Joyce Boland

VP, Global Applications Marketing
Oracle

 
  

 

Kelvin Gee

Senior Director, Global Marketing Transformation

Oracle

 

In this keynote session Joyce Boland, VP Global Applications Marketing, and Kelvin Gee, Senior Director of Global Marketing Transformation from Oracle share how Oracle, the world’s largest enterprise software company, transformed its traditional marketing organization into Modern Marketing to coincide with the company’s shift to the Cloud. Boland and Gee talk about how Oracle changed its strategy, technology, training, and the processes that underpinned that transformation. Learn how Oracle marketing realigned itself with sales and changed its culture from product- to customer-centric.

  Danielle Yuthas
  Sr. Digital Media & Marketing Specialist
  Wellbiz Brands

Danielle Yuthas, the Senior Digital Media & Marketing Specialist from Wellbiz Brands, spoke to us about the regular algorithm changes that impact us all and the upcoming expected changes in 2017. This includes the interstitials penalty, site speed, machine learning, and the importance of featured snippets.

   Nik Rajpal
   VP of Marketing Sciences
   Exclusive
 

Nik Rajpal is the Vice President of Marketing Services for Exclusive and he covered 15 ways that brands can lose SEO rankings. The number one way was to not use BrightEdge when choosing target keywords for Amazon. He also touched upon topics like duplicate content, page authority, and keyword diversity.

  Ryan Sullivan
  SVP, Performance Services
  Performics

Ryan Sullivan is the Senior Vice President of Performance Services for Performics. He spoke about the rise of voice and visual search as well as shifting search behaviors. He believes the key is to use schema; maintain a balance between utility, transactional, and informational content; optimize for search engines; provide contextual aids about where your content is relevant; and use product feeds syndication.

  Binti Pawa
  Head of SEO, Director Food, Lifestyle & Luxury (FLL)
  Time Inc

Binti Pawa, the Head of SEO, FLL Group for Time Inc, spoke about the importance of load time and using AMP pages to maintain engagement with users. She touched upon Time’s own experience with the endeavor and the successes they have seen.

  Jason Stevens
  SEO Director
  Food Network

Jason Stevens, SEO Director for Food Network, spoke about the importance of site speed and how Google’s answer to customer demands for site speed was to develop AMP. Food Network has been developing their own AMP pages and saw tremendous load time drops once they had done so.

   Maile Ohye
   Developer Programs Tech Lead
   Google

Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead at Google, spoke about how mobile search has already surpassed desktop worldwide and that customers can now use voice search on a variety of different products, including their phones. Customers need to be paying attention to their load times and bounce rates while working to provide an outstanding user experience.

  Adam Singer
  Analytics Advocate, Google Analytics
  Google

Adam Singer, an analytics advocate from Google Analytics, spoke about the importance of using data in marketing and how Google Analytics is working to help marketers. This help includes setting up a public demo account, a Data Studio for data visualization, and Analytics Academy – where people can take courses for continuing education in analytics.

  Dixon Jones
  Marketing Director
  Majestic

Dixon Jones, Marketing Director for Majestic, spoke about the research his brand has been doing into the role of backlinks and their impact on site success. They found that when brands were grouped by industry and they focused on trust flow, there was a high correlation with performance.

   Freddie Blicher
   Senior Manager, Corporate SEO
   Marriott Digital

Freddie Blicher, Senior Manager of Corporate SEO for Marriott/Ritz-Carlton, spoke about the challenges of understanding and interpreting the wealth of data available. He made suggestions about how to combine data sources to create a more comprehensive, holistic look at business progress.