Katie Lind is Sales Executive for Mentera. Katie is a sales professional dedicated to helping companies achieve strategic success by focusing on their goals, brand, and expertise while creating new and innovative partnership solutions. Previous work at Reed Exhibitions, IDG, and Corinium Global Intelligence gives her the ability to provide ideal support and values for exhibitors and sponsors to reach their event goals.

Ren Akinci is EVP, People & Culture Officer at Emerald charged with expanding and strengthening company’s diversity, inclusion, equity efforts, as well as help us achieve Emerald’s commitment to talent and organizational success. Ren has over 15 years’ experience developing and maintaining successful employee relations that build strong company brands and attract top talent. As a progress leader in her discipline she recognizes the value of focus on employee mental health as a key way to achieve that goal and lends her perspective, expertise and experience to this critical work, brand and conversation.

For nearly 20 years, Natasha Bowman, JD, SPHR has labored to transform the American workplace from the inside out. As a champion for employees, she’s worked with a broad range of organizations as an c-suite HR executive to create an engaging environment in which employees are respected, genuine leaders are cultivated, and top performance is achieved. Natasha is a modern day pioneer of workplace equality, inspiring organizations to not just pay lip service to workplace rights but craft highly-engaged cultures where every employee is truly dignified and valued for their contribution.