<commit_before>title: "Speakers"
subtitle: "Engage with heads of industry and world-renowned thought leaders."
keynote_speakers:
  title: "Keynote Speakers"
  speaker_list:
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/dan-circle-headshot.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the CEO and co-founder of Optimizely, the world’s leading experience optimization platform providing A/B testing, targeting, and optimization for websites and mobile apps. The inspiration for Optimizely came from his experience as the Director of Analytics for the Obama Presidential Campaign. He was formerly a Product Manager for Google Chrome and AdWords, and in 2012, was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/marc-circle-headshot.png"
      company: "And<NAME>"
      blurb: "<NAME> is an innovator and creator; he is one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies. Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic Internet browser, co-founded Netscape and Loudcloud, and is now a co-founder and partner of <NAME>, a venture capital firm that provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to technology companies."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/mary_hamilton.png"
      company: "Accenture"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Managing Director of the Accenture Technology Labs in Silicon Valley. Within Technology Labs, she leads the Global Digital Experiences research and development agenda focused on applying emerging digital technologies to address key business challenges of Accenture’s clients.  Since joining Accenture in 1997, Mary has brought innovative technology solutions to both Accenture and clients across a variety of industries, running technology innovation projects from incubation to large-scale implementation. She received her SB degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mary is originally from Toledo, Ohio, spent several years of her career in Chicago, IL, and now lives in San Francisco, CA. She enjoys traveling whenever possible, especially with her one year old son."

guest_speakers:
  title: "Guest Speakers"
  speaker_list:
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/merritt-aho.png"
      company: "Volusion"
      blurb: "Merritt is a Senior Digital Analyst for Volusion, the All-In-One Solution for Selling Online that has fueled over $18 billion in ecommerce transactions. As analyst he leads Volusion's own conversion rate optimization efforts through testing, usability research, and digital analytics. Prior to joining Volusion, Merritt worked as an Analytics Manager and an Optimization Testing Manager at Dell. He earned both MBA and BA degrees from Brigham Young University."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/ash_alhashim.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Ash leads Optimizely's Sales and Market Development efforts. His teams work at the intersection of marketing and sales and are responsible for turning target accounts and marketing-generated leads into enterprise opportunities. Ash has 9 years of experience in sales and marketing, and worked for companies such as Clarizen and Google prior to joining Optimizely. Outside of work, Ash can be found obsessing over coffee and rooting for the Ohio State Buckeyes."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/tim_ash.png"
      company: "Conversion Conference"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the CEO of SiteTuners, a leading conversion rate optimization agency that has helped over 1250 clients worldwide. He is chairperson of Conversion Conference and speaker at many internet marketing events. Tim is a contributing columnist to many publications and author of the bestselling book Landing Page Optimization."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/adam-avramescu_bw_170x170-circle.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "<NAME> leads Customer Education at Optimizely, where his goal is to empower the Optimizely team to become effective educators while scaling the delight of working with Optimizely's Customer Success team to all customers. Before joining Optimizely, Adam managed training and content development functions, scaled learning and documentation materials, and created learning games, simulations, and other high-impact experiences for higher-ed institutions and Fortune 500 clients. He holds a B.A. in English, Rhetoric and Writing from the University of Texas."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/jesse-avshalomov.png"
