Southwest. They have written for Vice, the Creators Project, Indiewire and PBS.org. Kel also works as an immersive media consultant for clients such as The Economist.
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