Las Vegas Small Business Expo 2026

Andrew Turner is Head of North American Sales for the Small and Medium Business (SMB) segment at Amazon Business (AB), where he leads sales teams in the US, Canada, and Costa Rica. He also leads AB’s third-party channel partnerships. Andrew joined Amazon over eleven years ago and before joining the SMB sales team has also expanded Alexa’s language capabilities to customers outside of the U.S. by supporting new languages and device launches, and has also led Amazon Canada’s Softlines business, with responsibility for the overall management, operation, and growth of product categories including clothing, shoes, jewelry, watches, and luggage. Before Amazon, Andrew worked at Eddie Bauer where he launched the First Ascent brand, founded his own business (Workshop Shirt Company), and began his career at Bain & Company. Andrew lives on the south shore of Boston with his wife, two teenage children, and a sweet Bernese Mountain Dog named Molly. Andrew considers himself an aspiring DIY-er, and in his free time enjoys running, training, backpacking, gardening, men’s league ice hockey, and Chicago sports (go Cubs/Bears/Hawks!).

Ukrainian-born entrepreneur, Shark Tank veteran, and AI innovator whose journey took him from a teenage immigrant in Brooklyn with no contacts or capital to pitching his business on national television. At 18 he co-founded Pinblock: a modular STEM construction toy built around a patented pin-based system designed to spark open-ended creativity, spatial thinking, and hands-on building in a screen-dominated world. He took that vision to ABC’s Shark Tank Season 8, stepping into one of the toughest consumer categories with over $160,000 in sales already under his belt, and showed the world what it means to pitch under pressure, defend your vision, and keep moving when the path gets hard. Today, Vlad builds at the intersection of entrepreneurship and applied AI. What sets him apart is simple: he learned every skill by hand before AI existed, and now he’s teaching AI to do all of it for him. That shift unlocked everything. He’s relaunching Pinblock with an AI twist (Pinblock IO), developing an AI replica of himself capable of launching and growing brands, and helping everyone (from bootstrapped businesses to Buddhist temples) rapid-prototype AI in their own operations. As someone who built everything from scratch before AI existed and is now automating it all, Vlad delivers rare, battle-tested insight into what’s actually possible for launching or scaling businesses in 2026.

Jay is a Fractional Chief AI Officer with 25+ years of enterprise and small business experience across financial services, real estate, Home services, Med Spas and other professional services. Holding certifications from Amazon, Google Harvard AI, MIT Data Science, and USAII, he helps small and mid-size businesses cut through AI hype and implement AI, Tech and Data strategies that actually moves the needle from AI SEO, Social Media Engineering and Agentic AI solutions. Jay founded Aithical.pro, an AI managed services firm serving clients across NJ, NY, FL, TX, and NC.

Dahlia Rizk is a licensed mental health counselor who, in a plot twist nobody saw coming, also invented a crash-tested car seat-safe coat for kids and somehow ended up on Shark Tank. Buckle Me Baby Coats has been through 8 rounds of crash testing, lives in tens of thousands of car seats, and has Daymond John as an investor. She runs Buckle Me Baby Coats while also operating her therapy practice and serving on the Tory Burch Presidential Advisory Board, which her calendar finds hilarious. She'll talk about how turn a problem that keeps you up at night into a successful business, and what nobody tells you about pitching on national TV.

Gracie is a force in the event planning realm, featured on Philly’s FOX 29, known as a passionate and goal-driven person who gives her best in everything she does.She’s carved her name in the industry and is continually making a reputation for herself with 3 businesses and has recently partnered with a NEW business reality TV show, “America’s Real Deal”.She sits/sat on several professional and industry-related boards in an effort to be an example and/or help others with their endeavors.

For 25-years Jim Kukral has been writing books (10), keynote speaking (150+), and building successful lifestyle businesses as a marketing entrepreneur. But the pandemic and a near-death diagnosis of colon cancer changed everything for Jim in 2020, so he threw away all his past success to start something completely different, a new brand called Life Apocalypse.

MRW Solutions Group is more than just an average organization. We want to take the burden firmly off our clients’ shoulders; after all, as we are named after our Founding Partner Monica Ross-Williams, MBA; LIA.Monica’s vision for Insurance Management includes building long-term trust with our Clients’ to meet needs for not only today and into the future as life changes incur, With 25 years of experience of exceeding expectations, she values consultative approach to understand insurance.

Roy Redd-Is an Internationally Recognized Speaker, Business Advisor, and 4-time #1 Best Selling Author of The Unnoticed Advantage and The Success Magnet: Cultivate the 5 values that attract success, The Six-figure Trainer and The Little Book Of Mental Health. Roy is a business performance coach who works with companies, organizations he works with groups to dramatically increase, tangible, and measurable results.

Stacey C. Kalamaras is the Founding Partner of Kalamaras Law Office, LLC in Chicago, IL and is an award-winning IP attorney. She helps startup and emerging businesses identify, register, protect and commercialize their brands both in the U.S. and abroad, having represented some of the world’s most beloved brands in more than 150 countries for clients in diverse industries. Stacey is a former marketing executive and regularly educates entrepreneurs and attorneys on various IP topics.

Ericka “The Money Coach” Neville is a Chapter Leader for Innovative Networking Professionals (INP). She is also a Financial Coach and Advisor with PFS Investments. Ericka’s goal is to help business owners understand the value of networking to maximize their networking return on investment (ROI), which in turn has an impact on their net worth. The connections she has made not only results in financial gains, but friendship gains as well.

His roots in advertising started while he managed four businesses and the large advertising budgets for them. The businesses all grew under his watch. He credits much of that growth to the advertising decisions he made to drive more business to each location. He has spent the last decade perfecting what he calls the four pillars of advertising: reach, frequency, creative, and cost. He is a strong advocate of this formula. He spends much of his time sharing these concepts as a national speaker and occasional guest on podcasts. He is also a 3x bestselling author and has spoken for both the American Advertising Federation as well as others many times.

Mr. Keener is a preeminent attorney practicing in intellectual property law. Mr. Keener advises clients of all sizes (from solo entrepreneurs to corporations). As a practicing patent attorney he has protected the inventions and patents of clients across the country and internationally. Representing IP owners in court, Mr. Keener has assisted clients in recovering millions of dollars in damages from infringing counterfeiters.

Robbie Randall is a member of the Intuit® National Accounts team. He has a decade of professional tax and accounting experience and a great passion for helping businesses thrive. As a small business owner, Robbie understands the heartaches, triumphs, and attention it takes to operate one. In his current role, he consults with the Top 100 U.S. accounting firms and enjoys sharing the insights he’s collected from some of the most successful cloud-based organizations. Connect with Robbie on Twitter or LinkedIn: @smbizpro.

Yolanda K. Churchwell is a three-time bestselling author, a speaker, and the Founder of The Business Assistance Group LLC (The BAG). She used her professional skillset to create a company that helps female entrepreneurs create backend solutions that take the hassle out of their hustle so they can make more money and have more free time. Yolanda provides coaching and support to service-based businesses to structure their operations for maximum profitability. As The System Solutionist, Yolanda partners with entrepreneurs to create standard operating procedures and implement systems to create a foundation to create exponential growth and position them for scaling. In short, her clients get The BAG to help them secure their bag!

Mark Albert is the co-founder of the Media Mastery Experts brand and CEO of Media Advisory Experts, a Washington, DC-based consulting firm providing media

VR Small is the visionary Founder and CEO of the Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center (VWEC), a groundbreaking national initiative that empowers women