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    2009 ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference

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    Conference Description

    ANA's successful multicultural conference has been expanded in 2009 and renamed the Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference.  This event recognizes the intersection of multicultural marketing and diversity management in driving strong business growth.

    ANA conferences are unique as the client-side perspective is front and center.  The Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference features senior-level marketers from companies including Farmer's Insurance, Ford Motor Co., Hewlett-Packard, JCPenney, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, MetLife, Nationwide, Procter & Gamble, The Walt Disney Company, Verizon, Walmart, and Western Union.  Honored guests include CNN's Soledad O'Brien and MC Hammer.

    The conference will also feature:
    - The ADCOLOR® Awards, celebrating the accomplishments of outstanding diverse advertising, marketing, and media professionals.
    - The ANA Multicultural Excellence Awards, honoring the year's best multicultural advertising campaigns. 

    Hosted by:
    Gilbert Dávila
    Vice President, Global Diversity and Multicultural Market Development
    The Walt Disney Company
    Chair, ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Committee

    Dates & Times

    Starts:  October, 2009
    Ends:  October, 2009

    Venue/Location

    The Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa
    2400 East Missouri Avenue
    Phoenix, AZ 85016

    ANA has negotiated a special room rate of $255 per night. Please call the hotel directly at (800) 950-0086 and mention code ANA9. For hotel information, please visit Arizona Biltmore.

    Agenda

    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4

    1:00pm

    CULTURAL IMMERSION EXPERIENCE
    A Visit to a Supermercado (Hispanic) Ranch Market

    (1-5 PM)

    ANA members are invited to participate in an extraordinary cultural immersion and networking experience. This group will get a behind-the-curtains look at the Supermercado de Ranch Market and learn about its development. The afternoon will start with lunch at Tradiciones Restaurant, which is adjacent to the market. After lunch there will be a discussion of Ranch Market’s strategy and a supplier overview. The trip will conclude with a scavenger hunt that will enable participants to learn firsthand about all the special and exciting products featured at the Supermercado de Ranch Market.

    Registration for this event is open on a first-come, first-served basis to ANA members only.                                                                                                                                    

    4:00pm Registration Sponsored by TEAM
    6:00pm

    The 2009 ADCOLOR® Awards Wine Reception

    6:45pm

    The 2009 ADCOLOR® Awards
    The marketing, advertising, and media industries' premier celebration of diverse talent will be hosted by award-winning CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien. Hispanic media mogul Cristina Saralegui has been named the 2009 ADCOLOR® Awards All-Star Honoree.

    MONDAY, OCTOBER 5

    7:45am

    Breakfast Sponsored by ESSENCE Magazine

    MEDIA/ENTERTAINMENT ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
    The Time Warner multicultural media and entertainment study provides a comprehensive look at the media and entertainment attitudes and behaviors of African-American, Hispanic, and general market adults. Commissioned through Cheskin Added Value, the study consists of robust quantitative research and insightful in-home ethnographies. The quantitative analysis includes attitudinal segmentation of the total sample, identifying those segments having multicultural orientation. This session will focus on the African-American market and include key findings from the study on how these consumers engage with media and entertainment properties, platforms, and brands.

    Michelle Ebanks
    President
    Essence Communications, Inc.
                                                                                                                                       

    8:45am General Session

    Welcome
    Bob Liodice
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    ANA 
                                                                                                                                       

    MULTICULTURAL MARKETING AT THE CORE
    Western Union is an industry leader in global money transfer services, operating through a network of more than 379,000 agent locations in 200 countries and territories. Western Union recently launched its first unified global brand campaign, targeting the 200 million "international migrant" consumers—those consumers living outside their country of origin. Unlike most other advertisers, multicultural marketing is at the core for Western Union, rather than being an add-on or niche.  Some have even called Western Union, "the best multicultural marketing company in the world." In this session, Western Union's chief marketing officer will share best practices behind the company's multicultural marketing success.

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    Gail Galuppo
    Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
    The Western Union Company 

    Q&A Session
    Gilbert Dávila
    Vice President, Global Diversity and Multicultural Market Development
    The Walt Disney Company
    Chair, ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Committee 
                                                                                                                                       

    CNN’S BLACK IN AMERICA/LATINO IN AMERICA
    CNN’s groundbreaking news documentary series Black in America debuted in July 2008 followed by Black in America 2 in July 2009, both hosted by Soledad O’Brien. The series focuses on the culture of the black community and the issues they face. This year’s program spotlights “today’s pioneers” and “tomorrow’s leaders”—African-American men and women who are making remarkable efforts to provide solutions to the problems of American life. The series has sparked much dialogue and viral debate in the media, on talk radio, online, in churches, and in homes. In October 2009 Latino In America will debut, focusing on the U.S. Hispanic community and itsunique issues, also hosted by Ms. O’Brien. The core team behind these series will share their insights—including key observations and lessons for the marketing community.

