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Jasmin Alić is a world-renowned personal branding and business expert. He is ranked #1 LinkedIn growth expert in the world 4 years in a row. His private Link Up Community operates in 75+ countries where he coaches business owners how to build a trusted brand and a profitable business online. His work was featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and even promoted by LinkedIn themselves. Jasmin is also a certified LinkedIn Learning Instructor, and even holds a diplomatic passport in his country for his enormous global success.

Steve Wiideman is a multi-location and franchise SEO consultant, founder of Wiideman Consulting Group, and co-author of SEO: Search Strategy for the AI Era (Stukent, May 2026) with Professor Scott Cowley. He also teaches AI-Driven SEO and Digital Marketing at UC San Diego and Strategic Search Engine Marketing at Cal State Fullerton.

Nedim Muhamedagić brings over 15 years of software engineering expertise to his role as Chief of Solution Architecture at Bloomteq, where he drives the technical vision behind the company's most complex delivery challenges. His mandate centers on optimizing engineering delivery at scale, streamlining workflows, enforcing architectural standards, and eliminating bottlenecks that impede throughput and quality. A hands-on leader, he combines deep technical fluency with the strategic clarity modern software organizations demand.

Amer Grozdanic is a leading ecommerce executive, ASOM Pod co-host, and the co-founder of Praella, a top-tier Shopify Plus partner agency supporting global brands like Billie Eilish, Paris Hilton, and Mark Rober. Over a 15-year business partnership alongside Alen Malkoč, Amer has scaled major digital ventures and established Praella as an industry-standard growth engine for world-class enterprise brands.

Experienced Executive and Board Member with a demonstrated history of working in both the consumer goods and technology industry. Strong sales and marketing professional, skilled in both D2C and B2B strategy. John Roman is currently serving as Chief Executive Officer and BattleBox

Anes Paraganlija is an AI Governance, Compliance, and Security professional with a background in Software Engineering and an MBA in Management. He works globally at Teleperformance on AI risk management, AI compliance, security, and governance frameworks.

Eyad AlDomairy brings seven years in art direction and two years using AI to produce video ads, static campaigns, UGC, product shoots, and branding for e-commerce teams. His background spans formal AI training, deep self-directed practice, and work across brands including Audi, SEAT, and Burger King.

Dr. Deepak Bhootra has spent more than 30 years selling across four countries, from global technology firms to founding his own consulting practice. A Certified Sandler and ICF coach, bestselling author, and advisor to founders, he teaches one truth: sales is a noble profession and the core skill behind every commercialized idea.

Alessandro Macagno is a Web3 CTO, teacher, and speaker who has worked professionally as a developer since 2015. His core stack is Rails and Solidity, with strong JavaScript and front-end experience across ShopCircle, Wishew, VAHA, crypto, and Web3 products.

Haris is a senior AI modernization engineer at symphony, with a storied background in computer science and data science. He specializes in system architecture and designing complex AI-based systems. Haris currently heads the Research and Development department at Symphony, whose primary mission is democratizing AI knowledge within the company.

$1B+ Data Impact: Led data projects powering analytics, automation, and ML across leading industries—cloud, aviation, real estate, SaaS, Fintech, and data security.

Jasmin Dudić is a Full Stack and AI Developer at Bloomteq with six years of experience building scalable backend systems and, more recently, intelligent AI-powered applications. He holds a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sarajevo and is proficient across Java, Go, Python, TypeScript, and Node.js, with deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native tooling on AWS. Recently he has pivoted toward Generative AI and agentic systems, building LLM-powered applications, multi-agent architectures, and RAG pipelines using both OpenAI APIs and Claude. He is also an active knowledge-sharer, leading workshops from ChatGPT fundamentals to building custom AI agents with tools like n8n.

2x Exited founders now building the next generation of IP protection through legal tech. New Jersey based entrepreneur, know for founding innovative ventures like STRICX and Comzys.

Full stack developer now building the next generation of IP protection through legal tech

Niraj Delvadia is the CTO at Praella, a Shopify Platinum Partner and Shopify Plus agency. He has spent over a decade working in the Shopify ecosystem. He started out as a developer at PlanetX, and from there worked his way through LumiaMarketing, Digerati Group, Wolfpoint Agency, and HulkApps before joining Praella. Today, he leads the engineering team there, and his main focus is on CheckoutBoost, a Shopify checkout optimisation app used by 200+ merchants with a 5.0 App Store rating. His work spans Shopify apps and APIs, cloud, DevOps, security, and AI automation. These days, most of his building happens in the terminal, using agentic tools like Claude Code to read codebases, find what’s broken, and fix it - which is exactly what he wants to walk students through in this session.