2020-06-08 12:00:00

The Growth Marketing Conference

The health and well-being of our customers, partners, employees and Activate community are top priorities for Iterable. In light of the continued development of COVID-19, we have decided to postpone Activate San Francisco. We will update the community once a new date and/or virtual event has been confirmed.

Thank you for your interest! We’ll keep you updated on Activate 2020.

Why Attend

Activate is Iterable’s signature conference that expands the boundaries of modern marketing. It provides networking opportunities with forward-thinking marketers and insight-rich sessions to overcoming business challenges and creating innovative campaigns. Together, we examine the current and future state of marketing through a growth-focused lens to collectively shape the growth marketing movement.  

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What to Expect

An incredible couple of days celebrating growth marketing innovations with Iterable.

What to Expect

An incredible couple of days celebrating growth marketing innovations with Iterable.

Our Speakers

Activate’s speakers are marketing industry leaders who know how to put your customer first and lead tech-forward programs that are designed to drive growth. Their backgrounds of expertise range from user acquisition and retention, to CRM and loyalty, and more. Make sure to check back as speakers get added.

KEYNOTE
Jonathan Mildenhall
Co-Founder and CEO
Jonathan Mildenhall
Co-Founder and CEO
Jonathan has recently launched his own brand consultancy called TwentyFirstCenturyBrand. Based in San Francisco, TwentyFirstCenturyBrand counts industry leaders like Sean Parker and Arianna Huffington as founding clients alongside Pinterest, WeWork, Harklinikken, Airtime, GoDaddy, Peloton, Uber, UberEats, TurboTax, College Track, Nextdoor, Headspace, and Front. Jonathan specializes in helping founders and CEOs realize the potential of their company brand and the financial value that purpose-driven marketing can help create. In 2014 he joined Airbnb as CMO when Airbnb had just broken into that $1bn unicorn status, with the mission to transform the industry-disrupting property rental platform into the next global iconic Superbrand. In four years, the Airbnb brand has won countless awards, now defines popular culture and is valued at over $35bn. In 2006 Jonathan became VP of Global Advertising Strategy and Creative at The Coca-Cola Company after a career running successful ad agencies. He led the team that launched Coca-Cola’s global marketing platform “Open Happiness,” which became their most profitable and awarded marketing platform ever.
KEYNOTE
Bela Stepanova
VP, Product
Bela Stepanova
VP, Product
Bela spent the last 13 years building products, used by millions of users today. As a product leader, she is passionate about building enterprise quality products with user experience first mindset. She holds a Computer Science degree from University of California, Berkeley.
KEYNOTE
Brendan Witcher
VP and Principal Analyst, Digital Business Strategy
Brendan Witcher
VP and Principal Analyst, Digital Business Strategy
Brendan serves digital business strategy professionals and is an expert on consumer behavior and technology trends in the commerce engagement space. He is also a noted authority on market developments and vendors that help deliver today’s leading strategies and tactics in digital excellence. In his research, Brendan covers such consumer-oriented, cross-vertical topics as eCommerce, personalization, omnichannel, CX best practices, engagement strategies, and conversion optimization. Brendan applies this knowledge to numerous industries and spends most of his time consulting with companies that are at the forefront of dealing with digital disruption. In addition to keynoting at global industry events and advising executive teams on digital strategy, Brendan is sought after for comments and insights by industry media such as Bloomberg, CNBC, NPR, PBS, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and USA Today.
KEYNOTE
Justin Zhu
Co-Founder and CEO
Justin Zhu
Co-Founder and CEO
Justin Zhu is co-founder and CEO of Iterable. Zhu’s expertise lies in scaling high-velocity businesses with emerging technologies, having built user growth systems that powered Twitter’s early success. He has previous engineering experience at Google and studied Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Sterling Bailey
