A charismatic personality with a comedic flair, Angela Ray combines her experience in acting and improv with her skills as a speaker to work as a host and emcee. For six years, she was the host of the Food Lion Face Off and the Food Lion Chef Challenge, working as the female version of Steve Harvey and Guy Fiere. She began hosting for Food Lion by interacting with fans at the CIAA and the ACC basketball tournaments, two of the largest college basketball tournaments in the country. She has also hosted for television programs including the Annual Campaign for Public Television and Brand Newz, produced by Christopher “Play” Martin. She’s excited to bring her skills and experience to work with Onyx as an emcee for both in person and virtual events.

Sean is a recognized thought leader and innovator in labor economics and the Future of Work, having invented Quantum Labor Analysis that marries economic theory with artificial intelligence to produce the most advanced real-time knowledge graph of jobs, skills, training, and labor market intelligence in the world.

Sean is the Co-Chair of the Entrepreneurs Circle of the Canadian American Business Council (CABC) and a member of OECD's Future of Work Forum Engagement Group. In 2020, Sean was invited by the Government of Canada to join the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and represent Canada as one of the 15 founding countries. GPAI is one of the most extensive collaborations on AI policy and the first international standard for AI.

Prior to founding SkyHive, Sean led a $250 million multinational company with 500 employees and 23 global offices.

Shon Burton is the Founder and product visionary of HiringSolved, a leading Talent Intelligence company in the HR industry. Shon is the designer of RAI, HiringSolved’s AI-based recruiting assistant, which has been called “Siri for recruiting” by the media. He is also the co-founder of MLconf – The Machine Learning Conference and conference.ai, two of the top conferences in applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, respectively. Before starting HiringSolved, Shon founded several other companies, including Wildcog, Dataverse, and GetAnyGame.

Dr. Deborah Everhart serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Credential Engine, leading credential and competency transparency initiatives that enable more effective connections between education and career opportunities. Deborah has pioneered open technology standards for competencies, learning and employment records, and open badges. She led nationally-recognized experts authoring the American Council on Education publications “Quality Dimensions for Connected Credentials” and “Communicating the Value of Competencies.” Her business expertise includes leadership roles in technology architecture and product strategy at Cengage and Blackboard. Deborah holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. 

Etan is the Co-Founder and Head of Ecosystem of Velocity Career Labs ™ and the Velocity Network Foundation®. These organizations co-exist to reinvent how career records and credentials are shared across the labour market, empowering individuals, businesses and educational institutions through transformational blockchain technology.
Prior to founding Velocity Etan served as Managing Partner of AKT Solutions, one of the largest HR advisory and technology system integrators in EMEA, working with prominent enterprises in the region to transform their HR infrastructure.

Etan began his 25+ year career in Organization Development and HR leadership roles at Intel and Applied Materials.