ESOMAR Member

Programme Committee Chair

CEO MarketBuzzz

Grant currently works for Buzzebees Co. Ltd, leader in mobile loyalty and privilege, where he established their media and research department by bringing some of the latest mobile technology to the market research industry.

Grant has extensive international experience having worked in Australia, the US and in the Asia region.

He has been CEO and Managing Director of companies across Asia Pacific with two of the largest global agencies in Ipsos and TNS.

Grant has worked on a range Fortune 500 companies and a number of leading global brand’s on a national, regional and global basis. He advises top executives, company management, corporate boards, management and managers on growth and competitive business strategies.

He has a passion for people and culture and successful brands. His passion for successful brands has also led to his involvement and the development of a number of globally based brand and advertising effectiveness tools and solutions.

Grant is also a regular speaker at business conferences and seminars as well as global management and leadership events, including Global Brand Forum in Singapore.

• Introduction to the programme (14 May 2018) / Programme Committee Chair
• Introduction (14 May 2018 - 15:50) / Session chair
• Panel discussion (14 May 2018 - 16:15) / Moderator
• Closing & Awards (15 May 2018 - 17:20) / Programme Committee Chair

Senior Associate

• YES (Young ESOMAR Society) Pitch Competition (14 May 2018 - 10:10) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

COO and Managing Director

Dangjaithawin Anantachai has a master's degree in Communication Management from Bond University in Australia and is now a PhD candidate in Human Resource Development. She is currently COO and Managing Director of INTAGE in Thailand. Prior to that she has worked at Robinson Department Store, Siam Commercial Bank, ACNielsen, Market 21 Australian Trade Marketing Consultant and Research Dynamics. Dangjaithawin was the President of Thailand Marketing Research Society (TMRS) from 2013-2014 and is now an advisor to their Board Committee as well as a panel trainer of Marketing Association of Thailand (MAT) and a guest lecturer at leading universities in Thailand.

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• Introduction (15 May 2018 - 09:00) / Session chair

ESOMAR Member

TMRS President

Managing Director

• Welcome (14 May 2018) / Speaker
• The future is VOICE (14 May 2018 - 14:05) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

International Director

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• Lack of Engagement? Artificial Intelligence to the Rescue! (15 May 2018 - 15:25) / Speaker

Head Of Research & Client Insight

• CLIENT VIEW | Insights to Rebuild a B2B Business (14 May 2018 - 11:25) / Speaker

Director - Business Transformation

• Identifying and Sizing Growth Opportunities for Brands Through Mapping the Consumer Journey (15 May 2018 - 14:15) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

ESOMAR Representative for Thailand

Chief Insight Officer

Craig is the founder and owner of FUEL Research & Consulting, based in Bangkok, Thailand. FUEL is a boutique agency offering market research, planning and training services to the discerning buyer who wants to work with a highly experienced consultant. He is also ESOMAR's representative for Thailand.<.p>

Craig is a research industry veteran with 20 years of experience working for leading agencies in the UK, Australia, Singapore and Thailand, where he has now spent more than half of his career in market research. Previous positions held include Managing Director, MESH Planning (Singapore) Managing Director, InsightAsia (Thailand), Client Service Director, TNS (Thailand), Managing Director, GfK (Thailand).

Craig holds a MSc in Social Anthropology from London School of Economics, a BA (Hons) in Retail Marketing from Manchester, Metropolitan University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Market Research from De Montfort University, Leicester. He is also a qualified NLP Practitioner.

• Welcome (14 May 2018) / Speaker

Associate Director and Head of Corporate Development

• Tell Me What You Like & I'll Tell You Who You Are (15 May 2018 - 10:50) / Speaker

Executive Director - Consumer Insights

Viraj heads the Consumer Insights business for Nielsen Thailand and is an experienced and well-travelled market research professional with 17+ years of experience spanning India, Middle East & multiple Asian markets.

Over the course of his career he has partnered with clients across verticals such as Telecom, Finance and FMCG on a wide gamut of business issues.

At Nielsen Thailand his focus is on creating a future ready consumer insights practice that marries technology and traditional research seamlessly in an increasingly connected world. At his core, he is a strategic planner with strong 'rooted in research' consulting experience and has driven organizations from strategizing 'mid to long term' growth to executing the plans.

