Speakers
Jolie Jankowitz
Influencer Marketing Consultant, FREELANCE
Nycole Hampton
Consultant + Adjunct Professor
With 20 years of marketing experience, including 14 in leadership, Nycole has built and led strategies and teams for Fortune 500 companies, emerging startups, and challenger brands. She operates at the intersection of brand, growth, and operations—bringing together creativity, performance, and infrastructure to deliver measurable business impact. At her core, she’s a builder: of in-house teams, global agency practices, and scalable content, creator, and performance marketing engines that spark connection, shape perception, and guide customers through nonlinear journeys. Her expertise spans brand marketing, integrated campaigns, social media, influencer partnerships, creative development, content production, growth marketing, and community engagement. Nycole is passionate about identifying opportunities to evolve, collaborate, and challenge the status quo to drive meaningful change. She believes brands are defined by the stories they tell, and that customers make decisions based on how those stories unfold across every channel. Her work focuses on aligning brand and growth strategies to create thoughtful, scalable content that builds genuine connection and drives long-term brand affinity with greater efficiency. She is equally committed to mentorship, education, and staying at the forefront of industry innovation. Nycole currently teaches as an adjunct professor and regularly speaks at marketing and business conferences, where she helps others think differently about what modern marketing can be. Snapshot of the brands Nycole has worked with: ALDI, Air New Zealand, American Airlines, Auntie Anne’s, Autotrader, Barefoot Wines, Bolthouse Farms, CDC, Cheesecake Factory, Chicken of the Sea, Dairy Queen, Deloitte, FAGE, Gallo, Gardein, Harry Potter Flagship Store, Impossible Foods, InStyle, Kelly Blue Book, Kentucky Derby, Kimpton Hotels, King Arthur Flour, La Marca, Lean Cuisine, Microsoft, MilkPEP, the New Zealand All Blacks, NFL, Pose FX, Pretty Little Thing, Rite Aid, Samsung, So Delicious, Spectrum, Subaru, TaxSlayer, Torrid, UL, USA Rugby, Warner Brothers, the Washington Football Team, ZEISS, and Zenni Optical.
Christina Jones
Executive Vice President of Talent, DIGITAL BRAND ARCHITECTS
Christina Jones is Executive Vice President of Talent at Digital Brand Architects. In her role as SVP, Jones has led and built an additional management sector at DBA that continues to lead DBA's mission to amplify strong multi-hyphenated voices in the digital space. Jones began her career in the space eight years ago, quickly garnering wide acknowledgement and credibility for representing and building pathways for talent who push against traditional societal standards. During her time at DBA, Jones' clients careers have sky-rocketed. In 2018, it was announced that Jones' client Patrick Starrr in partnership with Digital Brand Products, secured a $10M investment to begin his own makeup brand One/Size Beauty. In total, Jones' management team have secured over 20+ high value business opportunities with DBP, garnering multi-million dollars of revenue through these partnerships. Additionally, Jones' clients like Kier Gaines, Achieng Agutu, Terrell and Jarius, Yasmin Maya have been recognized by the likes of Oprah Winfrey, The White House, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Michelle Obama and more for their advocacy around Black rights, LGBTQ+ and US citizenship. Prior to DBA, Jones' career started as a manager at The Collective (Studio71) and later, at 21-years-old, she became one of the youngest agents in history when she was announced as an Endorsement Agent at APA, securing eight-figures in partnerships during her tenure for clients of the agency. She was also apart of UTA's acquisition of Digital Brand Architects in 2019 and has grown from a Director to Senior Vice President of the company within four years of joining DBA. Jones' resides in Los Angeles and has a Bachelor's Degree in Television Production with a minor in Digital Strategic Communications and Film.