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Special Guests

  • Matthew West
    Matthew West

    Director for Content and expansion Markets at Yahoo!

    He is Director for Content and Expansion Markets at Yahoo!, a function he has since 2006, when he joined the internet giant. Until February 2010, he was also the Head of Content and Strategic Partners at Yahoo! Europe. Matthew graduated The University of Huddersfield before starting his career in 1994 as project manager at Hewlett-Packard, where he worked for four years. In 1998, he became project manager for internet at COLT Telecom, company which he left three years later.

  • Hugo Barra
    Hugo Barra

    Product Management Director & Global Product Lead for Mobile, Google

    Hugo Barra is group product manager and global product lead for mobile at Google, a role he's had since joining the company in March 2008. He is based in London, where many of Google's mobile products are developed today.

  • John Hrvatin
    John Hrvatin

    Unleash a More Beautiful Web: Internet Explorer 9

    John Hrvatin, Lead Program Manager on Windows Internet Explorer will discuss the latest developments with Internet Explorer 9, including how a site-centric approach and use of the whole PC deliver a better experience for both consumers and developers.

  • Mark Cowan
    Mark Cowan

    Emerging Markets EMEA, Facebook

    Mark Cowan is working across the Pan-European team out of the Facebook London Office. Currently managing the Nordic region as well as developing emerging markets across Europe involving both Network agreements and fully integrated advertising solutions across the Facebook platform.

Keynote Speakers

  • Colin Kinsella
    Colin Kinsella

    President Digitas North America

    Responsible for global accounts, knowledge management tools, off shoring and fostering and supporting creative and innovative solutions throughout the organization. Colin drives growth, innovation, investments and collaboration across the agency’s largest region.

  • Timothy Bataillie
    Timothy Bataillie

    Business Development CEE, Turkey & MENA region at Netlog

    Setting-up all commercial activities for Netlog in this region from scratch, driving revenues and creating new models and partnerships to monetize the Netlog user base.

  • Patrice  Slupowski

    VP Digital Innovation & Communities in the Audience and Advertising Division of the Orange - France Telecom group

    Patrice Slupowski is VP Digital Innovation & Communities in the Audience and Advertising Division of the Orange - France Telecom group. He is a marketing expert in web 2.0 (ecosystems, widgets, communities, social networks, user-generated contents) and mobile multimedia services.

  • Marvin Liao

    Commercial Director, EMEA Expansion Markets at Yahoo!

    Marvin Liao is Commercial Director, EMEA Expansion Markets at Yahoo!, and one of the company’s execs that participated as guest speakers at RoNewMedia back in 2008. He is now responsible for running display and search sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa expansion markets, except UK & Ireland, Spain, Germany, France and Italy and the Arabic region. He was promoted in March 2010, after he worked for the company three years as Sales Development Director for Emerging Markets.

  • Eilon Zarmon

    CEO Zarmon Goldman DDB, Tribal DDB.

    After starting as a musician and earning a degree in music, Eilon turned to the world of advertising. He since has lectured in leading academic institutes throughout Israel as well as being a widely sought-after writer and columnist on both marketing and advertising. Today Eilon is The CEO and co-founder of Zarmon Goldman DDB, Tribal DDB Israel, one of the leading advertising agencies in Israel and has recently launched a new and promising start up company named Adscaptcha.

Trainers

  • Gabriel Biris
    Gabriel Biris

    Gabriel Biris is a founding partner of Biris Goran, and is widely regarded as one of the leading tax experts in the country, with experience of over 14 years in the sector. He is appreciated for his business-oriented and innovative advice (that is not lost in disclaimers). The Chambers publication affirms his reputation as the undisputed leader in the field of legal advice on taxation.

  • Daniel Visoiu
    Daniel Visoiu

    Daniel Visoiu is a founding partner of Biris Goran, with experience of over 13 years. He heads the firm’s corporate/M&A practice, specializing in foreign direct investments, M&A and commercial/corporate law. Having been born in Romania and being a native English speaker, Daniel brings a considerable amount of added value to negotiations, as he is able to bridge the communication gap between foreign investors and local entrepreneurs. He is admitted to the Florida Bar (U.S.A.) and to the Bucharest Bar.

  • Christian Mindru
    Christian Mindru

    Christian Mindru, Of Counsel, is the head of Biris Goran’s finance practice group, with experience of over 15 years. He is recognized as a leading expert in Romania in project finance having been appreciated for his ability to see problems from the client’s perspective (Chambers). Christian is admitted to the Quebec Bar (Canada) and to the Bucharest Bar.

  • Ana Maria Andronic
    Ana Maria Andronic

    Ana Maria Andronic - Senior Associate, with experience of over 10 years, coordinates Biris Goran’s IT & Intellectual Property practice. Former judge, she specializes in IT transactions, with an emphasis on Internet, copyright and trademark related matters and corporate/M&A issues. She holds a U.S. LL.M. in Internet Law and International Intellectual Property, and she is admitted to the New York Bar (U.S.A.) and to the Bucharest Bar.

  • Petru Jucovschi
    Petru Jucovschi

    Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Romania

    During the three years he has been working for Microsoft, he focused on building strong relations between Microsoft and the designers and developers throughout the country. One of his passions is attending meetings and giving presentations on technical topics as well as talking to people as passionate as he is about technology.

  • Steffen Erhardt

    Product Specialist & Project Manager, Display Ads, EMEA [Europe, Middle East and Africa], Google Germany GmbH, Frankfurt

    Steffen studied at Private University of Applied Sciences Goettingen Parallel Basic study in Information Systems and Business Administration and has a Major in International Marketing.
    He helped launching Monetization products in Emerging Markets, supported Office openings with Google Product Workshops/ Product Trainings, Beta Testing of new products, as well as representing the region in several Global Product Core Teams.

