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At Ascent, we’ve built a 2 day conference finally worthy of the CEO, CRO, and CMOs time. Our goal is for you to leave with one actionable insight that makes the time investment worth it and a rolodex of industry experts that you can call throughout the year to solve your problems. The event offers stage talks packed with critical insights for growing your business, a highly vetted community of true-peers, support from industry experts, and all packaged in best-in-class technology that puts the power of the network at your finger tips. [Read More] Our programming team has chosen a faculty of experts to lead 30 hours of interactive stage content aimed at the biggest trends impacting SaaS over the next year. Who better to get the information from than leaders of the fastest growing SaaS companies? This years line-up is our best yet! Our analysts go through the invite-only list of attendees as if they are choosing guests for The Met Gala. It truly is like Sun Valley for SaaS. If you are reading this, you should feel special. By inviting only the best we are able to create engineered serendipity for you at the conference. You don’t have to leave it to chance to bump into someone who can help you and your business. They all can! We work with over 100 industry experts to create deep dive roundtables around the most pressing challenges facing the CEO, CRO and CMO. This is where you find solutions to the problems that you can’t just Google. These are intimate 8 person sessions. Our developers have built a combination of industry leading technologies that make networking and building connections easy. Seamlessly find the right people to meet with all based on your intentions for the event. Peruse a marketplace of roundtables with topics that solve your problems. It couldn’t be a more user friendly experience. Our VIP ticket holders have access to an event concierge for further assistance meeting the right people. We would love to have you join us on November 14 & 15 in NYC for what is guaranteed to be the best 2 days that you spend all year. Thank you for letting us support your companies Ascent to the top! Best, Fred Rockwell Founder and CEO SPEAKERS JOSH KOENIG Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer Pantheon CHRISTINA CACIOPPO CEO & Co-Founder Vanta STEPHEN STOKOLS CEO Boost Mobile CLINT ORAM CSO & Co-Founder SugarCRM TYLER LESSARD Chief Video Strategist Vidyard SARAH REYNOLDS CMO Udacity BEN WRIGHT Founder & CEO Velocity Global KHALID EL KHATIB CMO Stack Overflow NATHAN RAWLINS CMO Lucid KUDA BIZA Serial Entrepreneur, Author, Co-Founder Nunbelieveable TIM RIESTERER Chief Visionary B2B Decision Labs LARA CAIMI Chief Customer and Partner Officer ServiceNow DAVE WEST CEO SCRUM.org × JOSH KOENIG Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer Pantheon As Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Pantheon, Josh is focused on making the Open Web a first class platform for delivering results. Championing the value of the developer experience, and the need to demonstrate impact with data, his work combines the visionary ideals of Open Source with the pragmatic utility of the agile approach. In 2021, Josh was recognized as a Top 25 Software Products Executive by The Software Report. As a very early Drupal adopter (user #3313), Josh was part of the team that drove the first high-profile public Drupal use-case with the Howard Dean campaign in 2003. He went on to found the Drupal Dojo, an online learning community for developers, and to co-found the premiere Drupal agency in San Francisco, Chapter Three. The web is the cornerstone of modern campaigns, causes, businesses and brands, and the demand for quick, quality digital experiences is high and only getting higher. At Pantheon, Josh’s mission is to liberate web teams from the confines of enterprise monoliths and the drudgery of infrastructure operations so they focus on their real strategic goals using the highest-quality tools of the trade. × CHRISTINA CACIOPPO CEO & Co-Founder Vanta Born in the Midwest and based in Silicon Valley, Christina Cacioppo sits at the intersection of security, tech, and business. After starting her career in early stage VC at Union Square Ventures, Christina went on to lead product management for Dropbox Paper, bringing the product to market. At Dropbox, Christina experienced firsthand the challenges and tradeoffs many teams face when trying to scale adoption of a SaaS product without first having security certifications in place. The Y Combinator alum is now the co-founder and CEO at Vanta, a leading security and compliance platform backed by Sequoia Capital, where she is pioneering a continuous, automated approach to security monitoring. Christina received her Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and has taught Entrepreneurial Design courses at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In her spare time, she reads books, runs with no destination, and cooks Sunday dinners