      company: "Teespring"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Director of Product and Growth at Teespring (YC W13), a platform empowering entrepreneurs to go from concept to merchandise with virtually zero friction. A data nerd by nature, Jesse founded Teespring’s Growth team and catalyzed the formation of the Product, Marketing, and Data teams. Today he’s focused on the Product org, where he architects initiatives and experimentation designed to improve retention, revenue, and lifetime value. Before Teespring, Jesse spent time as a marketing technologist at Apple and AKQA and was a co-founder at the music licensing startup now known as Loudr.  Though an entrepreneur by trade, his undergraduate and graduate work were in opera performance. Jesse can be found writing on the subject of growth at MetricSparrow.com, and he occasionally finds time to tweet as @allforJesse. He also may have invented International Beer Day."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/robbie-baxter.png"
      company: "Peninsula Strategies"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the author of the Amazon #1 Hot New Release The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction and Build Recurring Revenue.  She created the popular business term 'Membership Economy' and is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC, a strategy consulting firm. Her clients have included large organizations like Netflix, SurveyMonkey and Yahoo!, as well as smaller venture-backed startups. Over the course of her career, Robbie has worked in or consulted to clients in more than twenty industries.  Before starting Peninsula Strategies in 2001, Robbie served as a New York City Urban Fellow, a consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton, and a Silicon Valley product marketer.  As a public speaker, she has presented to thousands of people in corporations, associations, and universities. Moreover, she has been quoted in or written articles for major media outlets, including CNN, Consumer Reports, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She has an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/jessie_becker.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Chief Marketing Officer at Optimizely. She oversees all marketing activities including demand generation, customer marketing, product marketing, content marketing, and PR.  Prior to joining Optimizely, Jessie was Interim Chief Marketing Officer at Netflix, where she was responsible for the global brand and customer acquisition programs. During her twelve years at Netflix she held a variety of marketing positions with increasing responsibility, and led a cross-functional product management, consumer insights, and engineering team to optimize all Netflix signup flows, with annual gross signups exceeding 10 million. Previously, Jessie held roles at Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Oracle. Jessie holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/raman-bhatiacropped.png"
      company: "Fareportal"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Director of Mobile at Fareportal, an OTA with state of the art e-commerce technology and a strong focus on data analytics and optimization. He is responsible for delivery and performance of CheapOAir and OneTravel native apps and leads a global team of 30 app developers, product managers, and designers. He has managed teams and remained hands-on and close-to-the-code while developing apps at Citi, MXM and SapientNitro. Prior to mobile apps, he spent a decade in the Java-Portal world at Metlife and ADP, in development as well as leadership roles, and led massive complex initiatives. Raman has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur as well as an M.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering from RPI, where his focus was Solid Modeling and Computer Graphics, an area where he has journal publications."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/rachmen_blake.png"
      company: "FunnyBiz Conference"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the co-founder of AppHeroes, a tech recruiting company that connects startups with mobile app developers through live events with comedy. After realizing that humor and business go together like chocolate and peanut butter, he co-founded FunnyBizz, which is on a mission to abolish boring content. He co-produces the FunnyBizz Conference, where leading thinkers from the worlds of comedy and business converge to explain how humor should be used to improve business. Rachman is a sought-after speaker and has taken the stage at popular events like The Lean Startup Conference. A graduate of Princeton, Rachman is also a marathoner, from New Jersey, and has never slipped on a banana peel."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/travis-bryant.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Travis is the VP of Sales for Optimizely, the world's leading experience optimization platform. Travis started with Optimizely in December 2012 when the company was 35 people, guiding triple-digit revenue growth as the organization has grown to over 350 people with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Japan, Amsterdam and Cologne. Before Optimizely, Travis spent 7 years at Salesforce.com through multiple roles in Sales. His path to Sales was not the obvious one, having started his career as a Java developer at Chevron after graduating from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in Information Systems in 2001."
