DIG SOUTH Innovation Conference unveils 2017 speaker lineup
March 22, 2017
DIG SOUTH Innovation Conference (DIG ICON), the Southeast’s premier event for digital innovators, announced its 2017 speaker lineup featuring 155 leading executives and entrepreneurs including Jet.com President Liza Landsman, VOX Media CEO & Chair Jim Bankoff, Casper CEO Philip Krim, DraftKings CEO Jason Robins, MakerBot Co-founder Bre Pettis and more; national media, including Forbes, Forbes Radio, Marketplace Tech, TechCrunch, Mashable, and Slate; and major regional, national and global technology companies, including BoomTown, Blackbaud, Snagajob, Rubicon Global and more.
The theme of DIG ICON is Breakthrough: the platforms, strategies and tactics that will help you and your company break through to the next level of growth.
Robert Cooper, a sought-after management consultant, neuroscientist and best-selling author who works with Apple, 3M, Google, Virgin, GM, NASA, Coca-Cola and other global brands will headline DIG ICON. Cooper has been called “a national treasure” and “the ultimate business guru for the new millennium.” His books have sold more than four million copies. Cooper will also headline the DIG C-Level Summit, an exclusive C-Suite event sponsored by Salesforce and running concurrently with DIG ICON. The Summit theme is “Who Dares to Win the Future Wins.”
Scheduled for April 25–27 at Charleston Gaillard Center and other select venues on the Charleston peninsula, the Conference will feature sessions on topics including digital marketing and advertising, neuroscience marketing, AI, VR, IoT, business development, the venture-capital marketplace, healthcare disruption, transportation, gaming, data analytics, cybersecurity, blockchain and more.
DIG ICON 2017 sessions topics will include The Thrills & Spills of AR/VR Development; Well Served: The Next Wave of Curated and On-Demand Customer Services; The Importance of Relevant Content in E-commerce; From Seed to Private Equity: How to Navigate the Full Spectrum of Investment Stages & Opportunities and more.
DIG ICON will also produce its fourth annual “Wild Pitch” event within the Conference. Billed as “The South’s Capitol of Capital,” Wild Pitch features 12 next-stage startups, plus two additional pitch events presented by The Harbor Entrepreneurship Center in Charleston and Queen City FinTech (QC FinTech) in Charlotte.
