General

DFC: General — Dallas 2017

Aug 23, 2017 7:00 PM · The Granada Theater · Dallas, TX

Back for our second year, we bring you Digital Fight Club: on Wednesday, August 23rd at 7 PM at the historic Granada Theater. Ten of the sharpest wits in North Texas will spar in five “fights” ranging in topics, selected from this year's Accenture Interactive Trends Book.

RSVP
August 23, 2017

The Fight Format

  • Each fight runs ~10 minutes
  • Opening arguments: 45 secs each
  • Rebuttal rounds: 15 secs each (6–8 rounds)
  • Refs call fouls (buzzer) anytime — 15 sec response each
  • Audience votes to decide the winner

Event Timeline

Sponsors

The companies backing this fight — and all the decision-makers in the room. Want in on the action? Reach out below.

Fights

Defending your ideas in front of a crowd of your peers. Educational and entertaining at the same time.

Driverless Cars

Mark Haider
CEO, Vinli
  • Dialexa co-founder
  • Commercial pilot
  • Tommy Titan

VS
Mike Courtney
VP, Design + Planning, AECOM
  • Futurist
  • Recovering consultant
  • SUNY dude

Digital On-Demand Workforces

Nick Clark
  • Former real estate dude
  • Tri guy
  • Pony Up!

VS
Stephen Huerta
CEO, Workify
  • Recovering consultant
  • Former Goldman guy
  • Longhorn

Digital Storytelling

Urvashi Pitre
Pesident, Tasseologic
  • Marketing analytics guru
  • Former agency wonk
  • Fear the Frog

VS
Shon Rathbone
  • Publicis vet
  • Agency wonk
  • Spartan

Smart Homes

Stuart Sikes
  • IoT before it was IoT
  • Former marketer
  • Commodore

VS
Dan Pidgeon
  • CEO, Starpower
  • Loves the high end
  • Longhorn

Artificial Intelligence

Dave Copps
  • Semantic genius
  • Actual serial founder
  • Big Green

VS
Raju Kattumenu
  • Former Pepsi techie
  • Lover of data
  • Former telecom engineer

Referees

They don't judge the debate — they call fouls. The audience decides the winner. All referees below officiate every fight at this event.

Gurmeet Singh

  • Product engineer
  • Former consultant
  • Owl PhD

Arnessa Garrett

Business Editor, Dallas Morning News
  • Long time journalist
  • Times-Picayune
  • Green Wave

Mark Cuban

  • Entrpreneur
  • Mavs fan
  • Hoosier

Mo Katibeh

CMO, AT&T Business, AT&T
  • Enterprise marketing vet
  • Telecom guru
  • Cowboy

Watch

Event videos here and fight videos on the fight pages

Photos

Mayhem captured for posterity

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