Speakeri

Miguel Ripoll
CEO si Creative Director la Cesser Digital Miguel Ripoll is the CEO and Creative Director of Cesser Digital, a Spanish web developing firm with a team of over 350 and 9 offices across the country.

His work is often featured in leading publications such as Communication Arts, Computer Arts, Internet Magazine, PC World, .Net Magazine, etc, and has been exhibited in museums in Madrid, Seville, Berlin, New York, Aleppo, Hannover, and other cities both in Spain and abroad. Alexis Bonte
Co-founder & CEO of Erepublik.com
France Alexis Bonte is the co-founder and CEO of Erepublik.com the first massive online social strategy game, launched on the 20th of November 2007. Although it is still in private beta, Erepublik.com already has thousands of citizens and was a prize winner in the LeWeb3 start-up competition in December 2007. It is at the moment going through the process of establishing one of the most complex virtual goods economies across 43 virtual countries that are a mirror version of the real world.

Prior to Erepublik.com, Alexis was with lastminute.com for 6 years right up to its 1b$ trade sale to Sabre in 2005 - first as Head of Business Development (UK) then as Marketing and Sales Director (France) and then as Managing Director (Italy).

Alexis is also an angel investor specializing in healthcare and Internet start ups. He is the non-executive chairman of the video and music sharing site trilulilu.ro, one of the top 3 websites in Romania and is a board member of various Internet and healthcare companies. Alexis holds a BA Honours Degree in International Business & Languages from the European Business School (London), is a sailing national champion (Portugal) and is fluent in 6 languages. Luca Passani
Founder of WURFL-Pro
Italy Luca Passni is an Italian software engineer with many years experience in Web and Mobile Internet development. Prior to creating his own company, WURFL-Pro, Luca has spent seven years with Openwave Systems and taken part in projects for Telecoms in the US and Europe. Luca consults for different companies in the mobile ecosystem, among them AdMob and Telecom Italia.

Luca is known to the community of developers for creating popular software tools such as WURFL and WALL. In addition to that, Luca has authored articles and co-authored books on Mobile Development.

Recently, Luca published the so-called GAP guidelines, Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web, which helps developers create mobile sites with minimal effort. Marius Ghenea
President PC FUN In 1994, Marius Ghinea started IT Flamingo a distribution Company, together with two other University colleagues. At the end of 2001, he decided to quit both from the board and as a stakeholder within the company. For 3 and half years, he worked as General Manager for Flanco resigning in October 2005. In early 2003 he invested in FIT Distribution Company specialized in technical equipment distribution. Within this company, Ghenea developed the site for the online shop PC Fun www.pcfun.ro , specialized in selling IT and electronic equipments.

This is the new bet for one of the biggest entrepreneurs in Romania. Madalin Matica
Emarketer, Dot Commerce Ltd Madalin has 12 years of experience in management and another 5 years in e-marketing, being specialised in e-commerce, permission marketing, viral marketing and crisis management.

After such an experience he concluded that there is still a lot to learn in marketing and the fastest and easyest way to practice that is by founding new styart-ups, looking for success based on the new marketing. He likes speaking in public and he gave over 80 presentations in the last 3 years.

As marketer he considers himself as being part of the Seth Godin wave.

Since last year he started as an independent consultant in corporate blogging, e-marketing and crissis management. Miki Devic
CSO Httpool Group
Miki has a decade of serious leadership experience in the field of digital marketing communications. A pioneer in the German online media industry, Miki has from 1996 onwards, worked for world class brands on an international level. Miki has successfully led strategy, planning and execution of multi channel web initiatives for brands like: Deutsche Telekom, Mercedes-Benz, Lufthansa, Intel, Chrysler, Apple, Amazon and Henkel. Andrej Nabergoj
CEO, Noovo.com
Slovenia In the last decade, Andrej co-founded and led six software and internet companies in eight European markets and in Japan, including Parsek Systems, where he developed the company from start-up to 100+ employees and Httpool, a leading Eastern European online advertising network. He started and supervised Parsek&AT, a successful JV in Japan. Andrej also serves as chairman for Yes - Young Executives Society, a charitable association in South Eastern Europe, is an advisor to USAID, and is vice president for Young Entrepreneurs of Europe, an organization representing over 35,000 entrepreneurs from EU.

Currently, Andrej is CEO of Noovo, a new social discovery engine, which will change the way people share and discover content online. George Lemnaru
Co-Fondator e-Republik A pornit cariera de antreprenor la 21 de ani lansand magazinul virtual NaturaPlant.ro. Proiectul a ajuns in scurt timp cel mai vizitat magazin de produse de sanatate din Romania.

