WHEN
June 16 & 17
2027
WHERE
Lima, Ohio USA
UNOH Event Center
Get Ready to Experience SYNERGY at Social Media Week Lima 2027!
This is more than a conference. It’s a connection point.
The Theme: Synergy your creativity.
Where human connection meets AI innovation.
Where content meets community.
Where strategy meets execution.
Synergy is what happens when everything starts to click.
Why You Can’t Miss It:
Create Real Momentum – Learn relationship marketing strategies that turn attention into trust and trust into business.
Align Your Strategy – Discover how AI, content, and human connection work together to amplify your impact.
Simplify the Noise – No multiple tracks. No overwhelm. Just one shared experience with powerful, keynote-style sessions and roundtables.
Connect with the Right People – Meet business owners, marketers, and creators who are building something meaningful… just like you.
Leave with Clarity – Walk away with ideas you can actually implement and relationships that continue long after the event.
What Makes This Different
At #SMWL27, everything happens together.
- One main stage experience
- Keynote-style sessions and interactive roundtables
- Shared conversations that build deeper connection
Plus, your experience includes:
- Breakfast, lunch, and snacks both days
- Swag bag with event goodies
- Built-in networking opportunities throughout
This Is Your Invitation
Tickets Are Live NOW
Early Bird pricing is available for a limited time.
VIP includes access to the VIP Party and VIP Room where you can connect directly with speakers and sponsors in a more intentional setting.
Once Early Bird pricing is gone… it’s gone.
General Admission: $110
VIP Experience: $130
Meet Our Speakers






Cody Landry is an AI-Powered RevOps Strategist, cybersecurity leader, and 2× SaaS founder and a founding board member of IntegrateAI, a nonprofit dedicated to preparing veterans and transitioning service members for careers in AI. He speaks on RevOps, AI adoption, cybersecurity/compliance, automation, and the systems that connect revenue strategy with operational execution. Cody helps organizations modernize how revenue systems are built, connected, and scaled through AI, automation, and operational infrastructure. Over the past 17 years, he has worked across DoD, Fortune 150, and SMB environments, designing, implementing, securing, and auditing enterprise platforms supporting more than $1 billion in business operations. Cody has individually helped grow multiple companies from 7 to 8 figures annually.

Porsché Mysticque Steele is an award-winning book coach and publishing strategist, and TEDx organizer. For over a decade, she has helped more than 120 authors write, publish, launch, and monetize best-selling books with a 100% success rate. She has been featured in over 15 publications, including Business Insider, NY Weekly, and US Reporter. Her zone of genius is non-fiction book monetization, and her superpower is positioning books for thought leadership. She currently serves as an Associate Publisher for Advantage: The Authority Company, the exclusive publisher for Forbes Books, Entrepreneur Books, and SXSW.

Joanna Sherrow is a Business Growth Architect, author, speaker, and founder of The Growth Gap Company. She helps founder-led businesses turn marketing into measurable revenue by combining strategy, AI, automation, CRM systems, and customer experience into one scalable growth engine.
Joanna is known for simplifying complex marketing and technology into practical frameworks that business owners can implement immediately. She is the creator of the D.A.B.A.O. Framework and author of Closing the Growth Gap, teaching organizations how to bridge the gap between attention and revenue.

Cliff Ravenscraft is a Master Business Strategy & Mindset Coach, mentor, speaker, and longtime pioneer in podcasting and online business.
Since launching his first podcast in 2005, Cliff has produced thousands of episodes, trained more than 40,000 people to launch podcasts of their own, and helped shape the early growth of podcasting as a business and communication medium. His work has expanded far beyond podcasting over the years.
Today, Cliff works with entrepreneurs, creators, and business owners on business strategy, decision-making, mindset, relationships, personal growth, and building meaningful businesses around the work they feel called to create. He is known for helping people gain clarity, make courageous decisions, and move forward with greater intention.

