The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council is the only global network of executives specifically dedicated to high-level knowledge exchange, thought leadership and personal relationship building among senior corporate marketing leaders and brand decision-makers. The CMO Council’s 12,500+ members control more than $500 billion in aggregated annual marketing expenditures and run complex, distributed marketing and sales operations worldwide. In total, the CMO Council and its strategic interest communities include more than 45,000 global executives in more than 110 countries covering multiple industries, segments and markets. Regional chapters and advisory boards are active in the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, India, and Africa. The Council also operates numerous special interest networks, representing deep-dives into specific areas of interest or study. For more information, please visit https://www.cmocouncil.org/.
The Open ROADS Community is a forum dedicated to accelerating digital business transformation. The Community’s core constituents are digital service providers, joined by digital industry participants and all firms which grow their businesses from an Internet-based ecosystem. The Community achieves its goal by serving as a cross-industry incubator for identifying new digital business models and revenue opportunities, including creating, sharing and implementing best practices for addressing those opportunities. The ROADS acronym stands for 5 tenets which define the deep levels of personalization and quick service delivery expected by digital consumers today: Real-time, On-demand, All-online, Do-It-Yourself, and Social. For more information, visit www.openroadscommunity.com.