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    Gold Sponsors

    Acxiom is a recognized leader in technology and marketing services that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Their superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable infrastructure-management services.
    Experian Automotive is a leader in providing information services and market intelligence to manufacturers, dealers, finance, insurance and aftermarket companies, helping them increase customer loyalty, target and win new business, and make better lending, purchasing and production decisions. Experian’s AutoCheck reports provide customers with in-depth vehicle history information to confidently understand, compare and select the right vehicle. Experian technology supports top automotive businesses, including eBay Motors, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Affinia, CarMax and NADAguides.com.
    Orbitz Worldwide is a leading global online travel company that uses innovative technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products. Orbitz Worldwide owns a portfolio of consumer brands that includes Orbitz, CheapTickets, ebookers, HotelClub, RatesToGo, the Away Network and corporate travel brand Orbitz for Business.
    Pragmatic Marketing’s training is based on the fundamental belief that a company’s products need to be grounded in a strategy that is driven by the market. We combine this core principle with a team of instructors who have real-world experience leading high tech product teams, to deliver training seminars that are informative, entertaining, and impactful.  To find out how you or your company can join the growing international community of more than 75,000 product management and marketing professionals trained by Pragmatic Marketing, visit www.pragmaticmarketing.com.

     

    Silver Sponsors

    Proficientz has the one and only portfolio management framework that aligns your organization to a single agenda and a single set of priorities from the top down, because the new rules of engagement go way beyond market-driven products. They’re about market-driven organizations offering a portfolio of integrated high-impact solutions the market values far more than a bunch of point products!
    Rally is the recognized leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM). We are dedicated to helping organizations embrace Agile and Lean development practices that increase the pace of innovation and improve product quality. According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally’s Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages. The company’s experienced services group, including training through Agile University, guides companies through the organizational change required to become innovative, Agile businesses. Rally’s products, including AgileZen, currently support more than 9,700 corporate customers, 126,000 projects and 112,000 users in 101 countries. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

     

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    Actuation Consulting, is a world-class provider of product management training courses and advisory services to some of the nation’s most well known organizations and we are committed to Advancing the Profession of Product Management. Our efforts are centered on increasing practice standards in the product management community through our highly regarded training courses and publications. To learn more visit www.ActuationConsulting.com
    Balsamiq is a fast-growing but still-very-personable software company. Their first product, Balsamiq Mockups, launched in June 2008.  Mockups helps software designers and developers build great software by letting them easily sketch out their ideas, then quickly collaborate and iterate over them. Balsamiq Mockups has netted over $4,500,000 in sales in first 30 months of business and is gathering rave reviews.
    Photography for this event will be provided by Pics by Robert. Robert Martinez has photographed other Chicago-based conferences such as SweetHack, SocialDevCamp, and WordCamp. You can check out all of Robert’s work on his SmugMug page.  As you can tell, we’re lucky to have his talents covering our event!
    ThinkGeek started as an idea. A simple idea to create and sell stuff that would appeal to the thousands of people out there who were on the front line and in the trenches as the Internet was forged. ThinkGeek started as a way to serve a market that was passionate about technology, from programmers, engineers, students, lovers of open source, to the masses that helped create the behind-the-scenes Internet culture.