Brent is passionate about all things data and technology, spending almost 15 years working with brands across the world to deliver a return on investment in data and data technology. Brent currently leads the Asia Pacific, Customer Success team for Salesforce Datorama, partnering with agencies, publishers and brands to drive the adoption of data driven decisions for marketing across organisations. Prior to Salesforce Datorama, Brent led Customer Success teams across other adtech and martech companies.
I am passionate about leading innovation in the world of marketing and communications. Innovation that leads to an inspiring workplace for internal teams, rewarding alliances for partners and a profitable business for the overall organisation I represent.
With experience spanning all types of marketing and categories (from Brand, to Creative ATL, to Digital, to CRM and to Media), I have been part of marketing leadership teams for the past 12 years.
A strategist originally by trade, I have progressed to leading agency and client teams across Strategy, Search, Digital Media, UX/ CX, Data, Digital Production, Martech/Adtech and Programmatic.
Despite my move into more leadership positions in recent times, I have never lost my passion for the work and the thinking plus technology that fuels it. Keeping a hands-on role in the development of award winning campaigns (including Cannes, Cristal and Festival of Media). Inspiring great talent to produce outstanding, impactful work is what continues to excite me about this industry. I believe delivering this with passion and authenticity is the top priority, to ensure profitable success always follows.
xceptional award winning senior marketeer with over 20 years integrated experience, much of it digital, gained from working in Blue Chip companies such as Electronic Arts, The Walt Disney Company, consulting for FMCG – Unilever, youth orientated Nike, as well as digital media agency experience with WPP’s MindShare World Wide, PHD International, Starcom Worldwide & NZ and recently the financial sector for Bank of New Zealand as digital media director.
Nick is currently at Kiwibank as Head of Performance Marketing, NZ and also in the top 1% of LinkedIn profiles viewed in the last year.
Senior executive with over 25 years experience working in the media & digital industry in strategy, analyst, research and data roles. Helping businesses identify opportunities by combining audience, consumer & commercial information.
Experienced digital leader focused on delivering customer centered business solutions.
Ben Whall is one of the leading experts in programmatic buying operating in the media agency ecosystem. He directed one of the largest agency trading desks in the UK after initially creating one of the first decentralised programmatic buying units to exist within an agency. He has frequently consulted on the technology roadmap for major programmatic platforms as well as being a regular speaker at industry round tables and events.
Leading the Investment team at MediaCom, working with our talented Connected Execution and Investment planners across data, tech and tools to deliver best in class connected media systems for our clients.
Paul is a media sales executive with 20+ years industry experience. He specialises in building creative brand solutions that deliver a deeper level of engagement for his clients. Paul’s marketing solutions approach means that he is focused on building long term partnerships with a focus on impact and real world success metrics. He is a proven leader that has led organization change in an evolving media landscape to deliver results through innovation.
Uttam has been working in Digital for over a decade and worked across a number of different industries including Telco, Finance and most recently the Energy sector. Uttam specialises in performance driven marketing with an emphasis on Search, Programmatic and Personalisation. Currently working at AGL, Uttam has pioneered organisational transformation in Digital Marketing. Data, insights and marketing automation have been key drivers for this change.
Over 17 years of experience within the media industry, commencing in 2002 and progressing through various agency functions including; trading, planning, client management, strategy and agency management, across Australia and Singapore. In 2010, David joined IPG Mediabrands’ owned agency UM. In 2014 David was appointed to General Manager of UM Sydney leading the office operations and client management function. 2016 saw David move to Singapore in the position of Managing Director for IPG Mediabrands Singapore, overseeing agencies including UM and Initiative as well as the integrated capabilities powered by the holding group. David moved into the position of CEO in 2018.
David has many career highlights including: – Agency of the Year (UM Australia) 2013, 2014 & 2015 – Campaign Asia 40 Under 40 in 2017 David is a highly effective agency leader and has been noted with doubling the Singapore business over the past three years. David is a firm believer that people are the true product of any agency and that as a leader, it is a critical priority to attract, develop and retain the best talent to ensure that long term careers are a reality for the future of the advertising and media industry.
Nick Barnett is an independent contractor & consultant who works with senior digital & marketing leaders in banking to reduce customer losses to competitors and generate new sales. He has spent the last 15 years implementing Digital, Marketing, Data and Technology strategies for a variety of advertisers, ranging from Banking and Fintech through to Consumer Electronics and Telco. Brands Nick has worked with include Samsung, Philips, Uno Home Loans and, most recently, a 7-year tenure with Westpac and St.George. .
