IT’S AN ACADEMY, NOT A CONFERENCE
The SoDA Academy is a two-day, invitation-only learning conference exclusively for practice leaders from the best digital agencies, production companies, design studios, integrated agencies and consultancies around the world. Based on a model of radical peer-collaboration, transparency and shared learning, The SoDA Academy is designed to dig deeply into the issues, challenges and opportunities you face as a leader, manager and practitioner.
Sessions
The SoDA Academy is structured around 9 discipline-centric tracks enabling attendees to engage in open and frank discussions around the most pressing challenges, unmet needs and emerging opportunities faced in their roles. Day 2 offers a mix of interdisciplinary sessions and a unique opportunity to continue small-group peer discussions across all tracks.
Click on the icons below to learn more about the tracks or click here to see the preliminary event agenda.
Faculty Leaders
Sessions are facilitated by senior leaders with deep expertise in each discipline. In most cases, the Faculty Leaders are founders, partners and C-level executives with dual responsibilities for a specific team within the agency and the overall success of their business.
More Faculty Leads to be announced soon.
2020 Faculty Gallery
Reactions from the 2018 SoDA Academy
“Extraordinarily enriching.”
“Great people, programs and venue. I walked away feeling inspired, buzzing with ideas.”
“Amazing and inspiring two days.”
“There is truly nothing like the SoDA Academy.”
Request an Invite
In order to ensure the highest degree of relevance and peer-based knowledge exchange, attendees must apply to attend The SoDA Academy. Each track accepts up to 30 attendees… typically senior-level practitioners with some team management responsibility for their discipline. But don’t worry, the application process is simple, and we’ll get back to very quickly with the track that’s most suited for you.
SoDA Member (individual): $1,099
SoDA Member (group): $899 each with 3+ attendees
Standard (individual): $1,299
Standard (group): $1,099 each with 3+ attedees
VENUE
The 2020 SoDA Academy will be hosted at the Museum of the Moving Image in Long Island City and we’ve got a block of rooms for out-of-town guests at The Paper Factory Hotel.
A Global Gathering of the Best
The SoDA Academy brings together 250+ leaders from some of the best digital agencies, production companies, design studios, integrated agencies and consultancies in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Big Spaceship, MediaMonks, Stink Studios, Instrument, Work & Co, Hello Monday, HUSH, Firstborn, ueno, Resn, BASIC, Rokkan and Pereira & O’Dell were just a few of the incredible agencies represented at the 2018 event.
In Partnership with FITC
We’re thrilled to partner with our friends at FITC to make the 2020 Academy our best one yet. SoDA’s proven approach to collaboration paired with FITC’s excellence in running some of the industry’s most well-regarded events, will create an incredible environment of applied instruction, active learning and peer-based knowledge exchange.
