May 2 - 3
Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
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Experience Matters is a two-day professional conference designed from the ground up to immerse, inspire, educate, and empower.
Join forward-thinking marketers and boundary-pushing designers who are crafting powerful digital experiences with experiential content.
Morning / Afternoon
Workshops (optional)
Evening
Kickoff Dinner
PRE-EVENT DAY
MAY 12
DAY ONE
MAY 13
DAY TWO
MAY 14
CONFERENCE AGENDA
Morning
Event Opener
Episode 1: Purpose
Episode 2: Creativity Matters
Afternoon
Lunch
Breakout Experience 1
Breakout Experience 2
Episode 3: Experience Matters
Evening
Happy Hour
Evening Experience
Morning
Day Two Opener
Episode 4: Experiential Content pt. 1
Episode 5: Experiential Content pt. 2
Afternoon
Lunch
Breakout Experience 3
Breakout Experience 4
Episode 6: Connection
Evening
After-hours social (optional)
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WHAT TO EXpECT
WHERE TO STAY
THE WILLIAMSBURG HOTEL
HOTEL INDIGO
WYTHE HOTEL
ARLO HOTEL
FAQ
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The Experiential Content ConferencE
POST-EVENT DAY
MAY 15
Morning / Afternoon
Excursions & Experiences (optional)
When will speakers and workshops be announced?
The first list of speakers and workshops will be announced in early 2020. If you want first dibs on workshops register early and get exclusive access before they are announced to the public.
Can you tell me more about hotel & travel discounts for #EM20?
We’ve arranged for exclusive rates and discounts at several host hotels. Availability is on a first come first serve basis. We will be offering shuttle service to and from the venue from our host hotels. Once you register for Experience Matters we will give you access to all the details.
Do you accept speaker submissions?
We do not. However, we’re always on the lookout for great stories and inspirational individuals. If this is you or someone you know we’d love to have a conversation with you! Shoot us an email at ExperienceMatters@ceros.com.
Do you have sponsorship opportunities for Experience Matters? We like to collaborate with companies who share a close alignment to our mission, vision, and purpose. If this is your organization we’d love to talk with you to discuss ways we can add more value to attendees while incorporating your brand. Email us at ExperienceMatters@ceros.com.
Experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. To say ‘experience matters’ would be an understatement.
INSPIRATION
X
Discover inspiring and remarkable stories from world-class speakers to fuel your creative process. Understand not only how they think about the world around them, but soak up real-world examples that will help turn inspiration into action.
“What’s my motivation here?” -said no one ever at Experience Matters 2020.
EMPOWERMENT
X
Put into practice frameworks and models that will enable you to become an experiential content expert. Network with like-minded creative thinkers, designers, marketers, and storytellers and build your own creative community.
Ideas and knowledge are worthless until they are put into action. Come to Experience Matters and make. them. pay.
Throughout the two-day conference you’ll be immersed and entertained with experiential breaks, an epic evening event, live entertainment, and much more that will get your hands clapping, blood pumping, and minds dreaming.
Don’t just learn about experiential content, experience it.
“What’s my motivation here?” - said no one ever at Experience Matters 2020.
At Experience Matters you’ll actively take part in carefully crafted learning sessions and engaging breakouts where you’ll learn how to architect brand experience with experiential content. How to drive performance and ROI. How to keep your team at the forefront of business and marketing trends. Why leading brands value creativity and the frameworks they use. How to setup your team to scale creativity and experience.
iMMERSION
INSPIRATION
EDUCATION
EMPOWERMENT
Ideas and knowledge are worthless until they are put into action... Make. Them. Pay.
Discounts and exclusive rates at official Experience Matters hotels are available.
Register today to get access to our best rooms and pricing.
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WHY ATTEND?
Experiential is no longer just physical, it’s digital too. Time is up on endless (and mindless) content creation and cookie-cutter strategies. Marketers and designers of the future refuse to limit experiential thinking and they craft remarkable brand experiences at scale. Be one of them.
Stop creating content. Start creating experiences.
A NEW KIND OF BUSINESS EVENT
Experience Matters is curated to inspire, engage, and leave you feeling fulfilled.
EDUCATION
X
At Experience Matters you won’t just be sitting in an expo hall as speaker after speaker takes the stage. You’ll actively take part in carefully crafted learning sessions and engaging breakouts. The entire event has been carefully curated so you’ll leave with tangible takeaways and new skills.
At Experience Matters you’ll learn:
1. How to architect brand experience with experiential content.
2. How to drive performance and ROI so all the experience ‘feel good stuff’ feels even better.
3. The mindset required to keep you and your team at the forefront of business and marketing trends.
4. Why leading brands highly value creativity and the creative frameworks they use.
5. How to setup your team to scale experience and creativity to drive massive results for your business.
Like a perfect meal, educational programming at Experience Matters is curated to impress, engage, and leave you feeling fulfilled.
