The Best Women-Led Sessions at Pubcon 2016

by | Sep 19, 2016 | Marketing, Pubcon, Women | 5 comments

The Best Women-Led Sessions at Pubcon 2016

Pubcon Las Vegas is one of my favorite conferences to go to every year. This year, I am grateful to receive a press pass to cover Pubcon through a unique lens that isn’t discussed enough: women speakers at marketing conferences.

Pubcon has done a great job of promoting women in marketing by having a great mix of male and female speakers at their conferences. Throughout my years of attending Pubcon, all of the women speakers I’ve met have been knowledgeable, approachable, and full of great information and insight.

Below I’m outlining some of the women in marketing and search speakers at Pubcon that I’m most looking forward to this year.

Erin Robbins-O’Brien

Erin is a great speaker and has an engaging and fun speaking style. Attend her sessions for some free bourbon, stay for the great tips you probably won’t get anywhere else.

 Erin Everhart

One of my other favorite Erins is super high-energy and relates her concepts to easy-to-understand memes and cartoons that instantly stick in your mind. She also has great answers for Q&A sessions, so be sure to stick around for those as well!

Debra Jasper

I haven’t met Debra Jasper in person, but I look forward to hearing more from her at one of the signature Pubcon keynotes.

Cynthia Johnson

Cynthia’s expertise speaks for itself: she has worked with several major brands and has a large social following of her own in the hundreds of thousands. She’s also very knowledgeable about working on SEO and social for multiple locations if you need it!

Christine Churchill

I haven’t seen Christine Churchill speak in person, but she is a great resource for understanding and utilizing SEO tools and campaigns.

Casie Gillette

Casie is a regular conference speaker at several events throughout the year, and she never fails to disappoint. She often covers content marketing, but she also knows her stuff when it comes to search marketing. I look forward to seeing her speak again this year!

Carolyn Shelby

Looking for no-BS guidance on technical and advanced SEO? Carolyn Shelby is your girl. I love her dry sense of humor and the way she delivers advice honestly to the audience. It’s usually what we need to hear!

Annie Cushing and Jenny Halasz

Talk about a power-packed analytics women-led Pubcon session!

Annie Cushing is the analytics queen. She definitely knows her stuff when it comes to all things analytics. She has a lot of great resources on her website and I’m sure her Pubcon session will be just as insightful!

Jenny Halasz does great work in SEO audits and analytics research and reports. While I’m sure I’m understating all she can do, she is always willing to answer questions and help the search community.

Aleyda Solis

Alyeda Solis is well-known for her insight on international SEO and content marketing and is a regular speaker at several conferences every year. While I haven’t met her in person yet, I look forward to meeting her at this year’s Pubcon.

Rhea Drysdale

Rhea is a well-known speaker and SEO expert that specializes in SEO, online reputation management, and linkbuilding. I’m looking forward to her session on outreach below, as she always has some great advice.

Mary Bowling

Mary Bowling is a local SEO expert and often covers this topic at several conferences and through her speaking gigs at LocalU. I enjoy her easygoing nature– she’s really easy to talk to and I’ve enjoyed visiting with her while we are both at Pubcon.

Motoko Hunt

I had the honor to give Motoko one of the “search professionals of the year” awards at the U.S. Search Awards in 2014 (where I’ve been a judge every year since then), which coincides Wednesday evening at Pubcon. I have heard nothing but good things about her speaking sessions, as her specialty is international search.

Purna Virji

Purna Virji is another search professional that I haven’t had the honor of meeting yet, but I’ve only heard good things! She is a training manager at Bing Ads over at Microsoft and stays active in the marketing community through conferences and interviews.

Christina Baldassarre

Christina Baldassarre is a friend of mine, but I was blown away by her presentation at Pubcon last year. It was so well-researched and was chock-full of really great information. I look forward to seeing her and her presentations this year!

Lisa Gerber

Lisa’s session looks extremely interesting this year, and a little birdie told me how hard she’s worked on making this session the best it can be. I’m definitely put it in my Pubcon schedule as a “must-attend.”

Kudos to Pubcon team for all their work on building diversity!

Pubcon is my favorite multi-day conference. I love going to Vegas every year to meet up with my marketing buddies– it really is like SEO-nerd summer camp! I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Is there a woman you are looking forward to hearing from at Pubcon this year that I haven’t mentioned? If so, let us know in the comments! 🙂

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Kelsey Jones

Kelsey Jones

Founder/Chief Marketing Consultant at Six Stories
Kelsey Jones helps clients around the world grow their social media, content, and search marketing presence. She enjoys writing and consuming all kinds of content, both in digital and tattered paperback form.
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5 Comments

  1. Lisa Gerber
    Lisa Gerber on September 21, 2016 at 9:32 am

    Thanks for including me in this list, Kelsey! and thanks for the great resource. Adding many of these to my own must attend list.

  2. Kelsey Jones
    Kelsey Jones on September 21, 2016 at 1:35 pm

    for sure! I will try my hardest to make it to you and Casey’s session, if I’m not doing interviews for SEJ!

  3. Jenny Halasz
    Jenny Halasz on October 5, 2016 at 1:13 pm

    Thanks for including me Kelsey! Also I wanted to let you know that I’ll now also be on Speed Baby Speed with Ian Lurie and Fili Weise and the Site Reviews Clinic: Focus on SEO on Tuesday.

  4. Casey Markee, MBA
    Casey Markee, MBA on October 5, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    If you don’t see Lisa and I on Tuesday in the LIMO first that is…LOL.

  5. Warren Whitlock
    Warren Whitlock on October 6, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Great information. Thanks for helping me plan. See you at #pubcon

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