Geoffrey Colon

Microsoft

Geoffrey Colon is the voice at the intersection of marketing, tech, media and popular culture. Data punk, DJ, podcaster, and streampunk, Geoffrey is a senior marketing communications designer at Microsoft, where he markets search advertising products for Bing. Colon is author of the book, Disruptive Marketing: What Growth Hackers, Data Punks, and Other Hybrid Thinkers Can Teach Us About Navigating the New Normal.

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Rudiger J. Ellis

Switchboard Live

Rudiger J. Ellis, better known as Rudy, is the CEO of Switchboard Live; a live video, social media management platform that helps Creators, Producers, and Brands manage their live streams and generate workflows that extend reach to their online audiences.

In the past 10 years, Rudy has held various senior leadership positions within the network operations and live streaming services industries. For three years, he served as the Director of Streaming Services for NeuLion. Prior to this, he worked for XOS Digital where he was responsible for implementing and the leading the Digital Broadcast and Live Services teams.

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Marissa Kraines

Salesforce

Marissa Kraines leads social, content, and video marketing for Salesforce events, including Dreamforce, the largest tech conference in the world. Marissa worked in the music industry for many years before shifting gears and pivoting into tech marketing. Marissa has a Bachelor’s Degree in History from UCLA and an MBA from University of Texas at Austin, Red McCombs School of Business.

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Nina Purro

Salesforce

Nina Purro manages the Corporate Marketing Webinar program at Salesforce. In her role, Nina seeks to deliver a world-class webinar experience, while focusing on cultivating a strong webinar program that engages and educates on Salesforce product value, usage, and client success. She's passionate about helping Trailblazers share their stories with the world. Prior to joining Salesforce, Nina ran and scaled the webinar program at Glassdoor, including managing virtual events, thought leadership webinars, client trainings, and product demos. A Los Gatos, California native, Nina earned her bachelor's degree in Marketing from San Diego State.

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Kaila Bongiovanni

Microsoft

Kaila Bongiovanni is an award-winning experienced Marketing professional with significant background building and executing marketing programs for technology companies serving the B2B market. Kaila launched her career in Silicon Valley’s technology and media industry, working for companies such as PC Magazine, Computerworld, CNET and ON24. A lover of analytics, she’s determined to use the ever-growing arsenal of digital tools available to today’s Marketers for a powerful seat at the revenue table. Currently based in Santa Cruz, CA, Kaila leads digital and streaming programs for Microsoft US.

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Fritz Brumder

Brandlive

Internet strategist and entrepreneur Fritz Brumder is the founder and CEO of Brandlive, a SaaS live video platform used by brands and retailers to create highly engaging live content for marketing, training and commerce events. Fritz has been developing digital media solutions for the world’s best brands for over 10 years.

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Michael Rivo

Salesforce

Michael is a Marketing Director at Salesforce aligned with a diverse team of storytellers crafting Salesforce’s message and sharing it with the world. Under Michael’s leadership, Salesforce LIVE has generated millions of live viewers globally. Prior to Salesforce, Michael co-founded 17FEET, a San Francisco-based user experience design company that was acquired by Google in 2013. As the recipient of multiple Webby and Communication Arts Awards, Michael is enjoying the ride, and happy to be here.

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Sudeep Misra

Hortonworks

Sudeep Misra leads Global Demand Generation for Hortonworks. He is a global B2B technology marketing professional with experience in demand generation, marketing campaigns, content strategy, marketing technology, digital marketing, and strategy. Prior to Hortonworks, Misra was Program Lead, Global Marketing Performance at Hewlett-Packard and Director of Marketing at Neo Group Inc. He got his MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management (World’s #1 ‘International Business’ Business School).

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Victor Doubrovine

Epiphan

Victor Doubrovine runs the marketing and demand generation operations at Epiphan Video, a company that makes easy-to-use professional live video production tools for video capture, streaming, and recording. Thousands of organizations around the world use Epiphan's hardware to go live on Facebook, YouTube, and other CDNs every day.

With over a decade of experience in the live video space, Victor has run a multitude of marketing campaigns, live events, and product launches and has worked alongside companies such as Facebook and YouTube to create products for live video creators.

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Victor Haseman

Industry Leader

Victor Haseman is an accomplished marketing leader, strategist, and storyteller. He specializes in helping companies market their products in relevant and emotional ways that customers love. He has over 15 years of experience as Marketing Director at Salesforce, Director at AOL, and Director of Technology at Africana.com, Inc. Victor is also a video and streaming video SME with experience producing content, building products, and developing strategies to market them. He has helped companies build award-winning consumer experiences that drive ROI from features and content that stick.

Victor believes the end goal of every campaign should be to build a connection with customers that lead to a trusted relationship. Awareness, share-of-voice, and leads follow. There’s no better way to achieve this connection than through video. And the explosion of live streaming solutions is only increasing the opportunity for forward-thinking creators, brand managers, and marketers.

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Michelle Salta

FORA.tv

Michelle has always been omnivorous in her interests; but the common thread of her career has been an abiding passion for communication, and in finding creative solutions to business challenges. She got her start as a TV host, writer and producer in the Philippines. Upon moving to the US in 2003, she worked for a variety of technology and retail companies in marketing, sales, video and digital production, and business consultancy. FORA.tv is a perfect setting to use the experience gained from 15 years of professional multipotentiality. Prior to FORA.tv, Michelle was Creative Account Director at BrightTALK. Michelle spends her off time with her family, and will gladly do anything that involves music, food, fantasy novels or mixed martial arts.

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Ronnie Higgins

Eventbrite

Ronnie Higgins is a Content Marketing Manager at Eventbrite. His work helps events leverage the latest technology and best practices to find new audiences, increase revenue, and beat the competition. He's has a decade of experience in the event space.

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Rebecca Stone

LiveRamp

Rebecca is Vice President of Demand Generation & International Marketing at LiveRamp, with responsibility for a mix of lead generation, sales development and marketing communications programs. She manages a growing team of 20 demand generation, creative services, marketing ops and sales development staff. Prior to joining LiveRamp, she worked in a variety of marketing roles for SaaS technology start-ups, most recently at DataSift, a social data company. She is intently focused on demonstrating the value and return of marketing programs on sales and has consistently demonstrated 5-10x growth in marketing-generated pipeline using strategies based on solid marketing fundamentals. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in communications from University of California, Santa Barbara and lives in Marin County with her husband and daughter.

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