    Opening Remarks
    Soledad O'Brien
    Anchor and Special Correspondent
    CNN

    Moderator
    Johnita Due
    Assistant General Counsel, Diversity Council Chair
    CNN

    Panelists
    Lucia Ballas-Traynor
    Publisher
    People en Espanol

    Angela Burt-Murray
    Editor-in-Chief
    ESSENCE

    Cliff Franklin
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    FUSE

    Scot Safon
    Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
    CNN Worldwide

    Crystal Worthem
    Multicultural Marketing Manager
    Ford Motor Co. 
                                                                                                                                       

    DRIVING SUPERIOR BUSINESS RESULTS THROUGH DIVERSITY
    Johnson & Johnson, a leader in global diversity and inclusion, will share its unique perspective on diversity management. J&J understands and embraces the fact that the diversity of its employees provides different perspectives, thoughts, skills, backgrounds, and experiences. As a result, that promotes the exchange of ideas, encourages collaboration, sparks innovation, and drives bottom-line business results.

    Anthony Carter
    Vice President, Global Diversity & Inclusion, Chief Diversity Officer
    Johnson & Johnson 

    Q&A Session
    Gilbert Dávila
    Vice President, Global Diversity and Multicultural Market Development
    The Walt Disney Company
    Chair, ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Committee 
                                                                                                                                       

    NEW REVENUE STREAMS IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD
    As companies look far and wide, and oftentimes abroad, for new sources of customers and revenue, they may be overlooking their own home turf. Three years ago Hewlett-Packard discovered it was underpenetrating and underserving the U.S. multicultural consumer in its general market efforts, missing literally millions of prospective buyers for HP products and services.  This led HP to engage in a new dialogue with the emerging multicultural consumer and small business, unleashing lucrative sources of new revenue. In this session HP will share a number of its customer outreach experiences, including the launch of an internal Learning Center as well as insight on aligning multiple audience touch points across the company, quantifying the business case, and building targeted campaigns resulting in nearly 85 percent uplifts in measurable sales. Just as the composition of the U.S. population is undergoing profound change, HP believes today's marketers must also undergo profound changes to their marketing mindset and practices to generate incremental revenue and brand equity for their companies.

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    Engelina Jaspers
    Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Americas
    Hewlett-Packard Company

    Q&A Session
    Shepard Kramer
    Senior Director, Committees and Conferences
    ANA
                                                                                                                                       

    12:50pm

    Luncheon Sponsored by Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau 

    CRACKING THE CODE ON THE URBAN MARKET
    Erin Patton, renowned brand management consultant and urban market thought leader, will share exclusive insights on ways to effectively reach today's urban consumers. The presentation will include a discussion of his breakthrough 7 Ciphers urban consumer segmentation framework, hailed by marketers across the country. He will also explore the nuanced cause-and-effect relationship between the multicultural hip-hop generation and mainstream consumer behavior as it has evolved into a mature market segment. Discover how this often-misunderstood audience builds brands, drives profitability and holds the key to both Madison Avenue and corporate America's innovation and media consumption dilemmas in the digital age. Author of Under the Influence: Tracing the Hip-Hop Generation's Impact on Brands, Sports & Pop Culture, Mr. Patton's presentation should not to be missed!

    Opening Greetings
    Cynthia Perkins-Roberts
    Vice President, Multicultural Marketing & Business Development
    Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau

    Speaker
    Erin Patton
    Founder & Principal
    The Mastermind Group
                                                                                                                                       

    2:20pm

    General Session continued

    TOP LESSONS FROM LEADERS IN ASIAN MARKETING
    This panel of Asian marketing leaders will cover a range of important  issues/questions, including: the catalyst for initially entering the market(s), justifying the case internally to senior management; investment levels required for proper support; unique insights; metrics/ROI; learning from mistakes; and best practices.  Also, given the current environment of rapid Hispanic population growth and the country's first African-American president, the panel will discuss how the profile of Asian marketing could be raised.

    Moderator
    Nita Song
    President and Chief Operating Officer
    IW Group, Inc. 
    President, 3AF

    Panelists
    Wanda Austin-Wingood
    Senior Marketing Manager
    Walmart Stores, Inc. 

    Vivian Chen
    Manager, US Marketing
    McDonald’s Corporation

    Richard Hong
    Vice President, Global Brand and Marketing
    MetLife, Inc. 

