Do you like food? Do you like booze? Do you like meeting awesome people who could expand your professional network?
Darn right, you do.
All that and more at Louisville Digital Association’s July 18 Meetup at Napa River Grill in the Westport Village shopping center. Come hang out on the patio, grab a drink from the bar, order some food…and don’t forget your business cards.
When: 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 18
Where: Napa River Grill at 1211 Herr Lane, Louisville, Ky. 40222
What’s the next disruptor in the technology space? It may not be Fark.com, but its founder, Drew Curtis, has ideas on what will. Curtis, who tried his own hand at disruption as an independent candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 2015, will share thoughts from his upcoming book Don’t Give Guns to Robots: Choosing Our Future Before It Chooses Us at the Louisville Digital Association’s gathering on June 20.
The event, which will feature hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar, will be 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at GenScape (1140 Garvin Place in Old Louisville) Tickets are $10 and will include pizza and one drink ticket. (Buy yours below.)
Curtis is a widely respected media critic and technology influencer. Fark.com ushered in the era of social news and link aggregation when it sprung to life in the late 1990s. The site was the first independent blog to earn over $1 million per year. A keen curator of popular culture, Curtis parlayed his media criticism into his first book: It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News in 2007 – a decade before “fake news” became a mainstream concern.
His current book project focuses on near-term technology disruptions and what we can expect from the world around us in the coming years. It is slated to be published in the spring of 2018.
What is Native Advertising and how can your brand benefit from leveraging it? Who better to answer that question and teach us all about the past, present and future of Native Advertising than Chad Pollitt, partner and vice-president of audience for the Native Advertising Institute?
Pollitt will be the featured speaker at the Louisville Digital Association’s May gathering, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at PriceWeber (10701 Shelbyville Road in Louisville). His presentation will explore native advertising’s timeline of existence, while postulating its future from a content marketing perspective.
Register to attend for free in the ticket form below!
Pollitt is a decorated veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a former U.S. Army commander. He also serves as an adjunct professor of internet marketing at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and an adjunct instructor of content marketing at Rutgers University Business School. His role at the Native Advertising Institute puts him atop a global think tank dedicated to advancing native advertising as an industry.
Pollitt’s talk will look at the mistakes of the past and present to help audience members maximize outputs from their own native advertising and look at the trends we need to watch for as the industry evolves.
The event is one of the Louisville Digital Association’s regular monthly gatherings which are typically free or low-charge events to help educate and inspire the digital community of Louisville and Southern Indiana. The May gathering is sponsored by our host, PriceWeber, an innovative marketing agency with a long list of successful digital marketing campaigns and strategies for worldwide clients.
This event is free, open to anyone and light hors d’ouvres and beverages will be served.