Bart Sharp is the senior vice president of marketing for the Utah Jazz. He oversees the media and promotions, creative services, digital services, customer analytics and research, and the youth program.  

Jim Yu is the founder and CEO of BrightEdge, a global content performance marketing company. Jim is widely recognized as the driving force behind enterprise content performance marketing technology, having built the largest and most-widely adopted platform. This award-winning SEO platform, powered by a sophisticated AI and machine learning engine, is in use by over 22,000 digital marketing professionals across 8,500 brands around the globe.

Joel Klettke is obsessed with content, and for good reason. He knows that your page content is either what keeps people engaged and active participants with your brand or what sends them away to search elsewhere. His steps on how to stop “killing” your copy will help you write more persuasive and meaningful content that will actually help your readers and convert them into customers.

Kellie Gibson is part of the research team at STAT Search Analytics and has been heavily involved in SERP research for the last three years. She shares her research through her writing and recently joined us for DMC 2018 to reveal her findings regarding featured snippets.

Sam Hirbod is the Principal Inbound Agency Strategist at Hubspot. He has worked with over a thousand organizations in both the public and private sectors, enabling growth by helping them build actionable goals based on data. A Swedish native, Sam has international experience, having worked jobs in Sweden, Ireland, and the U.S.

In this presentation, he shares his perspective and experience on where content marketing is headed, and how to get ahead of the curve.

Larry Kim is currently the CEO of Mobile Monkey which is a Chatbot building platform for businesses to use and has one million users. In his earlier career, he started Wordstream in 2008 which was acquired by Gannet for $150 million earlier this year.

5 Powerful Google Scripts

Robert Brady, Founder of Righteous Marketing, was the first speaker of the evening. Robert shared with us 5 powerful scripts that solve 5 common problems, that any digital marketer could implement today. These scripts only require copy/paste into an account.

Beyond Vlookups: The Marketing Data Analytics Stack

Sam Fonoimonana, Chief Analytics Officer at Stoke Analytics, spoke about data analytics and how it is important for marketers to take a close look at the data (using multiple data points) to tell the full story. In order to look at the data set Sam recommended marketers use pivot tables to collect and manage the data.

In this presentation, Sam talked about how marketers need to set the data which allows them to get the foundation in place. To do that, Sam discussed the following steps to set up your performance pipeline -

The Ultimate Guide To Programmatic Display Advertising

Our first speaker of the evening was Bryan Duffin.  Bryan Duffin is the Director of Paid Advertising for Avalaunch Media, and is a passionate digital marketer with expertise in AdWords, Bing, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Amazon, various Programmatic tools, and more.

Establishing a Marketing Mix for High Growth Stages