SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker

Mark Schaefer
Globally Recognized Marketing Futurist & Bestselling Author 

Mark W. Schaefer is a globally recognized author, keynote speaker, futurist, and business consultant who blogs at {grow} — one of the top five marketing blogs in the world. He teaches graduate marketing classes at Rutgers University and has written 12 best-selling books. Mark’s new book Audacious: How Humans Win in an AI Marketing World describes an essential framework for businesses to stand out and be seen in a noisy world.

His many global clients include Pfizer, Cisco, P&G, Dell, Adidas, and the US Air Force. He has been a keynote speaker at prestigious events worldwide, including South by Southwest, Marketing Summit Tokyo, and the Institute for International and European Affairs. Mark has appeared as a guest on various media channels, including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and CBS News.

Breakout Session Presenters

Jay Bosley
Chief Operating Officer, D3

Jay Bosley is COO of D3Corp, a 30-year-old, award-winning full-service digital marketing agency on Maryland's Eastern Shore serving 2,700+ clients across the Mid-Atlantic. A recognized voice on AI visibility and answer engine optimization, he holds AI certifications from Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft, and completed Northwestern University Kellogg's Executive Education program in AI-First Marketing Strategy. Jay speaks regularly on how AI is changing search and social discovery, and what marketers need to do now to keep their content and brands visible.  
Jen Brestel
Delaware Technical Community College

Jen Brestel is the digital communications manager at Delaware Technical Community College, where she leads social media strategy, digital storytelling, and audience engagement initiatives. With a background spanning higher education, public health communications, and journalism, she brings a unique perspective to connecting organizations with diverse audiences. Before transitioning to higher education, Jen developed communications strategies that supported public health outreach and education efforts, and she began her career as a journalist, honing her skills in storytelling and audience-centered content. She is passionate about helping organizations build authentic connections through effective digital communication. 
Quiana Capers-Wyre
Founder and CEO of Automation Xcel LLC
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Quiana Capers-Wyre is the founder and CEO of Automation Xcel LLC. She brings experience helping people come online and turn their expertise into digital offers. She works as an Al educator and workforce development strategist. Having delivered more than 700 trainings, Quiana has taught professionals and business owners how to use digital tools, create content, and turn their expertise into income. 

Today, she leads Al and digital literacy training for professionals, small businesses, and emerging workers. Her work focuses on helping people build workflows, strengthen their skills, and feel confident using Al in their careers and businesses.
Marisa Flanigan
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Marisa Flanigan is a social media specialist at Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, where she brings the brand’s off-centered world to life through content creation, storytelling, and digital strategy. From social media to newsletters, blogs, and website management, she wears many hats—usually with a camera in one hand and a SeaQuench Ale in the other.
 
Her path to marketing wasn’t linear (or planned). With a master’s degree in environmental science, Marisa began her career in the nonprofit and environmental world, where she often took on communications as a side gig that gradually became the main event. Along the way, she discovered a love for storytelling and brands with real and fun personalities, which eventually led her to Dogfish Head, where she now gets to channel her own off-centeredness to help grow the brand’s digital presence. 
Jenni Pastusak
D3

Jenni Pastusak brings more than two decades of experience in journalism, public relations, marketing, and strategic communications to her role as director of public relations at D3. She helps businesses and organizations strengthen their visibility by connecting the dots between compelling content, a strong digital presence, and the way people search for information online. 

Working alongside D3’s digital marketing, SEO, development and content teams, Jenni helps clients navigate the evolving search landscape, including SEO, AEO and AI-powered search. Her focus is on helping businesses understand how their website, social media, PR, reviews and content work together to build credibility, authority and ultimately, help them get found. 
Nick Rendo
Encore Media Solutions

Nick Rendo is a social media marketing expert who has built three successful businesses over the past decade, each in a different niche, entirely through organic social media strategies. He is the owner of Encore Media Solutions, a local social media marketing agency.
  
For the last 5 years, Nick has helped local businesses in Delaware go viral, generate millions of views, increase leads, and grow brand awareness without spending a single dollar on ads. 

He works closely with business owners on the strategic side of organic growth. From building repeatable content systems and getting internal teams involved, to tracking real ROI instead of vanity metrics instead of surface-level numbers. 
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Nick's mission is to show business owners how to dominate their niche organically and become the go-to authority in their space, proving that you don't need a single dollar on paid ads to make a big impact. 
Neal Schaffer
Windmills Marketing, LLC
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Neal Schaffer is a fractional CMO, global keynote speaker, and educator who helps businesses of every size get more out of social media, digital marketing, and AI. He teaches social media marketing at Rutgers Business School and both personal branding and influencer marketing at UCLA Extension. Neal is the author of six books, including Maximize Your Social, a leading work on social media marketing strategy, and The Age of Influence, a leading work on influencer marketing, along with Digital Threads and Maximizing LinkedIn for Business Growth. He hosts the Your Digital Marketing Coach podcast, ranked in the top 1.5% of podcasts globally, and runs the consulting practice PDCA Social, where he serves as a fractional CMO to companies across a range of industries. His sessions are built to send people home with something they can put to work the next morning.
Zoe Stayman
Draper Media

Zoe Stayman is the digital content manager for Draper Media, where she oversees digital content and strategy across the company's television news and sports stations, lifestyle programs, and radio brands serving the Delmarva Peninsula. Her work focuses on helping traditional media teams create timely, informative, and engaging content across websites, social media, streaming, and mobile platforms.  

Before this role, she was the assignment and content manager with CoastTV and previously worked as a full-time music educator in Florida. She has a bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Florida and is a graduate of Sussex Tech's media broadcasting program.