    #-
      #name: "<NAME>"
      #image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/dan-circle-headshot.png"
      #company: "Stratigent"
      #blurb: ""
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/tyler_bullen.png"
      company: "The Clymb"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Personalization Program Manager at The Clymb. When he's not optimizing websites, he's outside cycling through Portland's hills, or barbecuing with his wife and son."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/heidi-bullock.jpg"
      company: "Marketo"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Vice President of Demand Generation at Marketo. She has over 10 years of B2B marketing experience in high tech companies. Her expertise includes product positioning, brand strategy, product marketing, and demand generation."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/andrea-burbank.png"
      company: "Pinterest"
      blurb: "<NAME> is a data scientist at Pinterest, where she has run A/B testing for the past 3 years. Over that time, Pinterest has run thousands of experiments across billions of user days - and learned a lot both about the product and about successfully running A/B experiments. Before Pinterest, Andrea worked on search relevance ranking at Bing and at Powerset, a semantic search engine. She holds a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Linguistics from Stanford University."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/joe-casson-bw_170x170-circle.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Joe is an Optimizely Sales Engineer and recent Boston College graduate. As a Sales Engineer, he helps technical and non-technical customers alike understand how Optimizely works and how it would fit into their technology stack. Before joining Optimizely, Joe was slinging pizzas on a food truck (Del Popolo) and hacked his way through two apps as an independent Android developer (Call Your Mother, Tidbyt.) He’s also spent some time designing logos, which his mother thinks look “very nice.” Joe enjoys hitting dingers with his baseball team (triples are okay, too), free soloing the Half Dome in Yosemite, and swearing that next year really is the Mets' year."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/kathy_chao.png"
      company: "BabyCenter (Johnson & Johnson)"
      blurb: "<NAME> is Director of Global Marketing for BabyCenter, the #1 pregnancy and digital parenting resource worldwide. During Kathy’s 16 year career in marketing, she has driven directly accountable programs for Fortune 500 brands that have tapped into deep audience insights to drive audience growth and delighted users along the way.  Most recently, Kathy was Director of Marketing at LivePerson, the global leader in digital engagement through real-time messaging platforms, focused on building its SMB SaaS business. Kathy also spent five years at Yahoo!, building programs to increase content consumption of its Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Entertainment properties. Kathy started her career at W<NAME>, a sister company of Y&R, where she honed direct response strategy for Sony VAIO, QuickBooks and other technology brands."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/jeff_chin.png"
      company: "Scripps Network Interactive"
      blurb: "<NAME> graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Integrated Science and Technology from James Madison University in Virginia and an M.S. in Technology and Engineering Management from The George Washington University. Previously working for AOL, InvestorPlace Media, The Washington Post, and Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal, he joined Scripps Networks Interactive in 2014 as the Director of Analytics & Optimization. At Scripps he manages a team responsible for reporting, analysis, and optimization testing of the Scripps network of sites, including foodnetwork.com, food.com, hgtv.com, travelchannel.com, diynetwork.com, cookingchanneltv.com, and gactv.com."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/trevin-chow.png"
      company: "Microsoft Store"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Director of Product Management for the Microsoft Online Store. He leads the product strategy, customer experience, and optimizations teams for the store, which operates in 228 markets worldwide."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/joel_constable.png"
      company: "Pinterest"
      blurb: "<NAME> leads People Development at Pinterest, where he is focused on building world-class leaders and creating a high-performance culture. Prior to Pinterest, Joel worked at Google in a variety of leadership development roles and taught English abroad where he learned that loudly enunciating his words in English would not, in fact, translate them to another language. Outside of work, Joel enjoys watching Washington Huskies football and writing about himself in the third person."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/cameron_collaborating-to-scalebw_170x170-circle.png"
      company: "Atlassian"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Head of Growth at Atlassian. The Growth team combines engineers, data scientists, online and field marketers focused on running campaigns and experiments across Atlassian's funnel. Prior to Atlassian, Cameron held positions in demand generation, sales enablement, and product marketing at both Jive Software and BEA Systems. Cameron holds an M.B.A. from the University of Montana and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/t-baxter.png"
      company: "New Relic"
      blurb: "Baxter is a Marketing data nerd. He currently manages the DemandGen, Marketing Ops and Customer Lifecycle teams at New Relic. Prior to that he ran Inbound Marketing and Ops at Couchbase, and had similar roles at Citrix and CEB. When he's not geeking out about funnel metrics he "enjoys" endurance sports and watching the Washington Redskins lose games."
