Session Name: | Managing Professional Communities, Peers and Entrepreneurs |
Speaker(s): | Kelly Wallick |
Company Name(s): | Indie MEGABOOTH |
Track / Format: | Business & Marketing |
Overview: | In this talk, Kelly will explore the challenges associated with managing communities comprised of industry professionals, who are often peers, superiors and/or students with their own priorities and time constraints. She will share the experience and lessons learned from founding and cultivating a community and network of over 400 independently focused companies and dozens of large scale partnerships globally via the Indie MEGABOOTH, along with her work for the IGF and co-organization of the indie festival BitSummit in Kyoto, Japan. Each topic will provide descriptions, anecdotes, identifiable problems and actionable steps to take towards creating solutions applicable to a broad range of management situations. |