Here’s what some of those in attendance were saying via Twitter.

Daily Deal Media is pleased to announce that OneBigPlanet Corp. will be joining the conference as a Gold Sponsor.

OneBigPlanet Corp. is the Intelligent Offer Network providing publishers and developers the ability to monetize their audience with relevant local and national offers. With their proven affiliate tracking technology, they provide access to a vast database of commissionable daily deals and national offers that can be tracked from multiple sources in a single system. OneBigPlanet’s belief is that successful conversion lies in both having quality offers and consumer relevance based on context, time, interests and medium. TheOneBigPlanet database sits on an Offer Relevance Engine that enhances the data available for each offer in order to match it with the right consumer. Whether you’re an online publisher or a mobile developer, OneBigPlanet provides a full suite publishing tools ranging from APIs to customizable widgets, e-mails and deal sites. What sets OneBigPlanet apart is their dedication to creating strategies on a per client basis to ensure optimal revenue potential.

OneBigPlanet is located in New York City and offers its full range of services, expert knowledge and tailored consumer savings solutions to companies across the U.S. and Canada.

Daily Deal Media is pleased to announce that Dealgecco will be joining the conference as a Silver Sponsor.

Dealgecco supports Daily Deal companies around the world to source great deals – the main success factor in this industry.

Our team started as part of Rebate Networks and gathered deep hands-on experience in sourcing international deals for Rebate Networks’ portfolio companies in Asia, Europe and South America. Building on these initial successes, the newly founded Dealgecco now offers its platform and services to selected Daily Deal companies that want to boost their revenues.

Dealgecco team members attending the conference include Antonia, founder and CEO, Monica, Business Development Director and Denis, Account Manager.

Daily Deal Media is pleased to announce Chuck DelGrande, Senior Managing Director, McGladrey Capital Markets LLC as closing keynote speaker for the Daily Deal Media Conference. Chuck will also be joining the Venture Capital Panel on day two of the event.

Chuck has over 25 years of investment banking and media industry experience, including venturing, investment and business development. He has managed both sell-side and private placement engagements, completed special committee work for boards, and has led or co-led strategic investments for growing companies. Chuck joined McGladrey Capital Markets in December of 2010 and is based with the firm’s Chicago office.

Prior to joining McGladrey Capital Markets, Chuck was a managing director at San Francisco-based Presidio Merchant Partners, and prior to that a Senior Vice President for Dimension Data, a global technology services firm. Before joining Dimension Data, he spent more than 15 years at the Chicago Tribune, Tribune Company, and related media company joint ventures.

Chuck received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and received his master’s degree in business administration from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

McGladrey Capital Markets LLC (www.mcgladreycm.com) is a global provider of investment banking services dedicated to serving the needs of owners, shareholders and managers of privately owned midsized businesses and mid-cap public companies, bringing together companies, capital and creativity on a national and international scale to help clients achieve their personal and strategic objectives.

Daily Deal Media is pleased to announce Medio Systems as a sponsor for the upcoming Daily Deal Media Conference.  Chairman, CTO Brian Lent will be taking part in the conference as part of the Mobile Solutions panel on day two.

Medio Systems is the leading provider of predictive analytics in the mobile industry, as evidenced by the 4 billion+ content and app recommendations they have provided across carrier portals and storefronts, as well as their recent partnership with Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds.  Medio will collect data on Rovio’s 300 million downloads to form profiles and make real-time predictions about what kind of content or offers a user will respond to.  Medio is now applying their analytics and personalization technology to the deals and offers space – they recently launched a beta mobile application called Lotza (www.lotza.com) that uses Medio’s analytics service to present targeted deals to consumers based on their interests and location. Lotza also provides a unique value-add by allowing users to keep track of all their purchased deals in one place.

Brian Lent co-founded Medio Systems in 2004, after previous stints with Intelligent Results and Amazon, where he helped pioneer the Amazon recommendations technology. Prior to Amazon, Brian was at Junglee, where he worked on new internet database technologies that helped create the internet’s first comparison shopping engine. Brian studied in the PhD program at Stanford University where he co-founded MIDAS (Mining Data at Stanford), the lab that incubated the Google crawler and search engine.

Contactology will be joining us at the Daily Deal Media Conference as an exhibitor and Will Elliot will be speaking in our new panel titled “Email Engagement Strategies” on Day II.

The new panel will focus on Measuring & Increasing Subscriber Engagement and will be held on September 9th at 1:00pm.  We will be adding three more speakers to this panel this week, experts who can help you get the most out of your subscriber base.

Will Elliot is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Contactology, and is responsible for identifying growth potentials for publishers and daily deal websites.

