We’re greatly looking forward to seeing everyone in Boston at ILM East March 21-23 (i.e. Monday-Wed).
Boston Globe Publisher Chris Mayer is set to welcome everybody to Beantown, and discuss Boston.com’s local search, city guide and mobile services. Then we’ll hear from David Weinberger, one of the leading thinkers in social media; FourSquare’s Evan Cohen; former Ticketmaster CEO Sean Moriarty, who will talk on Venture Capital and local;and AT&T’s Chuck Lee and Maria Kermath (Chuck’s presentation on Vertical Power is a real ground-breaker.)
To end the day, we’re hosting a panel of four, very engaged local advertisers, who will tell us what they really want to do with the Internet, mobile and traditional media, too. But that’s not all. We’ll start the official conference with our perspective on current local trends, and before the bell (i.e. Monday morning), we’ll also get a full dose of BIA/Kelsey strategic forecasts from Dr. Mark Fratrik and Tom Buono. And that’s just Day 1.
Day 2 is a full day of top industry innovators that we’ve hand-picked from the local leaders you want to hear from (Google, Facebook, AOL, The Washington Post, Gannett etc.), and winds up with Mike Boland’s Mobile Superforum. Day 3, of course, is completely dedicated to the New Deals environment, with Living Social’s Tim O’Shaughnessy, Gilt City’s Nate Richardson, Red Plum’s Brian Costello and nine other Deals leaders. There’s never been a more comprehensive look at deals, and where they are leading.
Beat the “At the Door” price and sign up now if you haven’t already done so. Everyone you want to do business with will be at the show.
Featured Speakers (as of March 11):
Jack Abraham, CEO, Milo.com (eBay)
Belinda Baldwin, Director, Interactive Strategy, Belo
JP Bendoya, Senior Director, Product, Citysearch
Tyler Bosmeny, VP, Products, PaperG
Jim Boutin, COO, Local Thunder
Lawrence Coburn, CEO, DoubleDutch
Tim Condon, Director, The Washington Post
Evan Cohen, GM, FourSquare
Brian Costello, GM/VP, RedPlum/Valassis Corp.
David Courtney, CEO, JiWire
Tom Davis, CEO, Tide Radio
Mike DeLuca, SVP, AOL Local
Tobias Dengel, CEO, Willow Tree Apps
Christina Dorobek, Specialist, Scvngr
Jere Doyle, CEO, Prospectiv
Walt Doyle, CEO, Where.com
Perry Evans, CEO, Closely
Sean Fox, COO, Reply.com
Michael Francesconi, Platform Director, CityGrid
Gail Goodman, CEO, Constant Contact
James Green, CMO, Travidia/FindnSave
Kevin Hartz, CEO, Eventbrite
Dan Hassan, CEO, BCM
Jimmy Hendricks, CEO, Deal Current
Rhonda Hills, CMO, Cox Search/Kudzu
Matt Idema, VP,Local, Yahoo
Ken Kalb, CEO, Analog Analytics
Jonty Kelt, CEO, Group Commerce Inc.
Maria Kermath, Director, AT&T Interactive
Howard Lerman, CEO, Yext
Charles Lee, AT&T Advertising Solutions
Matthew Marko, Marketing Manager, Progressive Insurance
Christopher Mayer, Publisher, The Boston Globe
Jim Moran, Co-Founder, Yipit
Ted Morgan, CEO, Skyhook Wireless
Sean Moriarty, Mayfield Fund
Tim O’ Shaughnessy, CEO, Living Social
Andrew Osis, CEO, Poynt
Elnora Palms, Director, Local Search, U-Haul
Victoria Ransom, CEO, Wildfire
Josh Resnik, GM/VP, Gannett Digital Media Network
Nathan Richardson, CEO, Gilt City
Greg Rogers, CEO, Pictela
Lior Ron, Lead Product Manager, Google Places/HotPot
Maz Sharafi, Local Monetization, Facebook
Andrew Shotland, Publisher, Local SEO Guide
Mark Watkins, CEO, Goby
David Weinberger, Best Selling Author, Harvard
Ben Wood, Head, North America Resellers, Google