Thursday, September 18, 2025 | Columbus, OH
Engineering Brand Love Summit
Join us at our Columbus office as we bring together top brand marketers from across the country to dive deep into creating brands people actually care about — and drive true business impact. Look forward to sessions, panels, and fireside chats on handling audience engagement in the Gen Z/TikTok era, building brand trust, what it takes to create brands that endure, and more.
Registration is complimentary to brand-side marketers only.
Hosted by The Shipyard & Brand Innovators
Thursday, September 18, 2025
8:00am-5:00pm
4030 Easton Station, Suite 300
Columbus, OH 43219
Do you believe in love?
Undeniably, there are cult brands from Apple to In-N-Out Burger with users declaring their love from fanatic loyalty to tattoos.
But, how do you get people to fall in love with your brand in the first place?
You don’t have to leave it to chance. Brand love can be methodically engineered today using data science, performance marketing, and audience segmentation matched with unignorable creativity.
At this lean-in event, we’re partnering with Brand Innovators bringing brand marketers from across the country together to dive deep into how their brands are driving love — and business impact.
Summit Themes
Full agenda to be announced soon!
DRIVING IMPACT WITH BRAND LOVE
THE FUTURE OF BRAND LOVE
Brand Makeovers
Brand Love Next Practices
VIP Experiences to Fall in Love With
Happy Hour with Private Performance
What’s better than love? Love with a side of music! Get ready for a laid-back happy hour, complete with a private music show to keep the good times rolling.
Brand Innovators VIP Dinner
We’ll wrap up the day with a Brand Innovators VIP Dinner where you can connect with other top-level marketers over amazing food and great drinks.
The Shipyard & Brand Innovators Community
What People Are Saying
This Year's Lineup
This year’s lineup features leaders from Aritzia, The Ohio State University Department of Athletics, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, J.P. Morgan, VELOZ, and more!
Mollie Hansen
Chief Marketing Officer
Airstream
Marnie Kain
VP Brand Marketing
Grubhub
Seth Freeman
Vice President of Integrated Marketing & Media
Bath & Body Works
Athena Nestoras
Sr. Manager of Global Advertising & Social Media Strategy
United Airlines
Traci Graziani
Head of Brand Marketing, Away From Home
Kraft Heinz
Lauri Joffe
Chief Marketing Officer
American Freight
Linda Lollo
Global External Digital Communications Manager
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Saakait Mathur
Brand Director
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
Kristi Daraban
Head of Social Media & Influencers
The Aspen Group
Tiffanie Hiibner
VP Integrated Marketing & Brand Advancement
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Josephine Severe
Senior Brand Manager
Abbott, PediaSure
Nikia Reveal
SVP, Brand Director
The Huntington National Bank
Michael Reda
Head of Digital, Design, Insights & eComm
T. Marzetti Company
Kelly Cahill
VP of Marketing
Shop Premium Outlets, A Simon Digital Marketplace
BJ Lieberman
Chef & Owner
Chapman’s Eat Market, Ginger Rabbit Jazz Club, Hiraeth
Jeremy Hughes
CEO & Founding Partner
Elevate
David Sonderman
Chief Creative Officer
The Shipyard
Blake Williams
Sr. Director, Data Strategy
The Shipyard
Rick Milenthal
Chief Executive Officer
The Shipyard
Summit Schedule
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Agenda
Marc Steinberg, CEO, Brand Innovators
Rick Milenthal, CEO, The Shipyard
Dave Sonderman, Chief Creative Officer, The Shipyard
Mollie Hansen, CMO, Airstream
- Traci Graziani, Head of Brand Marketing, Away from Home, Kraft Heinz
Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive Officer, Elevate
BJ Libermann, Chef/Owner, Chapman’s Eat Market, Ginger Rabbit Jazz Club, Hiraeth
- Athena Nestoras, Sr. Manager of Global Advertising & Social Media Strategy, United Airlines
- Kristin Daraban, Head of Social Media & Influencers, The Aspen Group
- Linda Lollo, Global External Digital Communications Manager, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
- Saakait Mathur, Brand Director, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
- Seth Freeman, Vice President of integrated Marketing & Media, Bath & Body Works
Lauri Joffe, CMO, American Freight
- Tiffanie Hiibner, Vice President, Integrated Marketing and Brand Advancement, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- Michael Reda, Head of Digital, Design, Insights & eComm, T. Marzetti Company
- Josephine Severe, Senior Brand Manager, PediaSure at Abbott
- Kelly Cahill, VP of Marketing, Shop Premium Outlets, A Simon Digital Marketplace
- Nikia Reveal, SVP, Brand Director, The Huntington National Bank
Marnie Kain, VP Brand Marketing, Grubhub
Blake Williams, Senior Director, Data Strategy, The Shipyard
Registration will be open soon!
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We hope you can make it!
Registration is complimentary and restricted to brand-side marketers only. Space is limited.
Once we reach capacity, a waitlist will be opened.