As a speaker on a panel discussion at the recent Brand Innovators Summit, I focused my talk on employee advocacy at Avanade and how social media activity can be maximized with emerging technologies such as a dedicated social media sharing portal.
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Hello and ...
Welcome to Brand Innovators Social Media!
Social media is re-inventing how brands communicate and engage with
their consumers, providing marketers with new opportunities to build
loyalty and long-term relationships with their best customers. Thanks
to the Internet, social networks and other new and evolving community
platforms, mass communication is giving way to an unprecedented 1:1
dialogue between brands and their consumers. Understanding how to
leverage social media may be the single greatest competitive advantage
that a brand has today.
Brand Innovators Social Media will provide brand marketers from
Fortune 500 and other leading brands with an important forum to
share success stories about how they are leveraging social media and
online communities to grow their user bases, identify advocates and
influencers, and ultimately build armies of brand ambassadors. We will
hear from some of the best and brightest brand marketers in America,
about what’s working in social media and what major trends we should
be watching for this year.
Thank you to all of the members of the Brand Innovators community,
our Advisory Board, and our sponsors who contributed to today’s
program. We invite you to participate in the discussion, and to share
ideas with your fellow brand marketers in the Brand Innovators
community, both during and after today’s event. And, an extra special
shout out to our colleagues at IBM for hosting today’s event.
Enjoy the show and we look forward to seeing you at the inaugural
edition of Brand Innovators Brand Week in San Francisco,
July 13-17.
Marc Sternberg
Co-Founder
Brandon Gutman
Co-Founder
Visit our news site www.brand-innovators.com for the latest trends in marketing innovation.
Marc Sternberg
Co-Founder
Brandon Gutman
Co-Founder
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Marc Sternberg
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Ted Rubin
Acting Chief Marketing Officer
David Teicher
Chief Content Officer
Ryo Mochido
Event and Marketing Manager
Jared Hopfer
Head of Business Development
Paula Parisi
Chief Technology Officer
Alexander Kanish
Business Development Manager
Martina Suess
Program Director
Negeen Amuzegar
Marketing Coordinator
Maria Sekar
Program Director
Elizabeth Scott
Social Media Manager
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STRATEGIC ADVISOR AND ACTING CMO, BRAND INNOVATORS
@TedRubin
Ted Rubin is a leading Social Marketing Strategist, Keynote Speaker, Brand
Evangelist, and Acting CMO of Brand Innovators. In March 2009 he started using
and evangelizing the term ROR, Return on Relationship, hashtag #RonR. Ted left his
position as Chief Social Marketing Officer of Collective Bias on August 31, 2013. He
remains the 5th largest shareholder. In the words of Collective Bias Co-Founder John
Andrews… “Ted, you were the vision, heartbeat and soul of Collective Bias, thank
you for building a great company. From innovations like cbSocially to the amazing
relationships you built with the blogger community, clients and employees, you
drove the epic growth. You will be missed!” Many people in the social media world
know Ted for his enthusiastic, energetic and undeniably personal connection to
people. Ted is the most followed CMO on Twitter according to Social Media Marketing
Magazine; one of the most interesting CMOs on Twitter according to Say Media, #13
on Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, and number #2 on the Leadtail
list of Top 25 People Most Mentioned by digital marketers. ROR, #RonR, is the basis
of his philosophy…It’s All About Relationships! His book, Return on Relationship was
released January 29, 2013. His latest book, How To Look People in the Eye Digitally,
was released in January. Connect with Ted at TedRubin.com
TED RUBIN
Host
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PROGRAM DIRECTOR, DIGITAL MARKETING
TRANSFORMATION – CLOUD, IBM
@shellkillebrew
Michelle Killebrew leads the go-to-market strategy for IBM Social Business. Her
team focuses on defining the market positioning, messaging, solutions, cross-brand
portfolio, and the creation of valuable research and thought leadership content to
shape the new definition of what defines a social business and how organizations
can embrace this next information revolution in the drive to people-centric
engagement for customers, employees and citizens. Previously, Michelle headed up
the worldwide go-to-market and revenue-bearing demand generation campaign
strategy for IBM’s (then) new Smarter Commerce initiative, overseeing marketing
B2B, Commerce & Enterprise Marketing Management solutions. Michelle considers
herself a marketer at heart, and is excited to bring new digital technologies and best
practices to life within the IBM Demand Generation. She lives and works in the San
Francisco Bay Area with ber husband, 2 dogs and 2 cats.
MICHELLE KILLEBREW
Event Chairperson
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GLOBAL SOCIAL STRATEGY LEAD, WESTERN UNION
Michael Fenech leads Global Social Strategy for Western Union, a global F500
company. He works to evangelize social engagement and ignite all departments
to leverage social media in all communications at Western Union. Michael partners
with marketers and agencies across the globe to facilitate content and engagement
strategies, align programs to business goals, provide analysis, oversee development,
production, presentation, evaluation, measurement and governance of country-level
and diaspora community social programs.
MICHAEL FENECH
Keynote
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VP, DIGITAL & MARKETING, GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
@KennyL
Kenny Lauer is Vice President of Marketing and Digital for the Golden State Warriors.
He leads the team’s brand experience creation in the digital and physical space;
blending both for the live fan experience. He leads game experience, retail, youth
basketball, & all marketing strategies. Under his leadership, the Warriors drive an
unparalleled brand experience and true fan innovation.
