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Digital Ad Summit 06 – Sympatico MSN Goes All Out

One of my favorite volunteer activities is helping to organize industry conventions and trade shows. At a lay level, you get to meet the crème de la crème of your industry’s leaders. You also get the opportunity to invite some great keynote speakers, and then spend the day as an ambassador for the event. It’s very rewarding.
When I got an invite the other day for the Sympatico MSN Digital Ad Summit 06, my first reaction was that this would be just another one of those corporate-created conventions where you’ll mostly be pimped on new services and opportunities.
Boy, was I wrong. Clearly, the people at Sympatico MSN wanted to have that rewarding feeling I talked about earlier.
Just one day after Search Engine Strategies in Toronto, Sympatico MSN delivers Digital Ad Summit 06. This is by invitation only. The event is being held in Toronto on Thursday, April 27th, 2006 and features a half day of the best speakers out there in the interactive space.
Bob Garfield of Ad Age Magazine is joined by Joseph Jaffe, Steve Rubel of Edelman, Jeffrey Cole from the World Internet Project, Chris Dobson who is MSN International’s VP of International Sales and Trade Marketing and Brent Lowe-Bernie who is President of comScore Media Metrix.
All of this plus networking and lunch – compliments of Sympatico MSN.
I know people (like me, for example) who pay a lot of money to attend conferences that feature speakers of this caliber.
Since Digital Ad Summit 06 is not open to the public, I will do my best to Blog live from the event.
It looks like late April is going to really heat things up for the summer.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.