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This event is for the doers, the dreamers, and all who dare greatly in the name of creativity.
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EPISODES
BREAKOUT
EXPERIENCES
Episodes are 90+ minutes long and feature experts, entertainers, real-world success stories, and acclaimed speakers. We closely collaborate with everyone who steps on-stage to both ensure quality and to create a cohesive narrative. Each episode at Experience Matters builds upon one another to create a comprehensive and complete event experience.
Breakout experiences are 45-minute, unique learning and discovery experiences that provide additional educational and networking opportunities. Breakout experiences include interactive and hands-on sessions as well as facilitated conversations and discussions.
2020 episode overview
DAY ONE
DAY TWO
The stronger your purpose, the more powerful and coordinated you and your team’s actions can be. To fully unlock your creativity to craft engaging, cohesive digital experiences, this episode will help attendees understand, define, and harness the power of purpose.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
In marketing we’ve become overly analytical, often devaluing the importance of creativity. In this episode, learn why creativity matters and how making it a fundamental part of your process can lead to greater performance and better results.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
We're living in an experience economy where consumers are willing to pay more for better experiences. Both B2B and B2C customers today will choose experience over other aspects including price and product. Learn what an experience is, how to harness it, and how experiences span across the digital and physical worlds.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Uncover the components that make content experiential by diving deep into real-world examples. In this episode, learn how interactivity and immersion can be leveraged to effectively create experiential content for your business.
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Discover how others have transformed their content strategies. From establishing processes, to building a team, to mapping experiential content opportunities to your customer journey, learn how to produce, scale, deploy, and measure experiential content.
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
What makes us human? The connections and bonds we form with other people or ideas. Leave with an understanding and appreciation for the transformational power that connection has and how to apply those learnings when crafting experiences.
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
DAY ONE
DAY TWO
An elevated conference experience
We've done the work for you by carefully crafting every episode, breakout experience, networking opportunity, and aspect of the event so it all works together. Simply show up, be present, and we’ll take you on a powerful and valuable transformation journey.
Every episode contains transformational success stories that will illuminate how businesses across every industry have embraced experiential content and creative thinking to drive powerful results. Learn from their lessons and be inspired by real examples of their work.
Attending Experience Matters feels different than a typical business conference. In lieu of the traditional hotel meeting space or conference center, we’ve intentionally chosen venues to redesign the way people journey through a business event in order to create a better conference experience.
Experience & Content Curation
Plentiful Success Stories & Takeaways
Bucking the convention on conventions
Need help justifying Experience Matters to your boss?
Uncover the components that make content experiential by diving deep into real-world examples. In this episode, learn how interactivity and immersion can be leveraged to effectively create experiential content for your business.
Episode 4
Discover how others have transformed their content strategies. From establishing processes, to building a team, to mapping experiential content opportunities to your customer journey, learn how to produce, scale, deploy, and measure experiential content.
Episode 5
What makes us human? The connections and bonds we form with other people or ideas. Leave with an understanding and appreciation for the transformational power that connection has and how to apply those learnings when crafting experiences.
Episode 6
DAY TWO
DAY ONE
The stronger your purpose, the more powerful and coordinated you and your team’s actions can be. To fully unlock your creativity to craft engaging, cohesive digital experiences, this episode will help attendees understand, define, and harness the power of purpose.
Episode 1
In marketing we’ve become overly analytical, often devaluing the importance of creativity. In this episode, learn why creativity matters and how making it a fundamental part of your process can lead to greater performance and better results.
Episode 2
We're living in an experience economy where consumers are willing to pay more for better experiences. Both B2B and B2C customers today will choose experience over other other aspects including price and product. Learn what an experience is, how to harness it, and how experiences span across the digital and physical worlds.
Episode 3
DAY TWO
DAY ONE
SPEAKERS
Chris Schembra
David Meerman Scott
Katie Martell
Kirstin Benson
Lee Odden
Melanie Deziel
Simon Berg
Som Puangladda
Irene Fong
Ryan Brown
Founder + Chief Question Asker, 7:47
International best-selling Author
Marketing Truth-teller
VP Global Entertainment - Getty
Chris Schembra
David Meerman Scott
Katie Martell
Kirstin Benson
CEO & Co-Founder, TopRank Marketing
Founder of StoryFuel
CEO, Ceros
VP of Global Marketing - GumGum
Electric Violinist, Creative Director
Head of Brand, Ceros
Chris Schembra
David Meerman Scott
Katie Martell
Kirstin Benson
Speakers
SPEAKERS
CEO & Co-Founder, TopRank Marketing
Lee Odden
Bonnie Siegler
Founder, Eight and a Half
MORE COMING SOON
Stephen Gates
Chief Design Evangelist, InVision
Stephen Gates
Chief Design Evangelist, InVision
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