Kenny brings over 25 years of customer marketing strategy experience to the Warriors
through his experience with companies such as Apple, Peppers & Rogers Group,
and KMPG. Prior to the Warriors, he was Vice President, Digital Experience for the #1
ranked global experience marketing agency in the world, George P. Johnson. While at
GPJ he ran the worldwide Digital Experience group where he was responsible for the
creation and threading of digital experiences in both live and virtual marketing efforts
for some of the largest companies in the world.
Kenny is an active member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences where he
judges the Emmys for Interactive Media and serves as an Advisory Board member to
the SXSW Interactive Festival.
KENNY LAUER
Keynote
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GLOBAL INNOVATION MARKETING & ANALYTICS LEADER, VISA
@MediaMetricsGal
Jessica Williams is global innovation marketing and analytics leader at Visa.
Jessica is focused on digital and social activation and measurement across brand,
b2b and corporate marketing. Jessica designs and executes innovative digital
and social marketing programs in order to enhance brand equity, achieve revenue
initiatives, increase market share, differentiate products, and drive robust marketing,
communications, and business strategy.
JESSICA WILLIAMS
Success Story
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HEAD OF GLOBAL SOCIAL
MEDIA, GROUPON
@KCGeen
KC Geen is Head of Global Social Media at Groupon where she is responsible for bringing
the brand to life through social media. Immersed in the social media craze from the
beginning, she has been developing and executing social media marketing programs for
the past nine years for a variety of Fortune 500 companies including Subway Restaurants,
Dell, Midas, and The Dow Chemical Company. Prior to Groupon, KC was Senior Manager,
Social Media at GrubHub Inc., a leading online and mobile food-ordering company,
where she launched and led social media strategy for the enterprise. In addition to all
things social, KC has extensive experience in integrated marketing as well as crisis and
reputation management.
KC GEEN
Success Story
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Keynotes
FOUNDER AND CEO, LIVEFYRE
@jkretch
Jordan Kretchmer is the Founder and CEO of Livefyre, the first
Social CMS Platform used by the largest companies in the
world to engage consumers through a combination of real-
time conversation, content creation, social curation and social
advertising. Kretchmer founded the San Francisco based startup
in December 2009, and has overseen its growth to 100 employees and over $35M in
venture financing. Livefyre is the 4th largest site network on the web, delivering over one
billion live content streams every month. Before launching Livefyre, Kretchmer was the
Vice President of Brand at Current TV where he led brand redevelopment for the media
company. Previously, he was the Digital Creative Director at Butler Shine Stern and
Partners, and Vice President/Associate Creative Director at Mullen Advertising. Kretchmer
is a sought after speaker at industry events, haven spoken at The Future TV conference,
OMMA Social, Digital Hollywood, Social Data Week, and the American Magazine
Conference, and has been published in Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Tech Crunch,
Mashable, and many others.
JORDAN KRETCHMER
CEO AND FOUNDER,
MOOSYLVANIA
@nortycohen
In 2003 Norty Cohen founded Moosylvania with the goal of
creating value for clients while hosting a dynamic environment
that embraces new media and innovation every day. Norty got
his start as a creative, then moved to the account side and,
eventually, agency ownership. Since launching Moosylvania he hasn’t stopped learning,
adapting and pioneering the way. Norty has led numerous breakthrough studies,
including several on the behavior of Millennials, summaries of which can be found on his
blog at Moosylvania.com.
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Agenda
8:00 am BREAKFAST
8:30 am WELCOME
Brandon Gutman, Co-Founder, Brand Innovators
Marc Sternberg, Co-Founder, Brand Innovators
Host: Ted Rubin, Acting CMO, Brand Innovators, Social Marketing
Strategist, Brand Evangelist and Author Event Chairperson
Michelle Killebrew, Program Director, Digital Marketing
Transformation – Cloud, IBM
9:00 am EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF MEDIA AND THE
CONSUMER EXPERIENCE
Digital media and the Internet are rapidly transforming the marketing and media
industries, fundamentally and forever changing how brands engage with their
consumers. From connected TV to mobile devices to wearables, media and
entertainment is everywhere. Consumers today not only expect, but demand
content anywhere, anytime, across every screen, device, and media platform
that they encounter throughout the day. As a result, brands are working harder
than ever to keep up with consumers. How is the digital transformation of the
marketing and media media industries impacting brand marketing? How can
brand marketers take advantage of this paradigm shift and use technology to
build loyalty and long term relationships with their consumers? What’s the next
big thing that will disrupt the marketing and media industries?
Moderator: Michael Martin, Managing Partner, Code and Theory
Noelle Kim, Product Marketing Manager, Google Glass, Google
Kenny Lauer, VP, Digital & Marketing, Golden State Warriors
Juan Silvera, Managing Director Digital Marketing and Advertising,
MUFG Americas
Jessica Williams, Global Innovation Marketing & Analytics Leader, Visa
9:35 am SUCCESS STORY
Jessica Williams from Visa will share Visa’s process in using social media
intelligence to drive smarter and more focused b2b and b2c marketing strategy.
Jessica Williams, Global Innovation Marketing & Analytics Leader, Visa
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2015
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consumers to understand how and why they adopt brands. Bi-annually,
we reach out to find out which brands are "favorites" and how these
sophisticated self marketers decide who gets the love. The ranking
report allows us to compare and contrast brand activities and see what
works. We're looking forward to sharing all this and more with you.
