The premier digital marketing and media event in the Midwest will be back again in 2020! Stay tuned for details and be sure to sign up for our emails so you can stay in the loop on this and other upcoming events.

Digital Crossroads, the Louisville Digital Association‘s signature annual event, brings the brightest minds in digital marketing and media to the Midwest. This day-long, expert-led learning experience aims to infuse leading-edge theory and practice to any business’ marketing efforts.

Join us on Tuesday, April 10, from 6 – 8 PM , at Genscape Inc. for a talk by Kyle Culver, a thought leader in the application of Blockchain Technologies to the Healthcare Industry and a key member of Humana Inc.’s technology advancement team. Culver will share his thoughts on blockchain and his winning entry in the Blockchain Challenge, a competition to use the technology for health care innovation hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Kyle finished third in the challenge and competed against teams from thought leaders such as MIT, Accenture, Deloitte, IBM and the Mayo Clinic.

Tickets for this event include light snacks and a drink ticket.

Click here to RSVP today!

Limited parking will be available in the lot, but primarily on the streets surrounding the venue. Arrive early for a good spot and for even better networking.

Special Thanks to our generous hosts!

Thursday, March 8, 2018
6 – 8 PM

Join us as we tour the workshop and hear about all the things we can make digitally and with our hands at this community workshop in Southern Indiana located at 629 Michigan Avenue in Jeffersonville (just a couple blocks off th 2nd Street bridge).

$5 ticket fee includes a complimentary drink.
Space is limited so sign up early.

Special thanks to our friends at Maker13 for hosting!

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Yeah, we realize it may not be new beer to you, but we guarantee you’ll meet new people.

Join us for another round of speed networking to kick off 2018. If you’ve not been to a speed networking event no worries, it’s simple. You sit and talk to someone across the table for just a few minutes to meet new people or talk with old friends about their #2018goals. This is why your professors taught you that elevator pitch.

Tickets are $5 and include a complimentary drink and light appetizers.

Space is limited so sign up early.

CLICK HERE to register today!

Special thanks to our friends at Mile Wide Beer Co. for hosting!

Leveraging User Stories Across the Project Lifecycle, Paige Moore, DBS Interactive

Contextual Healing: The Power of Content Marketing and Native Advertising
Done Right, Brian Eichenberger and Jim McKiernan, Insider Louisville

How to Utilize Social Media When Your Boss Doesn’t Get It, Jason Mudd, YesLouisville!

Get Them There: PR and Marketing for Events, Candace Jaworski, Baldwin Marketing and Christine Vaughan, 502 Social

Programmatic And You, Jeff Hastedt, BrkThru Digital

Using Social Media to Your Advantage, Stephanie White, Louisville Family Fun

Vlog Like a Boss, Amy Schmittauer, Savvy Sexy Social

Listen Online or Suffer the Consequences, Amanda Henson, Kindred Healthcare

Group Session Friday November 3

Avoid the Horrors of Modern-Day Marketing, Jon Hawkins, Workfront

The Digital Consumer: How Today’s Buyer Has Changed, Marcus Sheridan, The Sales Lion

Multicultural Millennials: Connect for Growth, Becky Arreaga, Mercury Mambo

Everything You Need to Know About Marketing on Instagram, Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe, Social Espionage

Be Bold: In Design, Leadership and Life, Dontrese Brown, Executive Director – The Edge, Randolph-Macon University

If you don’t have your ticket yet, what are you waiting for! Register for the event now!

In addition to the speakers and topics already announced, we’ve added sessions on search engine optimization, programmatic advertising strategies, social media for activism and championing social media with those who don’t get it.

See the full agenda below:

Register now for Digital Crossroads, the Midwest’s top digital marketing conference and support the Louisville Digital Association in the process. This year’s event is Nov. 2-3 at the Holiday Inn Louisville East and features keynote speakers Marcus Sheridan, Mark Schaefer, Becky Arreaga and J. Dontrese Brown. The two-days feature workshop sessions and a full conference keynote day, breakfast and lunch on Friday, Nov. 3 and cocktail hours both days.

Digital Crossroads is a fund-raiser for the Louisville Digital Association, a professional non-profit organization focused on furthering digital life, commerce and innovation in the Louisville region.

