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Schedule  

April 29 & 30, 2009 - Chicago, IL

While the 2009 Schedule is in development, please refer to the 2008 Schedule as an example of the caliber of speakers and topics that make M2W® the nation’s premier conference on Marketing to Women.

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PRE-CONFERENCE
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
The Hamer Room,
Hard Rock Hotel

6:00-7:30pm
Women Rock! Opening Reception
 

DAY ONE
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Chicago Cultural Center

 
7:30-8:30 am   Registration & Networking Breakfast Sponsored by b.happybags
 
8:30-8:45 am
  Welcome & Opening Remarks
Nan McCann, M2W®Conference Founder/Producer, President, PME® Enterprises, LLC
Mary Engvall, Director of Sponsorship Sales, PME® Enterprises, LLC
 
8:45-9:15 am   Marketing
A Publisher's Perspective: Past, Present and Future

Joe Lagani, VP/GM, Glam Media & Glam Living
 
9:15-10:00 am   Research Premiere
When Sparks Fly: Creating Passion Brands for Women

Stephanie Ouyoumjian SVP, Director of Strategy, Publicis
     
10:00-10:25 am   Networking Break Sponsored by Ketchum
     
10:25-10:30 am   M2W® Trend Watcher
Let's Get Real
Patti Minglin, Editor, M2W® Essentials
     
10:30-11:00 am   Communication Cases
Rewarding Relationships...
Mixing Old and New to Reach Multi-Minding(sm) Women

Kelley Skoloda, Partner/Director, Global Brand Marketing, Ketchum
     
11:00-11:30 am   Marketing
Home is Where the Purse Is

Kaira Sturdivant Rouda, President, Real Living
     
11:30-12:15 pm  

3 Workshops (workshops are repeated on Day 2)

1 New Research: Glam Media, An Advertiser's Guide to A Marketing Revolution, moderated by Christine Ryder, Regional Director, Glam Media (5th floor Millenium)
2 Research Premiere: Snippies' The Networked Woman Study (5th floor Garland)
3 Case Study: SheSpeaks and OPI Products, How SheSpeaks Built an Army of WOM Ambassadors for the OPI Brand (5th floor Washington)
     
12:15-1:45 pm   Lunch Keynote Sponsored by WE tv
The Politics of Marketing and the Marketing of Politics

WE Vote 2008: Speak For Yourself to Effect Change
Kim Martin, Executive Vice President & General Manager, We tv; Susan Molinari Chairman/CEO The Washington Group; President, Ketchum Public Affairs; Former Congresswoman (1990-97)
     
1:45-2:30 pm   Global Marketing
The Global Power of the Purse: How Women Are Leading the Way in the 21st Century Economy

Fara Warner, Author of The Power of the Purse: How Smart Companies Are Adapting to the World’s Most Important Consumers - Women
     
2:30-3:00 pm   Research Premiere
The Millennial Woman

Gigi Carroll
SVP, Group Creative Director, Concepting, Draftfcb
     
3:00-3:25 pm   Networking BreakSponsored by Pink Tank
     
3:25-3:30 pm   M2W® Trend Watcher
Making It Personal

Patti Minglin, Editor, M2W® Essentials
     
3:30-4:00 pm   Green Marketing
Marketing "Green" to Women
Diane MacEachern, Founder/CEO, Big Green Purse
     
4:00-4:30 pm   Media Premiere
It's Not The Media That Matter, But The Modes

Rick Milenthal, CEO, and Judy Bitterli, Chief Global Development Officer, Engauge
     
4:30-5:15 pm   Media Keynote
Defining “Primetime” in a 24/7 World

Samir Arora, Founder/Chairman/CEO, Glam Media
     
5:15-7:00 pm   Networking & Meet The Speakers Reception
Sponsored by Glam Media
     

DAY TWO
Friday, May 9, 2008
Chicago Cultural Center

 
7:30-8:30 am   Registration & Networking Breakfast Sponsored by General Growth Properties
     
8:30-8:45 am   Welcome & Opening Remarks Full Circle Award Presentation
Mary Engvall, Director of Sponsorship Sales, PME® Enterprises, LLC
     
8:45-9:30 am   Change Management
Getting Your Marketing to Women Initiative Approved And Launched

Marti Barletta, Founder, The TrendSight Group, Author, Marketing To Women and PrimeTime Women: How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders
     
9:30-10:15 am   Change Management Case Studies
Change Management Panel: Three Brands That Did!

Moderator: Marti Barletta, Founder, The TrendSight Group
Panelists: Leslie Prevish, Women’s Outreach Manager, Harley-Davidson Motor Co.; Severine Zaslavski, Director-Women's Market, Motorola, Inc.; Lisa Carlson, Global Director of Marketing, Shell Lubricants
     
10:15-10:40 am   Networking Break Sponsored by Manning, Selvage & Lee/NY
     
10:40-10:45 am   M2W® Trend Watcher Luxury Goes Mainstream
Patti Minglin, Editor, M2W® Essentials
     
10:45-11:15 am   Case Studies
The New High Society: What Status Means to Women in 2008 – and How Marketers Can Leverage It

Renee Wilson, Deputy Managing Director & Holly Jarrell, SVP, Manning, Selvage & Lee/NY
     
11:15-11:45 am   Marketing/Cultural Insight
How Procter & Gamble Changed Their Game to Win with Black Women
Najoh Tita-Reid, Associate Marketing Director, Multicultural Marketing, Procter & Gamble
     
11:45-12:30 pm   Day 1 Workshops are repeated
1. New Research: Glam Media, An Advertiser's Guide to A Marketing Revolution, moderated by Christine Ryder, Regional Director, Glam Media (5th floor Millenium)
2. Research Premiere: Snippies' The Networked Woman Study (5th floor Garland)
3. Case Study: SheSpeaks and OPI Products, How SheSpeaks Built an Army of WOM Ambassadors for the OPI Brand (5th floor Washington)
     
12:30-1:45 pm   Networking Luncheon Sponsored by Publicis
Round Table Luncheon with the Speakers
     
1:45-2:30 pm   Marketing Insights/Case Studies
Panel: She's Got Game! Marketing, Women and Sports
Moderator: Genevieve Bos, Publisher, PINK magazine
Panelists: Laurel Lindsay, VP Marketing, Toronto Blue Jays; Paula Hanson, VP Team Business Development, WNBA; Lyn St. James, Indy 500 Driver & Founder, Women in the Winner's Circle Foundation
     
2:30 pm   Closing Remarks
Nan McCann, M2W®Conference Founder/Producer, President, PME® Enterprises, LLC
    Goodbye Break Sponsored by Style Network
 
   
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