2023 Presentations

Friday Presentations

Below are Zoom recordings from our 2023 meetings. We have also included a link to the presenter's slides if available.

Confidentiality reminder: We hope you enjoy watching the recordings and ask you to keep them confidential to this group -- please do not share recordings or presentation materials outside the EIR group. 

EIR Network EoY Wrapped , December 22, 2023

Jessica Straw, EIR Director 

Social for the Love of People and our Planet, December 15, 2023

Founder of WeAre8, Sue Fennessey

Revenue Marketing for Tech Companies by Tech Veterans, December 8, 2023

Founder of Buttered Toast, David Baeza

Status of Retail, December 1, 2023

Co-Founder at Alliance for Innovation Regulation, David Ehrich

Status of Retail, November 17, 2023

CD & TO of Night Market, Kyle Csik

Why Care about Privacy?, November 10, 2023

Founder of Lucid Privacy, Colin O'Malley

The Gist, Women's Sports and the Underserved Fan, November 3, 2023

Co-Founder of The Gist, Ellen Hyslop

Attention Metrics, October 27, 2023

Progress Partners' Bret Brase and CEO of The Attention Council, Andy Brown

A Macroeconomic Market Update on Labor Markets, Credit Markets and Private Market Trends, October 17, 2023

Progress Partners' Chris Legg, Adriaan Zur Muhlen, and Brett Chatfield

The Global Power of Influencer Marketing, October 13, 2023

Founder of Content Lab, Allen Loh

Consumer Events, Affiliate Marketing, and... Cannibalism?, October 6, 2023

SVP of Strategy of Outside, Jon Dorn

Us and Them- In the Age of Generative AI, September 29, 2023

CTO of Kyndryl, Dr. Nadeem Malik

Snow Graph- The Future of Privacy-Safe Graph Analytics and Data Collaboration, September 22, 2023

Robert Simon and Sasha Gruijicic of Now Vertical

Go-To-Customer Commercial Strategy, September 15, 2023

CEO of Polaris I/O, Dave Irwin

AIR IRL, September 08, 2023

Co-Founder of stealth AI Startup, Joel Toledano

Progress Partners Annual Review to EIRs, August 25, 2023

Progress Partners Team

Automotive Update, August 18, 2023

Automotive Ventures CEO/Founder and Progress Partner MD, Steve Greenfield

Summer Intern Project – Identity Biometrics, August 15, 2023

Summer 2023 Intern Cohort

Summer Intern Project – EV and Charging Infrastructure, August 15, 2023

Summer 2023 Intern Cohort

Lookout, Supersight for Boats, August 11, 2023

Lookout's CEO, David Rose

Summer Intern Project – Embedded Finance, August 8, 2023

Summer 2023 Intern Cohort

Earned Media and Thought Leadership: A Force Multiplier for Reputation and Valuation, August 4, 2023

COO of Kite Hill Public Relations, Jeanne Meyer

Summer Intern Project – AR/ VR, August 1, 2023

Summer 2023 Intern Cohort

Generative AI for Understanding Patents and Innovation and Firms

Associate Professor BU Questrom School of Management, DK Lee

Summer Intern Project – Gaming, July 25, 2023

Summer 2023 Intern Cohort

Manuevering the corporate cultural change associated with new tech implementation, July 21, 2023

Sephora's CMO Zena Srivatsa Arnold

A Macroeconomic Market Update on Labor Markets, Credit Markets and Private Market Trends, July 14, 2023

Progress Partner's Chriss Legg, Adriaan Zur Muhlen, and Brett Chatfield

One Fully Integrated Platform to Manage all Revenue Streams and Operations, June 30, 2023

Bjorn Espenes, the CEO and Founder of Finch, an E-Commerce Growth Platform

Preventing the Issues that Keep You up at Night, June 16, 2023

Marcia Tal, CEO & Founder, Positivity Tracker: From Citi's Decision Management to High-Risk Complaints

A stealth, VC-funded tech company focused on the long tail of sports betting, June 9, 2023

Joel Milton, CEO & Founder of Splash, on what sets his pool betting company apart from its big competitors.