for friends. × STEPHEN STOKOLS CEO Boost Mobile As Executive Vice President of Retail Wireless, Stephen is responsible for sales, marketing, go-to-market strategy and operations for DISH’s retail wireless brands. Stephen is an accomplished executive, entrepreneur and investor who has driven revenue and user growth across both Fortune 500 and start-up environments. Stephen most recently served as co-founder and CEO of mobile carrier FreedomPop. In this capacity, he raised over $120 million in financing and built FreedomPop into one of the fastest-growing mobile carriers before selling it in 2019. Stephen earned numerous industry awards for his innovation and disruptive impact on the wireless market and was named the Wireless Industry’s most innovative executive in 2017 and E&Y’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018. Prior to FreedomPop, Stephen founded Woo Media, where he built one of the internet’s largest and most innovative interactive video communications companies. Stephen turned Woo Media into a multi-million-dollar revenue stream, selling it in November 2011. Stephen started his career at Accenture and was elevated into his first executive leadership role in 2004, when he was promoted to VP of eBusiness at Qwest Communications. He went on to build a track record of bringing innovation, disruption and growth at the Fortune 500 level. He spent three years as British Telecom’s SVP of Strategy and Product Development, where he led all consumer product innovation. During his tenure, he generated $1 billion in new revenue, growing his P&L over 500% during that time and putting BT at the forefront of online communications, digital media and Wi-Fi. Stephen holds two graduate degrees, a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley and a Masters in Finance from London Business School. × CLINT ORAM CSO & Co-Founder SugarCRM Clint helped found SugarCRM in 2004 with the goal of enabling companies around the world to turn their customers into loyal fans. Today, he leads strategy and acquisitions for the company. Clint was one of the original architects and developers of the Sugar application and has focused on building out the product, company, partners and community in a variety of executive roles. × TYLER LESSARD Chief Video Strategist Vidyard Tyler is a marketing executive with a passion for creative storytelling, data-driven marketing, and creating exceptional customer experiences. As VP of Marketing at Vidyard, he’s spent 6+ years immersed in the world of online video and content marketing, helping to define and share best practices for businesses of all shapes and sizes. He’s a frequent speaker and author on topics spanning video marketing, content marketing, B2B sales, and account-based marketing, and is the host of the Creating Connections podcast and Video in Focus show. × SARAH REYNOLDS CMO Udacity Sarah Reynolds (they/them) is the Chief Marketing Officer at Udacity. Prior to joining Udacity, Sarah was the head of PTC’s Commercial Marketing organization, where they led a global team that enabled industrial organizations to implement and scale digital transformation strategies that put people first. As an openly non-binary executive, Sarah writes and speaks widely about diversity and inclusion, pay equity, the future of work, and the intersection of bias, ethics, and technology. They have contributed to Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Institutional Investor, Training Industry Magazine, and the Society for Human Resources blog, and frequently speak at live and virtual events hosted by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Leadership Council, the Manufacturing Institute, WorldatWork, SHRM, HR Dive, AICPA, and more. You can find them shouting about equality, equity, and inclusive language on Twitter @fairpaymonster. × BEN WRIGHT Founder & CEO Velocity Global As founder and CEO, Ben Wright leads strategy and growth of Velocity Global and its hundreds of global team members. Wright founded the company in 2014 as a revolutionary way for businesses to expand and hire across global markets and applies two decades of experience supporting clients’ global business and distributed teams. Today, the company’s Global Work Platform™ offers a full suite of talent solutions, including global Employer of Record (EoR) and Contractor Management, to help thousands of companies compliantly onboard, manage, and pay full-time and part-time talent, contractors, and freelancers anywhere. Wright is a recognized expert on the future of work and global expansion strategies. He was a national finalist for EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year and holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. × KHALID EL KHATIB CMO Stack Overflow Khalid El Khatib is the Chief Marketing Officer at Stack Overflow and is responsible for marketing, communications, and advertising initiatives. Throughout his career he’s elevated and transformed the awareness and perception of global brands, most