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9:55 am UNLEASHING THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA
The social media explosion over the past decade is arguably the most important
paradigm shift in the history of brand marketing, to date. For the first time ever,
consumers have a voice and the ability to establish an open and meaningful
dialogue with their favorite brands. This new relationship has created a powerful
tool and opportunity for brand marketers to build rapport and engage with
their consumers on a 1:1 basis, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Social
has also provided brands with the a platform for turning their most loyal and
avid fans into advocates and brand ambassadors; influential consumers who
then leverage their social media channels and provide first hand references
for their favorite brands. How are the most successful brands in America
successfully using social media to get a meaningful market advantage over their
competitors? What’s the next big thing in social? How can social keep you at the
top of your game? Learn from the best.
Gregor Ehrlich, Social Media and Creative Lead, The Clorox Company
Tighe Flatley, Digital Marketing Manager, Gap Inc.
Armen Najarian, Program Director, WW Content Marketing, IBM
Beth Teague, VP, Social Media Programs, Bank of the West
10:30 am KEYNOTE — HOW TO DEVELOP A CONTENT MARKETING
STRATEGY USING SNAPCHAT
The rapid growth of Snapchat from an ephemeral messaging service into a
genuine content provider is providing brands a new way to tell their story and
engage with the platform’s coveted audience of 13-25 year-olds. But is Snapchat
right for your company? And how do you begin to build consistent consumer
engagement on the platform?
KC Geen, Head of Global Social Media, Groupon
10:50 am NETWORKING BREAK
11:10 am KEYNOTE
Kenny Lauer, VP, Digital & Marketing, Golden State Warriors
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11:35 am FORGING CONSUMER CONNECTIONS WITH MOBILE, SOCIAL,
AND EMERGING MEDIA
The Bay area is the heart of innovation and fast paced developments in
emerging media and technologies. Each of these new media offer novel ways
for brands to connect with and interact with audiences. These emerging
technologies also make a habit of drastically altering the ways in which people
shop, consumer media, and interact with each other and the world. Keeping up
can be exhausting, even for the most savvy of digital marketers. From mobile
games to virtual reality to messaging apps to ephemeral media, which trends are
real and which are fads? Which provide opportunities for marketers to innovate
and get closer to consumers? How can brands tap into these developments to
gain deeper understandings of who their customers are and what they want?
Michelle Kircher-Weiskittel, Manager, Digital Media Marketing, Safeway
Jennifer Lashua, Editor in Chief, Intel Corporation
John Pace, Manager, Social Media Marketing, Electronic Arts (EA)
Julian Scharman, Director, Customer Acquisition, Betabrand
12:10 pm KEYNOTE — THE URBAN LEGEND OF FREE SOCIAL MEDIA
MARKETING
As social marketing evolves into a mandatory effort for brands, the social
landscape constantly shifts. Exponential growth has pushed the ‘feed frenzy’
louder than ever while social powerhouses are aggressively moving to monetize
their platforms. With never-ending algorithm changes that diminish organic
reach by the day, brands are forced into a paid media corner just to engage the
community they have spent the past decade building. As marketers are quickly
discovering, there are serious flaws in current social marketing strategies: we are
experiencing the death of earned media and it’s time for brands to rethink how
they build engaged communities. In this session, attendees will learn how to
socialize their owned properties, apps and events by creating their own, highly
engaging social experiences — all without giving up control.
Jordan Kretchmer, CEO, Livefyre
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12:30 pm LUNCH
1:30 pm KEYNOTE: MULTICULTURAL SOCIAL MARKETING –
ENGAGING DIVERSE AUDIENCES THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
Global brands need to serve increasingly diverse multicultural audiences.
Creating a thoughtful, highly engaged content strategy is difficult in any
language…especially when it’s a social conversation, it must be artful.
Learn how Western Union (WU) connects to its customers on social media,
how deep cultural and audience insights drive WU’s global social strategy
and see examples of how WU became a leader in the Financial Services
space in social media.
Michael Fenech, Global Social Strategy Lead, Western Union
2:00 pm GET A DIGITAL MARKETING QUICK WIN WITH EMPLOYEE
ADVOCACY
88% of companies are going through digital marketing transformations.
They’re trying to adapt to the digital customer mindset, which can be a long,
complex process. What you need is a quick win and to create momentum.
Now you can kickstart that transformation and drive revenue and engagement
with your best advocates – your employees. Employee Advocacy lets employees
receive and post company-approved content to their social networks. And
when you include employees in your social media strategy, you can expand
your network by 10x. Since people listen more to their social connections (those
they trust) than to official marketing campaigns, you can increase content
engagement by 700x and brand awareness by 14x. Come and learn how our
proven Employee Advocacy platform has immediately ignited our customers’
digital marketing transformations. And, you’ll walk away with best practices
and strategies that will eventually turn those quick wins into big victories.
Moderator: Pavey Purewal, CMO, Dynamic Signal
Michelle Killebrew, Program Director, Digital Marketing Transformation, IBM
Mark Williams, Managing Partner, Mortar Agency
Tony Obregon, Global Lead & Group Manager, Social Media Center
of Excellence, Avanade
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2:40 pm THE PARTICIPATION GAME
Learn how and why millennial consumers adopt brands. We conducted three
annual national studies interviewing more than 3,500 millennial consumers.
