Monika Oomen is Vice President of Brand, Communications and Digital Content Strategy for Warner Bros. Discovery’s kids brands and platforms in EMEA. An award-winning brand strategy expert, she leads an international team across brand growth, franchise development, partnerships, and the execution of innovative content marketing strategies, including digital experiences and PR initiatives for epic brands like Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Cartoonito and Boing across EMEA. In this role, Monika has spearheaded industry-leading integrated marketing campaigns championing climate change initiatives. Her data-driven approach has most recently seen Cartoon Network’s Climate Champions winning silver for “Best Campaign of the Year” at the 2022 Global Good Awards. Monika advocates out-of-the-box thinking and is always on a mission to find innovative and fun ways to engage with audiences, resulting in the most recent recognition for Cartoon Network’s interactive game on Roblox, winning the Broadcast Digital Award for Best Digital Support for a Strand, Channel or Genre with CN: Game On! Prior to joining Warner Bros. Discovery in 2021, Oomen spent 15 years in senior leadership roles at The Walt Disney Company and Viacom.

From Building Agencies to Making Stuff Go Viral… VJ Is Your Guy. Former Senior Vice President of Creative of Gojek – Indonesia’s first decacorn tech giant, and then the Regional Head of Creative and Managing Partner of Vaynermedia APAC - VJ is your go-to guy if you want your brand to be the Talk of The Town. At Gojek, VJ helped grow an internal Creative team from 10 people to a 120-strong team. He headed up the Creative, Social, In-app Content, and Activation for the Indonesian decacorn. He helped rebrand them in his last months at Gojek and created sonic branding sounds for the Indonesian giant. His last piece of work which was a music video with Rich Brian for Gojek went viral, leading to a hire by Gary Vaynerchuk to help build Vaynermedia APAC. Here, VJ came into an agency of four people and helped grow it to an agency of 221. Here, VJ has run numerous global and regional campaigns for SK-II, Google, Disney+, Subway and several other brands; his most recent global work involved conceptualising and shooting a music video with John Legend for the SK-II brand. VJ was recently nominated for the South East Asian Creative Person of the Year Award. Recently just moved to become the ECD for Vaynermedia EMEA and Global.

With more than 12 years of experience in brand building through effective and distinctive communication. I started my career on the agency side working as an account manager in JWT Caracas. After a couple of years I moved to Barcelona to continue my studies and had the pleasure to work for brands like Barcelona Football Club and Barcelona Regal. Finally after opening my own restaurant in Barcelona I transitioned to the client side to work for ALDI Spain. Currently I work at Nestlé in one of the categories that is close to my heart, as a pet lover: Pet Care.

With over two decades of experience in sales and marketing, he is the most internationally and locally awarded marketer in Sri Lanka. He oversees the agency businesses of Isobar, GPR, Response, and Juice Productions as Vice President at dentsu communications. Previously, he served as A/Director—Digital Strategy for GroupM Sri Lanka and as "Head of Digital" for Team Unilever and Mindshare Sri Lanka. Among the 130-plus awards he has received, he is the only individual to have been a part of eight Effie Gold-winning teams. His efforts have resulted in Sri Lanka's two most significant global marketing awards. Additionally, he has served on the juries for The Drum Awards, Cresta Awards, Effies, NYF Advertising Awards, MMA Smarties, Dragons of Asia, and WINA awards. He is an instructor at the "M.AD" (Miami Ad School), the most awarded creative institution in the world. In addition, over the past seven years, his lectures have assisted over 6,000 students and business owners in adopting digital marketing. Many of his articles have appeared in the world's most prestigious publications, making him the most widely published digital expert in Sri Lanka. With over 400 articles, lectures, conference appearances, and a few quotes to his credit, he has become one of the most respected thought leaders in the industry.