    Isaac Mizrahi
    Vice President, Managing Director
    Alma DDB

    Luis Sahagun
    Manager, Multicultural Marketing and Advertising
    Farmers Insurance Group, Inc. 
                                                                                                                                       

    HAMMERTIME & SOCIAL MEDIA
    MC Hammer is a legendary icon in pop culture—he is a multi-platinum selling rapper, entertainer, and dancer and is currently executive producer of  his own reality show called Hammertime on the A&E Network.  Hammer is also a big fan of social media and was an early adaptor of Twitter, calling it "a game changer for me."  Hammer uses Twitter to build his brand and develop relationships in a personal way and has over a million followers.  Social media has even been integrated into the Hammertime series and its Web site.  Marketers can learn valuable lessons from MC Hammer on the use of social media.  Follow him at www.twitter.com/MCHammer

    Q&A Session
    Gilbert Dávila
    Vice President, Global Diversity and Multicultural Market Development
    The Walt Disney Company
    Chair, ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Committee 
                                                                                                                                       

    4:00pm General Session Adjournment

    6:30pm

    The ANA Multicultural Excellence Awards Pre-reception
    Sponsored by Disney en Familia Magazine

    7:30pm

    The ANA Multicultural Excellence Awards Dinner
    Co-sponsored by Arbitron and the Asian American Advertising Federation (3AF)
    Celebrating the year's best multicultural advertising campaigns, the awards were created to raise awareness and exposure of the outstanding work being done in African-American, Asian, and Hispanic advertising.

    Hosted by:
    Susie Castillo
    Miss USA 2003

    9:45pm The ANA Multicultural Excellence Awards Post Reception
    Sponsored by Disney en Familia Magazine

    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6

    7:45am

    Breakfast Sponsored by Azteca América  

    Jorge Jaidar
    General Manager, Azteca América Station Group
    Azteca América

    8:45am

    General Session

    CREATING AN EMOTIONAL CONNECTION THROUGH MARKETING
    JCPenney, one of America’s leading retailers, has long been a pioneer and leader in multicultural marketing. JCPenney understands that despite the economic climate, the key to long-lasting relationships is through establishing an emotional connection. Whether it is a local event or a national campaign, these connections are essential to building customer loyalty and driving long-term growth with their multicultural consumers. In this session JCPenney will share key learnings and insights into what creates and sustains these customer connections.

    Ruby Anik
    Senior Vice President, Brand Marketing
    JCPenney

    Q&A Session
    Gilbert Dávila
    Vice President, Global Diversity and Multicultural Market Development
    The Walt Disney Company
    Chair, ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Committee 
                                                                                                                                       

    INTEGRATING DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING 
    Caucasians are projected to make up less than 50 percent of the U.S. population by 2043. Meanwhile, events over the past year indicate that the tipping point towards a more inclusive, multicultural culture has already occurred. In order to harness the power of today’s “multiculturally influenced market,” corporations must not only have diverse employees—they must also have a culture that looks through the eyes of those diverse employees to think like their diverse customers. This highly strategic session will provide insights from two best practice companies—American Airlines and Verizon—that integrate diversity management and marketing.

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    Moderator
    Barbara Frankel
    Senior Vice President, Executive Editor
    DiversityInc

    Panelists
    Denise Lynn
    Vice President, Diversity and Leadership Strategies
    American Airlines

    Magda Yrizarry
    Vice President, Workplace Culture, Diversity and Compliance
    Verizon Communications  
                                                                                                                                       

    LESSONS FROM THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN: THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE
    Barack Obama's historic presidential victory is a case study for the ages on the overall campaign communications strategy and its specific outreach to multicultural audiences.

    The election taught marketers many lessons, including the fact that consumers are in control. We witnessed the power of online community, where supporters organized and communicated with each other.  There was a digital dialogue via a database of active donors in the form of personal emails and text messages. Throughout the campaign, there was a consistency of message, culminating in a roadblock 30-minute network television infomercial a week before the election, to finally drive the message home.  Multicultural voters responded.  African-American voter turnout increased significantly from the previous presidential election and overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama.  Meanwhile, this was also the first time that the Hispanic vote helped determine a presidential election outcome.  While advertisers will never have the budgets similar to this campaign, there is a strategy that may be followed: Listen to your audience, engage them, and they will listen back.

