Red Diamond Congress Keynote Line-up

  
The 2012 Red Diamond Congress, the first annual event of the trade show industry’s newly minted association, the combining of TSEA and EACA, announced their keynote line-up today for the conference which takes place July 10-12 at McCormick Place in Chicago IL.

Gary Slack, CEO of Slack and Company, will present the Opening Keynote on Tuesday, July 10 on Transforming the Organization, a look inside the challenges he faced, and the opportunities created, as President of the Business Marketing Association.    Gary is two-time past president of the Business Marketing Association’s Chicago chapter. And he served as chairman of BMA National’s executive committee for the 2009-2010 program year.   He started Slack and Company (then under a different name) back in 1988 with just one client.   During a recession. While his wife was pregnant with their second son. This year, Gary is celebrating the agency’s 24th anniversary.   Gary has earned several Agency of the Year nods, not to mention landing on BtoB Magazine’s list of the "Top 100 Influential People in Business-to-Business Marketing.

Lara McCulloch-Carter, of Ready2Spark, will be the Keynote speaker on the second day of the Red Diamond Congress (July 11) and will present her Cannonball Marketing Secrets.     Lara’s keynote addresses the new age of marketing, and the increasing challenges created by the bombardment of messages (upwards of 5,000/day) thrown at target audiences that marketers must compete with.  <More Keynote Info>

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