IGNITE! 2025 Session: Digest Your Day Over Drinks 4:00-5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 26 at Cintas Center
Digest Your Day Over Drinks: Audience Panel, Feedback, Q&A
Co-Create the Closing Experience.
We’re making this up as we go along, and we’d love your help! We will tap some engaged participants to grab a drink and sit on a panel to discuss anything from what they learned to how they felt. Ask and answer questions, provide feedback for future programming, challenge us, and have some fun!
INCLUDED with your conference registration – please indicate your likelihood of attending when you complete your registration. It’s totally optional, but we hope you’ll stay!
FACILITATORS
Jessica Guido
Senior Digital Experience Coordinator, St. Elizabeth
Jessica Guido brings over 10 years of digital marketing experience across retail, healthcare, and higher education to her role on the American Marketing Association’s Steering Committee for the 2025 Ignite Conference. She serves as the Senior Digital Communications Coordinator for St. Elizabeth Healthcare. As a communications professional passionate about the intersection of technology and authentic storytelling, she believes that meaningful customer connections can drive brand success even in the AI-driven landscape. Jessica deeply enjoys her work with AMA, helping to foster knowledge-sharing and navigating the ever-evolving digital space with our local marketing community. Beyond her professional and volunteer work, you can find her cheering on FC Cincinnati with her family. Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn.
Nick Brunker
Cincinnati Office Lead, VML
Nick Brunker is the lead of VML Cincinnati, where he is responsible for driving the growth and vitality of the agency, expanding its client portfolio, and overseeing the local operation. A Forrester customer experience (CX)-certified professional, Nick has over a decade of discipline in human-centered experience strategy, insight-based digital transformation, ecommerce, and omnichannel planning. As a leader in VML’s CX practice, he collaborates with senior leaders to drive strategic alignment and architect measurement frameworks that achieve customer and business objectives. Throughout his tenure, he has partnered with Fortune 500 clients across numerous sectors, including Ford Motor Company, Google, General Mills, Kimberly-Clark, and Conagra. Nick actively expands the agency’s industry footprint through thought leadership and IP development, including the launch of VML’s first customer experience podcast, “Human Centered” – with listeners in more than 80 countries around the globe. His contributions have been recognized numerous times, most notably being named to the Cincinnati Business Courier’s Forty Under 40 Class of 2023. He has also received multiple Cincinnati PRSA Blacksmith Awards. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife, Abbey, and their three children, Nolan, Emma, and Ainsley. Connect with Nick on LinkedIn.
SPONSORSHIP/PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
LEVERAGE OUR PLATFORM
We have Ignite Sponsorships and other Chapter Partnership opportunities (both cash and in-kind) available! To support our nonprofit volunteer effort and collaborate with us to create the ideal value exchange, contact partnerships@amacincinnati.org!
