Announcing the First Round of Confirmed Engage 2010 Speakers

November 11, 2009 Michelle Anderson — 0 comments

Engage New Orleans is really shaping up to be something special. The speakers we have lined up and the surrounding events are arguably some of the best we’ve had the honor to host. Today we are pleased to share our first round of speakers.

Keynote: Stephen Baker

Webtrends is thrilled to announce Stephen Baker, senior writer for BusinessWeek and author of The Numerati, as a confirmed keynote speaker at Webtrends’ Engage 2010 enterprise customer intelligence conference this February.

About Stephen Baker

Stephen covers the technology beat for BusinessWeek, where he has worked since 1987, and co-writes a blog called Blogspotting.net. His book, The Numerati, is about a specialized group of men and women who look for patterns to predict behavior.

Stephen Baker is @stevebaker on Twitter and has a profile on LinkedIn.

Keynote: Eric Rodenbeck

Creative director and founder of the interactive agency Stamen Design, has also committed to speaking at Engage 2010. If you haven’t seen Stamen’s work, you’re in for a real treat. Just look at some of their work below.

About Eric Rodenbeck

Eric, a 14-year veteran in the field of interactive storytelling, is Stamen Design’s founder and creative director. His firm specializes in creating beautiful, functional, live information visualization. He has illustrated and designed at Wired Magazine and Wired Books, and in 2008 was called one of Esquire Magazine’s “Best and Brightest” new designers and thinkers.

Eric Rodenbeck is @ericrodenbeck on Twitter, has a profile on LinkedIn, and a photostream on Flickr.

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Panel Discussion – Can Real-Time Measurement and content visualization Help Today’s Troubled Publishing World?

Media empires were never built on yearly subscription models or by individual readers plunking down fifty cents for the daily news. These empires were built on superior content, trusted branding and above all else highly profitable advertising sales. Webtrends will host an elite group of individuals that currently work in traditional and new media publishing models to discuss the massive changes that have affected this industry over the past decade. The conversation will tackle how all publishers can better understand why content measurement through the real-time web can help keep their work relevant.

The publishing panel will be a fascinating look into an over 100 year-old industry that has hemorrhaged profitability and good, talented people, and been forced to re-evaluate its entire business model. The Internet as a whole has started to progress beyond the two-way Web and into a real-time Web, and content producers no matter how big or small, must be ready to deploy measurement models to help make relevant content publishing decisions and in turn drive ad revenue.

Those who will participate in the publishing panel are:

Sam Whitmore

Founder and editor of Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey, and former media columnist for Forbes.com. Sam will moderate the panel and has over 20 years experience in both traditional and Web publishing.

Sam is @samwhitmore on Twitter and has a profile on LinkedIn.

Alan Citron

President of BUZZMEDIA, and former senior executive of TMZ.com. Alan was intricately involved in the success content publishing models employed by TMZ, helping it become the leading celebrity media site online today.

Alan has a profile on LinkedIn.

Lewis DVorkin

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Founder of True/Slant, the digital home for the “Entrepreneurial Journalist”, and a former AOL executive. Lewis has also held numerous editorial titles at The New York Times.

Lewis is @lewisdvorkin on Twitter, and has a profile on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Join us at Engage in New Orleans

The three-day Engage 2010 conference is designed to encourage the exploration of ways to gain new understanding of the data gleaned from enterprise customer intelligence sources. It will be held in New Orleans, LA, a vibrant city with a history of reinventing itself, and an appropriate location for the convergence of old media and new media.

Don’t miss the exciting conversations and ideas these dynamic speakers will share at Engage 2010. And, if you register before November 30, you’ll get $100 off the regular conference fee!

We are also still accepting talks until Monday, November 16th. If you would like to submit a talk, either post your talk to our submission page.

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