Open Sauce Live

Join the official kickoff of Open Sauce Year 3 with inventor and creator William Osman. This session will offer a quick look at the creator culture that drives innovation, audience connection, and creative business growth.

As platforms grow globally, smart creators are discovering opportunity to distribute everywhere. This session lays out the advantages for global content expansion: greater ad revenue, new sponsorship options, and increased audience growth. Learn which tools, partners, and platforms are helping creators scale internationally - without scaling production.

You don’t own your followers. And if the algorithm turns on you—or your platform disappears—what happens next? This session explores how creators are future-proofing their business by owning their audiences and monetizing beyond the core social platforms. Learn how to take control of your community, revenue, and future - and stop relying on rented land.

Commerce has entered a bold new era. As the original disruptor in retail innovation, QVC Group is building the future of live, social, and immersive shopping. In this fireside chat, Alex Wellen, President and Chief Growth Officer of QVC Group, joins Jim Louderback to explore how the company is redefining the commerce experience—scaling authentic storytelling, reaching new consumers, empowering fresh voices, and setting the standard for the future of shoppable media across all types of products – including those from makers, builders, scientists and geeks.

What do an etymology expert and an engineering creator have in common? Memes. In this surprising and fun session, Etymology Nerd Adam Aleksic and Patrick Lacey from Tier Zoo explore how meme culture powers both virality and connection. From shifting language to unexpected content formats, they’ll explore what it really takes to stay relevant—and respected—online. You’ll learn how to spot high-potential trends early, apply meme logic to serious content, and use humor to build lasting audience engagement.

Come learn how these panelists took their passion for building LEGO and turned it into a career. From corporate displays, to movies, to art.

Taking a chip off the old block, literally. These creators harness giant metal machines to make (and break) precision parts. Stick around for thoughts on CNC-ing and machining with plenty of jargon along the way.

Never let them know your next move. When these creators post, you never know what you’re gonna get. Come learn about how a sidequest can spiral into something bigger and what to do when you’re interested in everything.

Two “farmers” and one farmer walk into a panel…

Ideas are hard. From inspiration to execution, get an inside look at the creative journey behind the content.

Join for a discussion of functional 3D printing, where parts have to play nice with each other and come together to form intricate sculptures and robust machines.

These creators never learned the “fi” part of “sci-fi”. Join for a discussion of making the unreal, real and the metaphysical, physical.

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