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Welcome to Inbox Awesome (#InAwe17)!

The annual boutique conference on the future of email, messaging, chats and workflows – convening thought leaders from Fortune 500 companies to seed startups.

Join us to discuss the future of how we communicate: Email. Messaging. Chats. Voice. Bots. And Politics.

Why Inbox Awesome?

Messaging has become a cultural force, an unextractable, overwhelming part of our lives. Inboxes, once simple feeds, have turned into complex, vulnerable worlds of their own.
- How do you send better emails and make them arrive?
- How do you manage multiple feeds – and still get stuff done?
- How do you sell and build movements through messaging?
- What do you do when your inbox gets hacked?
- What are the platforms of the future – and how can you turn them into businesses?

Find the answers – on Nov 9th. Meet 30+ speakers and 250+ thought leaders from Fortune 500 companies to seed startups in the tech, media and enterprise worlds. From Adobe to Zappos, from The New York Times to Quartz, from Red to Blue. If you work in messaging, marketing, product or sales, if you manage a small or a big team, or if you just need to get stuff done – you shouldn’t miss this.

Inbox Awesome tries to live up to its name and make your inbox more awesome, without fear of missing out: 1 day, 1 room, 1 stage – and cutting edge topics, sourced from the community and rebuilt from scratch every year.

Confirmed speakers include:

Elisabeth Goodridge, Editor, Newsletters and Messaging, The New York Times
Oji Udezue, Head of Product, Atlassian
Seth Weisfeld, Head of Email & Notifications, Pinterest
Brad Carpenter, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI Cyber Division
Maggie Hsu, Advisor / Chief of Staff, Zappos
Aria Finger, CEO & Chief Old Person, DoSomething.org
Matt Kiser, Founder, What the Fuck Just Happened Today
Gerrit Lansing, Chief Digital Officer, The White House / RNC
Dennis Dayman, Chief Privacy and Security Officer, Return Path
Naomi Makofsky, Global Partnerships Lead, Google Assistant
Nick Beim, Partner, Venrock Ventures
Jerry Talton, Search, Learning & Intelligence Group Lead, Slack
Alyssa Nahatis, Director of Deliverability, Adobe
Tim McElreath, Director for Mobile and Emerging Platforms, Scripps Networks Interactive
Tara Clark, Director of Email, Zillow
Nitasha Mehta, Head of Reengagement, Boxed
Daniel Sieberg, Co-Founder, News Lab, Google
Vivek Sharma, CEO, Co-Founder, Movable Ink

What's the agenda?

08:15 - 09:00

The Productivity Puzzle

How to manage a mega-feed future

Most of us have no idea how to get to inbox zero. Or how to win the daily war against all our feeds and still get meaningful things done. Meet the masters of productivity – and learn their tactics to win over the mega-feed era of the future.

09:00 - 09:45

Talk, don't touch

Why voice is having its moment

Alexa, Siri, Vega, Azure – all big tech firms are building voice platforms, and brands follow along. How does this change our way of communicating, which platform will win, and will touch interfaces die?

09:45 - 10:15

The Chat vs. Email Faceoff

Which feed will save us all?

Are chats saviors, increasing productivity for all, or just another nuisance on top of email? And how can they ever coexist? Meet the innovators who are working on this mission impossible.

10:15-10:45

The science behind the @

How your email address is becoming your new DNA

Targeting and customization starts with your name@xyz.com. Peel off the onion behind the @, learn how companies analyze your digital DNA and data science influences the way you live, shop and travel.

11:15 - 12:00

The Political Inbox

How campaign messaging works

One year after the election, take a deep dive into how the best campaigners work your inbox, creating movements from politics to social good.

12:45 - 01:30

Catch the Phish

The challenge of protecting your inbox

Leaks, breaches and hacks are front page news. Our inboxes, from email to social media, are more volatile than ever. How can we improve security – and what do we do when it’s too late? A hands-on workshop.

01:30 - 02:00

Inbox Interactive

The next marketing frontier

From livestreaming to interactive design – email is being reinvented as a marketing platform, reaching far beyond its old school image. Meet the cutting edge innovators in the field and learn about their vision and best practices.

02:00 - 02:45

Inbox Profit

How selling through the inbox works

From Sign Up, to Personalization to Re-Engagement - the customer journey through messaging is long and challenging. Still, 20% of e-commerce is made this way. Discuss the dos and don'ts, the challenges and lessons – and whether humans or bots are making the cut.

03:30 - 04:15

Newspapers? Newsletters!

How to build media empires around email

In a short amount of time, backroom producers and legacy media companies have turned newsletters from an old-school content dump onto highly crafted, engaging platforms. Meet the movers and shakers, and learn how to build your own letter.

04:15 – 05:00

Messaging Eats the World

A global forecast workshop

Data, AI and consumer needs are changing communication and commerce forever. But which platform is winning, and will the next big player come from China, Korea, Austin or Seattle?

How can I partner up?

Inbox Awesome has built strong relationships with leading companies in the messaging and tech space. If you are interested in a partnership to highlight your brand, don't hesitate to reach out to conference producer Felix Zeltner, felix@workawesome.org, +1-212-658-0268.

Who attends and why?

Expect to bump into the most interesting New York product, tech, venture, and marketing people in one spot. Meet
- 200+ participants
- 10+ countries represented

- Various leading media companies 

- 70% C-level, Founder or leading management

- 70:30 brand to vendor ratio

A selection of companies that you'll find in the audience: Betaworks, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed, CUNY, Foursquare, Giphy, Google, GoPro, IBM, Lyft, Mailchimp, Microsoft, Omnicom, R/GA, Redef, SendGrid, SparkPost, SoulCycle, TechCrunch, The New York Times, Trello, Twitter, Quartz, Zappos.

What other people said on past events

“Amazing work. Congrats on the diversity and gender balance.” – Dawn Barber, Co-Founder New York Tech MeetUp

“One of the best conferences ever.” – Shana Dressler, Executive Director, Google 30 Weeks

“Happy to have been part of this.“ – Dan Oshinsky, Director of Newsletters at BuzzFeed

“A nice combo of practical insight, inspiration and thought provoking contrarianism.” – Roger W. Neal, Founding Executive Director, NYC Media Lab

“I usually pop in and out of conferences. Here, I came and stayed. Wow.” – Milena Berry, CEO, PowerToFly

“What a productive conference! I met such wonderful people doing interesting things, and even came out with a podcasting partner.“ – Margot Boyer-Dry, Founder, Lorem Ipsum

About us

Inbox Awesome was founded in 2013 in New York City by tech pioneer, investor and philosopher Amol Sarva. In 2015, it became part of Work Awesome, a strategy agency focused on the future of work, founded by Amol Sarva and German journalists and entrepreneurs Lars Gaede and Felix Zeltner. Apart from the Inbox Awesome Conference, we are proud to present and produce: Work Awesome, the annual conference on the future of work, with its 2017 edition coming to Berlin for the very first time; the future.work series in collaboration with WIRED at Telefónica Basecamp Berlin; and various networking events, innovation workshops journeys both in Europe and North America.

Get in touch

Are you interested in working with us? Have a question about the conference? Or just want to reach out? We would love to hear from you.

Felix Zeltner felix@workawesome.org +1-212-658-0268


Amol Sarva amol@workawesome.org +1-530-727-8277 


Lars Gaede lars@workawesome.org +49-177 30 20 822

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