The Walking Dead’s Gale Anne Hurd Named Keynote Speaker For BlogHer Conference

BlogHer, Inc. has announced that The Walking Dead’s Gale Anne Hurd will be a featured keynote speaker at their 2013 BlogHer conference in Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, July 27, 2013. In addition to serving as a producer on The Walking Dead, Gale Anne Hurd has had a long and successful career in film and television. Last year, Comicbook.com interviewed Gale Anne Hurd about some of her comic book related projects.According to BlogHer, their 9th annual conference will host around 5,000 attendees in the largest gathering of influential online women, major brand name sponsors and top national media. Gale Anne Hurd is scheduled to talk about “sustaining creativity and innovation for the long-term, and what it has taken to succeed in the highly competitive (and male-dominated) environment of action entertainment.””Gale Anne Hurd is a trailblazer, creative powerhouse, business-savvy head of her own production company, and dedicated user of social media to connect with her shows’ fans,” said Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer co-founder and COO. “Her experience and vision should resonate deeply with BlogHer’s community of creative, entrepreneurial women at the forefront of social media.””As an avid supporter of women in the media, I am honored to be part of this year’s BlogHer Convention, the world’s largest conference for women in social media,” said Hurd. “I look forward to sharing my career with these amazing women and, in turn, learning something from them.”BlogHer ’13 takes place from July 25th to July 27th at the Sheraton Chicago and McCormick Place, Chicago, IL.