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2008 Conference Agenda
The complete 2008 agenda will be announced soon.
The Sales 2.0 event will address industry trends and key topics such as: “Creating the Sales 2.0 Organization”, “Sales 2.0 for Marketing”, “Leveraging the Sales 2.0 Process”, “Metrics in a Sales 2.0 World”, “Sales Readiness from Concept to Critical”, “Inside Sales 2.0: An Updated Report from the Front Lines” and others.
Sales Practitioners and Thought Leaders are joining the roster of Sales 2.0 Conference speakers and panel participants every day. If you are interested in speaking or nominating a speaker, please visit our call for speakers page. Confirmed Sales 2.0 Conference speakers include:
Speakers
Mary Delaney
Chief Sales Officer for CareerBuilder.com
Mary Delaney is the Chief Sales Officer for CareerBuilder.com, the nation's largest online job site with over 1.6 million jobs and over 23 million unique visitors. Leading a sales force of over 1100, Delaney is one of the key contributors to a company that continually outpaces its industry in revenue growth, growing over 80 percent annually compared to the industry’s 20 percent. Delaney previously was senior vice president for InterCall Inc., a conference services provider, where she developed the long-term company vision and national sales strategy. While at InterCall, sales revenues grew from zero to over $200 million
Polly Sumner
President of salesforce.com’s platform, alliances, and services division
Polly Sumner is president of salesforce.com’s platform, alliances, and services division and a thirty-year technology veteran. At Salesforce, Sumner oversees the Force.com platform, alliances with global independent software vendors and service partners, and salesforce.com’s professional services organization.
Previously Sumner was president of global services at Telecordia and president and CEO of Alphablox, where she grew the company from $5 million to $25 million in two years.
Sumner also held several different positions at Oracle from 1987 to 1999, including vice president and senior vice president roles in sales and alliances.Gerhard Gschwandtner
Publisher, Selling Power
Gerhard Gschwandtner is the founder and CEO of Personal Selling Power, Inc., a magazine and book publishing company. Starting Selling Power on a shoestring budget, Gschwandtner turned it into the leading sales management magazine, with a circulation of 144,000 subscribers in 67 countries. Sellingpower.com is also the leading website in the sales industry, with over 100,000 individual visitors a month.
Geoffrey Moore
Founder, The Chasm Group
Best selling author, Geoffrey Moore is also co-founder and managing director at TCG Advisors and founder of The Chasm Group. Moore penned Crossing the Chasm, a virtual marketing playbook that has been a must-read for software executives everywhere. Moore followed up Chasm with other best-selling efforts including Inside the Tornado, and most recently, Living on the Fault Line, each of which deals with a set of management or investor challenges posed by fast-changing, technology-enabled markets.
David Thompson
CEO and Co-founder of Genius.com
David Thompson, CEO and Co-founder of Genius.com, has been at the forefront of major trends in the software industry for nearly two decades, launching award-winning products and developing innovative programs that integrate sales and marketing efforts to create effective Sales 2.0 organizations. Thompson started Genius.com after serving as CMO at WebEx Communications, where he shipped SaaS solutions and directed legendary marketing campaigns that vaulted WebEx to #1 in on-demand software.
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