recently at GLG where he was Vice President of Marketing and Communications. Before GLG he worked as a senior director at Group SJR, a WPP agency, where he led a diverse portfolio that included General Electric, Goldman Sachs, TED, and Xerox. He began his career working in communications at Teach For America which fostered a passion for social impact; he continues to volunteer in NYC schools and fundraises for numerous refugee relief organizations today. Khalid graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in political science and creative writing. In his free time he contributes to VICE, them., and PAPER where he writes about art, culture, and LGBTQ issues. × NATHAN RAWLINS CMO Lucid Nathan joined Lucid in 2017 with 20+ years of experience overseeing sales and marketing efforts across a variety of technology companies. Prior to Lucid, Nathan led worldwide marketing activities for Puppet and helped scale Jive through an IPO as he directed product marketing and brand. Nathan holds a B.A. in humanities from Brigham Young University. × KUDA BIZA Serial Entrepreneur, Author, Co-Founder Nunbelieveable Kuda Biza started his first company when he was just nine years old in Zimbabwe. Kuda moved to the U.S. with only $40 in his pocket to study at Lynn University, he started his second company, a socially conscious apparel brand, before graduating as valedictorian of his class. Kuda went on to climb the ranks of corporate leadership at a Fortune 500 company before transitioning to become a full-time entrepreneur with the goal of balancing success with being a force for good in the world. Today Kuda is the co-founder and chief marketing officer of Nunbelievable, a mission-based baked goods company built on a foundation of purpose: fighting hunger. The company is backed by Tony Robbins, IdealabNY and Loeb.nyc, and it donates a meal for every cookie sold. In less than two years, Nunbelievable has donated over one-million meals to people in need. Before starting Nunbelievable, Kuda spent over a decade in innovation and e-commerce roles at Newell Brands, home to iconic brands like Calphalon, Crock-Pot, Graco, Mr. Coffee and Sharpie. Kuda led highly successful multi-million-dollar growth initiatives but was convinced there was a way to both succeed and drive social change—to put purpose in the driver’s seat. As a speaker, Kuda’s extraordinary business and leadership acumen combine with his passion for helping leaders, organizations and individuals find their own path to being purpose-driven. The author of The S.P.E.A.R. Method: 5 Simple Steps to Balanced Success & Fulfillment, Kuda Biza inspires audiences to identify their purpose and make a difference. × TIM RIESTERER Chief Visionary B2B Decision Labs Tim Riesterer, Chief Visionary at B2B DecisionLabs, is dedicated to helping companies harness the power of Decision Science to win more business with prospects and customers. He is a recognized thought leader, keynote speaker, and practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in marketing and sales management. Riesterer is co-author of four books, including Customer Message Management, Conversations that Win the Complex Sale, The Three Value Conversations, and The Expansion Sale. × LARA CAIMI Chief Customer and Partner Officer ServiceNow As Chief Customer and Partner Officer, Lara Caimi leads the Customer and Partner organization for ServiceNow. Lara took this new role in July 2020, after serving as ServiceNow’s Chief Strategy Officer since joining the company in December 2017. Lara’s organization–which includees customer outcomes, customer experience, alliances and channel ecosystem, and our trainint & certification organization–provides our partners and customers with best-in-class guidance and capabilities to drive successful digital transformations and realize quick time-to-value. Before joining ServiceNow, Lara was a partner at Bain & Company, where she worked for 17 years. While at Bain, Lara advised technology companies on topics of growth strategy, go-to-market strategy, and M&A. Lara joined the board of Confluent, the event streaming pioneer, in February 2020. She is also a member of FirstBoard.io, whose mission is to increase female representation on corporate boards and at the highest level of corporate governance and management. Lara holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and English literature from St. Olaf College, a MIB from the university of Sydney as a Fulbright Scholar, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. × DAVE WEST CEO SCRUM.org Dave West is the CEO at Scrum.org. He is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, that helped define new software modeling and application development processes. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational. After IBM/Rational, West returned to consulting and managed Ivar Jacobson Consulting for North America. Then as VP, research director Forrester research where he ran the software development and delivery practice. Prior to joining Scrum.org he was Chief Product Officer at Tasktop where he was responsible for product management, engineering and architecture. 