Lennox is the CEO & Co-Founder of Satoshi’s Index, a token-gated SaaS platform that automates portfolio management for crypto investors. In addition to this, he leads product initiatives at Starbucks Corp, and is the co-founder of NFT Seattle, the region's first large scale Web3 conference.   Lennox on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennoxmatsinde Lennox on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lennoxtakura Lennox on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lennoxtakura/ Newsletter:  https://www.noanswers.io/ To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Luiza is the International Sensory Science Manager at L’Oréal France.  She is a Food Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in Sensory and Consumer Science applied mainly in cosmetics, food, and household product categories.  She has recently been assigned the Data Steward role, being responsible for Sensory Data Acquisition, Management, and Application   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Dr. G.B. (Garmt) Dijksterhuis studied experimental psychology and methodology at the University of Utrecht and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation at the department of Data Theory at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. He has written or co-authored some 150 publications in sensory and consumer science, statistics and psychology. He is one of the founders of the Sensometric society and was its first president, and is a member of the editorial board of the journals Food Quality and Preference, the Journal of Future Foods, and Frontiers in Psychology/Eating Behavior. He has some 30 years of experience in sensory science and experimental psychology and worked in academia, research institutes, and in the food industry. He has done research on a variety of topics including multisensory perception, consumer (food) choice, and sensometrics. Garmt taught courses in sensory science and methodology and related topics and has been a guest scientist at several universities and research institutes. He is an invited speaker at many scientific conferences as well as at meetings for a more general audience. From 2009-2014 he was Honorary Professor at the section Food Design and Consumer Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Garmt is currently teaching at the experimental psychology department of the University of Utrecht. Garmt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garmt-dijksterhuis-a567045/ To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Carlos Velasco is an associate professor at the Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School (Norway), where he co-founded the Centre for Multisensory Marketing. Carlos received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University, after which he worked on a number of postdoctoral and consulting projects in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. His work is situated at the intersection between Psychology, Marketing, and Human-Computer Interaction, and focuses on understanding, and capitalizing on, our multisensory experiences and their guiding principles. He wrote the book "Multisensory experiences: Where the senses meet technology" and edited the collection "Multisensory packaging: Designing new product experiences". Carlos has worked with a number of companies from around the world on topics such as multisensory experiences, food and drink, branding, and consumer research.    For more information, visit https://carlosvelasco.info/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/velascop/ Twitter: Carlos Velasco (@velascop) / Twitter   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Carlos Gómez–Corona is the Director Human Insights & Sensory at Firmenich. His main responsibilities are to understand the future consumption of proteins, and the perception of natural and sustainable flavors and ingredients. He has conducted research both in academia and the industry, as well as teaching in the area of sensory and consumer science, collaborating with several research groups worldwide. His publications focus mainly on consumption experience, product perception and representation, and social responsibility. He obtained his master’s degree in Sensory & Consumer Research from the University of Burgundy in France, followed by a Ph.D. in Consumer Research at UAM-Mexico, in collaboration with the Centre des Sciences du Gout and ISA Lille. Carlos was awarded the Rose Marie Pangborn Sensory Science Scholarship in 2014 and is part of the editorial board of Food Research International, and editor at Cogent Business & Management.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-gomez-corona-424b22109/ Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Gomez-Corona Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarlosXOOC   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Founder of a New York-based brand incubator, Mindy Yang is an advisor, investor, growth hacker, curator, and technical designer & creative director of fragranced, flavored, and functional products.   As an expert on sensory sciences, psychology, marketing, brand strategy, wellness, and immersive design, Mindy is passionate about incubating/launching brands/experiences/products by creating unforgettable, emotionally captivating signatures around the world... Making the invisible felt.     LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindyyang/ World Taste and Smell Day: https://www.tasteandsmell.world/ Personal Website: https://mindyyang.info/   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Nat Cole is a cryptocurrency and blockchain educator and consultant, working in the crypto & blockchain space for around 5 years.  He is currently working on a 'Phygital' NFT Fashion project, mixing high-quality fashion design, sustainable materials, Web3, and embedded technologies.   Nat’s project NFT Clothing Club (NFTCC) is creating a unique high-quality fashion brand and community utilizing Bitcoin and the power of Stacks. His project is primarily focused on creating communities linking between fashion, NFTs, and Bitcoin.     NFTCC’s motto is "Luxury, high quality, unique fashion pieces, for every reality, inspired by Bitcoin, built on Stacks."   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-cole-5b75747b/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/BigRpic   NFTClothingClub: https://twitter.com/NFTClothingClub   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Nese Yurttas has worked in the field of sensory and consumer science for twenty years including the past fifteen years for Cargill, where she has built Cargill’s sensory capabilities in North America into a world-class capability. Nese leads a global community of sensory practice to build best practices and knowledge across the Globe. Across such a diverse product mix as Cargill’s, Nese must lead a team of scientists using expert sensory knowledge to identify the right sensory methods and experiments to achieve the business strategic needs and critical success factors.   