Midwest Digital Marketing Conference 2019 | Dryfta | 15 April 2019 | Union Station Hotel, 1820 Market St # 221, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA

In 2013, the State of Digital Media Marketing Conference was born at the campus of the University of Missouri – St. Louis. The first was a half day event featuring prominent speakers mostly via Google Hangouts held at the J.C. Penney Conference Center at UMSL. The conference grew to a full-day in 2014, taking up all of the conference center, and by 2015, it was obvious the venue was too small as sessions, the exhibit hall and keynote were packed. Then in 2016, the event took over St. Louis Union Station, nearly doubling the capacity and attendance along with it. The conference also took on a rebrand, now known as the Midwest Digital Marketing Conference, or MDMC for short.

The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial.

2019 Speakers

Rebecca Achen
Assistant Professor, Illinois State University

Alex Allemand
Business Development Manager, Rich Business Messaging, Google

Mike Allton
Content Marketing Practitioner, The Social Media Hat

Kasim Aslam
Founder & Ceo, Solutions 8

Kathy Bernard
Ceo, Wiseru.com

Brad Best
Associate Professor, University of Missouri School of Journalism

Alberto Brea
Brand, Innovation, Communications Strategy

Jeny Bristow
Ceo, Creative Anvil

Ryan Brock
Founder & Ceo, Metonymy Media

Katelyn Brower
Digital Marketing Manager - Global Social Media & Employee Advocacy, Dun & Bradstreet

Obele Brown-west
Executive Vice President, Client Experience Digital & Innovation Lead - Central Region, Weber Shandwick

Vanessa Cabrera
President

Alex Cameron
Social Media Strategist, Signature Social Marketing

Sylvester Chisom
Ceo, M.g. Media

Andrew Cohen
Vice President, Moosylvania

Anesha Collins
Video-marketing Strategist, Learnwithac

Jeremy Corray
Vp Digital Entertainment, Coolfire Studios

Sean Cotton
President, Coegi

Sarah Crawford
Marketer | Writer | Professional Speaker | Type 7 | Enfp, Sparkworth

Patricia Crowe
Director of Marketing and Communications, Saint Louis Art Museum

Alex Cruz
Ceo, Penpath

Sarah Dalton
Marketing Director, Nolan & Associates

Jazzy Danziger
Creative Director, 2e Creative

Dennis Dayman
Chief Privacy and Security Officer, Return Path

Dean Delisle
Ceo, Forward Progress/social Jack

Pearce Delisle
Namer Manager, Content Marketing Evagelists

Heather Dopson
Community Builder, Godaddy

Joseph Duffin
Director, Digital Strategy, Spry Digital

Josh Edler
Director of Digital Marketing, Decantery

Danni Eickenhorst
Chief Marketing Officer, Reachdynamics

Julie Ewald
Ceo & Creative Director
Impressa Solutions Llc

Kevin Farr
Consultant | Innovation & Growth Strategy, Cntrd

Fay Fleming
Senior Director, Business Performance Company

Bonnie Frank
Ceo, Bonnie L Frank Coaching & Consulting

Karen Freberg
Associate Professor in Strategic Communication, University of Louisville

Shane Freeman
Principal, Okapi

Cher Fuller
Senior Interactive Strategist, Eroi

Deb Gabor
Ceo / Bestselling Author, Sol Marketing / Author of Branding Is Sex.

Kate Garofalini
Healthcare Technology, Johnson & Johnson

Tony Gnau
Founder and Chief Story Telling Officer, T60 Productions

Jayna Grassel
Senior Consultant, Bounteous

Jenny Halasz
President, Jlh Marketing, Inc.

Michael Halbrook
Leader, Professional Services Readiness & Excellence, Adobe

Brian Handly
Ceo, Reveal Mobile

Tom Harness
Owner/president, Harness Digital Marketing

Jade Harrell
Founder and Creative Director, Raregem Productions

Tim Hebel
Owner & Founder, Beanstalk Web Solutions

Yvonne Heimann
Business Efficiency Consultant & Tool Nerd, Ask Yvi

Jenn Herman
Founder and Social Media Consultant, Jenn's Trends

Simon Heseltine
Vp of Audience Growth, Trader Interactive

Florian Hübner
Co-ceo and Co-founder, Uberall

Kate Humphrey
Digital Strategy Lead, Bayer

Matthew Hundley
Digital Marketing | Analytics and Insights, Joyce Meyer Ministries

Isaac Irvine
Personal Branding, Godaddy

Brett Jackson
Ceo, Systemax

Geremy Johnson
Lawyer. Globallaw.tv

Jeff Julian
Co-founder / Ceo, Enterprise Marketer

Matt Kamp
Svp, Influence & Co

Tyler Kelley
Co-founder & Chief Strategist, Slam! Agency

Ho Kim
Assistant Professor of Digital and Social Media Marketing, University of Missouri-st. Louis

Dave Rohrer
Founder, Northside Metrics

Vernon Ross
Author / Storyteller/ Marketer, Vernon Ross Consulting

Chris Ryan
Proprietor/director, Once Films

Tj Salopek
Interactive Marketing Lead, Goodyear

Matt Sebek
Vice President of Digital, World Wide Technology

Christine Shobe
Functional Consultant, Crm, Turnkey Technologies, Inc

Jeff Sieh
Creative Director, His Design, Inc.

Viputheshwar Sitaraman
Founder, Ceo, Explica, Inc.

Bill Skowronski
Marketing Strategist, Idea Marketing Group

Sara Sparrow
Seo Strategist, Timmermann Group

Rick Spiekermann

Margaret Stewart
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, University of North Florida

Chris Strub
Ceo, I Am Here, Llc

Gabe Tartaglia
Vice President of Sales, Pandora

Scott Thomas
Social Influencer, Build Digital Marketing

Jake Truemper
Co-founder, Cognitive Designer, Shift

Greg Weingarden
Digital Marketing Consultant, Google

Darrell West
Vice President of Governance Studies and Director of the Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institute, Washington Dc

2019 Sponsors

TITLE SPONSOR:
• Anvil

PLATINUM SPPONSORS:
• Purina
• Waterway
• Agora pulse

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Spectrum
• Engage
• PenPath
• Katy
• Systemax

WIFI SPONSOR:
• EM

COFFEE SPONSOR:
• Spry Digital

SWAG SPONSOR:
• Schunks

ACADEMIC AND STUDENT SPONSORS:
• Stukent
• East Tennessee State University
• UL

PARTY SPONSOR/HOST
• Lockerdome
• Thompson Coburn
• CIC
• Sarah Bernard Reality Team

MEDIA SPONSORS:
• DMN
• EQ
• Call for Content

PARTNERS:
• Bernhart Associates Executive Search, llc
• AMA
• 56th Street