MIMA Summit - Full Day Conference and Happy Hour

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Our usual full day conference will offer more breakouts this year! We’re taking it to a whole new level, with 8 tracks of breakouts and 2 separate Geek Outs...that's 40 different places to pick from throughout the day, or 10 different ones each hour! I know, I know. Sometimes choices are hard, be we think you’ll like it in the end.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Morning keynote speaker Gary Vaynerchuk is a self-trained wine and social media expert who has revolutionized the wine industry. He hosts a daily webcast called "The Thunder Show" on tv.winelibrary.com that attracts over 90,000 viewers each day, and blogs regularly at garyvaynerchuk.com. Gary's first book, "Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion", was released in the Fall of 2009 and debuted as a NY Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Gary continues to focus on VaynerMedia, a boutique agency, working closely with his brother, AJ.

Afternoon keynote speaker Baratunde Thurston is a comedian, author and vigilante pundit. He was nominated for the Bill Hicks Award for Thought Provoking Comedy and called "someone I need to know" by Barack Obama. Baratunde is the co-founder of the political blog Jack & Jill Politics and performsregularly in New York City, where he works as web editor for The Onion. He hosts "Popular Science's Future Of" on the Science Channel, resides in Brooklyn and lives in The Internet. He is currently writing a book called How To Be Black, which will be published by Harper.