BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - July 15, 2008) - What does MLB player recruitment have to do with
data-driven marketing improvement? A lot, according to Paul DePodesta, the
former GM of the L.A. Dodgers and now Special Assistant for Baseball
Operations for the San Diego Padres. Profiled in the book "Moneyball" and
celebrated as a baseball operations wunderkind, DePodesta will keynote
Aberdeen's (
NYSE:
HHS) upcoming CMO Summit, a one-of-a-kind event that will
bring together senior marketing executives from some of the world's most
preeminent brands to share ideas, gain insights and build relationships.
Cathy Halligan, CMO of Walmart.com, Stephan Chase, VP of Customer Insights
at Marriott, Pablo Azar, VP of Marketing Strategy at Allstate, Patrice
Varni, VP of Marketing at Levi's,
and Kevin Doohan, Head of Interactive Marketing at ConAgra Foods, are just
a few of the executives lined up to speak at this year's event. Together
they will address the pressures that are top-of-mind for most CMOs. These
pressures include the need to harness the power of social media, precision
marketing, digital asset management, performance measurement and a host of
other technologies and business processes to achieve better return on
marketing investment, higher customer profitability and increased business
growth.
Leveraging Aberdeen's fact-based research around Best-in-Class marketing
performance, and set in a highly interactive environment, the CMO Summit
will take place September 4-5, 2008, in San Francisco. High-level knowledge
exchange from industry leaders and insights gleaned from tens of thousands
of marketing practitioners participating in Aberdeen research will combine
to make the CMO Summit an event unlike any other.
"This CMO Summit will complement our ever-growing library of fact-based
research with a groundswell of practical ideas and insights from some of
the world's foremost marketing leaders, who will discuss their challenges,
share their strategies, and offer candid advice to other marketing
executives from across multiple industry verticals," said Peter Ostrow,
VP/Group Director of the Customer Management Technology research practice.
"The result will be a plethora of actionable insights that attendees can
readily apply in the context of their own activities and situations."
For additional information on the summit or to register as an end-user
attendee, please visit
http://www.aberdeen.com/events/live/CMO08.
Sponsorship is open for another 30 days for technology vendors/solutions
providers. Preview the event and walk through sponsorship benefits here:
http://www.aberdeen.com/events/live/CMO08/CMO_Sponsorship_Overview.pdf.
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analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology markets,
corporations turn to Aberdeen™ for insights that drive decisions.
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context for the global direct and targeted marketing company. Aberdeen's
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