Melek Pulatkonak

Melek is the President & COO of hakia, semantic search innovator. She is also the founder of the Turkish Women’s International Network. Melek is the Curator of TEDxGotham.
I’m Passionate About: New ideas and the journey from ideation to execution; women’s empowerment; semantic search.
An Idea Worth Spreading: kindness and encouragement are the best enablers.
You Can Find Me Here:
Twitter: @orientalist
Web: http://www.turkishwin.com
Location: New York

Edward Rashba

Edward has worked in not-for-profit, start-up, and advisory capacities to realize the benefits of new technologies. He is Director, New Business Ventures at IEEE.
I’m Passionate About: Building engaged communities, entrepreneurship, martial and marital arts.
An Idea Worth Spreading: Batteries that work as long as you do…
You Can Find Me Here:
Twitter: @erashba
Web: www.ieee.org
Location: New York

Ayesha Khanna

Ayesha explores the interfaces of technology, business and society. She is Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute.
I’m Passionate About: Traveling and exploring new places; using technology to spread education in the developing world; building human-centered technologies for urban environments
An Idea Worth Spreading: Human-technology co-evolution; smart cities
You Can Find Me Here:
Twitter: @ayeshakhanna1
Web: http://hybridreality.me
Location: New York, London

Elizabeth Barry

Elizabeth is the Founder of Elizabeth Barry & Associates, a strategic marketing and branding firm catering to the success of creative professionals, artists and entrepreneurs. Elizabeth also publishes an email magazine reaching over 30,000 across the globe called The NEXT GEN insider- Where Emerging Creative Professionals and Performing Arts Stars unite, and the NEXT Great Artists come to get discovered.
I’m Passionate About: Life and living it to it’s fullest with the finest of friends and surroundings.
An Idea Worth Spreading: The pay it forward model is a force to be reckoned with.
You Can Find Me Here:
Web: www.EBandAssociates.com and www.NEXTGENinsider.com
Location: New York

Marc Kirschner

Marc Kirschner is the founder and General Manager of TenduTV, which delivers concert dance programming on demand to more than half a billion digital devices in ten countries.
I’m Passionate About: Bringing sustainable business practices to the performing arts.
An Idea Worth Spreading: Find the “yes”
You can find me here:
Web: www.tendu.tv
Facebook: facebook.com/tendutv
Twitter: @tendutv
Location: New York

Regina Walton

Regina is the owner of Organic Social Media. She is a freelance social media strategist who works helping small businesses create and maintain their presence on the web.
I’m passionate about: travel, culture, reading and constant learning.
An idea worth spreading: “Fall seven times a day, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
You can find me here:
Twitter: @ReginaWalton
Location: New York, San Francisco
 

Isilay Yanbas

Isilay Yanbas is a graduate of film program at The City College of New York. She works as a producer, production coordinator and producer’s assistant and in various short and feature-length film projects. She is also designing/editing sound for films and currently creating her own narrative soundscapes.
I’m Passionate About: Any form of life that contains a touch of illusion.
An Idea Worth Spreading: Let the action speak once the words serve their duty.
You can find me here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3254666/ and http://vimeo.com/9665034
Location: New York