A proven track record in leading digital transformation strategies and new digital products that achieve commercial growth. In my current role at News Corp I’ve led the development of a publisher-first, SaaS data and advertising sales platform. With deep experience of digital and data platform development, I lead cross-functional teams in commercially-driven technology change.
With over 12+ years digital experience and 8+ years in programmatic, Adele has secured a reputation as one of the top authorities on programmatic media trading in Australia and the broader APAC region.
Adele got her first taste of the power of technology in the digital ecosystem straight out of university, optimising the performance campaigns for advertisers at two market leading publishers in Australia. For Adele, technology has allowed her to develop a childhood love of solving puzzles into a career focused on tackling complex issues for digital publishers and buyers.
Making the transition into the technology space in early 2012, Adele furthered her expertise in programmatic by working with exchange technology and began consulting for CoLab Media Consulting in 2016 before her appointment as Country Manager at Index Exchange in 2017. As one of the first employees in APAC, she was tasked with growing IX’s footprint by building a team and educating publishers and buyers on the promise of programmatic media. In 2019, Adele was appointed as Regional Managing Director and is responsible for overseeing the company’s operations, strategic direction and future growth opportunities for the APAC region.
Big-picture, data-savvy people person often found pacing or in some other state of locomotion, especially when devising a solution to a particularly interesting problem.
Alex is a business leader and 360 degree communications specialist with 14 years’ experience in both Sydney and London. He has a proven track record across multiple disciplines; markets and product sectors, with his core skillset resting in four areas – client service, leadership, execution and business development.
As the APAC lead for leading discovery platform Outbrain, Andrew manages teams across India, China, Australia and Singapore working with brands and publishers. In a career spanning more than 20 years, Andrew has worked across businesses in the digital, agency, media and finance sectors. He completed his Executive studies (Finance) at the Harvard Business School.
Andrew’s executive experience has been developed with a range of CEO/MD roles in both the public and private sectors, and he is known for his ability to manage complex environments, develop high performance teams and has played a pivotal role in launching consumer and business brands across different markets.
Dan Stinton is the Managing Director of the Guardian. He has over 20 years’ experience working in media and technology, starting out as a print journalist for The West Australian and Editor of Scoop Magazine before moving to digital as Director of Business Development for Yahoo7. He spent most of the last decade with Yahoo7 in Sydney working across news, e-commerce, classifieds and search as Director of Business Development before co-founding eBev as Managing Director – a technology platform for the wholesale wine trade. Dan holds a Bachelor of Arts (English) from Curtin University and MBA from the University of Western Australia.
Roger leads Fulcrum’s Customer Innovation capability and partnerships strategy. Roger has worked both within major financial institutions such as Westpac NZ and Australia, leading the development of cutting edge data lead solutions as well as advising blue-chip organisations globally. He is a recognised thought leader in the critical areas of data-driven CX, propensity modelling, customer on-boarding and retention.
Before Fulcrum Roger was a director in the Westpac NZ Ventures team and before joining Westpac was Director of Digital and Innovation at Auckland University of Technology where his team implemented and managed multi-channel data-driven marketing automation across all digital channels.
Stephanie Famolaro is a senior executive at The Trade Desk and leads the business development team in ANZ, as well as the API/Platform Customisation initiative in APAC.
In her role, she is responsible for building relationships with leading agencies and brands in the region to develop intellectual property that helps solve each advertisers’ unique challenges. Before joining The Trade Desk in 2017, she worked at leading media technology company AOL (now Verizon Media) as Head of Platform Sales.
Famolaro brings over a decade of industry-related experience working in publisher, network and ad technology business.
She holds an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Sydney Business School and a Bachelor of Media and Communications from the University of Technology Sydney.
Jodi Fraser is an advertising evangelist. With 18 years’ experience in media in agency and on the sales side, she knows how to turn great ideas into revenue.
Throughout her career, she has worked with major global and local brands across most categories, with her focus being on Telco, Consumer Electronics QSR and Retail. Jodi started out as a Television buyer on Consumer Electronics and FMCG, and now runs Publicis’ successful Premium Programmatic video product, Publicis Screen, as well as managing Digital partnerships.
