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Frances Wong

2025 Speaker

Remarks | Director, Marketing & Communications, Visit San Jose

Host | The Aligned Mindset: How High-Achieving Women Navigate Workplace Challenges

FRANCES WONG is the director of marketing, communications and global media relations for Visit San Jose. Wong is responsible for leading earned media efforts and owned content strategy to position San Jose as a world-class destination for leisure, business, and group travel. Wong brings with her 20 years of marketing and communications experience. Before representing Visit San Jose, she previously managed Visit Oakland’s PR strategy and community relations, helping launch several tourism products and annual activations for the destination. Before her career in travel, Wong worked in Bay Area television producing a weekly talk show and served as a station liaison with the Bay Area business, arts and non-profit community. Wong is currently active on committees supporting Visit California Communications and Cal Travel Sustainability. Wong was formerly a board member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) national Travel and Tourism chapter and was the director of events for PRSA San Francisco. She has also served as a voting judge for the regional Emmys in the Midwest and East Coast markets. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Wong holds a simultaneous BA in mass communications and legal studies from U.C. Berkeley.

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