Agenda

14th Edition of DX3 Canada

Agenda for DX3 Canada 4th-5th March 2025

8:00 AM

Day2

Networking Breakfast

8:40 AM

Day2

Opening Remarks + Recap of Day 1

8:45 AM

Day2

Industry Keynote - Female Founders’ Panel 

  • Launching, growing and sustaining business 
  • It’s a man’s world – Access to Funding, Overcoming Biases
  • Building and Growing Network
  • Creating Team, Environment For Success
Moderator:
Natasha Koifman,
President and Founder, NKPR

Panelists:
Kyla Dufresne,
Founder & CEO, Foxy Box
Emily O’Brien,
CEO & Founder, Comeback Snacks

9:15 AM

Day2

CMO Roundtable

  • Emerging Trends and Technologies: Discuss the latest trends and technologies impacting marketing strategies, including AI, and data-driven marketing.
  • Customer Experience and Engagement: Strategies for enhancing customer experience through personalized marketing, omnichannel engagement, and customer journey optimization.
  • Measuring ROI and Effectiveness: Insights and best practices for measuring marketing ROI, tracking campaign effectiveness, and optimizing marketing spend to achieve business objectives.
Moderator:
Nandita Mukherjee,
Director Consulting, CGI

Panelist:
Tracey Cooke,
CMO, SVP, Marketing & Commercialization, Nestlé Canada Inc.
Tanya Kreinin,
CMO, University of Toronto
Bob Park,
Chief Brand Officer, GE Appliances
Marina Baric,
VP Marketing, Osmow’s
Miriam Shanahan,
CMO, Safyre Labs – Jewlr

9:45 AM

Day2

Creating the Optimum Marketing Mix & Ad Mix

  • Optimizing marketing mix across channels for maximum ROI.
  • Live by the algorithm die by the algorithm
  • Personalization and Targeting: Strategies for leveraging personalization technologies to tailor marketing messages.
  • Multi-channel Integration: The importance of integrating multiple channels (online, offline, social media, etc.)
  • Ensuring consistent messaging and seamless customer experiences across touchpoints.
Miriam Shanahan, CMO, Safyre Labs – Jewlr
Stephen Bailey,
CMO, John Fluevog Shoes
Vince Simone,
Head of DSP Sales, Yahoo Canada

10:30 AM

Day2

Morning Networking Break

10:45  AM

Day2

How to Navigate Retail Media Landscape

  • Understand the ever-evolving landscape of retail media
  • Role of retail media and why is data is becoming the most powerful offsite asset
  • How to Engage with consumers
  • Consent-based data, why a value exchange matters, and what customer loyalty means

11:15 AM

Day2

The Performance Marketing Playbook: 10 Lessons That Transformed My Growth

  • Lessons that shaped my Marketing and Mindset, taught me how to think differently and deliver better results
  • Actionable strategies that not only fuel marketing success but inspire personal and professional growth
  • Monetizing Platforms – which to use and which not to use
  • Insights on managing relationships up, down, and across teams to create alignment, build trust, and drive meaningful change
Sanjay Mayar, VP Growth & Marketing, Imajery

11:45 AM

Day2

Reaching New & Existing Customers

  • Cutting-edge tools for growth
  • Retail media opportunities and challenges
  • Cost of customer acquisition and retention
  • Brand building in current environment 
Moderator:
Sarah Badun,
VP & GM, Casper

Panelists:
Stephen Bailey,
CMO, John Fluevog Shoes
Thomas Hamilton,
VP Sales & Marketing, Snuggle Bugz
Heather Cameron,
Head of Brand & Creative, DoorDash Canada
Jonathan Levitt,
Director Consumer Growth, Mysa
Ali Babul,
Chief Evangelist,Trellis

12:15 PM

Day2

Tech Spotlight - Stop Searching, Start Finding with ASMBL AI

  • Discover how AI is transforming Digital Asset Management (DAM)
  • Find assets faster, streamline workflows, and empower your team to work smarter
  • If you want to spend less time searching and more time finding, this session is for you
Ryan Endicott, Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering, DCM/ASMBL

