Cincinnati Women in Digital January Meetup
This month's theme: 2019 Digital Enablement
What are OKRs? What's a two-pizza team? How do you keep up with potential partnerships that will enable your company to innovate quickly enough to keep pace with consumers' changing behaviors? Come learn how Jody Kalmbach is enabling the largest grocer to innovate, and how you can leverage these best practices for your business.


Agenda

7:30am - 8:00am: Check-in. Mix + Mingle

8:00am - 8:10am: News + Updates from City Champion and Board

8:10am - 8:40am: Guest Speaker Jody Kalmbach, Digital Experience Leader, The Kroger Company

8:40am - 9:00am: Ask + Give Exchange. Members trade their power by asking for and giving support, advice, and favors. After asks + gives open networking continues.



Guest Speaker:
Jody Kalmbach, Digital Experience Leader, The Kroger Company




Jody Kalmbach is the Digital Experience leader for The Kroger Company. She is responsible for Digital Marketing, Digital Merchandising, Product Management/UX, Site Experience and Web Analytics.


Jody joined the company in 2014 to lead Customer Experience for Vitacost. She has 25 years of experience leading marketing, brand building, product management and customer experience at consumer brands and ecommerce companies such as Amazon.com, The North Face and AT&T. During her tenure at Amazon, Jody led
Product Management and developed Target.com on the Amazon platform.


She earned a BA degree from the University of Rhode Island and currently lives in Cincinnati with her husband and two children.

Our mission:
Your digital talent makes you one of the most powerful women on the planet. Together, we join to share our knowledge, to inspire each other, and to be empowered by that strength. Our mission is to connect women in digital through engaging and educational events, and to enable them with the confidence and tools necessary to exchange their power. Learn more about Women in Digital here.

Logistics
This month's meetup is located on the fourth floor of Union Hall in The Homeroom. Check in with the front desk on the ground floor and they will point you in the right direction.

Who should attend?


Female professionals in digital + tech industries. Our members have a digital focus within the creative, marketing, advertising, or communications fields. From content strategists to designers, developers to social marketing pros and CMOs – you are all professionals in digital and all welcome at our events. Not a member yet? Join us today!



We welcome all female, female-identifying, and LGBTQ persons.



Please do not attend if you have a sales motivation. Soliciting our attendees and members for business or sales is strictly prohibited. If you do so, you will kindly be asked to leave OR you can officially sponsor us (a better option).



Men, we prefer you not attend our member meetups. Why? By nature, when faced with challenges, women respond by creating community. This is ours. If you would like to support us, there are so many amazing ways:




Sponsor an event.



Buy group memberships for the women on your team.



Attend our National Conference (Sept. 18-20, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio).



Join the other Digital Dudes that have supported us. Click here for a list of the men who have stepped up for us in a big way.




Thanks to our event sponsor:


Our January meetup is sponsored by Smart Panda Labs.

Smart Panda Labs is a digital marketing agency that helps clients optimize their customer journey through data-driven SEM, CRM + database marketing, CRO, web analytics + intelligence, visual design, and development. The results of our efforts include new leads, dramatic improvements in lead conversion, and increased customer loyalty.

Our team comprises a majority of women, including mothers, working remotely. Minority founded and owned, we're an inclusive and employee-focused company that has found great success by helping each other grow both personally and professionally.




Would you like to sponsor?
If you are interested in sponsoring this event or others, woo hoo! Contact us at info@womenin.digital.

Thanks to our venue partner:

Located in Cincinnati's historic Over the Rhine, Union Hall is a 38,000 sq. ft. building where disruptors come to roll up their sleeves and get to work. Owned and operated by Cintrifuse, Union Hall is home to the Cintrifuse team, Brandery accelerator, and CincyTech investors, as well as hundreds of startup companies in our co-working spaces.