The net result identified their top 50 brands each year – but also found that
brand support is not done by consuming advertising, but instead by gaining
participation. By analyzing media types, characteristics of favorite brands and
emotions that drive engagement, we believe there is definitive formula for
creativity to meet connectivity.
Norty Cohen, Founder and CEO, Moosylvania
3:05 pm NETWORKING BREAK
3:30 pm CONNECTING WITH CONTENT
As Facebook marketing expert Mari Smith recently stated, “Content may be king,
but engagement is Queen.” Authentic, original content enables brands to build
trust with their consumers. The holy grail of content marketing, however, is to
make it so compelling and engaging that consumers not only engage, but share
it vis-à-vis social media — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest,
Google+, LinkedIn, etc. — with their friends and families. How can you make
meaningful emotional connections with content? What makes consumers want
to share content? What are the secrets of winning with content? You heard it
here first. Now tell a friend.
Brigitte Brady-Harris, VP, Brand Marketing, Williams-Sonoma, Inc
Nidhi Gupta, Senior Marketing Manager, Americas, Western Union Digital
Amy Hsiao, Associate Director, The Clorox Company
Deirdre Hussey, Digital Marketing & Communications, Director, Gap Inc.
4:10 pm KEYNOTE — BIG DATA AND E-COMMERCE: THE FUTURE IS NOW
Dave Feinleib, Founder, Content Analytics and author of Big Data Demystified:
How Big Data Is Changing The Way We Live, Love and Learn
4:30 pm CLOSING FIRESIDE CHAT
Michelle Killebrew, Program Director, Digital Marketing Transformation, IBM
Q&A conducted by Ted Rubin.
5:00 pm BRAND INNOVATORS COCKTAIL RECEPTION
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Speakers
Nidhi Gupta has marketing experience in
fields spanning from consumer packaged
goods and financial services, to technology
entrepreneurship. Her first professional
assignment was with Nestle in India, where
she grew the culinary and confectionery
international business multifold. This was
followed by a stint at TiE Silicon Valley,
a leading global non-profit dedicated to
fostering entrepreneurship. In 2008, Nidhi
joined Western Union, a leader in global
payment services. She shifted gears in 2012 to
join their Digital office in San Francisco, where
she currently leads marketing for their online
and mobile app money transfer business for
the Americas region.
NIDHI GUPTA
SENIOR MARKETING
MANAGER, AMERICAS,
WESTERN UNION DIGITAL
Tighe Flatley is the Digital and Content
Marketing Manager at Gap Inc. In that
capacity, his central mission is coming up
with creative ways to tell the stories of Gap
Inc. as a company that does more than sell
clothes. Tighe oversees the development,
publication and promotion of digital content
across all platforms, including blogs and social
media. He manages the @GapInc social media
channels, including community management
and acquisition campaigns, content
promotions and crisis management. Prior to
joining Gap Inc. in 2012, Tighe was Blog Editor
and Social Media Manager at Eventbrite and
worked in communications at New Balance.
TIGHE FLATLEY
DIGITAL MARKETING
MANAGER, GAP INC.
@tflatley
Brigitte Brady-Harris serves as Vice President of
Brand Marketing for the Pottery Barn brands,
a division of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE:
WSM). As a marketing leader for North America’s
preeminent home furnishings retailer, Brigitte
oversees brand strategy, research, partnerships,
licensing and experiential marketing. She
helped launch social media for the Pottery Barn
brands and continues to serve in an advisory
role on all content and community efforts.
Brigitte brings nearly 20 years of marketing and
advertising experience to her current role. Prior
to her 7 years at Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Brigitte
held leadership positions at Gap Inc., Smith &
Hawken and a variety of advertising agencies.
BRIGITTE BRADY-
HARRIS
VP, BRAND MARKETING,
WILLIAMS-SONOMA, INC.
Gregor Ehrlich is Social Media and Creative
Lead, as well as Executive Producer, at the
Clorox Services Company. Clorox is in over
100 countries with hundreds of brands
ranging from Burt’s Bees, Hidden Valley and
Glad, to Kingsford and cleaning products.
Previously he was Editorial Director at Old
Navy.
GREGOR EHRLICH
SOCIAL MEDIA AND CREATIVE
LEAD AND EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER, CLOROX
SERVICES COMPANY
@GregorEhrlich
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Speakers
Amy Hsiao currently works at The Clorox
Company as the Associate Director managing
a portfolio of brands including Clorox, F409
and Tilex. She has over 15 years of experience
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry,
from strategy consulting, consumer research &
analytic insights, to brand management. Amy
graduated from the University of California at
Berkeley with a BA in cognitive science and
received an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg
School of Management.
AMY HSIAO
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, THE
CLOROX COMPANY
As Co-Founder of the Brand Innovators,
Brandon Gutman is responsible for developing
premium content which means tapping
marketers from the world’s most successful
brands to share how they’re utilizing emerging
technology and new media vehicles to build
a name and drive meaningful ROI. A prolific,
highly respected writer, Brandon is an expert
blogger whose work has appeared on Forbes.
com’s CMO Network. Prior to launching
Brand Innovators, Brandon held marketing
and business development positions in the
executive search sector where he forged
relationships with some of the most influential
brand marketers, technology developers and
venture capitalists in our industry.
BRANDON
GUTMAN
CO-FOUNDER,
BRAND INNOVATORS
@BrandonGutman
Deirdre Hussey loves to tell stories.
