
Venue
The Bottom End
Upper level – 579 Little Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
Topic – Facebook
Facebook Melbourne employees will be speaking about Facebook changes and its hacking culture, Facebook best practice, case studies, and measuring success.
For regular SMCMelb attendees we’ve changed venues to make for a better event overall.
Event format
Arrive: 6:00pm
Speakers and questions: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Informal drinks & networking: 7:30pm onwards
The Panel
Please reply directly to this email with any questions you have for our Facebook speakers that you would our MC to incorporate into the event. You can start sending them in from now!
Event MC
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Yvonne Adele – Ideas CultureTwitter: @ideasculture
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yvonneadele
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Panelists
| Hayley Crossthwaite - Facebook |
| Hayley has worked in digital marketing for 7 years in research, media planning & buying and sales. She joined Facebook 6 months ago to open the Melbourne office as Client Partner. |
| Sophie Blachford - Facebook |
| Sophie has been with Facebook since 2008 – A time long before there was a like button or even pages for Brands. She began in London, working across multiple cross functional teams. Originally from Melbourne, she came to her senses to leave the UK and join Hayley in January as the first member of the Account Management team in Melbourne. |
Sponsors
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Drinks on the night will be provided by our sponsor Brandtology.
Brandtology is a Sentia Media company and Asia Pacific’s leading online business intelligence company.
Brandtology combines technology, processes and highly skilled professionals to deliver accurate and relevant online media insights to some of the globe’s most recognised organisations. Understanding the digital channels, conversations and sentiment, contributes to effective public relations, crisis management, media planning, campaign measurement, product development and strategic planning.
brandtology.com – @Brandtology – facebook.com/brandtology
Telstra
Be sure you tweet questions to the panel throughout the event, as the best question will be winning a prize on the night, kindly donated by our good friends at Telstra. Use the hash tag #smcmelb
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As Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, Telstra is proud to be helping customers improve the ways in which they live and work through connection. Every day Telstra helps millions of Australians connect to the people and things that matter most to them – anywhere, anytime – because Telstra believes the more connected people are, the more opportunities they have. That’s why Telstra builds technology and content solutions that are simple and easy to use – including Australia’s largest fully integrated IP network and Australia’s largest and fastest wireless broadband networktelstra.com – @Telstra_news – facebook.com/Telstra – Google Plus |
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