Jennifer Bennett is a Fractional AI Officer for founders who want an executive in the building, not a consultant on the sidelines. She is a third-generation entrepreneur, married since 2007, and mom of two who built her business while her kids played under her desk. Life did not wait for her business plan to be perfect, so she learned to build as she went.
Jennifer spent over 13 years in sales and operations, starting in 2009 while managing her own clients. In 2017, she joined a high-volume brokerage firm and its sister agency run by the same partners and wore both hats from day one. On the firm side, she worked her way up to Executive Officer of Business Strategies at a company that operated across three states with over 300 sales professionals. On the agency side, she helped create ads and coached over 5,000 sales professionals on lead generation, follow-up systems, and processes to maximize conversion.
After years of running at that pace across both companies, Jennifer had outgrown the role. When it became clear there was no seat at the table for the level of ownership she was ready for, she walked away and built her own.
With over 20 years of experience and a track record that includes managing operations for 1.2 million leads per month, Jennifer has seen what happens when systems break at scale and what it takes to design businesses that still work when life gets messy.
She is the founder of Get Desky, home of The Human-Driven AI Integration Method. A four-stage system (Diagnose, Design, Deploy, Drive) that helps founders integrate AI without losing the distinctiveness that makes their business worth scaling. Jennifer is the co-owner with her mom, Darlene Greer, of What’s Happening in Bryan & College Station, the largest and most trusted Facebook community in the Brazos Valley with over 29,000 members, and leads the Work Smarter Inner Circle, a curated network for high-level entrepreneurs who value intentional connection over transactional networking.
Jennifer lives in Aggieland (Bryan / College Station, Texas) with her husband. They are unapologetic Aggie fans even though neither attended A&M.
She does not teach theory. She teaches what she has lived: scaling with clarity, leading with confidence, and building a business that supports your life instead of consuming it. As one client put it, she’s the one in the trenches, blending systems thinking, AI fluency, and heartfelt leadership.
Her thesis is simple. AI will never replace real presence. The future belongs to founders who train AI on what only they carry, not the ones plugging in tools and hoping for the best.
Ready to integrate, not explore.

Known as the Queen of Relationship Marketing, Jessika is on a mission to redefine corporate America and create something she wants to be part of. Jessika founded NOW Marketing Group in 2010 with only a laptop and a vision to give people with heart an upper hand. NOW Marketing Group was recognized as Inc. Best places to work 2022, is a Forbes-recognized Agency Partner, Partnered with Facebook, Google and is a certified inbound partner with Hubspot.
NOW Marketing Group works with more than 100 clients across the United States and beyond, choosing to serve – not sell. Jessika lives by a personal mission of helping inspire people to love more, give more and be more through authentic relating and proving doing what’s right, not what’s easy, can turn a vision into a profitable agency that produces results.
Safe marketing used to feel smart. Today, it’s costing brands attention, trust, and relevance.
In a crowded digital world filled with automation, AI, and perfectly polished content, the brands winning aren’t the loudest. They’re the most human. They show up intentionally, tell real stories, and use video to create connection, not just clicks.
In this session, Jessika Suter explores why traditional, risk-averse marketing is no longer effective and how relationship-first, human-led content has become the new competitive advantage. Attendees will learn what video and social content is actually working right now, how to be more intentional with what they share, and how to stop chasing vanity metrics in favor of building trust, community, and long-term growth.
This is a call to move from broadcasting messages to building meaningful relationships and to finally unleash your brand by showing up as you truly are.

