Established in 1996, MITX -- the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange -- is the leading industry organization focused on the web, bringing together the digital marketing, media and technology community to engage in what is next for the web and how it will impact the marketing and business worlds. Reaching more than 10,000 professionals in New England, MITX is a dynamic and growing community of thought leaders, collaborators, and individuals in search of insight, education, and opportunity. The creator of FutureM, MITX is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. For more information, go to mitx.org

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Hill Holliday’s purpose is to create a singular, resonant idea upon which a company can build businesssuccess that endures for years, even decades. The ultimate reward for such a mission? Relationships that endure. Hill Holliday’s top five clients have been partners of the agency for an average of 16 years, five times longer than the industry standard. Their resonant ideas have achieved the highest international accolades for creativity and effectiveness: Hill Holliday has the distinction of being one of the very few agencies in the world to be awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes, the Grand Clio, and the Grand Effie. Behind this grand thinking are 850 employees in Boston, New York, and Greenville who bring talent and expertise to every area of communications – strategy and planning, advertising, digital and social, media planning and buying, and branded content -- on behalf of industry leaders like Verizon Wireless, Bank of America, Liberty Mutual,Dunkin’ Donuts, John Hancock, Chili’s, Novartis, CIGNA, Great Wolf Resorts and Major League Baseball. For a closer look at Hill Holliday’s people, work and ideas, please visit www.hhcc.com

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Forrester is a global research and advisory firm that delivers fact based insights to guide great decisions and inspire clear vision. We help strategists, marketers, and business technology leaders at the world’s top companies turn the complexity of change into business success. Clients rely on us for:

– Forward-looking research and analysis to understand emerging trends and guide your decisions.
– Data-driven insights to help you capitalize on changing b2c and b2b behavior.
– Objective advice to help you set strategy and select the right partners.
– Best practice sharing to help you validate decisions and innovate within your organization.

Visit us at www.forrester.com to learn more about how Forrester can help you address your challenges and achieve your goals.

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Trip Advisor

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Adobe Customer Experience Management is a unified suite of solutions for compelling, multi-channel digital experiences that transforms how enterprises engage, sell, and service today’s digitally immersed customer. We unleash creativity and innovation for CMOs to drive customer acquisition and brand advocacy and for CIOs to optimize customer interactions across lines of business. Our customers gain competitive advantage through customer experience. Our solutions allow organizations to embrace the social, mobile consumer across digital channels for a personal connection that drives long-term loyalty. In a rapidly changing market environment, we enable leaders to harness new technology and consumer expectations for revenue and market share growth. For more information visit www.adobe.com/enterprise

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The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD) is a research and software innovation campus located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The NERD vertical campus spans two buildings with its primary presence and conference center located at One Memorial Drive and a renovated and expanded space located at One Cambridge Center. NERD is home to some of Microsoft’s most strategic teams including Microsoft Research New England, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), SharePoint Workspace, Microsoft Advertising, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Office 365 and more. NERD has become a hub of activity for the local tech community and has hosted more than 800 events and welcomed more than 60,000 visitors during the past two years.

Akamai® provides market-leading, cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce. Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai's global platform is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate. To learn how the world's leading enterprises are optimizing their business in the cloud, please visit www.akamai.com and follow @Akamai on Twitter.

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Havas

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5 Hour Energy

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Founded in 2001, Oasis is a leading interactive agency that provides sophisticated digital strategy and creative design that blends the latest technologies to power cutting edge experiences for its clients and their customers. Headquartered in Boston with offices in New York and San Francisco, Oasis has created relevant, brand-enhancing interactive experiences for industry-leading brands and global organizations. Oasis has received multiple technology awards including recognition from the Horizon Interactive Awards, the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) Awards and Hatch Awards. Additionally, Oasis has been recognized by Boston Business Journal as one of Boston’s "Best Places to Work." agencyoasis.com