How The Creative Innovation Industry Has Evolved and How We Are Responding, June 2, 2023

Mark Maleh of Valtech on what branding means in today's high-tech world.

Data & Owned Audiences Inside the Music Biz, May 19, 2023

Scott Cherkin, SVP of Global Audience Strategy of Warner Music discusses trends shaping the music industry landscape.

Data Collection Through IoT, May 12, 2023

Colby McKenzie of Fobi.ai discusses the importance of data when building a digital transformation strategy.

Your Call: The Allstar That Didn’t Take Off, May 5, 2023

Julie Meringer demonstrates that timing is everything when starting a company.

Project X Initiative, April 28, 2023

 Jon Watts, Executive Director 

Regulating the Digital Advertising Industry, April 21, 2023

David LeDuc, VP Public Policy for the NAI debriefs the changing landscape of advertising and privacy policy

Progress Macroeconomic Update, April 14, 2023

Progress Partners Q1 overview led by Senior Managing Director Chris Legg and Managing Partner Adrian Zur Muhlen.

AI past, today, and future, April 7, 2023

 Matt Smith, CDO of Microsoft shared his insights around "The why" of Generative AI.

The future of consumer data for brands and advertisers, March 31st, 2023

Rick Erwin, CEO of Adstra shared his insights around the future of consumer data for brands and advertisers.

Ushering in the next stage of growth for podcasting and audio advertising, March 24th, 2023

Kal Amin, CEO & Co-founder of Sounder provided an overview of Sounder and how AI and voice recognition is being used to determine and insert effective ad placements.

FXM unlocks efficiencies media buyers can convert into flexible payment terms and savings, March 17th, 2023

Joe Zawadzki, Chair of FXM:  Everyone has clients who want to pay slowly (and pay less), and vendors who wish to get paid more and more quickly; FXM uses its tool kit to achieve both.  

Dynamic Digital Advertising - How to Unlock Creativity, March 10th, 2023

Steve Krol, CEO & Founder, Advanse shared insights on how brands are using dynamic creative optimization in their digital campaigns.

U.S. Cannabis Market: Where we are today & what is anticipated to come, March 3rd, 2023

Patrick Rea, Managing Director of Poseidon Partners, discussed the juxtaposition of continued growth and persistent constraints on the industry due to regulations.

The state of Fintech and the power unlocked by data, February 24th, 2023

Jared Shulman, CEO & Founder Lendica. Jared discussed the state of Fintech with embedded finance and the data behind fast banking in a traditionally slow process.

Generative AI and the phenomenon that is ChatGPT, February 17th, 2023

The Progress Partners’ team presents its review of the market and perspective on the implications of the Generative AI race.

Building metaverses for brands on a Saas basis, February 10th, 2023

Josh Rush, CEO & Co-Founder of Surreal Events gives us a glimpse of a first of its kind virtual events platform providing a doorway for companies to offer truly differentiated brand experiences.

Building next-gen data delivery solutions to enable immersive applications, February 3rd, 2023

Michael Luby, CEO and Founder, BitRipple presenting on how BitRipple software solutions enable high-quality online gaming, immersive collaboration, and similar applications that require consistent ultra-low latency data delivery. BitRipple solutions also enable data delivery for defense applications that require cyber attack resiliency in challenging network conditions.

NewsNext/NewsPassID consortium ad network and programs built for journalism in the US., January 27th, 2023

Scott Cunningham, author of Defining Brand Safety Series and founder of the IAB Tech Lab, initiative lead of NewsPassID Ad Network and NewsNext sustainable journalism initiative at the Local Media Consortium on brand suitability.

Linear and Nonlinear TV in an Omnichannel World, January 20th, 2023

Mark Green, CEO, MediaBrain discussed the direction of linear and nonlinear TV planning and buying in an omnichannel world.

Virtual Influencer Demonstration, January 13th, 2023

Shep Ogden, CEO & Founder of Offbeat Media Group, showcased how Virtual Influencers are being used, with broad applications, in the media and marketing sector.

CES Virtual Show Floor Tour, January 13th, 2023

Led by Michael Bassik, CEO of Optimal and Domenic Venuto, COO of Progress Partners.