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Timbaland, David Blitzer, & Yung Gravy Headline New List of VeeCon 2023 Speakers

Last Updated: January 11, 2024
Bobby Hundreds and Josh Luber are also on the second list of speakers at VeeCon2023.

David Blitzer, Timbaland, Bobby Hundreds, Josh Luber, and Young Gravy lead the list of new 2023 VeeCon speakers, the conference announced on Friday.

Neil Patrick Harris and Ariana Huffington were also included in the second round of announced speakers. Veecon announced the first round of 60 speakers in February, unveiling a list that included Deepak Chopra, Rich Kleiman, Chris Lyons, Champ Medici, and Scooter Braun.

Gary Vaynerchuk and VeeFriends‘ second annual token-gated conference starts on May 18 with a field day at the TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park in Indianapolis. Busta Rhymes will perform there, with the rest of the festivities taking place at Lucas Oil Stadium on May 19 and 20.

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Here are more of the newly announced speakers slated for keynotes and educational panels at Veecon 2023:

  • Amy Campbell: chief marketing officer of Paramount Media Networks and MTV Entertainment Studios
  • Andrew Schulz: comedian, will perform
  • Arianna Huffington: founder and CEO of Thrive Global
  • AJ Vaynerchuk: co-founder and co-CEO of VaynerSports Pass
  • Bobbi Brown: founder and Chief Creative Officer of Jones Road Beauty
  • Bobby Hundreds: founder, designer, writer, and photographer of The Hundreds
  • David Blitzer: owner at Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment (HBSE)
  • Drew Austin: founding manager of Red Beard Ventures and co-founder of Knights of Degen
  • Everette Taylor: CEO of Kickstarter
  • Guy Raz: creator of How I Built This
  • Josh Luber: co-founder of Fanatics Collectibles and StockX
  • Keith A. Grossman: president of enterprise for MoonPay
  • Manny Galán: chief creative officer of VeeFriends
  • Michelle Waterson Gomez: professional UFC fighter
  • Neil Patrick Harris: actor, producer, and raconteur 
  • Timbaland: entrepreneur, artist, producer, author and co-founder of Beatclub and Verzuz
  • Vivian Odior: global head of brand for WhatsApp
  • Yung Gravy: artist

Hopeful VeeCon attendees still need to be VeeCon NFT ticket holders in order to gain admission. As Boardroom’s Michelai Graham wrote in February, since VeeFriends Series 1 NFT holder are guaranteed VeeCon entry for the 2022, 2023, and 2024 events, each year will have a ticket cap of 10,255 — the number of NFTs in the collection.

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Shlomo Sprung

Shlomo Sprung is a Senior Staff Writer at Boardroom. He has more than a decade of experience in journalism, with past work appearing in Forbes, MLB.com, Awful Announcing, and The Sporting News. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2011, and his Twitter and Spotify addictions are well under control. Just ask him.

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Shlomo Sprung
Shlomo Sprung
Shlomo Sprung is a Senior Staff Writer at Boardroom. He has more than a decade of experience in journalism, with past work appearing in Forbes, MLB.com, Awful Announcing, and The Sporting News. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2011, and his Twitter and Spotify addictions are well under control. Just ask him.