  • Vlad Stan

    Co-founder Trigwee.com, Videomax, Vodanet media; launcher of over 30 online projects
    "Entrepreneurship is my way of living. As an investor, all my efforts are directed towards supporting a new generation of socially and globally minded entrepreneurs. I am convinced that the new entrepreneur has the imagination, the passion and the skills to produce outstanding results for humanity."

  • Anna Skrzypek

    EMEA Expansion Markets Manager at Yahoo! Europe

    Over two and a half years at Yahoo! and 3 years at Infojobs International makes her a highly appreciated marketing specialist. Her history: analysis and benchmarking of the polish market, direct negotiation with HR and Marketing Directors among top 100 key accounts in Poland, development and implementation of sales strategy for key and international accounts like: Adecco, Randstad, Capgemini, Toyota, ING, Google, Hewlett Packard, American Restaurants, preparing entry strategies for selected sectors, developing Yahoo!'s marketing strategy for expansion markets in some european areas. She owns degrees in psychology, sociology and a master in public relations.

  • Jakub Kabourek

    CEE business development director, KIT digital
    Jakub is CEE Business development director at KIT digital Inc, member of the board and CEO of KIT digital Czech. He joined the company in 2008 after having spent over 4 years at Visual Connection and another 5 years at Czech Telecom.

  • Jakub Oleksy

    Business Development Manager CEE, Smart AdServer

    In the advertising business and related online advertising market for 6 years. Initially as Development Director at advertising agency S4, later - Projects Department Director for Eastern market responsible for building structures, development and management of the branch Gagu-Gadu SA (Naspers Group) in Ukraine. Currently, since 2009, Business Development Manager CEE in the French company - Smart AdServer, developing and delivering one of the main adserving technologies for the management of online campaigns for media agencies and publishers.

  • Csaba Blaga

    KIT digital

Jury members

  • Cristian Mungiu

    Film director

    "I had the experience of working on a film for somebody else, on a foreign production. They were very nice people, but I discovered it is very difficult for me to have somebody else interfere with my film. I wouldn't like to work on anything unless I have complete control" First Romanian director to win the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, for 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile

  • Ciprian Bădălan

    Designer Brandient

    After previous experience of three years in art-directing - on brands like Cosmote, Bigotti, Sapte Seri, Alka - Ciprian joined Brandient in 2008 and contributed to branding or rebranding processes like Darian DRS, Cuculand, Benevo, Biogood, Novensys or Edata. His works in advertising and branding were rewarded with Effie, BestAd and Pentawards.

  • Colin Kinsella
    Colin Kinsella

    President Digitas North America

    Responsible for global accounts, knowledge management tools, off shoring and fostering and supporting creative and innovative solutions throughout the organization. Colin drives growth, innovation, investments and collaboration across the agency’s largest region.

  • Ionut Oprea

    Executive director IAB Romania/ Standout director

    He has 6 years of experiece in marketing and online pr. He worked for Neogen, Netbridge, MediaPro Interactive. He now has his own online marketing agency( standout) with major interest in bloging, social media, advertising campaings and marcom online projects.

  • Marius Ursache

    Chief Creative Officer, Grapefruit

    Marius should have been a successful plastic surgeon (he holds a Medical Degree from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iași, Romania), but as a young student he landed in a media & advertising part-time job. From working as a cartoonist and graphic artist for a radio station (isn’t it a paradox?) and then for a national media trust, he then went to be a designer and art director for agencies in UK and USA. Then, in 1999, he founded Grapefruit, one of the first branding agencies in Romania.

  • Razvan Matasel

    Strategist at Arsenoaiei&Matasel

    A man with many achievements: head of planning( Leo Burnett, Scala Thomson), the first chairman( APG Romania), teacher( SNSPA, FJSC), trainer in pr strategy. He recieved many awards for his contribution in many projects ( Effies, EuroEffie and APG Awards).

  • Stefan Liute

    Strategy director, Grapefruit Romania

    Co-founder and strategy director at grapefruit ( 1999). he worked for some of the most important romanian brands: Antibiotice, Dacia, Delaco, E.ON, Heidi, Labormed, Petrom, NNDKP, UPC and others. Since 2001, Stefan is editor at la "The Weekly Wire" and by 2007 he teaches strategic branding management at the Bucharest University

  • Victor Kapra

    frelancer journalist/blogger

    He was a journalist that worked as editor at "Mediafax" and Deputy Editor-and-Chief at "Ziarul Financiar" and New Media Content Manager at "Publimedia" (1990-2008). After that period he became an online independent consultant and freelancer journalist. He writes web and technology bloggs. He also has training grants and he did informal traveling in Europe, US, Japan and Coreea.

ro:newmedia 5.0

Ro: newmedia starts  the  5th edition. The most important event dedicated to the digital industry in Romania is now more spectacular than ever.
During the 2 days event, you can attend conferences and workshops powered by  the undisputed leaders of the Internet.

For the first time in Romania, top speakers from  Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo will fight for supremacy in the same event.
 Take advantage of this opportunity so you can be up to date with the latest news about all the hip and hi-tech digital innovations.

Come and be a part of ro:newmedia exhibitions and experience brand new cutting-edge technologies.

Here you can socialize with the most popular players from the  new media business and you can find success case studies among the awarded works and performances, that will win the Ro: WebDesign, Ro: WebTV and Ro: WebCampaign Trophies.

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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 .