Dom is group director of strategy at adam&eveDDB (London) Agency of the Year in Campaign 2014 & 2015, Ad Age 2015, Cannes 2014, Fast Company’s Top 10 most innovative companies in Marketing and current IPA Effectiveness Grand Prix Winner.

Who are perhaps best known as ‘the people who do John Lewis’.

Dom leads strategy across a range of clients including John Lewis partnership, Volkswagen, Aviva and Mulberry and has produced a wide spectrum of creative work including algrorithmically synchronized digital experiences (Volkswagen’s ‘Play The Road’), digital content (Mulberry ‘winxmas’) and some classic film (Volkswagen Value & Film Sponsorship, The Economist).

He is current Chair of the Account Planning & Strategy Group (APG); is a judge on IPA Excellence Diploma, WARC Social Strategy, Effies and APG Strategy Awards; has won multiple awards including Cannes Lions, Clios, D&AD, Eurobest, Campaign Big, Epica, British Arrows, MOMA, Webby, Creative Circle and 5 IPA Effectiveness awards; and was voted as ‘awesome’ in an international survey of strategists.

He counts DJing and raising two young kids as a continuous work in progress.

Markus Kramer specializes in helping brands and businesses grow stronger. He advises Boards, Executives and Operational Teams as well as Private Equity and Growth Funds on all aspects of strategic positioning and brand management.
In his most recent undertakings Markus helped Aston Martin and Harley-­Davidson build, scale and deliver their fascinating brands to more people in more places around the world. Other work includes many years of brand-­, marketing-­ and retail development at numerous other marques, including institutional asset managers, fintech-­startups, consulting work for Ferrari and private equity backed luxury mobile phone maker Vertu, covering the entire spectrum from mass to premium to luxury; and vertically from insights to strategy to execution and measurement.
A passionate business and brand builder, Markus is also an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at CASS Business School (London) and a recognized thought leader in the fast paced world of cutting edge brand & marketing management. He speaks regularly and engages in select teaching assignments at prestigious business schools on what we can learn from the epitome of branding (Luxury) and the transformational power of brand in the context of strategy, change, leadership, innovation and growth.
Markus is Swiss at heart and holds degrees in Marketing & Brand Management, International Project Management from the University of California in Berkeley (USA) and an MBA from the SAID Business School at the University of Oxford (UK). Markus sits on the European board of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and is a member of the steering Committee of UK’s CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) Marketing Confidence Index.
Markus is fluent in five languages and lives between London and the shores of lake
Zurich in Switzerland when not traveling.

Leskó Norbert is a tech Entrepreneur, born in Budapest, living in Vienna. Passionate leader, technology oriented person with strong management skills, he is the CEO & CTO of MiniCRM, a cloud based sales & marketing automation software, accessible for thousands of small and medium business owners.

His vision is for MiniCRM to be the first choice for Eastern European SMEs when they seek solutions to increase the productivity and efficiency of their teams and to develop their business. Norbert built MiniCRM first as a solution to the existing problems inside his own company. After he thought about improving and developing a software that a lot of companies can benefit from, not only his company, and people will love using.

Thomas is the SVP Product and Marketing of United Influencers. He has over 15 years of experience within digital marketing, he’s written books and does keynotes all over Europe.

Martin Hoerhammer was born in Germany in 1983, currently living in Bad Soberheim. He founded Medialine EuroTrade AG in 2001 and under his management, the company grew from a small business into a multinational IT company, with 11 offices in Germany, Austria, Romania, Switzerland and 160 great employees.

Martin is currently the CEO of the Medialine Group and also a multi awarded entrepreneur and business man.

Besides the great passion he has for entrepreneurship – he was one of the finalists of “ Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 in Germany” and IT, Hoerhammer enjoys skiing, golfing, playing tennis and sailing.

Enthusiast Clean Coder. Passionate Trainer on any Java Enterprise technologies.
After 11 years of hard experience in Java, I am currently setting the technical direction for the development performed by IBM Romania for one its largest clients. I’m PhD(CS) and a regular speaker on national and international conferences. Collaborating lecturer for Computer Sciences Department of Politehnica, Bucharest.