    #-
      #name: "<NAME>"
      #image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/dan-circle-headshot.png"
      #company: "Parse.ly"
      #blurb: ""
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/durand_duin.png"
      company: "Eventbrite"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Head of Learning at Eventbrite. With 500 employees and 8 global offices, Eventbrite is a marketplace for events, committed to bringing people together through the power of live experiences. With a focus on developing leadership, career excellence, and a coaching culture, Durand's goal is to help Eventbrite and its Britelings succeed. Before joining Eventbrite, he spent 10 years at Google, where he helped build sales and support teams for international operations in multiple locations, including India and Poland, and supported learning for the general and administrative group."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/jeppe-dyrby.png"
      company: "eBay Classifieds Group"
      blurb: "<NAME> is a Senior Web Developer, doing full time A/B testing for eBay Classifieds Denmark. He's been doing web development for 10 years, and he's not done yet! "
    #-
      #name: "<NAME>"
      #image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/dan-circle-headshot.png"
      #company: "eBay Classifieds Group"
      #blurb: ""
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/tiffany-early.png"
      company: "Apperian"
      blurb: "Tiffany Early is the Director of Digital Branding at Apperian, an early stage enterprise tech company based in Boston. She is responsible for the company's digital strategy and growth, building brand awareness, and driving new business. She's also a digital marketing Expert in Residence at General Assembly New York. Prior to Apperian, Tiffany worked at iProspect London as a Search Director for global clients and got her start in search marketing at iProspect San Francisco. As a digital nomad, she's lived in San Francisco, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and New York."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/kelly_fang.png"
      company: "CBS Interactive"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the product lead for ZDNet.com. Her UX optimization and A/B testing experience began when she was an intern at CBSi and has been addicted ever since. Kelly is a champion napper, and a serial dabbler in all things tech and design."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/chrix-finne.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Chrix (with an ‘x’!) is Senior Product Manager at Optimizely. Since joining Optimizely in 2013 he's helped expand Optimizely's offerings in mobile, targeting, and analytics. Previously, he worked on Mobile Display Ads at Google, where he was product lead for the mobile Google Display Network (GDN) as well as ads quality and pricing on the AdMob network. Long ago, Chrix launched Google Analytics for iOS and Android, and expanded Google Reader to be "social". Chrix is a graduate of Harvard University, a devout skier and cyclist, and an amateur classical trumpet player and baritone."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/kevin-flynn.png"
      company: "Motorola"
      blurb: "After a 20 year career in the markets at the Chicago Board of Trade, <NAME> decided to return to school to achieve his B.A. in Education and an M.B.A. in Marketing. From there, he volunteered full time at the Obama 2008 National Headquarters where he eventually managed 18 state blogs, contributed to the national blog on a daily basis, and worked on social and other online and offline projects. That's also where he met <NAME> and realized the importance of analytics and data-driven decisions. After some consulting and speaking engagements around the country post-election victory, he then joined Motorola's Global HQ team where he has worked on social media leading the company's Youtube and Blog channels, as well as creating and moderating content for the other social networks. He then joined the Motorola.com team and has been working as a publisher, content creator and manager, as well as bringing Optimizely on board to help improve the optimization of the site."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/lauren-ford.png"
      company: "Trulia"
      blurb: "As a Senior Quantitative Analyst at Trulia, Lauren loves all things data. She manages Trulia’s A/B Testing program, working cross-functionally with Product and Engineering teams to create, run, and analyze A/B tests on desktop and mobile platforms. Lauren took over Trulia’s A/B testing program in its early stages, and has brought process, efficiency, and rigorous analysis to the program. In addition to A/B testing, Lauren works on deep-dive analysis projects and builds reporting infrastructure to surface data to other teams within the organization. She holds a B.A. in Math and Economics from UC San Diego."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/ryan-garner.png"
      company: "Clearhead"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the co-founder and EVP of Clearhead. Previously, Ryan was Vice President of Direct-to-Consumer for the Warner Music Group, responsible for delivering and supporting the web businesses of WMG’s biggest artists including Paramore, Bruno Mars, and Wiz Khalifa. Before joining Warner in 2007, Ryan spent 5 years at JetBlue Airways as a product manager and solution architect. Ryan was an integral part of the early team that helped develop JetBlue.com into the airline's most important sales channel, responsible for 80% of sales at the time of his departure."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/jordanbw_170x170-circle.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Jordan is the Frontend Tech Lead at Optimizely.  Over the last year Jordan has been behind the technical implementations of several large Optimizely projects, including the audience builder, redesigned dashboard and the overall frontend architecture of Optimizely's web product.  He's been building web applications since 2009, where he co-founded an online instructional gaming company with his college roommates."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/josiahbw_170x170-circle.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Josiah earned his B.S in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College and previously has developed for Android at Google where he worked on the Android SDK and development tools. At Optimizely, he's proud to take part in bringing the Optimizely Android SDK to market and expanding the platform."
