Presented by the Southwest, Southern California, Southeast and Northwest Chapters
February 26-28, 2020
Las Vegas, NV
Registration is open for the annual combined chapter conference in Las Vegas, presented by the Southwest, Southeast, Southern California and Northwest Chapters!
You live once. Love the... 1. stuff you build, 2. the people you build it for, and 3. the team you build it with. Those 3 things are where Jamin dedicates all his effort.
As the previous CEO of FocusVision, he was the first to bring to market a combination of qualitative and quantitative technologies that are used by 75% of the Fortune 100 and over 3,000 companies globally. Prior to FocusVision, he pioneered online surveys, conducting one of the first ones in 1996 and founded a top survey platform, Decipher, in 2000. Jamin started Happy Market Research to help companies use market research to 'generate outsized returns and growth' and offer free podcasts exploring the state of the MR industry.
Melanie Courtright – Insights Association
Melanie began serving as CEO of the Insights Association on January 1, 2020.
Previously Melanie served as Executive Vice President, Research Science & Data Strategy at Dynata.
A respected, passionate voice on market research trends, standards and quality, Melanie has participated in many industry organizations, events and initiatives. She serves on the executive board of the University of Georgia’s MRII Education program and is an active member of Women in Research (WIRe). Previously Melanie served as President of IA’s Southwest Chapter and as a U.S. representative to ESOMAR.
Melanie has spent more than two decades designing, executing, and interpreting research for agencies and corporations, having started her career at a full-service research firm where she gained a strong research background. For the past decade, Melanie has developed expertise in all forms of digital research including online, mobile and social.
Beginning in 2011, Melanie served as EVP, Global Client Services at Research Now and worked in roles of increasing responsibility in the years following the company’s merger with SSI and subsequent renaming as Dynata. Dynata is the world’s largest first-party data and insights platform with a reach that encompasses 60+ million consumers and business professionals globally and serves nearly 6,000 clients.
