Featured Speakers

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Ray B. Shepherd

Ray B. Shepherd

Ray Shepherd is the Director, Defense Media Activity, providing a direct line of communication for news and information to U.S. forces worldwide. Prior to this position, Mr. Shepherd served as the Senior Vice President, Operations for the Warwick Consulting Group. The Group provided leadership and program management guidance to for-profit and non-profit organizations. Mr. Shepherd […]

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Steve Rubel

Steve Rubel

Steve Rubel is Chief Content Strategist for Edelman, the world’s largest public relations firm. He is widely considered one of the leading experts on content consumption and the blurring lines between traditional and digital channels. Rubel is responsible for advancing Edelman’s thinking on the entire media ecosystem, creating and cultivating best practices in content strategy […]

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Joe McNally

Joe McNally

Joe McNally is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose career has spanned 30 years and included assignments in over 50 countries. He has shot cover stories for TIME, Newsweek, Fortune, New York, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Men’s Journal. He has been at various times in his career a contract photographer for […]

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Corey Rich

Corey Rich

Corey Rich is one of the most recognized adventure and outdoor lifestyle visual storytellers. He has captured stunning still photos and video on a wide array of assignments, including rock climbing in India, surfing in South Africa, freight-train hopping in the American West, ultra-marathon racing in the Sahara Desert of Morocco, and snowboarding in Papua […]

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Mike Boettcher

Mike Boettcher

Veteran network news correspondent, Mike Boettcher, has been recognized with journalism’s top awards for his coverage of events that shaped the world since 1980. He also helped launch the era of 24-hour live news coverage when on June 1, 1980, he performed the first live satellite report for a fledgling network called CNN. In a […]

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