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IDEAfest Kick-Off: Featuring Keynote Lisa Song Sutton, Miss Nevada 2014 & Creative Entrepreneur

Join us as we start up festival day with music, talks, performances, poetry, film screenings and so much more!

OPENING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE: Byron Nash, PITTSBURGH, PA
Byron Nash is an experimental guitarist who has performed with the Dave Matthews Band, Soulive, Pharrell Williams and N.E.R.D., Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent, De La Soul, Fantasia, Musiq Soulchild, George Clinton, Parliament-Funkadlic and many more. 

KICK-OFF KEYNOTE: Lisa Song Sutton, LAS VEGAS, NV
Entrepreneur | Forbes Business Writer | TV Host | Miss Nevada US 2014

"How to Utilize Your Personal Brand to Reach (and Make) Millions"
Lisa Song Sutton was recently named a 2017 Top 10 Social Entrepreneur to Watch by Inc. Magazine and was a nominee in the 2016 Las Vegas Women in Tech Awards. Lisa's work and writing has been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Fast Company and other business publications. Lisa is actively involved in her community as a former Miss Las Vegas (2013), Miss Nevada (2014) and serves on the executive board of the Asian Community Development Council. 

THE POWER OF CREATIVITY, by Jamin Olivencia, LOUISEVILLE, KY
Poet, Spiritual Motivator + Professional Wrestler

Jamin Olivencia is an American professional wrestler, actor, poet and spiritual motivator. Currently working for Global Force Wrestling, he is a former OVW Heavyweight Champion, and WWE television personality. Jamin performed stuntwork in the Dukes of Hazzard film, and, as an actor, appeared in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Jamin performs his poetry and motivational speaking all around the USA.