• Digital Immersion (14 May 2018 - 14:25) / Speaker

Chief Client Officer - Asia

As Chief Client Officer for Kantar Asia, Tim has the responsibility on behalf of Kantar and the operating companies to lead our strategic account relationships to accelerated revenue growth and improved client satisfaction for our businesses in Asia. Based in Singapore, he brings the best of Kantar to our key clients and people to pioneer new ways of working, to drive growth and tackle our clients' business growth issues. Tim also represents Asia in leading Kantar’s client strategy, development and innovation efforts from an emerging market perspective.

Prior to this, Tim was Head of Client Strategy for Kantar globally, based in New York, where primary responsibilities included taking a leadership role in Kantar’s global client strategy development; partnering with Kantar's operating companies to identify priority areas for offer innovation; and developing integrated working models for Kantar's strategic global client partnerships.

Tim has also been Global Business Leader for PepsiCo where he provided strategic leadership and overall management of the business with specific responsibility to set out the strategic vision and plan of action to re invent the partnership and research programs across 68 countries to drive PepsiCo business forward.

Having started his career at Millward Brown offices in Europe, North America and Asia, Tim brings a unique perspective to the research consultancy he provides. In each location, he consistently built major new accounts, developed innovative research solutions and successfully led account change programs for Millward Brown, specializing in brand, media and communication expertise.

His achievements also include developing and launching Millward Brown's Optimizing Communications suite of solutions to help marketers maximize their marketing communication effectiveness throughout the advertising development process. He won the 2007 WPPed Cream 'Creme de la Crème' Award for Information, Insight and Consultancy and has also been an ARF finalist for the Great Mind Award.

In his spare time he can be seen swimming, running or cycling as fast as he can as a regular triathlete!

• Introduction (14 May 2018 - 14:00) / Session chair

Director of Planning

• The future is VOICE (14 May 2018 - 14:05) / Speaker

Head - Brand & Marketing

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• CLIENT VIEW | In Pursuit of Happiness (14 May 2018 - 11:45) / Speaker

Founder & Ceo

• SPONSORED | Opiria (14 May 2018 - 14:45) / Speaker

Associate

• YES (Young ESOMAR Society) Pitch Competition (14 May 2018 - 10:10) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Chief Executive

• Panel discussion (14 May 2018 - 16:15) / Panelist
• Competing and Winning in a world of Big Data (15 May 2018 - 16:05) / Speaker

Senior Programme Manager

• Research to the Rescue (15 May 2018 - 11:30) / Speaker

Global Client Solutions Program Manager

Passionate about driving new capabilities and modernizing data collection solutions, Li Ching is part of the Global Client Solutions team that focuses on enabling digitalization, increased speed-to-market, quality and ultimately delighting the client. The team's mission is to ideate, mobilize and deploy new digital capabilities and solutions with the intention of making market research fun, fast and flexible.

In the last few years, her portfolio included driving growth and productivity initiatives through redesigning work processes and use of electronic and mobile devices. She continues to explore and implement new approaches for operations, as company adjust business practices to compete in the digital world. This includes programs in the space of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Immersive Reality.

• Digital Immersion (14 May 2018 - 14:25) / Speaker

Managing Director

• King Bhumibol: The Father of Thai Social and Marketing Research Profession (15 May 2018 - 09:05) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

President

• King Bhumibol: The Father of Thai Social and Marketing Research Profession (15 May 2018 - 09:05) / Speaker

Director - Brand Strategy

Maya Madhusoodan has worked in insights and strategy for 15 years. She has a background in a variety of disciplines - Radio, journalism, production, advertising, and a bulk of it is in consumer research, insights and brand strategy. Through several roles at leading insight agencies such as Flamingo, Hall & Partners and McCann Erickson, Maya has been driving more innovative methodologies to extract insights that are relavant to client plans and ambitions in the SEA region. At Space Doctors, Maya continues to explore the use of semiotics, cultural analysis to help brands tap into trategic opportunities in the region in a relevant and responsible way. Maya is a seasoned facilitator, able to bring mixed skills together and catalyse new ideas, solutions, innovations and land great solutions.