12:25 PM

Day2

Tech Spotlight - Maximizing Warehouse Potential with AutoStore

Alex Pianykh, Business Development Manager, Autostore Canada

12:35 PM

Day2

AI in Ecommerce: From chatbot to AI agent

Hao Sheng, Founder & CEO, ChatSimple

12:45 PM

Day2

Networking Lunch

1:30 PM

Day2

Panel: Recession-Proof Marketing

  • Value-Based Marketing: Importance of value and affordability in marketing strategies.
  • How to grow during difficult times
  • Digital Marketing Agility
  • Lead Generation: Staying Ahead of the Algorithm
  • Customer Retention and Loyalty: Significance of customer retention programs, loyalty initiatives, and personalized marketing efforts during challenging economic conditions.
Moderator:
Marta Tryshak,
Partner & Digital Marketing Professor

Panelists:
Robert Allan,
Director of Paid Media, Home Hardware Store
Robin Hassan,
Director Marketing, Media, Commerce, Unilever Canada
Wisam Abdulaziz,
President, Search Engine People

2:00 PM

Day2

Fireside Chat with Tracey Cooke, CMO, SVP, Marketing & Commercialization, Nestlé Canada Inc.

  • Customer Segmentation Strategies
  • Enhancing Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
  • Data-Driven Insights
 Nandita Mukherjee, Director Consulting, CGI

2:30 PM

Day2

Loyalty & Customer Retention

  • Solutions to help personalize 
  • Rewarding customer loyalty vs. customer acquisition
  • Reimagining Loyalty
Panelists
Andre Lucha,
Senior Director Growth & Loyalty, MEC
Gisela Mussen,
Managing Director, Smeg Canada
Sarah Badun,
VP & GM, Casper
Brad MacDonell,
Customer Success Manager, Canada Post
Nihal Mandanna,
Head of Growth, Mobiloud

3:00 PM

Day2

Case Study: The Launch of BMO's Award-Winning Digital Platform

  • Why Great UX Means Great Business
  • The ROI of UX: How understanding user needs drives business growth
  • BMO's strategic pivot: Focusing on the SMB segment and delivering tailored experiences
  • Staying human-centric: Turning vast amounts of data into actionable insights
  • Challenges and lessons learned: Implementing design thinking and introducing Design Systems in a large corporation
Bank of Montreal
Nicklas Ronning,
Managing Partner, Signifly
Jia Hui Yan,
Product Lead Digital Innovation, BMO
Karen Lucarelli,
Senior Manager Experience & Design, BMO

3:30 PM

Day2

Personalized Marketing & Branding

  • Personalizing offers and experiences to drive demand.
  • How to successfully provide personalization; lessons learnt.
  • Role of brand in enhancing customer engagement
Moderator:
Sonia Carreno,
President, Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada

Panelists:
Heather Cameron,
Head of Brand and Creative, DoorDash Canada
Emily O’Brien,
CEO & Founder, Comeback Snacks
Andre Lucha,
Senior Director Growth & Loyalty, MEC
Ceasar Morales,
Marketing Director, Corbeil Electromenagers

4:00 PM

Day2

Closing Leadership Panel; Marketing Innovation: Tools, Technologies and Strategies

  • What does marketing innovation look like in 2025?
  • Lessons learnt from half a decade of 2020s
Moderator:
Sonia Carreno,
President, Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada

Panelists:
Michael Van,
Co-Founder & CEO, Furnishr
Armin Yassaie,
Partner, Mos Mos Coffee 
Nana Boateng Osei,
Co-Founder, CEO, Bohten Eyeglasses
Brandon Langevin,
Director of Sales Canada, StackAdapt

5:00 PM

Day2

Closing Remarks

8:00 am

Day 2

Networking Breakfast

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8:45 am

Day 2

Opening Remarks + Recap of Day 1

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8:50 am

Day 2

Industry Keynote - Female Founders’ Panel

• Launching, growing and sustaining business 

• It’s a man’s world – Access to Funding, Overcoming Biases

• Building and Growing Network

• Creating Team, Environment For Success

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9:15 am

Day 2

CMO Roundtable

● Emerging Trends and Technologies: Discuss the latest trends and technologies impacting marketing strategies, including AI, and data-driven marketing.

