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Teresa Aguilera Owner & CEO Standby and Go Productions Andrés Albornoz Entertainment Drafting Specialist Grid CAD and Rendering Corp Jeff Alder Lighting Designer Author Butch Allen Vice President of Global Business Development TAIT Jon Allen Director/Show Caller SkySeaStone Productions Ann Archbold Associate Dean/College of Liberal Arts University of Nevada, Reno Michael Bateman Community Development Manager PIXERA Jillian Beggs Program Director Behind the Scenes Roy Bickel Rigging Expert Origin Productions Inc Bob Bonniol Director Innovation, Video & Interactive ACT Entertainment Joe Branam The Rigger's Rigger Retired Allen Branton Lighting Designer Javid Butler Certified Measurement & Verification Professional hc/lambda Richard Cadena Trainer to the Stars Academy of Production Technology Sam Caughron RuPaul Drage Race Live Stage Manager Joe Champelli Director of Automation PRG Patti Connors Thurston Marketing Director Freelance Natalie Day Stage Manager Freelance Scott De Vos Founding Partner De Lux Productions Paul Dexter President, Lead Designer Masterworks Design Derek Epstein Senior Rigging Manager Encore Simon Evans Senior Director of Creative AV TAO Hospitality Victor Fable Lighting Designer Ocular Velocity Marcel Fairbairn Founder GearSource.com John Featherstone Principal Lighting Designer Lightswitch Mark Fetto Vice President, Lighting OSA International Stuart Fingerhut Senior Creative Director Hartmann Studios Deanna Fitzgerald Lighting Designer The Heart Of Light Brackley Frayer Lighting Designer Emeritus Professor UNLV Rohan Garricks Director DGB Live LLC/thesmartermanager Brandon Gauthier Lighting Designer, Programmer, Creative Technologist ETC Herrick Goldman Principal Designer HG Lighting/Evoke Collaborative Bob Goodwin Director of Standards and Training Rigging International Group Michelle Habeck UT Live Design and Production Area Head Live Design and Production Bob Harmon Owner Eggshell Lighting Mark Heiser Career Coach Hobnail Consulting Sharon Huizinga Associate Professor of Lighting University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music Ajinkya Hukerikar Technical Account Manager Zero Density Ben Ikwuagwu CEO & Co-Founder Soundcheck Live Seth Jackson Lighting & Production Designer Seth Jackson Creative Elynmarie Kazle President Foundation For Stage Managers Scott Kinnebrew Consultant Freelance Matthew Klaismeier Technical Support Senior Specialist Acuity/Pathway Connectivity Thomas Ladd Business Development Consulting Director Pathway Connectivity Leo Lei Assistant Professor of Lighting Design and Production University of Florida Lyra Letourneau Creative Director Pangolin Joyce Liao Lighting Designer David Lincecum Vice President/International Operations High End Systems Chris Lose Lighting Director Q3 Las Vegas INC. 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