    Greg Pinelo
    Partner, GMMB
    Strategist, Obama for America

    Q&A Session
    Laurel Wentz
    International and Multicultural Editor
    Advertising Age
                                                                                                                                       

    10 MULTICULTURAL ISSUES IN 50 MINUTES
    This rapid-fire session will provide the opportunity to cover a range of the hottest and most-urgent issues of significance to multicultural marketers. Issues will be:

    1. Multicultural Insights – new ways of developing insights.
    2. Due to the increasing levels of acculturation, do marketers need to continue advertising in Spanish?
    3. Obama & Marketing – what has changed, what has stayed the same a year later.
    4. Internal Marketing – sensitizing internal teams, especially customer touch points, to multicultural issues.
    5. Social Media.
    6. Multicultural Marketing - organizational structure
    7. Point-of-Sale – achieving the proper balance between English and in-language. Career Paths in Multicultural Marketing.
    8. The “Disappearing Act” – multicultural budgets are almost always underfunded or the first cut; what can be done?
    9. Incorporating Multicultural Perspective into General Market Advertising.
    10. Census 2010 – its impact on marketers and agencies.

    Moderator
    Gilbert Dávila
    Vice President, Global Diversity and Multicultural Market Development
    The Walt Disney Company
    Chair, ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Committee

    Panelists
    Graciela Eleta
    Senior Vice President, Brand Solutions
    Univision Communications, Inc. 

    Gisela Girard
    President and Chief Operating Officer
    Creative Civilization
    Chair, AHAA

    Kathryne G. Reeves
    Vice President, Regional Marketing
    Nationwide Insurance

    Najoh Tita-Reid
    Senior Vice President
    GlobalHue 
                                                                                                                                       

    12:30pm

    Luncheon Sponsored by Yahoo!

    DEMYSTIFYING DIGITAL MARKETING TO REACH US HISPANICS
    With engagement at a greater level among online Hispanics when compared to the general market population, why does a digital divide exist between that of the marketer and the digital consumer? While U.S. marketers allocate approximately 10% of their marketing to reach sought after audiences online, US Hispanic digital spending counts for about 3% of the overall marketing mix. This luncheon, sponsored by Yahoo!, will aim to simplify the world of digital marketing to the Hispanic consumer. Several recently launched case studies will show how marketers are taking advantage of current digital trends including social networking and branded entertainment.

    Adam Chandler
    Executive Director, U.S. Sales, Partnerships & Emerging Markets
    Yahoo! Inc.
                                                                                                                                       

    1:45pm

    Afternoon Workshops
    There will be three consecutive 45-minute workshops. These workshops are intended to be interactive, with audience participation strongly encouraged.

    THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL MEDIA
    The digital media world is significantly impacting communications to multicultural consumers. This session will get the perspective from a panel of experts to provide insight on how marketers can best make use of digital communications—what's working, what's worth experimentation, and what's hype. We’ll cover specific media including mobile (which has much higher adoption rates among multicultural marketers than the general market), social networking (usage by multicultural consumers has taken off dramatically), in-language Web sites (if you’re serious about reaching Hispanics, you must build a Spanish-language web site) and more.

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    Moderator
    Marla Skiko
    Senior Vice President, Director of Digital Innovation
    Starcom MediaVest Group Multicultural

    Panelists
    Tamara Barber
    Data Analyst
    Forrester Research, Inc.

    Touré Claiborne
    Director, Integrated Marketing Communications
    Allstate Insurance Company 

    Ana Grace
    Site Manager
    Best Buy
                                                                                                                                       

    BUILD BRAND LOYALTY AND BOTTOM LINE GROWTH THROUGH MULTICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
    Is marketing to African Americans still necessary since the election of President Barack Obama? As Hispanic and Asian immigrants acculturate, should they be marketed to in English or in the language of their countries of origin? Is supporting the GLBT community too risky for large corporations? How does one navigate the fine line between humor and ethnic stereotyping? In this video-packed presentation from the author of the book Multicultural Intelligence: Eight Make-Or-Break Rules for Marketing to Race, Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation you will learn that instead of getting pushed to the background, multicultural marketing and diversity topics need to become more sophisticated and take their rightful place--front and center. This presentation will explore how including the appropriate cultural cues in advertising and corporate policy can build brand loyalty that will in turn pay huge bottom-line dividends.

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    David R. Morse
    President and Chief Executive Officer 
    New American Dimensions
                                                                                                                                         

    BIG CHANGES AHEAD WITH THE 2010 CENSUS - BE PREPARED, NOT SURPRISED
    Multicultural marketers rely on the census to confirm the efficiency and effectiveness of their efforts. With the 2010 census just months away, major changes are in store. The new federal definitions of race and ethnicity and their impact on multicultural marketing will be reviewed. For the first time, the census will not have a long form. This signifies a major shift: census information will now be collected and updated every year by the American Community Survey (ACS). We’ll take a look at the advantages and limitations of ACS data, past census counts by race and ethnicity as well as the scheduled release of new census data. For those transitioning to this new data resource, this session will provide valuable tips.

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    Ken Hodges
    Chief Demographer
    Nielsen Claritas  
                                                                                                                                       

    4:00pm Conference Adjournment