Fortunately, that’s what she does at Gap Inc.,
every day. Deirdre brings more than a 15 years
of journalism experience to her marketing
role at Gap Inc. She and her team develop,
publish and promote daily content telling the
fashion, business and values-marketing stories
of some of the world’s largest apparel brands.
Previously, Deirdre served as Editor-in-Chief
at the San Francisco Examiner and during her
tenure the paper won numerous awards for
news, political, and arts content.
DEIRDRE HUSSEY
DIGITAL MARKETING
& COMMUNICATIONS,
DIRECTOR, GAP INC.
@DHussey415
Noelle Kim is the Product Marketing Manager
on Google Glass where she leads brand
strategy and partnerships. She joined Google
as a Principal Industry Analyst advising on
digital marketing strategy to Consumer
Packaged Goods and Entertainment
industries. Prior to Google, Noelle has worked
in marketing, sales and corporate strategy at
Nestle, Roadshow Entertainment and start-
ups across multiple industries including food
manufacturing, entertainment, publishing
and online retail.
NOELLE KIM
PRODUCT MARKETING
MANAGER, GOOGLE GLASS,
GOOGLE
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Speakers
Jennifer Lashua is a digital marketing &
social media expert from Intel. Currently
she’s Chief of Staff for the Digital Marketing
& Media organization and recently held
roles including Editor-in-Chief of the Intel
Digital Newsroom and Social Media group
manager. In addition to her 11-year tenure
at Intel, she also spent 5 years in the retail
and food & beverage sectors in Europe
and the US. A new Mom, Jen is passionate
about her family and also endurance sports,
health, cooking, and great wine!
JENNIFER LASHUA
EDITOR IN CHIEF, INTEL
CORPORATION.
@runningjen
Michael is a Managing Partner at Code
and Theory. For the past 5 years, he’s been
closely involved in some of the agency’s
most innovative digital projects with clients
including The Guardian, The Los Angeles
Times, Hearst Magazines, Nautil.us, NBC
Olympics, Mashable, and most recently Visit
California, winner of a 2015 Webby Award.
Michael joined Code and Theory in New York
in 2010 to lead business development and
help scale operations.
Now based in San Francisco, Michael works
with a team of Digital Strategists, UX Designers,
Visual Designers, and Creative Technologists
to create effective and immersive digital
products and brand experiences and grow the
agency’s west coast footprint.
MICHAEL MARTIN
MANAGING PARTNER, CODE
AND THEORY
Michelle Kircher-Weiskittel is the manager of
digital media marketing at Safeway, where
she manages the digital creative process
and leads Safeway’s Private Label media
communication strategy for Marcela, Open
Nature, Organics and Lucerne. Prior to
Safeway, Michelle held positions as Director
or Digital Media Account Management and
Planning at iProspect and Razorfish.
MICHELLE KIRCHER-
WEISKITTEL
MANGER, DIGITAL MEDIA
MARKETING, SAFEWAY
Tony Obregon oversees global social media
operations for Avanade, a technology
consultancy owned by Accenture that
helps clients realize results in a digital
world through Microsoft technologies. With
many years of public relations and digital
marketing experience, he provides corporate
communications strategy and counsel
on a variety of initiatives and activities
across the company. Over the last decade,
he’s developed specialized social media
programs for top brands including HP, Landor,
McKesson, Panasonic, SanDisk and Seagate.
TONY OBREGON
GLOBAL LEAD & GROUP
MANAGER, SOCIAL MEDIA
CENTER OF EXCELLENCE,
AVANADE
@tonyobregon
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Speakers
Pavey Purewal is a transformational
marketing professional with 18 years of
enterprise software experience in Cloud,
SOA, middleware and BI. Pavey was the
former VP Global Marketing at VMware
and was responsible for marketing the
Infrastructure-as-a-service offering. Prior
to VMware, Pavey held senior marketing
positions at Oracle and BEA. Pavey has
led GTM strategy, thought leadership
programs, and driven new business, leading
companies to position as #1 in their market.
PAVEY PUREWAL
CHIEF MARKETING
OFFICER, DYNAMIC SIGNAL
@PaveyPurewal
John Pace leads the paid social media team at
Electronic Arts, where he focuses on building
global media plans for a variety of EA’s business
models including e-commerce, console, and
live services. He works closely with social
media partners Facebook, YouTube, and
Twitter to drive user acquisition, engagement,
and monetization across EA’s portfolio. John
joined EA in 2013 as a Social Media Analyst
before being promoted to Manager, Social
Media Marketing in 2015. John graduated from
the University of California, Berkeley in 2012
with a degree in Economics where he focused
on Econometrics and Finance
JOHN PACE
MANAGER, SOCIAL MEDIA
MARKETING, ELECTRONIC
ARTS (EA)
At Betabrand, a high-growth startup and
one of the first fully crowdsourced clothing
companies, Julian Scharman focuses on
finding the most innovative ways to attract &
retain new customers including cutting-edge
website experiences, highly-targeted and
personalized email, mobile, digital advertising
and analytics to tie it all together. A seasoned
marketing and digital professional, Julian
has worked at leading San Francisco digital
media agencies designing multi-channel
communication campaigns for Fortune 500
companies. His customer-focused approach
to growing a business incorporates customer
insights, creativity, logic, innovation and
measurement accountability.