• MASTERCLASS | Semiotics in Asia (15 May 2018 - 13:30) / Speaker

Vice President - Asia Pacific

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• Data Integration and the Future of Market Research (15 May 2018 - 15:45) / Speaker

Chief Strategy Officer

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• Breaking the Bubble Around Us (14 May 2018 - 14:45) / Speaker
• INTERACTIVE | If Only I Had the Question (15 May 2018 - 10:45) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Director Asia Pacific

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• Research to the Rescue (15 May 2018 - 11:30) / Speaker

Associate Vice President

• Pricing of Enormous Number of Features (15 May 2018 - 13:35) / Speaker

CEO & Founder

• Whoo needs research? Whoozini.com does! (15 May 2018 - 13:55) / Speaker

Project Manager

Rachel Ng is a Project Manager at brand consultancy Space Doctors, where she specializes in semiotics and cultural insights in the APAC market. With a background in art history and curation, before moving onto cultural insight agency Flamingo, Rachel guides brands in visual and material culture to identify strategic opportunities for growth and innovation.

• MASTERCLASS | Semiotics in Asia (15 May 2018 - 13:30) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Managing Director

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• MASTERCLASS | Finding the Story in the Data (14 May 2018 - 14:00) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Vice President Innovation

• Will They Like It? (15 May 2018 - 11:10) / Speaker

Executive Director of Planning & Market Insights

As the first Executive Director of Marketing Intelligence & Insights for Sands China, Cristina has helped transform Asia’s largest operator of Integrated Destination Resorts into a strategically focused consumer-centric culture by leading the process to provide actionable insights and foresights that continuously provides a competitive advantage across all aspects of the resort.

A research expert with more than 15 years of experience in both academia and corporately, Cristina has actively worked with the leading research, media, and advertising, and brand agencies in areas ranging from new product development & launch, entertainment, retail, food & beverage, and gaming development, strategy and marketing.

Cristina is continuously seeking and evaluating pioneering methodologies that delve well below the surface of claimed and intention data to better able to predict and capitalize on an ever changing marketplace, particularly in our primary Asian markets.

• Introduction (15 May 2018 - 13:30) / Session chair

ESOMAR Member

Director General

Finn Raben is a "third culture child" who was born in the Far East and grew up in Europe and the Middle East. He went to university in the Netherlands and Ireland, is an Honours graduate in Languages, with Post-Graduate degrees in Business Administration & Marketing Management and speaks four languages fluently.

He has spent most of his working career in Market Research, and prior to joining ESOMAR, had worked at Millward Brown IMS in Dublin, AC Nielsen, TNS and most recently at Synovate.

Finn is a passionate fan and advocate for the research community in all its guises - analytics, research, insight and consultancy - and works very closely with the ESOMAR Council to ensure our Society is "fit for purpose" for both the current, and next, generation of researchers.....#IAMAPROUDMARKETRESEARCHER

Finn is an ex Officio Director of MRII, the online educational institute partnered with the University of Georgia (USA); he serves as an external examiner at the International School of Management in Avans University (Breda, NL) and has recently been invited to join the advisory board for the Master’s of Marketing Research programme at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

• Opening (14 May 2018) / Speaker

Founder & Managing Director

• Whoo needs research? Whoozini.com does! (15 May 2018 - 13:55) / Speaker

Research Executive

• YES (Young ESOMAR Society) Pitch Competition (14 May 2018 - 10:10) / Speaker

Head - Expert Solutions Asia

• Identifying and Sizing Growth Opportunities for Brands Through Mapping the Consumer Journey (15 May 2018 - 14:15) / Speaker

Cmi Head

• Panel discussion (14 May 2018 - 16:15) / Panelist

Keynote speaker

Author, Meditation Instructor, Coach

A mindfulness specialist and neuroscience enthusiast who has been to sixty five 8-day meditation retreats in the past 15 years plus one 5-day retreat at Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village, Nash is interested in personal development and helping others to find lasting happiness. Nash's dissertation was on the role of mindfulness in transformational leadership development among samurais in Japan's Edo Period. She is the author of six books, holds a black belt and instructor's license in samurai swordmanship and moonlights as a certified ICF coach.

• KEYNOTE | From Buddha Bar to Buddha’s Brain (15 May 2018 - 09:30) / Keynote speaker

Closing keynote speaker

Chief Marketing Officer

Brent Smart is Chief Marketing Officer of IAG, Australia's largest insurance company with leading brands including NRMA, CGU and SGIO. Brent leads group-wide marketing efforts, from brand strategy to creative execution.

Previously Brent spent 20 years in the advertising business. He was CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi New York working on iconic American brands like Cheerios, Tide and Walmart. He spent 7 years with BBDO, leading their San Francisco office and before that Colenso BBDO which was recognised as Agency of the Decade in New Zealand. Brent has led a body of highly awarded creative work, recognized with over 25 Cannes Lions and over 40 Effies.

