Heather Lahtinen, Flourish Academy
Heather Lahtinen is a professional wedding and portrait photographer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the founder of the award winning Weddings by Heather and the Flourish Academy has been a professional photographer and instructor for 16 years. She holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business, but left her corporate position as a Project Manager to pursue her passion for photography.
As an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop, Heather has also been teaching and instructing photographers in both Lightroom and Photoshop. She has vast experience and knowledge that spans more than just the technical aspects of photography, she is also a business strategist and trusted mentor in the industry.
Heather is driven by an overwhelming desire to see others succeed and, as a result, her workshops do more than just instruct, they inspire.
PopUp Business School Aotearoa
PopUp Business School Aotearoa was brought to New Zealand by Tony Henderson-Newport, founder of Kea Inspire. Kea Inspire was founded in the UK in 2013. A Kiwi to the bone, Tony has been around the start-up ecosystem for many years and realised the opportunity to enable the PopUp Business School Aotearoa in New Zealand was not to be missed. He has also facilitated communication workshops, projects and programmes to business and corporates in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom.
PopUp Business School was founded in the UK in 2012 by Alan Donegan and Simon Paine. After several large coffees, they both realised that in order to find, inspire and help people start businesses (especially those people who've got it tough) you need to take a completely different approach. This led to the formation of the PopUp Business School.
Aarna Networks, Inc.
Aarna Networks is a startup created in 2017 based in San Francisco Bay Area that provides a commercial distro of ONAP. We believe that NFV is a once in a generation disruption in the telecom industry that will transform every facet of the industry creating huge opportunities for all participants. Our team consists of open source experts that have worked on a variety of open source projects such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph and Cloud Foundry. We are active members in ONAP and related communities.
ICT Davao, Inc.
I.C.T. Davao, Inc. (IDI) is the industry council of the information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) associations, enterprises and stakeholders of Davao City. Established in 2006, IDI represents an industry with more than 45,000 workers, embracing the following industry sectors: call center and business process outsourcing; information technology and software development; graphics, animation and game development; health information management; corporate IT; and, freelancers and home-based online workers. Davao City is ranked by Tholons as among the top 100 outsourcing destinations in the world, and recognized by DOST-ICTO and IT-BPAP in 2016 as a Center of Excellence in IT-BPM operations.
