About the Speakers


JJ Ramberg is the co-founder of Goodpods. Recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Goodpods is the podcast player that is solving the discovery issue for both listeners and podcasters. JJ was recently honored as one of Inc Magazine’s Female Founders 100.  Previously, JJ was an anchor for MSNBC and founder of Goodshop.  She is the author of the bestselling It’s Your Business and The Startup Club.


Ophira Edut and her identical twin sister Tali Edut, known as the AstroTwins, are the co-founders of the top astrology brand Astrostyle and the official astrologers for ELLE magazine. Bestselling authors, they’ve written more than 13 books and reach millions monthly through their website, Astrostyle.com. In August 2022, they will debut the first astrology reality dating show, Cosmic Love, on Amazon Prime. Ophira has been in the digital creator/publisher space since Web 1.0 in the 1990s and was an early advocate for Web 3.0. She regularly writes and speaks about technology and its convergence with entrepreneurship, publishing and astrological trends.


Toni Thai Sterrett is a filmmaker, audio creator, photographer, and NFT creator. She's an NYC (HARLEM) Native and a Magna Cum Laude graduate from The City College of New York (Film & English double major/Theater minor). Toni co-produced and co-starred in the Gotham Award nominated film, August The First and was chosen by Ava Duvernay as Vibe’s Next Female Filmmaker for her directing efforts on her short film titled Presumed, inspired by the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin. In 2020, Toni excelled as social audio creator on the interactive audio app, Clubhouse where she gained a following of more than 250,000. Toni is launching an exciting, female creator focused NFT project called BAD GRRLS CREATIVE CLUB in Summer 2022.


Daniel Resnick is the Co-Founder of Feedfeed, one of the world's largest food communities on social media, an epicurean creator network and experiential company.  Co-Founder of FeedChain, building a web3 food-centric community with a NFT Marketplace and Metaverse experiences. Formerly a practicing physician and photographer.  


Alison Koplar Wyatt is a veteran of the start-up world, having worked in a leadership capacity at iconic lifestyle & culture shifting companies like Goop, Refinery29 and most recently, launching Female Founder Collective with Rebecca Minkoff. She is a business builder, advisor to start-ups and an investor in female funded businesses. Through her journey, she has become passionate about not only supporting start-ups through advising, but also through investing in female-led companies as an angel investor. Investments include Tia Women's Health Clinic, Humanified, Caribu, The Wonder, Good Mylk, Forward Space, Summersalt, Hatch, Refinery29, Sunscoop, Girlboss, The Wing, Goop, Golde, iFundWomen and Heymama Co. She is proud to invest in women to build a better future for themselves and their families.


Brianna Welsh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Reneum Institute, a blockchain-based marketplace to fund climate solutions. 

Prior to launching Reneum, she led M&A and environmental markets trading in APAC for one of Reneum's largest backers, Sindicatum Renewable Energy. She is a partner in several initiatives endeavoring for a positive crypto future including: Blockchain for Social Impact, Crypto Climate Accord and Blockchain for Climate Impact.

Brianna holds an undergrad in behavioral economics from McGill University and a graduate in social entrepreneurship from Oxford University, is an explorer, bio-hacker and extreme sports enthusiast.


Courtney Nichols Gould is currently working with merry band of passionate souls to create a solution to biodiversity loss in our oceans, FMR Co founder FMR CEO, SmartPants Vitamins (sold to Unilever December 2020) , FMR founding COO CLEAR. Living in California with her cofounder/husband (not in that order) , their pups and ponies after children selfishly abandoned them to go to college.


Deborah Barge is a leader in the purpose and philanthropic engagement, Big Brother Big Sisters of America. Philanthropy, Innovation, Collaboration, Empowerment, Partnership, Leader for our nation's largest nationwide mentoring mission to support the engagement of Bigs, Littles and families across our nation. We are #biggertogether and I get the opportunity to engage brands, donors and partners to ignite youth potential.


Cydni Tetro, CEO of Brandless, is an innovator of experience, a growth leader, technologist, STEM advocate, author, and speaker. She recently raised $118M, the largest fundraise led by a woman in Silicon Slopes. Brandless is a mission-driven omnichannel commerce platform that is growing through technology and the acquisition of mission-driven brands. Prior to that she was CEO of ForgeDX, a customer acceleration platform used by companies like Verizon, Adobe, Microsoft, Dell. She was also founder and CEO of 3DpulsMe, a 3D printing personalization platform, where you could become an Ironman action figure. She spent 5 years at Disney in Imagineering leading technology commercialization and building technology businesses inside Disney, including with Theme Parks, ESPN and ABC. She is founder and President of the Women Tech Council. She holds a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s in computer science from BYU.


Natalie Zfat is a social media entrepreneur and Forbes Contributor who has partnered with some of the most iconic brands in the world, including Facebook, Samsung, LinkedIn and American Express. Zfat's beloved social media community are dreamers, doers and entrepreneurs, from college students to CEOs. When she's not engaging with them, Natalie loves sharing her thought leadership in her Forbes column, and at conferences and universities – so much so that she recently earned her higher education teaching certificate from Harvard in the spring of 2021. (What, like it’s hard?) When she's not on the internet, you can find Natalie out and about with a laptop, diaper bag and strong black coffee in hand.


Fiona Co Chan is the founder of Youthforia. Youthforia creates makeup you can sleep is and is best known for their Tiktok viral BYO Blush, the world's first color changing blush oil.


Sheri Roder leads The WHY Group at Horizon Media, the largest privately held media services agency in the world. Launched by Sheri over 15 years ago, The WHY Group is a strategic research consultancy that brings a deep understanding of people and brands, and how they both influence and are transformed by the culture in which we live—and then turns that into concrete and measurable business advantage. She is also a co-founder of LIMITLESS, a female-focused comprehensive leadership program created to support women in identifying and powerfully exercising their leadership potential. In recognition of her impact, Sheri has been named a NOW-NYC Woman of Power & Influence, an Ad Age Woman to Watch, an Adweek Media All-Star and a Gold Adweek Project Isaac award for invention. Sheri has also served on the Marketing Committee of City Harvest and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Roundtable.