Expert Panel: Get More Users with Digital Marketing and Growth Hacking

Yu-kai Chou is a Pioneer and International Keynote Speaker on Gamification. He has been a regular speaker/lecturer on Gamification throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia, including at organizations like Stanford University, Google Inc., The Gamification Summit, the Innovation Center in Denmark, UCLA, UBC Sauders School of Business and many more. Yu-kai was one of the earliest pioneers in Gamifcation, starting his work in the industry in 2003 and was rated #1 among the Top 40 Gamification Gurus by UK-Based Leaderboarded. Yu-kai is also the creator of The Complete Gamification Framework: Octalysis as well as the video series The Beginner’s Guide to Gamification.

Jamie Smith, CEO of Strategy Analyzer, LLC. got an early entrepreneurial start during the beginning of the Internet boom building and selling websites. Mr. Smith has over 15 years of Internet Marketing experience and has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and frequently speaks at industry conferences around the world. In 1998, Mr. Smith founded World Methods, an Internet marketing agency headquartered on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, MA.

Natascha Thomson is the founder and owner of MarketingXLerator, a B2B Social Media Marketing Consultancy, which helps companies create social media marketing strategies that generate awareness, demand and long-term customer relationships.

Daniel is Vice President of Product Marketing at Atlassian, an award-winning enterprise software company that helps innovators everywhere plan, build, and launch great software.

Jack Mardack is the Head of Growth at ChartCube, a recently-Shasta funded mobile productivity app startup in San Mateo. Before ChartCube, Jack made substantial growth happen at Eventbrite, Prezi and FriendFinder Networks. He's from Queens.

Passionate about social media, technology and building and activating online communities, Jeanette brings 20 years of digital marketing and communications experience in the technology sector to HootSuite. In her role as VP of Community at HootSuite, Jeanette is responsible for managing HootSuite’s vibrant community of 8M users globally through online engagement, advocacy and community events.

Vanessa has been working in high tech public relations and strategic communications for over 16 years. In December of 2007, she founded theMIX agency, a firm that specializes in integrated communications, digital strategy, developer relations and event production.