10 REASONS TO COME 1. IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG It has been too long since you’ve had the rare experience of sitting down face-to-face at a table with other C-level execs. Find your peers at the same size companies to discuss real challenges. Register Now 2. 100 PEER-LED ROUNDTABLES & BRAINDATES 100 Peer-led Roundtable & Braindate sessions are built to solve your most pressing problems and the ones you might not know are coming. Join the Conversation 3. PEOPLE ATTEND BECAUSE OF WHO IS THERE This is purely an invite-only event. 82% of attendees are C-level and VP of 20M to 300M companies. Will you Join Them? 4. MATCH AND SET MEETINGS EASILY IN THE EVENT PORTAL Choose your intentions for the event and our app will help you connect with others with the same goals including sales, partnering, hiring and raising money. Learn More 5. EXPO FLOORS Assess our highly vetted software partners on the expo floor with solutions to your problems. Also catch our showcase of series A and B SaaS companies, building the ideas that will impact your business in the future. Get Access 6. ACCESS CURATED CONTENT 30 hours of interactive curated content designed to address the major challenges facing SaaS companies over the next 12 months. Get Your Ticket 7. RAMP UP PRODUCTIVITY Get more work done in 2 days than you do all year. (This quote was heard multiple times after the last Ascent annual.) Get to Work 8. CONCIERGE EXPERIENCE VIPs get Concierge Services. Get this 5-star experience with everything from professionally curated roundtables, to 180 degree views of Times Square in the VIP Lounge, to the gourmet dinner and networking event. Purchase a VIP pass today 9. RAISE YOUR NEXT ROUND New York’s top investors attend. In 2019 we were the largest gathering of VCs on the East Coast, in 2020 we were the largest gathering of VCs online. Get Your Story in Front of Investors 10. FUN We throw a great party. RSVP Yes COMPANIES THAT ATTEND ASCENT CONFERENCE ‹› ‹› ‹› ‹› ‹› “There were tons of networking opportunities; almost every month I am connecting someone up with a person or company I learned about at Ascent.” Gabe Landes “Ascent Conference is an incredible opportunity for you to meet the East Coast tech-leaders who are uniquely positioned to provide you with the talent, technology and network to help you grow your business.” Bonin Bough “The conference pulls all the key audiences–from startups to VCs to corporates–together for two days of high-caliber education and networking to tackle the most pressing issues and important technologies facing businesses today.” Jason Williamson “This program convenes a high-caliber and diverse set of leaders to discuss today’s most important technologies and debate how they’ll shape the future.” Matt Harris “There were tons of networking opportunities; almost every month I am connecting someone up with a person or company I learned about at Ascent.” Gabe Landes “Ascent Conference is an incredible opportunity for you to meet the East Coast tech-leaders who are uniquely positioned to provide you with the talent, technology and network to help you grow your business.” Bonin Bough “The conference pulls all the key audiences–from startups to VCs to corporates–together for two days of high-caliber education and networking to tackle the most pressing issues and important technologies facing businesses today.” Jason Williamson “This program convenes a high-caliber and diverse set of leaders to discuss today’s most important technologies and debate how they’ll shape the future.” Matt Harris ‹› TICKET DETAILS AVAILABLE TO ALL PASS HOLDERS * Access to all 3 event stages: Main, Growth, Pitch * Early check-in for the event the night before * Networking and meeting scheduling through our event app * Marketplace of 100 round tables, braindates, and intimate sessions around solving real problems * Access to the expo floor offering vetted solutions to your problems * Access to the top Series A and B SaaS startups on the Pitch Stage VIP PASS * Private happy hour and dinner * Private, professionally curated roundtables * VIP/Speaker Room access with 180 degree views of Times Square * Event concierge to assist with meeting scheduling * Designated work areas throughout the event VIP Pass EXECUTIVE PASS * Everything that comes with a pass, plus.. * Quiet work areas throughout the event * Networking and meeting scheduling through our app tailored to your specific needs; hiring, partnering, sales Executive Pass FOUNDER PASS * Investor matchmaking program based on interests * Find a mentor through our AI-powered matchmaking app * Access to the largest network of East Coast growth investors through the networking app Founder Pass INVESTOR PASS * Startup matchmaking program based on interests * Networking opportunities with your peers at the largest VC event of the year * Ability to mingle with