Sr. Director of Marketing Operations & Infrastructure
Sterling Bailey
Sr. Director of Marketing Operations & Infrastructure
Sterling Bailey is a modern marketing leader, researcher, writer, student and teacher. With over a dozen years of experience with leveraging best of breed marketing technologies and strategies, Sterling works to drive sales within organizations small and large. Equal parts technology geek and marketing nerd, he lives to help organizations accomplish their marketing & customer engagement goals. Sterling has been a well-regarded speaker and moderator at venues such as Oracle Open World, JiveWorld, Eloqua Experience and Email Marketing Summit. When not solving complex marketing engagement problems, Sterling can be found working on his non-profit organization, Cap for Kids (www.capforkids.org) which supports families with children undergoing cancer treatment.
Sue Cho
Head of Lifecycle Marketing
Sue Cho
Head of Lifecycle Marketing
Sue currently heads up lifecycle marketing at Calm and has been doing engagement and retention marketing since 2009 for companies like The Honest Company and Dollar Shave Club. She also co-hosts the #emailgeeksSF meetup and is a charter member of Women of Email.
Aylin Cook
Director of Content Marketing
Aylin Cook
Director of Content Marketing
Aylin Cook has a decade of B2B content marketing experience. She is an expert at brand-building, creating and implementing full content marketing strategies, and driving results through a holistic content experience. With a journalism and creative nonfiction background, she believes every brand has a narrative and the fun of being a content marketer is teasing that out and telling it.
Sarah Esterman
Lifecycle Marketing Manager
Sarah Esterman
Lifecycle Marketing Manager
Sarah Esterman is a people-first lifecycle marketer who crafts kind, thoughtful, and successful customer journeys—and the messaging that carries folks through them. Popular with animals, she lives in Portland, Oregon with her partner, 7 lb Persian cat, and (bowling ball of a) dog.
Loren Elia
Director of Product Marketing
Loren Elia
Director of Product Marketing
Loren leads Product Marketing at HoneyBook where she specializes in driving product education and feature adoption at every stage of the customer lifecycle. Prior to HoneyBook, she worked at Weebly, Infogram and Procter & Gamble. In her free time, Loren enjoys roaming the streets of the Mission in search for the perfect Esquite and playing with her cat Hetch Hetchy.
Joel Goyette
Senior Product Manager
Joel Goyette
Senior Product Manager
Joel is a Senior Product Manager at Scott’s Cheap Flights. He has spent the past decade founding, growing and advising startups.
Brenton Henry
Director of Digital Strategy
Brenton Henry
Director of Digital Strategy
Brenton Henry is an industry leader in pushing modern digital workflow adoption across multiple industries. In 2006, he was a key founding member of the first global concert and video broadcast platform in the U.S., earning the company two Telly Awards along the way. In 2011, he moved to New York where he continued consulting in digital workflows across many high-profile media organizations and broadcasters. Since joining Fathom Events, he has contributed to automating and modernizing digital marketing processes, coordinating company-wide migrations to API driven systems and experimenting with emerging platforms to produce data-driven results.
Alyssa Jarrett
Director, Brand & Content Marketing
Alyssa Jarrett
Director, Brand & Content Marketing
Alyssa Jarrett is Director, Brand & Content Marketing at Iterable, where she specializes in creating data-driven content to educate growth marketers on how to develop world-class customer engagement.She has previously served in marketing roles for companies in SaaS and big data, including Ripple, Objectivity, Splice Machine, and Cray. Alyssa holds an M.A. in Mass Communication and Journalism from California State University, Fresno.
Jade Kolber
Senior Marketing Manager – Email
Jade Kolber
Senior Marketing Manager – Email
Jade is passionate about tech, design, and eCommerce – and believes that beautiful communication strategies are the glue that holds them all together. For the last decade she has focused on building world-class email programs for large creative communities at 99designs and Envato, along with supporting organizations in the not-for-profit and social enterprise sector. Based in Melbourne Australia, Jade is highly experienced in the nuances of email marketing to a large and globally distributed customer base.