    -<commit_msg>gotta escape quotes<commit_after>title: "Speakers"
subtitle: "Engage with heads of industry and world-renowned thought leaders."
keynote_speakers:
  title: "Keynote Speakers"
  speaker_list:
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/dan-circle-headshot.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the CEO and co-founder of Optimizely, the world’s leading experience optimization platform providing A/B testing, targeting, and optimization for websites and mobile apps. The inspiration for Optimizely came from his experience as the Director of Analytics for the Obama Presidential Campaign. He was formerly a Product Manager for Google Chrome and AdWords, and in 2012, was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/marc-circle-headshot.png"
      company: "Andreessen Horowitz"
      blurb: "<NAME> is an innovator and creator; he is one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies. Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic Internet browser, co-founded Netscape and Loudcloud, and is now a co-founder and partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to technology companies."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/mary_hamilton.png"
      company: "Accenture"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Managing Director of the Accenture Technology Labs in Silicon Valley. Within Technology Labs, she leads the Global Digital Experiences research and development agenda focused on applying emerging digital technologies to address key business challenges of Accenture’s clients.  Since joining Accenture in 1997, Mary has brought innovative technology solutions to both Accenture and clients across a variety of industries, running technology innovation projects from incubation to large-scale implementation. She received her SB degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mary is originally from Toledo, Ohio, spent several years of her career in Chicago, IL, and now lives in San Francisco, CA. She enjoys traveling whenever possible, especially with her one year old son."

guest_speakers:
  title: "Guest Speakers"
  speaker_list:
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/merritt-aho.png"
      company: "Volusion"
      blurb: "Merritt is a Senior Digital Analyst for Volusion, the All-In-One Solution for Selling Online that has fueled over $18 billion in ecommerce transactions. As analyst he leads Volusion's own conversion rate optimization efforts through testing, usability research, and digital analytics. Prior to joining Volusion, Merritt worked as an Analytics Manager and an Optimization Testing Manager at Dell. He earned both MBA and BA degrees from Brigham Young University."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/ash_alhashim.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Ash leads Optimizely's Sales and Market Development efforts. His teams work at the intersection of marketing and sales and are responsible for turning target accounts and marketing-generated leads into enterprise opportunities. Ash has 9 years of experience in sales and marketing, and worked for companies such as Clarizen and Google prior to joining Optimizely. Outside of work, Ash can be found obsessing over coffee and rooting for the Ohio State Buckeyes."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/tim_ash.png"
      company: "Conversion Conference"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the CEO of SiteTuners, a leading conversion rate optimization agency that has helped over 1250 clients worldwide. He is chairperson of Conversion Conference and speaker at many internet marketing events. Tim is a contributing columnist to many publications and author of the bestselling book Landing Page Optimization."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/adam-avramescu_bw_170x170-circle.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "<NAME> leads Customer Education at Optimizely, where his goal is to empower the Optimizely team to become effective educators while scaling the delight of working with Optimizely's Customer Success team to all customers. Before joining Optimizely, Adam managed training and content development functions, scaled learning and documentation materials, and created learning games, simulations, and other high-impact experiences for higher-ed institutions and Fortune 500 clients. He holds a B.A. in English, Rhetoric and Writing from the University of Texas."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/jesse-avshalomov.png"
      company: "Teespring"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Director of Product and Growth at Teespring (YC W13), a platform empowering entrepreneurs to go from concept to merchandise with virtually zero friction. A data nerd by nature, Jesse founded Teespring’s Growth team and catalyzed the formation of the Product, Marketing, and Data teams. Today he’s focused on the Product org, where he architects initiatives and experimentation designed to improve retention, revenue, and lifetime value. Before Teespring, Jesse spent time as a marketing technologist at Apple and AKQA and was a co-founder at the music licensing startup now known as Loudr.  Though an entrepreneur by trade, his undergraduate and graduate work were in opera performance. Jesse can be found writing on the subject of growth at MetricSparrow.com, and he occasionally finds time to tweet as @allforJesse. He also may have invented International Beer Day."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/robbie-baxter.png"