Her capability development and project work have helped Cargill develop new products and ingredients such as the Truvia® Table Top (TT) Sweetener and Eversweet Stevia Sweetener from a fermentation source. She lead all sensory panels for the sweetener business and co-developed two patents, one of which resulted in the successful commercializing of the first natural TT sweetener Truvia® in the U.S.  Nese’s deep sensory knowledge, contributions to the knowledge of Food Ingredient taste and flavor,  team leadership and drive for business excellence has helped Cargill achieve its sensory business goals.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nese-yurttas-7b2a0725/   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Dr. Michelle Niedziela is a behavioral neuroscientist experienced in both academia and industry.  Michelle began her career as a post-doctoral fellow at Monell Chemical Senses Center working on research of functional foods. She continued her career at Johnson & Johnson where she specialized in innovation technologies for consumer products. At Mars Chocolate, Michelle worked on global sensory projects, and in her current role as VP of Research and Innovation at HCD Research, Michelle focuses on integrating applied consumer neuroscience tools with traditional sensory methods to measure consumer response with the goal of providing a comprehensive account of consumer decision making.     Kathryn Ambroze is a behavioral neuroscientist with experience in consumer research and methodological innovation. She currently works at HCD Research as the Manager of Behavioral and Marketing Sciences focusing on methodological development and innovation applying neuroscience and psychological tools to consumer and market research.   Michelle Niedziela on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-niedziela-phd-b581a712/   Kathryn Ambroze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynambroze   HCD Research: https://www.hcdi.net/   HCD Research Twitter: https://twitter.com/hcdresearchinc   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Amber Case studies the interaction between humans and computers and how technology is changing everyday life.  Case is currently a 2021 Mozilla Fellow working on the future of money, alternative business models for the web, and creator compensation.  Case is an internationally recognized design advocate and speaker, and the author of four books, including Calm Technology and A Kids Book About Technology. She spent two years as a fellow at MIT’s Center for Civic Media and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.   Named one of Inc. Magazine’s 30 under 30 and Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology, Case was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2012 and received the Claude Shannon Innovation Award from Bell Labs. She was also the co-founder and CEO of Geoloqi, a location-based software company acquired by Esri.   Twitter: https://twitter.com/caseorganic   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseorganic/   Case Organic website: http://caseorganic.com   Calm Technology: https://calmtech.com/   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Gern Huijberts is the global quality director for Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate, with responsibility for businesses in Europe, the US, Brazil, West-Africa and Asia-Pacific. In this position, he manages the global quality organization for food safety, quality assurance and quality control as well as regulatory affairs.   In previous roles he has worked at international food companies like Heineken, H.J. Heinz and FrieslandCampina  in the fields of Research & Development and Quality Assurance. Throughout his career he has always had a keen interest in sensory analyses, both as an active member in sensory panels as well as from a research perspective. He is very interested in artificial intelligence and machine learning for applications in quality assurance of food products.   Gern Huijberts holds a MSc degree in molecular biology from the Wageningen University and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is married with two children and  lives in Doorn near Utrecht in the Netherlands. In his free time, he likes to take long walks with his wife in the local national park and he plays guitar in a rock band.   Gern on LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/gern-huijberts-84a7331   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Dr. Vanessa Rios de Souza holds a Ph.D. in Food Science and has over 10 years of experience in R&D, consumer and sensory research across multiple food product categories and functions, with a strong background in food science and food processing. She has extensive experience in industrial, academic, and research settings. Vanessa works as a Computational Sensory Science Consultant at Aigora and before her role there she worked as a professor, researcher and as an independent CPG consultant for several years in Brazil, where she is from. She has presented her work in many conferences and has published 4 book chapters and 65+ peer-reviewed papers throughout her career.   Vanessa Rios de Souza on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/vanessardsouza   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Dr. Ruth Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University and an expert practitioner of state-of-the-art data science tools and the founder of the HOPE Lab. She is also the Co-Founder and Senior Advisor at Aigora. Dr. Ruth Brown-Ennis received her Ph.D. in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.   Her general research interests focus on better understanding the interplay between environmental and biological factors in the development of depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress and using these findings to improve mental health care. She has a particular interest in the role of these factors in people with developmental disabilities.   Dr. Ruth Brown on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruth-brown-ennis/   HOPE Lab website: https://rampages.us/hopelab/     To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Keir Finlow-Bates is the author of "Move Over Brokers: Here Comes The Blockchain" (https://mybook.to/moveover), the founder of Chainfrog Limit (one of Finland's earliest blockchain startups), and a prolific inventor of blockchain technologies with 43 patents to his name. Becoming interested in blockchain in late 2009, he has researched it full-time from 2016 onwards. Before that most of his 20-year career was spent as a software test engineer and manager, with a few short stints as a mathematics lecturer and a technical writer. Keir lives in Finland with his Finnish wife and eight children, none of whom have left home yet. You can find a collection of his short videos on blockchain concepts at his YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/thinklair) if you want to learn more, and he regularly posts articles and thoughts on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/keirf/).   