Customer relationship management (CRM) is a process in which a business or another organization administers its interactions with customers, typically using data analysis to study large amounts of information.
New Internationalist (NI) is an international publisher and left-wing magazine based in Oxford, England, owned by a multi-stakeholder co-operative and run day to day as a worker-run co-operative with a non-hierarchical structure. Known for its strong editorial and environmental policies, and its bi-monthly independent magazine, it describes itself as existing to "cover stories the mainstream media sidestep and provide alternative perspectives on today's global critical issues." It covers social and environmental issues through its magazine, books and digital platforms.
Razorfish is an interactive agency part of Publicis Groupe. Razorfish provides services, such as, web development, media planning and buying, technology and innovation, emerging media, analytics, mobile, advertising, creative, social influence marketing and search.
Jake Zim is the Senior Vice President of Virtual Reality for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Zim oversees global virtual reality production and strategy for the motion picture group and he has produced a wide variety of interactive projects across the spectrum of distribution channels including location-based, mobile and in-home. Zim has been instrumental in the development of virtual reality experiences such as the Emmy® nominated Spider-Man: Homecoming VR, Ghostbusters: Dimensions, The Emoji Movie VR Experience, Can You Walk The Walk and Jumanji: The VR Adventure, and Hotel Transylvania Popstic VR. The L.A. Times called Zim's appointment "the first VR czar at a major studio." Jake Zim joined Sony Pictures Entertainment Worldwide Marketing and Distribution as Senior Vice President of Digital Marketing in 2011. Before joining Sony, he was vice president, Digital Marketing at Twentieth Century Fox.
Cybozu, Inc. is a Tokyo-based software company that provides web-based groupware services including Cybozu Office and kintone. In addition to the main office in Tokyo, Cybozu also has offices in Matsuyama and Osaka, as well as several overseas subsidiaries in countries including Vietnam, China, Australia and the United States. The U.S.-based subsidiary, kintone Corporation, is located in San Francisco, California.
SMITH, formerly called Ascentium, is an advertising agency with headquarters in Seattle. As of November 2012 Smith employs over 300 people in Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Atlanta, Ottawa-Gatineau and Toronto. In 2012, the company was rebranded as "Smith" and relocated its headquarters to Seattle.
Sitecore is a customer experience management company that provides web content management, and multichannel marketing automation software. The company was founded in 2001 in Denmark.
Sullivan is an independent, WBENC-certified woman-owned, brand agency located on the High Line in New York City. Founded in 1990 by Barbara Apple Sullivan, Managing Partner, it has been named an Inc. 5000. A they say its "Fastest Growing Company" for eight consecutive years (2010–2018).
Jason Zachary Haikara is an American businessman, marketing executive, and producer. Currently, he is an independent Senior Advisor and Event Producer for StoryTech, an experiential marketing company that helps individuals, brands and tech companies tell their stories at industry events such as the Consumer Electronics Show.
Plateau Systems is a provider of Talent Management Systems headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The company provides SaaS products that allow organizations to develop, analyze, and manage organizational talent.
Adform is a global digital media advertising technology company specializing in real-time programmatic marketing automation technologies. Its operations are headquartered in Europe. The company specialized in the creation of technology that helps digital advertisers, agencies, and publishers create, target, buy or sell, and display digital advertising across internet-connected devices. The company claims to provide technologies for each stage of the digital advertising process.
Proximity is a digital, direct and CRM network with 25 offices around the world. Founded in 2000, Proximity began in the digital age and has a varied portfolio of digital creative work including digital advertising, search, strategy and planning, email, data and analytics and design.
Cloud collaboration is a method of sharing and co-authoring computer files via cloud computing, whereby documents are uploaded to a central "cloud" for storage, where they can then be accessed by other users. Cloud collaboration technologies allow users to upload, comment and collaborate on documents and even amend the document itself, evolving the document. Businesses in the last few years have increasingly been switching to use of cloud collaboration.
Hi-ReS! or Handsome information - Radical entertainment Systems! is a London-based design and digital marketing firm known for its elaborate commissioned websites.
Geoffrey Handley is an entrepreneur, technology pioneer, and investor. He is a General Partner at the investment firm Haitao Capital and serves as an advisor and board member to several portfolio companies. Handley is most well known as co-founder of the mobile agency, The Hyperfactory founded with his brother Derek Handley in 2001 and as a Sinologist and author.
CI&T is an information technology and software development company operating in Brazil, the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Portugal, China, Colombia, Japan, and Australia. The company has expertise within the automotive, hi-tech, financial, insurance, manufacturing, media, retail, life sciences and healthcare industries.
Stanley "Stan" Rapp is widely acknowledged for his contributions to the field of marketing and advertising. Together with his then-partner, Tom Collins, he co-founded and served as chief executive officer of Rapp & Collins, for 23 years.
Sebastian Vedsted Jespersen is the CEO and co-founder of the digital agency Vertic. Sebastian Jespersen is an innovator, a business strategist, and a digital thought leader. The Internationalist awarded Jespersen "Agency Innovator 2012". Jespersen lives today in New York City. He founded the digital agency Vertic over a decade ago; today, it operates globally and is part of Globant, a digitally native organization that operates a global network with more than 40 offices and over 9000 employees.
Scott Galloway is an American public speaker, author, podcast host, and entrepreneur. He is a clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business.
Highsnobiety is a global fashion and lifestyle media brand founded in 2005 by David Fischer. The youth-focused company is difficult to pigeonhole, as it straddles the line between a media company that reviews fashion and lifestyle products, a clothing company that sells its own clothing lines, and a creative agency that advises other companies how to market their own fashion and lifestyle products.
