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Joachim Tabor | The Automotive Future
Joachim has been academically trained at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and starte... -
Eric Chaniot | Technology and the Automobile
Chief Digital Officer, Michelin North America Eric Chaniot is a dynamic and seasoned innovator, who has been in the ... -
Keith Coker | Navigating Cloud Technologies
Keith is CEO of Green Cloud Technologies, an emerging company that helps clients understand and navigate cloud techn... -
David Pence | Cryptocurrency and the Cloud
Greenville SC Native. Attended Clemson University with B.S. in Computer Engineering. Started Acumen consulting right... -
Nonprofit Rodeo
Greenville is considered to be one of the most giving communities in the country. However, few residents fully under... -
Dan Weidenbenner | Community Revitalization through Gardening
Dan Weidenbenner is the executive director of Mill Community Ministries, the umbrella organization for Mill Village ... -
Samantha Wallace | Emerging Women in Politics
Samantha S. Wallace is the co-founder and publisher of edible Upcountry, a magazine dedicated to celebrating the reg... -
John Nolan |Vardry McBee: Greenville’s First Great Visionary
John came to Greenville from Toledo, Ohio in 1992 and worked as the curator of the Bob Jones Art Museum for 20 years... -
Courtney Tollison-Hartness | Bending Towards Justice
Courtney Tollison Hartness teaches History at Furman University and serves as Public Historian throughout the Upstat... -
Homes are an Economic and Moral Imperative | Susan McLarty
Housing affordability is braided with the interconnected dynamics of race, wealth, safety, crime, and poverty. Recen... -
Post Stroke Gait Rehabilitation | David Huizenga
Moterum is a company located in Greenville, South Carolina, focused on the needs of the mobility-challenged due to d... -
The Power of Microsurfaces | Ralph Hulseman
Hoowaki transforms the surfaces of common materials through micro technology on extruded and molded products and pro... -
Sex and World Peace: Why We Need to Care about Gender Equality | Susan Stall
Research shows that gender equality and gender diversity improve economic development, promote peace, and improve th... -
The Art of Affirmation | Gail Depriest
Women, through empathy and their understanding the suffering of others throughout the world, have the ability to sav... -
Poetry Slam | Kimberly Simms
Like Ted Talks, Poetry Slam has a strong connection to creating an open forum for ideas worth spreading. Poetry Slam... -
Social Media Saved My Life: My Weight Loss Journey | Jon Evans
Jon is on a journey to lose 300 pounds and so far he has lost 230 lbs in 13 months. He speaks about his weight loss ... -
What’s Brewing: The Business of Craft Beer | Bill Davis
A few years ago, Bill Davis made the leap from an architectural career to becoming one of South Carolina’s fir... -
Beer and Napkins as Idea Catalysts | Philip McCreight
Phillip is the Founder and Chief Idea Bartender of Beer and Napkins LLC. As a creative in an industrial world, Phill... -
Mental Health to Shout About | Nicole Livengood
Nichole’s bipolar diagnosis didn’t stop her life, in fact, it gave her something to shout about. A successful life w... -
Don’t Let Mental Illness Define Your Identify | Traci Barr
Traci was first diagnosed with “manic depression” in 1977 when she was 14 years old. She has struggled with eating d... -
Doug Kim | International Property Protection
Greenville is home of some of the world’s biggest inventions. Do we continue to be the home for some of the greatest... -
Jerry Barber | Building an Inventive Mind
Jerry Barber started, owned, and operated the second largest amusement ride manufacturing company in the United Stat... -
Mike McGirr | Open Source Recipe for Success
The landscape in Upstate South Carolina is ripe for food collaboration. As we create a sustainable healthy food comm... -
Zach Eikenberry |Next for Public High Schools
NEXT High School values impact over everything: harnessing entrepreneurial values, core content and skills, and real... -
Ansel Sanders | Innovations in Public Education
Public education is changing dramatically in America. How can our public schools embrace changes in technology, lear... -
Amanda Fusilli |Making a Difference in Food Deserts in Detroit
In 2011, Amanda became Detroit Community Liaison for Whole Foods Market. In the position, she was the main point of ... -
David White | Fostering Great Ideas for Our Children
David White believes that vulnerable children deserve better and found Fostering Great Ideas to implement child-cent... -
Brian Clark | Generation Group Homes for Children
Not every child in Greenville County lives in the traditional, two parent, 2.4 kids, one dog, happy household. Some ... -
Laughing Matters | Bill and Susan Smith
You can't have lived in the Upstate of SC for long without hearing something about the live, local comedy at the Caf... -
Engineer by Day, Funny Lady by Night | Shivani Nadarajah
Why is humor so important to us? How do we deal with humor in our everyday lives? What if you chose to make a living... -
Music City? Not | Alex Dial
With an award-winning downtown like ours, more than 200 eateries and talented musicians overflowing into neighboring... -
Rock and Roll City | Jaze Uries
Jaze studied at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City where he was guided by many of the g... -
Eliza Lord | Sustainability in Greenville
Sustainability has been called the question of our generation. Can our businesses, communities, and citizens, practi... -
Derek Lewis | Born Learning
Derek Lewis, Executive Director of Greenville County First Steps in Greenville, SC, talks about how reading to your ... -
Angela Mackie | Different Not Less
Angela Mackey has served for the past five years as Career Outreach Coordinator at Walgreens Distribution Center in ... -
Ruben Alvarez | Different, Not Less
Ruben Alvarez has worked in ministry for more than 20 years, the majority of that time with Young Life Capernaum, an...
