Friday Nov 4, 2016 – San Francisco, California
Join the who’s who of growth at Weapons of Mass Distribution (WMD), a one-day growth marketing conference teaching you cutting-edge strategies & tactics for getting MOAR users & scaling your business.
– We’re bringing together 19 of the best growth hackers…
– Giving you an interactive Q&A session with each speaker…
– Offering up 1:1 office hours with the 500 distro team…
– And putting you in a room with companies like Brit + Co, Asana & Nerdwallet…
Why? Because we want to help you IGNITE your business!
QUESTIONS? BAD JOKES?
Contact Cristina [at] 500 [dot] co
TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE:
Email Marketing ● User Retention ● Viral Videos
Direct Mail ● Payment Processing ● Search Engine Optimization
Social Media Marketing ● Strategic Partnerships ● Content Marketing
Referral Marketing ● Usability Patterns ● Agile Marketing Teams
+ MOAR
8:00-9:00am Registration + Light Breakfast
Morning keynotes
9:00-9:15am 500 Distro Staff
Welcome & opening remarks
9:15-9:45am Jascha Kaykas-Wolff (CMO, Mozilla)
Rethink collecting customer data
9:45-10:15am James Currier (Managing Partner, NFX Guild)
Unlocking the secrets of growth
10:15-10:45am Break
Late morning keynotes
10:45-11:15am Ryan Deiss (Founder & CEO, Digital Marketer)
Automate your ideal sales convo
11:15-11:45am George Lee (Head of Growth, Instagram)
Running growth for a 116 million user social network
11:45-12:15pm Sean Ellis (Founder & CEO, GrowthHackers)
Make your marketing team agile or die
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
Track 1 – Rethinking growth fundamentals
1:15-1:45pm Steven Dupree (Entrepreneur in Residence, Trinity Ventures)
How do I spend my first $10K on marketing?
1:45-2:15pm Brittany Murlas (Content Strategist, Pinterest Expert)
Why everyone needs to pay attention to Pinterest
2:15-2:45pm Susan Su (Venture Partner, 500 Startups; Head of Marketing, Reforge)
The ROI of content and how to scale
Track 2 – Hack-tics on the growth battlefield
1:15-1:45pm Lance Loveday (CEO, Closed Loop)
It’s OK to trick people to click
1:45-2:15pm Elena Verna (SVP Growth, SurveyMonkey)
Minimize involuntary churn through payment processing
2:15-2:45pm Casey Winters (Advisor to Pocket, Airbnb, Darby Smart;
Former Growth Lead at Pinterest & GrubHub)
Constant rejection: A lesson in retaining users
2:45-3:15pm Break
Track 1 – Get ahead of the future of growth
3:15-3:45pm Adelyn Zhou (Co-Founder, Asend Direct)
Direct Mail 2.0 – Get ahead of the next big growth channel
3:45-4:15pm Karen X (Founder & CEO, Karen X LLC)
Facebook is completely changing viral videos – Take advantage of it
4:15-4:45pm Everette Taylor (CMO, Skurt)
Fueling growth through emotional intelligence
Track 2 – Let’s grow some money!
3:15-3:45pm Daniel Harmon (Creative Director, Harmon Brothers)
Create videos that don’t just go viral, they drive sales
3:45-4:15pm Patrick Campbell (Co-Founder & CEO, Price Intelligently)
What you need to know to have the best pricing and positioning
4:15-4:45pm Michael Sharkey (Co-Founder & CEO, Autopilot)
Souped-up: Get big and fast with strategic partnerships
4:45-5:15pm Break
Closing keynotes
5:15-5:45pm Nir Eyal (Author of “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”)
How to build habit-forming products
5:45-6:15pm Brian Balfour (Founder & CEO, Reforge)
How to (actually) become elite at growth
6:15-6:30pm 500 Distro Staff
Closing
6:30-7:30pm Networking reception
MISSION BAY CONFERENCE AT UCSF
(Inside the Williams J. Rutter Center Building)
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94143
Main Phone: (866) 431-8273
RECOMMENDED PARKING
Community Center Garage
Located next to the Mission Bay Community Center
1835 Owens Street Garage
Located across from the Mission Bay Hospital
1630 Third Street Garage
Located just north of 16th Street
Download the MBCC Parking Map for further direction. or CLICK HERE FOR INFO ON PUBLIC TRANSIT AND DIRECTIONS