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By invitation only, the Outsell Signature Event, co-produced with JEGI CLARITY, focuses on the industry’s most pressing issues and hottest trends. Now 15 years strong, the Outsell Signature Event is jam-packed with actionable case studies and outlooks necessary to plan for the coming year. It’s the don’t-miss event of the year, where deals get done and new connections are made.
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Outsell Signature Event 2022 Program
Theme: The Future Is Now
Theme: The Future Is Now
Tuesday, October 11
9:00 – 11:30 am
Golf
We’re offering an opportunity for four foursomes to play nine holes on a first-come, first-served basis. Come
early and enjoy time on the links. Available by reservation only.
early and enjoy time on the links. Available by reservation only.
11:45 – 12:45 pm
Pre-conference Lite Bite
Break bread with fellow members and fellow attendees and enjoy the opportunity to get together F2F and enjoy a visit before the event begins.
1:00 – 1:10 pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks: The Future Is
Now
What does the future hold for the most pressing issues leaders now face? We’ve dissected those that rose to the top and brought in speakers with unique points of view that will challenge your thinking and impact your plans. Get ready for the future of everything.
Anthea Stratigos
Co-founder & CEO
Outsell, Inc.
Outsell, Inc.
1:15 – 1:45 pm
Opening Keynote: Making Data-Based Decisions in an Increasingly Disrupted World – How far do we
trust the machine?
To say that business leaders are working in disrupted times is certainly an understatement. The scope, nature, and duration of disruption to the business ecosystem has reached a point where we must seriously consider best practices and prior lessons learned in a context that is historically unprecedented. Business leaders are being asked to make decisions with increasingly large corpora of data, which can itself be overwhelming. Adding to the complexity, many modern tools and techniques promise to address this data deluge with intelligent methods but rarely do we consider what preconditions would have to be true for such methods to be effective.
In this session, Dr. Anthony Scriffignano, SVP and Chief Data Scientist at Dun & Bradstreet will consider the broad trends facing business leaders who make data-based decisions in the context of changing expectations, evolving bias and skills, data curation, and changing regulation. He will consider the truth vs. reality of finding “intelligent” ways to automate decisions, particularly in the context of how far we can or should trust such approaches. This session, both relevant and occasionally irreverent, will include practical advice and a touch of inspiration for anyone feeling skeptical about the widening divide between the data we have and the sense we make of it.
Dr. Anthony Scriffignano
Senior Vice President and Chief Data Scientist
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
2:00 – 5:00 pm
The Outlook: What the Future Holds
Now more than ever things are changing fast and interrelated. Geopolitics impacts the economy. The economy is affecting interest rates and inflation, salaries or work reductions even, which then impacts our talent strategies. Overlay return to office and impact on local economies. Interest rates and exchange rates impact M&A. We are taking four of the most pressing topics that affect the outlook for our industry and bringing in experts to share their views followed by audience-driven Q&A in an hour-long conference-wide dialog and debate.
2:00 – 2:20 pm
Geopolitics
Rodger Baker
Executive Director
Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics at RANE Network Inc. (Risk Assistance Network + Exchange)
2:25 – 2:45 pm
The Economy
Ryan Sweet
Senior Director – Economic Research
Moody’s Analytics, Inc.
2:50 – 3:10 pm
M&A
Kathleen Thomas
Managing Director
JEGI CLARITY
JEGI CLARITY
3:15 – 3:35 pm
Talent
Christina Correira
Chief Human Resources Officer
Bloomberg Industry Group
Bloomberg Industry Group
3:35 – 4:00 pm
Networking Break
4:00 – 4:45 pm
The Outlook Q&A, Dialogue, and Debate
What questions do you have for the Outlook speakers? What are you seeing out there? What rings true or you’d challenge? We’ll be joined by Craig Fuller, Founder & CEO, FreightWaves, Inc, and Chris Seiple, Vice Chairman of Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition and Power & Renewables business for additional perspectives about the macro-outlook and how it’ll shape our industry in the coming two years. Get ready. Get set – go!
