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Agenda
| Sunday February 24, 2008 |
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| 12:00 PM |
Registration Opens Sponsored by: |
| 5:30 PM |
Welcoming Remarks
IAB's outgoing Chairperson reflects on the past year of seismic changes in the business of digital marketing, and hands his mantle to the incoming board chair. |
| 5:45 PM - 6:30 PM |
Opening Keynote |
| 6:30 PM |
IAB Service Excellence Awards |
| 6:45 PM - 8:45 PM |
Welcoming Reception Sponsored by: |
Monday February 25, 2008 |
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| 8:15 AM |
Registration Opens Sponsored by: |
| 8:15 AM |
Continental Breakfast Sponsored by: |
| 9:00 AM |
IAB Vision: Ecosystem 2.0 Wenda Harris Millard, President, Media, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia The online media and marketing arena is emerging into a new phase, redefining roles and relationships, drawing new boundaries — and creating new opportunities for all. |
| 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM |
Keynote Interview
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| 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM |
Industry Insights Chris Vollmer, U.S. Media Practice Leader, Booz Allen Hamilton Media companies are dramatically increasing their ability to design, execute, and optimize their customers' marketing initiatives, according to the results of a recent Booz Allen survey that included IAB's membership. Vollmer will present findings from the second phase of the global management consulting firm's groundbreaking collaboration with the IAB, the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and the Association of National Advertisers, providing new perspectives on today's market, and predicting how the digital marketing ecosystem will transform in the coming years. |
| 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM |
Morning Break Sponsored by: |
| 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM |
Roundtable Discussion: Building Toward Growth Moderator: John Battelle, Founder and Chairman, Federated Media Publishing There may be no other arena in business that so rapidly transforms partners into competitors — and competitors into partners. In this session, an agency leader, a branded publisher, a vertical network founder, and a platform executive describe how they simultaneously will build each others' businesses — and try to gain competitive advantage. |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
Luncheon and Sales Awards — Presented by Jack Myers |
| 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM |
Innovators: Platforms
Is Microsoft your agency, your ad network, your platform or your advertiser — or all the above? Now six months into his new job as Microsoft's lead on interactive marketing, the former CEO of aQuantive share insights and answers your questions about how he's integrating the agency, network, and serving operations of the world's largest technology company. |
| 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM |
Roundtable Discussion: Behavioral Targeting Moderator: Matthew Wise, President and CEO, Q Interactive Behavioral Targeting is one of the hottest and potentially most controversial topics in the industry today. Sifting through all of the options & opinions can make it difficult to see the value of BT for both advertisers AND consumers. In this session industry experts share actionable insights about a platform that has the potential to greatly increase online advertising efficiencies and ultimately create a far more relevant brand interaction for the consumer. |
| 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM |
Afternoon Break Sponsored by: |
| 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM |
Innovators: Media
Providing consumers with high-quality content when, where and how they want it translates into the ability to provide high-quality audiences to advertisers. Hear from Hulu CEO Jason Kilar how on-demand access is raising the bar for the online viewing experience — and for interactive marketers. |
| 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM |
Innovators: Marketers Introduction: Kimberly Kadlec, Chief Media Officer, Worldwide Vice President, Johnson & Johnson |
| 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM |
Cocktail Reception Sponsored by: |
| 6:30 PM |
Dinner Sponsored by: |
Tuesday February 26, 2008 |
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| 8:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast Sponsored by: |
| 9:00 AM |
Thoughts on Day 1, and Themes of Day 2 Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO, IAB |
| 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM |
Keynote
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| 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM |
Refreshment Break Sponsored by: |
| 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM |
Great Debate Moderator: Michael Wolf, Partner, Farallon Point Inc. The ad buying process can be dramatically redefined by online ad auctions. Is that good or bad? What's the impact on marketers, agencies, and media companies? Who wins… and who loses? In this lively session, the heads of two online ad exchanges and a pair of branded-publishing leaders argue the benefits and drawbacks of automation in interactive advertising sales, placing and pricing. |
| 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | From Pages to People: Advertising Value on Tomorrow's Web
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| 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM |
Closing Thoughts Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO, IAB |
| 12:00 PM |
Adjourn |