MarketMixBig data offers a lot of promise and opportunities for improving the way we do marketing.  As floods of data pour in from social media, mobile, weblogs,  digital advertising, CRM, POS, etc., companies need to effectively store it and develop robust analytics to mine the data for knowledge. By gaining new insights, marketers can tailor our marketing message to provide customers with the most relevant information and better engage with them through the lifecycle.  But how do we manage this data to make it truly usable?  How do we avoid the perils that comes with identifying and gathering the data, putting the analytics system in place, and getting the right people in place, so we can turn the data into actionable insights?

eSage Group’s very own Duane Bedard will lead a panel discussion on this and more at the Puget Sound American Marketing Association MarketMix on March 20th.  Panelists include Shish Shirdhar from Microsoft, Romi Mahajan from KKM Group, and Adam Weiner from RedFin.

ShiSh Shridhar is the Retail Industry Solutions Director at Microsoft and is responsible for strategy around Business Analytics, Big Data & Productivity Solutions for the Retail Industry. ShiSh has worked in Microsoft for the last 16 years across several groups and geographies and has a passion for empowering organizations through collaboration, knowledge management and analytics. ShiSh contributes to Retail Industry magazines, blogs and maintains the Retail Industry twitter presence for Microsoft: @msretail . He also regularly speaks at Industry events. ShiSh loves working on innovative ideas and has a patent in the Social Media space. When he isn’t working he sails and windsurfs the waters around the Puget Sound.  Follow Shish on Twitter at @5h15h.

Romi Mahajan is an award-winning marketer, marketing thinker, and author. His career is a storied one, including spending 9 years at Microsoft, being the first CMO of Ascentium, a leading digital agency, and founding the KKM Group, a boutique advisory firm focused on strategy and marketing. Romi has also authored two books on marketing- the latest one can be found here. A prolific writer and speaker, Mahajan lives in Bellevue, WA, with his wife and two kids. Mahajan graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, at the age of 19 with a Bachelor’s degree in South Asian Studies. He also received a Master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He can be reached at romi@thekkmgroup.com

Adam Weiner is Vice President of Analytics and New Business at Redfin, He leads the company’s efforts to use our proprietary data to build new products for the web and improve our real estate services. He is also responsible for identifying opportunities for business growth that align with Redfin’s overall mission to reinvent the consumer experience for buying and selling real estate. Adam joined Redfin in 2007 on the product management team and was one of the pioneers of the Redfin Partner Program for agents, in addition to our service provider directory, Redfin Open Book. Prior to Redfin, Adam worked at Microsoft in the SQL Server Division for 5 years. Adam graduated from Stanford with a degree in Symbolic Systems, and a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. Follow Adam on Twitter at @adamRedfin.

You can still register for the event at www.marketmix2013.com!