Great Premiere: Facebook will attend RoNewMedia Date: 05 Oct. 2010

Facebook will join Google, Microsoft and Yahoo at RoNewMedia, which becomes the largest new media event ever held in Bucharest

For the first time, Facebook will be present at an Internet related conference organized in Romania, through a first-rank official.

Mark Cowan, Head of Emerging Markets EMEA [Europe, Middle East and Africa] at Facebook, will join the leaders from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo who will give the keynote presentations and take part in the debates scheduled for RoNewMedia 5.0.

“We praise Facebook’s visit in Bucharest the same way we enthusiastically acclaimed the guests from Yahoo and Google, who also came for the first time in Romania in order to attend the past editions of our conference. This year they chose to join us again which obviously proves that, like every other European capital city, Bucharest can host as well high level conferences”, said Dragos Stanca, founder of RoNewMedia.

Head of Emerging Markets, Mark Cowan is responsible for the development and raising awarness of the social media marketing tools offered by Facebook, in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Primarily held for two days this year, on 9th and 10th November, RoNewMedia will bring on at Crystal Ballroom & Events the last-minute waves and techniques in online advertising, mobile marketing, gaming, social media, digital marketing and online entrepreneurship.

On 9th November, during the Inspiring Day, Mark Cowan will be on the RoNewMedia stage together with Hugo Barra – Product Management Director & Global Product Lead for Mobile, at Google; John Hrvatin - Lead Program Manager Internet Explorer, at Microsoft; Ebbe Altberg – Vice President & Head of Audience Europe, at Yahoo, Timothy Bataillie – Business Development CEE, Turkey & MENA region, Netlog, Laurent Haug – founder and CEO of Lift conferences (Geneva, Elvetia) and Kim Weckstrom – Serial Entrepreneur,Senior partner at Avaus Consulting & Board Member at Interquest Oy.

What is more, trainers from Yahoo, Google and other leading global Internet companies will hold workshops during Working Day, the second day of event, while the evenings and nights are booked for informal networking, parties and RoWebCampaign Gala, a competition that starting this year will also include the tradidional awards for great achievements in web design and web TV.

Furthermore, RoNewMedia 5.0 will host all along RoHiTech, an high technolgy exibition.

Those interested in participating at the conference are expected to subscribe on www.RoNewMedia.ro. At the same time, the latest news about RoNewMedia 5.0 will be published on this website and, also, on the event official Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/ronewmedia.

Organized for the first time in the summer of 2008, the international conference RoNewMedia will be mainly supported by the already traditional partner Orange and by other prestigious partners among whom we can mention Microsoft, Mediacafe, SmartAdServer and New Host.

Patrice Slupowski from Orange speaks, at Ro:NewMedia 5.0, about Four Screen Challenges Date: 21 Oct. 2010

Patrice Slupowski, Vice President Digital Innovation & Communities division of Orange, announced his attendance for Ro:NewMedia 5.0 on 9th Nvember at Crystal Ballroom & Events.

Slupowski is going to talk, during Inspiration Day, about the Four Screen Technology ( pc, tv, phones and tablets) influence on consumer's behavior.

Patrice Slupowski is an expert on web 2.0- comunities, social networks, widgits, ecosystems, user generated content and multimedia mobile content. he was the one who, at Cannes Mipcom 2010, anounced free acces for app developers using Orange's widgits platform.

Slupowski joins other first rank guests at Ro:NewMedia 5.0: Mark Cowan – Head of emerging markets EMEA [Europe, Middle East si Africa], Facebook; Hugo Barra – Product Management Director & Global Product Lead for Mobile, Google; John Hrvatin - Lead Program Manager Internet Explorer, Microsoft; Ebbe Altberg – Vice President & Head of Audience Europe, Yahoo, Colin Kinsella – President, Digitas North America, VivaKi, Publics Group; Timothy Bataillie – Business Development CEE, Turkey & MENA region, Netlog, Laurent Haug – founder and CEO Lift conferences (Geneva, Elvetia); and Kim Weckstrom – Senior Partner at Avaus Consulting & Board Member for Interquest Oy.

For the second day, called Working Day are being prepared trainings by Google, Yahoo – with the support of Mediacafe, Microsoft, Smart Adservers and many other companies who shall confirm their participation in the next few days.

During Ro:NewMedia 5.0 all guests and participants can visit the high technology expo Ro:Hitech.

Ro:WebCampaigns opened the sign up session where you can register your project in order to win excellence awards - www.ronewmedia.ro/rowebcampaigns.

Established in the summer of 2008, the international Ro:NewMedia conference is supported this year also by Orange as a main sponsor, together with other prestigious partners, among which we can mention Microsoft, Mediacafe, SmartAdServer and New Host.

If interested in buying tickets for this workshop or a full-conference ticket please visit www.ronewmedia.ro. In order to keep informed about ro:newmedia keep an eye on the website of the event as well as on its social media accounts - www.twitter.com/ronewmedia and www.facebook.com/ronewmedia .