Justin Maslin
Software Engineer
Justin Maslin
Software Engineer
Justin Maslin is a software engineer at PicnicHealth focusing on our patient and doctor experience. His focus is on creating useful and engaging experiences for our users.
Bridget Overson
Associate Marketing Manager
Bridget Overson
Associate Marketing Manager
Bridget Overson is an Associate Marketing Manager at Care.com. As a member of the CRM team, Bridget specializes in technical operations specifically in the creation of highly targeted dynamic content for email, app, and site campaigns. Bridget is known as one of Care.com’s Iterable super-users and is a subject matter expert in HTML/CSS/Handlebars.
Don Pilsbury
Head of Retention
Don Pilsbury
Head of Retention
Don began his career in the agency world where he spent 12 years building and leading teams at GMR Marketing (Omnicom agency) to manage the pyramid of Visa Olympic partnerships from the top (the International Olympic Committee) to the base (U.S. Ski & Snowboard,, U.S. Track and Field, etc.). In 2012, Don switched careers and joined American Giant (manufacturer of the “Greatest hoodie ever made”) to run sales & marketing, with a focus on developing and stewarding their rapidly growing customer base. After 5 years at American Giant, Don moved over to Rothy’s as the Head of Retention where he currently runs all retention revenue channels and customer lifecycle marketing. Outside of work, Don lives in Mill Valley with his wife and 2 kids and he loves live music, the outdoors and hot sauces!
Katie Raynolds
Retention Marketing Manager
Katie Raynolds
Retention Marketing Manager
Katie Raynolds manages email & push marketing at Redfin, a technology-powered real estate brokerage. She’s a fan of wildly complex workflows and once had a dream entirely in merge parameters and Handlebars logic.
Dan Rauchwerk
Email Marketing Analyst
Dan Rauchwerk
Email Marketing Analyst
Dan Rauchwerk has worked in email marketing for eight years across a wide variety of industries (nonprofit, education, agency, media). He currently runs the email marketing and contact strategies for The Points Guy. When he’s not working on email campaigns, Dan is an avid distance runner and folk musician.
Jen Taylor
Sr. Director of Digital Marketing
Jen Taylor
Sr. Director of Digital Marketing
Jen is responsible for growing and retaining the audience across all of A+E Networks digital platforms, across all network brands. During her time with A+E Networks Jen has fueled over a billion video views and over 70 million app downloads across the Digital TV Everywhere products; lead customer acquisition across all platforms for the launch of Lifetime Movie Club and HISTORY Vault; and implemented retention tactics for TV Everywhere apps.
Neil Wainwright
CEO
Neil Wainwright
CEO
Neil founded UpHabit in 2017 as a Personal CRM (not the best term but everyone uses it) and uses Iterable extensively at UpHabit, both within the product and in customer engagement. Neil’s a software engineer and has been building businesses since he was 26. Now that he’s 58, he’s learned a lot, including a lot of bruises and scars along the way. :slightly_smiling_face: He has a passion for great products, great teams and for delighting his customers.
Anne Wave
Digital Marketing Associate Manager
Anne Wave
Digital Marketing Associate Manager
Anne Wave is a digital marketer focusing on email, web & mobile at CorePower Yoga in Denver, Colorado. She loves digital but also appreciates that billboard marketing and direct mail are making a comeback.
Katie Welch
Growth Marketing Manager
Katie Welch
Growth Marketing Manager
Katie is a Growth Marketing Manager at Convoy where she focuses on experimentation, optimization and scaling marketing programs to educate and engage users. She has spent most of her career in startups building full-funnel marketing programs for both B2B and B2C businesses. Katie is a graduate of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.
Alex Reed
Co-founder and CMO
Alex Reed
Co-founder and CMO
Alex Reed co-founded cleaning brand Truman’s after more than a decade at Big Ass Fans, where he served as global marketing director and helped the company grow from $30 million in annual sales to more than $250 million. After helping guide the company’s $500 million sale in 2017, Alex sought a new challenge and co-founded Truman’s with the belief that cleaning should be green, simple, convenient and cost less.

