Conference Agenda at a Glance and Exhibit & Sponsor List PDF - download here.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015 |
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| 9:00AM – 8:00PM |
Registration Sponsored by Sherwin-Williams. Please pick up your Registration Goody Bag - compliments of Sherwin-Williams. A badge is your admission to the conference program, breakfast, lunches, and receptions.
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| 1:00PM - 5:00PM | Exhibitor Set-Up for Design Bloggers Conference |
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OFFICIAL KICKOFF FOR THE 2015 DESIGN BLOGGERS CONFERENCE
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| 10:00AM – 2:00PM | DIGITAL DAY AT ADAC
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| 2:00PM – 5:00PM | LUXURY LIVING SHOW and OUTDOOR DESIGN AT PHIPPS PLAZA Sponsored by Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles | ||||||||||||
| 3:30PM – 4:15PM | Special Guest and Presentation at Phipps Plaza by Alexa Hampton
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| 5:00PM | Last buses depart from Phipps Plaza and return to the Grand Hyatt Buckhead Hotel for Design Bloggers Welcome Reception. | ||||||||||||
| 5:30PM – 7:30PM | Welcome Reception at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead Hotel Sponsored by Benjamin Moore Join your fellow bloggers and speakers for a get-to-know-you cocktail reception. Please wear your Design Bloggers Conference badge for admission. |
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Official Wednesday After Party Sponsored by Sunbrella
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| 8:00PM - 10:30PM | Official Wednesday After Party Sponsored by Sunbrella Join Sunbrella and Traditional Home for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres to kick off the Design Bloggers Conference and see the latest iteration of the groundbreaking Sunbrella design program, Perspective New York. Location: BJORK STUDIO, 1200 Old Chattahoochee Avenue NW in Atlanta.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2015 |
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| All Conference sessions will be held in Grand Ballroom 1 & 2 | |||||||||||||
| 7:30AM – 6:00PM | Registration Sponsored by Sherwin-Williams. Please pick up your Registration Goody Bag - compliments of Sherwin-Williams. A badge is your admission to the conference program, breakfast, lunches, and receptions. |
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| 7:30AM – 8:30AM | Coffee with Sponsors and Exhibitors | ||||||||||||
| 8:30AM – 8:45AM | Welcome and Introductory Remarks
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| 8:45AM –9:45AM |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
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| 9:45AM –10:30AM |
How Content Marketing Can Build Traffic, Loyal Readers, Your Brand, and Your Bottom Line With more and more bloggers, and more and more content, standing out from the crowd and building your online presence is harder than it has ever been. In this highly interactive and fast-paced session, popular speaker Marcus Sheridan will explain specific ways you can create content that will not only generate more traffic and loyal readers, but will also help brand you as a thought leader with a unique approach and a top go-to source for design information.
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| 10:30AM –11:00AM |
Networking Break/Interaction With Sponsors and Exhibitors Sponsored by ADAC |
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| 11:00AM– 12:00PM | Learn How to Expand Your Brand into Video and Gain a Global Presence Beth Le Manach, VP of Programming for Kin Community, YouTube’s #1 Lifestyle Community, and host/creator of “Entertaining with Beth” and the newly formed “In Beth’s Garden”, will show you how to take your brand to the next level, by expanding into video. Learn why YouTube is an ideal platform to build a video presence, best practices for building and sustaining an audience, basic equipment needed to get started, strategies for monetizing your content, and why the timing for launching a video brand, for design and garden professionals, couldn’t be better than right now! You’ve figured out Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. In 2015 learn how to master YouTube.
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| 12:00PM– 12:45PM | Wine, Branding, and Social Media These two speakers were inspired by their passion for wine to leave the corporate world to take the lead in wine education and branding in the U.S and Asia. Brett and Jonathan will lead us through some practical understanding about enjoying wine, their personal stories, how to think about wine and design, why they use social media and content marketing to build personal and business brands, and then share some of their finest and favorite beverages.
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| 12:45PM–2:00PM | Lunch/Networking with Exhibitors and Sponsors | ||||||||||||
| 2:00PM–2:15PM | Design Bloggers Conference Hall of Fame Awards Sponsored and Presented by Ethan Allen and Traditional Home Join Ethan Allen & Traditional Home for an engaging conversation about what makes an outstanding blog before they announce the winners of the 2015 Design Bloggers Conference Hall of Fame Awards!
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| 2:15PM – 3:00PM | Keynote Address: Bunny Williams Sponsored by Chairish
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| 3:00PM – 3:30PM | Networking Break/Interaction With Sponsors and Exhibitors | ||||||||||||
| 3:30PM – 4:00PM | The Ultimate Blog Platform?