your portfolio companies’ executives in the audience Investor Pass REGISTER NOW GOLD SPONSOR SILVER SPONSOR BRONZE SPONSOR ROUNDTABLES AND BRAINDATES BUILT TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS Our attendees can choose from a list of 100 intimate peer-led sessions hosted by C-level experts in the field. They are designed to help you work through your biggest SaaS GTM challenges. We all have the same problems growing our companies, wouldn’t it be nice to sit down with a few people with the same title and at the same company size to discuss the exact same problem? CURATED ROUNDTABLES (VIP ONLY) Our event concierge provides what we call guaranteed serendipity by professionally organizing curated roundtables. These free-form roundtables are where we pair you with 5 other people that have the exact same title and the exact same company size. When you create the right mix of people the magic starts to happen and problems get solved. BRAINDATE ROUNDTABLES These are topic led roundtables hosted by C-level experts from the audience designed to solve your most pressing problems. There will be over 100, and yes they fill up very fast! 1-ON-1S Over 1000 1-on-1 meetings will be scheduled through our AI-powered match-making tool…..Brella. The way it works is that you set your intentions for the event; either sales, partnering, mentoring, raising money. Brella will then suggest connections for you. You can message and schedule a time to meet all right in the event portal app. BRAINDATE TOPICS HOW TO WIN IN A POST-COVID HYPERCOMPETITIVE WORLD? Prior to the COVID crisis, the world was already competitive. Read More HOW TO WIN IN A POST-COVID HYPERCOMPETITIVE WORLD? × Prior to the COVID crisis, the world was already competitive. Post crisis, competition has intensified with new business models and additional “clutter” making it even more challenging to stand out from the crowd – even when we have compelling business propositions. In this session, Lonely Entrepreneur founder and CEO will outline what are the top skills and perspectives leaders need to implement in their companies to win in a hyper-competitive world. Michael Dermer Author & Founder The Lonely Entrepreneur × MICHAEL DERMER Author & Founder The Lonely Entrepreneur Michael Dermer is an entrepreneur, lawyer, speaker, coach, founder and author of The Lonely Entrepreneur – a one stop shop that understand the entrepreneur’s struggle and provides solutions to the business and personal issues we all face as entrepreneurs. Michael founded and sold the first company to reward people for being healthy and is considered a pioneer of the health rewards industry. Michael’s book is based on his experience of watching the company he built from the ground up almost get destroyed overnight by the financial crisis of 2008. Today, Michael’s mission is to help unlock the potential of entrepreneurs worldwide by turning their passion into success through The Lonely Entrepreneur Learning Community. DRIVING REVENUE IN PRODUCT LED GROWTH (PLG) With the rise of product-led growth at many SaaS companies, we’ll discuss what PLG is, how it changes the various roles across your company, and marketing’s role in enabling PLG and uncovering revenue opportunities in product-led organizations. Read More DRIVING REVENUE IN PRODUCT LED GROWTH (PLG) × With the rise of product-led growth at many SaaS companies, we’ll discuss what PLG is, how it changes the various roles across your company, and marketing’s role in enabling PLG and uncovering revenue opportunities in product-led organizations. Breezy Beaumont Head of Growth Correlated × BREEZY BEAUMONT Head of Growth Correlated Breezy has tons of hands-on experience at multiple hyper-growth software companies, including currently as Head of Growth at Correlated. She’s always bringing in new ideas for data-driven strategies and product-led initiatives with the motto “work smarter, not harder”. HOW TO BUILD TRUST WITH B2B SAAS CLIENTS Prospects for B2B SaaS products are bombarded with marketing messages every day – the majority of these reach outs are self-serving and irrelevant. Read More HOW TO BUILD TRUST WITH B2B SAAS CLIENTS × Prospects for B2B SaaS products are bombarded with marketing messages every day – the majority of these reach outs are self-serving and irrelevant. How can one create trust-based relationships with clients that are jaded and skeptical. What works? And what’s at stake? Ayan Sarkar CRO Haven Technologies × AYAN SARKAR CRO Haven Technologies Ayan leads the Revenue function at Haven Technologies Expertise and passion: 1. Driving competitive advantage and customer success in Insurance through digital, data and ecosystem 2. Serving major L&A, P&C and PE markets across the end-to-end Insurance Value Chain (Strategy, Product, Distribution, Service, Claims) 3. Scaling up FinTech SaaS functions – Product, Sales / GTM, Marketing, Delivery, Alliances 4. Counseling Insurance CXOs on strategic transformations Previously, Ayan led the Insurance GTM team at