As a professional motivational keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting helps innovators, idealists, and critics get “unstuck” in their thinking. Because she is turned on by The Big Idea, she encourages executives and professionals to seek amazing results. She motivates others to pursue the larger-than-life goal they can’t seem to shake. Laura is an i…

Dennis Yu is the Chief Technology Officer of BlitzMetrics, a digital marketing company which partners with schools to train young adults. Dennis’s program centers around mentorship, helping students grow their expertise to manage social campaigns for enterprise clients like the Golden State Warriors, Nike, and Rosetta Stone. He’s an internationally…

Jennifer Myers-Ward brings over 20 years of online marketing experience working with dozens of clients in a variety of industries where she has shown proven success in both the affiliate and email channels. As a result of her affiliate success, Jennifer was presented with the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award for OPM/Agency of the Year in 2017, after…

David Vogelpohl is the Vice President of Web Strategy at WP Engine, a WordPress digital experience platform. WP Engine is a global leader in open source focused technology. Since 1996, David has been building teams which create and market digital experiences for the web, mobile, and beyond. David’s teams at WP Engine focus on WordPress development,…

Mitch Joel is Founder of Six Pixels Group - an advisory, investing and content producing company that is focused on brands, commerce and community. He has been called a marketing and communications visionary, interactive expert and community leader (he prefers the title "Brand Hacker"). He is also an entrepreneur, author, journalist, investor, trus…

Artemis Berry is vice president of member engagement at the National Retail Federation. Berry heads up the year-round member experience and engagement strategy and oversees a team responsible for community and event management for digital retail, retail technology, loss prevention and marketing communities. Before taking on the membership role, Ber…

As founder and CEO of marketing and management consulting firm bestselling author, blogger, podcaster, and speaker who, to paraphrase screenwriter David Freeman, has taken everything that made him weird as a kid and gotten people to pay him money for it as an adult. Father of two and a husband of one, he and his family live just outside Nashville, …

Jennifer Hoffman is an enthusiastic and passionate Marketing Director at DeepCrawl with 13+ years of experience in brand building and strategic marketing, with an impressive track record of developing key partner relationships. Fascinated by all things impacting the customer journey; brand experience, user experience and customer experience. Hyper …

Tracey Wallace is Editor in Chief at commerce platform BigCommerce, based in Austin, where she covers topics concerning fast-growing online businesses. In a previous life, she wrote about small business and boutique success at Mashable, ELLE and Time Out New York. Her work has been featured on Bustle, PolicyMic and Refinery29. She is a Forbes Top 1…

Aleyda Solis is a well known and highly experienced International SEO consultant, providing personalized & strategical SEO advice, training and on-going support through her boutique SEO consultancy Orainti, from where she helps from multinationals to startups across the world in competitive industries & complex environments requiring a highly perso…

Jon Nordmark is responsible for discovering startups, nurturing Retailer relationships, and ensuring our experiments are executed properly for Iterate Studio. Prior to Iterate, Jon was the founding CEO of eBags which grew for 8 years at a 34% CAGR (through early 2008, Jon’s departure). eBags, an innovator, wrote its own software to drop ship from ~…

DeAnna Rogers is Director of Events for Digital Marketer (DM). She is responsible for one of the largest marketing events called Traffic & Conversion Summit, also known as T&C, along with other events such as WarRoom Mastermind, Certified Partner Program, and a new event called Content & Commerce Summit. DeAnna and her team produce over 30 live eve…

Frank Guardi, spent the past several years working for the IBM Watson Customer Engagement marketing team. His experience includes building an influencer marketing program, managing events end-to-end, and creating an employee advocacy program. His projects expand outside of North America, working with influencers in England, Spain, France and German…

Retail Minded’s Founder Nicole Leinbach Reyhle is recognized as a global retail thought leader from companies that include IBM, American Express, Vend and more – including having been recognized as #3 out of 100 worldwide retail influencers. Reyhle regularly contributes to media outlets that include Forbes, Entrepreneur, NBC and others – as well as…

Tom Webster is a Senior Vice President of Edison Research, a custom market research company best known as the sole providers of exit polling data during US elections for all the major news networks. He has nearly 20 years of experience researching consumer usage of technology, new media and social networking, and is the principal author of a number…

John Lawson is the Amazon #1 best-selling author, International Keynote Speaker, IBM Futurist, eCommerce Strategist, and CEO of ColderICE Media. He is a native of Atlanta, GA. His favorite airline is Delta. You can find the transcripts and link to products and places mentioned in this podcast at https://businesstravelhacks.com/.…