Breakout Sessions

The Marketing Mix: Place Your Bets
Monday, 11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Room: 302

Changing media consumption patterns are challenging marketers to evaluate their marketing mix.  Explore the latest marketing trends and follow examples from other industries taking big bets and calculated risks to succeed with non-traditional marketing.

Speakers Michaela Adami-Schrott
VP, Marketing Communications, Europe
UPC Broadband
  Sarah Fay
CEO
Aegis Media North America
Moderator Eric Schmitt
EVP and Senior Principal, Professional Services Group
The Allant Group

 

MSO Branding - The Competitive Edge
Monday, 2:30 - 3:45 pm

Ballroom A

Maintaining a consistent brand with multiple product lines creates complexities in messaging, investment and competitive differentiation.  Join top CMOs to learn how some MSOs are tackling these challenges in messaging and creative.

Speakers Sam Howe
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
Time Warner Cable
  Joe Rooney
Chief Marketing Officer
Cox Communications
Moderator Stephanie Gibbons
EVP, Marketing & On-Air Promotions
FX

 

Google: An Inside Look
Tuesday, 10:30 - 11:45 am
Ballroom A

HBS Professor, Tom Eisenmann, will share research and insights on whether search is a winner take all proposition from his case study on Google and over-the-top competition.   Find out what new entrants in search can do for your business and how you can benefit in 2009.

Speaker Tom Eisenmann
Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Host Judi Allen
VP,
Programming Strategy & Business Development
Time Warner Cable


Workshops

Marketing to Boomers in a Multi-Platform Media World
Sunday, 1:15 - 2:15 pm
Room: 208

Tackle the conventional wisdom on Boomers and earn their trust and engagement in a multi-platform world.  Learn how marketers are adjusting their practices with innovative tactics to stay relevant against the often-changing needs, affinities and media consumption habits of this massive group.

Speaker Emilio Pardo
EVP & Chief Brand Officer
AARP
Moderator Dr. Alexis Abramson
Vice President of Research
Retirement Living Television

 

State of the Digital Transition: Are You Ready?
Sunday, 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Room: 201

Make your final preparations for the February '09 broadcast digital transition based on lessons from trials including Wilmington, NC.

Speakers Kim Cannon
VP / General Manager - East Carolina Division
Time Warner Cable
  Gregg Graff
SVP, Field Operations
Insight Communications
  Robert Yankowitz
Engineering Manager
CBS Boston's WBZ-TV & TV38
Moderator John Pascarelli
Executive Vice President, Operations
Mediacom

 

 

 
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