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BlueTrain Mobile enables businesses to create smartphone-optimized websites. The end result is professional, functional, and effective, allowing businesses to grow through the mobile marketing channel by putting their brand at customers’ fingertips. BlueTrain Mobile’s esteemed list of clients includes Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Northeastern University, and Winter Wyman. bluetrainmobile.com

Holland-Mark is a strategic marketing firm focused on helping brands and businesses win by becoming imperative to their customers and prospects. The agency brings together competencies in business and product strategy, creative development and design, digital and social marketing to help clients improve the relevance of their offerings, clarify their brand value proposition, tell their story consistently, and engage with the audiences that matter to them. For more information, go to holland-mark.com

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The Boston Business Journal’s foremost objective is to give our readers and advertisers quality print and online publications, as well as other services that are specifically tailored to their interests and needs. In this pursuit, our efforts must focus upon quality journalism, innovative marketing, exemplary customer service and an unquestioned commitment to the highest standards of professional and corporate ethics. Influence where it counts! The BBJ is enriched by the continuing contributions of exceptionally talented employees who provide the foundation upon which our quest for quality is built. The company shall always recognize that our skilled and dedicated employees are the company’s greatest strength and by achieving our financial objectives, we will be able to serve our readers with improved products and more innovative services.

CrossTech Media is a market leader in the hosted summit market with seven vertical segment conferences for C-level executives. They manage the ITEC Conference, one-day conferences for IT directors in local markets; and the Inbound Marketing Summit, a two-day program for innovators in new media marketing developed by CrossTech with noted author and social media expert Chris Brogan. CrossTech Partners, the original business unit of the company formerly known as Exgenex, provides event technologies services including website development services, registration and audience analytics for events, and software-as-a-service options. Also part of the organization is www.ThePulseNetwork.com, a creator of community programs and web content syndication.

Gravity Summit, the premier real-time social media event, returns to Boston on Monday, September 12 at the prestigious Harvard University Faculty Club to officially kick off FutureM and the important discussion around how the future of real-time social media marketing is impacting how one does business today. Headed by Beverly Macy, co-author of “The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing”, and teacher of Social Media Marketing for the UCLA Extension, Gravity Summit has become the gold standard in social media marketing events by bridging the gap between Social Media Marketing tools and the business community. Its prestigious list of previous speakers has included hip hop legend and Twitter star MC Hammer, Billy Bush of Access Hollywood, and executives from some of the biggest companies and brands in the world including Facebook, Dell, Sony, Yahoo!, Cisco, Intuit, LinkedIn, Domino’s Pizza, Visible Technologies and more.

HubSpot, Inc. offers an all-in-one marketing software platform for small and medium sized businesses. Over 4,000 companies in 31 countries use HubSpot software to increase the number of visitors to their website and convert more of those visitors to leads and customers. Applications in the software platform include website management, blogging, search engine optimization, lead management, marketing analytics, email marketing, landing pages, and social media monitoring. HubSpot is also the developer of the popular website analysis tool, WebsiteGrader.com, which has over 3 million users. HubSpot, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Find them at hubspot.com

Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party and networking event. Every month we help launch ten new products at a live social media powered event. Our new website, InnovationNights.com, is a platform for other communities to create their own Innovation Nights events.

MediaPost Communications is the media, marketing and advertising professional's leading resource for complete news coverage, engaging events, a focused social network, and comprehensive industry jobs, directories and research. MediaPost produces and hosts a variety of industry events throughout the year that include: the single-day, media-specific OMMA conference series, bi-annual all-industry OMMA Global conference & EXPOs, bi-annual Search, Email, Mobile & Social Media Insider Summits, and annual Agency of the Year Awards, Digital Out-of-Home Awards, OMMA Awards, the Outfront conference, CMO Summit and Future of Media Forum.

The Web Innovators Group (a.k.a “WebInno”) is an organization comprised of people engaged in internet and mobile innovation. Its quarterly events provide a forum for entrepreneurs from early-stage startups to present new services to their peers, as well as an opportunity for those in the web and mobile community to share and exchange ideas.

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