#OMR24 in Hamburg - one week later, what did I take away? A lot, because I was able to listen to so many inspiring people like Britta Behrens 💡 on conference stages or exchange ideas with them at the Bitkom side event in the FC St. Pauli von 1910 e.V. football stadium (Jenny Gruner, Marianne Stroehmann, Karin Libowitzky, Tobias Kellner, Marc Opelt and many more).
Professional insights:
🔹 It's all about data and the IT systems have to work (and be accepted by users), otherwise there will be no targeted and effective customer approach, customer acquisition and increase in sales and profitability.
🔹 Marketing, like IT, is under pressure in companies. CEOs perceive it as a cost centre and do not trust it to play the role of a driver of growth or even innovation.
🔹 The alignment between marketing and IT is a huge issue and the crucial sticking point as to whether the thing will fly. The situation is similar when it comes to AI empowerment in the organisation.
🔹 Success on LinkedIn, whether with a corporate account or a personal profile, is based on authenticity and well-researched content. Business influencers and thought leaders are becoming increasingly important in order to attract the attention of decision-makers and the C-level.
🔹 AI also influences purchasing decisions in B-to-B, for example for software solutions or IT services. With this trend in mind, it is important to look at where GPT obtains its data from and what relevance it ascribes to the individual sources: 82% public web, 13% digital books, 1% Wikipedia, 4% Reddit.
Reddit, Inc. is a social news aggregator on which registered users can post and offer content. GPT rates the relevance of Reddit content at 20 per cent.
According to OMR editor-in-chief Roland Eisenbrand, we should ask ourselves whether our company already exists on Reddit? If not, how can we ensure that we are mentioned there...
My personal learning:
🔸 To get the most out of such large events with 70,000 people, you need a lot of chutzpah, resilience and experience. Otherwise everything can quickly become too much: too many people, too much content, too many stimuli, too much noise.
🔸 The days in Hamburg didn't stress me out, 15 years at the CeBIT computer trade fair, 7 days packed with moderating panel discussions, interviews at the trade fair stands and writing for the trade fair newspaper steeled me.
🔸 Sometimes it's only in retrospect that you realise what really got you ahead in life. For me, it was CeBIT, in many ways: physical resilience, moderation, getting to C-level, up-to-date reporting.
🔸 It's also the biggest source of dopamine for me to meet new people, exchange ideas with them and learn something new. OMR satisfied my curiosity and thirst for knowledge in the best possible way.
Many thanks to Felix Frank from Bitkom for the invitation and to the whole OMR-team for this really great festival.
Managing Director at Advance Media | IAA Thought Leadership Committee
2moThanks for a tremendous conference! So well organised and with so much engagement in the awesome topics! Gorgeous people too #valuemedia