Craig Fuller
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
FreightWaves, Inc.
Chris Seiple
Vice Chairman, Energy Transition and Power & Renewables Practice
Wood Mackenzie
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Opening Cocktail Reception
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Opening Dinner
Wednesday, October 12
9:00 – 9:30 am
View from the Top
Two of the largest and successful market research organizations, NPD and IRI, merged on August 1. NPD’s outgoing CEO, Karyn Schoenbart, now board member, and its founder Tod Johnson, now chairman of the board, for the combined entities, share their view from the top. What does it take to create sustained organic growth with no outside funders over a 50+ year run? How does one achieve sustained high satisfaction scores among clients as well as team, something NPD did for many years? How do you merge two cultures and ready one for a new CEO under a merged entity? How do they think about scaling in a company that serves many industries, and what new demands are customers bringing their way? NPD and IRI are now on an exciting future together. Get ready for the future. What’s their view from the top.
Interview by Anthea Stratigos, Co-founder and CEO, Outsell, Inc.
Interview by Anthea Stratigos, Co-founder and CEO, Outsell, Inc.
Karyn Schoenbart
Former CEO The NPD Group/IRI., Board Director, Author, Speaker
Tod Johnson
Chairman of the Board
The NPD Group/IRI
9:35 – 10:05 am
Who’s Poised: Outsell Readiness Rankings & Industry Predictions
Outsell’s Ned May will present our perspective on the data and information industry in the coming years. Relying on 20 years of data, a team of leading analysts and expert partners, and the insight gleaned from our CEO Sentiment survey, Ned will detail our predictions for the market and unveil the results of our new “Readiness Ranking” that harvests insight off our daily headlines and ongoing market scans to identify the companies in strong positions to succeed in the coming years.
Ned May
Chief Operating Officer
Outsell, Inc.
10:05 – 10:30 am
Networking Break
10:35 – 11:15 am
Segment Labs
Top up your tea or coffee, get something to eat, and join one of our three simultaneous segment laboratories that look at vital issues in the areas of business to business, community and education, and scholarly communications.
Lab 1: Scaling Data & Analytics Businesses: Experiences and Best Practices.
Data and analytics and information comes in many forms today – research data, B2B data collected in the field, sales and marketing data collected through a tech stack, subscriber usage data collected through a CMS or marketplace or platform, exhaust data collected through a platform, and many more. Join three information industry company leaders who will discuss how they are scaling, lessons learned, benefits and surprises.
Daniel McCarthy
President & Chief Executive Officer
Dodge Construction Network
Dr. Elizabeth Cholawsky
Chief Executive Officer
HG Insights Inc.
Max Gabriel
President of IIRIS
Informa PLC.
Informa PLC.
Lab 2: Audiences & Communities: Adding Professional Training to the Mix
Specialist information providers delivering essential insights and knowledge to their communities are already in the “education and training” business. A logical next step is to formalize a professional training offer to end users: tools to support lifelong learning or even formal qualifications. Our panelists will share their experiences of managing that service mix, the challenges they’ve faced, and where they’ve discovered synergies and growth opportunities.
Tony Shaw
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Dataversity Digital LLC
Connie Sayers
Chief Revenue Officer
Government Executive Media Group
Dr. Tamara Hanna
Director, New Product Innovation
American Chemical Societ
Lab 3: The Future of Scholarly Comms
As the sector transitions to Open Access and Open Science, there is a recognition that the transition could well challenge the business model of established, smaller organisations, will create new opportunities for others to leverage their scale and will act as a catalyst for new entrants and initiatives to address emerging opportunities.
Nikesh Gosalia
Senior VP Global Academic and
Publisher Relations Cactus Communications Inc.
Publisher Relations Cactus Communications Inc.
