
DALLAS • 08.23.17
For the fourth year in a row, 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 Accenture Interactive Trends Book.
- Fight 1: Driverless Cars
- Fight 2: Digital On-Demand Workforces
- Fight 3: Digital Storytelling
- Fight 4: Smart Homes
- Fight 5: Artificial Intelligence
The audience and Refs will vote for a winner with our own Digital Fight Club app. Mayhem, indeed!
Watch each of the 2017 fights on YouTube or check out the trailer below.
Not sure what a Digital Fight Club is?
Watch Mark Cuban referee the AI fight.

Fight 1
Driverless Cars

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

Mike Courtney
Mike Courtney
VP, Design + Planning, AECOM
- Futurist
- Recovering consultant
- SUNY dude
Fight 2
Digital On-Demand Workforces

Nick Clark
Nick Clark
CEO, Common Desk
- Former real estate dude
- Tri guy
- Pony Up!

Stephen Huerta
Stephen Huerta
CEO, Workify
- Recovering consultant
- Former Goldman guy
- Longhorn
Fight 3
Digital Storytelling

Urvashi Pitre
Urvashi Pitre
President, Tasseologic
- Marketing analytics guru
- Former agency wonk
- Fear the Frog

Shon Rathbone
Shon Rathbone
Founder, 3Headed Monster
- Publicis vet
- Agency wonk
- Spartan
Fight 4
Smart Homes

Stuart Sikes
Stuart Sikes
SVP, People Power
- IoT before it was IoT
- Former marketer
- Commodore

Dan Pidgeon
Dan Pidgeon
CEO, Starpower
- CTA chairman
- Loves the high end
- Longhorn
Fight 5
Artificial Intelligence

Dave Copps
Dave Copps
CEO, Brainspace
- Semantic genius
- Actual serial founder
- Big Green

Raju Kattumenu
Raju Kattumenu
CEO, Oculus 360
- Former Pepsi techie
- Lover of data
- Former telecom engineer
Referees

MD, Accenture
- Seasoned marketing/product veteran
- SaaS pioneer
- Serial CMO
CDO, 7-Eleven
- Product engineer
- Former consultant
- Owl PhD


Business Editor, DMN
- Long time journalist
- Times-Picayune
- Green Wave
Owner, Many things
- Entrpreneur
- Mavs fan
- Hoosier


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