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Chief Strategist/Founder of L Global, an award-winning international business consulting, executive coaching, and career branding social enterprise in Miami, FL with strategic partners, associates, and clients, worldwide.  Fun Facts: LaVerne is Board Chair of an International Film Festival; Strategic Partner in an Archeology/Meta startup; Expert Witness for a "Drone" IP legal challenge...and there's also a movie.    L Global's focus industries are Entertainment, Technology, Fashion, Professional Services, Education, Government, Non-Profits, Hospitality & Tourism. We help clients delight their customers, increase revenues and maximize expansion opportunities via innovative strategy development, partnerships, engagement, PR, marketing, and branding strategies. We help leaders experience long-term personal satisfaction over the course of their lives through a deeper understanding and better alignment of their life goals and work choices. Our unique, "Whole Person" approach, designed to create a cycle of increased personal satisfaction through better long-term work alignment, yields higher levels of sustained business success. Your Life, No Borders is more than a mantra, it is our ethos. It embodies who we are, LaVerne says.

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Gary Knight is the CEO of WOLF (The World’s Online Festival), a global entertainment and community social network. After successfully completing an exit for his previous media production business, Knight initially joined WOLF (the app formerly known as Palringo) as a strategy consultant. Having worked with the likes of globally reputed gaming organizations such as Electronic Arts (EA) and SEGA, Knight’s extensive video game and leadership expertise was sought out by Palringo when the then-messaging platform was looking to deliver significant change and build its gamification of engaged communities. Knight’s analysis and strategic thinking are what would transform Palringo and eventually lead to its rebranding, as WOLF. Knight’s vision is to create multiple user-generated, user-performed, and user-consumed festival metaverse environments which foster a 24/7 community of friendship and belonging. This has been a key catalyst and driving force behind WOLF’s growth into the unique content creation platform that it has become today.   Since obtaining a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Sports and Business Management from Northumbria University, and subsequently a master’s degree in marketing from Newcastle Business School, Knight has developed a successful track record in building and scaling high-growth technology-based businesses. Over the course of Knight’s 20+ year career, his proven business acumen has grown to consist of specialties in people leadership, business strategy and development, VC funding, M&A, technology and product development, marketing and digital transformation, data analytics, brand strategy, and re-branding.

Moving forward, Knight’s ambition is to continue WOLF’s development as the leading audio content creation platform in MENA, bringing festivals to the metaverse with a truly unique user experience and community. As WOLF develops its virtual 3D worlds and venues, users will take the opportunity to rock the stage and display their talents to live audiences within a thriving metaverse environment.

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Ida has an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies. She has lived in eight countries and speaks five languages. Apart from her work at Journee, she is also a composer and a dedicated mover – she practices mixed martial arts, watersports, and teaches Budokon. Ida has worked for UNHCR, The National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, as a composer for contemporary dance, and she has been running design studios and consultancies focusing on the
intersection between physical spaces and technology. She partnered with Dexter Studios in South Korea to develop the 3D interior screens for SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas. She
has also worked with 3D musicals and early VR applications of architectural renderings.

Ida joined Journee in June of 2021, her work in the metaverse and web3 field is centred around the question “What’s next?”. She works with the bricks and mortar as well as the newest NFT use-cases to have a deep, vertical and horizontal understanding of the current developments. Together with the best partners in the web3 space, she is driving the cloud rendered Journee solution forward to keep developing the most immersive, seamless, and accessible solution, integrated with interoperability of assets and user ownership.
Ida is a frequent keynote speaker, panellist and moderator and has been speaking at events such as the World Economic Forum, Deloitte Innovation Day, Split X Summit, House of Beautiful Business, yWhales podcast, CityAge and many more. Apart from pixel streaming, immersive experiences and accessibility, Ida has a human-centred approach to metaverse and web topics. She believes that the new technologies should seamlessly support our daily life, and provide an immersive way to interact with the internet that replaces the clunky and flat interactions we currently have today. Her hope is that we can enable new ways of digital interaction that should spend less time online. She is also passionate about using new technologies to solve sustainability challenges and create new economies.

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