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Jan Iverson & Joy Macko - The speakers purport that indigenous visual storytelling has echoed throughout centuries from ancient media with pictographs and petroglyphs, to traditional media with folklore paintings and tribal beading, to contemporary media with graphic novels and augmented reality. These mediums all have a global footprint, marrying with traditions of other ancient peoples from every continent in more ways than one thinks, telling their stories using mixed reality. Jan Iverson is currently an augmented and virtual reality consultant and multimedia storyteller. Jan is the recipient of the 2019 Vanguard Award in New York for outstanding performance and excellence in non-traditional careers from the Non-traditional Employment & Training (NET) Program and the Centre for Women in Government.

Jan’s diverse media background includes broadcast, print and digital, and her expertise has been gained through working with some of the best in the Entertainment and Luxury markets, including Nickelodeon, Viacom, NOVA, Van Cleef and Arpels, Harry Winston, and LVMH (Moët Hennessey Louis Vuitton SE).

Jan’s work is also in the pharmaceutical, medical and gemological industries, where she pioneered new media platforms in the digital space, and published award-winning peer-reviewed scientific journals; and has led teams in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Joy Macko is a multimedia storyteller and seasoned digital marketing & PR strategist. She has led marketing and creative teams in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Joy’s work experience in creating strategic online, social media and PR campaigns has been gained by working with some of the most known media, entertainment and technology organizations, including Nickelodeon, Intuit, and Google. Joy’s recent work has been helping software startups accelerate leads with strategic online Ad campaigns, optimized owned media, social media marketing, and influencer marketing.

Joy is also a published author with commissioned works including the British Home Office. Joy also works as an Auxiliary for US advocacy groups in criminal justice r This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx