Speaking
As a professional speaker for conferences, corporate events, internal training and workshops, I’ll engage your audience and leave them with pragmatic recommendations. Apperances on Bloomberg TV, conducted keynote speeches, and have been on a variety of video interviews.
6 Minute Sample Clip: Keynote at Adobe HQ “Social is a crystal ball”, San Jose (part 2 here)
Keynote: Building a Scalable Social Business at Dachis Summit, Austin
Keynote: LeWeb 2011, Paris
15 Minute Sample Clip: 2010 Social Business Forecast, Paris
Sample: Dec 2010 LeWeb Keynote, Paris, France, see slides.
Above: Building Your Social Strategy: Prioritizing the Coming Year from Bazaarvoice on Vimeo.
Keynote: Bazaarvoice Customer Conference, 2011, 60 min
Keynote/Workshop at Amplify, Sydney, June 2011, see full slides and videos, 30 min of 120 above.
Speaking Tenants
- Engages: connects with audiences, asks questions, requests questions.
- Authoritative: based on research and real world examples.
- Experienced: former Forrester analyst, and practitioner at Hitachi rolling out social business program.
- Actionable: provides pragmatic recommendations the audience can apply immediately
- Prepared: Rehearses for each speech, works with RexiMedia as my speaker coach, and rehearse
- Inspires: Provides audience with a larger picture of opportunities and future trends
Contact and Details
I strive to engage with your audience, be informative, and provide pragmatic recommendations. View my profile, current speaking topics, on the Monitor Talent website.
For speaking engagements, I am represented by Monitor Talent. Please contact Mel Blake at (617) 252-2472 or at mel_blake@monitor.com. For your internal meetings, I’d love to discuss further, see my contact page.
Keynote: LeWeb, Paris, 2011
Keynote: 600 European Attendees at Bazzarvoice, London, 2011
Keynote: Interactive Marketing conference in Manila, 2010
Recent Speech Topics
The below is sample of topics I’ve done for webinars, keynote speeches, customer events, or internal training.
- 2011 Social Business Forecast and Spending by Maturity
- Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist (And Program)
- Social CRM Framework and 18 Use Cases
- The Future of the Social Web
- Developing A Social Strategy by Objective
- Understanding Customers through Socialgraphics
- Getting Your Company Ready for Social Business
- Tying Social Media to Online and Virtual Events
Public Speaking Calendar
Below is a running list of my public speaking engagements, this doesn’t include corporate events, user conferences, webinars, or internal presentations.
2012
- LeWeb 2012, London, June (Keynote)
- Social Media Success Summit, May (Webinar)
- Webcom, Montreal, May 16 (Keynote)
- Adapting to your emerging dynamic customer base (Webinar)
- Adobe Digital Marketing Summit, Salt Lake City, March 20-23
- B2B: Digital Edge, Mar 20, SF (Keynote)
- Awareness to Advocacy PowerReviews, Mar 15 (Webinar)
- SXSW, “Social Technology Comes of Age” Austin, Mar 9-12
- Dachis Social Business Summtt, Austin, Mar 8
- Digital Blue, Miami, Mar 2nd (Keynote)
- Regain Control & Minimize Risk for Corporate Social Media, Feb 15th (Webinar)
- Social Media Week: Cisco: Growing Your Program, Feb 14 (Keynote)
- Social Media Week: Adobe, Social Data is a Crystal Ball, Feb 13 (Keynote)
- Altimeter webinar discussing social media proliferation report, Feb 7 (Webinar)
- West Coast Social Media Summit, San Jose, Jan 31 (Keynote)
- Develop a Social Strategy with Citrix, Jan 24 (Webinar)
- Social Media Summit: Social Enterprise, San Jose, Jan 31
2011
Outsourcing Community Management, Roundtable, Dec 14 (Webinar) LeWeb, Paris, Dec 7-9 (Keynote) Webinar with Gigya, Nov 10 (Webinar) Webinar with Janrain, Nov 2 (Webinar) KMWorld, Washington DC, Nov 1-3 (Keynote) Webinar with Eloqua, Oct 27 (Webinar) Bazaarvoice London Summit, London, UK, Oct 18 (Keynote) Awareness Exploring Social Media Business Summit, Boston, Oct 17 (Keynote) MarketingProfs Webinar, Sept. 29th (Webinar) Foodservice Social Media Universe: It’s BIG!, SF, Sept 18-20 (Keynote) Social Media Driven Innovation, Sept 8 (Webinar) Dreamforce, SF, Aug 30-Sept 2 Level Up Your Facebook Game (Webinar) Customer Experience is Everyone’s Responsibility, Aug 2 (Webinar) Building your social strategy and prioritizing the coming year, July 28 (Webinar) Driving Customer Acquisition with Social in Customer Lifecycle, Jun 28 (Webinar) mLearnCon 2011 Conference & Expo, San Jose, June 21-23, (Keynote) Amplify Festival, June 6-11, Sydney (Keynote) National Brands: Local Social Engagement, May 24th, SF (Webinar) Engage Summit, Deer Park, Utah, May 17 (Keynote) Game Plan for the Corporate Social Strategist, SF, May 18th (Workshop) Offsite with Ogilvy Executives, Menlo Park, May 13 Social Media Best Practices for Communicators, Ragan, May 5, San Jose (Keynote) Social Media Success Summit, May 3rd (Keynote) Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit, SF, April 28 (Keynote) Social IRL, Kansas City, April 26 (Keynote) Leveraging Social to Unlock User Value on Your Site, April 19 (Webinar) Using Social Marketing to Reach the IT Buyer, Spiceworks April 19th (Webinar) BazaarVoice Social Commerce Summit, Austin, April 4-5 (Keynote) SXSW, Austin, March 11-15 Private client event “Social Business Strategy”, Las Vegas, March 8 Private client event “Social+Events”, Palo Alto, March 23 Why be Social? with IBM, March 3 (Webinar) WOMMA: Career Path and 2011 Forecast of Social Business, March 2 (Webinar) BDO: Social Media Spending for Investors and Media, March 1st (Webinar) Corporate Venturing & Innovation Partnering, Newport CA, Feb 16-18 (Keynote) CoTweet Conversation Series, SF Feb 10 (Keynote) Social Applications for Publishers, Feb 9 (Webinar) Social Media Strategies Summit, SF, Feb 8-10 (Keynote) Rise of Social Commerce, Feb 3 (Webinar) 7 Types of Social Data of your Consumers, NetBase, Feb 2 (Webinar) Preparing the Enterprise for Social Business with Box.net, Jan 19 (Webinar) Social Business Forecast with Strongmail, Jan 18 (Webinar)
2010
LeWeb Paris10, Paris, Dec 8-9 (Keynote) SelectMinds Customer Event, NYC, Dec 3 (Keynote) WOMMA Summit 2010, Las Vegas, Nov 19 (Keynote) Awareness Networks, Nov 18 (Webinar) Arizona Entrepreneuriship Conference, Arizona, Nov 17th (Keynote) Crimson Hexagon, Nov 15, (Webinar) Creating an Innovative Ecosystem, Healdsburg, Nov 12 (Keynote) Social Customer Virtual Summit, Lithium, Nov 10 (Webinar) Full Day Client Workshop, Financial Industry, Nov 5 National Venture Capital Association, Menlo Park, Nov 4 (Keynote) SocialTech, San Jose, Oct 26 (Keynote) Driving Sales Executive Summit, Las Vegas, Oct 18-20 (Keynote) Strongmail Marketing Executive Summit, Oct 13-15, Calistoga (Keynote) Rise of Social Commerce (Altimeter Event), Palo Alto, Oct 6-7 Wisdom of We Summit, Santa Rosa, Sept 10 Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit 2010, Manila Aug, 19-20 (Keynote) Hawaii Tourism Authority Conference , Oahu, Aug 10 Ragan Cisco, San Jose, June 9 (Keynote) Web Wednesday, Hong Kong, June 2 (Keynote) Social Media 2.0 Event, Shanghai, May 27 (Keynote) [re]think Shanghai, Shanghai, May 23-25 Gilbane SF, May 20 (Keynote) Social Media Club, May 19 Lithium LiNC User Conference SMASH Summit, SF, May 12th (Keynote) Digital Impact, New York, May 6-7 (Keynote) Free State Social, Kansas City, April 29-30 (Keynote) SugarCon 2010, SF, April 13 SXSW, Austin, Texas, March 12-16 Webinar: Gigya, March 4 Webinar: Altimeter Group on Social Strategy 2010 CAAE Winter Institute Member , Scottsdale, AZ, Feb 22 (Keynote) Building Brands on Social Networks: SF, Feb 18th Advertising Research Foundation: Industry Leader Forum, SF, Jan 28 (Keynote) Silicon Valley American Marketing Association, San Jose, Jan 21 (Keynote) SMASH Supper, SF, Jan 14 (Keynote)
2009
Forum One / ictQatar, Doha, Qatar, Dec 12 (Keynote) LeWeb, Paris, Dec 10 (Keynote) How to Market Your Product/Service Using Cutting Edge “Social Media”, SF, Nov 19 [RE]Think Hawaii, Oahu, Nov 4 (Keynote) National Hispanic Corporate Council, SF Oct 22 BlogWorldExpo, Oct 15-17, Las Vegas (Keynote) Silicon Valley American Marketing Association, Santa Clara, Sept 30th (Keynote) Silicon Valley Brand Forum, Redwood Shores, Sept 23 (Keynote) Internet Strategy Forum, Portland Oregon, July 23 (Keynote) San Francisco American Marketing Association, SF June 25 SNCR June Event, Palo Alto, June 23 Facebook Marketing Breakfast Series, SF, June 18 KickApps Seminar, SF, June 17 Gllbane, SF, June 2-4 The Twitter Conference 140TC, Mountain View, May 26-27 (Keynote) Twitter Con, SF, May 31 Corporate Social Networking, Amsterdam, May 14 (Keynote) New Com Forum, SF, April 27-29 Web 2.0 Expo, SF, April 1 Web Strategy Summit | Calgary Alberta Canada, May 4-5th SXSW | Austin, March 15th Omniture Summit | Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb 17-19th CES: Social Media Jungle | Las Vegas (virtual) Jan 7
2008
Conversational Marketing Summit (FM) | SF, Oct 15 Thin Air Summit | Denver, Colorado, Nov 8-9 (Keynote) Online Market World 2008 | San Francisco, Oct 2 Deal Maker Strategy Series | Palo Alto, Mass, August 12 Forrester Workshop: Social Computing | San Francisco, July 17 Forrester Workshop: Social Computing | Cambridge, Mass, June 5 There’s a new conversation | Palo Alto, May 29 Avenue A | Razorfish Client Summit | New York, May 14-15 Forrester Workshop: Blogging Fundamentals | San Francisco, May 7 Web 2.0 Expo, Facebook Marketing: Best Practices| San Francisco, April 24 Web 2.0 Expo, Microblogging | San Francisco, April 23 (afternoon) Web 2.0 Expo, Community Building: Good, Bad, and Ugly | San Francisco, April 24 (morn) ad:tech | San Francisco, April 15-17 Cisco Partner Forum | Honolulu, Hawaii, April 10 Online Community Keynote, The Knight Journalism School | UC Berkeley, March 27, 2008 Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives | Mountain View, March 25th (Keynote) SNAP Summit | San Francisco, March 25th Webinar with Awareness Networks| Austin, March 13th SXSW | Austin, March 7-11th Supernova, Discussion Leader | San Francisco, March 6 Graphing Social Patterns by O’Reilly | San Diego, March 3-4 Internet Strategy Forum | San Francisco, Feb 27 (Keynote) Shaking the Money Tree of Multi-Platform Social Networks | Stanford, Feb 19 Web 2.0 Marketing: What’s Real and What’s Hype (Microsoft/MarketingProfs | Webinar, Feb 14 DealMaker Media, Social Networking ’08 | San Francisco, Feb 7 Customer Support is the New Marketing | San Francisco, Feb 4 Dow Jones Webinar, Social Media Measurement | Jan 31st Web Guild Web 2.0 Conference: Crowdsourcing | Jan 29 Forrester Teleconference: Strategy For Facebook | Jan 28 Panelist to Intel’s Global Marketing Team | Las Vegas, Jan 22 Panelist to Cisco’s Global Marketing Team | San Jose, Jan 18 Strategy First on Facebook: Opportunities of a Ready-Made Marketing Platform | Webinar, Jan 10
2007
Forrester: Social Networks: Build Or Join?, Teleconference, Dec 17 Web Community Forum, Seattle, Dec 5-6th (Keynote) Mining the Graph (Private event) hosted by Conversation Group, SF, Nov 27 Forrester Consumer Forum EMEA, Barcelona, Nov 15-16th BlogWorld Expo, Las Vegas, Nov 8-9th Corporate Social Network Design Council, San Francisco, Oct 29th Play Conference, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Oct 27th Social Media Club (hosted by Intel), Santa Clara, Oct 22, 2007 Vancounver International Digital Festival, Vancouver, Sept 24th CLSA Conference, Hong Kong, Sept 17-22 Marketing Profs Online Seminar: Online Media, Virtual, August 9th BlogTalk Radio Show | Virtual, August 21st Forrester Research: Social Computing | San Francisco, August 8th Frost and Sullivan Sales and Marketing | Alexandria, Virginia, July 22-25th Social Media Club, Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA, July 12th iX 2007 | Convergence, Collaboration and Creativity, Singapore, June 21st (Keynote) iX-TDM New Media Forum | Singapore, June 20th Marketing Profs B-to-B Marketing Conference | Virtual Event, June 13th Social Media Workshop, | Palo Alto, June 11th
UC Berkeley Journalism project | Berkeley, June 7th New Media Summit 2007 | Santa Clara, June 5th WebVisions | Portland, May 3-4th Customer Reference Forums | Berkeley, April 25th Ad:Tech | San Francisco, April 24th Web 2.0 Expo | San Francisco, April 18th Web 2.0 Expo | San Francisco, April 17th Moderator: Web SIG | Milpitas, Jan 2007 Frost and Sulllivan, Sales & Marketing 2007 West | Jan 2007
2006
Factiva, Dow Jones, Social Media Measurement Roundtable | Palo Alto, CA, Dec 5th eMarketing Conference | San Francisco, CA, Oct 16-18th Ragan Communications: Strategic PR | Chicago, Sept 2006 Webvisions | Portland, Or, July 2006 Internet Strategies Symposium | Boston, Mass, July THE Conference on Marketing | Las Vegas, NV March New Communications Forum | Palo Alto, CA, April Internet Strategies Symposium | Phoenix, AZ, Jan
2005
Marketer’s Creativity Event, San Diego, CA August
