BOLD Summit Adds to Speaker Roster

August 13, 2014  by in Designer Weekly   

Hosted by Julia Molloy, founder of Molloy Management Group, the summit will be held at the Wynn Hotel Aug. 28-29.

Architect Richard Landry and a number of editors from national consumer home and industry-related trade publications will fill the schedule.

Landry, owner and founder of Los Angeles-based Landry Design Group, will be a keynote speaker at the 2014 BOLD Summit. His presentation will focus on nurturing designers’ passions while building thriving businesses. Landry will share educational insights for personal business growth and development from start-up to present-day. 

Landry has designed homes for celebrities such as Eddie Murphy, Mark Wahlberg and Wayne Gretzky. His keynote presentation will take place Thursday, Aug. 28.

The summit will also feature a media panel dedicated to insight for designers, architects and design-build professionals regarding how to generate brand awareness through strategic public relations and social media campaigns. Panelists to date include Amy Elbert, senior architecture editor for Traditional Home; Michela O’Connor Abrams, president at Dwell magazine; Lori Bryan, editor for Robb Report Home & Style; and Katie Kervin, managing editor of Hospitality Design. 

The panel will be moderated by Don Eberly and Jeff Collard, co-partners for BOLD Summit and co-owners of Eberly & Collard Public Relations. The session “How to Serve as a Strategic Editorial Resource - Building Relationships with the Media,” will take place Friday, Aug. 29.

The summit is designed to provide interior designers, architects, design-build professionals, landscape designers and architects, and other luxury design service-providers with resourceful information and networking opportunities to powerfully align their strategic development and company positioning in the luxury marketplace.