Meet Your Digital Day Speakers
Meet your Digital Day 2026 Speakers!
We've spent the last several weeks talking about AI agents, content factories, sea-of-sameness problems, YouTube strategies, and image generation workflows. We've covered a lot of ground — and if you've been following along, you're already better prepared for the future of marketing than most people in your industry.
But we've been a little remiss about something.
We've been talking about what you're going to learn at Mission Control: Digital Day on June 18th without properly introducing you to who is going to teach it. And the who, in this case, is genuinely exceptional.
These aren't people who read about AI marketing and built a course. These are practitioners — people who are actively using these tools, building these systems, and advising real businesses right now. They've agreed to spend a day in Wichita sharing what they know with you, and we think that deserves a proper introduction.
So. Pull up a chair. Meet your speakers.
Dennis Yu — BlitzMetrics | Build Your AI Marketing Team: Agents, Content, and the Local Content Factory
If you've been following this blog series, you already know Dennis Yu's name — we've mentioned his Content Factory framework in almost every post because it's that foundational to what Digital Day is about.
Dennis is the CEO of BlitzMetrics, a digital marketing agency that has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, and he's spent the last several years translating the systems those brands use into frameworks that small and mid-sized businesses can actually implement. He's a prolific educator, a sought-after speaker, and one of the most generous sharers of genuinely useful marketing knowledge you'll find anywhere.
His June 18th session will show you how to build an AI-powered marketing team that works around the clock. His June 19th workshop — capped at 100 seats — is where you actually build it. If you've been on the fence about the workshop, reading Dennis's back catalog of content for about twenty minutes will probably get you off it.
Why he matters to you: Whether you're a solo business owner or managing a marketing team, Dennis's framework will change how you think about content production permanently. This isn't theory. People leave his workshops with functioning systems.
Angie Callen — Marketing in the Age of Infinite Content and the Sea of Sameness
Angie Callen is a brand and content strategist whose work centers on a problem that is getting worse by the day: how do you build a brand that actually stands out when everyone has access to the same AI tools producing the same-sounding content?
Her answer isn't "be louder." It's "be clearer." Angie works with businesses to excavate and articulate what is genuinely distinctive about them — the perspective, the voice, the specific combination of expertise and personality that no AI model was trained on because it lives in the heads of the humans running the business — and then build a content strategy that leads with that distinctiveness rather than burying it.
Her session is hands-on, which means you'll actually work through some of her frameworks during the presentation rather than sitting back and taking notes.
Why she matters to you: If your content is consistent but not converting, or present but not resonating, Angie's session is probably the one that will tell you why — and what to do about it.
Brian Piper — Discoverability: AEO, GEO, AO — Make Your Content Visible
Brian Piper is one of the sharpest minds working on the intersection of content strategy and digital discoverability — which, in 2026, means he spends a lot of time thinking about how content gets found not just on Google, but across the growing ecosystem of AI-powered search tools that are changing how people look for information and businesses.
We dedicated an entire post to the concepts Brian covers — AEO, GEO, and Answer Optimization — because the shift happening in search right now is that significant. Brian's session will take those concepts from the theoretical to the tactical. Expect to leave with a clear framework for auditing your current content and a practical roadmap for making it more discoverable across every platform that matters.
Why he matters to you: If your SEO strategy hasn't been updated in the last eighteen months, you're optimizing for a version of search that's already changing. Brian's session is the update you need.
Jeff Sieh — AI-Powered Image Creation: Create Professional Visuals in Minutes
Jeff Sieh is a visual content strategist and educator who has been helping marketers navigate the rapidly evolving world of visual storytelling for years. He was an early adopter of AI image generation tools and has spent considerable time figuring out not just which tools are worth using, but how to use them in ways that produce genuinely professional, brand-appropriate results — which, as we talked about last week, is a skill set that goes well beyond knowing which apps to open.
His session is one of the most immediately tangible at Digital Day. You will make things. You will probably make things that surprise you. And you will leave with enough practical technique to change how you approach visual content for your business going forward.
Why he matters to you: If you've tried AI image tools and been underwhelmed, or if you haven't tried them yet because you're not sure where to start, Jeff's session is your entry point to doing this well rather than just doing it.