Michael King is an executive coach, keynote speaker, recording artist, and founder of Teams. Coach. He helps leaders become known for the value only they can bring and build teams that deliver on their vision. Combining leadership insight, cinematic storytelling, and live saxophone, Michael creates experiences that challenge audiences to rethink identity, influence, and human value in the age of AI.
Unleashed – A Keynote Experience with Michael King
What happens when you stop holding back? When you silence the doubts, break the patterns, and finally let loose the creativity, influence, and leadership that’s been inside you all along?
Unleashed is more than a keynote—it’s an experience. Michael King, award-winning executive coach, “Architect of Influence,” and professional musician, blends hard-hitting leadership insights with the soul of live music to ignite transformation in the room.
In this session, Michael will take the audience on a journey that fuses rhythm, story, and strategy. With his saxophone in hand and his frameworks in play, he’ll demonstrate what it looks like to break through fear, unleash your voice, and lead with creative clarity.
Expect moments that make you laugh, moments that make you think, and moments that hit you right in the gut. You’ll leave not only inspired, but equipped—with practical tools and a renewed mindset to unleash your potential in business, leadership, and life.
Because when you’re unleashed, you don’t just influence the room—you change the culture.

Hi, I’m George Whitcher—a programmer originally from the South Shore of Massachusetts, now living in the beautiful Lakes Region of New Hampshire since 2019. I’ve been building websites and applications professionally for companies and agencies around the world since 2006. My expertise lies in tackling the challenges that most developers shy away from, such as back-end programming, complex database queries, and server setup and management. Beyond my career, being a father and husband is the most rewarding part of my life, and family is my top priority. When I’m not immersed in coding or family life, you’ll find me pursuing one of my many other passions. I’ve been snowboarding since I was 13, and it remains one of my favorite pastimes. I’m also a musician and composer who has played at various venues across Massachusetts. And yes, I’m a bit of a gamer at heart—I even used to write cheat codes that are still floating around the internet! I proudly embrace the term “nerd” because I dive deep into my interests and work, continually seeking knowledge and honing my skills. Now that you know a bit about me, I’d love to learn more about you! Let’s chat about your project and how I can help bring it to life.
A practical, no-fluff deep dive into modern web development strategies that drive real results. Learn how performance, scalability, and user experience directly impact conversions, and how to engineer all three into every site you build.

Ben Albert is the owner of Balbert Marketing LLC, founder of GrowGetters ONLY, and host of the internationally recognized podcast Real Business Connections. Ben’s mentors, peers, and guests collectively generate billions of views, billions in revenue, and hundreds of millions of followers worldwide. When you learn from Ben, you’re learning from all who have mentored him.
Most people hate networking because it feels awkward, forced, and a little icky. In this session, Ben Albert shares The CAN System, an unconventional content strategy that helps you create content, build relationships, and grow your network all at the same time.
You’ll learn how to get past the cringey parts of self-promotion and networking and ascend to the land of cool, where opportunities, referrals, collaborations, and meaningful relationships happen naturally. Through real-world examples and practical takeaways, you’ll leave with a framework you can start using immediately.

Jeff is a reformed marketer, being regarded as an expert in integrated marketing. A career switch has now allowed Jeff to expand his expertise into the ecommerce & customer success world. You can find Jeff speaking about empathy in a digital world, team leadership, being authentic online as well as sharing his passion for all things Star Trek on his podcast, The Undiscovered Podcast. As a recognized voice in the intersection of technology and humanity, Jeff explores how innovative tools — from AI to emerging platforms — can be leveraged not only to advance business goals but to deepen human connection and meaningful engagement. Find Jeff on his platforms of choice, TikTok and Threads to learn more.

Tyrone Russell is a filmmaker and strategic storyteller, and the co-founder of Ellipses & Ampersand, a strategic storytelling firm based in Columbus, Ohio. After nearly a decade in New Zealand directing short films and shaping documentaries, he returned to the U.S. to bring cinematic thinking into the digital world.
Today, Tyrone helps founders and organizations clarify their message and build story-driven strategies that actually move people. He brings structure to the strategy and a little Strategic Shenanigans to the execution, because joy and momentum beat performative polish every time.
His work explores identity, belonging, and transformation, often through a lens that favors play over posturing and perspective over noise.
Moderator Marc Bowker, with Asha Zayn, Will Smith, Tyrone Russel, and Audree Gerasimchik: How to get started as a small business online the right way.