Vedha Sayyaparaju

Vedha Sayyaparaju is the co-founder and CTO of Zuddl, a unified platform for events and webinars that helps event marketers plan and execute events that drive growth. The platform has clients across the globe such as the United Nations, Kellogg’s, Microsoft, HSBC, VMware, Google, and Cipla amongst others. Prior to Zuddl, Vedha worked at Blend, Facebook, and Pinterest. She joined these companies after she graduated from MIT with a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science and Engineering.

Cheryl Williams

Cheryl Williams is a Senior Consultant at Tecker International. She leverages more than two decades of Fortune 50, corporate, global nonprofit and consulting experience to help clients thrive by providing best in class coaching, capacity building and communications expertise to mission-driven organizations. Cheryl has dedicated her career to helping organizations plan, develop and communicate to increase their impact. She thrives when she is working to develop breakthrough marketing communications strategies to help organizations refresh and grow their brands, increase their contributed income or enter new markets. When not helping organizations with market and communications, she’s helping them plan strategically and leverage their resources effectively to reach their goals and achieve their missions.

DeLaine Bender

DeLaine Bender, CAE, is the Vice President of AMR Management Services, a charter accredited association management company serving national trade associations and professional societies. Her responsibilities include marketing and business development, support for new clients, and management of association staff. DeLaine is an active member of the American Society of Association Executives and earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) credential, the highest professional credential in the association industry, in 2012.

Liz Wooten-Reschke

Liz Wooten-Reschke has served as President & CEO of Connect For More since 2009. As lead consultant, she works collaboratively with clients to create strategic consulting solutions that address a variety of capacity, organizational and governance areas. Liz loves training and facilitating with nonprofit leaders on in the areas of board governance, board culture, the next generation of nonprofit leadership, and meaningful board service. Whatever the topic of expertise, Liz’s work places focus on community building and resource sharing to help an organization and an individual meet their mission.

Vinnu Deshetty

As Founder and CEO, Vinnu Deshetty brings over 20 years of experience working with conferences, meetings, and events. As a meeting planner, she understands the hurdles her industry peers encounter on a daily basis. As a techie, Vinnu knows that there are tools and tricks of the trade to help organizations overcome the unknowns of what will happen next.

Lee Gimpel

Lee Gimpel is the founder of Better Meetings in Washington, DC. The firm helps organizations turn meetings from boring and unproductive to engaging and effective, be they staff meetings, board meetings, retreats, or annual conferences. His work blends meeting facilitation, audience engagement, collaborative innovation, and human-centered design.

Teri Carden

Teri Carden is an association junkie and self-proclaimed girl geek in normal girl’s clothing. After several years of experience in the association technology role, Teri created resources in the association space including ReviewMyAMS.com, AMS Fest, 100Reviews and now an industry event to help bring new non-dues revenue ideas to curious association professionals through Non Dues-a-Palooza. Teri is an early adopter, disrupter, and explorer and loves coaching associations to bring new ideas to life.

Daniel Lauritsen

Daniel Lauritsen is the Director of Sales at MinistryBrands. He helps nonprofit leaders with their buying process for the purchase of CRM, donor management, online giving, and other core tools that their organization needs to grow its mission. Daniel has met with thousands of nonprofit leaders, and is eager to share what he’s learned from them to help YOU in your own mission.

Christopher Haylett

Christopher Haylett is the Founder of Sixpence. His passion for impact, paired with experienced pain points in the formal and informal charitable ecosystem (specifically in missions and church giving), is what led him to found Sixpence, a community-oriented giving experience with unique methods of giving which allow congregants to embed generosity into their daily lives and habits (all in the context of their greater church community).

Sharon Harrington

Sharon Harrington leads the operations of Amediate, LLC., as a principal and Managing Organizational Communication Consultant. Through her commitment and dedication she has worked to assist organizations in navigating conflict by facilitating workplace learning in self-mediating skills, investigating elevated claims of workplace discrimination and mediating conflict in efforts of resolution. She has been credited in her ability to objectively listen and gather information that tells the complete and factual story, thus creating an environment where she is highly trusted by both sides of the conflict.