Salesforce. Before that, Ayan was the business lead for Guidewire’s industry platform for the Insurance industry. And before that, Ayan was a leader in McKinsey’s Financial Services practice with specialization in Digital, Data and Analytics. BUILDING TRANSFORMATIVE AI-ENABLED ENTERPRISE AND HEALTHCARE COMPANIES Customers and investors have an increasingly higher bar for evaluating solutions that claim to use AI/ML. Read More BUILDING TRANSFORMATIVE AI-ENABLED ENTERPRISE AND HEALTHCARE COMPANIES × Customers and investors have an increasingly higher bar for evaluating solutions that claim to use AI/ML. We will discuss the scenarios, metrics, and pitfalls that seperate the companies that successfully deliver solutions that transform their customers business. Neel Master Co-Founder Engooden Health × NEEL MASTER Co-Founder Engooden Health BOOTSTRAPPING VS. FUNDRAISING Join us as we discuss the pros and cons of taking capital versus self-funding, and how to best prepare and manage your organization for either path. Read More BOOTSTRAPPING VS. FUNDRAISING × Join us as we discuss the pros and cons of taking capital versus self-funding, and how to best prepare and manage your organization for either path. Mallory Ulaszek Founder & Owner Week of the Website × MALLORY ULASZEK Founder & Owner Week of the Website I’m Mallory, a voracious learner who leads with curiosity and likes to get their hands dirty. After a short stint in corporate sales, I began building my first business, a small collection of retail stores. From there I grew to love production, programming and fundraising strategy, consulting and building events ranging from intimate to 3 day conferences. Recently, my focus shifted full time to Week of the Website, where we build websites in short design sprints using a process we created to make web design transparent, efficient and enjoyable. We have built over 600 websites to date. NAVIGATING A REVENUE DEPARTMENT THROUGH CHANGE This presentation will cover best practices for navigating through major changes within the sales and client success functions within any high-growth business. Read More NAVIGATING A REVENUE DEPARTMENT THROUGH CHANGE × This presentation will cover best practices for navigating through major changes within the sales and client success functions within any high-growth business. While change is normal, it isn’t easy for employees, managers, or leaders within any business. The discussion will cover the typical challenges individuals go through as they face change. It will cover pitfalls and how a leader can best position themselves as a support mechanism for their teams as they drive through the cycle of the different stages associated with change. Patrick Roberts CRO MountainSeed × PATRICK ROBERTS CRO MountainSeed Patrick is an accomplished organizational sales leader with deep experience in driving high revenue growth focused on solving complex problems that customers face within the selling cycle. He possesses a history of building, developing, and scaling successful sales and client success teams. He is currently the Chief Revenue Officer for MountainSeed, a high-growth technology company that serves over 10% of U.S.-based Banks and Credit Unions. He has led the company’s growth effort averaging annual top-line growth of over 40% on a year-over-year basis since 2019. Patrick has found that putting employees first creates a winning culture that inevitably leads to serving the customer in the best possible manner. MountainSeed is in the process of disrupting the real estate data industry and is well positioned to become a nationally recognized name within the commercial real estate technology sector. Outside of the workplace, Patrick loves swimming and following Formula One. However, the majority of his time is spent with his active four-year-old daughter who doesn’t lose her smile. His wife and daughter have always been his top priority and he is thankful to have such a loving family. MORE THAN WORDS: IT’S ABOUT IMPACTFUL CONTENT Content fuels your business. It has a purpose and an expected outcome: Deeper engagement. Higher conversions. Fewer support tickets. The list goes on. Read More MORE THAN WORDS: IT’S ABOUT IMPACTFUL CONTENT × Content fuels your business. It has a purpose and an expected outcome: Deeper engagement. Higher conversions. Fewer support tickets. The list goes on. But does your content live up to its expectations? And if not, what can you do about it? Christopher Willis CMO Acrolinx × CHRISTOPHER WILLIS CMO Acrolinx Christopher P Willis is Acrolinx’s Chief Marketing & Pipeline Officer, responsible for all aspects of the company’s Marketing strategy and pipeline health. Christopher is a specialist in Content Governance, AI and pipeline management with over 20 years of experience growing companies in the technology sector. Before joining Acrolinx, Christopher held leadership roles in marketing, creative, technology, and business development at companies including Perfecto, Pyxis Mobile, KPMG-CT, ModelGolf, and