Kelsey’s Directional Media Strategies is next week in Atlanta, and there is going to be a lot of coverage here, and even more on The Kelsey Blog.
My own role is to interview Sonia Survanshi McFarland, the Google vet who recently became Yelp’s head of business development. I’m also moderating a really good vertical panel, with Tom Bates from Cox’s Kudzu; John Busby from Marchex; and one of the most interesting people in our space, Joel Toledano from Krillion.
Some of the other headliners at the show include former Citysearch head Briggs Ferguson, who is currently running Idearc Internet, home of SuperPages.com; YPG head Marc Tellier; Frank Jules, who runs AT&T Publishing; and Marilyn Neal, who runs fast building Local Insight Media.
November 19-21 in Santa Clara, Matt Booth, Mike Boland and I are the guys behind Interactive Local Media 2008. We’ve already got two handfuls of great speakers set …but we’ll talk about them after DMS wraps. (o.k. here’s a hint: this speaker shares her name with a sappy 1973 Rolling Stones song)
Looks like a great line-up in Atlanta, see you in Santa Clara in November!