A digital media veteran, Phil Cowlishaw is Head of Adobe Advertising Cloud for the Asia Pacific. Phil joined Adobe via the company’s acquisition of TubeMogul, where he was vice president of strategy, responsible for identifying, developing, and implementing customised solutions to help clients fully utilise TubeMogul’s software platform to meet their brand advertising needs effectively. Before TubeMogul, Phil was head of technology at Ikon Communications in Australia and head of media operations at Blue Barracuda in London.
Eric Burke is the Brand Manager of Gatorade at Pepsi Co, having also managed Doritos. His previous role was Marketing Coordinator at David Jones, where he was responsible for managing vendor funded marketing campaigns across the fashion, accessories and home to support strategic commercial initiatives.
Peter Barry is an accomplished senior executive with a demonstrated history of over 17 years in business development and management across ad tech, print, and radio.
Currently, Peter oversees PubMatic’s operations across Australia and New Zealand with the drive to inspire buyer confidence and ensure a transparent and fraud-free programmatic supply chain. He is also an existing member of IAB Australia’s Executive Technology Council.
Ayal Steiner is VP, Global Ad Revenue at Outbrain, leading advertising sales and commercial strategy globally.
Steiner joined Outbrain in 2012 to launch Australia and New Zealand markets.
He later became the managing director of the APAC business and oversaw expansion into several markets in Asia.
In 2017, he became Vice President of International Revenue to lead commercial strategy and revenues across all markets outside the US before being promoted to VP, Global Ad Revenue leading the company’s demand and monetization strategy.
Chi Lo is the Director of Accounts, ANZ at the Trade Desk and has been with the company for over two years. In his role, Chi is responsible for leading the Client Services team. Chi is actively involved in building relationships with client leadership and managing The Trade Desk’s client facing personnel. He is an experienced keynote speaker, industry writer and an active educator and was listed in the AdNews 2020 Emerging Leaders list. Chi has experience in three global markets having worked in digital media in Australia, Hong Kong and New York. He brings a breadth of work from having run start-ups all the way to representing Enterprise SaaS companies for over a decade. Chi has completed coursework at Harvard Business School as well as being an advisory board member for Rutgers University Business School in New Jersey, USA.
Benni Lucas is an innovative digital marketing director at PHD Media who lives and breathes his clients’ business and marketing challenges and uses his expertise to deliver tangible business results.
Benni has been instrumental in the transformation of the SAP marketing strategy through the creation of the I.D.E.A (Intelligent Demand Engine Accelerator) framework, which has delivered phenomenal results through both ROAS and media efficiency for SAP.
If Benni wasn’t deep and dirty whilst analysing data for his client group, you could find him discovering some of Sydney’s best restaurants or cocktail bars.
Viki is the Business Marketing Operations Director at SAP Australia. Viki was born in South Africa, and emigrated to the UK in the year 2000, joining the SAP EMEA Program Management team via the acquisition of Business Objects in 2008. After a successful stint at the Regional level, Viki joined the SAP Global team as the Integrated Program Lead for Finance related campaigns in 2014, with 2017 seeing Viki relocate to Australia, where later that same year she joined the Australian team in her current capacity. Viki has significant experience in project managing and running integrated programs across the buyer’s journey and across multiple channels including Paid Media. Viki is passionate about all things marketing and mentoring junior members of the team to achieve excellence.
A marketer-turned-enterpreneur, Travis Teo is co-founder and executive director of Adzymic, a multi-award winning ad tech company that helps brands and agencies simplify their creative management processes and improve their display advertising performance.
Before Adzymic, he worked at SAP where he led the digital media practices for the Asia Pacific region, including programmatic media, paid social, paid search and global media innovation. In a career that has spanned more than 14 years across technology companies such as HP, as well as an agency stint with OgilvyOne as senior consultant, he has a wealth of experience in digital marketing, CRM, data analytics and media.
Angus is the Commercial Director for ANZ at Adform, a leading global independent adtech company headquartered out of Copenhagen. Executing upon the company’s growth strategy, Angus is responsible for building Adform’s regional footprint with global and local partners on both buy and sell-side. Angus also works closely with a team of pre-sales and platform consultants to deliver and implement bespoke solutions. He brings 10 years of experience across creative advertising, media and adtech to the table and outside of working life, can usually be found somewhere on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Juozas Petravičius is the Commercial Director for the SEA region at Adform. Whilst leading the commercial growth and expansion within South-East Asia, JP also supports as a subject matter expert for the wider APAC region. A former Software Engineer and Solutions Architect by trade, he’s worked on both buy and sell side adtech solutions and carries a deep technical knowledge of the entire ecosystem. JP is also a member of IAB SEA+India Tech Lab working group, focussed on Identity.