Din anul 2005 este director general la Tevin Solutions, companie specializata in proiecte online de sanatate

In noiembrie 2007 a lansat alaturi de Alexis Bonte Erepublik.com, o lume paralela online 2D care a ajuns la 9 luni de la lansare la un numar de peste 110.000 de utilizatori inregistrati. Marvin Liao
Director of Sales Development for Yahoo! Inc’s Emerging Markets Business Unit A 7 and half year veteran of Yahoo! Inc., he has held roles in the various departments of Sales, Business Development, Ad Operations and Marketing. Most of his roles were regional or global management roles giving him extensive experience across Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States in his career at the company.

Presently Director of Sales Development for Yahoo! Inc’s Emerging Markets Business Unit in charge of the Sales Strategy and New Sales Channel development for the division and manages the Direct Sales for Central/Eastern Europe and Middle East Africa.

Prior to this, he ran online marketing at e-Commerce start up www.alibris.com and had stints at the PR Marketing Agency Porter Novelli in their Consumer Technology Practice, Exxon International, management consulting firm IMPAC and Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser). A longtime fan, participant, and observer for the last 10 years of the digital marketing revolution occurring across the world.
Matthew Bowden
Project Manager, Inside Mobile, UK Matthew has joined Inside Mobile in February 2008 as a lead project manager and has been working on many of our blue chip accounts including Reebok and Ladbrokes. Matthew oversees the mobile media planning and buying and has successfully launched a number of global campaigns.

Matthew joined Inside Mobile from the tier one aggregator MindMatics, from where he brings a wealth of experience in designing and building Mobile Java applications, WAP sites and CRM solutions. Matthew has experience of working with various large brands including Vodafone, BBC, Ford and Budweiser. PRINCE 2 trained, Matthew previously won a Mobile Marketing award for best use of a mobile application in a B2B environment. Attila Bihari
Founder of conQUIZtador, Hungary Attila Bihari is the CEO and owner of ABC Mill Ltd. a Hungarian web developing company.
The company's most well known project is the online strategy and quiz game, conQUIZtador.
In Romania conquiztador.ro became the no.1 game site 1 month after the official launch campaign.

The game is before massive international spreading, there are serious negotiations on four different continents.
In line with this they are working now on two brand new projects. Orlando Nicoara
General Manager, Mediapro Interactiv I started being interested in the internet in 1996 when, with a bit of help, you could easily count on your fingers all the internet connections in Bucharest. In 1998 I sustained my graduation paper on the theme” Advertising on the internet”. For 3 months I sold woman socks ( by the good willing of my colleague and friend Maria- got the job …) and in October 1998 I started working for SIT( I couldn’t find any references on this company on Google now). Here is where I started AD.ro, an online advertising company, the one who formed this market.

In September 2001, Bogdan Secara, convinced me to switch to Netbridge, as Development Manager. In October 2001, still working for Netbrige, I founded the online advertising agency boom.ro, witch soon became the leader on the market, as it is right now.

Since February 2005 I managed everything within Netbridge, as General Manager. On 22 of June 2008 I resigned all my duties at Netbridge.

Since July 2006 I’m managing Media Pro Interactiv, the internet division of Mediapro Group. Lampros Latsaras
Managing Director, CareerBuilder.com.ro Lampros Latsaras is the Managing Director of CareerBuilder.com.ro, a fast-growing online employment site in Romania and a subsidiary of CareerBuilder.com, the largest online job site in the U.S. Lampros is responsible for driving CareerBuilder’s growth strategy in Romania and developing sales and marketing strategies to engage employers and job seekers. He advises many of the Romania’s leading employers on issues that are key to their employment strategies and is tapped by leading news organizations to provide perspective on labor trends.

Prior to launching CareerBuilder Romania, Lampros was trained at Kariera.gr, the leading online job site in Greece and a CareerBuilder subsidiary. Previously Lampros was a Product Manager for a leading FMCG company in Greece, Attika Foods and also and the Managing Director of Danube Phoenician Interfood in Romania. Lampros holds a Master degree from the Athens-Omega Tourism School Athens as specialist at the airline industry.

CareerBuilder operates a global online and print network to help job seekers connect with employers and powers the career centers of thousands of leading sites around the world including MSN, CNN, AOL CareerBuilder is owned by leading international media companies Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Tribune Company, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). Anca Fieraru
Executive manager, eResearch Corp. She graduated from the University of Bucharest- Sociology Specialization and she has over 11 years of experience in market and media research.

Starting 2004 she is elected to represent media agencies in the Managing Council of BRAT (for two mandates). In 2008 she obtains a new mandate, this time representing the Internet Department within BRAT. Her research expertise, which she gained along years, gets her in the CT BRAT and therefore she takes part at the organization of SNA FOCUS and SATI.

As Research Manager at Initiative Media she is in charge, for two years, with “Media Fact Book” (2006-2007) - a unique guide awaited each year by the entire media community.

In 2007 she is employed by Zenith Media where she discovers her passion for the online field. Starting autumn 2008 she is the head of the research company eResearch Corp and she launches eWatch, a monitoring service of the online advertising market. Lucian Despoiu
General Manager Kondiment Group GmbH One of the pioneers of Internet development as a business in Romania, Lucian Despoiu is founder and General Manager of KONDIMENT Group GmbH, the first interactive Romanian agency with global development, which has nowadays offices in Bucharest, Munchen and Chicago.

