About the Speakers
Fine wine, Hawaiian beaches and country music all conjure up notions of love, but what happens when you get all that romance in one room to talk about online relationship building? Hear from an all-star cast of seasoned web professionals who truly understand how to build online relationships – and have the brands to back it up. Reserve your seat today for this one of a kind event.
Michael Brill
President
Crushpad
Michael brings a unique perspective to Love @ First Website. Crushpad has been featured in the USA Today, Forbes Magazine, CNN and countless other places for its disruptive and unique business model that makes you the winemaker.
In 2002, Michael ripped up his San Francisco backyard and planted pinot noir. Soon after, Michael began hauling tons of fruit back from wine country to make wine in the city, showing up at his day job bleary-eyed and purple fingered. Vowing to add sanity to the lives of winemakers with day jobs, Michael formed Crushpad. Today, Michael has responsibility for the strategy and operations of Crushpad and with over 15 years experience founding and building start-up companies he is well equipped to turn his passion for wine into a thriving business.
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Farm Aid
Multiple Team Members
Farmaid.org
Farm Aid has recently transformed its online presence with fresh new web strategy to better reach and communicate with its constituents online. The result has been a completely overhauled web site, a successful social networking campaign done on a shoestring budget and engaging new ways to use technology such as video and blogging. Marketing Sherpa recognized Farm Aid in its 2007 Viral Hall of Fame. You'll hear from the Farm Aid and ISITE Design team that have put this new web strategy in place over the last year.
Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on their land. Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land.
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Kara Imai
Senior Director, Online Marketing
Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau
Kara Imai is responsible for planning, directing and managing all of HVCB's online marketing initiatives. She oversees new developments to gohawaii.com, Hawai'i's official tourism website that showcases its natural beauty, people, and diversity of activities.
Kara brings to HVCB more than 15 years of marketing experience, specializing in interactive communications and web site development. Before joining HVCB, Kara was a director at Honolulu online agency Firefly Interactive, spearheading its creation in 1994 as the interactive division of Milici Valenti Ng Pack Advertising.
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Steve Gehlen
Founder and Executive Director
Internet Strategy Forum
Steve is returning for the third year to emcee and moderate the event. Steve has been the top Internet strategist at companies such as Nike, Digimarc, Hollywood Entertainment Corp. and OHSU. In 2004 Steve founded the Internet Strategy Forum, a professional association for corporate Internet strategists with over 525 members worldwide. He also the producer of the Internet Strategy Forum Executive Summit and co-creator of the Corporate Internet Strategist Survey, an in-depth research study.
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