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.

Eric Reaves currently serves as Vice President, People and Culture at Emerald, where he leads a company team that strategically develops, collaborates and executes on strong talent management, organizational development and human resource initiatives in support of Emerald’s global business. Eric has over 25 years’ experience in human resources, including developing and implementing scalable, strategic and value-added solutions that deliver on human capital management across a broad array of industries.

Dennis Robbins (M.P.H. Harvard, Ph.D., Boston College) is a prominent innovator, thought leader, and health activist. His distinguished career spans multiple sectors of health, wellness, health care, industry, medical and surgical devices and technology, disruptive innovation, ethics and policy.  His initial work on patient-centric engagement and now person-centricity ™ has stimulated a major paradigmatic shift in how we think about health, healthcare, and next generation engagement across diverse ecosystems. Dr. Robbins was a National Fund for Medical Education Fellow, Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow at Harvard. He has advised Presidential and White house commissions, the military health system, start-ups, two US Supreme Court Cases and chaired the PCMH 2.O national think tank where he created the concept of person-centricity™, to help people become and stay healthier while adding years to their lives and life to their years.