Filippo Vizzotto

Shazam

Senior Director, Central/Southern Europe & Africa

Graduated at Bocconi University in Milan, Filippo Vizzotto joined Shazam as Commercial Country Manager for Italy in July 2015 and is now Senior Director for Central/Southern Europe & Africa. He has a 12 years experience in Digital Advertising and, before moving to Shazam HQ in London, held the position of Country Manager at Mobvious Italy where he handled the launch of Shazam’s advertising portfolio in IT and helped starting up Twitter’s local sales. He previously filled the role of Sales Director at HiMedia Italy (now AdUX Italy), being responsible for online monetisation of publishers like Lycos, Viamichelin, Aufeminin, Autoscout24, Ebay and WeTransfer.

Maksimilian Kallhed

The Pop Up Agency

Founder, Director

Maksimilian Kallhed is a strong believer in the impossible. With the right tools and mindset you will get further than you could ever imagine. As a co-founder of The Pop Up Agency, Maks has traveled to over 30 countries and 48 cities with the mission to re-define how we use creativity in business. He has worked for some of the most innovative companies in the world, Coca Cola, Facebook and Conde Nast to mention a few. He is a frequent speaker at global creative festivals such as Cannes Lions, Eurobest, Dubai Lynx and Golden Drum. Maks is also a lecturer at two of the most progressive creative schools, Hyper Island and Central Saint Martins. In February 2016, Maksimilian was nominated for influencer of the year by Creative Pool Networks.

Tim McLoughlin

Hotels.com

Head Of Social Media

Tim McLoughlin is the head of social media for Hotels.com. Previously he was heading Social Media at Saatchi and Saatchi where he led social strategy for brands such as Toyota and Visa matching creative ideas to effective execution. He is passionate about how technology changes human behaviour and consumer engagement with brands, politics and sport. As a political blogger he was once named “one of the ten cleverest men in Britain” and comments regularly about politics on TV and radio.

Abraham Abbi Asefaw

The Pop Up Agency

Founder And Director

Abraham Asefaw has a natural interest and sees potential in almost everything. People and culture are his main interest, which might come from the fact that he lived in three countries before the age of seven. This exposure to different cultures continued as he grew up in a very multicultural part of Sweden. Today he says that ‘no brief is harder than some of the things I had to handle growing up,’ which explains his calmness both towards teams and clients. Working globally is a must as he believes that constant exposure to new things makes you smarter, faster and more interesting.

Gary Hernandez

Saudi Aramco

Head, HR Communications

Gary is currently Head of HR Communications at Saudi Aramco. Prior, he worked at BP in several communication functions during his 20 year tenure. Gary’s experience is sharply focused on internal and executive communications. He believes that good communications are pragmatic and support clear business objectives. He also believes good communicators must be proficient in both formulating and executing strategy.  

Gary has taught writing at various universities in the United States, and is an accredited business communicator with the IABC. He has degrees from Baylor University, George Mason University, and Utah State University.

Saada Hammad

MEMAC OGLIVY Public Relations

Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa

Saada has been leading Memac Ogilvy PR team since 2010. Before that, Saada was the communications director for General Motors in the Middle East, where she established and managed an integrated in-house PR department, a first for the region. Saada has been in the industry for more than twenty years. Saada was born and raised in Lebanon, educated in Italy, and spent most of her professional life in Dubai. She is a worldwide board member of Ogilvy Public relations.

Fergus Campbell

eBay

Head of Corporate Communications

Jon Meakin

Clarity PR

President, North America

Jon has 25 years’ public relations and communications experience, encompassing consumer, corporate, business-to-business and crisis and issues management.  He is currently President, North America at Clarity PR, responsible for the strategic direction and growth of Clarity's North American business.

Previously, Jon ran Grayling’s global Strategic Services team, which encompassed research, insights and evaluation; creative and content solutions through the agency’s GMint offer; and Grayling’s proprietary online reputation management tool, GCore. He also overseed the firm’s global marketing efforts and consults on key international clients.

Jon’s career has seen him develop and run successful international campaigns for clients including PayPal and Shell, and UK programs for clients in food and drink, travel and tourism, publishing, property and other sectors.

Jon is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK and has previously judged several PR industry awards, including the CIPR Excellence Awards, PRCA Awards, the PRWeek Awards and the Romanian PR Awards. British born, Jon is currently resident in San Francisco.

Jo Burford

Former Community Manager, EMEA at Twitter

Head of Creator Solutions, Whalar

Jo is currently Head of Creator Solutions at Whalar.

Previously, she was  EMEA Community Manager for Niche. Niche was acquired by Twitter in 2015 and after 5 years of building digital communities of artists in the UK and the USA, Jo Burford was employed to build the EMEA community of Niche. Back then, there were 6,000 creators on the platform, now the community is over 50,000 and growing.  

Enis Karslıoğlu

Marketing Türkiye

CEO of Bigg+ Global Loyalty and Rewards Group