LA19 Conference

UnGagged Los Angeles Agenda

Honest discussion. Actionable tactics. No cameras. No BS. This is next-level digital marketing.

Get in with the UnCrowd. Join us November 7-8 as we gather 40 speakers for 2 days and 4 tracks of the most insightful and lucrative Digital Marketing strategies around.

Then, on November 9, join one of our intimate, full-day Masterclasses to delve even further into the things that matter most to your work.

Thursday, November, 7th, 2019

Jump to Day 2 | Jump to Masterclass Day

8.00am – 9.00 am
Breakfast & Registration
Registration Desk + Dining Area
8.00-10.00am
9.00am
Introductions
The Forum
9.00am
9.00am – 10am
Keynote with Greg Gifford
Greg Gifford, Vice President of Search – Wikimotive
The Forum
9.00am
10.00pm – 10.15am
Morning Networking Break
Dining Area
10.00pm
10.15am – 11.15am
The Future of Search and Your Career
Duane Forrester, VP, Industry Insights – Yext
The Forum
10.15am
The Secrets Your Analytics Won’t Tell You About Mobile-First Indexing
Cindy Krum, CEO and Founder – MobileMoxie, LLC
The Arts Hub
10.15am
JavaScript Is the Future and This Is What You Need to Know
Patrick Stox, Technical SEO – IBM
The Library Hub
10.15am
Dr Strangelink – or how I learned to stop worrying and love link building again
Judith Lewis, Founder – deCabbit Consultancy
The Beach Hub
10.15am
11.15am – 12.15am
When SEO best practices stop working; how to rank without joining the dark side
Arsen Rabinovich, Founder/Director of SEO – TopHatRank.com LLC
The Forum
11.15am
If SEO isn’t a performance channel, how do you optimize for awareness?
Hannah Thorpe, Business Director – Found Group Ltd
The Arts Hub
11.15am
Hacks & Tricks to Make Your Site Faster Than Ever
Gerry White, Technical SEO Lead – Just Eat
The Library Hub
11.15am
Negative SEO The Dark Arts – Part 3
Robert Hansen, CTO – Bit Discovery
The Beach Hub
11.15am
12.15pm – 1.15pm
Lunch Break
Dining Area
12.15pm
1.15pm – 2.15pm
Measuring Links, Disavows, and SERP Marketing
Jim Boykin – CEO and Founder – Internet Marketing Ninjas
The Forum
1.15pm
Marketing Data – Lets Pull the Trousers Down on Reality
Russell McAthy, Marketing Data Guy
The Arts Hub
1.15pm
Surprising SEO Results when you Implement Tedious Work at Scale
Hamlet Batista, CEO – RankSense Inc
The Library Hub
1.15pm
Online Casino Affiliate Marketing: How to break into a globally lucrative industry
Andrew Stone, Key Account Manager – Buffalo Partners
The Beach Hub
1.15pm
2.15pm – 3.15pm
The Top 10 Display/PPC Secrets of 2020
David Szetela, CEO and Owner – FMB Media
The Forum
2.15pm
Turbocharging Google Analytics
Dana DiTomaso, President and Partner – Kick Poin
The Arts Hub
2.15pm
Start Up SEO from Seed to Unicorn
Eric Wu, Head of Product & Growth – BloomNation
The Library Hub
2.15pm
Scalable Content Marketing: How to Generate 5,000+ Links in 12 Months
Ross Hudgens, Founder/CEO – Siege Media
The Beach Hub
2.15pm
3.15pm – 3.30pm
Intermission
The Forum
3.15pm
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Hacking the SERPs for Power & Profit
Jenny Halasz, President – JLH Marketing, Inc.
The Forum
3.30pm
A look under the hood of Bing Webmaster Tools
Frédéric Dubut, Senior Program Manager – Microsoft | Bing
The Arts Hub
3.30pm
Mastering SEO Silos: How To Create Clear Conceptual Hierarchy For Organic Search Ranking Benefit
Bruce Clay, President – Bruce Clay, Inc.
The Library Hub
3.30pm
A Deep Dive Into an Ecommerce Content Strategy Designed to GET LINKS
Nick Eubanks, CEO – FTFAgency
The Beach Hub
3.30pm
4.30pm – 5.30pm
The Cost Of Doing Nothing
Jerry West, Director of Marketing – Web Marketing Now
The Forum
4.30pm
TBA
Jennifer Hoffman, Marketing Director – DeepCrawl
The Arts Hub
4.30pm
Sound, Search, and Semantics
Upasna Guatam, Manager Search – Ziff Davis
The Library Hub
4.30pm
Google’s Got a New “Spam”
Kristine Schachinger, Founder / Consultant – Sites Without Walls
The Beach Hub
4.30pm
5.30pm –
Opening Night Networking Drinks
5.30pm