Running a 60 specialists team, Lucian is involved in the digital strategy for the Group projects. He worked in over 100 Internet projects in the past 7 years, having a direct involvement in developing the digital communication strategy for many brands as HP, UPC, DACIA, Petrom, CEC, Loteria Nationala or Germanos.

His expertise covers all the important aspects of a digital developing strategy such as consultancy, digital branding, and web presence, online communication (search engine, marketing, online display advertising, e-mail marketing, online PR, digital Sponsorship, viral marketing, online activism, and so on).

As an entrepreneur, he launched the first recruitment site in Romania, www.ejobs.ro - 1999 and in 2007; he launched the first social-political network in Europe www.inpolitics.ro.
Daniel Secareanu
Project Manager & Communication Director, Netbridge Development Romania Daniel is managing partner of Tigros Net Ltd_ Alba Iulia, Romania, since 2003, and since September 2007 he’s working as Communication Director & Project Manager for Netbridge Development Bucharest.
Between January 2005 and March 2007 he worked as Senior Manager for Graduation Programs of Central European University Business School – Bucharest. From 2003 until 2007 he worked as IT&C Manager for Fundatia pentru o Societate Deschisa (as a subsidiary of Soros Fundation).
Since January 2004 - until December 2005 he worked for the magazine Solutii IT as editor in chief an also as a publisher and before that he was Online Editor for the magazine Linux 360.
In the year 2000 he started his career working as Project Coordinator for Modern Media Group and Motivation Romania Foundation.
He attended as participant and speaker to many conferences and seminars on Linux and IT&C related themes in countries as Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro as well as Sweden and Nederland.
He has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication 9BA) from the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG). He also has a postgraduate Course in Multimedia from the Journalism &Communication Department, University of Bucharest.
He has two master degrees one is Mater of Science in Information Technology Management at central European University business School- Budapest Hungary, ant the other one is a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Central European University business Scholl- Bucharest Romania. Alexander R. Trommen
Chief Marketing Officer of United-Mobile.com. Alexander R. Trommen is Chief Marketing Officer of United-Mobile.com, the leading MVNO offering cheap international calls and no roaming in 80 countries. With over 8 years experience in mobile marketing services in Europe he is a frequent speaker at conferences throughout Europe and author of several books and articles. Prior to joining United Mobile in 2008 he worked as COO and co-owner of MINICK, a leading pan-European Mobile Marketing Agency since 2000. Before MINICK he worked at French Top Management Consultancy Bossard and at Knorr-Bremse, the world leader in truck and train brake systems.

His mobile marketing services and media expertise includes the one of the first ever mobile marketing campaigns for Ericsson in Switzerland in 1999. Alexander’s team has been working with major agencies and brands such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Neue Digitale, Plan.net, Nokia, Siemens, MTV and many others. He was the brain behind one of Europe’s most successful operator-related MMS application MMS-2-Postcard and has worked on many telecoms projects throughout Europe such as VoD platforms for Vodafone, Swisscom, Mobilkom, O2, etc. His most recent success the successful pilot for pre- and post-roll mobile video advertising with Swisscom. Dragos Novac
Director General Metropotam.ro Dragos Novac is Managing Director of two software development companies running now together in order to create both web-based and mobile-based solutions for companies and consumers. He has extensive experience in technology strategy and strategy technology projects, developing proprietary tools such as fourhooks (content management solution), urbee (mobile applications) or subjoost (online video).

Based on these technological assets, he has created the Metropotam Group, a set of online, digital and offline projects acting as an integrated platform of interaction with the young, urban, out-going audience. The platform leverages online audiences with metropotam, invita, coolio or 100eyes, mobile ones with urbee and offline with events such as metropofests and roblogfest. The group's mission is to provide consumers with easy access and solutions for a cool social life, trying to cover all major aspects of a young's lifestyle.

Dragos's wide experience also covers several business areas, from finance to business development, consulting and top management. His educational background is in corporate finance (MBA major) and business strategy (MSc major) and his interests cover strategic management, distruptive technologies and innovative business models. Mark Forster
CEO, OnEmotion AG, Elvetia Mark holds an MBA degree from the University of St. Gallen (HSG). He has been working with mobile and interactive media since 1999/2000 when he started launching mobile campaigns for Mars/M&M’s. Later, as managing director at MINICK Switzerland he was also responsible for the French and overseas expansion. His entrepreneurial spirit and excellent international network let him found OnEmotion in 2006. The company has successfully grown to be one of Switzerland’s largest mobile companies, serving 2 of the 3 largest media groups in Switzerland and doing business internationally. In 2008 OnEmotion was acquired by Switzerland’s largest online/digital media group Goldbach Media.