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Why Customer Experience Is The Ultimate Marketing Tool

Ali Weiss is currently the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Glossier, a modern, digitally-native beauty brand made by editors who ‘get' what works and inspired by what girls want in real life. Prior to Glossier, Ali worked at BlackRock in financial institutions account management, corporate strategy and as the chief of staff to the Head of iShares. She is passionate about the little things in life that make the everyday better. Ali lives and works in New York City and is inspired by the idea of building a brand through conversations, community and peer-to-peer referral. She graduated from Stanford University and received her MBA from Harvard Business School.

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For the Love of Loyalty

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Getting Under the Hood with Attribution

Barkha Saxena is Vice President of Data Science & Analytics at Poshmark, the leading social commerce platform for the next generation of retailers and shoppers. Barkha is an expert in her field, leading large-scale analytics implementations across multiple industries, including advertising, financial services, retail, e-commerce and telecom. Prior to Poshmark, she was Vice President of Data Solutions and Analytics Product Management at Nomis Solutions and she also led the data team at comScore, inc. as Vice President of Consumer Analytics. Earlier in her career, she was Director of Analytics and Corporate Strategy at FICO. She has deep expertise in consumer digital behavior data and traditional marketing, acquisition, risk and customer management data. She received her BS from IIT Kanpur, MA from University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Ingredients of a Successful Marketing Team

Ben is the CMO at Priceline. He began at Priceline in 2006 in Financial Planning & Analysis. He then built a team of analysts while working at Booking.com in Amsterdam from 2009 to 2012, before returning to Priceline. He's an analyst, and takes pride in building great teams and using data to make decisions.

Ben has a BA from Yale in Economics, and an MBA from NYU in Finance, Law & Accounting, and Change Management.

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The Balancing Act: Brand vs Performance Marketing

Ms. Ask joined Tailored Brands in October 2018. Previously, she was executive vice president and president, global retail at Levi Strauss & Company (LS&Co), where she oversaw more than 2,900 retail stores in 30 countries and partnered with the global e-commerce team to define and deliver a seamless direct-to-consumer experience. Prior to LS&Co, Ms. Ask held senior leadership positions at NIKE, Inc., Petco, Target and BC Natural Foods, and served as associate principal in the retail practice at McKinsey & Company. She is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and began her career by serving as an officer in the United States Navy. Ms. Ask earned a Master’s in Business Administration from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

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Adapting Traditional Retail for Today's Digital Customer

Denise Incandela is a visionary retail executive who has delivered growth and transformation for brands and specialty retailers for over 20 years. An expert in brand building, retail, digital and marketing, she has a proven track record of exceeding revenue and profit targets, positioning businesses as market-leading performers, and achieving award-winning results. Currently, Denise is the SVP and Group General Manager of Fashion for Walmart ecommerce.  In this role, she is responsible for transforming fashion across Walmart’s U.S. ecommerce platforms, including Walmart.com, Jet.com, Shoes.com, and BareNecessities.com. This has entailed overhauling the fashion shopping experience, materially expanding the product assortment, driving key strategic retail partnerships and acquisitions, and launching high-profile exclusive brands such as EV1 by Ellen DeGeneres, Sofia Jeans by Sofia Vergara, and TEXTILE. Before joining Walmart, Denise was President of Global Digital and CIEM for the Ralph Lauren Corporation, where she transformed its internal digital capabilities, including the turnaround of its global ecommerce business and the creation of global digital centers of excellence. Previously, Denise was EVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Saks Fifth Avenue where she oversaw Marketing and Digital. Denise launched the award-winning saks.com and saksoff5th.com businesses and built them from the ground up to be a $1 billion+ destination for online high-end fashion. Prior to Saks Fifth Avenue, Denise worked at McKinsey & Company, where she was a leader of their Retail practice.

Denise is on the Board of Directors of the NYC Animal Care Centers and the Industry Advisory Board for The Wharton School’s Baker Retailing Center.

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Getting Under the Hood with Attribution

Geoff leads the team responsible for customer acquisition and retention efforts spanning all paid media, onsite conversion, and CRM strategy and execution. Geoff also manages the North America eCommerce P&L.

