Gravity Summit Announces Event at MITX’S FutureM Boston on September 12, 2011

“The Future of Real-Time Social Media” To Bring Together Top Names in Marketing, Media and Technology at the Historic Harvard University Faculty Club

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - Gravity Summit(tm), the premier real-time social media event, returns to the Boston area on Monday, September 12, 2011 at the exclusive Harvard University Faculty Club to officially kick off the five-day long FutureM week held throughout Greater Boston. The Gravity Summit event will bring focus to the importance of global real-time social media and how it is impacting business today and in the future.

FutureM is the brainchild of the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX), the nation’s largest nonprofit trade association for the digital marketing, media and technology industry. It is a community driven, multi-location event experience over the course of a week, offering participants the opportunity to tap into the freshest thinkers in marketing, media and technology and spotlighting the Greater Boston region as a leader in this arena.

“We’re delighted to announce that Gravity Summit joins MediaPost, Hubspot, and Inbound Marketing Summit as a premier anchor event for this year’s FutureM week,” said Debi Kleiman, President of MITX. “Social media marketing is critical to business today, and Gravity Summit has built a unique brand around sharing the latest best practices with others through compelling speakers, insights, trends and case studies.”

Gravity Summit, headed by Beverly Macy, co-author of “The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing”, is known as the 'gold standard' in social media marketing events. Gravity Summit events bridge the gap between real-time social media tools and the business community. Its prestigious list of previous speakers and sponsors has included hip hop legend and Twitter star MC Hammer, Billy Bush of Access Hollywood, some of the biggest companies and brands in the world including Facebook, Dell, Sony, Yahoo!, Sprint, Mazda, Mashable, Y&R Brands, CNN, Cisco, TurboTax, LinkedIn, City National Bank, Domino’s Pizza, Visible Technologies and many more.

This event will sell out. Registration begins June 15. You can make reservations now by emailing beverlymacy@gmail.com. Put GRAVSUM Reservations in the Subject Line.

Please call 310-860-4788 for information on sponsorship opportunities. For more information about FutureM, visit http://www.futurem.org.

About MITX
Established in 1996, MITX -- the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange -- is the leading industry organization focused on the web and mobile, bringing together the digital marketing, media and technology community to engage in what’s next and how it will impact the marketing and business worlds. Connecting more than 7,500 professionals in New England, MITX is a dynamic community of thought leaders and collaborators in search of insight, education and opportunity. Creator of FutureM, MITX is located in Cambridge MA. For more information, visit http://www.mitx.org/.