• Will marketing and advertising still be relevant?
• Managing client relationships in the rapidly evolving digital environment
• Who will control the communication with your prospects, customers and clients?
• Who will control your brand?
• The impact of big data, new technologies, social media, click bait and fake news
• Where will your customers be found, how will you know if your messages are being heard? What will be measurable?
• Has distraction overtaken disruption? How to attract and hold attention
Speakers
Ryf Quail
CEO, Avalon Group
Ryf Quail’s career spans more than 20 years across publishing, media, marketing, data, tech and digital. He has started digital media agencies and successfully sold them, run local branches of global media agencies, headed digital marketing and CRM for Deloitte across Asia Pacific and most recently founded his own global ventures group – The Avalon Group.
Ryf enjoys a strong network across the Asia Pacific region which he has cultivated across his career. He holds an MBA from the University of Otago Business School and is passionate about change and the continual learning required to keep ahead of the curve.
Tim Pointer
Co-founder and Managing Director, Uprise
Tim is the co-founder and Managing Director of Uprise, a digital performance agency that offers a unique approach to marketing and advertising for its clients. In just over 7 years, Tim has helped grow Uprise from a two man band in his parents' spare bedroom, to a team of 19 and one of New Zealand's largest and most well-regarded digital performance agencies, with offices in Wellington and Auckland.
With over a decade's experience in digital marketing, Tim understands what works in the digital space. This hard-won knowledge provides New Zealand organisations with valuable insights to maximise their marketing spend in the most efficient ways possible. With 100% year-on-year growth since its inception, Uprise has been recognised as a Deloitte Fast 500 Asia Pacific company for the last three years. Last year Tim was also honoured to be one of two Kiwis that made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Asia Pacific.
Richard Boyd
Digital Marketing Manager, Two Degrees Mobile Limited
Struggling to get your organisation to adapt to the ever changing digital world we live in? Rich will understand. Having worked with underfunded NGO’s, government departments, and most recently OfficeMax he’s fought for change in some of the most change resistant organisations in New Zealand. Rich is passionate about the digital customer experience, and taking geeky acronyms like CRO, SEO, UX, PPC and turning them into initiatives that delight customers while having a positive impact on the bottom line.