Ana is the founder of Spark & Riot, a female powered production and management company in Los Angeles. It was her love and respect for documentaries, which began at an early age that inspired her to weave social action with entertainment. That inspiration was further enhanced at the University of Southern California film school, where she directed and produced several documentaries. Her goal has since been to embed social action into the production process by partnering with NGOs and weaving purpose into every shoot. That has ranged from hiring a majority minority crew to championing her crew to install water filtration systems in some of the most underprivileged neighborhoods in Mexico. Beyond commercials, branded content and music videos, Ana has also produced feature length documentaries, feature films, and digital content. Her latest documentary series, #IMPACT, co-executive produced with Gal Gadot, was released in 2021 by Disney+. She has also been focused on anything ‘international’ for the last decade. Her company manages more than 20 foreign and minority directors and owns IP in at least five different languages. Together, with her directors and other development creatives, Ana represents a multitude of multicultural and multi-language projects. Ana brings over a decade of production and line production experience and has worked alongside some of the top commercial and music video directors. Throughout her years producing a diverse portfolio of projects, Ana fed her passion for telling real stories with real people, traveling the world and developing content with storytellers along the way. Ana is currently executive producing two feature film documentaries that are currently in production and two English language scripted series both in development with studio partners.

Vik leads creative and brand strategy for Accenture Song Life Sciences. He's spent his career working in healthcare agencies of record as well as healthcare technology start-ups focused on raising awareness of healthcare brands, disease education, and overall health and wellness. Vik believes in bringing a "human" empathetic touch to healthcare advertising and communications to ensure these important healthcare topics are reaching their respective audiences—patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.

Responsible for Immediate's Commercial Content Studio, Imagine, which delivers partnership content across Immediate brands including BBC Good Food, Radio Times and BBC Gardeners' World. Previously Head of Commercial Content at Northern & Shell. Former Digital Content Director at OK! magazine and a print and digital editor with 20+ years of experience.

Senior Director, Brand at Day One Agency with a focus on CPG + spirit brands. Advertising professional with 8+ years agency experience in the social and digital space. Previous shops include Havas NY and Annex88, working across a variety of Clients in fashion, beauty and lifestyle.

Mel is currently Head of Content at LADbible Australia; managing multi-disciplinary teams across editorial, social, video, production and creative strategy. Mel and her team have achieved phenomenal editorial and social success since launching in 2019; and to date, LADbible Australia is ranked #1 in Facebook views and #2 in Facebook engagements in the world. Mel is based in Sydney, Australia; and over the last decade, Mel has worked for major digital media publishers including The LifeStyle Group, Yahoo! and Allure Media.

Chris Brody is a former hip-hop artist and producer who has spent the past 14 years as a marketing leader for big consumer brands like M&M’S, SKITTLES, DIGIORNO and ORBIT. As M&M’S Global Content Architect, Chris currently leads all content for Mars Wrigley’s iconic $3.5 Billion brand. He has overseen a record-breaking stretch of cultural resonance and growth for M&M’S over the past few years, including its purpose-driven relaunch, the debut of its new character Purple, multiple successful Super Bowls and several awards for creative excellence and effectiveness.

Originally from Brazil, Kim has over 17 years of career crafting brand experiences on and off the platform world, with a special focus on owned and earned media, driving consumer engagement and contextual communication across digital touchpoints, social media, influencers & celebrity marketing, experiential events and PR.

He’s developed projects for a variety of global brands such as NIVEA, Netflix, P&G, Ferrero, Huawei, Spotify, Philip Morris International, Coca-Cola, Diesel and Tinder.

Kim is currently based in Germany, acting as Chief Content Officer for Publicis One Touch, Publicis Groupe`s global bespoke agency for NIVEA.

LEONE is an award-winning film director and photographer, born and raised in San Salvo and based in Milan. Though he has lived in a big city for years, LEONE has kept with him and as part of his work a predilection for all those things reminding him of his past and his home. He likes creating extraordinary stories, often with a refined comic twist even in tragedy. LEONE likes nice stories, but mostly he likes to tell them nicely. That’s why in 2010 he started K48, his very own production company based in Milan. In 2016 he became publisher and partner of C41 Magazine. In 2021 C41 magazine and K48 blended their worlds into a company called C41.eu, a creative production company. LEONE is represented by C41.eu and Bollywood Productions.