JULIAN
SCHARMAN
DIRECTOR, CUSTOMER
ACQUISITION, BETABRAND
@JulianScharman
Juan Silvera leads Union Bank MUFG’s Digital
Marketing and Advertising team supporting
the retail, commercial, wealth, lending, small
business, card, corporate and investment
banking lines of business. He is responsible
for the .com, Email, Search, Online Display,
Mobile and Social Media digital marketing
channels across the Americas. In addition, he
manages the bank’s Advertising team, which
executes campaigns across traditional, off-
line media including print, TV, radio and Out-
of-Home. He is also in charge of the bank’s
Intranet platform. Prior to joining MUFG
Union Bank, Juan was SVP eMerchandising
Executive at Bank of America where he
managed a team in charge of the bank’s .com,
email, ATM and mobile marketing channels.
JUAN SILVERA
MANAGING DIRECTOR
DIGITAL MARKETING AND
ADVERTISING,MUFGAMERICAS
@juansilvera
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Speakers
Marc Sternberg is co-founder of Brand
Innovators, a leading producer of conferences
for the advertising and emerging technology
industries. From 2007-2011 he was president
and COO of AlwaysOn, annually producing
more than 20 successful conferences in the
digital media, clean technology and cloud
computing sectors. From 1989-2007 Marc was
the vice president of advertising sales for The
Hollywood Reporter. Marc has served on the
boards of numerous charitable and non-
profit organizations, including Make-A-Wish
Foundation of Los Angeles and the Anti-
Defamation League/LA.
MARC STERNBERG
CO-FOUNDER, BRAND
INNOVATORS
@MarcSternberg1
David Teicher is Chief Content Officer at Brand
Innovators, managing content for the 30-plus
live summit programs and dozens of special
events Brand Innovators produces annually,
and contributing thought-leadership to
Brand-Innovators.com and related content.
David joined Brand Innovators in June from
Ad Age, where he worked since 2010, most
recently as Social Media and Event Content
Manager. He also contributed columns
and articles to AdAge.com, with a special
emphasis on emerging media, technology
and start-ups. In 2012 he helped launch Brand
H@cker, which he continued to manage.
DAVID TEICHER
CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER,
BRAND INNOVATORS
@aerocles
From the design and launch of one of the
Web’s first employee advocacy programs
in the 90s, Mark Williams slogged through
an IPO with Monster.com, projects for the
then formative Yahoo and eBay, published
several reports on the birth of worldwide
internet recruiting, and then burned
through millions in startups (ITworld.com,
BrassRing and MediaPlex) before taking a
much needed break from the heady world
of entrepreneurdom to lead Digital Strategy
for JWT. For the last 12 years Mortar’s new,
more collaborative and energetic approach
to marketing innovation has helped create
over $13 billion in market value in high-
tech, eCommerce, healthcare, biotech,
sustainable technology and not-for-profits.
MARK WILLIAMS
MANAGING PARTNER,
MORTAR AGENCY
Beth Teague is Vice President of Social
Media Programs at Bank of the West. In
this role, she manages a variety of social
media programs and initiatives, including
community management, social customer
service, contests and promotions, and video
production. Prior to joining Bank of the
West, Beth led the food vertical at Federated
Media Publishing, managing dynamic
brand ambassador programs to connect
prominent food and lifestyle bloggers
with Fortune 500 companies. Beth holds
both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in
communications and lives in San Francisco.
BETH TEAGUE
VP, SOCIAL MEDIA
PROGRAMS, BANK OF
THE WEST
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CHARLIE COLE
CEO,
THE LINE
CHRIS CHESEBRO
ASST. VP, US MEDIA
INVESTMENTS,
L’OREAL USA
B. BONIN BOUGH
VP, GLOBAL MEDIA &
CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT,
MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL
MADHUR
AGGARWAL
VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGY,
OFFICE OF CMO, SAP
JORGE FONTANEZ
VP, MARKETING MANAGER,
CHASE COMMUNITY
GIVING, J.P. MORGAN
CHASE
ERICK DICKENS
VICE PRESIDENT,
MARKETING, KING’S
HAWAIIAN
LASTON
CHARRIEZ
SVP MARKETING, WESTERN
UNION
DOUGLAS BUSK
GLOBAL GROUP
DIRECTOR - DIGITAL
COMMUNICATIONS &
SOCIAL MEDIA, THE COCA-
COLA COMPANY
MARC FONZETTI
DIRECTOR OF MEDIA
STRATEGY & INVESTMENT,
VERIZON WIRELESS
NICOLE FRALEY
AVP DIGITAL MARKETING,
VICTORIA’S SECRET
Advisory Board
35. 35www.Brand-Innovators.com
