Friday

Friday, November 7, 2008
7:30 Morning Coffee
Section 4: Data Collection
8:00 The Quest for Sample Integrity: Exploring Panel Sample Characteristics that Impact Survey Results
Ron Gailey, Senior Vice President & Director of Research and Consumer Insight, WASHINGTON MUTUAL
8:30 Panel Differences: Don't Panic, Embrace their Diversity
Michael Fallig and Global Team, Senior Vice President & Director, Online Strategy Division, GFK
Derek Allen, Executive Vice President and Director, Research Center for Excellence, GFK CUSTOM RESEARCH NORTH AMERICA
Section 5: Web 2.0
9:00 Engaging the Casual Survey Taker in Online Research, and the Data Implications of Doing So
Melanie Courtright, Vice President, DMS RESEARCH
9:30 Emerging Technologies Shown to Improve Online Respondent Data Quality
Ali Moiz, COO, PEANUT LABS
10:00 Participatory Panels & the Use of Social Networks to Meet Increasingly Complex Client Needs
Mike Cooke, Global Director: GfK NOP Online CoE, GFK NOP
10:30 Networking Break
Section 5: Web 2.0 Continued
11:00 Using Behaviorally Tracked Online Panels to Increase Data Quality and Improve Marketing Efforts
Gian Fulgoni, Chairman and Co-Founder, COMSCORE
11:30 Listening Intently: Micro-communities as engines for business success
Julia Witts Schlack, Senior Vice President of Innovation & Design, COMMUNISPACE
Manila Julie Austin, Director of Research, COMMUNISPACE
12:00 From Panel to Panel Communities: The evolution of online panels and ‘panelist engagement’ as a panel health indicator
Frederic-Charles Petit, CEO, TOLUNA
12:30 Lunch
Section 6: Mobile Research: The Next Frontier
1:30 Wireless Research: Immediate Access
Michael McCrary, Senior Vice President, GREENFIELD ONLINE
Alex Sodek, Vice President Research Solutions, DECISION INSIGHT
2:00 Mobile Survey Research: Recommendations for Maximizing Data Quality
Seth Ruoss, Executive Vice President, Marketing & Business Strategy, LIGHTSPEED RESEARCH INC.
Section 7: Mixed Mode Data Collection
2:30 Benefits of Mixed Mode Data Collection
Scott Van Manen, Vice President, Marketing Science, YANKELOVICH
3:00 Understanding Elusive Consumers: How the Colorado Avalanche Uses Multiple Blended Research Methods to Fully Understand Elusive Fans
Marc Miller, President, CORE INSIGHTS
Section8: Solutions that Deliver Quality
4:00 Chairman’s Solutions Panels:
Jeff Miller, Senior Vice President, BURKE INC.
Randy Brooks, President, DIRECTIONS RESEARCH
Chuck Miller, President, DMS RESEARCH
Gregg Lindner, Executive Vice President, Research and Operations, SCARBOROUGH
Kevin Lonnie, President, KL COMMUNICATIONS
Steve Lavine, President, COMMON KNOWLEDGE RESEARCH SERVICES
Craig Stevens, Executive Vice President, EREWARDS
  Conclusion of Conference