CONNECT: 2016 SPONSORS
EXECUTIVE PLATINUM
Vibes
Vibes, a mobile marketing leader, is a team of more than 150 experts with one common goal: unlock new revenue for retailers and brands. We accomplish this by uniquely combining best-in-class technology with unrivaled mobile expertise.
GOLD PLUS
OnStar Business Driver
OnStar connects millions of drivers to destinations every day. Through OnStar Business Driver, your business can be one of them. Promote your business through our mobile marketing platform – a multi-channel app that delivers value to drivers through our trusted Advisors, vehicle brands’ mobile apps and the dashboard of new connected cars.
Yext
Yext is the global Digital Presence Management (DPM) leader, helping over 500,000 business locations manage their geodata and promotional content across 100+ exclusive map, app, search engine, and directory partners including Apple, Bing, Facebook, Foursquare, Yahoo, and Yelp. Based in the heart of New York City with a growing team of 400 employees worldwide, Yext was named one of Forbes Most Promising Companies (2014 & 2015) as well as one of Fortune’s Best Places to Work (2014). Yext’s mission is to help deliver mobile customers to the doorstep of the world’s 50 million business locations by putting perfect location information in the hands of every consumer.
GOLD SPONSORS
Fishbowl
Fishbowl helps restaurants become best in class data driven marketers. Through its intelligent marketing analytics and automation platform, Fishbowl delivers actionable insights to clients to drive more revenue. The platform ingests data from a myriad of sources, including POS, eClub, SMS, reservations, online ordering and more. Fishbowl is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.
Ibotta
Ibotta allows brands, retailers, and restaurants to replace traditional coupons with a mobile application that drives brand loyalty and gathers essential consumer insights. Unlike other promotions, Ibotta requires no interruption to standard operations, no POS integration and increases average check size.
Mood Media
Mood Media is leading the shift from passive consumer experiences to technology-enabled, engagement driven experiences powered by interactive mobile marketing, audio, visuals, scent and systems solutions designed to fit each client’s unique needs and bring their brand messages to life at all customer touch points.
RetailMeNot
RetailMeNot is a leading digital savings destination connecting consumers with retailers, restaurants and brands, both online and in-store. The company enables consumers across the globe to find hundreds of thousands of digital offers to save money while they shop or dine out.
Sparkfly
Sparkfly is a data and attribution platform that connects digital marketing initiatives across screens to offline activity. Through deep integrations with all of the leading point-of-sale systems, Sparkfly enables brands, retailers and restaurants to run unified marketing programs across multiple franchise locations, and, FINALLY, unlock real-time attribution data.
Splick.it
Splick.it is a leading mobile and web-ordering technology platform that enhances the relationship between customers and restaurant brands by creating a unique 1:1 experience that integrates seamless payment, loyalty and location-based marketing offerings. Build custom mobile and web applications with Splick.it or our versatile API.
Waterfall
Waterfall provides technology solutions and strategic expertise that enable multi-unit restaurants and retailers to drive sales, acquisition, CRM and loyalty marketing initiatives through the mobile channel. Founded in 2005, Waterfall’s flagship product, the Waterfall Platform, allows clients to engage customers with personalized, targeted content across SMS, MMS, push notifications, wallets and couponing.
SILVER SPONSORS
3Cinteractive
Driven by a team with dynamic technical and strategic expertise, 3Cinteractive (3C) empowers brands to develop deeper, more valuable customer relationships. Leveraging 3C’s multichannel platform—including messaging, mobile wallet, mobile web and location-based services—marketers can deliver timely, relevant engagements that drive business performance.
Code
Code barcode reading solutions can be integrated into all areas of the retail and hospitality environments, for quick and reliable barcode reading.
Hathway
Hathway is a mobile innovation agency creating personalized experiences that influence consumers in the moments that matter most. We turn insights from mobile and social data into branded mobile applications, responsive web experiences, and mobile marketing campaigns that not only engage users, but deliver real results for our clients.
