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MAY 23 - 28, 2020
The Premier Digital Marketing, Media and Advertising Conference At Sea
Do you want to be successful in digital marketing? Then you shouldn’t miss DigiMarCon Cruise 2025!
DigiMarCon Cruise 2025 is your chance to …
- Hear from some of the most audacious and thought provoking speakers in the digital marketing industry.
- Gain insight into emerging strategies, the latest innovative technologies, and best practices to move your business to the next level.
- Network with thought leaders, collaborate with your peers and build your network in a beautiful atmosphere.
DigiMarCon Cruise 2025 Digital Marketing, Media and Advertising Conference At Sea will take place March 27th to 31st, 2025 onboard the Royal Caribbean ‘Mariner of the Seas’ Cruise Ship departing New Orleans (Port Canaveral), Florida, sailing to King′s Wharf (Bermuda), then back.
It’s the one digital marketing event you can’t afford to miss! Whether your goal is to reinforce customer loyalty, improve lead generation, increase sales, or drive stronger consumer engagement, DigiMarCon Cruise 2025’s agenda will help attendees enhance their marketing efforts. Sessions will focus on building traffic, expanding brand awareness, improving customer service and gaining insight into today’s latest digital tools.
This year’s edition will feature topics such as:
- Digital Strategy
- Web Experience Management
- Usability / Design
- Mobile Marketing & Retargeting
- Customer Engagement
- User Acquisition
- Social Media Marketing
- Targeting & Optimization
- Video Marketing
- Data Science & Big Data
- Web Analytics & A/B Testing
- Email Marketing
- Content Marketing
- Conversion Rate Optimization
- Search Engine Optimization
- Paid Search Marketing
- Geo-Targeting
- Predictive Analysis & Attribution
- Growth Hacking
- Conversion Rate Optimization
- Growth Marketing Tools
- Marketing & Sales Automation
- Sustainable Growth Strategies
- Programmatic Advertising
Get Ready To Be
Inspired: Get inspired by the headlining speakers at DigiMarCon Cruise 2025. These remarkable individuals will motivate, engage, enlighten, and spur you on to greater productivity.
Challenged: Listen to bold and powerful addresses from a diverse group of exciting and influential people. These riveting presentations will educate, challenge, and impress you in less than 20 minutes.
Transformed: Explore big ideas presented directly from the innovators and thought leaders of the changing business world. These thought-provoking presentations are designed to help you transform your organization, your business, and yourself.
Learn From The Experts
Digital Marketing Experts: Led by digital marketing and sales professionals, these sessions will teach you the principles and skills of digital marketing – from basic to advanced – to improve and transform your business utilizing the latest digital marketing techniques.
Digital Marketing Stories: Hear success stories from businesses who have successfully implemented digital marketing techniques and solutions. These case studies will profile a number of companies and industries who’ve leveraged digital marketing to drive remarkable success in their industries.
Achieve Digital Marketing Success
At DigiMarCon Cruise 2025, you will receive all the elements you need to achieve digital marketing success! Awesome keynotes, expert panels, plus solutions providers and their tools for digital marketing – all in a dynamic, community-based setting. Conventional thought will be challenged, new ways of thinking will emerge, and you will leave with your head and notebook full of action items and ideas to lead your agency / team / account to even greater success. With plenty of networking opportunities, it is the perfect place to build a professional network, find business partners, generate new ideas, learn and grow.
