Booth Mastermind 2023 Speakers

Flavilla Fongang is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, and an international multilingual keynote speaker. She is the founder of 3 Colours Rule, an award-winning branding and experiential marketing agency specialising in the technology sector. Flavilla was awarded the “She’s Mercedes” businesswoman award by Mercedes Benz among women such as Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook.

She is also the founder of Global Tech Advocates – Black Women in Tech, one of the fastest-growing and largest communities of black women in tech. She is the author of “99 Strategies to get customers” with a 5-star rating on Amazing. She is a judge at the AWS Software Start-ups Awards 2022 and The Drum Awards.

Flavilla Fongang is a recognised leader in marketing as she created the D.A.C. system and The Beyond Marketing Approach which have helped numerous brands successfully grow their business. Flavilla is the chosen brand advisor for BBC and provides actionable brand strategy advice.

Computer Weekly named her among the top 2 most influential women in tech in the UK. She is an Entrepreneurship Expert with the Entrepreneurship Centre for Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

She has been a keynote speaker for the most prestigious international events, such as AdWeek, HubSpot, DMWF, MozCon, AdWorld, Upgrade100, CTA, MarTech and many more.

She also delivered corporate talks for the following companies: Facebook, Toyota, Zoom, Levi’s, Microsoft, Deloitte and many more

David Miller is the CEO of LA Photo Party, creators of award-winning photo booths, software, and event technology.

Formerly the head of new technology, David now spends his time shaping the future of the business and managing office nationwide that utilize and pioneer new photo booth solutions.

His degree as an engineer has led him to work in many exciting places including NASA. And he loves puppies. Loves ’em.

is a multifaceted entrepreneur and creative director that has worked in advertising, fashion and tech industries for the past 19+ years in both New York and Los Angeles.

She is the founder, CEO & Creative Director of POPsocial, an experiential photo & video creative agency. Through POPsocial, Shelly and her team create next level photo & video booth installations to reinvent social technology for iconic events like Coachella, Amex, Adidas, Vogue, Google, Facebook and more.

Shelly is passionately proactive in women empowerment & event marketing. Her company, Be Your Own You (BYOU), creates events to gather female creators, collaborators and social architects with the goal of supporting women who believe in empowering each other’s passionate ideas and efforts in pursuit of success.

Shelly is also a firm believer in work/life balance. She believes in the power of regular travel, self-love and friendship to support a more successful and productive business. She strives to influence from the inside out.

Sam Eitzen is the co-founder and CEO of SnapBar, an Inc. 500 company. After starting it with his brother as a side-hustle and growing it, slowly, for 3 years, they decided to make it their full-time work in 2015.

Their team and business grew quickly in the ensuing years and they began creating new products as well as expanding outside of Seattle, their home. Today, the team at SnapBar has the privilege of working at 1000s of events every year including CES, Coachella, and SXSW with clients like Google, Nike, Disney, Louis Vuitton, MasterCard and many others.

Before starting SnapBar, Sam served as Marketing Director and then COO at Rhino, a Kickstarter-funded camera gear startup. During his time there, Rhino exploded onto the global scene and sold their products to the film departments at Apple, NBC, Universal, GoPro, BBC, and Tesla.

Sam has been written about and quoted in The Ringer, Forbes, Citi, and the US Chamber. He speaks on the topics of marketing and customer experiences as well as the highs and lows of running a fast-growing, bootstrapped startup.

LEEHAW - Director

Ally White has been in the booth industry for over a decade. She owns and operates LEEHAW, a digital selfie station company in Knoxville, TN. 

She specializes on permanent installs and venue partnerships, to drive the business. 

With a strong background in business development and technical software skills, Ally brings a unique and valuable perspective to the industry.

Founder / Creative Director, OutSnapped.com

I don't think that we plan the journeys we take through life. I certainly didn't," contemplates Nicholas Rhodes, OutSnapped's Founder, "But it's awesome how the adventures and detours we take in along the way shape us into what we become.

Nicholas grew up in the suburbs of New York, obsessed with music, in particular, electronic. He learnt magic, too, sawing his sister in half live on stage at the age of 14. Really. 

When college called, he moved to study at Emerson College in Boston, figuring it'd be an ideal place to break into music. But, as it turned out, Boston's electronic scene "wasn't all that just yet..." 

Back then, MySpace was on the rise. And though bands and artists could suddenly get their music distributed globally, they had an image problem: getting great quality photos of themselves online. So Nicholas started taking his camera along to document live shows. He'd shoot two or three bands every night, upload the pictures the following morning, and get paid for the privilege. 👍

Realizing that great photography could build communities around events, he co-founded a much-needed electronic music festival in Boston based on that principle. "If we could capture attention with the imagery we'd use," says Nicholas, "people would be excited and curious to come along. And hey, it ran for a decade!"

When he returned to NYC, Nicholas started work as a creative director at a print magazine while continuing his night-time side-hustle. But there was something different this time around: the bands were far less interesting than the audiences watching them.

Nicholas started taking pictures of everyone in the room, handing them each a card with details of where they'd see the shots the next day. So, rather than just two or three bands liking his work every night, he was winning an entirely new audience and building 200+ new fans each time he headed out with his camera. 

He launched NickyDigital.com as a destination for the images. At its peak, 150k visitors a day were heading to the site, more traffic than the magazine Nicholas worked for, which had a team of 30. And further, the platform was generating traffic from Milan, Paris, and Tokyo. Why? “They were coming to see what the kids in NYC were doing.”

2008 saw Nicholas's career in print come to a halt. The magazine he worked for folded, leaving him to figure out how to make a living from the tools he'd been developing in the evenings. Because, while being immersed in music and photography, he'd also learned how to sell concepts, quantify KPIs for clients, and interpret data and analytics. And as venues weren't budgeting for photographers, he was instead paid a commission for everyone he brought into a club: so from there, Nicholas then started to figure out how to cut more affiliate deals from his content.

Demand snowballed. Music publicists approached him to photograph breaking artists as part of their first NYC trips. Not just to capture shows, Nicholas journaled their trips while introducing them to other influential players, with the pictures shared far and wide. He also started consulting with venues directly, running the photo marketing program for places like Webster Hall for over a decade. During that time, it became Pollstar's No.1 Ticket Sales Venue in the world.

"And that's all good," he reflects, "But, jeez, by 2015, the prospect of spending six nights a week in nightclubs - forever - really hit home." 

He launched OutSnapped as a business that could scale, based on the knowledge and skills he'd acquired; about the power of community building, about KPIs and affiliate marketing, about understanding and acting upon data. All distilled into the simple equation that a Fun Experience + Consumers = Actionable Marketing Data.

"So that's where the journey brings me," Nicholas concludes, "I guess the only skill I didn’t get to use along the way was sawing people in half!”

CEO ImageWords Communications

Ruth has the curiosity of a journalist, the enthusiasm of a publicist and the strategic mind of a marketing consultant. 

Ruth, who is founder of ImageWords Communications, has lived in Las Vegas since 1999. Her award-winning boutique firm has worked with clients across all industries, including retail, entertainment, events, design, home improvement, construction, real estate, health care, home services and more. A native of the Midwest and a graduate of the Indiana University school of journalism, Ruth’s background prior to launching her firm was in corporate public relations and before that journalism. Ruth immerses herself fully in work that brings her joy and helps others. Her favorite mantra in business is “givers gain.”