Lisa is currently responsible for launching and developing FOND OF’s kids brands (Affenzahn, ergobag & satch) across Europe. Previously she led the in-house content production unit at FOND OF and held various strategy consulting roles working with the likes of Dove, Magnum, Axe and other global brands.

Copywriter by trade, Tudor heads up all things ideation at 1000heads London. With stints in media, ATL, digital and social, his work spans everything from film to immersive and more. His focus lies in digital craft, using its potential to tell new stories, or old stories in new ways. He enjoys work that speaks to the culture from which it hails.

20+ years making stuff that makes people smile, laugh, or think. Born in CHI, raised in NY. Currently a VP GCD at Cramer Krasselt, Chicago.

Karishma is an accomplished marketing and brand strategy leader with over a decade of experience in the CPG, services, arts, and media categories. With her extensive agency background, she has successfully crafted integrated strategies for renowned brands such as L’Oréal Paris, GoDaddy, MGM Resorts, and more, delivering comprehensive customer journeys and innovative solutions to address business challenges. As the former marketing lead for the Whitney Museum, Karishma fostered deep connections between the museum and the local New York community, particularly amidst the challenges posed by the pandemic. She is currently, a global brand manager at LinkedIn where she continues to drive creative value for members worldwide.

Stephanie is an experienced content strategist with a hugely varied background accumulated over two decades in the business - in-house and agency side, across channels, audiences, brands and businesses and INGOs, creative strategy and digital advocacy. Previously Head of Content Strategy at Weber Shandwick, she founded her own company, Arbor Communications, in 2021. Her team of consultants specialise in 'the telling' - the making of a good story into a great one - through fanatical attention to detail and an obsession with real impact.

Ayumi Nakajima has over 17 years of experience in marketing consulting, consumer tech, and international expansion. She has worked in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, and now Singapore, where she leads the content team at Pinterest, overseeing the APAC region. Prior to joining Pinterest, she was an early employee at Facebook, and helped to launch the ads business in APAC. Before venturing into consumer tech, Ayumi spent her initial years at Nielsen where she consulted Fortune 100 CPG companies on their go-to-market strategy in Greater China and Japan.

Mark has spent over 13 years creating content from being a part of editorial teams in print and digital publications, including The Rake and Esquire Singapore, as well as being a pioneering member of of Mediacorp's award-winning content marketing arm, Brand Studio Labs. He currently works closely with a dedicated team of content creators at TEAM LEWIS who bring their experience in editorial, copywriting and video creation to create data-driven content strategies and executions for clients.

I run Grab's team of storytellers. Previously created the South China Morning Post's award-winning YouTube channel, Goldthread, and was Mashable's Asia bureau chief.

Yolanda Valery is a digital content and social consultant working with clients in the B2B and B2C space. Formerly Head of Digital Engagement for Ocado Group and Head of Social Media for BBC World Service Languages, she has a rounded understanding of content and distribution - including a real heat of big empty words and anything that doesn't start with the question: what value is the audience going to get from this?

Chris has over 13 years’ experience in digital content and currently leads the Content Design team at BT and EE.

David is the managing partner of WiredCo., one of APAC's leading and fastest-growing creative and media businesses, and a Campaign Asia Social, Content and Specialist Agency of the Year. With 20 years agency and client-side experience, he's been lucky enough to work on awesome brands and award-winning campaigns at both a global level in the UK, and closer to home in Sydney.

As Head of Marketing for BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions, Imogen is responsible for creating campaigns on the issues that are shaping society today. Imogen has led multiple award-winning campaigns across sectors as diverse as health, climate, sport and science, all striving to ignite conversations and shift perceptions of global audiences. Previously working in education and sports sectors, Imogen has a passion for storytelling through marketing.

