Nicole Hancock Husband is Vice President of People & Culture, leading the HR team for the Warner Bros. Television Group, which is part of Warner Bros. Discovery. In her role, Nicole is responsible for managing the HR team that supports Chairman Channing Dungey as well as the hundreds of employees that work for WBTV. This includes negotiating executive contracts, managing employee relations matters, and coaching and guiding TV employees on many other HR matters.

Before joining HR in 2015, Nicole served as Vice President & Senior Employment Counsel for Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. where she managed the defense of employment litigation, negotiated favorable resolutions of employment claims, and counseled clients on a wide range of day-to-day employment issues.  Before joining
Warner Bros. in April 2004, Nicole was an employment litigation associate at Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  Nicole also clerked for the Hon. Gerald Bruce Lee (Ret.) of the U.S. District Court (E.D.V.A.) and the Hon. Gregory K. Scott (Ret.) of the Colorado Supreme Court.  Nicole graduated cum laude from Howard University School of Law and with honors from The Ohio State University (B.S., Finance & International Business). 

Nicole is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, having obtained her coaching certification from The Coaches Training Institute in 2012. A frequent speaker and panelist, Nicole enjoys teaching and training on leadership, personal growth/development, and employment law issues. In her spare time, she loves salsa dancing, Zumba, coloring, games and puzzles, and, most of all, spending time with her husband and 12-year-old daughter.

Samantha Khoury is the Vice President, Human Resources at the Los Angeles Lakers.

Amy Baker is the Vice President & People Officer of Corporate Functions at Activision Blizzard. 

Janée Dabney is the VP, Talent & Content at Paramount.

Jerrold has served as the senior vice president and chief human resources officer for several large-scale, billion-dollar companies, such as Stater Bros. Markets, Hostess Brands and Daymon Worldwide.  He has led all aspects of human resources and has built a reputation as an innovative problem-solver with strategic business acumen.  Jerrold also spent almost a decade in various human resources leadership positions across marketing, sales, and supply chain for the Kellogg Company.

Over the course of his almost twenty years of human resources experience, he has developed and led global human resources teams, while working directly with C-suite and board leaders.  In addition to his practical and hands-on human resources experience, Jerrold has been a licensed attorney for over fifteen years. 

Jerrold is a sought-after speaker, creatively illustrating how he has brought strategic and actionable insights to complex, real-world business challenges.  He now lends his experience and expertise to business leaders by leading them to building and maintaining the optimal cultural to deliver their desired business results.

Jerrold earned a Juris Doctor Degree from Michigan State University College of Law, Cum Laude, and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Western Michigan University, along with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, with a concentration in finance, from Liberty University.

Alison Brower is Insider's LA bureau chief, leading a new team that covers the business of entertainment and the digital transformation of Hollywood.

Previously, she was the deputy editor for arts and entertainment at the Los Angeles Times, where she spearheaded cultural and business coverage as well as investigative features on celebrities and longstanding L.A. institutions. From 2014-2019, as deputy editorial director at the Hollywood Reporter, she led entertainment, culture, and news coverage and was the architect of the magazine's high-wattage power lists and other special projects.

Before moving to Los Angeles in 2014, Brower was the founding editor-in-chief of Dr. Oz: The Good Life at Hearst and worked in the editorial leadership of magazines including Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and Seventeen. As a writer and editor, she has contributed to publications from O: The Oprah Magazine to Popular Mechanics; she began her journalism career at Adweek. Brower grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Princeton University.

Faith E. Pinho is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and the creator and host of a narrative podcast the Times is set to launch in Spring 2023. Faith has covered a dynamic range of stories, from California wildfires to weird-looking fish. Her reporting on the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election and the Jan. 6 insurrection earned national attention and awards. Faith is also an active member of her union and a mentor to student journalists. Aside from journalism, Faith is co-founder of the Crimson Community Mentorship Program, an organization to connect high school students with mentors in her hometown of Everett, Massachusetts.

