Western Canada's Largest Digital Marketing Conference

As Head of Canadian Agency Partnerships, Neil Cameron is responsible for overseeing TikTok’s relationships with agency partners in Canada, designing marketing strategies for some of the world’s largest brands to leverage and engage with TikTok’s community of creators. Prior to joining TikTok, Neil oversaw partnerships with some of Canada's largest holdcos at Facebook Canada and previously held strategy roles at Bell Media and Rogers Communications.

Biying Miao is the Head of Canada SMB at Pinterest, overseeing the strategy, operations and execution of regional account management teams that help small to medium sized businesses and agencies accelerate growth on the Pinterest platform. Prior to joining Pinterest in 2022, Biying held sales leadership roles at Shopify, and was co-founder and Head of Revenue at Hot Pop Factory, a manufacturing automation software startup which she successfully led to acquisition. With a decade of leadership and entrepreneurship experience under her belt, Biying is passionate about mentorship and coaching. In her free time, you can find her bouldering the crags of Niagara Glen, pattern drafting custom fashions and pinning interior design ideas.

Alton Wong graduated from The University of Waterloo and studied Biotechnology. He started his career as a Research Technologist at the Hospital for Sick Children but made a pivot into the tech industry and worked in roles in marketing communications, events, account management, and now sales. He's done a tour of duty at Microsoft, Salesforce, LinkedIn, TikTok and currently leads the Western Government and Lotteries business at Google.

John Delaney is a digital marketing leader with over a decade of experience and an expertise in audience engagement, social strategy and direct to consumer communications. Having worked across the music, media, and sports industries, John is no stranger to cultivating audiences around some of the nation's biggest brands and keeping them strategically engaged.

Adam Rozenhart is a communications strategist with over 15 years of experience in marketing and communications strategy, planning and execution. He cut his teeth in the digital world as the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of OilersNation.com before moving into the agency world. He runs his own digital agency with his partner Tyler, and would love to chat with you about it over beers.

Tyler Butler is an award-winning digital strategist with over a decade of experience. Creativity defines Tyler’s work, whether he’s hosting an improv show on a bank’s Instagram account, delivering a rainbow unicorn pool floatie to a social media conference, or addressing student mental health through a Snapchat account. And yes, those all really happened.

Stephanie Kochorek Co-Founder & Creative Director - Born in Calgary, after graduating from Miami Ad School, Stephanie started her career as a copywriter in San Francisco at Venables, Bell & Partners. With agency stints at WAX in Calgary and Rethink in Vancouver under her belt, she co-founded Daughter in 2016. Stephanie leads the agency with her strong strategic perspective and ability to articulate complex messaging in a highly engaging way for clients like Arts Commons, connectFirst Credit Union, SAIT, and TransAlta

Born in Canada and raised in New Zealand, Jill is a Partner & the Director of Business Development at Daughter Creative, a women-owned and led branding and advertising agency in Calgary. Jill’s favourite things are connecting people, and helping great concepts get to market. With a range of values-aligned clients and a talented senior team, Daughter has its sights set on demonstrating that creativity is a true economic driver, and Calgary is a true creative hub. 

Derek Hovinga is the owner and inbound marketing strategist at The Inbound Lab. He has over a decade of content marketing experience and focuses on using content marketing tactics to help businesses generate demand for their products and services. Derek is known as an "Aggressive Helper" and for his wit, sense of humor, and ability to make complex topics easy to understand. When he's not helping businesses grow their content and inbound marketing programs, he's mixing cocktails and watching trashy television.

Caleb Clark is a seasoned marketing and business leader with more than a decade of experience building in marketing programs, managing teams, sales and running a successful multi million $$ agency.

Chris Henderson is a partner at Y Station Research & Communications, a firm dedicated to gathering data and insights to help their clients make the best decisions possible. From managing large-scale political campaigns, to writing award-winning cultural plans, to working with communities to find affordable housing solutions, to creating post-COVID strategic plans, Chris loves an wicked and urgent challenge. Chris also loves Godzilla.

Jenny Black is an award-winning digital strategist and community manager with Y Station Communications & Research. Her career has included working with major corporate clients like Nestlé and the Dairy Farmers of Canada, as well as high-touch social strategies and management for Elections Alberta and Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health. Jenny always reads the last page of a book before she starts it.

Cameron Martel is a seasoned SEO and content marketer, focusing on helping meaningful content experiences rank and bank. He manages a network of 15 large content sites generating 10MM+ organic pageviews/mo, and co-owns a boutique SEO agency.

I worked up through running social media ads and managing clients and campaigns. Naturally, I have pivoted into a more strategic and decision-making role both internally and for select clients. I now consult, plan, and scale clients' strategies to meet business goals and objectives.

Bryce is the Founder and Director at Reviive, a Calgary-based startup that’s obsessed with helping humans have better relationships. In his past 15+ years of marketing, business development, and product work, he’s had a vast array of experiences in businesses as small as a local motorcycle shop and as large as eBay.

Bryce’s business passions are finding the spot where value passes friction, finding better ways to do anything, and surviving the onslaught of late-stage capitalism.

Afton Brazzoni partner with B2B marketers and entrepreneurs to create high-quality content that drives demand and revenue. Having had the pleasure of working with more than 70 clients worldwide during their 3 years as founder of Scribe National, the majority being repeat customers, including tech unicorns and others among Canada's 50 fastest-growing companies, they have established a reputation for excellence. With nearly 14 years of journalism, communications, and marketing experience, they bring a wealth of expertise and knowledge to their work.

