June 12-14, 2018 The Broad Stage, Santa Monica, CA

Erin Robinson serves as executive producer and host of Clevver, the top ranking and award-winning multi-channel digital entertainment brand dedicated to pop and internet culture, lifestyle, beauty, fashion and celebrity news. Clevver has experienced over 10 years of dominance on YouTube, as well as a record year of growth with more than 12MM total subscribers, over 14MM social media followers and moves into longer form programming with streaming platforms such as Go90, Hulu, Watchable, and others. Robinson competed against the biggest digital influencers in the world on CBS’s The Amazing Race and she’s been coined a “Famechanger” by Variety and part of the “New Famous” by People Magazine. As executive producer and host, Erin has transformed The Daily Hollywood Rundown into a premiere daily destination for entertainment news, with the show having reached over 200 million views on YouTube. In 2017, Erin stepped into a new advocacy role, developing and distributing a series titled It Got Real: Erin’s Surgery, which followed her battle with fibroid tumors and spread awareness of the issue. Because of her series, which reached nearly 5MM views, Erin was tapped by The Office on Women’s Health to be an ambassador for Women’s Health Week 2017.

When she’s not covering breaking news or chatting with celebrities, you can find her being her quirky fun self on some of Clevver’s premium shows like Cheat Day, Beauty Trippin’, and Dirty Laundry. Erin is also a former Miss Malibu, a former trained EMT, flutist, and she even once pulled a man from a burning car.

As Chief Creative Officer of Multi-Platform Campaigns at Weber Shandwick, Josh Rose leads the conceptual creative development practice. Josh helps set the vision for clients, defining a creative platform and overseeing the execution of the kinds of cross-media ideas that help define companies’ brands, both online and off.

Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, Josh spent 10 years as executive vice president, group creative director of digital at Deutsch, LA, where he oversaw integrated campaign efforts for the likes of VW, Playstation, Dr Pepper, HTC and many others. Before Deutsch, Josh helped pioneer the development of brands, content and communities online. In his foray into digital, in 1995, he helped develop the very first episodic web shows for the Internet and for five years, during the rapid growth of the medium, Josh lead creative for some of the most popular destinations online, in industries ranging from entertainment to automotive

Dea Lawrence is the CMO of Variety responsible for driving Variety’s global branding and communications strategy. She oversees strategy, creative, communitcations, ad sales program development, social media development and the marketing and production of their 70 annual events, summits and media partnerships. Additionally Dea created the Variety Content Studio which creates storytelling for brands.

She is a highly experienced, solution based, sales and marketing leader who knows how to monetize companies, from start-ups to traditional corporations. Her advertising expertise is vast including creating and leading publisher direct and programmatic strategies, positioning media and creative ad tech platforms to Fortune 500 brands and their agencies, ad serving, rich media, video, dynamic creative optimization and data targeting sales across video, mobile, tablet and desktop. She has built sales and marketing teams over the past 20 years at companies such as PointRoll, AT&T, TubeMogul, and other start-ups.

As the co-founder and CEO of VSCO, Joel leads the company on its mission to equip, educate, and inspire anyone on the journey toward reaching their creative potential. Joel and his co-founder Greg Lutze combined their passions for photography and technology to build VSCO in 2011. Prior to founding VSCO, Joel was a successful commercial and wedding photographer. A Bay Area native, Joel is deeply involved in the local Oakland community.

Marwan Soghaier, Chief Product Officer of advertising technology company SteelHouse, is a product visionary who has worked in leadership positions for over a decade with many highly successful brands. At SteelHouse, Marwan inspires and builds pivotal products that make marketers’ jobs easier. His entire professional life has been spent building emerging platforms, from early Blackberry apps the PDQ smartphone by Qualcomm in first days of mobile, to Ticketmaster’s ticket exchange platform when the web-based application boom began. He’s always been ahead of market shifts and consumer demands. Previously, Marwan was VP of Marketing at mobileStorm, Inc. and VP of Product Marketing at the Rubicon Project.

As principal and CEO of Zambezi, Jean is charting the future for one of the largest female-owned businesses in the advertising industry. Jean has successfully grown Zambezi from a start-up to what it is today: a thriving agency twice named Small Agency of the Year by Ad Age and three times recognized as one of the largest women-owned businesses by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Recognized as a leading advocate for the advancement of women in advertising, Jean was named to Adweek’s 2017 Disruptors List and named one of the 4A’s “100 People Who Make Advertising Great.”

Ricky Ray Butler serves as the CEO at the Branded Entertainment Network (BEN), a Bill Gates Company. Ricky manages all brand relationships and campaigns, supporting our capabilities that include traditional and digital integration services to an impressive global roster of clients that include General Motors, Microsoft, Zillow, Pepe Jeans, Hyundai, Disney, Ubisoft and other major global brands we are privileged and proud to be working with.

Prior to joining BEN, Ricky founded Plaid Social Labs, the leading social media influencer product integration company, which was acquired by BEN in 2015 to expand reach into the digital influencer community. Ricky has been a leader and innovator in the influencer space representing brands and helping them partner with content creators that have relevant audiences.

Ricky Ray has a passion for helping brands increase awareness, establish product credibility and build an active community of brand advocates through the power of product integration.

Kaitlin Bray is the Director of Social Media for award-winning kitchen and home brand Food52 — and the Instagrammer behind @food52, recently named AdWeek’s Hottest Instagram account of 2017 with 1.8 million followers. She holds an MA in Food Studies from NYU and lives in Brooklyn, NY.