Lee Davis is the Digital Performance Director at The Media Precinct, one of Australia’s top independent media agencies. Leading the trading and analytics functions of the agency, Lee’s core objective is to accelerate business growth through media performance, data intelligence and consultancy. Lee has over 11 years of advertising experience spanning the United Kingdom, North America, Australia & New Zealand.
Chris Keune leads the data innovation practice at Kargo, bringing over a decade of advertising, data science, and research experience. As an inventor, he currently has patents that focus on automated branding performance and audience experience optimizations.
Darren Woolley is considered a thought leader on all aspects of marketing management. A Problem Solver, Negotiator, Founder & Global CEO of TrinityP3 – Marketing Management Consultants, founding member of the Marketing FIRST Forum, Podcaster, and Author. He is also a Past-Chair of the Australian Marketing Institute, Past President of the Melbourne Advertising and Design Club, Ex-Medical Scientist, and Ex-Creative Director.
Having started during the heady boom days of late 90’s San Francisco, Deirdre McGlashan has been involved in all aspects of digital marketing throughout her career, from strategy to media to technical development and everything in between.
As Global Chief Digital Officer for MediaCom, her role is to ensure the full power of technology and interactivity is utilised to unlock business growth for clients’ brands, from thinking about the entire marketing system when developing communications solutions, to harnessing and using different types of data for identifying opportunities, solutioning and execution, through to delivering specialist excellence in activation.
Having this understanding of the holistic digital picture and experience with how things are built from the very beginning has given her a strong base to help clients make the most of their communication system.
Harry Kargman is the founder and CEO of Kargo, the leading mobile brand advertising marketplace. Harry was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016. Under his leadership over the last 15+ years, Harry has transformed Kargo from a small start-up into one of the advertising industry’s fastest- growing and most innovative technology companies — announced as an Inc. 500 winner in 2015. Harry sits on the Advertising Council Board of Directors. His experience building Kargo from the ground up has given him a deep understanding of the latest trends. He is a frequent speaker and panelist at CES, IAB, Advertising Week, Websummit, Cannes and other advertising and technology conferences, and has been featured in The NYTimes, The Today Show, AdAge, Bloomberg, Fox Business, The Wall Street Journal, NPR and dozens of other media outlets.
Harry graduated with honors from Harvard College, where he is now an advisor to young entrepreneurs through the Harvard Innovation Lab. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
In 2006, Lisa started as a Manager at American Express in the UK working in an International team to develop strategies that enhanced online acquisition capabilities across all global markets. After being promoted to a Senior Manager, she joined the Australian team managing a range of online and offline channels to drive acquisition growth. After joining the American Express product team to launch 4 new test products across Australia and New Zealand, she took on additional responsibility to lead the Digital Acquisition and Partnership team across ANZ. Lisa and her team are passionate about delivering flawless customer centric digital acquisition experiences, using data to help drive strategies.
Lindsay is Chief Executive of the Association of New Zealand Advertisers (ANZA). A career marketer, Lindsay worked for Glaxo, Fletcher Challenge and Research International, before an extensive career with Unilever and the opportunity to work with iconic brands including Lynx, Dove, Persil and Streets. He was New Zealand Director for Unilever and an Executive Director on the Unilever Australasia Board.
Lindsay is a Board Member of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and has held Board positions on a number of industry organisations including the Food & Grocery Council, ECR Australasia and the Market Research Society.
Away from the day job, Lindsay is on the Board of Tennis New Zealand and theatre company, Tadpole Productions, balancing interests in both sports and the arts.
Angela leads a team of talented marketers who both acquire and retain loyal customers for Optus. They were a large part of the Marketing team that took Optus to Australia’s strongest brand in the 2020 Brand Finance Index, with their work spanning from high impact TVCs to direct customer marketing. Her team has delivered many Australia-first initiatives, including implementing AI-led digital media buying and leading real-time OOH creative optimisation.
Maria is currently enjoying the challenge of leading two consulting practices at UM Australia, a leading media agency. Specialising in Marketing Effectiveness and Data & Technology, she is also a member of the UM leadership team. Responsible for leading UM’s growth marketing consulting practice, she supports clients across a range of data-driven programs spanning a breadth of industries including Government, Telco, Finance, Fast Moving / Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail and Food Service Delivery.
Alex is a business leader and 360 degree communications specialist with 14 years’ experience in both Sydney and London. He has a proven track record across multiple disciplines; markets and product sectors, with his core skillset resting in four areas – client service, leadership, execution and business development.