Advisory Board
ADAM KMIEC
SENIOR DIRECTOR, SOCIAL
MEDIA AND CONTENT,
WALGREENS
VICTOR LEE
VP DIGITAL BRAND
MARKETING, HASBRO
TRESSIE
LIEBERMAN
SENIOR DIRECTOR &
SOCIAL MARKETING,
TACO BELL
JOHN KOLLER
VP, PLATFORMS
MARKETING, SONY
PLAYSTATION (SCEA)
JAKE LESTAN
HEAD OF BRAND
PARTNERSHIPS & NEW
PRODUCTCOMMUNICATIONS,
DISCOVER
JASON JOHN
CHIEF MARKETING
OFFICER, PUBLISHERS
CLEARING HOUSE
SCOTT HUDLER
VICE PRESIDENT-GLOBAL
CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT,
DUNKIN’ BRANDS
KIRK HEINLEIN
DIRECTOR, MARKETING
COMMUNICATIONS,
GLOBAL MARKETS
ADVERTISING, AT&T
MAYUR GUPTA
GLOBAL HEAD, MARKETING
TECHNOLOGY AND
INNOVATION, KIMBERLY-
CLARK
IAN GOMAR
PRESIDENT,
SHAQUILLE O’NEIL
ENTERPRISES
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MARC PATRICK
SENIOR BRAND DIRECTOR,
NIKE EAST
MASON NELDER
DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL
& DIGITAL STRATEGY,
VERIZON
UMANG SHAH
GLOBAL DIRECTOR,
SOCIAL MEDIA & DIGITAL
MARKETING, CAMBELL
SOUP COMPANY
DEB RADCLIFF
SENIOR VP MARKETING,
WEST MARINE
ASHWIN NATHAN
MARKETING DIRECTOR,
DIGITAL, FRITO LAY
PORTFOLIO, PEPSICO
ANDREW
MARKOWITZ
DIRECTOR, GLOBAL DIGITAL
STRATEGY, GE
MERYL
TRUFFELMAN
MACUNE
VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL
DIGITAL MARKETING,
ESTÉE LAUDER
PAUL MARCUM
HEAD OF GLOBAL DIGITAL
INNOVATION, BLOOMBERG
MEDIA
Advisory Board
ELLIOT LUM
VP STRATEGIC
MARKETING,
COLUMBIA RECORDS
MICHAEL MA
SVP, DIGITAL BANKING,
STRATEGIC PLANNING,
BANK OF AMERICA
37. 37www.Brand-Innovators.com
JONATHAN
STEPHEN
HEAD OF DIGITAL
COMMERCE & AIRLINE
INNOVATION, MARKETING,
SILVER AIRWAYS
JOHN
STARKWEATHER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,
DIGITAL MARKETING,
MOBILE AND BUSINESS
SOLUTIONS, AT&T
Advisory Board
COLLIN T.
WESTCOTT-PITT
VP MARKETING,
HEINEKEN, HEINEKEN USA
GREGG WEISS
VP/BUSINESS LEADER,
SOCIAL MEDIA,
US DIGITAL MARKETING,
MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE
CHRIS THORNE
GLOBAL VICE PRESIDENT,
MEDIA & MARKETING,
ELECTRONIC ARTS
JON SUAREZ-
DAVIS
VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL
MEDIA AND DIGITAL
STRATEGY, KELLOGG
COMPANY
CHAD STUBBS
SR. DIRECTOR, MEDIA
STRATEGY & INVESTMENT,
PEPSICO
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Strategic Advisors
JOEL EWANICK
VP AND GLOBAL CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
@Joel Ewanick
SCOTT MCNEALY
CHAIRMAN WAYIN, FOUNDER CURRIKI, AND
FORMER CEO OF SUN MICROSYSTEMS
@ScottMcnealy
TED RUBIN
STRATEGIC ADVISOR AND ACTING CMO,
BRAND INNOVATORS
@TedRubin
BRIAN SOLIS
AUTHOR AND PRINCIPAL ANALYST, ALTIMETER
GROUP
@BrianSolis
NORTY COHEN
CEO AND FOUNDER, MOOSYLVANIA
@NortyCohen
39. 39www.Brand-Innovators.com
For years, IBMers have been working with companies, cities and communities around the world to
build a Smarter Planet. We’ve seen enormous advances, as leaders are using an explosion of data
to transform their enterprises and institutions through analytics, mobile technology, social business
and the cloud. We’ve also seen how this new era is starting to create winners. They’re changing how
their decisions are made. They’re redesigning how their teams work, reassessing how to serve their
customers, and changing the very nature of business. Businesses know that innovation comes from
collaboration. And collaboration comes from everywhere. Firms that embrace the power of social
technologies will unleash the productivity and innovation throughout the entire value chain—from
employees to partners to suppliers to customers.
Marquee Sponsor
Carusele brings together audiences,
influencers, and brands though high quality
social media content to increase awareness,
engagement and brand recognition. Using
an Organish(TM) media approach, our
editors and content creator network create
branded media that is shared exponentially
across the social media landscape. Leading
brands choose Carusele, an Ignite Social
Media Company, because we help them
activate the right audience in creative,
strategic and measureable ways. @carusele
Title Sponsors
Bottlenose provides real-time comprehension
of streaming data sources that hold hidden
opportunities, threats and other phenomena
material to your business. We do this through
our advanced Trend Intelligence technologies
that find vital and actionable signals in
social, broadcast and enterprise data
streams. Our Trend Intelligence application,
Nerve Center(tm), offers an enterprise-
grade, real-time dashboard for researching,
discovering, tracking and acting on influential
developments as they form and spread.
