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.

Irina Pashina

SAP SE

Certified Leadership and Team Coach | Leadership Culture & Development Expert

Irina is a certified coach (PCC, CPCC), a seasoned mentor of individuals and teams, a leadership expert, and a leader specialized in transformation. Her passion for people development, leadership, and public speaking took her to five continents, where she inspired and drove change in various industries such as technology and non-profits. 
Leading a content strategy function at SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software, she feels fortunate to shape superior customer experiences with a focus on digital transformation. Irina also builds bridges to people leadership topics such as a transformation to a newly established leadership culture. Her ability to connect with people across cultures and functional areas has been a key factor for meaningful connections and success in all her roles.
A requested speaker on leadership and communication topics, Irina is a transformational leader who inspires and helps people discover more, develop, and bring about a positive change in the world.

Noha Bashir

Facebook

EMEA Team Lead, Blueprint Training

Noha currently leads the Blueprint Training team at Facebook in Dubai. Previously, she was Director of Digital and Social Marketing for CEMEA (Central Europe, Russia, and Middle East & Africa) at Visa. Prior to joining Visa, Noha worked at Proximity/BBDO based in Dubai, where she led the Social Media Department and managed clients such as Visa, Dubai Tourism Authority, #MyDubai Initiative, Axiom Telecom accounts, among others. Before relocating to Dubai In 2011, Noha worked at BBDO Egypt as Public Relations and Public Speaking specialist for 3 years. Noha was also a television presenter at Egypts Channel 1, broadcasting worldwide. Noha has extensive knowledge in digital first strategies, online Influencer engagement and content creation & ignition.

Ania Jakubowski

Avon

General Manager Poland

Ania is a business practitioner who believes that ‘what’ you achieve is important, ‘how’ you achieve it, makes all the difference. Working as a Senior Executive, Ania relates her daily leadership practices to the areas of speaking, training, consulting and mentoring. She inspires; bringing a fresh perspective and encouraging self-reflection, to promote a more human approach to leadership, and a more sustainable approach to how organizations deliver their bottom line.

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.  

Ricc Webb

Bacardi Rebel Brands

Global Creative Manager

Ricc spent his early days learning the sales game with Lexus. He later moved on to more creative and client service-led roles with an agency in London. After that Ricc joined Nokia who then got acquired by Microsoft. He worked mainly on digital and social media marketing teams until he decided to go back agency side to take on a director role. The Ideation Director role at 1000heads gave him the opportunity to really get under the hood of creativity and idea generation. Ricc currently works as the global creative manager for Rebel Brands at Bacardi.

Marie Ioan

Airbus

Services Marketing Director

Marie IOAN is AIRBUS Airline Marketing Director, focused in the Middle-East, Africa and India regions. She is in charge of defining the strategy of Services by Airbus in the region for the whole portfolio (Digitalization, Maintenance Services, Cabin Upgrade, Connectivity or Crew Training), towards Airlines and aviation stakeholders.

Marie was previously Customer Affairs Director for five years within Airbus Flight Operations Department and has run Aircraft entry into service for A320, A330, A350 programs.

Based between Dubai and Toulouse, she is a private pilot and regularly participates to orienteering races.