Clear your calendar and get ready for a week of interactive panels, chats, workshops, and happy hours with LA's expert makers! Made in LA kicks off on June 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Join us for panel discussions focused around the future of some of LA's key communities: Technology, Food, Design, Health, tools for Entrepreneurs, and more. We'll wrap with a groovy party Friday night courtesy of Flash Dance and Joymode.
Follow along #MadeInLA and make sure to tag @GA_LA.
Clear your calendar - It's going down! Schedule Blocks kicks off on May 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose.
Clear your calendar - It's going down! Schedule Blocks kicks off on May 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose.
A creator, digital designer, and entrepreneur at heart, Jennifer Puno is the Co-Founder of Map (Instagram @madewithmap)—an online platform that celebrates people and their journeys. You can find her in Iceland making Star Trek gifs, out and about collaborating with other creatives, or in DTLA on the hunt for the city’s best food.
Dante has designed for reddit, Yahoo!, Cisco and more. He was the first “interesting person” featured in reddit’s inaugural podcast series, “Upvoted,” which launched in January 2015. Dante co-founded DIALS in 2013 to redesign the mobile calendar into an elegantly designed new clock-based view of your day.
Saba Sedighi is a results driven Marketing Strategist, Content Creator, Speaker and Course Instructor. She takes on an innovative approach towards social selling to connect brands with their audience, and has spoken at numerous conferences such as Social Media Marketing World and National Association of Broadcasters.
Grant has focused his law career on business, entertainment, and intellectual property matters, and served as a lead litigation and transactions associate with a firm in Downtown Los Angeles before launching FRAMEWORK. He is also a musician, photographer, band manager, project developer, and small-business owner.
Paco is the founder of The Hell Yeah Group, a mission-driven firm that helps creatives not freak out about finance through financial mentorship. She has focused her career on working with creative businesses doing business consulting, management, financial planning and wealth management.
She lives in Echo Park in sunny Los Angeles, California. She plays in a band called Sweet Bump It and rides her bike nearly every day.
President and Founder of IN GOOD CO, a culture-conscious brand consultancy that aligns people and organizations around a purpose, creates connections and inspires action. Kirsten has transformed agencies, created brands, pioneered experiences, led teams and much more. Uniqlo, Anthropologie, Ralph Lauren, Google, Nike and Starbucks are just a few Kirsten has inspired. When not traveling between coasts she can be found checking out the latest culinary spots or styling a witty photoshoot of her children, Hudson and Sailor.
Laureen Asseo is heading a food revolution from her company headquarters in Chino Hills, CA. At only 24 years old, Laureen directs the operations and culinary teams of Nutrition Corp., distributing thousands healthy, convenient meals for active lifestyle consumers through their ION Nutrition and Fresh N’ Lean brand labels. For the past four years, her mission to get America eating healthy has become a reality.
Ally Hamilton is the co-creator of YogisAnonymous.com, one of the leading online yoga video services on the web. She grew up in New York City and graduated from Columbia University with a B.A., having done an English major and Psychology minor. During her senior year, she wandered into a yoga class thinking it was going to be too easy for her, and that yoga was "stretching on the floor." After having her butt handed to her, she was hooked.
Britt Hysen is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MiLLENNiAL, an aspirational media lifestyle brand showcasing global influencers, cultural trends, and the social impact of the generation.
Within four months of its debut, MiLLENNiAL was named by the White House as a top influential digital media site for millennials and obtained over 1 million unique visits in its first year.
In addition to running MiLLENNiAL, Britt is also a Huffington Post blogger, experiential marketer, brand consultant, and international speaker.
Marina is a well-rounded design strategist with a deep love for service design, innovation, strength-based leadership, and all things human-centered. With an emphasis on storytelling and customer journey, she employs the design thinking process to help organizations of all sizes create sustainable growth at The Why Lab. She hosts a weekly podcast called Why Service Design Thinking, which is streamed worldwide in more than 70 countries.
For Elizabeth, brands are a reflection of people. So, when she decided to found her new company The Culture List—a discovery app for cultural experiences—she first asked, "Who am I building this for?" and “Why do they need it?” Just like people, brands have a personality and they should have a story to tell.
Elizabeth lives in Santa Monica with her fiancé Lucas and her cat Mister. She would also like to mention that talking about herself in the third person is very difficult and if it weren’t for periodic dance breaks, life would be much more stressful.
Lindsay Mauch is the Founder and Managing Director of LTM Digital, a marketing and social media boutique agency focusing on health, fitness, and technology. Lindsay has worked for top brands such as MySpace, JustFab, Future US, and Transworld Media. She believes in innovation, and is constantly keeping her fingers on the pulse of new and emerging trends in the digital marketplace. She is the Director of Operations for Social Media Club Los Angeles. In her free time she enjoys surfing, snowboarding, playing soccer, and maintaining her health and fitness blog, FitandAwesome.com
Baily Hancock is a Marketing Partnerships Manager within the Innovations Group at one of the largest media agencies in the world, tasked with developing first-to-market partnerships with the company's Fortune 50 clients and new and emerging startups. In addition to her day job, Baily teaches workshops throughout LA to help people learn to utilize partnerships in order to grow their communities and expand their businesses, as well as workshops on finding purpose and happiness in your career called, "The Career Experiment", which will be turned into a book this year.
General Assembly (GA) is a global educational company on a mission to empower a global community to pursue work they love. Focusing on the most relevant and in-demand skills across data, design, business and technology, GA is confronting a skills gap through best-in-class instruction and providing access to opportunities.
GA works with students online and in person across 15 campuses in 4 continents. GA also works with companies as partners in course development and graduate placement as well as helps companies stay competitive in today's digital landscape. Additionally, GA’s focus on affordable and accessible education combined with our education-to-employment approach is helping to create a diverse talent pipeline.
