The 2009 Lineup – Everything Kids Love will be Covered
BIG PICTURE LEADERS
- Bill Goodwin, President and CEO, Goodwin Youth
- Donna Sabino, Vice President, Strategic Development, MTVN, Nickelodeon Kids and Family Group
WORLD-CLASS THINKERS
- Alexander Isley, Creative Director/Principal, Alexander Isley Inc.
- Dan Hill, President, Sensory Logic, Inc.
- Josh Spear, Founding Partner, Undercurrent
- Montana Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University
- Patrick Hanlon, Author, Primal Branding
- Sam Gisselman, space for rent, Play
TOYS AND GAMES
- Matt Mattus, Creative Director – Intellectual Property Development, Hasbro; Author, Beyond Trend- How to Innovate in an Over Designed World
- Ingrid Sabena Dragotta, Product Manager, Design Strategist, Howtoons, LLC; former Toy Designer for the My Little Pony Team, Hasbro
- Edward M. Schmults, CEO, FAO Schwarz
- Jeff Hayzlett, Chief Business Development Officer, Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company
- Denise Gary Robinson, President, Dolls Like Me, Inc.
- Cheri Sterman, Director, Child Development and Consumer Relationship, Crayola
- Diane Baldovsky, Manager, Global Licensing, Crayola
- Chris Guirlinger, VP Marketing & Licensing, Wham-O, Inc.
TV
- Jennifer Goodman Linn, SVP, Consumer Marketing & Brand Strategy, Nickelodeon
- Alice Cahn, Vice President, Social Responsibility, Cartoon Network
- Jim Multari, Director, Research, PBS KIDS Sprout
- Shannon Vacca, Manager, Consumer Marketing, PBS KIDS Sprout
- Leslye Schaefer, SVP Marketing and Consumer Products, Scholastic Media
VACATION AND FREE TIME
- Pat Wellen, Director, Research Service, Boy Scouts of America
- Jessica Jadali Correa, Director, Brand Innovation & Alliance Marketing, Royal Caribbean International
CLOTHES AND SHOES
- Michelle Moorehead, Vice President/ General Manager, Kids, Nike, Inc.
- Debra Holly Woodroof, Manager Infant and Toddler, Wrangler Jeans, VFCorporation
- Taffey Ann Stout, Manager Marketing Research, Wrangler Jeans, VFCorporation
- Jonah Staw, Founder & CEO, LittleMissMatched
FOOD AND HEALTH
- Sarah Bird, Vice President, Marketing, Annie’s, Inc.
- Brenda Zuck, Design Manager, Colgate Palmolive
- Allison Topper, Executive Director, Penn State Hershey Center for Nutrition & Activity Promotion
ONLINE AND VIRTUAL WORLDS
- John Davison, President, What They Like, Inc.
- Dell Monson, Senior Director of Marketing, North America, Hidden City Games (publishers of Bella Sara)
- Dr. James M. Bower, Chief Visionary Officer, Numedeon Inc (Creators of Whyville.net)
OTHER REALLY COOL SPEAKERS
- Jerry Shereshewsky, CEO, Grandparents.com
- Pamela Parris, Marketing Manager, Evergreen Packaging
- Laura Dzelzyte, Founder and Managing Partner, GreenIndex
- Ruth Sando, Ph.D., Cultural Anthropologist, Barbara Perry Associates
- Maria Bailey, Author, Mom 3.0
- Lana Posner, Founder/Partner, Creative Money Group LLC and Creative Money Works Inc.
- Rachel Geller, Chief Strategic Officer, The Geppetto Group
- Wynne Tyree, Chief Smarty Pants, Smarty Pants
- Barbara Zamolsky, Qualitative Brainiac, Smarty Pants
- Kim Bealle, Managing Director, Strategy and Innovation, Just Kid Inc.