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About Miri Ben-Ari

Miri Ben-Ari stands as a trailblazer in music, notably as the first and only violinist to clinch a Grammy in the Hip Hop category. Her groundbreaking influence spans diverse genres including Hip Hop, Latin, EDM, and Afrobeat, imprinting her signature style on over 100 hit songs. Collaborating with icons like Kanye West, Jay Z, and Alicia Keys, Miri’s productions have propelled millions of records worldwide.

Beyond music, Miri is a UN Goodwill Ambassador of Music, a TED speaker, and a pioneering tech entrepreneur. Her electrifying live performances—from solo virtuoso showcases to grand productions with a gospel choir—have enthralled audiences globally.

Originally from Israel and mentored by classical maestro Isaac Stern, Miri forged a distinctive musical fusion of classical, hip-hop, and dance. Her impact extends to prestigious endorsements with Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Reebok, underscoring her cultural resonance and global reach.

Her accolades include the Grammy Award for Best Rap Song, the Apollo Legend distinction, and honors from luminaries such as Israeli President Shimon Peres and former US First Lady Michelle Obama. Miri Ben-Ari continues to inspire through music, advocacy, and innovation, making an indelible mark on the global stage.

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About Miri Ben-Ari

Miri Ben-Ari stands as a trailblazer in music, notably as the first and only violinist to clinch a Grammy in the Hip Hop category. Her groundbreaking influence spans diverse genres including Hip Hop, Latin, EDM, and Afrobeat, imprinting her signature style on over 100 hit songs. Collaborating with icons like Kanye West, Jay Z, and Alicia Keys, Miri’s productions have propelled millions of records worldwide.

Beyond music, Miri is a UN Goodwill Ambassador of Music, a TED speaker, and a pioneering tech entrepreneur. Her electrifying live performances—from solo virtuoso showcases to grand productions with a gospel choir—have enthralled audiences globally.

Originally from Israel and mentored by classical maestro Isaac Stern, Miri forged a distinctive musical fusion of classical, hip-hop, and dance. Her impact extends to prestigious endorsements with Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Reebok, underscoring her cultural resonance and global reach.

Her accolades include the Grammy Award for Best Rap Song, the Apollo Legend distinction, and honors from luminaries such as Israeli President Shimon Peres and former US First Lady Michelle Obama. Miri Ben-Ari continues to inspire through music, advocacy, and innovation, making an indelible mark on the global stage.

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Concept Artists is excited to introduce you to the newest additions to our exclusive roster: Catapult, the Hum, Wayne Lee & Phat Cat Swinger!

Concept Artists & Speakers continue to add new acts to its exclusive roster offering innovative entertainment and diverse keynote options to make your next event or meeting a success.

New Diverse Entertainment and eynote Solutions

CATAPULT

Catapult is a shadow illusion performance company using acrobatics, tumbling, balance and contortions to cast shapes behind a giant screen. They were catapulted into the limelight and into the homes of millions of people around the world by America’s Got Talent in 2013. Since then, they have been busy touring the world with their smash hit show – Magic Shadows. Heidi Klum and Howard Stern were two of their very first fans and now they’ve added many thousands around the globe. They’ve performed in music videos, played for Royal families, helped charities like Girl Scouts and United Way, filmed for HBO and currently tour all over the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Catapult will tell you stories and transport you into fantastical worlds made simply out of light and the human body! Read more…

THE HUM

The Hum is a fully immersive sonic experience. It entertains and allows you to relax as you connect through the virtues of sound. The Hum brings a unique Musical Entertainment Wellness concept that connects you with the virtues of sound in the most entertaining and beneficial way.

The installation is a 10-foot sculptural work of art with a cradle space, where the user can lounge and experience the fullness of sound and the transformative effect that the frequencies have on the entire body via vibro acoustic technologies. Read more…

PHAT CAT SWINGER

Phat Cat Swinger is the ultimate pop-swing band defining a new Golden Era of music. Phat Cat Swinger’s music is a unique blend of rock, swing, and jazz, infused with a modern sensibility that sets them apart from the rest. Founded by one of the band’s leading men, Marco Palos, this powerhouse 11-piece group brings an energy to the stage that is unmatched.

