Mar 25, 2022
11:00am - 12:00pm
PDT

DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on Zoom. 

Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR

Featured Guests:
 

Evan Kirstel
B2B thought leader and top technology influencer

For over a decade, Evan Kirstel has been a noteworthy leader in the B2B tech space. He has been named as the top 20 most mentioned and REtweeted by Both CIOs and CMOs and am the #1 influencer in the telecom, Cloud, Unified Communications and IoT arena. Evan has helped dozens of B2B tech clients including 3M, ATT Business, Intel, QUALCOMM and others extend their reach and thought leadership.

Follow him on Twitter: @EvanKirstel

 

Sree Sreenivasan
CEO of Digimentors and inaugural Marshall R. Loeb visiting professor at Stony Brook University School of Journalism

Sree Sreenivasan is the inaugural Marshall Loeb visiting Professor of Digital Innovation at Stony Brook School of Communication and Journalism.

He is CEO and cofounder of Digimentors, a digital, social and virtual & hybrid events consulting company working with corporations, nonprofits and startups around the world.

During the pandemic, he’s been hosting hundreds of episodes of multiple shows to share accurate, useful information about various aspects of the crisis. He’s interviewed 600+ experts from 25+ countries.

He has served as Chief Digital Officer of New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University (where he was a full-time professor of journalism for 20+ years). He taught a course on entrepreneurship at Columbia for four years with Ken Lerer, the co-founder of Huffington Post, chairman of Buzzfeed and co-founder of venture firm LererHippeau.

In 2015, Fast Company named him one of the 100 most creative people in business and in 2010, he was named one of the 35 most influential people in social media by the Poynter Institute. In 2014, he was named most influential CDO by CDO Club.

Follow him on Twitter: @sree

 

Deb Mills-Scofield
Strategic & Innovation Consulting, Venture Capitalist, Mentor, Advisor

Deb Mills-Scofield is passionate about helping companies and individuals see what’s possible and implement plans to achieve it. Her penchant for envisioning how things could be, running at the world of the possible, manifested in full force starting in college when she co-created Brown University’s Cognitive Science concentration and graduated in 3 years and as an alumna having just co-created the new Design Engineering concentration in Brown University’s School of Engineering. At Bell Labs, she created one of AT&T’s highest-revenue generating patents that we all take for granted today. Deb’s articles in Harvard Business Review, her blog and contributions to various business books aim to inspire people and companies to dream what they can achieve, giving them tools to make it happen. Deb fosters innovation and growth via her strategy and innovation consulting with mid to large-sized privately held companies, her partnership in an early-stage VC firm, and with her student entrepreneurs. Deb’s official positions at Brown University include being the university’s Mentoring Maven, Adjunct Lecturer, Member of the School of Engineering Advisory Council, Mentor for the joint Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design’s Masters in Design Engineering, member of the student-run Van Wickle Ventures Investment Committee and advisor to several student design and entrepreneurship groups. She is also a mentor in the Maine Center for Entrepreneurship and in Northeastern University’s Roux Institute’s Founder in Residence program.

As a consultant and a mentor, Deb meets a range of people and mindsets, fueling her curiosity for serendipitous interdisciplinary approaches to problems and building unexpected connections.

Follow her on Twitter: @dscofield