All Day Marketing Course in Calgary

June 7, 2010 - 6 minutes read

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Who Should Attend?

Marketing is an integral part of every company, from a local start-up to a multi-national brand it’s the driving force between your products and your customers. Leaders from across the marketing industry whether agency or client or media will benefit from a day with the speakers that you can see in-person June 14, 2010 at Calgary’s Epcor Centre.

Who Is Speaking?

Sir Ken Robinson – Innovation & Creativity
Last month I featured Sir Ken’s inspiring TED Talk in the blog. Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He has worked with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. ‘All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education’ (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999.




Chip Heath – Strategy & Communications

Chip Heath is the Thrive Foundation of Youth Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. Chip’s latest book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, written with his brother Dan, was released in February 2010 and is already a NY Times and Wall Street Journal best seller.




Sally Hogshead – Persuasion & Influence

Nine seconds. That’s the length of the average attention span today. Just nine seconds! People become distracted by the next product, the next ad, the next option. How can you possibly hold your customers’ interest long enough shape their opinion? How can you break through the clutter to nail your next sales call, or motivate your internal team? For that matter, how can you influence any decisions?




Mitch Joel – Digital Marketing & Social Media
When Google wanted to explain online marketing to the top brands in the world, they brought Mitch Joel to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. Marketing Magazine dubbed him the “Rock Star of Digital Marketing” and called him, “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries.” In 2006 he was named one of the most influential authorities on Blog Marketing in the world. Mitch Joel is President of Twist Image – Canada’s best Digital Marketing and Communications agency (Marketing Magazine).




Gary Vaynerchuk – Personal Branding in the New Media Landscape
Online marketing trailblazer Gary Vaynerchuk is a 33-year-old entrepreneur whose dual identity as both business guru and wine guy has made him known as the “Social Media Sommelier.” A self-trained wine expert, he revolutionized the wine industry with his video blog, Wine Library TV (affectionately known as The Thunder Show), and grew his family wine business from $4 million to $60 million in five years. What raised Vaynerchuk’s notoriety even more than his business acumen was his foresight combined with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business.




Max Lenderman – Branding & Experiential Marketing
Max Lenderman is Executive Creative Director at GMR Marketing, the largest experiential marketing company in North America, where his work has won numerous industry recognitions, the latest including the 2009 Effie Award and the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Ex Awards. He previously founded and ran Gearwerx Experiential Marketing, Canada’s premiere experiential marketing agency, with offices in Montreal and Toronto.







Promo Code

Through this exclusive offer you and your guests can take advantage of our preferred price of $349 – saving $50 off the regular price by using promo code RK28.

PLUS – when you register 3 or more people the price come down to $299 per person, an additional $50 off each ticket!

Don’t miss out on your chance to gain a competitive advantage and network with over 1,200 of Canada’s most influential marketers at this intensive and interactive conference.

Come and tell us the best marketing tips and strategies from the conference so we can keep the discussion going. Since I won’t be there I’m counting on your comments to bring me up to speed.

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