Their performances are nothing short of legendary, with audiences around the world coming together to experience the raw power of their music. Read more…

New Keynote Speaker

WAYNE LEE

Wayne Lee is a peak performance expert and hypnotist. Wayne Lee has studied the secrets of high performers. In his wildly entertaining presentations, he shows you how subconscious programming was the key to achieving their biggest goals and how you can put the same scientific principles to work to produce next-level results in your life and business.

He has helped over 6,000 global organizations achieve sustainable peak performance through the right mindset, collective alignment, and the power to overcome what seemed unthinkable yesterday.Wayne brings audience volunteers on stage and uses hypnosis and other mind-expanding techniques to demonstrate the power of words and the effects of repeated visualizations on the subconscious mind.

Take your organization to its full potential by aligning your teams & leaders in purpose and performance. Read more…

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Concept Artists is excited to introduce you to the newest addition to our exclusive roster: Wayne Lee

For over 25 years, Wayne Lee has been one of North America’s premier corporate presenters, entertainers, and peak performance experts. During his career, he has helped people from over 6000 organizations and various walks of life develop the subconscious mindset that allows them to perform at a high level no matter what challenges they face.

It’s a mindset that empowered him to become a 5-time national wrestling champion and achieve excellence his whole career, but it trance-formed him even more during the pandemic when business came to a screeching halt. Faced with such an intense season of adversity, Wayne had to double down on his own mindset to pivot and grow in new and unexpected ways.

Experiencing again how mindset can change everything further fueled his lifelong passion for empowering people to achieve their full potential. He began coaching and developed an enhanced system for achieving peak performance, The TRANCE-FORM Process.

Peak Performance Keynote 

Wayne brings audience volunteers on stage and uses hypnosis and other mind-expanding techniques to demonstrate the power of words and the effects of repeated visualizations on the subconscious mind. He then reveals the secrets of top performers and shares simple, practical techniques and language patterns that the audience can immediately start using to internalize their goals and clear their subconscious blocks. With a shift in their mindset and emotional state, every participant, whether on stage or in the audience, becomes equipped to elevate their performance and create new results in their personal lives and workplaces.

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World-renowned keynote speakers and comedy duo, The Passing Zone, captivate and delight in their ‘Jump Start’ TEDx in Manhattan Beach.

To watch The Passing Zone’s TEDx, click here.

Engaging and Energetic Keynoters

Do your clients need your help to top their last keynoter? The Passing Zone is the answer.

Jon Wee and Owen Morse, The Passing Zone, are one of the most accomplished comedy duos in the nation with many accolades to their name. They are also one of the most versatile!

The Passing Zone offers an engaging and energetic keynote experience with solid takeaway content that receives a standing ovation every single time. Their “Teamwork: The Power of Partnership” and “On ICE: Innovation Collaboration and Execution” keynotes have delighted and educated audiences around the world.

Jon & Owen can provide pure entertainment in an “after dinner’ style setting.  They can also integrate themselves into the core theme of your meeting so that their performance has some take away value.

Corporate Entertainment

They are a natural fit for corporate entertainment and keynote speeches are their primary market. Their act is clean, so it offends no one. They appeal to all ages and all walks of life. Whether their audience group are mechanical contractors, software engineers, hairdressers, or billionaire business leaders, they are always a hit. Not only do they entertain, but they customize their performances by juggling a company’s product, incorporating slogans, and inspiring groups to be better teams.

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Have you noticed how divided we are? Grammy award-winning violinist-producer Miri Ben-Ari shows us how harmony works in music and society with a fascinating analogy and live demonstration that features Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” timeless speech. Ben-Ari says “enough for the division,” it’s time to create harmony and get along. 

Watch the full video here.