HotSchedules
HotSchedules provides cloud-based technology for the restaurant industry, delivering a comprehensive suite of solutions that make running and working for restaurants easier. Its world-class products include comprehensive labor management, BI, inventory, social recruiting, e-learning, print and digital logbooks and applications built IoT platform. HotSchedules is proud to serve more than 2 million users in over 150,000 locations across 26 countries.
InfoVista
InfoVista’s customers rely on our proven Ipanema Application Aware SD-WAN solutions for service and infrastructure performance management to successfully launch new and high performance applications, foresee potential performance issues before they impact end users, reduce customer churn and invest appropriately. Optimize performance, maximize value for your mobile applications with Ipanema.
MindMeld
Founded in 2011, MindMeld is pioneering AI for intelligent conversational user interfaces. MindMeld powers the conversational experiences of some of the world’s largest media companies, government agencies, automotive manufacturers and fashion retailers. MindMeld’s customers and investors include Google, Samsung, Intel, Telefonica, Liberty Global, IDG, USAA, Spotify and others.
PointSource
PointSource brings business, marketing and technology together to create transformative digital solutions. They blend the creative energy of an agency with the technology savvy of a development firm to build digital solutions that solve complex problems and change businesses.
Punchh
The Punchh Mobile Engagement and Insights Platform enables restaurants to better understand their customers, automate 1:1 communication with guests in real-time across traditional and emerging channels.
Stellar Loyalty
Stellar Loyalty delivers mobile best, cloud big data loyalty and engagement solutions. We help brands build more loyal and profitable relationships by optimizing the cycle from acquiring and engaging consumers, to transacting with and rewarding them. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Stellar Loyalty has offices in North America, Europe and Asia.
The Nerdery
The Nerdery is a custom software design and development company built on the belief that passionate nerds are the driving force behind business breakthroughs. The Nerdery’s vision is to be the best place in the world for Nerds to work; our purpose is to redefine what’s possible through technology.
ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
Thanx
Thanx is a customer loyalty and communication platform that helps restaurants and retailers keep their best customers loyal for life. Businesses use Thanx to win back lost customers, gather guest feedback and deliver compelling rewards in real-time — all within an easy-to-use app.
BOOKLET SPONSOR
Float
Float helps retailers increase sales, educate their workforce, and verify planogram compliance. We do this through custom apps, digital strategy, and human-centered design. Our skills and capabilities include: B2B product knowledge, native apps, cross-platform apps, sales apps, and full-stack development.
MOBILE APP SPONSOR
LoyaltyPlant
LoyaltyPlant empowers restaurant innovators to build customer relationships that are truly rewarding both for the brand and for the customer. The company’s proprietary platform offers a powerful CRM system, a white-label app and POS integration. LoyaltyPlant is proud to serve over 400 clients in 8 countries, including Pizza Hut, KFC, Hooters and Burger King franchisees.
VIDEO LICENSE/CONTENT SPONSOR
Hughes Network Systems
Hughes’ HughesON™ high performance network & digital media solutions enable retailers & restaurants to securely and cost-effectively drive customer loyalty & employee satisfaction. HughesON gives you the agility to leverage mobile with Wi-Fi, increase employee effectiveness with video and streamline operations while increasing revenues without overwhelming your network or staff.
MEDIA PARTNER
Euromonitor International
Euromonitor International is the world’s leading independent provider of strategic market research. We create data and analysis on thousands of products and services around the world. As independent market research experts, you can rely on us for unbiased historic trends and forecasts for every region, country, category, channel and consumer. Our innovative market research products, reliable reports and daily updates from expert analysts make Euromonitor International an essential resource for every organisation.
WIFI SPONSOR
SessionM
SessionM integrates marketing automation and data management capabilities with loyalty marketing to drive personalized consumer relationships through the mobile device and across channels, enabling brands to observe online and offline customer behaviors from multiple data sources to create a single view of your customer.