Online Marketing Summit 2012 Announces Panel of World's Most Successful Brands to Keynote

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Online Marketing Summit, produced by UBM TechWeb, today introduced its 2012 keynote speakers. Online Marketing Summit, the industry's premier digital marketing event, will present a lineup of thought leaders from companies like Salesforce, Huffington Post, General Motors, Silverpop and SAP, featuring focused and insightful presentations from the keynote stage. The event will take place at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront in San Diego, February 6-10, 2012. For more information visit: http://www.onlinemarketingsummit.com/.

"Online Marketing Summit is the event to attend to hear from the leading companies on the most important topics - the proven practitioners who will share their successes from the front lines of online marketing," said Aaron Kahlow, Founder and Chair, Online Marketing Summit. "It's a great time to come together in sunny San Diego to explore the wide range of tools and solutions available and to empower a global community as we work to learn and share best practices in digital marketing."

Keynote speakers of the event currently include:

• Charlotte Blank, Social Media Manager, General Motors
• Rod Brooks, VP & CMO, PEMCO
• Bryan Brown, Director of Product Strategy, Silverpop
• Kevin Espinosa, eBusiness Platform Manager, Caterpillar
• Mary Hall, Systems & Technology Group, IBM
• Simon Heseltine, Director, AOL Huffington Post Media Group
• Mike Hodges, Vice President, Interactive, The San Diego Union-Tribune
• Crispin Sheridan, Senior Director of Search Marketing, SAP
• Mari Smith, Social Media Thought Leader, Speaker & Author, MariSmith.com
• Lauren Vaccarello, Director of Search, Display, & Social Advertising, Salesforce
• Paul Vallez, Director of Worldwide Search, HP.com

 

In addition to keynotes, influential speakers including executives, authors, marketers and social media experts at Adobe, Best Buy, Bing, Cisco, Dell, DuPont, Eloqua, Google, IBM, Intel, Junta42, SEOmoz, TopLine Online Marketing and more will be participating at Online Marketing Summit. The event features over 100 sessions and case studies, a full day Online Marketing Boot Camp, rich networking opportunities and more.

For the first time, Online Marketing Summit will feature an Expo show floor, showcasing the latest technologies, agencies and consultancies representing the complete mix of online and integrated marketing solutions. Sponsors of the event include: Diamond Sponsor Hoovers and Silverpop; Platinum Sponsors Business Online, Eloqua and True Influence; and Gold Sponsors AsterData, Couch & Associates, Inc., Ion Interactive, Northbound DGS and VisiStat. For more information on exhibitor or sponsorship opportunities, please contact: Diana Pivacek, dpivacek@techweb.com.

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About Online Marketing Summit

Online Marketing Summit (OMS) offers an educational environment that facilitates incredible learning, networking and collaboration opportunities amongst marketers, executives and digital professionals. OMS is singularly committed to its mission to educate marketers on the emerging best practices of online marketing through a professional development conference and exhibition. More than 12,000 marketers have learned, collaborated and networked at OMS events over the years. For more information, visit www.onlinemarketingsummit.com.

About UBM TechWeb

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its three core businesses – media solutions, marketing services and paid content – UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web & Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively engage in UBM TechWeb's communities and information resources monthly. UBM TechWeb brands include: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and Enterprise Connect; award-winning online resources such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and market-leading magazines InformationWeek, Wall Street & Technology, and Advanced Trading. UBM TechWeb is a UBM plc company, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

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