Yvonne Adele is a Corporate Event Speaker, MC and Business Consultant. She started in tech-support at Microsoft in Australia, then Europe before starting her own consultancy assisting Australian businesses to get the most out of technology. Since her 10yr stint on national television, Yvonne has travelled the world as a Speaker on the topics of Innovation and Digital Marketing. She shines a light on the experiences of consumers from their perspective in her engaging presentations.
Adam Singolda is the founder and CEO at Taboola, the largest discovery platform, serving over 450 billion recommendations of articles, blogs, videos, products and apps to over 1.4 billion unique users every month.
Taboola serves personalized content recommendations, partnering with the world’s top publishers, brands, and marketers to drive audience development, engagement, and monetization. Taboola also empowers editorial, product, and sales teams with solutions built around real-time page optimization, robust native advertising offerings, and more.
Adam has spoken on stage at TEDx, Collision, Kaltura Connect, Business Insider’s IGNITION, ClickZ LIVE, Advertising Week, 360i Marketing Summit, Web Summit, Landmark Ventures Media Technology Summit, Streaming Media, NAB, NewTeeVee, ELEVATE, Meetup, and MIT (Sloan). He has also appeared in broadcast TV interviews on Bloomberg West, CNBC, and Fox Business.
Antonia is a passionate media and marketing professional. She spent the first years of her career on the media agency side in the UK and then Sydney, gaining experience across global brands in automotive, finance, telco and FMCG sectors.
She then moved client side to Nestlé in 2012, working for the world’s largest Food manufacturer. Antonia currently leads the media, content and data transformation of the Oceania business, working with iconic brands like KIT KAT, MILO, MAGGI and NESCAFÉ.
Ant is a veteran New Zealand media specialist with over 17 years of experience working for some of the big media agencies like Colenso BBDO, DDB, and DraftFCB. He is New Zealand’s most experienced programmatic strategist and manages Acquire’s account service team. His digital and strategic thinking is unrivaled and is an important part of the value we provide to all our clients.
At ASB, Shane and his team take responsibility for the brand and marketing of all products, services, segments, customer communications, digital marketing and are committed to helping NZ communities through their community, sponsorship and events portfolio.
Shane’s career kicked off in the marketing graduate programme with Australia Post (Melbourne) in 2000. Moving to London in 2004, he was part of the team that led the global re-brand of Aviva across 28 markets, rebranding over 50 brands including Norwich Union, the UK’s largest insurer, to a single global brand. This was quoted as the ‘slickest rebranding exercise in corporate history’ by the Times in 2009. Before joining Aviva he spent three years freelancing at two brand agencies in London and a year with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
His passion lies in understanding how digital is changing customers’ lives and responding through innovative propositions and solutions. This has manifested itself in Clever Kash – our world first digital money-box.
His team prides itself in creativity and has won over 80 NZ and global awards including; The EFFIES (Most Effective Client), NZDM Awards (Grand Prix, Most Effective, Marketer of the year – Vanessa Morris), AXIS (Client of the Year, Grand AXIS), The BEACONS (Most Effective), a GOLD LION, a WEBBY, 10 PENCILS and also winning the NZ & Australian CBA Group team of the year.
Mike Shaughnessy is a veteran in the digital media space. As the SVP of Operations & Partnerships at Kargo, Mike helps publishers maximize their performance with exclusive advertising opportunities while helping brands reach their audiences in unique ways within premium content environments. Before joining Kargo, Mike was the VP of Revenue at Bauer, where he helped drive record online growth.
Zane leads the ad-tech and strategic partnerships at Acquire, building their capabilities and reputation to an internationally renowned standard. Zane has extensive experience buying and selling media programmatically and is always challenging publishers and tech vendors. He also heads Acquire Enterprise and our in-housing of programmatic capabilities for some of NZ’s leading brands. Like rust, Zane never sleeps.
Anda Gansca is the Co-Founder and CEO of Knotch, a content intelligence platform enabling companies like Amazon, Facebook, Walmart, Bank of America, Salesforce and others to plan for breakthrough content, as well as measure and optimize it across channels. A regular thought leadership contributor to the trade media and industry at-large, Anda has been named to both Forbes’ and Inc.’s annual 30-Under-30 lists, AdWeek’s Young Influential List, Campaign’s Female Frontiers List, and AdWeek’s Top 100 Creatives, to name a few.