      company: "Peninsula Strategies"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the author of the Amazon #1 Hot New Release The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction and Build Recurring Revenue.  She created the popular business term 'Membership Economy' and is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC, a strategy consulting firm. Her clients have included large organizations like Netflix, SurveyMonkey and Yahoo!, as well as smaller venture-backed startups. Over the course of her career, Robbie has worked in or consulted to clients in more than twenty industries.  Before starting Peninsula Strategies in 2001, Robbie served as a New York City Urban Fellow, a consultant at B<NAME> & Hamilton, and a Silicon Valley product marketer.  As a public speaker, she has presented to thousands of people in corporations, associations, and universities. Moreover, she has been quoted in or written articles for major media outlets, including CNN, Consumer Reports, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She has an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/jessie_becker.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Chief Marketing Officer at Optimizely. She oversees all marketing activities including demand generation, customer marketing, product marketing, content marketing, and PR.  Prior to joining Optimizely, Jessie was Interim Chief Marketing Officer at Netflix, where she was responsible for the global brand and customer acquisition programs. During her twelve years at Netflix she held a variety of marketing positions with increasing responsibility, and led a cross-functional product management, consumer insights, and engineering team to optimize all Netflix signup flows, with annual gross signups exceeding 10 million. Previously, Jessie held roles at Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Oracle. Jessie holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/raman-bhatiacropped.png"
      company: "Fareportal"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Director of Mobile at Fareportal, an OTA with state of the art e-commerce technology and a strong focus on data analytics and optimization. He is responsible for delivery and performance of CheapOAir and OneTravel native apps and leads a global team of 30 app developers, product managers, and designers. He has managed teams and remained hands-on and close-to-the-code while developing apps at Citi, MXM and SapientNitro. Prior to mobile apps, he spent a decade in the Java-Portal world at Metlife and ADP, in development as well as leadership roles, and led massive complex initiatives. Raman has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur as well as an M.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering from RPI, where his focus was Solid Modeling and Computer Graphics, an area where he has journal publications."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/rachmen_blake.png"
      company: "FunnyBiz Conference"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the co-founder of AppHeroes, a tech recruiting company that connects startups with mobile app developers through live events with comedy. After realizing that humor and business go together like chocolate and peanut butter, he co-founded FunnyBizz, which is on a mission to abolish boring content. He co-produces the FunnyBizz Conference, where leading thinkers from the worlds of comedy and business converge to explain how humor should be used to improve business. Rachman is a sought-after speaker and has taken the stage at popular events like The Lean Startup Conference. A graduate of Princeton, Rachman is also a marathoner, from New Jersey, and has never slipped on a banana peel."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/travis-bryant.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Travis is the VP of Sales for Optimizely, the world's leading experience optimization platform. Travis started with Optimizely in December 2012 when the company was 35 people, guiding triple-digit revenue growth as the organization has grown to over 350 people with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Japan, Amsterdam and Cologne. Before Optimizely, Travis spent 7 years at Salesforce.com through multiple roles in Sales. His path to Sales was not the obvious one, having started his career as a Java developer at Chevron after graduating from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a degree in Information Systems in 2001."
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      #name: "<NAME>"
      #image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/dan-circle-headshot.png"
      #company: "Stratigent"
      #blurb: ""
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/tyler_bullen.png"
      company: "The Clymb"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Personalization Program Manager at The Clymb. When he's not optimizing websites, he's outside cycling through Portland's hills, or barbecuing with his wife and son."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/heidi-bullock.jpg"
      company: "Marketo"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Vice President of Demand Generation at Marketo. She has over 10 years of B2B marketing experience in high tech companies. Her expertise includes product positioning, brand strategy, product marketing, and demand generation."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/andrea-burbank.png"
      company: "Pinterest"
      blurb: "<NAME> is a data scientist at Pinterest, where she has run A/B testing for the past 3 years. Over that time, Pinterest has run thousands of experiments across billions of user days - and learned a lot both about the product and about successfully running A/B experiments. Before Pinterest, Andrea worked on search relevance ranking at Bing and at Powerset, a semantic search engine. She holds a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Linguistics from Stanford University."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/joe-casson-bw_170x170-circle.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Joe is an Optimizely Sales Engineer and recent Boston College graduate. As a Sales Engineer, he helps technical and non-technical customers alike understand how Optimizely works and how it would fit into their technology stack. Before joining Optimizely, Joe was slinging pizzas on a food truck (Del Popolo) and hacked his way through two apps as an independent Android developer (Call Your Mother, Tidbyt.) He’s also spent some time designing logos, which his mother thinks look “very nice.” Joe enjoys hitting dingers with his baseball team (triples are okay, too), free soloing the Half Dome in Yosemite, and swearing that next year really is the Mets' year."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/kathy_chao.png"
      company: "BabyCenter (Johnson & Johnson)"
