“The Voice Revolution: The Next Wave of Opportunity”

Ashley Spring is the marketing research director at Ally focused on brand, advertising, target market, custom, and trends/innovation research for Ally. She brings her experience as a research leader to integrate insights and innovation across the Ally organization. Prior to joining Ally she was a senior manager for panel research and television ratings at NASCAR. She has also held positions on the research vendor side supporting CPG brands, including management of ongoing global brand studies for Proctor & Gamble fem care, laundry care, and baby care businesses. In her free time, she loves spending time with family and friends and traveling, usually to go to a concert or a Disney park.

Annie heads up The Washington Post’s in-house creative agency, WP BrandStudio, where she shepherds inventive multimedia programs for hundreds of major brands. In just the past two years, she has built the team out to 4x the revenue, staff and number of advertisers, garnering a slew industry accolades from leading organizations, including Digiday, OMMA, Pearl, FCS, min, MarCom and dotCOMM. Her rich content background spans the gamut from content strategy and creation to copywriting and video production. She has originated stories and overseen production of multimedia programs for a wide variety of brands spanning Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Oppenheimer Funds, Prudential, AXA, Canon, Allstate, AT&T, Dell, Mercedes, Jaguar and Audi.

Kim Genobles is the Chief Privacy Officer at Ally, a leading digital financial services company and top 25 U.S. financial holding company (with assets upwards of 165 billion) that offers financial products for consumers, businesses, automotive dealers and corporate clients. Kim manages the Ally Privacy Office and is responsible for enterprise policies, training, monitoring, and guidance to drive effective and efficient compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations. She joined Ally in July of 2018. Prior to joining Ally, she was the Privacy Officer at Regions Bank. Kim begin her career at Bank of America in 1996, where she spent 20 years performing a myriad of roles, including customer service, communications, business continuity, incident response, and privacy – where she focused most of her time. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with a Major in Finance, from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Kim is an active member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and has maintained her Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) since 2006. She’s also a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and holds the Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) designation by the IAPP. Kim currently resides in the Charlotte, NC area with her family.

David has over a decade of experience in the advertising agency world and joined Quartz in 2015 to help with its mission to redefine digital brand experiences. During his tenure at Quartz, he has developed the technology to build engaging experiences for clients like Qualcomm, iShares BlackRock, The Government of Japan, Cadillac, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and many more. In his role as Technology Director, David is spearheading Quartz’s AI offerings for clients including a new product called SiO2 (Quartz!).