JON BURKHART

Keynote Speaker

Content Strategist, Author, Copywriter. Jon inspires brands to be more curious and keep attention longer. He co-authored Newsjacking: The Urgent Genius of Real-time Advertising, Hacker Maker Teacher Thief and Constant Curiosity.

Jon is the first person to speak at the world’s largest tech festival South By Southwest Interactive 6 years in a row.

He’s board member of Sports And Entertainment Alliance In Technology (SEAT) where the NBA/NFL/NHL/MLS/MLB/Premier League marketing/tech folk swap notes.

John has built newsrooms to kick-start real-time content creation. He leads fun workshops on creativity, brainstorming, storytelling, content/influencer/social strategy, real-time marketing and fan engagement.

ALESSANDRO MATTEO ANGILELLA

Keynote Speaker

Alessandro has 20 years of experience in managing complex projects for online market focus on e-commerce projects with broad knowledge of multichannel retail, content management, digital transition, change management.

His specialties include general management, startup, sales and marketing, e-commerce operations, CRM, business development, category management, e-book & digital content, online presence and communication, licensing.

Dragan Varagic

Internet Academy

E-Business Transformation Strategist, e-Business Development Consultant and Educator. He is in e-Business from 1998. He is the owner of www.draganvaragic.com blog, owner of online press releases distribution service www.PRobjave.com and he is also a founder of the Influence Marketing project www.bloggersnetwork.org.rs. He did and do the various online services for more than 100 big clients, including Coca-Cola, UniCredit Bank, Erste Bank, Lafarge-Holcim Consortium, UNICEF, IFC – World Bank Group, etc.

Dragan coordinates e-Business postgraduate studies (www.iimeuro.uns.ac.rs) at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad and he is a partner in Internet Academy Belgrade. His latest book is all about Digital Pre-Marketing.

Barbara Slade Jagodic

Content strategist /SEO copywriter

Digital marketing consultant and one of the most sought after speaker on SEO content writing in the region. She was among the first web journalists, bloggers and community managers in Croatia, now specializing in digital branding through storytelling.

On a national level, her project was awarded the first prize in the area of content marketing. After leaving a corporate job, where she was responsible for online communication of some strong brands such as Jana, PIK Vrbovec or Zvijezda, she’s been working on various projects from travel to pharmaceutical industry helping them brand themselves online.

Barbara is a senior lecturer at London School of Public Relations Croatia and a startup mentor in ZIP Algebra incubator. 

Barbara has taken up the challenge to rebrand Croatian Youth Hostel Association, holding the position of CMO.

Goran Jankuloski

Ziska.rs

Goran entered advertising in 2011 as a member of the digital team in Executive Group. Working for numerous regional and big local brands he quickly moved to different positions. In 2015 he was leading the digital team who was responsible for clients such as Coca-Cola, Fanta, Schweppes, United Media, Erste Bank and SBB.

Goran has won Somoborac, Kaktus, IAB MIXX and many other digital marketing awards.
In September 2016 he started his own creative agency Žiška servicing clients in the field of digital strategy, content production and web design.

Miloš Skokić

Ziska.rs

After spending some time as part of the design industry, Miloš entered the digital marketing career in 2013 as part of the digital marketing team at Communis DDB. In this period he was responsible for the online presence of some of the biggest FMCG brands on the market. He worked for clients such as Serbia’s State Lottery, Heineken, Samsung, and others. In 2015 he won a Somoborac award for a WhatsApp campaign he had made for the brand Sweeet.

In 2015 his focus was on the social media presence of The Coca-Cola Company where he developed some of the biggest influencer marketing projects in the region. Miloš and his team are responsible for the awards winning Fanta Instagram accounts which stay on the top of the list or biggest brand teen community in Serbia.

Miloš is a managing partner of digital agency Žiška.

Jah Ying Chung

The Good Growth Co.

Founder and Air Marshal of Launchpilots, an online partnership platform connecting student leaders with brand sponsorships. Brands work Launchpilots to engage and empower students across China with their products and programs. 

With a network of over 25,000 student leaders in 16 countries, Launchpilots has created over 100 campaigns for brands like Adidas, L’Oreal and Airbnb, and connected students across Asia with over HK$1,000,000 worth of cash and in-kind sponsorships. Launchpilots was acquired by US-China influencer platform, Robin8, in 2017.

Jah Ying started her first business at 10, selling selectively bred hamsters to her teachers and members of online communities. Since then, she continued to build up her entrepreneurial and community building skills while launching environmental campaigns and social enterprise projects for global climate change NGO.

Neil Cocker

ramptshirts.com

 creative and digital/tech industries consultant, working with lots of organizations (including Downing Street, Tech City, Welsh Government, Cardiff Council etc), and delivering talks on creative business etc…

Founder and managing director of Dizzyjam, an e-commerce and merchandising service for the independent music industry.

Co-founder of Cardiff Start, a network of digital and tech startups in the city. A bit of backround here.

Founder of NOCCI, global network of creative, entrepreneurial, or just downright interesting folks. I founded this in 2007 but it is currently on an indefinite hiatus.

In early 2009 he set up a quick, temporary wifi map just for Cardiff, but the idea rapidly expanded to other cities and other countries. Now, he is in the process of setting up a global wifi map with Chris Duran. It will be a “wikipedia of wifimaps”, and truly user generated.

NEDIM SABIC

Senior Digital Marketing Consultant

Nedim has more than 16 years of experience in digital marketing. His focus is SEO, but he has a great expertise in Facebook Ads, Google Adwords and email marketing, too. Nedim is a serial entrepreneur and currently focusing at his senior consultant business in Germany by helping unicorns to build a unique marketing strategy.

Among his clients you can find Bosch, ThyssenKrupp, Porsche, several banks and huge portals, REWE etc. He is one of the founders of the regional digital marketing conference „Konverzija“. 

Marjola Xhelili

Vodafone Albania

Head of Digital Transformation at Vodafone Albania.

Marjola has over 15 years of experience in brand and marketing communication management. She has lead the strategy, development and execution of large scale campaigns and events. Marjola has created strong brand communications that has brought Vodafone Albania to become the most loved and inspiring brand in the local market.

With new digital trends raising up in the communication and content writing, Marjola is currently leading the digital transformation at Vodafone Albania, with a large focus on digital customer experience, e-commerce and digital self-service.