Itinerary at a Glance
Here is a general overview of the conference schedule and offerings (note: all times are Eastern Daylight Time)
Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 (New Orleans, Maryland)
Embark / Networking
11:00am
Embarkation, Customs, Board Cruise Ship
New Orleans, Maryland
4:00pm
5 Night DigiMarCon Cruise departs
Cruise Ship
8:00pm
DigiMarCon Cruise: Networking Dinner
Main Dining Room
Varies
Evening Entertainment
Cruise Ship
Sunday, May 24th, 2020 (At Sea)
Free Time / Networking
8:00am – 8:45pm
DigiMarCon Cruise: Registration Check-In & Conference Center Opens
Conference Center
8:45pm – 10:15am
DigiMarCon At Sea: Session 1
Conference Center
10:15am – 11:00am
Refreshments & Networking Break
Conference Center
11:00am – 1:00pm
DigiMarCon At Sea: Session 2
Conference Center
1:00pm – 2:00pm
DigiMarCon At Sea At Sea: Networking Luncheon
Main Dining Room
8pm
DigiMarCon Cruise: Networking Dinner
Main Dining Room
Varies
Evening Entertainment
Cruise Ship
Monday, May 25th, 2020 (King’s Wharf, Bermuda)
Free Time / Networking (Memorial Day Holiday)
2:30pm – 8:00pm
Free Time in King’s Wharf, Bermuda
King’s Wharf, Bermuda
8:00pm
DigiMarCon Cruise: Networking Dinner
Main Dining Room
Varies
Evening Entertainment
Cruise Ship
Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 (King’s Wharf, Bermuda)
Free Time / Networking
8:00am – 2:30pm
Free Time in King’s Wharf, Bermuda
King’s Wharf, Bermuda
8:00pm
DigiMarCon Cruise: Networking Dinner
Main Dining Room
Varies
Evening Entertainment
Cruise Ship
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 (At Sea)
Free Time / Networking
8:00am – 8:45am
DigiMarCon At Sea: Conference Center Opens
Conference Center
8:45am – 10:15am
DigiMarCon At Sea: Session 3
Conference Center
10:15am – 11:00am
Refreshments & Networking Break
Conference Center
11:00am – 1:00pm
DigiMarCon At Sea: Session 4
Conference Center
1:00pm – 2:00pm
DigiMarCon At Sea At Sea: Networking Luncheon
Main Dining Room
7:00pm – 8:00pm
DigiMarCon Cruise: Farewell Party
Viking Crown Lounge
8:00pm
DigiMarCon Cruise: Networking Dinner
Main Dining Room
Varies
Evening Entertainment
Cruise Ship
Thursday, May 28th, 2020 (New Orleans, Maryland)
Disembark
7:00am
Disembark
New Orleans, Maryland
Robert Rose
Christi Olson
Rand Fishkin
Simon Kelly
Elizma Nolte
Jason Falls
Sonal Shah
Tim Hayden
Kevin Jonas
Fernando Angulo
Donald Mokgale
Loni Stark
Juntae DeLane
Asma Shabab
Joe Nguyen
Laura-Ann Mitchell
Dan Devone
Clare Trafankowska
Pam Didner
Mike Hines
Kenneth Kinney
Mbali Ndandani
David Fallarme
Kelvin Lee
Sharon Geervliet
Tony Eades
Megan Toth
Allen Gannett
Beverley D’Cruz
Jordan Markowski
Michael Brenner
Tina Graves
Sandeep Balani
Ashley Faus
Erdem Aksakal
Becky Simms
Sessions
Whether you’re just getting started in the industry or you’re a digital marketing expert, DigiMarCon Cruise will give you the latest strategies and information to increase your own knowledge and grow your business.
Stay Tuned! The Sessions for DigiMarCon Cruise 2025 has not been announced.
Take a look at some of the Sessions and Speakers from the most recent DigiMarCon Conferences.
| The Next Era in Web Marketing |
Rand Fishkin, Founder, SparkToro
If it feels like the giants of the web — Facebook, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, et al — are conspiring against you to make it vastly more difficult to spread your message or amplify your content… You’re right! They are. In this presentation Rand will boil down exactly why that’s happening and what smart marketers can do to build creative advantages and avoid these emerging pitfalls.
| 6 Seconds or Bust: Mastering Short-Form Storytelling and Micro-Content |
Megan Toth, Senior Social Media Lead, NBCUniversal
In today’s world, we only have between 3-6 seconds to capture someone’s attention and tell a story. What message are you trying to convey? Are you promoting the premiere date of a new TV series or cast of a movie? Are you a brand offering a new product? It’s not enough to simply post a 60- or 30-second movie trailer or other pieces of content directly to social media. It needs to be optimized for the social platform – think format and audience. When you have six seconds to convey your message, every second counts. Creating “snackable content”, is no longer optional in our mobile-driven world and doing it successfully is an art.
