Speaker Lineup

Bob Gold

President
Bob Gold & Associates

Bob Gold founded and leads Bob Gold & Associates, one of the premiere communications public relations agencies specializing in Technology, Media and Telecom.  In 2025 PRSA named the agency Best In The West, in an 11 Western states review. 2019 Public Relations Society (PRSA) Los Angeles named him Communications Professional of the Year. And the agency was named by Forbes as one of the country’s best PR Agencies in 2021, with a 5-star rating.

The agency, founded 28 years ago, has helped launch more than a dozen companies, re-branded many others, and created successful campaigns for numerous start-ups and Fortune 500 brands. He has also helped raise millions of dollars for charities, taught hundreds of students and helped further strategic business plans for numerous businesses and associations. 

Gold is the author of the popular children’s picture book, The Shiny Penny, and a collection of poems, Words to Lift By.  Gold holds many honors including being inducted into the Cable TV Pioneers along with Comcast’s Brian Roberts, CNN’s Ted Turner and other notables, and is featured in an oral history in the Cable Center’s Barco Library. 

He holds a master’s degree in communications management from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California, where he led the Alumni Board of Directors for a decade. He serves on the Advisory Board for the Syndeo Institute at the Cable Center. 

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