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James Spellos is the president of Meeting U, whose mission is to help people become more productive and comfortable with technology.   

Smart Meetings named Jim as one of their Smart Speakers in 2025. In 2024, Meetings Today magazine named Jim one of the Meeting Industry trendsetters for his “AI Education with Integrity” commitment after previously being named one of the Meeting Industry’s trendsetters by Meetings Today magazine in 2015. In 2022, Meeting Professionals International included Jim on their most influential list in the hospitality industry in honor of their 50th anniversary celebration.

He was a faculty member at New York University (NYU) for 25 years, receiving both the Award for Teaching Excellence and the Outstanding Service Award. 

Jim is on the board of directors for Rock and Wrap It Up, an anti-poverty, anti-hunger organization that recovers excess food from events. Jim co-created their Whole Earth Calculator app and speaks up about food recovery and sustainability at events. In 2018 and 2019, BizBash named Jim one of their top 500 people in events for his work in sustainability.

He has a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutritional Studies, is a certified Food for Life instructor through the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and is on the staff of Plant Powered Metro New York, helping to educate people about a healthy diet and lifestyle, which helped to save his own life. In 2024, PPMNY chose Jim as their Grassroots Champion.

Jim is an accomplished musician and songwriter who released his first solo album, Stroke of Genius, in 2020.