Here’s a few of the Amazing Expert Trainers You will Be Hearing From
Inside the Tampa Jam Summit
Ian is the founder of the Confident Live Marketing Academy. Seriously Social is a blog focused on live video and social media tools. He’s an international speaker, podcaster, trainer, teacher and consultant.
Ian started blogging at Seriously Social in 2011. It started as a bit of fun. But partly due to acertain articleon a social media management tool called Hootsuite, everything changed. It quickly became really popular, hitting over 10,000 views per month. In 2015, he started speaking around the world on social media tools.
Then in 2016, Ian wrote another article, this time onFacebook Live. It had over 4 million page views and allowed him to focus as a confident live video coach – helping entrepreneurs and businesses level up their impact, authority and profits using live streaming video.
Mark Asquith is a serial entrepreneur who has built globally successful design, marketing, software and digital businesses since he quit his real job in 2005.
Billed as the U.K. podcast expert, Mark is CEO & co-founder of Rebel Base Media, a podcast tech and strategy company that owns Captivate.fm, Poductivity, Podcast Websites, Podcast Success Academy & Rebel Base Studios and is well known as an insightful, thought-provoking and actionable podcast industry keynote speaker.
He’s a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.
Rick Barker President & CEO of theMusic Industry Blueprintin Nashville, TN. Rick is a Manager, Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host, and Author. His “Super Power” is having the ability to simplify complicated issues and show artists just how easy it is to get their music out into the world using the tools that are readily available to all of them…
He is constantly investing his own time and money staying up to date on the changes in the Music Business and the Digital Marketing Space and sharing that with his Management Clients and Podcast Listeners…
With over 1600 clients, in over 30 Countries in multiple genres of music, his strategies are changing people’s lives…
DaveCool (yes, that’s his real name) is the VP of Business Development atBandzoogle.
Dave has spoken at dozens of music conferences including SXSW, Canadian Music Week, Folk Alliance, and the ASCAP EXPO. He has also been interviewed by The Economist, Newsweek International, CNN.com, and the Financial Post for his insights on the music industry.
He’s also a recovering punk rock drummer, comedy nerd, wine snob, and vintage hockey card collector.
Ariel Hyatt of Cyber-PR is the founder of a successful PR firm, an international speaker, and the author of four books. He award-winningCyber PRprocess marks the intersection of social media, PR, and online marketing. She is best known in both the music industry and the business world. She became interested in Crowdfunding and mastered it, her latest book shows a step-by-step guide on exactly what is needed to have a successful crowdfunding campaign. She is here with us to share some invaluable insights on ways you can brand your business online in order to stand out from the crowd to help you brand your business online.
Chris Krimitsos of thePodfest Expois here to show you how you can quickly create a podcast.
Talk to people that Chris Krimitsos has spent any amount of time with and you’ll hear descriptions like “changemaker,” “motivator,” “catalyst for change,” and “inspiration.” Whether it’s a major corporation’s CEO or a solopreneur, Chris is passionate about being a difference maker.
Chris brings the unique perspective of success from both sides of an event. He understands the challenges of the organizer that needs to move an audience, having himself facilitated over 2,000 events that have brought together business owners, toward economic growth, under the umbrella of Tampa Bay Business Owners, which he founded in 2008. That success regionally was the springboard to launching a national event, Podfest Multimedia Expo, which he grew to over 975 attendees in just five years, with an expectation of 1,500-plus in year six, thanks to his ability to communicate key messaging to that community.
Under the CK Productions banner, as a filmmaker and producer, Chris successfully birthed The Messengers: A Podcast Documentary, which obtained worldwide distribution and theatrical screenings.
Hilda Labrada Gore (a/k/aHolistic Hilda) is an ancestral health expert who has traveled the world exploring traditional practices for optimal well-being. From Kenya to Peru to Australia to Cuba, Hilda has uncovered ancient traditions that we can apply for improved health today. She is convinced that the secret to good health lies in looking to the past for clues.
Hilda is a biohacker, a certified health coach, and fitness professional. She is also the host and producer of the Wise Traditions and Tradiciones Sabias podcasts, on behalf of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Hilda shares the best of experts, experiences, and epic adventures on the podcasts, her Holistic Hilda YouTube channel, and on ancestral health tours that she leads.
In addition to being a health coach, Hilda is a podcast coach and the author of “Podcasting Made Simple.” She especially enjoys helping people in the health and wellness space launch their shows.
Hilda has energy to spare thanks to her love for sunshine and liverwurst.
Tom McNeill – Creator Partnerships AssociatePatreon, a membership platform that makes it easy for artists to get paid is here to tell you some of the amazing benefits you can easily obtain to help you find your niche and get started with making money online.
He is a problem solver, strategic thinker and arts advocate with a decade of experience working with cultural, digital and creative organizations. Before joining Patreon in 2019, Tom’s career was shaped by work with artists, orchestras, festivals, venues, promoters, media organizations, record labels, music agencies and other creatively-minded entities.
Tom began his arts career in the 3-person team of the Cambridge Literary Festival before moving on to manage communications and digital strategy for the Academy of Ancient Music followed by the London Jazz Festival. Management agency HarrisonParrott then invited him to join their team in order to expand the agency’s ‘beyond-classical’ offering where he developed and represented projects for artists such as Jess Gillam, Stewart Copeland and Quincy Jones.
BONUS MUSICIAN GUEST SPEAKERS
Kurtis Parsons “Conga Kurty” began his career in percussion as early as the 6th grade when his teacher told him he wouldn’t be good at it. Two weeks later he took the teacher by storm, he was very impressed and put him on the percussion team. By 7th grade he moved up to 1st chair and eventually became the lead drummer in the jazz band.
He started his Conga career working with Jah Roots Reggae band, then, in 2015 he met the HIRIE Band while volunteering at The Roots Cali festival in California and wound up working with them that day!
Zakiya Hookermade her debut performance in 1991 with her dad, John Lee Hooker, at the Kaiser Center Theatre in Oakland, CA. Since that time Zakiya has gone on to perform on shows with the likes of Etta James, Charles Brown, John Hammond, Taj Mahal, Charlie Musselwhite and many more.
Zakiya’s music is broad in the genres it covers. A strong and versatile vocalist, Zakiya has carved out a market for herself. The Jazzy Blues sound on her debut European CD, Another Generation Of The Blues and her second International release on Pointblank/Virgin, Flavors of the Blues” takes you in and out of songs like Hey Lady, Baby you Busted, Receipt To Sing The Blues and Protect me from the Blues.
Ken Mary, is an American musician who has worked as a drummer, producer, engineer, singer, record executive and writer on over thirty-five albums that combined have sold over 5 million copies worldwide.
He has worked in genres from heavy rock to choral music. He’s played drums with Alice Cooper and has a successful recording studio businessSonic Phish Productionsin Mesa, Arizona.