Geoff is a member of CommerceNext’s Advisory Board, General Assembly’s Marketing Standards Board, and on the board of his condominium.

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Level Up the Foundations: Search, Social & Video

Jason slings shoes at GREATS, the Brooklyn born sneaker start-up. He enjoys that he can wear shorts to work whenever he wants.

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Purple & The Power of Brand Storytelling

Before joining Purple as Chief Executive Officer, Joe Megibow served as Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. where he oversaw the transformation and growth of American Eagle’s $550+ million direct-to-consumer business between 2012 and 2015. In this role, he built out a global omni-channel strategy and infrastructure, and led all digital marketing, customer operations, engineering and product management efforts. Prior to that, Megibow held several senior roles with Expedia, Inc., including VP and General Manager of Expedia.com, the $10B+ US online travel business. Megibow most recently served as an independent consultant to Advent International, the $41 billion global private equity firm, helping its portfolio companies develop world-class digital capabilities. Megibow earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

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Building a Foundation on Attribution and LTV

Joseph is the founder & CEO of Agency Within, a full service digital marketing agency managing budgets over $500MM. Joseph founded the agency in 2015, which has since grown to 100 employees and works with clients such as Nike, Shake Shake & Spanx. Joseph was previously the Senior Director of Digital Marketing and CRM at the Vitamin Shoppe, responsible for customer acquisition & retention for the $100MM+ e-commerce business and 700+ retail stores with revenue approaching $1B. Prior to joining the Vitamin Shoppe, Joseph managed digital marketing for Quidsi(an Amazon company), including Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com and their other family brands with over $500MM in revenue. Joseph received his MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business, specializing in digital marketing, entrepreneurship, innovation and business analytics.

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Day Two: Opening Remarks

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The Ingredients of a Successful Marketing Team

Kieran Luke is the General Manager of the Credentials business at General Assembly (GA), a division that he started in 2014. In this role, Kieran leads operations, product, business development and strategy. Since it’s founding, GA Credentials has assessed over 50,000 professionals for hundreds of organizations. Kieran chairs General Assembly’s Standards Boards and is a member of the GA Executive Team. Before joining GA, Kieran was a Principal at BCG, where he led projects in financial services, consumer goods and the public sector. He is the author of several online courses. He earned his MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, and his Bachelors of Actuarial Studies from The Australian National University. Originally from Australia, Kieran has called New York home since 2010.

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How to Create A Test & Learn Culture Without Fear

LJ is the Chief Media Officer at TechStyle Fashion Group, a portfolio of digital fashion brands based in Los Angeles. LJ leads an internal agency for advertising across all TechStyle brands, including: JustFab, ShoeDazzle, Fabletics, Fabkids and Savage X Fenty. LJ’s org is an innovative, data-driven, in-house team that runs from concept to execution on creatives, media buying and marketing sciences. The team deploys >$130M in global advertising to drive growth across the brands. LJ has been a pioneer in building TechStyle, since joining as part of the FabKids acquisition in 2013. She was the original GM for Fabletics at launch, built the backbone for TechStyle’s data-driven culture developing a global analytics team, and now drives growth across TechStyle brands in her CMO role.

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Ingredients of a Successful Marketing Team

Micky Onvural is the CEO of Bonobos, the men’s e-commerce brand known for better-fitting clothes paired with exceptional customer service. Onvural is responsible for evolving, innovating, and driving growth in all facets of the business. Prior to CEO, Onvural was the Co-President of Bonobos where she was responsible for evolving and innovating on the end-to-end customer experience. She also served as Chief Marketing Officer at Bonobos, responsible for relaunching the brand, internally championing Walmart’s acquisition of the company, and driving business results across all media channels.

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Getting Under the Hood with Attribution

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Retention & Customer Lifetime Value (Personalization)

Sai Koppala is the CMO at SheerID. Prior to SheerID, Sai led a variety of marketing and product teams at global software companies like Google and SAP as well as start-ups like Proximity (acquired by Apple) and Apigee (acquired by Google). Sai is an Electrical Engineer by training, with an MBA in Marketing from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Sai is the CMO at SheerID. Prior, he led marketing and product teams at companies like Google, SAP,  Proximity (acquired by Apple) and Apigee (acquired by Google.)

