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As a senior living expert, Star Bradbury has helped thousands of families make educated and informed decisions as they navigate the world of senior living and senior healthcare. She has 25 years of experience in the industry and is the founder of Senior Living Strategies and an aging life care expert. She specializes in developing resilient and flexible plans that promote independence and focuses on optimal quality of life for elders.
Joseph Bradley is a humanist, visionary, and galvanizer whose work redefines the intersection of technology and humanity. As a world-renowned speaker and human-centric leader, Joseph champions the development of technological solutions with the human perspective at their core. Known for his ability to inspire and unite employees, customers, and stakeholders, he has consistently driven groundbreaking innovations that prioritize humanity in a rapidly advancing digital world.
As the CEO of TONOMUS, the first subsidiary of NEOM, Joseph is spearheading the creation of the world’s first cognitive community. Under his leadership, TONOMUS has evolved from NEOM’s technology and digital sector to become a global pioneer in cognitive AI technologies. For the past five years, he has directed the largest futuristic tech project in the world—a $500 billion initiative that involves designing, deploying, and implementing transformative AI-driven solutions.
Gayle Brandeis is an award-winning author whose first book, Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, has been adopted by writers worldwide. Gayle’s novel The Book of Dead Birds won Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change in 2002, and was published by HarperCollins. Her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including Salon.com, Nerve.com, Hip Mama and The Oy of Sex: Jewish Women Write Erotica. Gayle’s second novel, Self Storage, will be published by Ballantine in January 2007. Gayle, who was named a Writer Who Makes a Difference by The Writer Magazine, is writer-in-residence for the Mission Inn Foundation’s Family Voices Project, and teaches writing throughout Southern California. She lives in Riverside, Calif., with her husband and their two children.
Craig Brandon is the author of five books and a former education reporter and college writing teacher. His writing has won awards sponsored by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the National School Boards Association, the Associated Press and first prize in investigative reporting from the Education Writers Association. He lectures frequently on topics connected with his books and has appeared on the History Channel, PBS and “Unsolved Mysteries.”
Dr. Rick Brandon wrote the Wall Street Journal bestseller Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success, which won book of the month for Fast Company, Forbes CEO.com, and Institute for Management Studies. He is a distinguished faculty member for the Institute for Management Studies twenty cities around the world. He was IMS’ most widely requested speaker globally. With 35 years of performance improvement experience, Dr. Brandon has directly trained hundreds of thousands of people in workshops and speeches. He has consulted, trained, and presented at companies worldwide, from start-up e-commerce to blue chip companies.
Dr. Brandon earned his PhD in Counseling and Management at the University of Arizona, his M.A. in School Psychology from St. Lawrence University, and his BA in Psychology from Case Western Reserve. He’s taught graduate and undergraduate courses for the University of Bridgeport, College of Saint Rose and the University of Arizona.
Patricia Bray is the author of the award-winning fantasy Devlin’s Luck, which is the first novel in her bestselling Sword of Change trilogy. Patricia balances her writing with a full-time career as an IT project manager and claims credit for turning her coworkers into fellow “Farscape” fans. In 2006 she’ll launch a new fantasy series with the publication of The First Betrayal. For more information about her books and upcoming convention appearances visit her Web site at www.patriciabray.com.
James Breakwell is a professional comedy writer and amateur father of four girls, ages eight and under. He is best known for his family humor Twitter account @XplodingUnicorn, which boasts more than a million followers. The account went viral in April 2016 and transformed James from a niche comedy writer into one of the most popular dads on social media. James has published three books, with several more planned for release in coming years. Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse offers useful advice for how to raise happy, healthy children in a world overrun by the undead. Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child teaches regular moms and dads to best overachieving parents by doing less. How to Save Your Child from Ostrich Attacks, Accidental Time Travel, and Anything Else that Might Happen on an Average Tuesday is a guide for dealing with literally everything else. And most recently, Prance Like Nobody’s Watching is a guided journal specifically for kids.
Herbie Brennan is the author of the New York Times bestselling Faerie Wars series, among many other titles, and the editor of Through the Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia.
Sarah Rees Brennan was born in Ireland by the sea, where she spent her schooldays secretly reading books rather than learning Irish. That paid off, as she is now the author of the Demon’s Lexicon trilogy, a series about attractive troubled brothers and all the fierce ladies and evil magicians they know. The first book in the series, The Demon’s Lexicon, received three starred reviews, was an ALA Top Ten Best Books of 2009, and was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal. Her next book, cowritten with Justine Larbalestier, comes out in 2012. For more information, visit Sarah at http://sarahreesbrennan.com.
