Hello everyone, my name is Ben Olmos and I’m here because I met Ben at VidFest and he was kind enough to reach out and invite me. I’ve live half my life in California, the other half in metro Atlanta, where I am currently. I’ve worked more than 30 years in the consumer goods industry in sales and marketing operations (20 at Coca-Cola the last 10 in wine and spirits). I’ve also worked in higher ed for the past 20 years as an adjunct, department chair, and Director of an MBA program. I have a PhD in business with a concentration in Industrial Psychology having done my dissertation work on Positive Psychology in the workplace. About 2.5 years ago I started a media company called DissedMedia in an effort to combine my business and academic passions into a website and learning platform focused on helping managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs get better at what they do. I’m here to meet you. I love collaboration and connecting with new people and if I can help you by giving you access to my platforms to help you get the word out about your work, your projects or if you’re interested in building a course to help teach others, let me know. I publish multiple articles weekly on The Daily Pitch and chronicle the story of starting my company on my podcast DissedMedia A Startup Story. I do my best to SEO it all for maximum exposure. If you want to be a guest, do a guest article, or would like me to be a guest on your show, let me know. Thank you Ben!

@Mariette Frey you as well, thank you.

@Matt Rouse I would love to engage in some good conversation on this. I have over 30 years of experience in the CPG industry, currently Director of Business Analysis for a wine and spirits importer and I’ve also worked the past 20 years in higher ed in various roles from Director of an MBA program to adjunct professor. That in mind, AI is rapidly changing so many things in my world. The time to pivot was yesterday and in my opinion the Luddite’s that are trying to hang on to legacy ways of doing things are the buggy whip makers. The confluence of population decline, high cost of higher education, attitudes towards taking on student debt and the rapid takeover of AI is going to create massive change. If that sounds like something you’d like to talk about, let me know.