Hi, I am Chelsea Faulner, experiential strategist, founder of Candid Hughes Cosmetics, and a proud graduate of Columbia College Chicago. Thank you. Today, I want to talk to the creators, the visionaries, and the boundary pushers in the room.This talk is grounded in radical imagination, the belief that creativity can reshape not just what we do, but how we live, lead, and connect. It's about dreaming boldly and building experiences that change how people feel and think. It also calls upon us to be unwoven, t ...

Imagine arriving in a place thinking everyone speaks the same language as you, only to discover you've walked into a version of that language on steroids. A high octane remix with added poetry, philosophy, and weaponized sarcasm. Welcome to Northern Ireland.I am what is known locally as a blowin, which to those of you not from this part of the world may sound like a hay fever symptom, but it is in fact a new arrival. My family of blowins and I blew into this beautiful part of the world a couple of years ago ...