| The Five Blessings from Customer Privacy |
Tim Hayden, President & Co-Managing Partner, Brain+Trust Partners
In January of 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act will go into effect and change marketing forever. At the same time, a decade of increased marketing budgets and growing technology stacks have failed to deliver customized content experiences at scale that consistently lead to more conversions and higher sales. The struggle is real in dealing with media and data volatility, but there’s no challenge that can’t be leveraged for greater marketing success. Let’s discuss five ways how you can be a compliant, lean and productive content marketer by the end of 2019.
| What’s the Story with Stories? |
Elizma Nolte, Regional Marketing Manager, Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg has been quoted as saying Stories will overtake Feed – what did he mean, what’s behind the fast growth of this format, and why should marketers care?
| Smashing Silos to Innovate With Your Search Strategy |
Christi Olson, Head of Evangelism, Microsoft
Consumers today are more demanding than ever before. They expect custom tailored experiences personalized to their every need. They expect to be able to reach you 24/7/365 and get immediate answers to their questions. In this session you’ll learn how marketing roles can directly impact paid search performance, including the most common issues that arise, and how to immediately fix them to improve ROI and revenue growth and how you can innovate to leap frog ahead of your competition by starting your conversational AI marketing strategy today.
| What Amazon Learned About Creating Rewards Campaigns |
Mike Hines, Head of Partner Success, Amazon
Discover what the Amazon Appstore learned when creating its Reward Campaigns and writing a service to run those campaigns. This presentation includes results from Amazon’s campaigns, results from partner campaigns, and a review of what rewards campaign practices worked well (and which didn’t). The practices section is structured to give you insight when building your own rewards campaign or drafting requirements for a partner supplied solution.
| The Marketing Abyss – Widening Gap Between Customers & Brands |
Laura-Ann Mitchell, Director of Digital, Cisco
What does the road from bridging the gap to building the bridge look like for B2B brands today? Join us for an engaging, highly energized panel discussion that goes beyond marketing tools, fancy jargon and confusing rhetoric to truly focus on delivering value to our customers one moment at a time. With the deluge of marketing tools, data insights and customer data platforms we as marketers are now more equipped than ever to proactively anticipate and respond to customer needs. Yet we continue to miss the mark and customers are less enthused. Cisco will share its strategy (people, process, tools) & two case studies that show why getting back to basics is still effectively landing new prospects and nurturing existing relationships for demand and lead generation. The output will be a winning recipe for leveraging data from SEO, Social, and Customer Data Platforms to drive engagement & conversion.
| Let Me Tell You a Story … |
Jason Falls, Director of Digital & Social Strategy, Cornett
How to push the envelope and stand out with what’s next in social content strategy. How many times have you thought about your story arc when planning your content calendar? You’re going to start to when you hear Jason Falls’s latest thoughts on social content strategy. Falls’s ideas have been engineering engaging social content efforts for brands since the early days of social. Join him on a fun and raucous ride through his latest approach of “authoring” a social storyline that keeps your audiences informed, engaged, sharing and wanting more. And yes, he’ll make you laugh a lot along the way.
| How to Inject Creativity into Your Digital Marketing Strategy |
Beverley D’Cruz , Chief Marketing Officer – UK, Pizza Hut
Brands today have a matter of seconds to capture the attention of customers – who are more cynical than ever before. With time-frames getting shorter and screens getting smaller, brands are looking for creative strategies which engage audiences. However, creativity is often separated from digital strategy. Digital can be overlooked as a world of metrics and short-term thinking. Even though digital is highly measurable, this does not mean it should lack creative. In this session, Beverley D’Cruz, CMO at Pizza Hut UK, explains how to inject creativity into your digital marketing strategy.
| Is This Thing On? How Marketers and Designers Should Be Approaching Voice Search |
Andrew Balerdi, Director, The Good Marketing Co.
