Think INSIDE the Box Direct Marketing Conference
 
This year's Think INSIDE the Box conference offers a rich program of expert speakers. 

This year's focus is on three key elements: Connectivity, Data and Physicality. Each speaker will share their experiences, insights and case studies, which will help inspire you to get smarter with your marketing. 

Keynote Speaker
Joe Mimran
Dragon, Season 10 on Dragons' Den

Long known as an arbiter of taste and design, Joe Mimran brings his finely honed skills to the den to weigh in on Canada's best business ideas.

Mimran is among Canada’s leading fashion pioneers. Throughout his storied career he has founded and built brands that helped define the industry landscape, including Joe Fresh, Club Monaco, Alfred Sung, Caban and—with his wife, Kimberley Newport-Mimran—Pink Tartan. With an intuitive design vision and a keen business sense, Mimran has been at the forefront of fashion and retail for over thirty years.  

 
Keynote Speaker
Michael Chase
Chief Marketing Officer, St. Joseph Communication

The Hybridization of Content: How to merge marketing, content and technology in bold and exciting ways

The way consumers engage with brands has dramatically morphed. They can access products and product information instantaneously and they can intermingle with a brand in a cacophony of ways. Michael Chase will share with you how to be a storyteller in this connected world and how to merge marketing, content and technology in bold and exciting ways. Using powerful examples from St. Joseph’s recent “Print in a Digital World” publication, Michael will inspire you to mix, match and marry the worlds of print and digital to find your own marketing nirvana.
 
Keynote Speaker
Diana Lucaci
Founder & CEO, True Impact Marketing

"Brain Power for Smarter Marketing"

Neuromarketing is the next generation of market research, offering customer insights directly from the powerhouse of emotion: the brain. Diana bridges the gap between the academic world of neuroscience and the business world of marketing. True Impact, Canada’s first and leading neuromarketing research and strategy firm, helps its clients drive growth through state-of-the-art neuroscience and biometrics research.

With over a decade of experience in digital marketing, and a degree in neuroscience from the University of Toronto, Diana is a Top 30 under Thirty (Marketing magazine, 2013) and a Chair of the Neuromarketing Science & Business Association (NMSBA), the leading global neuromarketing organization. Diana has been featured on CBC's The National, atTEDx, in Reader’s Digest, in Strategy magazine, on Rogers TV and by many other media.
 
CONNECTIVITY
Eric Reynolds
Director of Marketing, Jelly Marketing

Mixing Offline and Online Strategies for Maximum Impact

Experts in digital and PR, Jelly Marketing knows how social media, online ads and digital PR can mix with your offline, print and mailing strategies. Join Eric Reynolds as he shares case studies and results for e-tail, e-commerce, B2B and B2C clients when mixed with PR, online ads, social media and direct mail. 

 
CONNECTIVITY
Marc Gordon
President, Fourword Marketing

From Direct Mail To Digital: Understanding What Your Audience Wants To Hear

Direct mail allows for targeted geographical reach with limited demographics. Social media allows for targeted demographic reach with limited geographics. In both cases the wants, needs, opinions, and tastes of the person receiving your message may change from house to house, day to day. So what can you as a marketer do?

In this presentation, Marc will explain how direct mail and digital can work together to capture the hearts and minds of your audience. And why sometimes they won’t work at all.
 
DATA
Emma Warrillow
Chief DiGGer/President, Data Insight Group Inc. (DiG)

Engagement: More than Just Wearing Your Ring

Emma Warrillow will use a case study to look at customer analysis undertaken by DiG to help you understand individual customer relationships and measure where they fit. Not all long-time relationships are healthy; some relationships are based on apathy and inertia, others are engaged and thriving. 
 
DATA
Lily Harder
Vice President Research, Mintel

Engaging consumers in an omnichannel world

Lily Harder will share new and exciting ways for you to reach customers, whoever they are, on whatever device they are using. Learn how consumer behaviours and preferences are changing direct mail’s role in the overall marketing mix. 

Lily Harder is the Vice President of Research for Mintel Comperemedia. She joined the Comperemedia research team in September 2008. Lily specializes in the financial services industry, researching and presenting on the latest industry trends, competitive intelligence insights, and newsworthy developments. She is also responsible for leading a team of senior industry analysts that produce both custom and syndicated competitive intelligence reports.

Lily earned her BA in Economics from Northwestern University and her MBA from ESADE in Barcelona, Spain.

 
PHYSICALITY
Mark Michaud
Senior Vice President, Ariad Communications

"Are you suffering from premachurnTM? How to fix onboarding, keep customers, and get more from your marketing dollars."  

Losing customers during onboarding is something that we see all too frequently, across all business verticals. We even have a special name for it: premachurn.™ Join Mark Michaud as he helps you take the lead on fixing premachurn for your business by helping you understand how to use the skills, insights and tools you already have.
 
PHYSICALITY
Stephen Brown
President, FUSE Marketing Group

60 Days of Direct Marketing

Join Stephen Brown as he shares tales of the Direct Mail Quest he and his team went on for 60 days. They wanted to find out who’s actually winning in the DM game. By logging 50+ mailboxes of FUSE staff, Stephen and his team saw who’s doing mail right, what opportunities are being missed, and what brands are using direct mail most effectively. He will share with you some of the best, and maybe even a few misses, that they found along the way.  
 
Master of Ceremonies
Scott Pinkney
VP, Executive Creative Director, Publicis Hawkeye
 
Host
Jennifer Campbell
General Manager, Enterprise Marketing, Canada Post

Making Mail Smarter: Get Your Brand into Your Customers’ and Prospects’ Hands