The event is Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017 at Flying Axes in NuLu. Come ready to play darts for grown ups, partake of hors d’oeuvres and learn a little in the process. (Knox is an investor in Flying Axes, but we’re going to be throwing axes! How cool is that?!) Parking at Flying Axes is in their gated lot (the gate will be open) next to the building off Clay Street near the Skate Park.

Flying Axes features a cash bar. The food and snacks will be complimentary.

Please RSVP as there is limited capacity at Flying Axes. The event is free.

Knox will have books on hand to purchase for $20.

As with last year’s event, Thursday’s half-day will be full of breakout session workshops from a variety of subject matter experts in the digital marketing space. Those workshops will include speakers and topics such as:

• Vlog Your Way to the Top – Go-to-market strategies and tactics for video marketing from video blog celeb and best-selling author Amy Schmittauer
• Using Social Media to Your Advantage – A practical social media workshop from Stephanie White of Louisville Family Fun
• Creating Compelling Visual & Viral Content – Eye-catching ideas from Big Brother star and multimedia provocateur Wil Heuser of TheLoup.com
• Leveraging User Stories Across the Project Lifecycle – Deep strategic methodologies presented by Paige Moore of DBS Interactive
• Listen Online or Suffer the Consequences – Important reputation management tips from Kindred Healthcare’s Amanda Henson
• Bring on the Leads! Lead Generation for B2B & B2C Businesses – Fill-the-funnel advice from lead-gen expert Nicole Hudson from Inbound Lead Solutions
• Local Digital Marketing: More Than a Listing – Smarts for the local business from D.A.C. Group president Mike Corak
• Get Them There: PR and Marketing Events in the Digital Age – Practical event marketing ideas from Christine Vaughan of 502 Social and Candace Jaworski of Baldwin Marketing

More workshop topics will be added as the event approaches.

Those sessions will precede Friday’s full day which will include the following topics and speakers:

• Best-selling author Marcus Sheridan – They Ask, You Answer – A dynamic and engaging talk about how content marketing drives successful business
• Multiple best-selling author Mark Schaefer – KNOWN: How to Build and Unleash Your Personal Brand in the Digital Age
• Multicultural marketing expert Becky Arreaga – Multicultural Marketing in the Digital Age
• Design and creative lead J. Dontrese Brown – Be Bold – An inspiration and motivational challenge to standing out in design, leadership and life
• Corporate communications expert Ike Pigott – Corporate Communications: Making News, Not Breaking News – A corp comms perspective on today’s always on content environment
• IBM’s Frank Guardi – Things to Consider When Building Your Influencer Program – Influencer tips from the manager of one of the most ambitions influencer programs today
• Social Espionage’s Dorothea Bozicolona-Volpe – Everything You Need to Know About Marketing on Instagram – The one-stop guide to IG success

How can you pass up this opportunity to see this lineup in Louisville for insanely low prices? You can’t, so REGISTER NOW!

Member tickets to the two-day event are $249 while non-member tickets are just $299. Student passes are available for just $99. Visit our registration page to learn more and reserve  your spot.

Digital Crossroads is in its ninth year and is the primary fundraiser for the Louisville Digital Association. Our generous sponsors make this event happen. Digital Crossroads is presented by Workfront, a project management solution built for marketing, and is sponsored by: D.A.C. Group, DBS Interactive, Inbound Lead Solutions and Kindred Healthcare.

Sponsorships are still available. Contact us at info@louisvilledigital.org for more information about how your company and message can reach a concentrated audience of marketing professionals in the Louisville region today.

DESIGN DISRUPTORS is a full-length documentary featuring design leaders and product designers from 15+ industry-toppling companies—valued at more than $1trillion dollars combined.

Check out the trailer on YouTube here.

The film chronicles the true nature of design and the design-driven business revolutions being shaped around the world through the designers eyes.

Get a never-before-seen look into the perspectives, processes, and design approaches of leaders at industry-toppling brands and discover how these companies are disrupting billion dollar industries through design.

Drinks (adult beverages, soft drinks, and water) and pizza from Papa John’s will be provided.

Seating is limited—reserve your seat today!