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| 4:00PM –4:30PM |
Creating a Safe and Secure Website Experience For You and Your Readers These days the threat of getting hacked is very real to every website owner. While impossible to give you all the security you require in this session, we’ll explore a number of things that you can act on immediately to help improve and reduce your overall security risk. Security is not an absolute, and while a real threat, education and awareness around today’s security challenges is the first step to improving your website’s security posture.This talk will focus on the things that you should be thinking about when it comes to security and your website, while providing you best practices and giving you some actionable steps you can take. The worst thing you can do when creating a website is not think about security and potential impacts of getting hacked. We have a responsibility, as website owners, to ensure that those visiting our sites are safe online. This presentation will provide the foundation to achieve this.
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| 4:30PM – 4:45PM |
Dwell with Dignity -A Special Invitation from Lisa Robison and Kim Turner
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| 4:45PM -5:30PM | What You Need to Know about Pinterest and Instagram Hear the fascinating story on how Nick amassed 2 million Pinterest followers in 6 months and captured the attention of the founder of Pinterest along the way. His success continues with 3.4 million followers and growing partnerships with a focus on mastering Instagram now. But there are things that Nick will not do on his journey.
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| 5:30PM – 7:00PM |
Networking Reception at the Grand Hyatt Hotel Sponsored by Pirch Join your fellow bloggers, exhibitors, sponsors, and speakers for a warm get-together reception. Please wear your Design Bloggers Conference badge for admission. |
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Official Thursday After Party Sponsored by Pirch
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| 7:00PM- 10:00PM |
Official After Party Sponsored by Pirch with Co-Sponsors Consentino and Gessi, Lenox Marketplace What better way to wrap up your day than at an Italian masquerade? We know that a blogger’s work is never done but here is a fun opportunity to relax, imbibe, nosh, and enjoy! Festivities include a red carpet welcome, an Italian masquerade, signature cocktails and bites, violinisits, contortionists, and more!
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2015 |
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| 7:30AM – 8:30AM | Coffee with Sponsors and Exhibitors | ||||||||||||
| 8:30AM –8:55AM | A Special Presentation by Adam Japko | ||||||||||||
| 9:00AM – 9:45AM | KEYNOTE Address: Brian Patrick Flynn Sponsored by Duralee
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| 9:45AM – 10:30AM | Blogging to Unveil Design’s Emotional Core and Higher Purpose Much of today’s interior design and décor blogosphere are missing a great opportunity to connect with a much wider swath of people beyond just home design enthusiasts – i.e., a universe of folks who share the design community’s desire to change lives but have never been exposed to interior design and home décor in this larger context. Mark believes there’s an additional sweet spot with greater potential for growth – content that spotlights and celebrates the life-altering power of great and personalized design that can truly touch your soul. As he puts it, the spot “halfway between Oprah and Martha Stewart” that nobody is addressing right now.
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| 10:45AM– 11:15AM | Networking Break/Interaction With Sponsors and Exhibitors |
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| 11:15AM– 12:00PM |
Social Media: Roots for Design Collaboration Social media marketing is more than finding customers. Hear from these design pros about how social media and blogging lead to their professional collaboration, new paths, partnerships, and blossoming personal brands and careers.
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| 12:00PM– 12:45PM |
Digital Marketing and Branding Life Rafts When you least expect it, digital marketing savvy and social media immersion can change the course of your design career and personal success. Through style, grit, and digital marketing strategies, these panelists have ignited their careers. Their stories are informative and inspiring.
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| 12:45PM – 1:00PM | Conference Scholarship Sponsored and Presented by Hansgrohe | ||||||||||||
| 1:00PM – 2:00PM | Lunch Sponsored by Pirch | ||||||||||||
| 2:00PM – 2:45PM | Photography Making your work look good in photographs is the most important aspect of finishing a project. Learn the key secrets from photo stylist and editor Stacy Kunstel who has had more than 90 magazine and book covers to her credit. Stacy shares how she approaches interiors to make them picture perfect.
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| 2:45PM - 3:30PM | Social Media Analytics
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| 3:30PM - 4:00PM | Community Building in “Beta Brooklyn” Brooklyn, NY has become host to a hotbed of aggressive digital start ups. Some of America’s finest young talent in online community building are nurturing businesses and new brands with aggressive and thoughtful social media and content marketing strategies. These two speakers are some of the brightest minds now operating in Brooklyn. There will be astounding takeaways for your design business’ digital marketing success!
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| 4:00PM - 4:15PM | Critical Takeaways from Design Bloggers Conference 2015 and Special Announcements | ||||||||||||
Sounds like a fabulous conference line-up! Can’t wait!!
Sounds terrific! Great line up. Can’t wait!