With over 25 years of experience, I have worked primarily with clients to lead their digital marketing and omnichannel commerce strategies.

My experience includes implementing one of the first ecommerce D2C brand website in India in 1999 and have built the first multilingual D2C brand ecommerce platform from India to sell globally through multiple currencies in 2002. Over the years I have built capabilities and teams to help deliver on digital marketing and ecommerce services across agencies over the years and have had the additional responsibility of a P&L role. With the first half of my career in technology and the next half in marketing has helped me gain the required experience to help our clients drive their digital initiatives in the field of marketing through data and technology.

Hiren is responsible for driving the strategy and delivery of digital marketing solutions for the region at Standard Chartered. He has over 15 years of experience across media agencies and brand side with strong focus on performance marketing, automation, AdTech and MarTech areas. Prior to standard Chartered, Hiren was at Carat media leading digital strategy and operations for large global brands such as L’Oréal, Mastercard, Lego and Standard Chartered. Outside of day to day, he often attends industry events, judging panels, speaking events and is passionate about volunteering on digital marketing education.

Anny Huang is the Head of Digital Business for Income, she is chartered to design the go-to-market strategy that will bring digital insurance sales to the next level. Her team oversees all the eCommerce activities, from driving a seamless user experience to achieving the optimal ROI for all ad spends. She believes the only way to differentiate a brand is to provide a truly integrated O2O/omnichannel experience to her customers. She is a strong advocate of technology and data, because magic happens when these two dance together.

Stefano is responsible for driving continuous user growth, and delivering best-in-class creative and data-driven marketing campaigns for Binance across South East Asia. He brings over 10 years of experience in digital marketing and consumer marketing at large and he has a proven track record of driving business growth and incorporating new thinking in digital marketing teams. He previously held marketing roles across FMCG (Red Bull) and Financial Services (Visa) industries at both global and regional levels

With over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing, he is Sri Lanka's most internationally and locally awarded marketer and currently serves as Vice President, dentsu communications. He was previously the A/Director—Digital Strategy at GroupM Sri Lanka and the "Head of Digital" for Team Unilever and Mindshare. Among the 110 plus awards he has won, he’s the only person to be part of six Effie GOLD winning teams. His campaigns have resulted in a converted "WARC media GOLD" and "MMA Smarties GOLD," which are the two most significant global marketing achievements to date for Sri Lanka. He has also served on jury panels for the NYF Advertising Awards, Drum Awards, Effies, MMA Smarties, Dragons of Asia, and WINA World Independent Advertising Awards. In over seven years, his lectures have aided over 5,000 students and business owners in adopting digital media marketing. He is the most widely published digital marketing thought leader in Sri Lanka, with many of his articles appearing in the world's most prestigious publications. With over 400 articles, lectures, conference appearances, and a few quotes under his belt, he has become one of the industry's most followed thought leaders.

As CMO at OLX, Sapna Arora led marketing, growth and PR for OLX in India plus brand and communication for OLX Autos globally. Previously, she has served in various leadership roles at Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Nestle and Bennett Coleman. Sapna has worked on billion-dollar brands such as Pantene, Whisper, Tampax, Tide, Stouffer's, and Mortein, among others working across geographies including India, Singapore and Canada. A marketing innovator, Sapna is known to understand her brand’s audiences and has led various campaigns and interventions that have received critical recognition. She is credited with creative turnarounds and with inspiring engagement with consumers in new ways. Her experience spans building brands, creating new product categories, expanding businesses to newer markets, and leading innovative and fully-integrated marketing programs. Prior to joining OLX, Sapna was an independent advisor to start-ups, where she worked closely with entrepreneurs to unlock growth opportunities for start-ups. She is an alumnus of St. Stephens College, Delhi University, NIFT Delhi and holds an MBA Degree from IIM Bangalore.

I'm a digital marketer who believes beyond numbers. I am heading digital at one of the fastest-growing digital marketing agencies in Sri Lanka, Isobar Sri Lanka (Dentsu Grants). Over the years, I have worked with local and global brands from different industries such as FMCG, Insurance, Fintech, Banks, IT and NGOs. Most of my industry work has bagged many recognized awards. (Ex: SLIM Digis, Effies, MMA Smarties, EPICA and Dragons of Asia). I've also contributed as an international judge for MAA Globes Awards and Dragons of Asia. I am also a visiting lecturer at some of the most renowned and recognized marketing institutes in Sri Lanka. Over the last two years, I've shared my knowledge and industry experience with more than 2,000 students.

Fernando leads key businesses in Ogilvy Indonesia as well as several SEA relationships including Wyeth Nutrition, Colgate, Google, and Seek Asia. He is a driving force in continuously modernizing the digital capabilities of the agency focusing on data, commerce, content, and partnerships. Under his leadership, Wyeth Nutrition received some of the highest accolades in Indonesia and APAC award shows while contributing to the brands’ sustained business growth. Fernando also serves as Indonesia Training Lead overseeing the development and deployment of bespoke learning programs for the market.

A proven leader in omni-channel brand building, Fernando is most passionate in solving problems using data, creativity, and technology; and build solutions that resonate with the consumer across contact points.

Outside of work, Fernando enjoys CrossFit and is on a mission to explore Indonesia’s world-class underwater biodiversity and reach 200 dive logs.

A committed brand evangelist and a firm believer in the power of brands, with a vast canvas of experience in Brand Management, Brand Strategy, Consumer Behavior, Market Entry Strategies etc across categories and industries.

Having spent considerable years both on the Agency and the Client side, he believes every day is “brand” new day and an opportunity to do something new and great.

