Virtual Press Office Speaker Profiles: EXHIBITORLIVE! 2015

NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The following event roundup from Virtual Press Office is a list of featured speakers at EXHIBITORLIVE! 2015, the #1 Conference and Expo for Trade Show and Event Marketing Professionals, which takes place from March 1-5 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

EXHIBITORLIVE! 2015 press kits, news releases and photos are available on the Official Online Press Office, managed by Virtual Press Office/PR Newswire: http://topics.vpoinc.com/events/Exhibitorlive15.html  

EXHIBITORLIVE! 2015 Speaker Profiles:

Andy Saks
Spark Presentations
sparkpresentations.com

Andy Saks is a professional presenter, owner of Spark Presentations, and author of The Presentation Playbook Series. Through Spark, Andy represents clients as an emcee, auctioneer, and trade show booth presenter. He also trains and coaches clients in presentation design and delivery, as well as trade show booth staffing skills.

Speaker Sessions:

Tuesday, March 3, 8:00 - 9:30 am, Fear to Fun: Stop freaking from fear of public speaking

Wednesday, March 4, 8:00 - 9:30 am, Bulletproof Slideshows: Create great presentations in and beyond PowerPoint

Anne Trompeter, Principal & Chief Creative Strategist
Live Marketing

Anne implements engagement strategies for clients ranging from small innovators to Fortune 500 leaders. Her most innovative approaches -- including integrating ground-breaking creative elements into tradeshow programs, national sales meetings, and leadership summits -- have earned numerous client accolades and industry awards. Anne speaks regularly at industry conferences including EXHIBITOR, HCEA, and Experiential Marketing Summit.

Speaker Sessions:

Monday, March 2, 10:00 - 11:30 am, Tate & Lyle: A Taste of Trade Show Marketing Excellence.

Monday, March 2, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, Create a VIP Experience in Your Booth

Chic Thompson
Creative Leadership Group

Chic Thompson is the author of "What a Great Idea!" He worked in new product development for Gore-Tex and Walt Disney and is now a Fellow at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Harvard Business School wrote a case study on his career. More information: whatagreatidea.com.

Speaker Sessions:

Tuesday, March 3, 8:00 - 9:30 am, T615 - Authors Executive Series: Fostering a Mindset of Innovation

Tuesday, March 3, 10:00 -11:30 am, T629 - Authors Executive Series: Thinking in Opposites to Inspire New Solutions

Dan Cox, Strategic Account Executive & Creative Producer
Live Marketing

Drawing on 10+ years of theater production experience, Dan works with clients to strategize and produce creative tradeshow programs. From working with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago Opera Vanguard, Goodman Theatre, and others, Dan brings a fresh perspective for applying performance approaches and trends to the tradeshow and event space to engage and delight attendees.

Speaker Sessions:

Tuesday, March 3, 8:00 - 9:30 am, Outside the Booth: Finding Event Marketing Inspiration in Unusual Places

Monday, March 2, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, Event Trends: What's Now and Next?

Dax Callner
Sparks

Dax Callner, Senior Vice President, Strategy has nearly 20 years' experience guiding marketing initiatives for some of the world's most recognizable brands. His work has included the development of global advertising campaigns, digital & social programs, event marketing strategies, tradeshow initiatives, user conferences and consumer events for clients like Microsoft, American Express, P&G, Dell, Sony Pictures, Olympus, Google, eBay and others.

Speaker Sessions:

Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 3:45 - 5:15 pm, Advanced Learning Session: Quantify Your Event Impact

Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 am, Advanced Learning Session: Attendee Trends: Social Media, Events and Exhibits

Thursday, March 5, 2015, 8:00 - 9:30 am, Advanced Learning Session: Content + Interactions: A Formula for Effective Marketing Impact

Jeff Hannah
Gielissen Interiors & Exhibitions

Jeff Hannah is a designer, thought leader, speaker, consultant, and writer in the areas of international culture, marketing, budgeting, and design. Hannah is the President of Gielissen Interiors & Exhibitions USA. Gielissen designs and produces trade show exhibits, corporate interiors, museums, private events, and leisure experiences in over 70 countries for many of the world's top brands.

Speaker Sessions:

Monday, March 2, 8:00 - 9:30 am, Advanced Learning Session: Global Frameworks - Part I

Monday, March 2, 10:00 - 11:30 am, Advanced Learning Session: Global Frameworks - Part II

Tuesday, March 3, 8:00 - 9:30 am, Advanced Learning Session: Is Your Marketing Story Relevant in Europe?

Lisa Apolinski
3 Dog Write Inc.

Lisa Apolinski is a professional speaker and digital strategist. She is considered a venue marketing thought leader, working in the industry for over 15 years. She works with companies to create engaging and effective marketing campaigns, particularly through digital channels and is a regular blogger on Cvent and TSNN.

Speaker Sessions

Tuesday, March 3, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, Peer to Peer Roundtable - The Big Data Trend: Implications

Wednesday, March 4, 8:00 - 9:30 am., Integrating PR Data to Drive Attendee Engagement

Liz Nacron, Chief Production Strategist & Executive Producer
Live Marketing

Liz possesses the rare combination of masterful production expertise and a strategically creative mindset, serving a wide range of industries. From concept inception to seamless onsite execution, Liz has been the lynchpin at the center of development, production, execution, budgeting, and client service -- producing projects ranging from robust event and tradeshow programs to large-scale executive summit meetings.

