Joe Way
Executive Director, Digital Spaces, UCLA
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- United States of America
Ben currently serves as the Head of Pro AV and the Sr. Director of Publishing for MarketScale, a B2B publisher and strategic marketing firm. He has over a decade of award winning experience in media publishing for large scale events, OTT & live streaming platforms, marketing, network television, and podcasting. Ben decided on his career path at the age of 7, and to date has led some of the most influential brands in the world including Intel, Nokia, Samsung and Segway, to billions of content interactions. A huge hockey fan (Go Stars!), and former contestant and current fan of Family Feud, Thomas resides in Dallas, Texas.
Unabashed father, digital media producer, woke liberal democrat, part-time dark knight, foodie and rabid Boston sports fan.
Where audiovisual tech, business & foodie fascinations converge.
You may also know her as @NerdyGirlAV. Jenn is an active leader within the AVIXA Diversity Council, serving as chair since 2024. Jenn was also a part of SCN The Nine: Class of 2021 and Class of 2022 Commercial Integrators 40 Under 40. She’s passionate about creating opportunities for incoming folks into the industry and advocating for neurodiversity and mental health awareness.
Her experience in AV ranges from project coordination, rentals, marketing, sales, service, AV consulting, and she currently works as a design engineer with AVI-SPL. Something you may not know about her is that she achieved her BS in Media Arts & Design at James Madison University and her Master's in Sociology at The New School for Social Research.
Maneesh Kumar
Collaborative Space Architect (AV Engineer), California Polytechnic State University Information Technology Services
Greetings!
I support enterprise AV infrastructure & event productions for Charter Communications. With a side of telecom. I completely love my job as it affords the opportunity to thoroughly explore the depths of an ever-changing technological environment. I can't believe I get paid to do this.
I gripped for a few years, then earned a BA in Mass Comm from Bama, a CTS, chipping away at CCNP collab, and lately have been working with some video creative types. My roots are in car audio and even though I'm far from 16, it's still one of my favorite subjects. I have a thing for bicycles too.
Since more than 12 years head of team of around 30people managing the meeting room infrastructure at the European Commission. We manage every day a mix of small, boardroom and high level rooms with up to 23 interpretation booths.