We are excited to announce today the speakers that will be joining us in Austin on March 7 at the Social Business Summit (#SBS2013)! Request an invite to attend the event, and help kick off SXSW.
President and Chief Executive Officer of LIVESTRONG Foundation Doug Ulman oversees the strategic vision and direction of the company. Doug has earned a reputation as the “Most Savvy Health Care Leader in Social Media” for his innovative use of social media to create awareness and knowledge about cancer. His online community includes a Twitter following of more than one million.
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Delivering Happiness. Tony has helped Zappos grow from almost no sales to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually, while simultaneously making Fortune Magazine’s annual “Best Companies to Work For” list.
Brian Solis, principal at Altimeter Group, is a globally recognized thought leader and published author in new media. His book, The End Of Business As Usual, looks at the changing consumer landscape, it’s impact on business and what companies can do to adapt and lead.
Marisa Thalberg, Vice President of Corporate Digital Marketing Worldwide for The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., is charged with supporting the development of world-class digital and social marketing across the company’s collection of over 25 prestige beauty brands. Her efforts have helped propel the company to be ranked as having the highest “Digital IQ” of any global beauty company.
Deloitte’s John Hagel has nearly 30 years’ experience as a management consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur. He has helped companies around the world improve their performance by crafting creative business strategies that more effectively harness new generations of information technology and shape broader markets and industries.
Erika Jolly Brookes, Oracle’s Vice President of Product Strategy, works on the Oracle Cloud-Social business to help guide product strategy and development.
Olivier Blanchard, author of Social Media ROI, helps executives and organizations around the world understand how to build, operationalize, and measure social media programs.
Michael Brito from Edelman Digital is a Senior Vice President of Social Business Planning. He provides strategic counsel, guidance, and best practices to several of Edelman’s top global tech accounts and is responsible for helping transform their organizations to be more open, collaborative and socially proficient.
Rob Bailey from Datasift is an experienced entrepreneur with more than a decade of tech executive experience. Rob was previously the Vice President of Business Development for SimpleGeo (acquired by Urban Airship) and eScene Networks (acquired by Inktomi).
Dr. Scott Hendrickson is the Principal Data Scientist at Gnip, responsible for data science projects that help Gnip and Gnip’s customers understand and more effectively use social media data from publishers including Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress, Disqus, StockTwits.
Founder and CEO of Dachis Group Jeff Dachis helped establish the digital services industry more than a decade ago when he co-founded Razorfish, Inc. out of a one-bedroom New York City apartment. Now as CEO of Dachis Group, the world’s leading social software and solutions firm, Jeff operates a global company with over 220 people in 10 cities and 5 countries boasting a client base that includes over 15% of the Fortune 500.
Dion Hinchcliffe, Chief Strategy Officer at Dachis Group, is a well-known business strategist, enterprise architect, author, analyst, and blogger. He currently works with the leadership teams of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 firms to devise strategies to help them adapt their organizations to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
Peter Kim, Chief Solutions Architect at Dachis Group, is responsible for the definition, development, and delivery of data-driven social marketing solutions for the company’s current and future clients. Peter is a prominent thought leader in social marketing and social business, and is also the co-author of the popular management book Social Business by Design.
Seats are limited and will sell out quickly; request an invitation here. We look forward to seeing you on March 7th!
