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Currently serving as a Fractional CMO and AI Strategist, Andrew Bolis is a marketing expert with a 332,000+ LinkedIn following who helps B2B companies optimize their marketing and sales through AI implementation. He has demonstrated significant impact in previous roles, including doubling key marketing metrics and reducing cost-per-lead by 50% as CMO at Streetbees.

Chris Daigle is the Founder and CEO of Chief AI Officer.com, a firm that helps executive teams cut through AI hype and deploy real strategies that drive results. His flagship Executive AI Immersion has become a go-to for mid-market companies looking to boost productivity, reduce costs, and lead in the AI economy. Prior to Chief AI Officer, Chris spent over a decade advising and scaling tech companies across the U.S. and Europe, with deep expertise in automation, operations, and go-to-market strategy. He is a strategist, operator, and trusted advisor to leaders navigating the AI shift.

You said: joel salinas substack bioJoel Salinas is an AI strategy coach, business leader, and creator of the bestselling Substack publication Leadership in Change. His newsletter serves over 6,700 subscribers—including executives, managers, and mission-driven leaders—navigating organizational shifts in the artificial intelligence era. He writes on ethical AI adoption, change management, and practical strategies that maintain human-centered values

Fahed Bizzari is an AI empowerment specialist and thought leader focused on advancing the practical and ethical integration of artificial intelligence within organizational contexts. With over two decades of experience in software development and management consulting, and more than 3,500 hours of applied GPT research and implementation, he advocates for human-centred approaches to AI adoption. His work emphasizes the transition from digital transformation to sustainable AI empowerment that enhances human capability and strategic decision-making.

Isabella Bedoya is the founder of IzzyGPT, where she advises business leaders on AI strategy and develops licensable AI agent systems and certification programs for organizations and universities.

Mohamed Ghaith is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur, crypto trader, and avionics engineer. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Drofie, a pocket-sized selfie camera; Zeew, an on-demand delivery platform; and Stunning.so, an AI-enabled website and portal builder. Ghaith is widely regarded as a serial entrepreneur with multiple skill sets, including business development, strategy formation, marketing, finance, anti-money laundering, AML procedures, and avionics integration

Richard has been an active business leader and ambassador for the South West of England since 2006. He is passionate about promoting the West of England Tech eco-system within the Global Tech Advocates community to enable innovation and collaboration to support Scaling Up and Going Global. Richard is Managing Director of Hewlett Rand, a Training and Digital Learning consultancy specialising in training Leadership, Management and Sales teams to improve performance and results. Hewlett Rand also runs Dragonfly Academy an in-house programme to equip Tech SME Top Teams with the skills to support their scale up journey. He has a keen interest in Tech for online training, accelerating team performance and business outcomes. Richard is also a Director of the Bristol and West of England China Bureau supporting anglo-sino trade development.

Rory Flynn is a prominent digital marketer, AI consultant, and tech entrepreneur. He is widely recognized for his work in operationalizing artificial intelligence for creative and marketing teams

Heather Murray is Director at Beesting Digital, a content strategy agency based in Birmingham, UK. She works with multinational and global legal, financial, SaaS and manufacturing businesses to devise clever content strategy to attract, engage, convert and retain a steady stream of business.

Audrey Chia is a Singapore-based digital creator, entrepreneur, and content strategist. She is the founder of Close With Copy, a specialized consultancy that blends traditional brand copywriting with AI efficiency

Karolyne Hahn works as a Fractional Chief AI Officer with life sciences, MedTech and PE-backed companies. She takes on the AI responsibility no one internally owns – from strategy to implementation. As a Board Advisor she guides boards and advisory councils on AI decisions; as a speaker she brings the topic to the stage.

Vasily Alekseenko is a London-based tech entrepreneur, community builder, and the founder and CEO of SoPhy (Social Physics), a groundbreaking network intelligence engine. Backed by mathematical research from MIT and Stanford, SoPhy quantifies, models, and optimizes human connectivity, turning abstract professional networks into data-driven relationship maps for ecosystems and enterprises.

I'm Anfernee Tan, a Singapore-based solopreneur and systems builder. I help one-person businesses work less and earn more by pairing simple systems with AI, mostly through my newsletter and community, Solopreneur Code.

Ryan Walker is the founder of Shareables.ai, a tool that turns everyday data sources into embeddable website widgets and microsites. Previously, he built out products and operations in the venture capital industry.

I'm Elena Calvillo, a technical product manager who spent years shipping software through engineering teams and now ships it myself with prompts. I build and run DraftKit, the AI Advent Challenge, and CampaignDays, and I write Prompt-Led Product, a newsletter for PMs building in the AI era.

I’m Jonah Goodhart, Co-Founder and CEO of Mobian. Mobian is an advertising measurement company. We help brands measure and optimize how they show up to humans and AI systems.

I hold a master's degree in AI, and I've spent years implementing AI inside real businesses, from clinics to manufacturers, alongside writing Level Up With AI, a Substack newsletter for creators and solopreneurs who are done collecting tools and want working systems. Most AI creators learned ChatGPT six months before their audience did; I come at it from the other side, with formal AI training and business implementations behind me, and my newsletter is the output of that practice, every workflow runs in a real business before readers ever see it.

Elettra Fiumi is an AI filmmaker and the founder and CEO of Fiumi Studios, a Lugano-based production company working across documentary, branded content, and AI filmmaking.

I’m David, I’m cofounder and CTO of Beacons. My job is to build and maintain everything that a user can see or touch :)

I lead a Cloud FinOps practice at an IT services firm, where I have spent 20 years shipping enterprise software that has to survive governance, security, and real budgets. Nights and weekends I run GenAI Unplugged, where I build AI products and systems in public and teach non-technical founders and creators to build real systems, not just use AI. I live on both sides of the AI conversation: the enterprise world that asks “will this survive production?” and the solo world that asks “can I ship it this weekend?”

Katie Fortunato is Co-founder and EVP of Innovation at Hire Innovations, where she brings new products to market. Currently she leads Jobstream, a platform where career creators get paid for the job opportunities they share. She’s worked with brands like MTV, AOL, and The Wall Street Journal, and prior to Jobstream built a marketplace to connect buyers and sellers via a talent technology marketplace, and that’s where the AI experimentation started.

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