Jacek Kurzyca is a Product Development Manager at RINF Tech. He has over 11 years of experience in international roles covering Project Management, Business Consultancy and Product Development for companies operating in the tech industry.

Building on his expertise and passion for IT and innovation, he is now leading RINF Tech’s Product Development department, where new, cutting edge ideas are developed and tested. Core areas of focus include Business platform, Big Data and Robotics-related initiatives.

Emilia Branzan is Industry Manager at Google, with focus on branding strategies. Before joining Google, Emilia collected over 10 years experience in brand building, digital and marketing and positioned Lidl as a digital-first player in Romania and Europe. She studied PR&Communications and has a MBA in Business Innovation.

Călin began his career in telecomm in 1997, and his first contact with advertising was 12 years ago. After nearly two years in the Client Service department at McCann Erickson Romania, Călin specialised in marketing and business communication in the media group MediaPro, at the helm of the news agency Mediafax. Subsequently, he took over the management of the news agency Mediafax’s Czech Republic. Following this international experience, Călin was Managing Director of MRM Partners for three years. During this time, the digital agency won the title of “Agency of the Year” at Internetics, and received awards at Cannes Lions.

In the last two years, under Călin’s leadership, Publicis Romania digital projects received awards at renowned festivals, such as: Cannes Lions, D&AD, Effie Awards, Golden Drum, Internetics, New York Festivals.

Having over 15 years experience in business strategy, management and entrepreneurship, I founded few startups in different domains, being passionate about innovation and technology. I enjoy to be involve in provocative projects, boosting start ups evolution.

My main activities include business development, marketing strategy, sales operations on long term.  As a country manager for ZONIZ I’m responsible for increasing share market of product in Romania and create unique projects with the proximity software platform based on ibeacon technology.

In-depth technical knowledge is what describes Alex best, no matter if you are talking about Cloud, Big Data, IoT or other hot topics. Being a very good professional, he’s very passionate about what he’s doing, but still, he’s able to keep things in perspective.

Former tech journalist, now blogger and freelancer, writing mainly on Business Solutions topics, both Enterprise and SMB. Pasionate about customer relationship management, owner of crmreview.ro, the only romanian website dedicated to CRM solutions and strategy.

Mihai Tataran is the General Manager of Avaelgo, a Microsoft Gold Partner on Cloud Platform, a software consulting and custom development company based in Romania, and an Most Valuable Professional on Microsoft Azure. Lately Mihai had an extensive experience with Azure: completed solutions for different customers, and delivered training programs on Azure for IT companies in Romania. One of those projects made it to a Case Study on Microsoft .com website, and his company Avaelgo was nominated as Cloud SME of the Month in Europe in May 2012.

Mihai has very good experience with large audiences at international conferences: DevReach in Bulgaria, Codecamp Macedonia, TechEd NA 2011 and 2012 BoF sessions

Mihai is also the co-organizer of ITCamp Romania (http://itcamp.ro), a large community event for IT professionals in Transylvania.

Senior Software Developer specialized in Microsoft technologies with an open eye towards open source. Passionated about software; perfectionist, but still pragmatic. Co-founder of ADCES, a non-profit organization that promotes better software development.

Liviu Arsene is a Senior E-Threat Analyst for Bitdefender, with a strong background in security and technology. Reporting on global trends and developments in computer security, he writes about malware outbreaks and security incidents while coordinating with technical and research departments. His passions revolve around innovative technologies and gadgets, focusing on their security applications and long-term strategic impact. When he’s not online, he’s either taking something apart or putting it back together again.

Lucian Aldescu is the CEO of DPD Romania – a courier company with 40 years of experience in Europe. Lucian started his career in transport & logistic field in 1994, as a logistic manager for Eculine. In 1997 he founded, together with James Gray-Cheape, Pegasus Courier, company which was acquired in 2008 by Geo Post and was renamed DPD Romania.

Lucian Aldescu graduated an MBA program at Tiffin University and has been the president of AOCR (Courier Operators Association of Romania) during the period 2009-2011.