Adam Gizzie

Content is king for marketers today. But content isn’t just for consumers’ entertainment—you need to establish enterprise-wide best practices as to what rules and links are essential to your brand’s SEO plan. The experts on this panel share their best practices in:
• Building fresh and relevant content for SEO optimization
• Curating your brand’s products to ensure your product is relevant in the targeted consumers’ search
• Creating legitimate, valuable content for search engines to rank with essential, relevant keywords
• Incorporating keywords in social and brand content to make your webpage rank higher than your competitors

These interactive sessions are your opportunity to ask personal Q & A from the presentations and network in a relaxed setting. We also have several new roundtable topics featured during time.

1. Using Digital To Drive In-Store Traffic
Drew Cashmore, Sr. Director, Digital & Shopper Marketing, Walmart Canada Corp

2. Maximizing Every Opportunity To Drive Conversions
Rob Deichert, Managing Director, North America, Criteo

3. Enhancing Customer Personalization - The Digitization of Canada's Leading Sporting Goods Retailer
Frederick Lecoq, SVP Marketing FGL Sports and Marks, Canadian Tire

4. Panel Discussion: Leveraging Social Content To Enhance Your SEO Best Practices
Adam Gizzie, Head of eCommerce, Giraffe & Friends
Glenn Burton, Director, eCommerce, Neatfreak Group Inc

5. Panel Discussion: More Than Likes—Using Social Media For Enterprise-Wide Initiatives
Ekaterina Dobrokhotova, Consumer Engagement Manager, L'Oréal
Di Gallo, Director, Social Media, Indigo
Kristen Johnson, Digital Marketing Manager, Vision 11 Apparel
Jeremy Stobo, eCommerce Manager, DAVIDsTEA

6. The Idea Garden: How To Cultivate Customer Feedback To Grow Innovation
Renee Racine-Kinnear, VP of Customer Experience – Digital, Indigo.ca

7. Panel Discussion: Tips To Obtain Consumers’ Data Information And Earning Their Trust
Indar Chanicka, Manager, eCommerce, Canada, The Body Shop
Neal Bouwmeester, Digital Marketing/Social Media Senior Manager, Nissan Canada Inc.
Kerrie Palmer, CRM Manager, Reitmans

8. Optimized Lead Acquisition: Enhance Your Lead Pipeline By Identifying Your Business Needs
Dave Nagy, VP, Marketing, Live Out There

9. Panel Discussion: Obtaining Executive Approval For Omni-Channel Strategies
Noah Goldberg, Director, eCommerce, Ardene
Craig Hudson, VP, Online Operations, Indigo
Chiara Steffenini, eCommece Manager, EQ3
Chance Nguyen , E-Commerce Manager, Ren's Pets Depot

10. How To Succeed As A Multi-Marketplace Online Retailer
Alaa Hassan, Vice President, iNetVideo.com

11. Automating Personalization With Trigger-Based Notifications
Richard Sejean, Director, eCommerce, Browns Shoes