
Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Ron Hetrick

Emsi Burning Glass
Sr. Labor Economist and Director of Staffing Products
The Demographic Drought: How a lack of people will change how we look at labor .
The US is suffering the beginning stages of a sansdemic: a lack of people to do all the work that needs to be done. Between 2011 and 2021, nearly every county in the US saw declines in its working-age population.
Kalinda Ukanwa

University of Southern California
Assistant Professor of Marketing (Quantitative)
The Promise and Peril of Algorithms
Data Science and artificial intelligence (AI) has dramatically changed the way we make decisions, gather and present information, and manage processes at every level of society as we know it today. They hold tremendous promise for transforming the way we live and work in thousands of ways. But there are also perils in the power they hold over decisions made about us in our every day lives. This talk lays bare where the perils lie and maps a path forward on how to address them. By doing so, we can unlock the potential for positive impact that algorithms have for societal welfare.
Mike King

iPullRank
Founder & Managing Director at iPullRank
Core Web Vitals and Your Google Search Rankings
Google has announced a major algorithm change regarding core web vitals. But what is core web vitals really? Let's spend an hour with veteran SEO, Mike King to learn more about how core web vitals will impact SEO.
Cassidy Shield

Narrative Science
SVP Marketing & Sales
We have access to more data than ever and with that comes mounting expectations that we will use this information to make better decisions. Yet, the way we consume data today, via charts and graphs, has gone unchanged over the last 20 years. The repercussions on this are clear - most of us either don’t use the data or don’t know how to interpret it because it's not presented in a way that makes sense to most people. There’s a better way: storytelling and, specifically, data storytelling. We will discuss what data storytelling is and isn’t, and most importantly, how to put it into practice.