About Miri Ben-Ari

Grammy Award-Winning violinist/producer/humanitarian, “UN Goodwill Ambassador of Music” to the United Nations, a featured blogger, and CEO of the non-for-profit organization Gedenk, promotes Holocaust awareness and tolerance to young people. Miri Ben-Ari, originally from Israel, has created her own unique music; a revolutionary fusion of classical, Hip-Hop, soul and dance.

A classically trained violinist, who once studied under the late classical master Isaac Stern, Ben-Ari has helped sell millions of records by collaborating with other Grammy award-winning artists such as Kanye West, Jay Z, Wyclef Jean, Alicia Keys, Wynton Marsalis, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, Akon, Patti Labelle, Brandy, Donna Summer, Janet Jackson, John Legend, Aventura, Diamond Platnumz, and Armin Van Buuren. Her album “The Hip Hop Violinist” on Universal Records features many of these collaborations.

Ben-Ari has been the face of many promotional campaigns, including  Reebok, Vodafone, Pepsi , Coca-Cola and Harman Kardon.

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From being bullied to winning a Grammy, what does it take to follow a dream and create something new? “Dare to be creative, dare to think outside of the box, the violin box,” says Miri Ben-Ari. In Miri’s Ted talk you will learn about six traits you must have when pursuing a new idea and how Miri Ben-Ari was able to transform the classical violin to a featured instrument in Hip Hop, EDM, and Afrobeats, collaborating with some of the biggest artists such as Jay-Z, Kanye West, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Aventura, Armin Van Buuren, and Diamond Platnumz.

Watch the full video here.

About Miri Ben-Ari

Grammy Award-Winning violinist/producer/humanitarian, “UN Goodwill Ambassador of Music” to the United Nations, a featured blogger, and CEO of the non-for-profit organization Gedenk, promotes Holocaust awareness and tolerance to young people. Miri Ben-Ari, originally from Israel, has created her own unique music; a revolutionary fusion of classical, Hip-Hop, soul and dance.

A classically trained violinist, who once studied under the late classical master Isaac Stern, Ben-Ari has helped sell millions of records by collaborating with other Grammy award-winning artists such as Kanye West, Jay Z, Wyclef Jean, Alicia Keys, Wynton Marsalis, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, Akon, Patti Labelle, Brandy, Donna Summer, Janet Jackson, John Legend, Aventura, Diamond Platnumz, and Armin Van Buuren. Her album “The Hip Hop Violinist” on Universal Records features many of these collaborations.

Ben-Ari has been the face of many promotional campaigns, including  Reebok, Vodafone, Pepsi , Coca-Cola and Harman Kardon.

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Marco Tempest received the “Awesome Award” during the event, which was selected by AWE XR for a “moonshot concept or prototype that are straight out of a Sci-Fi novel”.

Auggie Awards

The annual Auggie Awards have been the most recognized AR & VR industry awards in the world since 2010. Now in its 13th year, the Auggies continue to showcase the best of the best in augmented, virtual and mixed reality.

Watch the award ceremony here: Auggie Award 2022

AWE USA 2022 Marco Tempest’ Keynote: The Metaverse in my carry-on bag”

Marco Tempest specializes in developing immersive experiences of future technologies. Taking ideas about advanced technology, how we might interact with it, and finding innovative ways to bring those concepts alive. In his keynote presentation: “The Metaverse in my carry-on bag” for AWE USA 2022, he debuted ultraportable real-time virtual production techniques, storytelling, gestural sensing and swarm robotics and gave us a glimpse of a delightful augmented future right now.

Marco Tempest

Marco Tempest

Marco Tempest is a frequent keynote speaker at tech conferences around the world, a creative consultant at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,  an Accenture Luminary and the Accenture Lead Consultant for Extended Reality, and a Directors Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. Marco is executive director of the NYC MagicLab, a science consortium exploring illusion and digital technology. Applications include media, marketing, entertainment and the prototyping of future technologies via immersive experiences.

Marco is deeply embedded in the tech industry and has regular interactions with product teams in an advisory capacity or as consultant or developer for prototype consumer technologies. He currently serves as an Accenture Luminary and the Accenture Lead Consultant for Extended Reality.