Originally from Melbourne which explains his love of footy, this time around Brent had to live near a beach after 6 years in New York, calling Bondi home with his wife and 3 sons who have weird accents.

• KEYNOTE | Know When to Art, Know When to Science (15 May 2018 - 16:40) / Keynote speaker

ESOMAR Member

ESOMAR APAC Ambassador

Chairman

John Smurthwaite is Chairman for TNS in Malaysia. Looking for adventure John left the safety of his Melbourne MD role at Frank Small & Associates (now TNS) in the late 70s and travelled to Asia where he established most of the Asia TNS offices - from Jakarta to Seoul, from the Philippines to Calcutta and many more.

During most of the last 10 years, John was Chairman of TNS in APAC. Always a strong ESOMAR supporter, John was a Programme Committee member for ESOMAR Asia Pacific conference 2012, he was a speaker at an ESOMAR Career Event in Melbourne and is the current ESOMAR Ambassador for the Asia-Pacific region. John was also the 2011 winner of ESOMAR’s prestigious John Downham award, recognising outstanding achievement and excellence in his contribution to the market research industry at an international level.

• Introduction (15 May 2018 - 10:45) / Session chair

Senior Manager Client Insights

• CLIENT VIEW | Insights to Rebuild a B2B Business (14 May 2018 - 11:25) / Speaker

Regional Head of Strategy and Planning

Communications planning can and should make a difference. It makes a difference to brands and business, but it should also make a difference to our understanding of the world. Comms planning helps us understand what people think and how we behave. It uncovers opportunities and insights. It sets the agenda for how data and technology should be approached, pushing the execution of marketing into new unexplored spaces. I’ve worked with brands like Adidas, ANZ Bank, Coca-Cola, Ebay, Ferrero, Google, The Guardian and Unilever, using comms planning to not just grow and evolve those brands – but to explore new ways to see the world and thrive within in. I’m PHD’s APAC Head of Strategy and Planning. I like what I do.

• KEYNOTE | Merge - The Closing Gap Between Humans and Technology (14 May 2018 - 17:00) / Keynote speaker

ESOMAR Member

Expert Leader - Corporate Market Intelligence Division

With 30+ year experience in marketing research and data analytics with diversified areas in terms of industry, methodology, marketing theme, etc.

Joined Nissan 2003, develops and manages global marketing research scheme, manages global MR function designs the future vision of the function and leads cross functional activities for process restructuring for product development and project management

Before joining Nissan, worked for Intage Inc., managing diversified areas of customer research projects and CRM initiatives in terms of industry, methodology, strategic implications, etc.

Leading a voluntary group of industry leaders in Japan MR society

Offers presentations and lectures at industry seminars and universities

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• Change the Relationship Between Suppliers and Clients (14 May 2018 - 16:00) / Speaker
• Panel discussion (14 May 2018 - 16:15) / Panelist
• Introduction (15 May 2018 - 15:20) / Session chair

Senior Manager - Brand & Marketing

• CLIENT VIEW | In Pursuit of Happiness (14 May 2018 - 11:45) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Senior CMI Manager

• CLIENT VIEW | Application of NUDGE to Improve Re-Launch Success (14 May 2018 - 11:05) / Speaker
• Panel discussion (14 May 2018 - 16:15) / Panelist

ESOMAR Member

Managing Director

• Panel discussion (14 May 2018 - 16:15) / Panelist

Senior Marketing Leader - Research & Insight

As an advocate of the forethought power of insight, Grace is a strategic insight expert with regional experience in senior roles on both client and agency side. Based in Melbourne, Grace currently works at one of the major Australian banks to lead a transformation journey to turn tracking research programs into agile insight engines. She believes that having the open mindset to integrate market research with new data sources and metrics can actually amplify the impact of insight rather than hinder it. Grace has nearly 20 years' experience working with many of the world's leading brands and advertising agencies in the Asia Pacific region including Unilever, L'Oreal, GSK, American Express, Ogilvy & Mather, JWT and TBWA. Throughout her research career, Grace has worked extensively in a range of roles including qualitative moderator, key account director, marketing science modelling specialist, research product developer and strategic consultant. Outside of work Grace enjoys bush-walking, badminton and music.

• Introduction (14 May 2018 - 11:00) / Session chair