The worlds of voice assistants, voice enabled speakers powering smart home devices are near the point of attrition. In a short space of time consumers are already looking for more practical use cases to cause less friction between the things they want to do and using their devices to do it. This talk will demonstrate some brilliant use cases and spur the marketing and design community to go and do it.
| How to Rank Higher than No. 1 on Google |
Fernando Angulo, Head of Communications, SEMrush
You’ve seen more and more methods for ranking #0 in search results lately, right? You’ve likely seen the People Also Ask (Related Questions) boxes – the accordion-like question and answer boxes are Google search result pages (SERPs). Introducing why Featured Snippets are an important part of SEO and digital marketing and how you can appear in them to drive increased traffic to your site.
| Do You Even Lift? Incrementality & Lift Testing Explained |
Teresa Lewis, Sr. Consultant, Advanced Measurement Services, Adobe
Are my ads causing incremental actions to be taken? This is the key question we’d like our media measurement to address. However, a lion’s share of solutions are still based off correlation and cannot prove that your ad caused the action or if you took credit for an action that would have occurred regardless of advertising. Lift testing is the solution to help you escape the biases of correlated based methods, allowing you to fully understand if your ads are causing incremental actions to be taken. Learn more about lift testing, common pitfalls to avoid and how you can get started.
| The Art of the V Word (Viral) |
Max Price, Creative Director, Priceless Productions
“We want it to go viral.” The hardest brief when cats aren’t the subject matter. Priceless Productions has been able to find the perfect middle ground of cracking briefs for clients and achieve huge organic reach, with massive viral results. See founder Max Price talk about the science behind the creative and managing expectation.
| How KLM is Using Social Media as an R&D Lab for Customer-Centric Innovation |
Sharon Geervliet, Social Media Manager, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
With over 350 agents, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has the largest social media service team in the world. The over 200.000 unique individuals that contact KLM every week via social media are a huge source of feedback and inspiration for the airline that aims to be the most customer-centric European network carrier. They inspired many KLM innovations – from hyper personalised social ads to automated boarding passes (>50% of digital boarding passes are now sent via Messenger), full travel journeys on voice and augmented reality (from luggage scan to entertainment). Sharon Geervliet will highlight several recent social innovations, KLM’s immensely successful augmented reality luggage scan (world’s first), KLM’s Family Update service on Whatsapp (world’s first) and KLM’s GIFs (over half a billion impression without media budget).
| Digital Marketing Trends: Experts Insights on How to Gain a Competitive Edge |
Donald Mokgale, Marketing Director, Carat
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
| Gamification: The Antidote to Modern Advertising |
Becky Sims, Founder and CEO, Reflect Digital
Join Becky Simms for a first-hand account of how you can use the proven technique of gamification in your content marketing strategy. This talk will take you on a journey from the background data of 2k consumers and their views on gamification, through to how to plan a gamification campaign for your business. Looking at how to succeed and what the metrics for success are. This talk will allow you to understand what gamification is and the benefits that can be woven into a gamification strategy. It will give you a clear planning strategy for your first gamification campaign that you can implement. Finally, it will help you qualify what measures you should have in place to ensure you can report on the campaign successes.
| Reinventing Content Marketing into a Measurable Business Strategy |
Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Officer, The Content Advisory
We have moved into a new era of marketing – one where the creation of value through content-driven experiences is the focus. Yes, the entire practice of marketing has changed – again. So, if it’s such an important part of the equation, why is the struggle to measure the effectiveness of content such a struggle for the business? It’s because we’re measuring precisely the wrong thing: the content. Let’s reboot the whole notion of content marketing, and understand what it is we’re actually solving for. In this session, we’ll discuss the current transformation of the marketing department inside out. Let’s examine the business model of content, and walk step by step on how to develop the optimal business purpose and focus for a truly measurable content marketing strategy.
Who’s Attending
Innovators, senior marketers and branders, entrepreneurs, digital executives and professionals, web & mobile strategists, designers and web project managers, business leaders, business developers, agency executives and their teams and anyone else who operates in the digital community will attend to learn and leverage digital, mobile, and social media marketing.
