REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/09/13 -- Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced that company CEO George John will speak at the Citibank Global Internet, Media & Technology Conference, held concurrently with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The panel will be held at 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

News Facts:

• John will join panelists Rajeev Goel, Co-Founder and CEO of PubMatic; Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai; and Jayant Kadambim, CEO of YuMe, to discuss the role of big data and technology in the evolution of the digital advertising industry. The panel will be hosted by Leo Kulp, Advertising Analyst at CitiGroup, and Neil Doshi, Senior Research Analyst at CitiGroup. The panelists will discuss topics such as the automation of display advertising, consolidation in the advertising industry, and how advertisers can leverage big data to improve marketing outcomes.
  
  
• John and other executives from Rocket Fuel have been invited to keynote, speak or moderate more than 40 industry-leading advertising and big data conferences in the past year, including OMMA, iMedia, Federated Media Signal, SMX, GigaOM Structure Data, the JD Power Automotive Marketing Roundtable, FutureM, Advertising Week DC and NY, and the Digiday Data Marketing Summit.
  
  

About Rocket Fuel Inc.:

Rocket Fuel is the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions that transform digital media campaigns into self-optimizing engines that learn and adapt in real-time, and deliver outstanding results from awareness to sales. Awarded #22 on the Forbes Most Promising Companies in America list, over 700 of the world's most successful marketers trust Rocket Fuel to power their advertising across display, video, mobile, and social media. Founded by online advertising veterans and rocket scientists from NASA, DoubleClick, IBM, and Salesforce.com, Rocket Fuel is based in Redwood Shores, California, and has offices in 15 cities worldwide including New York, London, Toronto, and Hamburg.