Customer Experience and Engagement: strategies for enhancing customer experience through personalized marketing, omni-channel engagement, and customer journey optimization.

● Measuring ROI and Effectiveness: insights and best practices for measuring marketing ROI, tracking campaign effectiveness, and optimizing marketing spend to achieve business objectives.

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9:50 am

Day 2

Creating the Optimum Marketing Mix & Ad Mix

● Optimizing marketing mix across channels for maximum ROI.

●  Personalization and Targeting - leveraging personalization technologies to tailor marketing messages 

●  Multi-channel Integration: the importance of integrating multiple channels (online, offline, social media, etc.)

●  Live by the algorithm die by the algorithm 

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10:15 am

Day 2

Morning Networking Break

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10:35 am

Day 2

The Performance Marketer’s Playbook: Lessons That Transformed My Growth

• Lessons that shaped my Marketing and Mindset, taught me how to think differently and deliver better results.

• Actionable strategies that not only fuel marketing success but inspire personal and professional growth.

• Insights on managing relationships up, down, and across teams to create alignment, build trust, and drive meaningful change.

View More >>

11:00 am

Day 2

Tech Spotlight - Cut Catalog Management Costs by 50% in under a 2 weeks with Merchkit

• Manual product catalog management is slow and error-prone.

• MerchKit automates product data extraction, standardization, and enrichment with AI.

• Hear of case studies of how retailers and marketplaces are leveraging this new tech.

• Reducing product catalog management costs by 50% in under two weeks.

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11:10 am

Day 2

Tech Spotlight - Stop Searching, Start Finding with ASMBL AI

● Discover how AI is transforming Digital Asset Management (DAM). 

● Find assets faster, streamline workflows, and empower your team to work smarter.

● If you want to spend less time searching and more time finding, this session is for you.

View More >>

11:20 am

Day 2

Tech Spotlight - Maximizing Warehouse Potential with AutoStore

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11:30 am

Day 2

AI in Ecommerce: From chatbot to AI agent

View More >>

11:40 am

Day 2

Reaching New & Existing Customers

●      Cutting edge tools for growth

●      Retail media opportunities and challenges

●      Cost of customer acquisition and retention 

●      Brand building in current environment 

View More >>

12:15 pm

Day 2

Networking Lunch

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1:30 pm

Day 2

Panel: Recession-Proof Marketing

● Value-Based Marketing: importance of value and affordability in marketing strategies

●  How to grow during difficult times

●  Digital Marketing Agility

●  Customer Retention and Loyalty: significance of customer retention programs, loyalty initiatives, and personalized marketing efforts during challenging economic conditions

●  Lead Generation: Staying Ahead of the Algorithm 

View More >>

2:00 pm

Day 2

Fireside Chat with Tracey Cooke, CMO, SVP, Marketing & Commercialization, Nestlé Canada Inc.

● Customer Segmentation Strategies

● Enhancing Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)

● Data-Driven Insights

View More >>

2:30 pm

Day 2

Loyalty & Customer Retention

● Solutions to help personalize 

● Rewarding customer loyalty vs. customer acquisition

● Reimagining Loyalty

View More >>

3:00 pm

Day 2

Case Study: The Launch of BMO's Award-Winning Digital Platform

● Why Great UX Means Great Business

● The ROI of UX: How understanding user needs drives business growth.

● BMO's strategic pivot: Focusing on the SMB segment and delivering tailored experiences.

● Staying human-centric: Turning vast amounts of data into actionable insights.

●  Challenges and lessons learned: Implementing design thinking and introducing Design Systems in a large corporation.

View More >>

3:30 pm

Day 2

Personalized Marketing & Brand

● Personalizing offers and experiences to drive demand

● How to successfully provide personalization, lessons learnt

● Role of brand in enhancing customer engagement 

View More >>

4:00 pm

Day 2

Closing Leadership Panel - Marketing Innovation - Tools, Technologies and Strategies

● What does marketing innovation look like in 2025

● Lessons learnt from half a decade of 2020s

View More >>

5:00 pm

Day 2

Closing Remarks

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