Lauren is a Future Media Innovationist. She sits at the intersection of emerging technology (AI, 5G/6G, Web3, 3D/XR/Immersive) and mass media & entertainment. This work takes several different forms.1) Through Lnk Agency, her creative studio, she helps senior leaders within the private and public sectors create more effective innovation, engagement, and content for Gen Z, and Millennials by providing strategy, insights, scripts, creative content production/development/talent access, and live events/live event content support. The company is highly effective at its work because it leverages a proprietary research and analysis method of trends and forecasts within popular culture attitudes as they intersect with emerging tech behavior for organic consumption and experience for 4 specific types of GenZ/Millennial segments unknown to most (detailed in her book-see profile). 2) As a thought leader defining the space she is a professional speaker, an Amazon "Best" new media author, invitation-only event curator, contributor for outlets such as Forbes, NASDAQ news, allhiphop.com, others; and a professional writer for such organizations as the United Nations.3) As a serial entrepreneur she has been at work developing an AI-driven media company with a Web3 component for the last few years. It is in stealth mode and recently won a highly competitive grant competition from UBS.4) As a changemaker, Lauren recently started a social impact initiative called GameChangeLauren has a wealth of experience that makes her very unique and valuable within the Future Media space in that her background includes achievements holding tenure at the legendary MTV Networks; having built her first business Punch Media Group into an early, respected digital branding company with offices in NY, LA, and Paris that worked on projects from notables from Snoop to Eminem to Jay Z to Microsoft; learning to code; creating Congressional Briefings on diversity and technology on Capitol Hill; producing the edgy tech-music podcast "Beats & Bytes;" and DJing.Always continuing to identify what's next, what's new, what's now at the intersection of key emerging tech pillars & mass media/entertainmentSPECIALTIES: Emerging Tech x Culture/Media Trend IdentificationGen Z Insights & ForecastMillennial+ Demographic Shifts, Insights, ForecastCreative Content Development & Media Production, Writing, Strategy, EventsTech EntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentAuthor, ColumnistMedia personality, Professional Speaker (US domestic, International)Languages: English, French, some Spanish