Scott Simson — The "Netflix" Strategy: How to Get Views That Convert Into Clients With YouTube
Scott Simson is a YouTube and video strategy specialist who has been helping businesses crack the code on video content that actually drives revenue — not just views. His Netflix Strategy framework, which we previewed two weeks ago in this series, reframes YouTube entirely: from a broadcasting platform you have to be entertaining enough to compete on, to a search engine you can win by being specific, consistent, and genuinely useful.
Scott has worked with businesses across a range of industries to build YouTube presences that generate qualified leads on autopilot — and his session at Digital Day will give you the strategic foundation and the practical next steps to start doing the same for yours.
Why he matters to you: If YouTube has been on your "I should really figure this out" list for more than a year, Scott's session is where that list item finally gets done.
Mike Allton — Business Use Cases for AI
Mike Allton is a marketing strategist, author, and Head of Strategic Partnerships at Agorapulse who has become one of the most trusted voices in the marketing industry on the practical, real-world application of AI tools for business. He's not an AI evangelist who thinks everything is going to be disrupted by robots — he's a pragmatist who has tested a lot of tools, used them in real business contexts, and developed a clear-eyed view of what actually works and what's still more hype than substance.
His session will cover the AI business use cases that are delivering real ROI right now — the ones worth your time and budget, and the ones worth waiting on.
Why he matters to you: If you want a no-nonsense guide to where AI actually fits in a real marketing operation, Mike is your guy. Think of his session as the practical roadmap that connects everything else at Digital Day.
Mandy McEwen — Content and AI
Mandy McEwen is the founder of Mod Girl Marketing and one of the most recognized names in LinkedIn marketing and B2B content strategy. She's been integrating AI into her content workflows since the earliest days of these tools being available to marketers, and she has a practitioner's perspective on what the combination of great content strategy and smart AI use actually looks like in day-to-day practice.
Her session focuses specifically on how AI fits into a content operation — not just as a writing shortcut, but as a strategic tool for research, ideation, distribution, and performance analysis.
Why she matters to you: If you're in B2B marketing or professional services, Mandy's session will feel like it was designed specifically for you. Her frameworks translate directly to the kind of high-trust, relationship-driven marketing that works in those environments.
Luis Rodriguez — The Current and Future Environment for AI and Work
Luis Rodriguez brings a big-picture perspective to Digital Day that the other sessions build on — a grounded, research-informed look at where AI and work intersect right now, and where they're heading. His session sets the context for everything else: not panic, not hype, but an honest assessment of what is actually changing in the professional landscape and what it means for the businesses and marketers in the room.
Why he matters to you: If you've been trying to figure out how to explain AI adoption to your team, your boss, or your clients — or if you just want a clear-eyed framing of the moment we're in — Luis's session will give you the language and the perspective you've been looking for.
Michael King — Staying Human in an AI-Driven World
We saved Michael King for last not because his session is an afterthought — quite the opposite. Michael's session might be the most important one at Digital Day, precisely because it addresses the question that sits underneath everything else we'll cover on June 18th.
As AI gets better at doing more things, what is the human role in marketing? What do we protect? What do we lean into? What does it mean to build a brand that is genuinely, meaningfully human in a landscape where AI can produce content, answer questions, generate visuals, and manage campaigns at a scale no human team can match?
Michael is a speaker, strategist, and writer who thinks deeply about authenticity, identity, and what technology does to the human experience of work and connection. His session will close out Digital Day with the kind of grounding perspective that makes everything you learned that day feel purposeful rather than just tactical.
Why he matters to you: Because knowing how to use AI tools is only half the equation. Knowing why you're using them — and what you're preserving in the process — is the other half. Michael's the one who helps you figure that out.
One Event. Nine Exceptional Humans. One Day in Wichita.
That's your lineup for Mission Control: Digital Day 2026. Nine speakers who are actively working at the edges of where marketing is going, gathered in one room on June 18th for one reason: to help you catch up, level up, and move forward with confidence.
For eleven years, Digital Wichita has been bringing the best marketing minds we can find to Wichita — because this community deserves access to the same caliber of education that marketers in New York and San Francisco take for granted. This year's lineup is the best we've ever assembled. We're proud of it, and we think you're going to love it.
Grab your tickets to Mission Control: Digital Day here. The Summit is June 18th at WSU Tech's NCAT Campus. The AI Agent Workshop with Dennis Yu is June 19th at Groover Labs — 100 seats, and we're getting close.
Next week: Your Complete Guide to Digital Day 2026: Every Session, Explained in Plain English — your cheat sheet for what to attend, what to expect, and how to get the most out of every hour of the day.