Cambridge Technology Group. Willis is a recognized thought leader in the areas of AI, Content Governance, and GTM, and is active within industry groups dedicated to the growth and health of Marketing Technology and the verticals he serves. He is also a CrossFit coach, passionate about physical health, as well as sports discipline and team-building. HOW A METAL DETECTOR CAN PREVENT A WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT How to evaluate and maintain a WTMD/WDS that will comply to government standard NIJ 0601.02 which will help defend your company against lawsuits like a 20 million dollar wrongful death incident. Read More HOW A METAL DETECTOR CAN PREVENT A WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT × How to evaluate and maintain a WTMD/WDS that will comply to government standard NIJ 0601.02 which will help defend your company against lawsuits like a 20 million dollar wrongful death incident. Chris Ciabarra CTO & Co-Founder Athena Security × CHRIS CIABARRA CTO & Co-Founder Athena Security Chris is a serial entrepreneur and security expert with over 20 years experience using technology to detect and prevent threats. He has dedicated his career to building proactive solutions to security threats. He is an anti-hacking expert who pioneered network security solutions during the dot-com boom and mobile payment security during the rise of mobile computing. Chris is an award-winning innovator, published author, and member of the Forbes Technology Council. But above all he is an inventor dedicated to making the world a better place. From 2010-2017 he co-founded and was the CTO of Revel Systems. Chris developed the technology behind the company’s point-of-sale system. Chris designed Athena to create a safer world. One where real threats are quickly identified and neutralized, and where the innocent wouldn’t be profiled as a threat without just cause. Christopher is also a certified Thermographer which is the study of infrared devices and how they work and should be operated. MINDFUL GROWTH A discussion around hacking growth related choices to maintain brand positioning, operational workflows and other roadblocks when scaling. Read More MINDFUL GROWTH × A discussion around hacking growth related choices to maintain brand positioning, operational workflows and other roadblocks when scaling. Mallory Ulaszek Founder & Owner Week of the Website × MALLORY ULASZEK Founder & Owner Week of the Website I’m Mallory, a voracious learner who leads with curiosity and likes to get their hands dirty. After a short stint in corporate sales, I began building my first business, a small collection of retail stores. From there I grew to love production, programming and fundraising strategy, consulting and building events ranging from intimate to 3 day conferences. Recently, my focus shifted full time to Week of the Website, where we build websites in short design sprints using a process we created to make web design transparent, efficient and enjoyable. We have built over 600 websites to date. HOW TO DEFEND AGAINST RANSOMWARE The internet works with the fundamentals of its architecture. Master the architecture and you can help prevent most attacks. In this session we will go over DNS and how you can use it to safe guard your organization from desktop to mobile devices including 5G on an iPhone. Read More HOW TO DEFEND AGAINST RANSOMWARE × The internet works with the fundamentals of its architecture. Master the architecture and you can help prevent most attacks. In this session we will go over DNS and how you can use it to safe guard your organization from desktop to mobile devices including 5G on an iPhone. Chris Ciabarra CTO & Co-Founder Athena Security × CHRIS CIABARRA CTO & Co-Founder Athena Security Chris is a serial entrepreneur and security expert with over 20 years experience using technology to detect and prevent threats. He has dedicated his career to building proactive solutions to security threats. He is an anti-hacking expert who pioneered network security solutions during the dot-com boom and mobile payment security during the rise of mobile computing. Chris is an award-winning innovator, published author, and member of the Forbes Technology Council. But above all he is an inventor dedicated to making the world a better place. From 2010-2017 he co-founded and was the CTO of Revel Systems. Chris developed the technology behind the company’s point-of-sale system. Chris designed Athena to create a safer world. One where real threats are quickly identified and neutralized, and where the innocent wouldn’t be profiled as a threat without just cause. Christopher is also a certified Thermographer which is the study of infrared devices and how they work and should be operated. HOTEL “Get your room booked at the Sheraton Times Square (the same location as the venue). We have a block of rooms held at a discounted rate, but they are limited so please book yours as soon as possible. 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