NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Yext, Inc. (NYSE:
YEXT), the leader in Digital Knowledge Management, has unveiled its
first day of panels for its ONWARD 2017 global conference.
Featuring talks by some of the world's leading innovators, the day
will take ONWARD attendees on a tour of the Intelligent Future.
Kicking off on November 1st at the
Conrad New York, ONWARD will convene leaders in marketing and
technology to explore how AI, digital assistants, and intelligent
services will shape our world in the years to come.
Highlights from the first day of ONWARD include:
- A keynote from Megan Smith,
former CTO of the United
States, followed by a discussion of technology and
philanthropy in the Intelligent Future, followed by a
discussion of technology and philanthropy in the Intelligent Future
with CNBC "Squawk on the Street" Co-Anchor & "Squawk Alley"
Anchor Carl Quintanilla.
- Ed Doran PHD, Co-Founder of Cortana and Director of Program
Management, MSR Artificial Intelligence, at Microsoft, and
Wally Brill, Chief Persona
Designer for Google Assistant, will discuss how voice search is
changing the business landscape as we know it on a panel moderated
by Bloomberg News tech reporter Jing
Cao.
- Mike Linton, Enterprise Chief
Marketing Officer of Farmers Insurance, will join Yext Chief
Customer Officer Wendi Sturgis in a
fireside chat about how Farmers is evolving to serve the consumers
of the future, and what their vastly different expectations mean
for financial services and the world at large.
- Chris Karpenko, Executive
Director of Brand Marketing for the United States Postal
Service, will speak with Kasha
Casey, CEO of global advertising agency Universal McCann,
about how the USPS, the ultimate local presence, is innovating in
an age of mobile and intelligent devices.
"ONWARD '17 will feature incredible conversations with the key
minds writing the next chapter of the Intelligent Future," said
Jeffrey K. Rohrs, Chief Marketing
Officer of Yext. "We're looking forward to bringing ONWARD
attendees together to discover how intelligent services will change
the way the world does business."
For more information and to see the full ONWARD agenda, please
visit ONWARD2017.com.
About Yext
Yext is pioneering a new category called
Digital Knowledge Management, which gives businesses control of all
of the public facts that they want consumers to know across the
intelligent ecosystem. The Yext Knowledge Engine™ lets companies
manage their digital knowledge in the cloud and sync it to over 100
services in the PowerListings® Network. Yext Listings, Pages, and
Reviews enable businesses around the globe to facilitate
face-to-face and digital interactions that boost brand awareness,
drive foot traffic, and increase sales.
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