Entrepreneur, former elite athlete, co-founder of Branch Out Neurological Foundation and Vice President of Thin Air Labs Fund I. Crystal has a range of experience that provides unique insight into investing in the health care space for significant human impact and outsized returns on investment.

Brent Chaters is the Managing Director for Marketing Transformation at Accenture. He is the Author of Mastering Search Analytics, Multichannel Marketing Ecosystems. He sits on the board of Directors for the CMA, in his spare time he is involved in his two girls sports including hockey and swimming.

A 20 year marketing and communications veteran with a penchant for issues management, Jess is driven by a passion for storytelling and a curiosity to explore the intersection of digital communications, media relations and content marketing.

Candace’s is a creative chameleon full of curiosity, genuine empathy, and has a knack for strategy. With a diverse professional background spanning from publishing, media, PR, brand management, and consulting to small business entrepreneur–where she wore ALL the hats–she is a teacher, not a teller, and has recently refocused her tech skills to fight cybercrime. Candace has developed a unique perspective on the intersection of cybersecurity and digital marketing. As a marketing manager for a global cybersecurity division for Online Business Systems, she's leading the charge in helping businesses navigate the complex landscape of online security.

Tessa May Marr is an entrepreneur at heart and proud to lead a 100 per cent virtual social media marketing agency of exceptionally talented and relentless Social Media Managers! Her company, Marr Media Group works with B2B and B2C brands to build custom social strategies, paid social advertising, influencer marketing and fully outsourced social media management. They plug right into each client’s marketing team to augment and amplify all marketing efforts, making them even more effective, creating more connections and achieving desired results and outcomes.

Experienced Business Owner with a demonstrated history of working in the retail and restaurant industry. Strong operations knowledge and people development expertise with a growth mindset.

History of working in the community from a social, political, and business perspective to ensure strong and sustainable connections exist in our towns and cities.

Vinod is the Founder and CEO of Creator.co, a top ranked Influencer Marketing platform; Contributor for Entrepreneur Magazine; and was responsible for launching many wearables in Canada such as Fitbit, the Apple Iwatch, Garmin forerunner, Samsung Gear, and more - growing the category from $18 - $180m in Canada before founding Creator.

Co-Owner of Minuteman Press for 18 years and founder of Panel Marketing for over 5 years. Marketing strategist with a big picture outlook, an avid experience seeker and a racquet sport lover!

Dave Taylor works through the eyes of the business owner, he is a creative thinker designing advertising and creative messaging for over 15 years. Working with with a long list of 500 clients, he helps marketers understand the real data behind advertising. With business partner John McColman they created In Front Marketing, now representing organizations such as the Calgary Flames and all 5 major sports teams under C.S.E.C. as their lead agency. True calgarians, Dave & John built their agency through community involvement, sponsorship and partnership.

Phylicia is a Senior UX Designer with over 7 years of experience across different crafts. She's passionate about building accessible and inclusive experiences that extend to diverse communities and holds a certification in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC).

Maddie is not your average communicator. She's a multi-discipline strategist with experience in digital communications, public relations, and research. When she's not working on scroll-stopping content, she's learning about how technology changes human behaviour.

I have been the social media lead at Ottawa Public Health since 2018. In that time, our work has been recognized for its excellence by the likes of the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Health Organization, Health Canada, CTV Your Morning, Macleans magazine, Ryan Reynolds, and even Mike Morrison!!

Luiza is the founder of marca strategy, a marketing and brand strategy studio. Since founding marca strategy in 2010, Luiza has helped numerous nonprofits strengthen their brands and maximize their impact.

Charlie's journey to the world of digital began in video production with stints at Poor Boyz Productions, Arc’teryx, Nike and NBC Sports. He followed a passion for marketing which led him to Invoke, the digital agency that created Hootsuite. After a short stint in the agency world, he joined the digital marketing team at Red Bull managing the brand’s digital footprint in Canada and eventually moved to Europe to lead Red Bull’s global social media strategy for sports. He finally left the world of Red Bull to become the Head of Social Media at Aritzia, leading all social activity for the brand. Most recently, Charlie co-founded RightMetric which helps brands & agencies uncover opportunities to inform digital strategy through data-backed audience & competitor research across Paid, Earned, Shared, and Owned channels. They've helped brands like Meta, lululemon, Interac, The North Face, Red Bull, ATB Financial, Rossignol, Toyota, Destination BC, Save-On-Foods, and many more. In 2019, Charlie was named 30 Under 30 by BC Business magazine, a celebration of British Columbia's next generation of leaders and innovators who are accomplished beyond their years.

Ameet has spent the last decade figuring out why people do what they do online, what prompts them to take action, and how to use the insights to make marketing work better. Today she uses her experience to design dazzling campaign strategies for Hop Skip Media's clients and teach the future generation of PPC pros at the University level.

Prior to Calgary Economic Development, Geri was with the Government of Canada as Director, Communications for the Office of the Minister and Special Representative for the Prairies. She was Director, Policy & Communications for the Calgary Chamber from 2019 to 2021. Prior to the Chamber, she held senior roles in communications, government and stakeholder relations and public affairs with TD Bank Group, Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Navigator Ltd.

Samantha Beck is the Senior Marketing Manager for Phillips Brewing, one of Canada's leading craft breweries. Samantha has spent her career working in consumer packaged goods, specializing in bubbly beverages of every kind. She is a multi-disciplinary marketer with experience in creating crowd favourite brands, music festivals, large scale brand sponsorships, and social media strategies that are built to last.