Danielle Bennison-Brown is an award-winning content & brand director and founder of strategy consultancy DBB & Partners where her clients have included Vogue, i-D, Smythson of Bond Street, Tory Burch and Farfetch as well as startups such as Roots Studio, Breakr, and Blacktag. Bennison-Brown has created and led successful editorial and commercial multimedia strategies for some of the world’s most notable publishers and brands including VICE, NOWNESS, and Vogue. Bennison-Brown is an expert in creating culturally relevant and widely-seen video and social content with deep sector-specific knowledge of luxury, fashion, beauty and lifestyle. With over 14 years experience executing brand transformations through content, Bennison-Brown has developed an intimate understanding of how to build, grow and manage goal-driven strategies in complex commercial and editorial environments.

Genna Franconi is the founder and President of Trade School - a hybrid advertising agency and production company based in Atlanta. Launched in 2020, Trade School works with Fortune 500 companies and several blue-chip clients such as The Home Depot, FedEx, MailChimp, Publix Supermarkets, the Arthur Blank Family Foundation, and more. The agency was formed to better serve the needs of modern marketers. Genna built the vision, business plan, and operational roadmap for a new type of agency that would help brands create strategic, beautiful content at scale to reach audiences across their many brand touch points. Genna’s ability to see what’s next for marketers, and to build custom teams and solutions has led to Trade School’s growth and success. Since launching, Trade School has tripled in size, now with over 120 employees.

Beatrice is a global marketing leader and futurist with over 20 years of experience in digital experiences, specialising in innovative content platforms and production for the last 8 years. She is a published writer and podcast producer with a skill set that spans the planning, production, management, publication, and promotion of content to delight and inspire customer audiences.

Max leads NBCUniversal's Brand and Creative strategy division that connects global brands with dynamic advertising opportunities across NBCUniversal's powerful slate of original IP, innovative platforms and unmatched talent roster. Max is a brand and marketing specialist who has worked at leading international media publications across three continents over the past decade, and delivered several award-winning campaigns for global brands across a wide spectrum of industries and sectors. Max consistently explores new and innovative ways of storytelling, married with a robust distribution ecosystem that leverage upon new ad tech solutions, data, and audience extension capabilities.

Regional CEO | Omni-Channel Marketing Strategist | D&E Markets Specialist | Worked for ~60 countries across APAC and Africa

Mike has been a copywriter since 1993, in which time he’s founded two agencies and won a clutch of awards, including D&AD Pencils, a Cannes Lion, and Design Week and Dieline awards. Mike speaks at conferences around the world, and leads creative and training workshops. He has also written on brand language for publications like Harvard Business Review, Creative Review, Branding Mag, and Design Week.

Award-winning B2B content specialist and recovering journalist. Head of Content Strat for Transmission for the last two years. 10+ years' experience developing content strategies, journeys and output for the world's largest enterprise brands, UK SMBs, and everywhere in between.

Michael Wiese is an award-winning content leader, with achievement creating premium brand stories and experiences. From leading start-ups to The Walt Disney Company, he has created, produced, and activated award-winning commercial content, branded entertainment and strategic partnerships that have entertained, informed and inspired global audiences. His work spans all formats, screens, and platforms - from iconic Super Bowl campaigns to long-running television series, feature films and social video. Wiese recently founded We See Story to create commercial content solutions and growth opportunities for brands, agencies and media companies. Previously, Wiese was Vice President, Brand Content at The Walt Disney Company, leading brand storytelling for National Geographic Partners and Disney CreativeWorks, the creative agency and content studio supporting Disney Ad Sales, Synergy and Commercial Marketing. 

Clayton recently joined Comcast as Chief Creative Officer. Prior to this role he led Global Brand Management and was CMO of Global B2B marketing at American Express. He also ran global marketing at The Ritz-Carlton and held strategy and leadership roles on the agency side at BBDO, Deutsch, BMB and other global agencies.

As Group Managing Director of BradleyDyerRaw, Stuart has over 25 years of experience working with brands such as The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, Universal, eOne, and Hasbro, leading creative direction and helping to establish short, mid and long-term strategic goals whilst ensuring growth, profitability, and creative excellence across all platforms.