Ignite Talks is a fast-paced geek event started in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis. Since the first Ignite took place in Seattle around 10 years ago, Ignite has become an international phenomenon, with Ignite events produced in Helsinki, Tunisia, Paris, New York City and over 350 other locations in between. Ignite’s mission is “Everyone Speaks”. We believe that public speaking builds confidence in individuals and that events like Ignite build community. Our goal is to make it possible for anyone, anywhere, to learn to present their ideas and their stories. Ignite Annapolis was founded in 2009 and has been held for the last three consecutive years at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.

Pavilion's mission is to help CEOs, go-to-market executives and their teams unlock and achieve their professional potential through community-powered learning. We do this by providing more than 10,000 members in 100+ countries with education, events and community all designed to help them level up their careers.

After 3 years as a Pavilion Member, Chapter Head and Ambassador, I joined Pavilion to serve the Marketing and Member Success teams.

Advocating for Pavilion's vision of a new way to succeed in business, built on long-term relationships that are rooted in mutual support and reciprocity. Join us at joinpavilion.com

Pavilion is a global community for high-growth leaders in every function. The community is designed to support professional development, facilitate the sharing of best practices, and serve as a trusted private community where Members can openly discuss business critical issues with the comfort of privacy and confidentiality.

Advisor to the CEO and company leadership on marketing strategy, branding, messaging, and demand generationl

Fractional CMO for SaaS provider of cloud-based advanced intelligence solutions. Advising on go-to-market strategy, positioning, budgeting, marketing team structure and hiring, etc.

gmgn is charting a new course for the way consumer packaged goods come to market through its vision to launch 100 community-built brands through the gmgn supply DAO, a Web3 organization that allows anyone to purchase an NFT and effectively own a share of the profits from the sale of the company's products.

Tradeswell is the real time operating system for ecommerce, offering brands a system of intelligence that breaks down the silos between marketing, sales, operations, logistics, and finance. Think of it as "mission control" for growing ecommerce businesses looking to thrive in the real time commerce economy.

I have the honor of leading the team responsible for sharing the clean.io story with the world and supporting the amazing team of product, engineering, CS and sales folks who are creating the new category of digital engagement security.

Head of marketing for early stage cybersecurity startup providing government and enterprise clients with visibility, control and threat defense across physical, virtual, and cloud applications.

Advised an early-stage, venture-backed cybersecurity company providing cyber due diligence solutions to Fortune 100 companies on the creation of its marketing team.

I helped develop the company's messaging, brand, marketing budget and go-to-market strategy, and owned analyst relations with Gartner and Forrester.

The CannabizMD mission is to educate, build and engage a network of medical cannabis industry stakeholders, clinicians, industry influencers and patients to create an ecosystem advancing the needs of Maryland’s medical cannabis industry. I serve as a Board-level advisor to the organization's founder.

IMPACT is an Award-Winning Inbound Marketing Agency & HubSpot Diamond Partner that was recognized as HubSpot's Agency Partner of the Year for North America in 2017 and 2018. As head of IMPACT's marketing team, I navigated a massive rebranding project that had the company transitioning from a digital agency that happens to publish a lot, to a media company that happens to have a digital agency inside of it. My responsibilities spanned brand, demand generation, brand publishing, audience acquisition, events and community, and monetization, and I remotely managed a team of 8 marketers spread across 4 cities throughout the US.

As the Marketer in charge of marketing for an agency full of marketers, it was my job to stay on the cutting edge of the digital marketing world so that my team could serve as a laboratory for testing new strategies and creating replicable frameworks for growing traffic, leads and revenue for IMPACT as well as its 150+ clients. My role was not client facing - it was

FounderTrac is a 12 week accelerator, funded by Maryland's TEDCO, for startups looking to raise their first round of venture capital funding. I teach the marketing segment of the program, mentor founders, and am a panelist on the organization's pitch coaching program.

The Founder Institute is the world's largest entrepreneur and startup launch program, helping aspiring founders across the globe build enduring technology companies. The Founder Institute's Maryland Chapter is newly formed and carefully recruits approximately 25 Mentors per Semester, who are normally the CEO or Founder of a successful startup. These Mentors are selected based on their expertise on a topic in the curriculum, and their mandate is to help participating Founders by sharing their experience and providing feedback.

Quintain was a digital marketing agency that helped high growth companies develop funnels that deliver predictable and scalable revenue. From digital marketing strategies that get measurable results, to sales training and consulting programs that help you close more deals, our team’s goal was to make a difference for the companies and people with whom we worked.

Quintain Marketing was a HubSpot Platinum-level certified partner, putting us in the top 1% of HubSpot agencies in the world, and the proud recipient of HubSpot's first-ever Client Campaign of the Year Award.

In June of 2017, Quintain Marketing joined forces with IMPACT Branding and Design. IMPACT’s status as a Diamond level HubSpot partner, together with our status as a Platinum level partner, makes our combined team a world leader in the delivery of inbound marketing services and the development of websites powered by the HubSpot platform.

Management consultant specializing in advising governments on structuring and implementing public-private partnerships, and the development of strategic communications programs to support public sector reform.

Coordinated all IP3 activities in the consulting arena, including business development, client management, project oversight and quality control.

Directed all IP3 consulting and capacity building engagements in the water, sanitation, and urban services sectors, and was responsible for generating new consulting business and developing course curricula for water and sanitation training programs.

Advised government clients on reform and restructuring (including privatization) of water and energy services.

Kathleen Booth

SVP Marketing and Member Experience at Pavilion