ILM West is shaping up to be one of our biggest and best local events ever. There is so much going on.

We’ve already announced some key people, like our opening keynote, Bob Pittman, CEO, Clear Channel; Zorik Gordon, CEO, ReachLocal; Kara Swisher, co-editor, AllThings D; Clark Gilbert, CEO, Deseret Media; John Paton, CEO, Digital First, MediaNews Group and Journal Review; Larry Illg, who runs eBay Classifieds in the U.S.; Mark Britton, CEO, Avvo; David Sharman, CSO, Dex One; and Mike Rothman, VP, Thrillist.

In the past couple of weeks, we’ve added lots of industry leaders — many of whom should be familiar newsmakers and thought leaders for regular readers of this blog.

We’ll be announcing another update in a bit, but new adds that have been confirmed include (in alpha):

Matthew Berk, EVP, Marchex
Pete Christothoulou, COO, Marchex
Court Cunningham, CEO, Yodle
Dean DeBiase, CEO, Entertainment.com
Pete Flint, CEO, Trulia
Craig Hagopian, CMO, XAd
Gillian Heltai, Senior Director, ComScore
Dan Hess, CEO, Local Offer Network
Tom Higley, CEO, Local Matters
Matt Maloney, CEO, GrubHub
Sivan Metzger, GM, Kenshoo Local
Dick O’Hare, CEO, Local Yokel
Mok Oh, Chief Scientist, PayPal
Andrew Osis, CEO, Poynt
Todd Rowe, Head of Global Sales, Google
Craig Smith, President, ServiceMagic
Sherry Thomas Zon, VP, Shopping, Local.com
Michael Yang, Managing Director, Comcast Ventures
Marco Zappacosta, CEO, Thumbtack

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