Keir on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keirf/ Keir on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/thinklair     To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Dr. Tian Yu is a Computational Sensory Science Consultant at Aigora. Tian holds a Ph.D. in taste neuroscience, focusing on signal transduction. After a postdoctoral fellowship researching brain lipid metabolism, and an instructor role delving into sour taste sensing, Dr. Yu devoted herself to sensory and consumer science research to combine her love of neuroscience and expertise in analyzing data. Tian has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and one book chapter. She has presented her work at international conferences and received broad recognition for her work.     LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tianyu1037/   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

As President/Owner of Storlietelling Jean uses story-based techniques to design and facilitate highly engaging strategic planning, innovation, and team-building sessions. She also runs training programs in business storytelling skills for clients that span boutique consulting firms to Fortune 500 companies across a range of industries. Jean has facilitated innovation in consumer packaged goods, supplier, and direct marketing companies, focusing on building their innovation pipelines. She worked at General Mills for over a decade, where her knack for distilling complex content into compelling communications helped business teams drive business growth for consumer brands like Cheerios and Yoplait. As a child, she loved reading books, playing dress-up, and solving puzzles, foreshadowing the work she does now-solving problems with stories.    Mimi is the leader of Global Strategic Insights for IFF Nourish. She is responsible for inspiring and motivating creative teams by bringing actionable insights to life and facilitating end-to-end innovation. Prior to this, Mimi was the Principal and Owner of Sherlock Creative Thinking, a creativity and innovation consultancy that served a variety of clients and industries across the globe. Through her highly engaging and experiential approach, Mimi helped business teams in companies like Visa, L'Oreal, and Nestle crack the code on gnarly problems . . . and enjoy the process. She has been a leader and facilitation trainer for the Creative Problem Solving Institute for close to thirty years. As a natural ideator, if you give Mimi a challenge she's likely to spew out twenty-five ideas in under five minutes.   Jean Storlie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanstorlie/ Mimi Sherlock on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimisherlock  Storlietelling.com: https://storlietelling.com/ Book website: https://onceuponinnovation.com/   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Dr. Delarue’s research focuses on methods to measure sensory perception and preferences and on their effective use in food design. He seeks to develop high validity consumer-oriented methods. In particular, his research explores the role of context in hedonic measures using immersive environments and digital technologies. He also works to develop and validate rapid and flexible descriptive analysis methods with applications to new product development and consumer research. Using these methods, he seeks to understand the sensory determinants of food preferences and to find levers to drive healthy and sustainable food behaviors.   Formerly an Associate Professor at AgroParisTech in the food science and technology joint research unit with INRA and Université Paris-Saclay, he has served as the Chair of the French Society for Sensory Analysis (SFAS) and of the European Sensory Science Society (E3S).   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdelarue/   University: https://foodscience.ucdavis.edu/people/julien-delarue#/   Metaverse article Julien mentioned: https://aigora.cc/2ZRHZg6     To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Nicolas Hartmann is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Vly. Based in Berlin, the FoodTech startup aims to disrupt the dairy industry by developing novel alternatives using food science, fermentation, and data. Nicolas holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford and is passionate about a vegan lifestyle.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-hartmann-4b594b78/ Website: https://www.vlyfoods.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vlyfoods/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VlyFoods   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Bo Li is currently a Senior Behavioral Scientist at Dell Technologies where he leverages behavioral science to create better customer experiences for consumers who shop for Dell products online. Previously, Bo was a Behavioral Economist at Eli Lilly & Company where Bo conducted behavioral science research to help patients be more adherent to medication. Bo started his career as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Louisville. Bo obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle in Marketing. His work has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Retailing, Marketing Letters, and several other premier business journals and conference proceedings. Bo’s research interest lies in the intersection of emotions, persuasion, and behavioral change.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xboli Instagram: @CBTalkChina Medium: https://medium.com/@cbtalkchina   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com

Dawn is a skilled Sensory and Consumer Scientist with 15+ years of hands-on experience designing, executing, and interpreting multi-faceted research studies to solve business challenges. She is passionate about exploring data sets to make stories come to life.   Dawn studied mathematics and chemistry at DePauw University and received a Ph.D. in food science with a sensory emphasis from UC Davis. Dawn’s doctoral research focused on the relationships between vineyard yield and Cabernet Sauvignon flavor. While at Davis, she helped teach the inaugural year of the UC Davis distance learning Applied Sensory Science and Consumer Testing certificate program.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-chapman-4356793/   To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aigora.com