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Level Up the Foundations: Search, Social & Video

Sarmad Saghir is the VP of Acquisition at Adore Me – a disruptive e-commerce startup revolutionizing the lingerie industry by creating fast-fashion, affordable, inclusive intimates – dubbed the online Zara of lingerie. Sarmad leads our acquisition team; responsible for developing, implementing and managing marketing campaigns. For a data-driven company like Adore Me, he plays a key role in enhancing brand awareness as well as driving website traffic and acquiring new customers. Prior to Adore Me, Sarmad spent 9 years within Amazon and has experience growing several successful D2C startups – serving as VP Digital Growth at Hungryroot, and Senior Director of Growth at MM.LaFleur.

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Getting Under the Hood with Attribution

As President of AdRoll, Scott Gifis is responsible for moving the company towards their mission of empowering ambitious brands to grow their business, regardless of budget, resources, or marketing experience. Gifis has a proven track record of outperforming aggressive business growth expectations, often in hyper competitive or uncertain markets, and a passion for building and leading world-class teams.

As an industry veteran, Gifis has worked in tech/adtech for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining AdRoll, he served as Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Business Development at OpinionLab. Before OpinionLab, he was Vice President, Mid-Markets and Publisher Marketplace at Criteo where under his leadership, he launched and scaled Criteo's North American Mid-Market business.

Gifis serves as a board member for several early and mid-stage technology companies as well as several education non-profits. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and three daughters.

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Day One: Opening Remarks

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Getting Under the Hood with Attribution

Stephen Kuhl is the co-founder and CEO of Burrow. Burrow reinvented the furniture industry by offering clever, comfortable, and long-lasting furniture - that ships direct-to-consumer in one week. Burrow was recently named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and its sofa won TIME’s Best Inventions 2018. Stephen has a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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For the Love of Loyalty

Sunil is a marketing executive with a proven track record for building high performing teams at Amazon, Intuit and ​Zulily. He is the SVP of Marketing at Thrive Market, a membership-based market that makes high-quality healthy products for every lifestyle.

More recently, he led the consumer marketing teams at ​Zulily ($1.5B in annual revenue and 25MM emails sent/day) and the global Paid Social efforts at Amazon ($120M budget/yr with Facebook and Twitter).

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The Balancing Act: Brand vs Performance Marketing

Tom Montgomery is a Co-founder & the Chief Digital Officer @ Chubbies, the brand that is spearheading the fight against the ever-expanding work week as Warriors of the Weekend. Tom leads all things related to the digital experience at Chubbies including Marketing, E-Commerce, Data & Analytics, and Customer Experience. Prior to co-founding Chubbies, Tom was an associate at Ridge Ventures, a San Francisco based venture capital firm focused on early stage media, e-commerce, and technology investing. Tom graduated from Stanford University in 2008 with a degree in engineering and is a Capricorn.​

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MC: CommerceNexty's

Yao is a highly entrepreneurial executive who works with businesses and start-ups in many industries with a focus on technology, assisting with revenue and funding.

She founded The Hatchery, a venture collaboration organization with international reach bridging the gap between entrepreneurs and investors through resources, advisory, funding and building communities. She has had multiple successes as an entrepreneur and supports other companies in advisory and C level management roles. She leads up the enterprise incubator in New York building products with corporate partners -- from ideation, development, sales, funding to exit.

Yao was named by Forbes as 1 of 11 women at the center of New York’s digital scene, by Beta Beat as one of 25 Women Driving New York’s Tech Scene, and Techweek's 100 most influential tech leaders. She also traveled with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Indonesia in 2011, as a member of the Global Entrepreneurship Program Delegation.

Yao is a sought after speaker in areas of building internet companies, technology, social media, and entrepreneurship. Yao and her efforts have been featured in Fortune, Inc Magazine, The Miami Herald, Reuters, Daily News, Red Herring, Crains, American Venture. She has a particular passion for helping entrepreneurs, women, and social causes with projects in place to build global communities, push more women into executive positions.