Name: Mentoring Meet Up Networking Event
Start: 2024-12-09T15:30:00-0800
End: 2024-12-09T16:00:00-0800

Monday December 9, 2024 3:30pm - 4:00pm PST

All LDI attendees are invited to our Mentoring Meet Up , on Monday, December 9 from 3:30pm-4pm at the Circle Bar on the LDI show floor. Network directly with your peers, meet industry veterans, and share tips, tricks and questions. The perfect chance to build new relationships in an informal setting. Beverages and a chance to win prizes included.

We will all gather and have a casual networking mentoring meet up. Attendees take a Topic Card (see below) at their arrival with what they are interested in talking about. Mentors will be aligned with a topic they feel strong mentorship with. We’ll stand in a circle, start with a quick icebreaker, then hold up the cards to see the commonality. From this, smaller groups are formed where our mentors and mentees can align together.

MENTORSHIP IN:

Networking
Guidance and Advice
Professional Experience
Career Advancement
Affinity or Diversity
Leadership
Desired Introductions (help being introduces to specific people/ or even assisted around the floor and introduced to exhibiting companies)

Speakers

Jessi Cybulski

Show Director, LDI, Questex

Jessi Cybulski has been working in design and production since 2003. As show director based in Denver, Jessi creates, programs, and oversees the creative day to day management of the Questex owned, LDI: Live Design International Tradeshow and Conference.Prior to LDI Jessi developed... Read More →

Bill Digneit

Department Head, Theatre & Dance, Northern Michigan University

William "Bill" Digneit has worked as the Production Manager for the annual LDI Conference program (including the LDInstitute and LDIntensives and LDI Mexico) for more than 10 years. He is passionate about technology education to push the entertainment industry forward. Bill created... Read More →

Chris Lose

Designer Relations, Follow Me

Chris Lose is an international touring lighting director, programmer and columnist who has dedicated his life to solving problems through pragmatic decision making and calming techniques. He strives to invoke relationships and emotion through color, atmosphere, and beauty. He is dedicated... Read More →

Karla López

Lighting Programmer, Designer, Creative Director, Lux Molecule

With a theater degree, Karla has taken multiple trainings with brands of lighting consoles to program and execute live shows. After that, she had the opportunity to take Photometry workshops with Oxford University and computing and programming with Microsoft University. With over... Read More →

Tracy Nunnally

Owner/President, Vertigo

Professor Tracy Nunnally received his MFA from The Florida State University and has worked in professional theatre since the 1980s. His contributions include all aspects of theatre automation, motion control, rigging, pyrotechnics, special effects, scenery construction, and technical... Read More →

Ebony Madry

Product Manager, Designer, WastedPotential & Brite Ideas

Ebony Madry, committee member for the ‘Pat MacKay Diversity In Design’ Scholarships (part of LDI’s Foster the Future program), works for WastedPotential as Lead Project Manager, overseeing and supporting tours with creative direction, production design, production advance... Read More →

Luther Frank

Founding Partner, Lighting Designer, Sovereign Candle Collective

Specializing in light, projection, and stage design, Luther works in a wide variety of live production genres. They have extensive experience in scenography and creative direction for the performing arts, ranging from opera to fashion shows to live broadcast concerts and everything... Read More →

Dara Swisher

Stage Manager, Performer, Creator, Producer, Sovereign Candle Collective & House Lumina

Dara Swisher is a stage manager, performer, creator, and producer based in New York, with over three decades of experience in the arts and live events industry. Holding a BA in Dance from Mercyhurst College and an MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University, Swisher has seamlessly... Read More →

Kearston Dillard-Scott

Outside Sales Representative, Barbizon Lighting Company

Kearston Dillard-Scott, a native of Suffolk, VA, has been studying and practicing the art of lighting for the last 23 years. She graduated in 2003 from Randolph (Macon-Woman's) College with a B.A. in Theatre, subsequentally resulting in spending the next 13 years in the Hampton Roads... Read More →

TJ Donoghue

Tech Producer / Tech Director, Periaktoi Productions

With over 30 years expertise in leading teams designing and installing complex systems for corporate events, theatrical productions, film/ television and fine arts installations, TJ has worked in entertainment and experiential events of all kinds. Known as a technical expert, team... Read More →

