Christina Westley is an NYC professional with an extensive career in Influencer Marketing. As former Head of Influencer at PepsiCo and graduate of The Wharton School, Christina has brought a strong business acumen to the emerging industry. In addition to her professional experience, Christina's own background as a Black woman in the space has formed an inspiring advocacy for influencer diversity.

Starting 2023, Christina developed Social Feed as an online resource that would expose her large network of marketers across several companies to “the latest in influencer diversity.”

In 2024 she added on the experiential arm, Social Setting to allow Black influencers to build personal relationships with brand leads via curated experiences.

Now in 2025, she has launched into independent ventures full-time, adding on Social Consult, where she collaborates fractionally behind the scenes to support enterprise & startup clients on influencer marketing.

Virginia Chamlee is a longtime writer and the best-selling author of Big Thrift Energy, a book about sourcing valuable vintage items for your home. She also authors the Substack What's Left, among the Top 30 most popular design newsletters on the platform. She is also an avid thrifter (obviously), longtime vintage dealer and an artist with work available via Chairish and Anthropologie.

The best strategy falls apart if people can’t buy the product or pay for the service or if there’s friction in the experience. We are seeing a lot of innovation in making sure creative and payments align in a multitude of verticals.

Maria Prados is the Senior vice-president, go-to-market, global enterprise, Worldpay.

Since 2013, she has led vertical growth, solution commercialization, enterprise partnerships and sales enablement for Worldpay—a global leader in payments technology that processes more than 50B transactions each year for more than 1M merchants across the world. As Worldpay’s senior vice-president for go-to-market, she is one of the top global experts on what the world’s biggest brands in every major industry need to best serve their customers at checkout.

Previously Ms. Prados worked at Dixons Retail as part of the digital transformation team in charge of building the company’s successful e-commerce and omnichannel turnaround strategy. Her career began in financial services at Deloitte in Madrid. She earned an MBA from the IESE and Columbia business schools, after which she held roles in fields ranging from social venture capital to strategy consulting, building her passion for fintech along the way.