Explore the future of cannabis and CBD at Ad Age Next
Future blockbusters including legal cannabis and CBD will be a focus when Ad Age Next, our biggest event of the year, convenes at New World Stages in New York this Nov. 13 and 14.
Our program of innovators, investors, founders and marketing leaders will include:
David Dancer, CMO at MedMen
on the cannabis boom to come
Tony Magee, founder of Lagunitas
on the next buzz, including cannabis in Lagunitas drinks
Jason DeLand, founding partner and joint global CEO at Anomaly
on cannabis, science and the hot startup Dosist
and
Claudia Mata, co-founder of Vertly
on CBD in beauty.
Next as a whole is all about the near future being shaped by innovation–the best kind of marketing, but much more than that too.
Day One features an afternoon of stimulating keynotes and conversations, culminating in Next Titans, a new live experience about six startups seeking funding and marketing support. They will pitch live to former Mondelēz chief media and e-commerce officer Bonin Bough, BlueRun Ventures General Partner Cheryl Cheng, former GE chief marketing officer Beth Comstock and VaynerX chairman Gary Vaynerchuk.
Day Two will feature midday tracks to let attendees drill down on areas that particularly matter to them, including esports, retail and ecommerce, mobility and next media tech. And there will be networking.
Other Next speakers include:
Sophia Amoruso, CEO and founder at Girlboss
on connections as the future of currency
Sharmeen Browarek, senior director of viewer engagement at Twitch
on using machine learning to fight bias in gaming
Kass Dawson, global head of marketing at Softbank Robotics
with the Pepper robot, on the future of human-robot interactions
Amy Emmerich, chief content officer at Refinery29
on content's next mission
Ryan Kelly, head of marketing and communications at Virgin Hyperloop One
on policy pile-ups in mobility and the public-private solution
Jason Mars, CEO and co-founder at Clinc
on the rise of conversational AI
Megan Maloney, investor at General Catalyst
on the real future for blockchain
Pras Michél, founder of Blacture
on creating while black
Natalia Oberti Noguera, CEO and founder of Pipeline Angels
on changing the "white bro" culture of Silicon Valley
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and general partner at Initialized Capital
on finding, evaluating and driving innovation
Bozoma Saint John, chief marketing officer at Endeavor
on Next Reinvention—how people and businesses can stay head of disruption
Ralph Santana, CMO at Harman
on the 65-mile-per-hour living room
Rachel Shechtman, CEO and founder, Story
on experiential retail, online and off
David Shing, digital prophet at Verizon's Oath
on screens and our mental health
Brandon Snow, senior VP and chief revenue officer at Activision Blizzard Esports Leagues
on esports' next play IRL
Meiling Tan, head of marketing at Waymo
on bringing self-driving cars to the public
Dara Treseder, chief marketing officer at GE Ventures
on how to accelerate change
Randall Wilkinson, CEO and co-founder of The Wilkinson Group
on the future of food and his company's robotic Wilkinson Mini Bakery
Jen Wong, chief operating officer at Reddit
on the future of community trust
Be there too on Nov. 13 and 14. All the info is here, including the agenda.
