Mary Ann Pierce is founder and CEO of MAP Digital, a global event agency. For 20 years she has produced conferences on MAP Digital’s MetaMeetings, an enterprise SaaS platform specializing in financial services, healthcare, media, and social good conferences. The MAP Digital team is enabling the Event 3.0 era by connecting with other platforms to provide an engaging and seamless experience for attendees and organizers and transforming conferences into content marketing and data analytic engines using AI and ML.

MetaMeetings has powered our Social Good Conferences: the Equality Moonshot and Global Green Inclusive Innovation Summit at the UN and Global Summit of Women and Capital as a Force for Good. Mary Ann is the Global Ambassador to the Irish Diaspora for the AwakenHub, the only all-Ireland woman founder community and accelerator, and AwakenAngels, democratizing investment with women funding women entrepreneurs.

She was a “Meetings Today” Trendsetter 2020 and “Meetings & Conventions” magazine named her one of the Top 25 Women. She hails from the four provinces of Ireland with ancestors from Tipperary, Leitrim, Cavan, and Cork and is an Irish citizen.