Brian Schmidt

Brian graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Supply Chain Management. Over the past 5 years Brian has produced and managed artists and logistics for events including hosting over 100,000 people in a single weekend. He has organized international tours, planned live content entertaining hundreds of thousands, and managed complex artist relationships. He prides himself on consistently applying his environmentalist ethos and supply chain management expertise to ensuring that his events are socially conscious and environmentally sustainable. Brian currently serves as Artist Relations Manager for Electric Zoo Festival (90,000 attendees) and Imagine Music Festival and Artist Relations Manager (60,000 attendees). Brian also serves as Music Department Manager and Artist Relations Manager for Summit Series, an invite-only event series curated for industry leaders. Summit creates unique gatherings and events designed to catalyze entrepreneurship, creative achievement, and global change to create a more joyful world. Speakers and performers have included Eric Schmidt, Jeff Bezos, Kendrick Lamar, Reed Hastings, and Quentin Tarantino. Brian is working now to connect the Summit community and the artists that he has worked with throughout his career to direct attention to the potential of seaweed solving humanity's problems.