Session Tracks

Customer-First
The Customer-First track will discuss how to place empathy at the heart of your growth marketing strategy. These sessions will demonstrate how to create human connections that will lead to relationships, which in turn will generate long-term loyalty.
Tech-Forward
The Tech-Forward track will dive deep into the growth marketing technology stack, discussing the inner workings of cross-channel integration and automation. These sessions will discuss how to create, execute and optimize campaigns across email, mobile push, in-app messaging and more.
Community-Powered
The Community-Powered track brings together the growth marketing community in a whole new way, from industry-specific roundtables to panels on how to develop professionally. These sessions will offer opportunities to network, collaborate and learn from both experts and peers.
Growth-Driven
The Growth-Driven track combines the powers of the three Day 1 tracks to highlight how harnessing customer empathy, technology and community can drive significant business growth. These sessions will discuss how to maximize efficiency, increase productivity and achieve ROI never thought possible.

The Growth Marketing Awards

Iterable’s Growth Marketing Awards are designed to recognize and celebrate customers and partners that are leveraging Iterable to power world-class customer engagement. Winners will be celebrated during Activate. Thank you for your time in completing these submissions and for inspiring us every day. We look forward to seeing you all in June! Deadline for submission(s) is Friday, April 10, 2020 at 11:59PM PT.

Submit to Win
Growth Marketing Team of the Year
Technology Partner of the Year
Agency Partner of the Year
Most Sophisticated Use of Workflow Studio
Best Cross-Channel Campaign
Most Captive Audience
Most Impactful Transition to Iterable

Location

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Palace Hotel

2 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Palace Hotel

2 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Nice digs. Sweet venue.
Nice digs. Sweet venue.
 

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FAQs

When is Activate?

Activate San Francisco has been postponed and will be rescheduled to a later date. Sign up for updates below or email activate@iterable.com to receive email notifications once confirmed.

Am I allowed to attend the Conference Customer Workshops?

If you are an existing Iterable Customer, you are welcome to attend any of three workshops. The $100 workshop add-on will give you access to Foundations, Mobile and Advanced Personalization. If you are not an Iterable Customer, we are unfortunately unable to accommodate you in the Customer Workshops.

I have completed my registration and want to make a change, how do I do this?

Email activate@iterable.com with the email address you used to register and the change you would like to make.

I’d like to bring a colleague or friend. Is there a group rate?

The more the merrier! For groups of 5 or more, we are able to provide a group discount. Email activate@iterable.com or contact your Iterable representative for more information.

Is Activate cancelled? What is the cancellation policy?

We are committed to the safety and well-being of the entire Activate community. At this time, we have decided to postpone Activate San Francisco and will update the community once a new date and/or virtual event has been confirmed.

In the case that Activate is cancelled, a full refund will be provided within 72 hours. If you need to cancel due to special circumstances, please email activate@iterable.com and we will get you sorted.

Are substitutions permitted?
We understand plans change. Email activate@iterable.com by May 15 and we will help transfer your ticket.
I have already purchased a ticket to Activate. In the case that I can’t make the new event date, will I be refunded?

Yes, we will notify all current ticket holders of the new conference format once confirmed. In the case that you cannot make the new event date, we will fully refund your ticket. 

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GraffMelanieMelanie Graff@GraffMelanie·
6 Apr

We want to recognize world-class engagement, so if you’re a customer or partner of Iterable, apply for a Growth Marketing Award today! The deadline to submit is April 10.#Activate20 #GrowthMarketingAwards @Iterable https://bit.ly/39Mn4dz

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IterableIterable@Iterable·
6 Apr

#Activate20 may be postponed, but our Growth Marketing Awards are still on! If you’re a customer or partner of Iterable, apply by Friday, April 10, to enter to win! https://iterable.com/activate/#awards

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12 Mar

Today is the last day to catch Armando and Jerry at AgSafe’s ACTIVATE20 in Modesto! Swing by the AgCode booth for a look at our newest updates and more information.
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Notice on COVID-19

The health and well-being of our customers, partners, employees and Activate community are top priorities for Iterable. In light of the continued development of COVID-19, we have decided to postpone Activate San Francisco. We will update the community once a new date and/or virtual event has been confirmed.