Outsell's Signature Event

September 21-23, 2008location

Driving Growth in the Age of Experience

Wednesday, Sept. 29

10:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Golf

4:00 p.m.

Registration Opens

6:00 p.m.

Event Opens & Welcoming Remarks

6:15 p.m.

Opening Keynote: Delivering the Ultimate Customer Experience

Tony Hsieh

Tony Hsieh
CEO, Zappos
Author, Delivering Happiness



7:00 p.m.

Cocktail Reception

8:00 p.m.

Dinner Followed by Networking

Thursday, Sept. 30

Strategy + Execution * (Experience)2 = Growth

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Global Economic Outlook

David A. Wyss

David A. Wyss, Ph.D.
Chief Economist
Standard & Poor's



9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Annual Information Industry Outlook

Anthea Stratigos

Anthea C. Stratigos
Co-founder & CEO
Outsell, Inc.



10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Networking Break

11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Annual M&A Outlook

Wilma Jordan

Wilma Jordan
Founder & CEO
The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.

Craig Hayman

Craig Hayman
General Manager, IBM Industry Solutions
IBM Corporation



11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

The Performance Track in the Age of Experience

Richard Benson-Armer

Richard Benson-Armer
Director
McKinsey & Company, Inc.



Case Studies in Wow

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch & Luncheon Speaker

Deliver & Delight – The Full Service Marketing Equation

John Loughlin

John Loughlin
Executive Vice President & General Manager
Hearst Magazines



2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Re-Wiring at WIRED: Going Mobile, Going iPad

Rick Levine

Rick Levine
VP, Editorial Operations
Conde Nast



3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Business Information & Analytics – Making Data Smarter for Smart Decisions

Michael Rhodin

Michael Rhodin
Senior Vice President, IBM Software Group
IBM Corporation



3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Mind the Niche

Donal Smith

Donal Smith
CEO
Data Explorers

Gehan Talwatte

Gehan Talwatte
CEO
Ascend Worldwide

Steve Custer

Steve Custer
Executive Vice President of Publishing
Farm Journal



4:30 p.m.

Adjourn & Afternoon Networking

6:30 p.m.

Cocktails

7:30 p.m.

Dinner and Speaker - A View from the Top: Elegant Design Matters

Michela O’Connor Abrams

Michela O'Connor Abrams
President & Publisher
Dwell LLC

 

Friday, Oct. 1

Getting It Done

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

CEO to CEO Master Class – Pick one of these three workshops:

Leverage the Cloud - Using Publishing-As-A-Service to Improve Revenue & the Supply Chain

Scott Killoh

Scott Killoh
Co-founder & CEO
Mediaspectrum

Bill Trippe

Bill Trippe
VP & Lead Analyst
Outsell's Gilbane Group



Grow Revenue and Improve Service with Customer & Audience Analytics

Mark Upson

Mark Upson
President & CEO
Scout Analytics

Chuck Richard

Chuck Richard
VP & Lead Analyst
Outsell, Inc.



Mobilizing & Monetizing Your Content Today

Doug Carlson

Doug Carlson
Managing Director
Zinio

Ned May

Ned May
VP & Lead Analyst
Outsell, Inc.

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Meet the Future: Living & Working in a Hyper-Social World

Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy
Global Sales Chief
Facebook

With

Wenda Harris Millard

Wenda Harris Millard
President & COO
MediaLink



11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Choosing the Platform & the Device - Who Owns the Future?

Tim Bajarin

Tim Bajarin, Moderator
President & Futurist
Creative Strategies, Inc.

Bob Nell

Bob Nell
Director, Business Development, Digital Reading Business Division
Sony Electronics, Inc.

Dana Tardelli

Dana Tardelli
Associate Vice President of Strategy and Pricing
Emerging Devices and Partnership, AT&T Mobility



12:00 p.m.

Closing remarks; event adjourns


Program as of Sept. 1, 2010. Sessions are subject to change.