Tempest has been invited as a visionary presenter to the “Seoul Digital Forum” and the TEDxTokyo conference and presented his keynote to the xDays Leadership conference in Switzerland.
 
His work is constantly changing as new technologies evolve; Marco Tempest finds captivating ways of turning those advances into compelling illusions.

Corporate Entertainment and Keynoter

Your options are as limitless as Marco’s creativity. Build brand identity. Conduct a virtual demonstration of a new product. Invite audience members into a digital-world of their own design. Whatever the theme, Marco will translate your communication objectives into an astounding and unforgettable performance. Each performance – perfectly styled for your corporate brand and theme – can be of any length and can include astonishing executive reveals and extraordinary opening, closing, and interstitial segments. Enhance your next meeting, whatever the size, with the magic of Marco Tempest.

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Come join the fun, if you happen to be passing through The Ozarks!

Jon Wee and Owen Morse, The Passing Zone, are one of the most accomplished comedy duos in the nation.

Corporate Entertainment

Looking for something different? You put on a great meeting last time, but now you have to top it. You need something unexpected, unique, fresh, not just the same old speaker, comedian, magician or band.  You found something different!  You found roaring chainsaws, cheering attendees, flaming torches and knives flying through the air! You found an experience. You found a surprise. You found genuine laughter, the kind that makes your face hurt.  You found two grown men who demonstrate partnership by leaping around the stage in fuchsia leotards, with rapid-fire banter, throwing sickles around the body of someone from the audience (or your CEO) as they receive a standing ovation. You found danger (or so it would seem), laughter, and an inspirational experience your people will never forget.

Jon & Owen can provide pure entertainment in an “after dinner’ style setting.  They can also integrate themselves into the core theme of your meeting so that their performance has some take away value.

They are a natural fit for corporate entertainment and keynote speeches are their primary market. Their act is clean, so it offends no one. They appeal to all ages and all walks of life. Whether their audience group are mechanical contractors, software engineers, hairdressers, or billionaire business leaders, they are always a hit. Not only do they entertain, but they customize their performances by juggling a company’s product, incorporating slogans, and inspiring groups to be better teams.

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Now more than ever, people need to feel uplifted. We all have endured a challenging time, and as the world opens up – with new opportunities arising – your people will be searching for ways to move forward, elevate themselves, and have fun in the process.

The Passing Zone is the solution! Their most popular program, “The Passing Zone on I.C.E.” has taken on a post-pandemic twist.

“Spirit-lifting and soul-filling after a year of isolation – just what the doctor ordered!” – Ingersoll Cutting Tools

UPDATED KEYNOTE: “APPLY I.C.E. AND ELEVATE!”

Any good doctor will agree, “Apply I.C.E. and Elevate” is a proven method for healing. So, apply I.C.E. The Passing Zone way (Innovation, Collaboration, and Execution).

These three concepts are crucial for the success of any group or organization… post-pandemic, or any time.

“The Passing Zone was the perfect choice for our first in-person event. These guys are absolutely hilarious.” – PTSolutions

THE PASSING ZONE’S I.C.E.

Innovation – Stay on the cutting edge, find ways to do things better, and stay ahead of your competitors. Creativity, technology, thinking differently – it’s what The Passing Zone is all about.

Collaboration – Work well with those around you, whether it be your internal team, your suppliers, or your customers. There is no better resource than the strength of your people, and the ability to combine the expertise of diverse individuals. Jon & Owen don’t just talk about collaboration, they do it.

Execution – Planning for success is just the first step. Now you have to follow through with excellence, focus, and persistence. The Passing Zone will show you how they execute, and will encourage your group to stay on target and be their best.

Jon and Owen will take your people on a thoughtful and exciting journey, full of laughter, crazy stunts, audience interaction, and mind-blowing skills. While they are doubled over with laughter, the audience will see themselves, one another, and their goals with a whole new perspective.

It’s time to Apply I.C.E. and Elevate!

Watch their latest video below.

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