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Meng Ru Kuok is the Co-Founder and CEO of BandLab Technologies, a collective of music brands with a vision to connect the world of music. BandLab, the organisation's flagship digital product, is an all-in-one social music creation platform with a community of 35 million users and growing. Headquartered in Singapore, the group owns and operates multiple brands in the global music industry from iconic publications like the NME, to legendary guitar brands such as Harmony and Heritage Guitars, and musical instrument stores across Southeast Asia with Swee Lee.

Dmitri Vietze, Founder and CEO of Rock Paper Scissors: Dmitri Vietze is the founder of music tech PR firm rock paper scissors, inc., and has represented clients ranging from CD Baby to LyricFind, Pex, and Loudr. He is also the founder of the Music Tectonics annual conference and podcast, which explore the intersection of music, technology, and business. Dmitri can be found speaking on stage at conferences ranging from SXSW to Music Biz on new approaches to publicity, innovation, and resourcefulness.

Jacquelle Amankonah Horton is the Founder & CEO of Fave, a new social platform & marketplace dedicated to empowering superfans. Her passionate vision and execution plan for Fave won her 2020 "Startup of the Year" at the Music Tectonics conference and led her to raise over $2M in funding prior to its launch from top VCs and the industry’s most powerful music companies that are behind the largest fandoms in the world. Before Fave, Jacquelle worked at Google for 7 years, with 5 years at YouTube driving product development for YouTube creators and artists, responsible for shaping some of the most beloved creator monetization and analytics features. She spearheaded the vision and growth for products that she grew to over 1 billion users in just the last 3 years alone. Previous to Google, Jacquelle launched award-winning music and entertainment apps at Viacom, innovated music distribution at UMG, and headed operations for teams spanning music label startups to established corporations. Receiving her Master's degree from USC at just 20 years old, Jacquelle has been named one of the "Top 100 Young Entrepreneurs in the World", "Top 50 Women Product Managers in Europe", and in 2020 made the esteemed "Forbes 30 Under 30" list.

Josh Neuman is an entertainment and music industry pioneer with over 25 years experience. Before joining leading Roblox game dev studio MELON in late 2020, he co-founded 88rising, where he served as COO for 6 years, developing the company from the ground up to become a leading Asian music & media lifestyle brand with a huge digital footprint, artist roster, festival properties, product/apparel and brand division. Previously, Josh managed artists such as Tiësto and Fall Out Boy and build major artist management firms. Josh also founded Recreation Worldwide, a brand creative agency and the THUMP EDM content platform, which were acquired by VICE Media in 2016. Josh has been at the intersection of celebrity culture, media, brands and marketing throughout his career and has architected some of the most innovative partnerships in the space. He is married with two boys, ages 8 and 10, who are of mixed south-Asian background. Josh is dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and empowerment.

Over the course of over 25 years as a professional technologist, I have gained extensive experience in new product development with a strong business focus on meeting market needs using Agile and Lean methods. I have demonstrated ability in building effective and innovative software development organizations, establishing strong business relationships and rapidly understanding new and complex businesses. I have extensive experience leveraging operations and technology solutions resulting in revenue growth, decreased expenses and increased service levels. Years of professional consulting and leadership experience, open-source credibility, charisma and reputation make it easy for me to attract top-notch tech talent to my teams.

I am most famous as the author of best-selling Ruby on Rails books, a little less so as the original founder of Hashrocket, which during its heyday, was one of the worldʼs most admired web design & development shops. As its Founder & CEO, I grew Hashrocket to over 35 employees and almost $7M in revenues in 2010, before selling my stake in order to work on product-driven startups.