Speakers
Digiday Social | September 20, 2012 | New York
Digiday’s conferences are editorially programmed to provide honest dialogue about important issues facing digital media -- with a specific focus on brands, advertisers and agencies. Digiday welcomes speaker submissions for those willing to take a stand on important, and sometimes controversial, topics. To be considered as a speaker, please provide your name, title and company, along with links to the most relevant content highlighting your positions on industry issues. Please note which conference for which you’d like to be considered.
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Past Speakers Include:
 | Rishad Tobaccowala, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, VivaKi Rishad oversees innovation and reinvention efforts across all of VivaKi's agency networks. Working closely with local brand CEOs and VivaKi Country Chairs, he helps VivaKi's global businesses become established leaders in digital media and marketing. |
 | Adam Kmiec, Director of Social Media, Walgreens As the Director of Social Media for Walgreens, Adam is focused on leveraging social media to connect Walgreens' 5.9 million daily customers with their employees, while helping to transform the organization into a socially savvy retailer of the future. |
 | Shiv Singh, Global Head of Digital, PepsiCo Beverages As the Global Head of Digital for PepsiCo Beverages (across paid, owned and social media), Shiv drives PepsiCo Beverages's digital marketing agenda. Prior to PepsiCo Shiv worked at Razorfish Inc for over twelve years. |
 | Porter Gale, VP Marketing, Virgin America Porter Gale is a social media expert, start-up advisor and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience working in marketing, advertising and filmmaking. From 2007 to 2011, Porter was Vice President of Marketing at Virgin America. Prior to Virgin America, Porter was a consultant with a diverse array of clients. |
 | Manny Anekal, Global Director, Brand Advertising, Zynga Manny oversees the development and sales of brand sponsorships for Zynga's network of games. He focuses on creating high impact ad integrations, which provide immense return on investment for brands by providing exposure in unique ways to Zynga's users. |
 | Don Steele, Vice President, Digital Marketing, Comedy Central Don is the VP, Digital Marketing for the MTVN Entertainment Group. In this position, Steele is responsible for setting the strategy and implemenl digital marketing initiatives for the digital brands of COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV and TV Land cable channels. |
 | John Borthwick, Founder & CEO, betaworks Prior to launching betaworks, John was CEO of Fotolog. Before Fotolog John was SVP of Technology and Alliances at Time Warner Inc. |
| Jim Bankoff, Chairman & CEO, SB Nation Jim runs all aspects of SB Nation, one of the fastest growing online publishers, focused on the sports and personal technology categories. SB Nation boasts over 300 individually branded, fan-centric sports communities, each covering a specific professional or college team, league or sport. | |
 | Ali Rana, SVP & Head of Emerging Media Lab, Dynamic Logic As the Head of the Emerging Media Lab, Ali serves as Dynamic Logic and Millward Brown's industry and company leader on emerging media trends and marketing effectiveness. Composed of industry leading research and technology scientists, the Emerging Media Lab's primary mission is to help our clients and the industry develop brand effectiveness measurement frameworks across new media platforms. |
 | Rob O'Donnell, VP, Digital Applegate Farms Has 18 years of experience in various leadership roles at Applegate, including; Marketing, IT, H/R, Finance, and Supply Chain management. As VP of Digital Media at Applegate, Rob is focused on all aspects of consumer engagement online as well as the social business practices and technology within the organization. Rob's mission is to nurture Applegate's open culture and extend it to the Applegate consumer. |
 | Bryan Pedersen, Group Director, Converseon Bryan oversees the engagement group at Converson, and helps clients engage with their customers using paid, earned, owned and shared media. Bryan has comprehensive emerging media expertise across multiple platforms from Social Media, Mobile, Video, Gaming and Apps, and has worked on several award-winning digital programs over the past ten years with recognition from the Webby, CableFax, and Mobile Star Awards. |
 | Reggie Bradford Veteran technology and management executive Reggie Bradford is founder and CEO of Vitrue. Founded in 2006, Bradford, armed with more than 20 years of experience across technology, Internet and marketing sectors, has developed Vitrue into the leading provider of social marketing publishing and management software for global brands and agencies. |
 | Dave Madden, SVP, Global Media Sales, Electronic Arts Dave Madden joined EA in April of 2011 as the Senior Vice President of Global Media Solutions. In his role at EA, Mr. Madden oversees all media sales related activities in and around EA's game properties across all platforms including console, online, social and mobile. |
 | Stephanie Agresta, EVP, Managing Director of Social Media, Weber Shandwick A pacesetter in digital media for nearly 15 years, Stephanie Agresta is EVP, Managing Director of Social Media for the global public relations firm Weber Shandwick, where she focuses on social media strategy and partnerships in addition to consulting with key accounts. |
 | Ari Osur, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Ari is a Principal Analyst serving Interactive Marketing professionals. He has nearly 15 years experience in crafting interactive marketing strategies and best practices that generate revenue, build customer relationships and enrich intelligence. He focuses on social media, digital direct and CRM, email marketing, measurement and analysis, marketing operations, and organizational planning. |
 | Sacha Xavier Reich, Partner, Media Director, Neo@ Ogilvy Sacha joined Neo@ Ogilvy /New York as Partner, Media Director in February 2010 to lead several teams in the performance marketing group. She has helped pioneer campaigns in emerging media, streamline process, and foster 360 media cohesion. |
 | Brooke Angles, Founder, Social Click Brooke Angles is the founder and CEO of Social Click, a firm that specializes in Facebook advertising strategy, creative development and rapid optimization. Prior to launching Social Click, Brooke developed and executed the social media strategy for the world's largest online travel brand, Expedia. |
 | Morgan Simonsen, Sr. VP, US Sales, Efficient Frontier Morgan is responsible for driving both new and existing revenue for North America. Prior to his current role, he served as Vice President of Eastern Region Sales where he opened and expanded the New York office and grew Efficient Frontier's revenue substantially. |
 | Rick Bruner, Vice President of Product Management, Marketing Evolution Rick E. Bruner is Vice President of Product Management at Marketing Evolution. With 15 years of experience in the field of interactive advertising and marketing, he was a recipient of the Advertising Research FoundationÃs David Ogilvy Award in 2009 and co-chaired the Interactive Advertising BureauÃs Research committee in 2008-2009. |
 | Rick Bruner Rick E. Bruner is Vice President of Product Management at Marketing Evolution. With 15 years of experience in the field of interactive advertising and marketing, he was a recipient of the Advertising Research Foundationâs David Ogilvy Award in 2009 and co-chaired the Interactive Advertising Bureauâs Research committee in 2008-2009. Before joining Marketing Evolution, he ran advertising research departments at MTV Networks, Google and DoubleClick. He is the co-author of âNet Results: Web Marketing that Worksâ (Hayden, 1998) and âNet Results.2: Best Practices for Web Marketingâ (New Riders, 2000). Rick began his career as a journalist. He covered Internet advertising for Advertising Age 1997-98, and in the early 1990s, he co-founded and edited Budapest Week, Hungaryâs first independent English-language newspaper. He is a cume lade gratuate of Columbia University in English Literature and Writing. He plays ukulele with gusto. |