      blurb: "<NAME> is Director of Global Marketing for BabyCenter, the #1 pregnancy and digital parenting resource worldwide. During Kathy’s 16 year career in marketing, she has driven directly accountable programs for Fortune 500 brands that have tapped into deep audience insights to drive audience growth and delighted users along the way.  Most recently, Kathy was Director of Marketing at LivePerson, the global leader in digital engagement through real-time messaging platforms, focused on building its SMB SaaS business. Kathy also spent five years at Yahoo!, building programs to increase content consumption of its Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Entertainment properties. Kathy started her career at Wunderman <NAME>, a sister company of Y&R, where she honed direct response strategy for Sony VAIO, QuickBooks and other technology brands."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/jeff_chin.png"
      company: "Scripps Network Interactive"
      blurb: "<NAME> graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Integrated Science and Technology from James Madison University in Virginia and an M.S. in Technology and Engineering Management from The George Washington University. Previously working for AOL, InvestorPlace Media, The Washington Post, and Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal, he joined Scripps Networks Interactive in 2014 as the Director of Analytics & Optimization. At Scripps he manages a team responsible for reporting, analysis, and optimization testing of the Scripps network of sites, including foodnetwork.com, food.com, hgtv.com, travelchannel.com, diynetwork.com, cookingchanneltv.com, and gactv.com."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/trevin-chow.png"
      company: "Microsoft Store"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Director of Product Management for the Microsoft Online Store. He leads the product strategy, customer experience, and optimizations teams for the store, which operates in 228 markets worldwide."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/joel_constable.png"
      company: "Pinterest"
      blurb: "<NAME> leads People Development at Pinterest, where he is focused on building world-class leaders and creating a high-performance culture. Prior to Pinterest, Joel worked at Google in a variety of leadership development roles and taught English abroad where he learned that loudly enunciating his words in English would not, in fact, translate them to another language. Outside of work, Joel enjoys watching Washington Huskies football and writing about himself in the third person."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/cameron_collaborating-to-scalebw_170x170-circle.png"
      company: "Atlassian"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Head of Growth at Atlassian. The Growth team combines engineers, data scientists, online and field marketers focused on running campaigns and experiments across Atlassian's funnel. Prior to Atlassian, Cameron held positions in demand generation, sales enablement, and product marketing at both Jive Software and BEA Systems. Cameron holds an M.B.A. from the University of Montana and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/t-baxter.png"
      company: "New Relic"
      blurb: "Baxter is a Marketing data nerd. He currently manages the DemandGen, Marketing Ops and Customer Lifecycle teams at New Relic. Prior to that he ran Inbound Marketing and Ops at Couchbase, and had similar roles at Citrix and CEB. When he's not geeking out about funnel metrics he \"enjoys\" endurance sports and watching the Washington Redskins lose games."
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      #name: "<NAME>"
      #image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/dan-circle-headshot.png"
      #company: "Parse.ly"
      #blurb: ""
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/durand_duin.png"
      company: "Eventbrite"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Head of Learning at Eventbrite. With 500 employees and 8 global offices, Eventbrite is a marketplace for events, committed to bringing people together through the power of live experiences. With a focus on developing leadership, career excellence, and a coaching culture, Durand's goal is to help Eventbrite and its Britelings succeed. Before joining Eventbrite, he spent 10 years at Google, where he helped build sales and support teams for international operations in multiple locations, including India and Poland, and supported learning for the general and administrative group."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/jeppe-dyrby.png"
      company: "eBay Classifieds Group"
      blurb: "<NAME> is a Senior Web Developer, doing full time A/B testing for eBay Classifieds Denmark. He's been doing web development for 10 years, and he's not done yet! "
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      #name: "<NAME>"
      #image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/dan-circle-headshot.png"
      #company: "eBay Classifieds Group"
      #blurb: ""
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/tiffany-early.png"
      company: "Apperian"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the Director of Digital Branding at Apperian, an early stage enterprise tech company based in Boston. She is responsible for the company's digital strategy and growth, building brand awareness, and driving new business. She's also a digital marketing Expert in Residence at General Assembly New York. Prior to Apperian, Tiffany worked at iProspect London as a Search Director for global clients and got her start in search marketing at iProspect San Francisco. As a digital nomad, she's lived in San Francisco, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and New York."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/kelly_fang.png"
      company: "CBS Interactive"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the product lead for ZDNet.com. Her UX optimization and A/B testing experience began when she was an intern at CBSi and has been addicted ever since. Kelly is a champion napper, and a serial dabbler in all things tech and design."