Michael Watson is a talent acquisition expert and artificial intelligence enthusiast who is dedicated to using cutting-edge technologies to revolutionize the world of work. Michael's passion for work began in his early life, as he grew up with military parents who instilled in him the values of hard work, dedication, and service to others. His father dropped out of high school at 16 to join the Navy, and his mother served in both the Air Force and Marines, so Michael knows firsthand the importance of having a strong work ethic and a sense of purpose.  After years of experience in corporate HR and talent acquisition for companies such as Aerotek, Robert Half, Polycom, Western Digital, Workday, Rambus, and Gigamon, Michael joined the artificial intelligence startup Eightfold.ai. As a former customer of Eightfold.ai, he has unique first-hand knowledge of how AI is being used to hire and retain talent.

At Eightfold, Michael is part of a team that is using AI for good, mapping skills to opportunities and enabling the right career for everyone in the world. As the Head of Global Customer Evangelism for Eightfold's products and solutions, Michael frequently interacts with business leaders, customer executives and government officials to amplify the power of Eightfold’s artificial intelligence (AI) and their vision to use artificial intelligence for good and enable the right career for everyone in the world. Michael believes that AI has the potential to help individuals find fulfilling and meaningful work, and he is dedicated to ensuring that everyone has access to the right career opportunities. He is passionate about helping individuals find work that aligns with their unique skills and interests, and he believes that AI can be a powerful tool to help people achieve their career goals.

Michael is a thought leader in the field of talent acquisition and artificial intelligence, and he is committed to using his expertise to help organizations and individuals navigate the rapidly changing world of work. He is the author of 2 books; Career AI: Navigating the Job Market in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and The AI-Powered HR Professional. He is a frequent speaker and writer on topics related to AI, talent acquisition, and career development, and he is always looking for new and innovative ways to use technology to improve people's lives. Michael attended Fresno State University where he studied Criminology.

When he is not working, Michael is busy working on his family's farm and dedicates a lot of time to coaching youth baseball and softball in his community. He is married and has two children.

Eric Ueno is the Vice President, Human Resources at Hot Topic.

Kimberley Fernandes is the Vice President & Head of Learning and Organizational Development at The Wonderful Company LLC. 

Anthony is passionate about helping individuals change their lives and fulfill their true career potential. He is CEO and co-founder of Tech Elevator, a demand-driven, in-person and online educational platform helping individuals and companies reskill to meet the massive and growing need for software developers. Tech Elevator was acquired by Stride in November 2020.Anthony previously served as President of the Software Guild, an Ohio-based coding bootcamp. The Guild was acquired by Learning House (Wiley) in April 2015.Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Anthony worked for JumpStart a nationally recognized economic development organization focused on startups. At JumpStart, in partnership with MIT, Anthony founded the Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program, which matched serially successful entrepreneurs and executives with budding technology entrepreneurs in mentoring relationships.Anthony's experience also spans traditional and digital media, working in sports sponsorship, broadcast television, and at marketing agencies primarily in the area of sales and business development. Anthony has traveled to over 40 countries; and lived, worked and studied in Australia, Japan, the UK and the USA.

David Bator thinks and writes about how work could work. David leads Achievers Workforce Institute, a strategic practice whose focus on Research, Community and Advisory empowers global executives with tactical, practical approaches to changing how the world works.

David is passionate about people, and has spent the last 20 years working closely and consultatively with HR, IT and Communications leaders to build programs that position individuals, teams and companies to grow.

Jess serves as a partner to the most innovative employers in the world, working to create equitable and accessible opportunities for their employees to find care.

Octavius Black CBE is the Co-Founder and CEO of MindGym, which he co-founded in 2000. An entrepreneur, philanthropist, best-selling author and former business columnist, Octavius was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in King Charles III’s 2023 New Year Honours for his services to entrepreneurship, business, life sciences, and community. Octavius has co-authored MindGym’s four books and has written in The Times, Financial Times and The Sunday Telegraph. Prior to founding MindGym, Octavius was a director of the organisational communications consultancy Smythe Dorward Lambert and prior to that he was an analyst at Booz Allen Hamilton. Octavius read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at The Queen’s College, Oxford University.