Speaker Sessions:

Tuesday, March 3, 8:00 - 9:30 am, Outside the Booth: Finding Event Marketing Inspiration in Unusual Places

Monday, March 2, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, Event Trends: What's Now and Next?

Marilyn R. Kroner
Kroner Communications

Marilyn Kroner, principal, Kroner Communications, has been a public relations and event marketing professional for decades, planning, managing, and implementing strategies and programs for small, medium and large companies in several industries. She frequently presents on integrated marketing communications strategy, public relations and trade show topics at EXHIBITORLIVE.

Speaker Sessions:

Tuesday, March 3, 8:00 am, How to Thrive Through the PR/Social Media Disruption

Wednesday, March 4, 8:00 am, Integrate PR Data to Drive Attendee Engagement

Mazi Farzam
Inhance Digital

Mazi is passionate about helping companies bring their complex products to life using the latest digital visualization and interactive tools. His unique blend of engineering and science experience complements more than 15 years of multimedia programming, development and project management, media design and integration.

Speaker Session:

Thursday, March 5, 10 - 11:30 am, Connect Innovative Experiences to Cloud-Based Content Management Systems

Paul M. Fine
Fine Design Associates, Inc.

In October of 1992, Paul Fine founded Fine Design Associates, Inc. to fulfill the growing need for an outstanding lighting design firm to service the exhibit, trade show and corporate events industry. Paul has designed for leading exhibit trade show and special event producers for the past 20 years including: MC-2, Proscenium, Sparks Exhibits and Environments, Exhibitgroup / Giltspur, Jack Morton Worldwide, and Sho-Aids, Cal Ostlund Exhibits and Derse. Other Fine Design projects have also included marquee names such as IBM, Panasonic, Samsung, Intel, HP-Compaq, Turner Broadcasting, AstraZeneca, Dunkin' Donuts, Ciena, N'vidia, Timberland, Boston Scientific, Agilent, Volvo, John Deere, Canon, Hershey's, RJR, Shire Pharma, DuPont, Verizon, Hisense and others.

Speaker Session:

Tuesday, March 3, 3:45 - 5:15 pm, T622 - Look Ma...No Truss! Creative LED Booth Lighting

Pete Smith
SmithImpact

While working as a successful Operations Executive, Pete Smith's life instantly changed when he suffered a stroke at the age of 35. Being blessed with a full recovery, Pete now speaks and trains throughout the country, teaching others how to elevate themselves from a level of SUCCESS to a level of SIGNIFICANCE. smithimpact.com

Speaker Sessions:

Sunday, March 1, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Re-Inventing You: A Personal and Professional Development Workshop

Monday, March 2, 10:00 – 11:30 am, The Five Pillars of Progress: Advancing With or Without a Promotion 

Rajiv Jain
Pixe Social

Rajiv Jain, the President/CEO of a2z, Inc and Pixe LLC, leads a team that has been creating cutting-edge technologies for the events industry for more than fifteen years, including the first generation of online matchmaking tools for exhibitors and attendees, and award-winning mobile and social applications for exhibitors to attract and engage attendees.

Speaker Session:

Thursday, March 5, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Engage a Younger Audience with Digital Technology and Social Media

Roger Lewis
Alliance Tech

Roger is a leader in the area of event measurement and an expert in helping businesses utilize event technology to understand ROI of events. As executive vice president, Roger has been instrumental in positioning Alliance Tech as the number one provider of business intelligence for events in Fortune 500 companies.

Speaker Sessions:

Monday, March 2, 8:00 am, Understanding the Attendee Journey

Tuesday, March 3, 8:00 am, How Near Field Communication Will Change the Face of Events

Tuesday, March 3, 3:45 pm, Resolve the Lead Retrieval and CRM/MAT Conundrum

Shannon Densmore
Group Delphi

Shannon Densmore is Executive Producer of Digital Content at Group Delphi, based in the company's Alameda headquarters. She has been producing media for museums and creating educational programming for more than a dozen years. Shannon leads an in-house team that integrates a broad spectrum of digital elements in exhibits and events of all sizes.

Speaker Session:

Thursday, March 5, 8:00 - 9:30 am, "Anatomy of Digital Content"

Venen Paratian, Executive Director
PMNglobal, Geneva

Venen Paratian, former Chief of Protocol and External Affairs at the International Telecommunication Union is currently Executive Director of PMNglobal. Venen directed the protocol activities and was Master of Ceremony of world conferences. He has a solid mastery of Protocol and Etiquettes, with over 38 years' experience in international relations.

Speaker Sessions:

Sunday, March 1, 1:00 - 4:30 pm, Half day Workshop - "Understanding International Cultural Protocol"

Sunday, March 1, 5:00 - 6:00 pm, Roundtable - "Understanding International Cultural Protocol"

For a full listing of EXHIBITORLIVE! 2015 sessions and workshops go to: http://www.exhibitoronline.com/live/2015/conferencesessions.asp

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