Ann Michael
Chief Transformation Officer
AIP Publishing LLC
Babis Marmanis
Executive Vice President & CTO
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
11:20 – 11:50 am
Keynote Two: The Future of FAIR and Open Data
Standards and protocols are key factors in all types of development and change, and the world of data is no exception. The FAIR foundation and its protocols ensure that data is findable, accessible, identifiable, and reproducible; following them leads to creating metadata whose key elements are retained once data is released into the network or the cloud. Professor Barend Mons, science director of the FAIR foundation and its GO-FAIR initiative, is well known for challenging publishers’ and information providers’ preconceptions about how data needs to be presented to make it most usable. Famous for stating “If we need to mine for text and data, we need to ask ourselves why we buried them in the first place,” Mons challenges traditional thinking about data availability and the ways in which we research and analyze data.
Professor Barend Mons
LUMC
Scientific Director, GO FAIR Foundation
President, CODATA
Scientific Director, GO FAIR Foundation
President, CODATA
11:50 am – 1:25 pm
Lunch & Mingle or Join Table Topics
Lunch & Mingle or Join Table Topics
Mingle, get deals done, meet new people, and strengthen partnerships. Or join a table of peers tackling the same issues. We’ve assigned four to get you started with an Outsell host and a member to meet the topic head-on.
Either way, Grab your meal and enjoy. Whatever option you pick it’s time to break bread.
- Building Platforms at Scale – Simon Alterman, Outsell Inc., Jamie Bedard, Wellesley Information Services, and Tim Andrews, Advertising Specialty Institute.
- Leveraging New Data Distribution Models – Randy Giusto, Outsell, Inc., and Mike Valant, Outsell, Inc.
- Creating A Strong Product Function – Jim King, Outsell Inc., Grant Hunter, Outsell, Inc., and Vipul Nakum, OAG Aviation Worldwide Ltd.
- Strengthening Team & Culture – Anthea Stratigos, Outsell, Inc., and Janine Bavoso, NorthStar Travel Media
- Climate Change – Peter Lake, Outsell, Inc., and Sam Herbert, 67 Bricks Ltd.
11:20 – 11:50 am
Meet Tomorrow’s User
Zev Beeber
Associate, Corporate, Finance and Investments
King & Spalding LLP
Bailee Dover
Senior Director, Strategic Accounts
Leadership Connect
William Gardner
Marketing Manager
Outsell, Inc.
2:05 – 2:35 pm
View from the Top
Search, discovery, and accessibility. While we are all clear that available data is becoming larger and more significant by the day, are we finding what we need and creating the solutions that we require faster or more accurately? How has search moved on since the opening days of Google? Does machine learning and artificial intelligence obviate the need for advances in search, or are they, in themselves, the way the search market will be replaced? Will we end up with each of our companies having its own proprietary search environment, or will search become generic? Can we stop adding value to data through meta data and mark up in the hope that improvements in search will compensate, or is the need to enhance and enrich data even greater than it was in the early days of keyword searching?
Kamran Khan
President & CEO
Pureinsights Technology Corporation,
Inc.
Pureinsights Technology Corporation,
Inc.
Tod Johnson
Senior Product Manager, Apps
& Analytics
Digital Science & Research
Solutions Ltd.
& Analytics
Digital Science & Research
Solutions Ltd.
2:40 – 3:25 pm
View from the Top
The Metaverse to many is the ‘next big thing’ an alternate reality where ‘real life’ takes place. From the professor who has been doing groundbreaking research at the forefront of virtual worlds and now the Metaverse, who has also taught his own course in it, we hear about the Metaverse and operating within it. Teaching? Events? Health provisioning, new workplaces, and so much more. Where is it going? What are the pitfalls? What must every leader consider pros and cons about this new world as a workplace or as part of its offerings? Operating in the Metaverse is a reality. Leave prepared to join it. Professor Jeremy Bailenson is a world authority who knows the dangers and benefits it brings.
Professor Jeremy Bailenson
Founding Director
Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University
Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University
3:30 pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks: The Future Is
Anthea Stratigos
Co-founder & CEO
Outsell, Inc.
Outsell, Inc.
Co-Producer
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