Agenda

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.

Breakfast

Briar Club

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Keynote speaker

Briar Club

The New Working Reality. A world of talent, not just an office-full

Tarik Sedky
Founder, Pure

Converging trends and a global pandemic have conspired to change forever the way work gets done in the marketing world.
Fading big-agency dominance, changing client-side attitudes toward freelancers, better technology and an extended work-from-home mandate have conspired to transform the way work will get done from here.  When Tarik launched Pure in NYC in 2010, his “distributed delivery” model was considered novel.  Thirteen years later, Pure has grown significantly but retains its original operating framework and philosophy.  Tarik will share lessons learned and a view of how successful marketers can leverage the new work reality to their benefit while avoiding some costly pitfalls.

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Breakout

Briar Club

Behind a logo: How to approach a rebrand and the case of Amigo Energy.

Bridget Flanagan
Senior Director of Marketing, Amigo Energy

 

  • Why rebrand and why now? Taking a look at the origins of the Amigo Energy brand and the decision to rebrand.
  • We’ll talk about how we developed our brand style and some ideas that didn’t make the cut.
  • Let’s discuss what it means to create brand authenticity in a crowded energy market and how we went deeper into our brand roots to pave a way for our future.
H2H COMMUNICATIONS: The Way to Win the Relationship Era of Business

Tim Hines
Speaker, The Marketing StarterSpeaker

Employee and customer needs have evolved; in this digitally saturated world, they crave
authenticity and real human connection. No matter the business or product, it’s made by
people for people, and it’s time we use a human-to-human (H2H) communication
strategy to win back their hearts and minds.
Outcomes:

  • Learn how you can be more human-centric and less robotic in your business
  • Understand how to speak to customers and employees instead of at them
  • Acquire new skills on being more authentic

Your ROI:

  • Save time and money in developing a more resonating communications strategy
  • Increase retention of your employees and customers by being easier to work with
  • Create an overall happier and more helpful work environment

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Breakout

Briar Club

Energy Marketing Panel - "POWERED" MARKETING

Discussion of the trends in marketing tactics and strategies in the energy sector and what to expect in 2023.

Women in Marketing–Speed Networking

Connect with Marketers in this fun networking game.

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Breakout

Briar Club

The New Era of GA4: What’s Coming?

Carlos Casas- De la Garza 

CEO & Principal Analyst
Predictive Data Lab

Discover the practical tips you need to best prepare for what’s coming. We
will discuss the key differences between GA3 and GA4, what we know and what we don’t know about the key changes, and a roadmap for you to prepare. Together, we will go through a step-by-step guidance on how to ensure you and your team are ready.

Be Inclusive: A DEI Card Game

Michelle Ngome
Fractional Diversity Marketing Consultant
Line 25 Consulting

Be Inclusive is consist of two facilitation decks, Company Culture and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This interactive workshop helps teams understand the importance of sharing experiences while maintaining respectful communication and connection around organizational structure. In this session, attendees will break out into small groups with selected conversation prompts. Last, we will come together as an entire group to review questions and share feedback.

Takeaways:

  • Communicate more effectively with the ability to build trust and develop stronger relationships.
  • Minimize misunderstanding while enhancing clarity and cooperation among team members.
  • Working through blindspots and biases with creative thinking leads to healthier employee engagement.

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Networking Lunch

Briar Club

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Breakout

Briar Club

Marketing Panel - REVOLUTIONIZING THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR MESSAGE

Panel 

In this session, you will learn how our leaders in the Healthcare industry obtain their data without compromising privacy, analyze it, and deliver a message that impacts.

How to Cash in on B2B Creativity

Henry Adaso
head of marketing for CEMEX USA

B2B doesn’t mean boring to boring. It can also be bold, brilliant, and lots of fun. In this interactive and value-packed session, you’ll discover how to unlock the creativity hidden in your B2B brand.

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Breakout

Briar Club

Good humans. Better brands.

Mohammed Anwar

President and CEO
Softway

Chris Pitre

Vice President at Culture+
Softway

We talk about the marketing, but rarely discuss the team behind the marketing. What makes a high-performing marketing team, whether it’s internal, agency, or a mix? This session dives deeper into what shapes high-performing culture, unleashing teams to push their creativity and collaboration sustainably. Marketing leaders and contributors will learn how they can create a workplace where everyone belongs, resilience lives, and success is sustained.

Attendees will learn how 6 key behaviors can build into relationships, systems, processes, and policies that enable high-performing teams and sustainable results. Through empathetic storytelling and our vulnerability, leaders from Softway and co-authors of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Love as a Business Strategy will leave attendees with quick wins and long-term strategies to strengthen their culture.

In this engaging session, we will:

  • Provide marketing leaders and contributors with a real world framework for strengthening culture
  • Share tactics that can improve the employee experience (and work) regardless of budget, team size, or industry
  • Give examples and stories that support theoretical concepts around culture
  • Offer results that prove how culture impacts the bottom line, including tools that business leaders can get to support their own culture transformation
Artificial Intelligence in Marketing – A Case for Optimism

Michael Bell, Ph.D.
Chief Data Scientist, Technoir

Organizations rely on marketers to bring bold new ideas into the world through every means possible. Today those means have expanded to include artificial intelligence (AI), which has already begun to enhance efficiency and performance among marketing teams. However, there is justified concern about the ethical use of AI and whether increasingly human-like automation will eliminate many professional roles as we know them today. 

This presentation makes a case for optimism that hinges on a deep and ongoing commitment to professional development. I will share what I know about today’s marketing-relevant AI tools and techniques and the trajectory they are following. I will also discuss how collaborations with data professionals can foster innovation that serves to elevate rather than eliminate marketing roles.

For the foreseeable future, AI will not replace a marketer’s unique ability to communicate vision through intuitive storytelling and to create genuine human-product connections. Nevertheless, professionals who take advantage of AI and follow corresponding developments will have a competitive advantage. Join me for this talk to learn more about the intersection of AI and marketing and how to position yourself as a data-driven, AI-savvy marketer in the years ahead.

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Breakout

Briar Club

Event Marketing Panel - THE FUTURE OF THE EVENTS

Panel

Learn how the events industry has changed since 2020 and how event leaders have helped one of the industries hardest hit by COVID thrive in a new era.

Speed Networking

Connect with Marketers in this fun networking game.

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Keynote speaker

Briar Club

Future Ready Marketing

Tara Agen
Global Head and VP, Marketing Effectiveness, Operations, Martech, HP

Info to come.