---
title: "That's a Wrap...Our First Virtuoso Series"
publishedAt: "2025-02-01"
dateModified: "2025-02-01"
author: "FM Team"
role: "FM"
headshot: "/images/fm_profile_logo.png"
category: "Events"
slug: "fm-virtuoso-series"
excerpt: "Our launch event brought Virtuosos together to celebrate creativity."
image: "/images/posts/fm_launch.jpeg"
---

## FM Virtuoso Series

Our launch event brought Virtuosos together to celebrate creativity. 

We hosted our first in-person event last Friday. We invited some friends, partners, musicians, visual artists, business owners, filmmakers, and textile artists to our launch event. It's the first in a series focused on Virtuosity. 

FM invited a panel of inspirational and award-winning humans from the Atlanta area to share what it means to be creative in a roundtable discussion. It was a great talk on the processes that high-agency creative people follow to produce outsized results. Thanks to our panel for a great discussion!

### [Kennard Garrett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennard-garrett-58a39412/)
GRAMMY Award-winning music producer, composer, and arranger who has worked with some of the biggest artists in music.

### [Melody Miller](https://www.linkedin.com/in/missmelodymiller/)
Award-winning textile creator and founder of Ruby Star Society who pioneered collaborative female-led design in the fabric industry.

### [Christopher Glass](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherglass/)
Multi award-winning Production Designer whose work includes the forthcoming I Love Boosters, The Jungle Book, Ms. Marvel, the now infamous Batgirl, and many commercials including the Spike Jonze’s Welcome Home for Apple.

### [Steve Sparks](https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbecuesteve/)
Veteran software architect from Big Nerd Ranch who helped build the Peloton Play System and other innovations, now leading architecture at Capital One.

FM would also like to thank our partners [Airia - Enterprise AI Simplified](https://airia.com) for sponsoring the event, as well as [LOCAL - The Change Marketing Company](https://www.localindustries.com/) for hosting us at their beautiful space. 

See more photos on our [LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/itisfm_testing-1-2-3-is-this-thing-on-fm-is-activity-7286815635248955392-pI5_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop).