19 Jun June 19, 2023 – QR Code King Sharat Potharaju, Lumin’s Ashley Haynes-Gaspar and Hall of Fame Author Cory Doctorow
Sharat Potharaju – Co-founder and CEO of Uniqode Note: Company Name Changed in Feb 2024
Barcodes are going to be replaced by QR codes. Barcodes need special
technology to scan and QR doesn’t. QR codes hold much more data than barcodes.
Sharat Potharaju
Sharat Potharaju – Co-founder and CEO of Beaconstac. Sharat is responsible for crafting the overall strategy and execution at Beaconstac. In 2011 Businessworld ranked him among India’s Hottest Young Entrepreneurs. Prior to founding Beaconstac, Sharat spent several years working in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in New York. In this role, Sharat assisted clients in deriving customized solutions to the issues they were facing by executing multi-billion dollar financing and merger & acquisition transactions. Sharat is also very passionate about politics and public governance, which led him to take a break from his job in New York to work with Bangalore-based civic engagement NGO Janaagraha in 2009. While there, he contributed to the award-winning Jaago Re Campaign, India’s largest urban grassroots movement for voter registration to date. Sharat has a Master’s degree in Engineering Management from Duke University and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.
Ashley Haynes-Gaspar – Executive Vice President of Customer Experience Officer, Wholesale and International at Lumen Technologies
Customer experience is about making our brand real. Brand is a
promise that marketing makes and the rest of the company delivers on.
Ashley Haynes-Gaspar
Ashley Haynes-Gaspar is the Executive Vice President – Customer Experience Officer, Wholesale and International at Lumen. She is responsible for nurturing and growing enterprise customer relationships, managing the company’s international and wholesale businesses, and leading global marketing and branding efforts. She most recently served as Chief Operating Officer overseeing industry and business applications for the U.S. subsidiary of Microsoft. There she drove ground-breaking programs that successfully increased market share and revenue growth year-over-year. Haynes-Gaspar’s extensive technology leadership experience spans global business strategy, marketing, change management, revenue growth, and innovation. Prior to joining Microsoft, she held various senior-level positions at GE, including Chief Marketing Officer for two of their global divisions, where she was twice named Marketer of the Year. Great customer experiences are key to driving business growth and people are an essential part of delivering that experience. Ashley Haynes-Gaspar will be available for interviews to discuss ground-breaking programs she has used to help employees develop a deep passion for their work. Ashley Haynes-Gaspar is Executive Vice President – Customer Experience Officer, Wholesale and International at Lumen. She is responsible for nurturing and growing enterprise customer relationships, managing the company’s international and wholesale businesses, and leading global marketing and branding efforts. She previously served as Chief Operating Officer overseeing industry and business applications for the U.S. subsidiary of Microsoft. There she drove ground-breaking programs that successfully increased market share and revenue growth year-over-year. These programs became the blueprint for global strategy and execution. Ashley’s extensive technology leadership experience spans global business strategy, marketing, change management, revenue growth, and innovation. Prior to joining Microsoft, she held various senior-level positions at GE, including Chief Marketing Officer for two of their global divisions, where she was twice named Marketer of the Year. In 2022, she was appointed to the Board of Directors for Beyond Now, a fast-growing digital platform provider powering telecommunications organizations to grow revenue by utilizing platform, digital marketplace and Software as a Service Business Support Systems (SaaS BSS) through cloud, edge, IoT, AI and 5G.
Cory Doctorow – Author of Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel (The Martin Hench Novels)
Copyrights now last longer, cover more works and have higher penalties
every year. But the companies that buy work from creatives have become
more profitable then ever. The share of money going to creators has declined.
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest book RED TEAM BLUES, a technothriller about finance crime; his latest nonfiction book is chokepoint capitalism (with rebecca giblin), about creative labor markets and monopoly. he is the author of the international young adult little brother series. he is also the author how to destroy surveillance capitalism, nonfiction about conspiracies and monopolies; and of radicalized and walkaway, science fiction for adults, a ya graphic novel called in real life; and other young adult novels like pirate cinema. his first picture book was poesy the monster slayer (aug 2020). his next novel is the lost cause (november 2023). his next nonfiction book is the internet con (september 2023), a nonfiction book from verso about monopoly and radical interoperability. he maintains a daily blog at pluralistic.net. he works for the electronic frontier foundation, is a mit media lab research affiliate, is a visiting professor of computer science at open university, a visiting professor of practice at the university of north carolina’s school of library and information science and co-founded the uk open rights group. born in toronto, canada, he now lives in los angeles. in 2020, he was inducted into the canadian science fiction and fantasy hall of fame. in 2022, he earned the sir arthur clarke imagination in service to society awardee for lifetime achievement.