Anne McMills

Head of Lighting, MFA in Design and Technology, San Diego State University

Anne E. McMills is a lighting designer, professor, and author. Her career extends across the many facets of the lighting world—from theatre (regional to Broadway and the West End) to television and theme parks to architectural lighting, corporate industrials, concerts, cruise ships... Read More →

Brad Schiller

Sr. Business Development Manager | North America, Martin

With over 30 years experience in the lighting industry, Brad Schiller is an industry veteran. Starting his career in the mid 1980’s he worked as Technician and Programmer on many different productions.During his career he has been a part of many varied productions including The... Read More →

Marcus Hammond

U.S. Sales Representative - Southwest, A.C. Lighting

Marcus Hammond is the Southwest US sales rep with A.C. Lighting. With 20+ years of technical production and AV consulting experience for churches across the US, Marcus has had the privilege of creating experiences in numerous sacred spaces that help connect people and tell the story... Read More →

Butch Allen

Vice President of Global Business Development, TAIT

From the front seat of a truck to the front of house, Butch Allen's touring journey has been both varied and unusual: back line tech, lighting director, lighting designer, set designer, and production manager.

Amanda Gougelmann

Technical Support, ACT Entertainment

Amanda Gougelmann is a part of the Software Support Team at ACT Entertainment. While Amanda is based in San Diego, CA, she works in the ACT Burbank office. Amanda graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Design and Technology. After being introduced... Read More →

Edward Hodge

Vice President, Creative & Innovation, BRC Imagination Arts

Edward Hodge is Vice President Creative and Innovation at BRC Imagination Arts where he brings his award-winning ingenuity and innovation to some of the largest brand, cultural and entertainment projects around the world. For over two decades, he’s worked as a creative designer... Read More →

Courtney Nichols

Head of Installations and Show Support, EPS

Courtney Nichols joined EPS in 2022 and serves as head of Installations and Show Support. With more than 20 years’ experience in the entertainment industry, she has a rigging background in installation, inspection, project management, and show operations in a variety of entertainment... Read More →

Elena Piech

Account Director, ZeroSpace

Elena Piech is an Emmy-nominated journalist turned emerging technologist. She is the Account Director for ZeroSpace, an AR production & technology company leading creative innovation in media & entertainment. At ZeroSpace, she’s created immersive activations and real-time 3D storytelling... Read More →

Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Creator & Consultant, Immersive, Spatial, & Interactive Experiences (VR, AR, AI)

Michaela Ternasky-Holland is a Peabody-nominated and Emmy award-winning director who specializes in creating impactful stories using immersive and interactive technology. She is one of the first directors to create and premiere a short film utilizing Open AI’s SORA platform, which... Read More →

Shane Smith

Senior Director of Technology, LMG

In 1997, after graduation, Shane accepted a full-time job with Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL. He spent the next 8 years working at various venues on special events throughout Walt Disney World property and also traveled with the Walt Disney Company. In 2004, after freelance work... Read More →

Peter Smith

Many years ago, I was standing in the doorway of our high school auditorium, watching a group of kids in black shirts climb ladders and cut pieces of colored plastic. One of them asked, “you gonna help us or what?” I walked in, learned how to cut a gel and hang a leko, and never... Read More →

John Garberson

Founding Director, Creative Backstage Group in Arizona

Director of Creative Backstage Group in Arizona Founder / owner of Creative Backstage in 2003, sold to Pride Group in 2019- still run the company Creative Backstage is an award-winning production company winning local and nation awards , we specialize in live event production: Lighting... Read More →

Sam Hillyer

Director, Hardware Product Management, TAIT

Sam Hillyer started his career at Cirque du Soleil where he programmed and operated complex acrobatic performances, ensuring show integrity and performer safety. He transitioned to TAIT in 2015, holding a variety of roles focusing on control systems and technology. He led the commissioning... Read More →

Monday December 9, 2024 3:30pm - 4:00pm PST
LDI Circle Bar

Special Events, Foster the Future

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