Friday, November 8th, 2019

Jump to Day 1 | Jump to Masterclass Day

8.00am – 9.00 am
Breakfast & Registration
Registration Desk + Dining Area
8.00-10.00am
9.00am
Introductions
The Forum
9.00am
9.00am – 10am
Keynote with Gary Illyes: Life of a launch
Gary Illyes, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst – Google
The Forum
9.00am
10.00pm – 10.15am
Morning Networking Break
Dining Area
10.00pm
10.15am – 11.15am
Sell More! 17 Integrated Marketing NEW Be$t Practices to Test
Marty Weintraub, Founder – Aimclear®
The Forum
10.15am
3 Ways Search Engine Journal 3X’d our Traffic & Revenue over 18 Months
Loren Baker, Founder – Search Engine Journal
The Arts Hub
10.15am
The Agency Model is Broken
Ruth Burr Reedy, Director of Strategy – UpBuild
The Library Hub
10.15am
Deep Dive: Paid Search I
Christi Olson, Head of Evangelism – Microsoft with John Lee, Learning Specialist – Microsoft Advertising
The Beach Hub
10.15am
11.15am – 12.15am
Influencers Are Changing Everything – Including Whether or Not Your Favorite Show Gets Canceled
Joe Sinkwitz, Principal – Digital Heretix
The Forum
11.15am
It only takes a moment to wreck your brand online
Simon Heseltine, VP of Audience Growth – Trader Interactive
The Arts Hub
11.15am
How To Do Local SEO At Scale
Andrew Shotland, CEO – LocalSEOGuide.com
The Library Hub
11.15am
Deep Dive: Paid Search II
Christi Olson, Head of Evangelism – Microsoft and John Lee, Learning Specialist – Microsoft Advertising
The Beach Hub
11.15am
12.15pm – 1.15pm
Lunch Break
Dining Area
12.15pm
1.15pm – 2.15pm
TBA
Keith Posehn, Head of Performance Marketing, Local Business at Nextdoor
The Forum
1.15pm
Brand Awareness on a Budget: Making TOFU Work For You
Pamela Lund, President and Digital Marketing Strategist – That Pam Chick, Inc.
The Arts Hub
1.15pm
TBA
TBA
The Library Hub
1.15pm
Deep Dive: Paid Search III
Christi Olson, Head of Evangelism – Microsoft and John Lee, Learning Specialist – Microsoft Advertising
The Beach Hub
1.15pm
2.15pm – 3.15pm
Building an Honest and Kickass Brand Presence on Reddit
Digital Marketing Consultant – Brent Csutoras, LLC and Managing Partner at Search Engine Journal
The Forum
2.15pm
Reading Between the Google Quality Rater Guide Lines
Jennifer Slegg, Editor – The SEM Post
The Arts Hub
2.15pm
SEO FAIL! Learning from other SEO’s Failures
Ryan Jones, SEO Group Director – Publicis Sapient
The Library Hub
2.15pm
Deep Dive: Paid Search IV
Christi Olson, Head of Evangelism – Microsoft and John Lee, Learning Specialist – Microsoft Advertising
The Beach Hub
2.15pm
3.15pm – 3.30pm
Intermission
The Forum
3.15pm
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Panel: Meet the Search Engines
Michelle Robbins, Founder and Principal Consultant – BetaGirl Consulting, LLC
The Forum
3.30pm
4.30pm –
Closing Networking Drinks
4.30pm

Saturday, November 9th, 2019: Masterclass Day

Jump to Day 1 | Jump to Day 2

8.00am – 9.00am
Breakfast
8.00am
9am – 4.30pm
Making Money with Paid Social, SRSLY | Book It Now!
Marty Weintraub, Founder – Aimclear®
9am – 4.30pm
Local SEO | Book It Now!
Greg Gifford, Vice President of Search – Wikimotive
9am – 4.30pm
Link Building | Book It Now!
Judith Lewis, Founder – deCabbit Consultancy
9am – 4.30pm
Advanced SEO Training | Book It Now!
Bruce Clay, President – Bruce Clay, Inc.

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