Nerve Center is used by marketing, content,
distribution, security, research, customer
service and many other functions in leading
brands and agencies, to identify, anticipate
and instigate the trends that materially drive
their business @bottlenoseapp
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Title Sponsors
Other agencies treat social media the way
advertising has always been treated. At Ignite
Social Media, we have created an innovative,
specialized approach that we use to power
social media marketing for some of the world’s
best brands. Brands choose us because, as one
of North America’s first social media agencies,
we know how to turn business objectives into
realities in creative, strategic and measurable
ways @IgniteSMA
Livefyrehelpscompaniesengageconsumers
throughacombinationofreal-timeconversation,
socialcurationandsocialadvertising.With
Livefyre’ssocialCMS,brandscanintegratereal-
timesocialcontentintotheirwebsites,mobile
apps,advertisementsandtelevisionbroadcasts
toincreaseviewerengagement,boostwebsite
trafficanddriverevenue.Asthefourthlargest
networkonline,Livefyreispoweringreal-time
socialexperiencesforover550leadingbrands
includingAmericanIdol,AOL,Bravo,CBS,Conde
Nast,CoxMediaGroup,DowJones/WSJ,FOX
Sports,Mashable,NASCAR,Showtime,Sony
Playstation,SportsIllustrated,TheNewYork
Times,UnileverandUniversalMusicGroup.
Livefyrealsoacquiredsocialstorytellingplatform
StorifyinSeptember2013andSocialApplication
ProviderRealtidbitsinNovember2013.
Dstillery is at the forefront of advertising
technology, pioneering new ways to create
brand value for marketers by extracting
signals from the complete customer journey
and activating them across all screens.
Dstillery is building on five years of leading
the data revolution by finding the customers
scientifically proven to care about your brand.
Dstillery works with over 400 top-tier brands,
and have been recognized as one of Forbes’
Top 100 Most PromisingCompanies in America
and Crain’s Best Places to Work in New York.
@Dstillery
Dynamic Signal helps companies build direct
relationships with the people who love their
brands by engaging them with compelling
content, marketing messages and offers.
Our platform provides brands a single,
comprehensive dashboard to be successful
social content marketers and to measure ROI.
With rich content marketing and social CRM
features, brands can identify, engage and
reward their advocates. The brand’s advocates
which include customers, fans, employees
and influencers can create, share and promote
relevant content through their social channels,
resulting in a measurable increase in awareness,
interest, purchase and loyalty. Our customers
include top brands across entertainment and
media, consumer packaged goods, and financial
services. @dynamicsignal
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Title Sponsors
Tongal is an open innovation platform
that produces and distributes social video
content. Tongal’s proprietary process
combines a distributed workforce model
with game mechanics which allows brands
to pull in ideas from anyone, anywhere
and collaboratively produce targeted, on
equity content, every time. The company
was selected by PepsiCo as one of the 10
most innovative startups in the country,
has been written up by McKinsey, Business
Week, Fortune, Mashable, Wired, Ad Week,
Rolling Stone and clients have ranged from
McDonalds, P&G, Colgate Palmolive, Lego,
Coca-Cola, NASA, Nestle, Capitol Records,
Universal Studios to Kiva and Feeding
America. @Tongal
NetBase is the award-winning social analytics
platform that global companies use to analyze
and engage with consumers in real-time to build
your business. NetBase won CGT’s Best in Class:
Consumer Goods Technology award this year.
Our platform processes billions of social media
posts daily for actionable business insights for
marketing, research, customer service, sales,
PR and product innovation leaders. NetBase is
a trusted partner to AMC Networks, American
Airlines, Arby’s, Beam, Coca-Cola, Kenneth
Cole, McCann Erickson, Ogilvy, Walmart and
YUM!. Our customers report 34% cost reduction
to capture social media insights, 20% time
reduction to manage PR and significant boost
in productivity for many business functions.
Please contact us to learn more and to schedule
a custom demo: www.netbase.com or email
info@netbase.com @Netbase
Twitter is a global social networking platform
that allows its users to send and read
140-character messages known as “tweets”. It
enables registered users to read and post their
tweets through the web, short message service
(SMS), and mobile applications. As a global
real-time communications platform, Twitter
has more than 400 million monthly visitors
and 255 million monthly active users around
the world. Twitter’s active group of registered
members includes World leaders, major
athletes, star performers, news organizations,
and entertainment outlets. It is currently
available in more 35 languages. @twitter
ZEFR is a software platform for brand and content
management on YouTube. BrandID, ZEFR’s brand
management software, helps brands and media
companies publish content, analyze their brand
exposure, partner with their biggest fans, and
target ads to their most important demographics.
ZEFR helps their customers build lasting
relationships with their fans on the second largest
search engine in the world. RightsID, ZEFR’s rights
management software, monetizes the world’s
content. Its proprietary licensing software took
a historically antagonistic relationship between
content rights holders (media companies) and
fans that uploaded their content and turned it on
its head. @ZEFRinc
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The company’s leadership team includes
David Feinleib, founder and CEO. David is
a Big Data expert and author of Big Data
Demystified and an upcoming book, Big
Data Bootcamp (see below). David is also the
producer of “The Big Data Landscape.” David
is a serial entrepreneur with exits to HP and
EMC. Jeff Green, Director of Engineering, is
a leader in machine learning and analytics.
Jeff formerly held positions at SAP Labs,
Naval Research Laboratory, and NASA Ames
Research Center @contentanalytic
Premiere Sponsors
Moosylvania was founded in 2003 as an
independent ad agency full of independent
thinkers. We create branding, experiential,
social media and promotions using Digital
EQ. What’s this Digital EQ you ask? Our people
combine emotional quotient (the ability the
interpret human emotion) and digital insight
to create meaningful friendships between
people and brands. It’s common knowledge
around here that marketing is temporary, but
relationships are lasting. So to build those
brand relationships, we treat “users” like
individuals, “consumers” like people, and
“followers” like friends. @Moosylvania