Anna Burgess Yang is a storyteller based in a suburb of Chicago. She is an account manager at Campfire Labs marketing agency, a contributing editor at BankBeat magazine, and a freelance writer. Before pivoting into content marketing and journalism, Anna worked in fintech for fifteen years as a product manager and director of customer success.

Award-winning animation director/producer. Founder of 2D animation company, Echo Bridge. 22 years of industry experience directing and producing animated content for clients such as Amazon Studios, Nickelodeon, TED Talks, Spotify and FOX. Bitcoin, powerlifting and Stanley Kubrick enthusiast.

Dale Bertrand has been an SEO specialist to Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups around the world for two decades. His clients include global brands such as Citizen Watch, Nestle, Raymond Weil and Bulova. He applies his graduate school work in artificial intelligence to search engine marketing. Dale speaks at industry conferences, leads corporate training events and serves at Entrepreneur in Residence at the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Organization. He has trained marketing professionals from TripAdvisor, Microsoft, HubSpot, Digitas and Proctor & Gamble. Dale has BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from Brown University.

Wally Nguyen is a marketing consultant, automation specialist, operations whiz and copywriter who loves online marketing and helping life’s “losers” win. He consults with some of the largest social media personal brands online today like Jason Capital, Les Brown, Jordan Belfort & Elliot Hulse in monetizing their social media channels. His systems have been used to collect over $7 million dollars in revenue in the last 18 months. Wally currently runs his consulting agency in St Petersburg, FL, where he helps freelancers or aspiring freelancers overcome “launch-overwhelm” and finally make that transition into working independently for themselves.

We'll wrap up the conference with a bang and close it out before we set sail.

That's fine! We just ask you inform our volunteers when you check in. 

A: For the conference, smart casual is fine! You can also rock a HOTH shirt. ;) We'd suggest wearing cocktail attire for the Yacht Dinner.

A: Heavy appetizers and drinks will be served at the Sunday and Monday evening events. Tuesday’s Yacht cruise includes dinner.

If you have any other questions, feel free to email hothcon@thehoth.com.