Contactology is an email marketing software provider located in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 2002, Contactology offers powerful email marketing software for companies, nonprofits and individuals who are using email marketing to grow and sustain their visions.

“We dedicate ourselves to providing our users with cutting edge email marketing and web technologies that maximize ROI. We’re more than a product – we’re a service. We understand the importance of stellar customer service, and that’s what every account receives regardless of size.” – Contactology

Gary Lipovetsky, President and Co-Founder of Dealfind

Daily Deal Media would like to welcome Dealfind as Title Sponsor for the conference.

Launched in May, 2010 and entering the U.S. market earlier this year, Canadian-based Dealfind has experienced phenomenal growth, making its way to becoming a leading player in the North American daily deal industry and the largest daily deal site in Canada. The site has expanded rapidly, reaching 45 major markets across North America and its database of subscribers has grown by 760% in just the last six months. The company has sold over 1,166,000 vouchers and saved consumers more than $238 million dollars.

Building upon the explosive momentum of the past six months, Dealfind is slated for aggressive expansion in Canada and the US, with the goal to be in over 100 cities in North America by the end of 2011.

Gary Lipovetsky, President and Dealfind Co-Founder

One of Dealfind.com’s founders, Gary Lipovetsky began his career in computer retail sales, quickly moving to corporate sales providing Canada Life Assurance with their hardware and networking solutions. Having a strong interest in the world of new media, he made a career change that found him selling internet ads to career colleges, private schools and universities across Canada. Leveraging his experience in online media sales, Gary, along with long-time friend MikeTulman, co-founded MenuPalace.com in 1999. Following the success of MenuPalace, Gary and Mike leveraged their knowledge of the service industry and co-foundedDealfind in 2010. Gary has over 11 years of marketing, sales, management, data analysis, and operations experience. Graduating in 1996, Gary holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Western Ontario.

Michael Tulman, CEO and Dealfind Co-Founder

Before co-founding Dealfind.com in 2010, Mike Tulman started his career at KPMG where he worked as an Economic Consultant for a number of Fortune 500 companies. In 1999, Mike co-founded MenuPalace.com, an online directory for the hospitality and foodservice industry. Mike has 11 years of direct sales and management to go with 8 years of Internet traffic acquisition experience. Mike holds a B.A. in Statistics and Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, and an M.B.A. from McMaster University.

Adility will be joining the Daily Deal Media Conference as a Gold Sponsor with Thomas Cornelius as speaker.

Thomas will be addressing the emerging dynamics in online to offline commerce with new innovative technologies from card networks, payment processors, merchant agencies and online publishers.

Adility provides cloud services for merchants, brands and retailers for controlled online to offline commerce transactions.

Adility’s offers gateway fast tracks integration for partners with an install base of merchants to connect these merchants to the Adility cloud service.

Online publishers turn online search and discovery via the Adility cloud into offline commerce transactions that are monetized by the publisher.

Thomas Cornelius has recently founded Adility to enable online to offline commerce, where he also serves as its CEO. Thomas led Adility to jump start offer programs for clients such as Google, AOL and CBS Interactive as well as hundreds of developers utilizing the Adility APIs.

Before starting Adility, Thomas was EVP at QS Holdings where he co-founded amongst other projects a franchise business that helped SMBs with local customer acquisition. At QS he led all digital initiatives for a local offer sales division with 350 sales offices and over 5000 sales representatives and he developed the first distribution program of local SMB offers nationwide in retail stores.

Prior, Thomas founded addashop and served as its CEO. The company received recognition as a market leader for ecommerce innovation, developing the first WAP platform for mobile commerce, and emerged as a leader and innovator in contextual commerce working with customers in high tech such as Logitech, in retail such as Sunglass Hut and with distribution companies like Ingram.

Thomas lives with his family in San Francisco.

Kenneth F. Douglas, Executive Vice President, Adility

Launched GratisCard/Revolution Money, seed funding by Steve Case and Ted Leonsis, in 2006 increasing the merchant acceptance from 300 to over 700,000 locations and over 300,000 members/card holder.  Responsible for negotiating, integrating, launching and managing all merchant acquirer/process relationships.  Most recently, recruited by lead investor at Twitpay (TomorrowVentures and CompuCredit Holding), negotiate strategic partnership and launch platform.

Brian PlackisCheng, President/ COO, Adility

At MCI, Brian managed Technology Planning for the $1 billion IT division deploying distributed systems, converting SNA networks to IP, and launched first enterprise wide Internet messaging to a Fortune 500 in 1995.  As General Manager, Brian managed the Americas and European business of Software.com through IPO and $6.8B exit.  As a founding investor and C level executive for BlueCasa Brian built an automated business platform that supported $50M of revenue and raised more than $60M in equity and debt financing.

DDM Staff