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A
week from today
we will be boarding a plane for Las
Vegas so we can get settled in
for the 2016 NamesCon
conference that will run January
10-13 at the Tropicana Hotel.
In a series of posts this week I've
been touching on some the daily
highlights in store for attendees
(if you missed those you can catch
up through these links: Day
1, Day
2 and Day
3). Today we'll take a
peak at a few of the sessions
scheduled for the 4th and final day
of this 3rd annual event that is
expected to draw more than 1,000 attendees
from around the world.
The
NamesCon stage will be graced by
leading experts from every corner of
the domain industry in a series of 11
keynote talks and dozens of
presentations, panel discussions and
workshops. You'll also be able
to meet face to face with
representatives from most of the
industry's top service providers in
NamesCon's centrally located Exhibit
Hall (as well as at the special
Network Lane event on opening
day).
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The
show's final three keynotes will be
among the closing day highlights
Wednesday (January 13). The first of
those at 10am will feature Go
Daddy's Senior VP of Domains, Mike
McLaughlin, who returns after
making a very favorable impression
when he spoke at the 2015 edition of
NamesCon.
Mike
McLaughlin (Go Daddy Sr. VP
of Domains) speaking at NamesCon
2015 last January.
Two
more keynotes will follow Wednesday
afternoon, one at 1:45pm expected to
feature Pat Kane (Verisign's
Senior Vice President, Naming and
Directory Services) and the other -
the final keynote of the conference
- at 4:25pm featuring Matt Barrie,
who is the CEO at Freelancer.com
and the President at Escrow.com
(who was acquired by Freelancer in
2015).
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Wednesday's
many business sessions will
include two more China
Boot Camp Masterclasses |
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NamesCon
Producer James Morfopoulos
with Igloo.com Co-Founder
& CEO Tessa Holcomb at
NamesCon 2015's
opening night party last
January. Tessa will help close
the 2016 show as one of five
industry experts who who will
be
on stage for an Executive
Roundtable
Wednesday,
January 13.
James,
fellow Producer Terri
Potratz and NamesCon
Co-Founders Richard
Lau and Jothan
Frakes will
oversee
this year's big event in
Las Vegas with over
1,000
attendees expected to be on
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conducted
by Allegravita's Simon
Cousins (one at 11:45am
and another at 2:15pm). A
third Masterclass on a
different topic - Domain
Traffic Monetization: Trends
and Future Predictions -
will be presented by Trellian/Above.com
President David Warmuz
and ParkLogic.com Founder
Mike Gilmour at 3:20pm
Wednesday.
The
show's final session at
4:50pm Wednesday (January 13)
also looks like it will be one
of the conference's best. An Executive
Roundtable will bring
to the stage Christian
Dawson (Executive
Director, i2 Coalition),
Tessa Holcomb
(Co-Founder & CEO at Igloo.com
who was profiled in our June
2015 Cover
Story), Rolf
Larsen (CEO at DotGLOBAL),
Jason Miner (General
Manager, Domains, at Endurance
International Group) and Cybele
Negris (CEO at WebNames.ca). |
The
various sessions we have touched on
are just the tip of the iceberg
at NamesCon 2016. You can check out
the full
schedule here. We will
be covering the conference wire to
wire and will, of course, have
daily photos and highlights for you
in this column.
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