    -
      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/chrix-finne.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Chrix (with an ‘x’!) is Senior Product Manager at Optimizely. Since joining Optimizely in 2013 he's helped expand Optimizely's offerings in mobile, targeting, and analytics. Previously, he worked on Mobile Display Ads at Google, where he was product lead for the mobile Google Display Network (GDN) as well as ads quality and pricing on the AdMob network. Long ago, Chrix launched Google Analytics for iOS and Android, and expanded Google Reader to be \"social\". Chrix is a graduate of Harvard University, a devout skier and cyclist, and an amateur classical trumpet player and baritone."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/kevin-flynn.png"
      company: "Motorola"
      blurb: "After a 20 year career in the markets at the Chicago Board of Trade, <NAME> decided to return to school to achieve his B.A. in Education and an M.B.A. in Marketing. From there, he volunteered full time at the Obama 2008 National Headquarters where he eventually managed 18 state blogs, contributed to the national blog on a daily basis, and worked on social and other online and offline projects. That's also where he met <NAME> and realized the importance of analytics and data-driven decisions. After some consulting and speaking engagements around the country post-election victory, he then joined Motorola's Global HQ team where he has worked on social media leading the company's Youtube and Blog channels, as well as creating and moderating content for the other social networks. He then joined the Motorola.com team and has been working as a publisher, content creator and manager, as well as bringing Optimizely on board to help improve the optimization of the site."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/lauren-ford.png"
      company: "Trulia"
      blurb: "As a Senior Quantitative Analyst at Trulia, Lauren loves all things data. She manages Trulia’s A/B Testing program, working cross-functionally with Product and Engineering teams to create, run, and analyze A/B tests on desktop and mobile platforms. Lauren took over Trulia’s A/B testing program in its early stages, and has brought process, efficiency, and rigorous analysis to the program. In addition to A/B testing, Lauren works on deep-dive analysis projects and builds reporting infrastructure to surface data to other teams within the organization. She holds a B.A. in Math and Economics from UC San Diego."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/ryan-garner.png"
      company: "Clearhead"
      blurb: "<NAME> is the co-founder and EVP of Clearhead. Previously, Ryan was Vice President of Direct-to-Consumer for the Warner Music Group, responsible for delivering and supporting the web businesses of WMG’s biggest artists including Paramore, Bruno Mars, and Wiz Khalifa. Before joining Warner in 2007, Ryan spent 5 years at JetBlue Airways as a product manager and solution architect. Ryan was an integral part of the early team that helped develop JetBlue.com into the airline's most important sales channel, responsible for 80% of sales at the time of his departure."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/jordanbw_170x170-circle.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Jordan is the Frontend Tech Lead at Optimizely.  Over the last year Jordan has been behind the technical implementations of several large Optimizely projects, including the audience builder, redesigned dashboard and the overall frontend architecture of Optimizely's web product.  He's been building web applications since 2009, where he co-founded an online instructional gaming company with his college roommates."
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      name: "<NAME>"
      image: "//d1qmdf3vop2l07.cloudfront.net/optimizely-marketer-assets.cloudvent.net/raw/opticon/speakers/josiahbw_170x170-circle.png"
      company: "Optimizely"
      blurb: "Josiah earned his B.S in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College and previously has developed for Android at Google where he worked on the Android SDK and development tools. At Optimizely, he's proud to take part in bringing the Optimizely Android SDK to market and expanding the platform."
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