Brian Franklin, founder and CEO, Campaign Defense understands the immediate need to inform those running political and advocacy campaigns about threats to the security of their digital data and campaign strategy.  Campaigns often under-estimate risks from inside a campaign as well as from outside hackers.  Training is a critical step in making a campaign less vulnerable to cyber-attacks and malware.

@brian_franklin

Campaign Defense

Ben Krompak, Vice President Tulchin Research is excited about the chances for a Blue Wave in 2018 based on early primary results and polling in upcoming races.  We talk about turning out the base, appealing to Independent voters, increasing presence of Independent candidates, challenges for women candidates, and what will drive voters to the polls in November 2018.

@TulchinResearch

Tulchin Research

Gina Glantz, Founder, Gender Avenger has developed a plan to engage women and men in reporting gender balance in selection of conference speakers, speakers at political rallies, and those who are encouraged to become more politically active.  The goal is to quantify and share the reports to educate decision makers about the lack of inclusion or success in including diverse voices.  We also talk about challenges for women candidates, value of drawing on the wisdom of senior politicians, and need to keep the momentum going in the drive to have more women's voices heard.

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Ben Katz, Chief Architect, ISPolitical has been working with state and local races for many cycles and knows how vulnerable a campaign database can be due to lack of attention to security as well as the way campaigns are run with paid and volunteer staff. We talk about who has the most interest in maliciously modifying, deleting, and stealing political campaign data and some best practices for at least making it harder for nefarious characters to be successful.

@meanestbossever

ISPolitical

Brendan Tobin, Head of Growth at Ecanvasser headquartered in Cork, Ireland, has seen field organizing and canvassing techniques around the globe.  We talk about the unique characteristics of paid canvassing in the US, best techniques for engaging constituents especially in local races, and importance of multiple visits to build awareness and trust. 

@ecanvasserapp

Ecanvasser.com

Shane Greer, co-owner, Campaigns & Elections shines light on the landscape of political messaging from hyper-partisan news sources to fake news to altered video or audio that is nearly impossible to distinguish from real events.  With technology from Hollywood and the medical arenas, more people will be able to create fake content that plays to our senses and can be used to confuse voters, appeal to biases, and feed the fake news stream.

@ShaneGreer

@C_and_E

Campaigns & Elections

Patrick Ruffini, partner and co-founder, Echelon Insights is an expert on voter turnout.  He confirms there is trouble ahead for the Republican party primarily because of the noteworthy increase in Democratic voters while the number of Republican voters has remained stable.  With data from special elections in 2017, Patrick points out that the increased turnout is in large part from white well-educated women as well as more voters from all minority groups.

@echeloninsights

@PatrickRuffini

Echelon Insights

Kip Cassino, Executive Vice President, Borrell Associates has been forecasting and tracking political ad spending for many cycles and has just updated his forecast for 2018 to $8.8 billion up $321 million from earlier estimates.  While digital/online and direct mail are seeing some trimming of the budget, television and cable are seeing a shift from mass to targeted ads.  We talk about the impact of Cambridge Analytica on the political targeting market and efforts by traditional media to maintain their share of political ad budgets. 

@BorrellAssoc

Borrell Associates

Erik Rosedahl, Head of Alliances and Stakeholder Impact, Phone2Action has years of experience helping organize fly-in and legislator days for associations and corporations. He shines a light on all the work that is necessary to insure that the effort of members, speakers and supporters gets the desired result.  In the age of virtual activism, there is still nothing like looking a legislator in the eye and telling a compelling story to get action.

@rosedahl1

@phone2action

Phone2Action

John Jamieson, SVP Strategic Sales, PayClearly has seen the opportunities to streamline and improve the media buying for political and advocacy campaigns.  In the past, buying local radio and television ads and direct mail were relatively easy enough to manage.  With the explosion of options to advertise online, on social media, and through mobile apps, the tracking of media spends requires sophisticated tools in order to maximize impact and control costs.

@PayClearly

PayClearly