Ivory Layne is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter from Denver, North Carolina. Growing up, Layne came from a religious family and she started her musical career singing in church. While in school, she was involved in her school’s theater program and was involved in their productions where she wrote songs and was even a musical director for one of their plays. Later... read full bio
Iskwe, also known as Waseskwan Iskewew, or her birth name, Meghan Meisters, is an Indigenous singer-songwriter and activist of Cree, Dene and Irish heritage. Iskwe was born in Winnipeg, Manitopa, Canada, and over the years has lived in various cities such as Toronto, Los Angeles, Hamilton, and New York City. Iskwe rose to fame with the release of her self-titled... read full bio
Ilario Alicante is an Italian DJ from Livorno, Italy. Ever since he was young, Alicante had a passion for music and he began his career producing music in his bedroom with equipment he made himself. Alicante went on to begin performing at clubs in Europe, which were mainly in Germany and Ibiza, Spain. After gaining experience in performing, Alicante went... read full bio
Iddris Sandu is a Ghanaian software engineer and architectural technologist who was born in Accra, Ghana, and was raised in Compton, California. Sandu is best known for creating the world’s first smart retail store experience entitled, “The Marathon Store”, alongside the late Nipsey Hussle. Sandu’s work with The Marathon Store includes coding and creating algorithms and the store would allow... read full bio
Indu Subaiya is a healthcare visionary, entrepreneur, consultant in healthcare and technology, and co-founder and co-chairman of Healthcare 2.0. Subaiya was born in Bangalore, India, and she went on to earn her B.S. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University before going on to earn her medical degree from Stony Brook University School of Medicine. After graduating from Stony... read full bio
Ilyasah Shabazz is an American author, motivational speaker, community organizer, and social activist who is best known for being the daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. As an author, Shabazz is best known for her memoir, “Growing Up X.” Shabazz was born in Queens, New York, and she has earned her degrees from the State University of New York... read full bio
Ian Ferguson is an American singer and songwriter from Los Angeles. Ferguson started making music in his mother's basement when they moved to Kingston Springs, Tennessee. His debut album, "State of Gold" didn't gain popularity until Ferguson continued to produce music on his own. After two years of recording solo, Ian decided to turn his attention to the public and... read full bio
Ishan Gupta is the Senior Director of Global Operations at Udacity which is a company that trains the workforce for careers in the future. Through his work with Udacity, Gupta works as the leader of the global operations team and works with product strategy for serves to create successful outcomes for customers and businesses. Gupta has earned his Bachelor of... read full bio
Ian Pearson is a leading futurist and author who has been the former head of BT Laboratories. Pearson has previously earned his degree in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Queens University in Belfast. He then went on to begin working in Shorts Missile Systems where he focused on areas which included mechanical engineering and battlefield strategy simulation. From there,... read full bio
Ian Plimer is an Australian geologist who has been the Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne and the former professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide. Plimer has previously earned his BSc in mining engineering at the University of New South Wales and went on to earn his Ph.D. in geology from Macquarie University.... read full bio
Ismo Leikola, better known as just Ismo, is a Finnish stand-up comedian, musician, author, screenwriter and YouTuber from Jyvaskyla, Finland. Ismo found his love for comedy while studying physics and chemistry at the University of Jyvaskyla after watching a comedy show at the campus bar. This led him to decide to pursue a comedy career and within a year he... read full bio
Isaac Gracie is a British singer-songwriter from Ealing, West London who began his career as a child singing in the Ealing Abbey Choir. Gracie began writing his own songs by the time he was only 14 years old. Gracie always knew he wanted to pursue a musical career and set out to focus on music after the release of his... read full bio
Ilira is a Swiss singer-songwriter from Brienz, Switzerland to a Kosovo Albanian father from Pristina, Kosovo, and from a mother from Tirana, Albania. Ilira began her career performing with the band The Colors where they competed in the Swiss television series “Die grosse Entscheidungs Show,” which was a pre-selection show for the Eurovision Song Contest. Ilira and The Colors performed... read full bio
Diana De Brito, better known as her stage name IAMDDB, is a British rapper and singer who was born in Lisbon, Portugal and raised in Manchester, United Kingdom. Brito always had a love for music as both of her parents were musicians. Brito’s music is a mixture of alternative, hip-hop, trap, and jazz fusion. Brito began her career with the... read full bio
Ivana Bartoletti is a keynote speaker who is the head of privacy and ethics at Gemserv, founder of Women Leading in AI Network, and co-editor of the AIBook. Through her work with Gemserv, Bartoletti is the leader on privacy and data protection and helps businesses keep their data. She also an expert on privacy challenges through the internet and with... read full bio
Iyla Blue first hit the scene back in 2018 when she uploaded her first song “Power” to YouTube. Shortly after, she released the EP “War + Raindrops” the same year and it was a very quick rise to fame as she is now a household name just a few years later. She is known of r viral songs like “juice”... read full bio
The Imperfect Dancers are a dance company that consists of eight dancers, and they are able to leave an impression on their audiences by performing presentations that are sensitive, unique, and fascinating. Their performances are incredibly aesthetic works of art, and each individual dancer has their own flaws that make them special while simultaneously achieving excellence in their craft. They... read full bio
A spectacular year of sold-out tours and raving reviews from publications like Pitchfork, the New York Times and the New Yorker followed the North Carolina-based artist's intriguing and explosive second Album Whatever Shape You Take. The album's 11 tracks deal with mortality, the renewal that community gives and the significance of finding your center right now. It is a raw and boldly... read full bio
Pablo Davila and his best buddy Bruno Segovia created the band Irist. The twosome recruited fellow Atlantans Adam Mitchell and Jason Belisha, who are both originally from Argentina and Chile. Yet until Brazilian vocalist Rodrigo Carvalho joined the group, Irist wouldn't truly become Irist. After making gradual progress as songwriters and engaging in a protracted courting with legendary A&R executive Monte... read full bio
Jonna Lee, the originator and frontwoman of iamamiwhoami, has a solo project called ionnalee. Ionnalee stands for a fresh start as well as the continuation of an ongoing narrative. A decade into her solo career, Swedish pop maverick Jonna Lee departs from the avant-garde audio/visual world she helped pioneer in the form of the enigmatic audiovisual project iamamiwhoami with a rawer,... read full bio