Whether it’s building customer loyalty, increasing sales, improving lead generation, or driving greater consumer engagement, DigiMarCon Cruise 2025 has been specifically designed to help attendees develop their audience and build traffic, create brand awareness, improve customer service, and develop better use of digital tools internally to drive more productive business outcomes.
Previous Attendees
Networking Events
Whether it’s engaging with fellow marketers over a cocktail (or a few!) at our Farewell Cocktail Party, or picking the brains of some of the industry’s brightest thought leaders during our Networking Dinners, DigiMarCon Cruise 2025 provides ample opportunities throughout our events to grow relationships and build opportunities not to mention the whole experience will be onboard Royal Caribbean’s ‘Mariner of the Seas’ Cruise ship where you will gain lifetime memories as we cruise the Caribbean together.
Here is a breakdown of what you can expect to experience at DigiMarCon Cruise 2025:
Networking Dinners
Group Reserved Seating – 8:00pm Every Evening, Main Dining Room
Every evening attendees join together in the Main Dining Room for Dinner in the reserved seating area for the DigiMarCon Cruise 2025 group. Attendees can sit anywhere they like in the reserved seating space giving ample opportunity to dine with different attendees each evening. Use this Dining Time to share experiences for the day and solidify your evening plans with friends in venues across the ship afterwards.
Networking Breaks
May 24 & 27, During Events at Sea, Conference Center
Structured networking after keynote speeches and lunch. You’re provided scheduled daytime opportunities to get to know the people you connect with via social networks—up close and personal. No need to skip presentations to network; we built these breaks into the schedule.
Evening Entertainment
Every Evening, Cruise Ship
Live Each Night to the Fullest. The sun has retired for the day – but you don’t have to, thanks to entertainment options in venues across the ship. Discover a night filled with dancing, laughs and live music at bars, clubs and lounges that never feature a cover charge. It’s like the ultimate evening out on the town – but you never have to leave the ship. Broadway shows just steps from your stateroom. World-class performers that wow on stage, ice and in the water. High-stakes thrills at the casino, energetic parades, live music, comedy shows and much more.
Shore Excursions
May 25 & 26, Bermuda
During DigiMarCon Cruise 2025 we will be spending 2 full days at King′s Wharf (Bermuda) giving ample networking opportunities on the land. At each of these destinations Royal Caribbean offers a large variety of optional Shore Excursions. Enjoy Shore Activities independently with your travel partner or join your friends attending DigiMarCon Cruise 2025 and share Shore Excursion experiences together.
Farewell Cocktail Party
May 27, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, Viking Crown Lounge
Before heading back to the office to implement all of the great new strategies and tactics you’ve learned, to top off a fantastic week of learning and networking along with the lifetime memories we have gained as we cruise around the Caribbean together, kick back and relax at the Farewell Cocktail Party at the Viking Crown Lounge. Share takeaways and stories with industry colleagues, speakers and the DigiMarCon team over a glass or two. After an intense week of learning and networking, what better way is there to wind down?
Venue
“Mariner of the Seas” Conference Center
All Events At Sea during DigiMarCon Cruise 2025 will be held in the Conference Center C on Deck 4 of the Mariner of the Seas Cruise Ship. It is important to attend the Registration Check-in at between 8:00am and 8:45am on Sunday, May 24th, 2020 to collect your badge, lanyard and conference bag and also to familiarize yourself with the Conference Center venue location.
DigiMarCon Cruise 2025 Registration Check-In
Registration Check-in – Sunday, May 24th, 2020 – 8:00am to 8:45am
In the “Mariner of the Seas” Conference Center
Registration Check-in – Sunday, May 24th, 2020 – 8:00am to 8:45am
In the “Mariner of the Seas” Conference Center
“Mariner of the Seas” Deck 3
What attendees are saying
I’m looking forward to returning to DigiMarCon in 2020. I’m putting together some of my best material to help deliver truly actionable takeaways for the attendeesRand Fishkin,
DigiMarCon brings together some of the greatest minds in digital marketing to interact, engage and learn from each other. I highly recommend itSimon Kelly,
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