Believes there is a need for some great work to stand out in this highly fragile and fragmented markets. The lone survivors are the one who have built their brand on strong fundamentals and principles. 

Villie Tsang, trained in design thinking and innovation management with 18+ years of experience, expanded her professional career from brand and communication, to innovation strategy to building an award-winning media start-up. Currently, VP of Growth and Customer Engagement, and the Head of Global Digital Strategy for KEF Audio and GP Batteries, spearheading digital transformation and change management through driving new growth opportunities across the business. She has extensive experience building digital ecosystems to drive holistic customer experience management for direct-to-consumer e-commerce landscape. 

Villie’s passion still lies in design, arts and culture in the field of editorial content. She founded the content partnership platform SoundofLife.com as a passion project while at KEF. For leisure, she enjoys travelling, gaming, binge-watching and geeking out with Lego.

Chris is an experienced ecommerce and marketing strategist with extensive leadership in building digital, ecommerce and technology capabilities across multiple markets. His career spans more than 20 years across 25+ markets across Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa & 70+ brands across Consumer Healthcare, Beauty, FMCG, Pet & Nutrition categories. Chris has broad experience leading transformation internally & launching new business models & channels including TMall, Rakuten & Amazon. Chris’s current role is Head of eCommerce AMEA Region for Sanofi.

Michelle’s career has spanned 20 years across London, Sydney and now Singapore where she has been based for the last 6 years and is current leading the Publicis bespoke agency for GSK across APAC, Platform GSK

Originally from a strategy background, Michelle has worked in Media, Creative and PR agencies so is able to draw from a variety of disciplines to run clients in a true Publicis Power of One capacity, ensuring that all of the disciplines are integrated together to drive client growth. 

•Paphop is digital marketing, media and digital product development in dtac (Telenor). For almost 20 years, he has been a strategist, inspirer and innovator in marketing and advertising industries. 

•Over 100 awards winning works, Paphop has been regularly recognized as the award winner which is from local to global stages e.g., Cannes Lion, Festival of Media, Spikes and Smarties MMA.

•From his strong experience and knowledge, he has contributed his extra time to be a part of professor in universities and speaker in public knowledge forum 

Sonia Khurana is the Chief Operating Officer at Digitas India. A seasoned marketer, she values business impact as well as creativity. She enjoys working with her clients helping them navigate the complex landscape of rapidly changing consumer behaviours, digital in its many avatars and new types of competition.

Sonia have over two decades of experience working with organizations such as Ogilvy and Wunderman where she has consulted with clients across industries such as retail, hospitality, telecom, technology, automotive, travel & tourism, and more. 

Tom Elsden is the Senior Business Director at Mailman, the leading China sports digital consultancy and marketing platform helping global rights holders, athletes and brands build a successful business in China. Based in Shanghai, Tom is managing some of the world's largest sports organisations, clubs and talent, including FIFA, PSG and David Beckham, as well as establishing the Mailman Esports Division. He is regularly featured in global news publications, including the Financial Times, CNN and Forbes

Joshua is the Client & Programmatic Director at the South China Morning Post and is responsible for handling strategic partnerships, growing key accounts and driving knowledge of SCMP's footprint on an international scale.

Prior to his current role, Joshua has spent most of his time focused on the agency side, working across many globally renowned brands and developing and executing digital marketing strategies. However, as the industry has evolved over the last few years, Joshua shifted his interest within the programmatic and consultancy remit, overseeing and developing client strategies, client leadership and business development.

An accomplished, results-driven, and award-winning executive with over 11 years of experience across Canada, Australia and South East Asia, Joshua is originally from Canada, currently resides in Singapore, and loves the sweltering heat. He is an avid Toronto Raptors and UFC fan, loves to cook and is an ultra runner, recently completing a 250km ultramarathon. 

Conrad Tallariti is the RVP Sales, Asia at DoubleVerify. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for driving the

adoption of DoubleVerify’s ad verification solutions across programmatic, social, and traditional digital

media. Conrad’s experience ranges from ad-tech to premium publishers like LinkedIn over the past 12 years

and has built strong partnerships with clients and agencies across the region.

Apart from Conrad’s day job, he is an avid golfer and traveler. In fact, he has lived in 5 countries. Feel free to

either send him a question on tech or the best spots to check out in the region!

A Media practitioner, Highly recognised industry leader with 25+ years of experience in India and international markets managing marketing & sales, P&L responsibility, new product development, involving both startup and growth organizations.

High energy, Strategic and analytical thinker, inclusive people leader with proven success in marketing services and business development for multi-million-dollar digital advertising organizations. Track record of increasing PBT in multiple folds. Excelled in dynamic, demanding and matrix environments.

An active speaker in Digital Marketing events like Ad-tech, Nasscom, IAMAI, B-schools, E4M and various Media and Marketing Industry forums. Grand jury in prestigious awards like Effies, Emvies, Abby’s, & many other Awards. 

Mohit Gupta is a Marketing and Digital leader with over 18 years of sales & marketing experience in the financial & banking industry across B2B and B2C segments. 

He is currently the Head of Marketing for APAC and Global Head of Social Media for the Corporate Bank at Deutsche Bank. He has previously held leadership roles in marketing & sales at Standard Chartered Bank, Julius Baer, Norther Trust and Citibank.

His expertise lies in Marketing & Brand strategy, Content Marketing and Digital & Social media including SEO, SEM and Performance Marketing, leading high performance teams across Asia Pacific.

Mohit is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at leading marketing conferences in Asia and globally. He serves as the Advisory Board Member - APAC CMO Council, a body of regional leaders and brand decision-makers at Fortune 500 companies. Additionally he is a Jury member at various marketing, digital and advertising award forums in Asia- Pacific.