Onestop Internet's Partner Summit Brings Fashion & Technology Leaders to the Beach

One of the highlights of my career was planning "Emerge," Onestop's first partner summit last year.  With a big assist from our friends at Google Partners, we brought leaders from our technology partners and our portfolio customers together to discuss what seems to be an ever-changing landscape of e-commerce. Onestop co-founder, John Tomich (pictured below) explained that today's e-commerce requires a co-pilot to reach ever-challenging new heights.  Altimeter Group's, Brian Solis (pictured above) enlightened guests on the unique field of technical anthropology as it relates to the way customers react to internet brands. Homes.com VP, Grant Simmons explored how he navigates the matrix-like chess board that is search engine optimization while Google's Robert Dillon and Alexis Fritzsche (pictured below) discussed emerging technologies in customer engagement.  

Founders from TrueFit, Social Annex, SmarterHQ and inSparq talked about their contributions to the Onestop ecosystem with my mentor and colleague, Gerry McGoldrick. A great day was brought to a close by Justin Manfredi from Activision, who showed us how every product category can capture the passion of an entertainment brand.

Today, we launched the website for our second "Emerge" conference, to be held at the Manhattan Country Club in Manhattan Beach, CA. We'll be discussing marketing to millennials with FutureCast founder Jeff Fromm, the latest evolutions of social marketing with Silverback Social founder, Chris Dessi, big brand growth strategies with author Gerry O'Brion, capitalizing on business success with consumer success with Ola Danilina, founder of PMBC Group and incredible new advancements in recording human movement with Grant Hughes, co-founder of FocusMotion. In such a dynamic industry, there is hardly enough time in the day, but I'm also anxious to explore how the e-commerce and fashion industries can lead efforts to make our business more eco-friendly, please contact me if you know someone with expertise in this area.

It's an honor to bring leaders in our community together to discuss what we're passionate about. Please join us if you can. You can register today at the Emerge 2016 website.