Alfonso Regalado

Senior Creative Producer, ESOMAR, Netherlands

Sessions:

• LIVE | Interview about upcoming ESOMAR events (18 December 2018 - 15:15) / Speaker

Bianca Marcu

Advocacy and Standards Project Coordinator, ESOMAR, Netherlands

Having lived in four different countries so far, Bianca is a certified Data Protection Officer who works across cultures to deliver tailored solutions. She is the go-to and guiding light throughout the ESOMAR Plus experience.

Sessions:

• LIVE | Interview about ESOMAR Plus (18 December 2018 - 13:30) / Speaker

Chenyang Li

Senior Programme Manager, TRAFFIC / WWF, China

Sessions:

• ASIA PACIFIC 2018 Best Presentation | Research to the Rescue (18 December 2018 - 15:25) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Dominique Servant

Chair of the Associations Sounding Board, ESOMAR, France

Dominique Servant is Chair of the ESOMAR Associations Sounding Board since 2017. In this capacity, she spearheads our relations with our strategic partners specifically the national associations. Prior to her appointment at ESOMAR, she served the ADETEM, France’s national marketing association, for 20 years as its Managing Director.

Sessions:

• LIVE | Update about ESOMAR's work on Professional Standards and Associations Sounding Board (18 December 2018 - 16:55) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Ed Garey

Managing Director, BAMM, United Kingdom (GB)

After 6 years running Click Research, an independent consultancy specialising in co-creation and online qual, he has joined forces with the team at BAMM to deliver high quality research and rich insight using BAMM's Visual Thinking techniques.

Sessions:

• Carpool Karaoke (18 December 2018 - 14:20) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Elaine Rodrigo

Chief Strategy & Insights Officer, Danone, France

Elaine joined Danone as Chief Officer of the Strategy & Insights function in January 2017. She is responsible for leading Danone's continued efforts at keeping the consumer at the centre to drive sustainable growth, and achieve the company's mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible #oneplanetonehealth. A key part of her role is to lead the transformation of the S&I function to be future-ready in today's disruptive consumer-market paradigm. She is based in the Paris HQ of the company.

Over the course of her career, Elaine has led teams across various CPG companies, global and regional, developed and developing markets. She started her career in academia, and spent a number of years in research agencies before moving into CPG in 2001.

Prior to joining Danone, Elaine built teams in both Global and Regional positions in Mondelez International. Joining the company in 2007 in Kraft Asia Pacific, Elaine led the regional Consumer Insights & Strategy team across 14 countries. In 2013, she moved to a role in the Global Biscuits Leadership team, where she was responsible for insights across all markets including North America, Europe, and Developing markets with particular focus on China, Brazil and India. In her 9+ years in Mondelez, Elaine legacy lies in building high-performing teams that led the company on a path towards becoming a truly consumer-centric organisation that put consumers first. Adding the "science" to the "art of insights", Elaine and her team also drove the use of advanced analytics for better marketing investment choices, and built shopper insights capabilities in countries.

Prior to joining Kraft Foods, Elaine was in Reckitt Benckiser, where she spent 7 years in a variety of roles in the Market Research function spanning a Global Category MR Director position in the UK HQ, as well as a Developing Markets Market Research Director in Singapore. Prior to this, Elaine spent some years in research agencies Research International (Kantar) and Synovate (Ipsos).

Elaine has a Ph.D in Marketing, and Bachelor of Business (Honours) (Marketing) from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She tutored and lectured for 4 years at Monash while completing her degrees.

Elaine lives in Paris with her husband and two daughters, which is the fourth country she is living in after Singapore, Australia and UK.

Sessions:

• How We Used a Robot to Solve a Very Human Problem (18 December 2018 - 13:00) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Finn Raben

Director General, ESOMAR, Netherlands

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.

Interested in more work from Finn Raben? Have a look at some past content in ESOMAR's Resources Library by ANA, the first artifical intelligence powered search engine for ESOMAR data, research and analytics knowledge content! Find out here

Sessions:

• LIVE | Opening (18 December 2018 - 12:30) / Speaker
• LIVE | Update about Canadian Associations Meeting (18 December 2018 - 17:05) / Speaker
• LIVE | Looking Ahead at 2019, with Finn Raben (18 December 2018 - 17:25) / Speaker
• Interview with current ESOMAR President Niels Schillewaert (18 December 2018 - 17:35) / Speaker
• LIVE | Fire-side chat with Joris Huisman (18 December 2018 - 17:55) / Host
• LIVE | Interview with Pieter-Paul Verheggen (18 December 2018 - 18:10) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

James Johnstone

Global Head of Customer Insights, Shell, United Kingdom (GB)

Sessions:

• Carpool Karaoke (18 December 2018 - 14:20) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Joaquim Bretcha

International Director, Netquest, Spain

Sessions:

• Interview with upcoming ESOMAR President Joaquim Bretcha (18 December 2018 - 17:50) / Speaker

Jonathan Mall

CEO & Founder, Neuro Flash, Germany

Jonathan Mall is a Neuropsychologist turned Data Scientist and Entrepreneur.

After his studies in Amsterdam, the UK and Groningen, Jonathan Mall was seduced by the opportunity to optimize consumer experience using machine learning and led the Science team in a IBM Big Data Venture. Afterwards, he founded Neuro Flash, a marketing intelligence institute, using Big Data and Neuromarketing to understand, predict and influence how people react to persuasive content.

Sessions:

• Data Science Mirrors Psychology in Surprising Ways (18 December 2018 - 14:40) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Jonathan Puleston

VP Innovation, Lightspeed, United Kingdom (GB)

Jon Puleston is VP of Innovation of the Lightspeed Research a Kantar business, where he heads an international team specialising in research methodology innovation.

Over the past decade he and his team have conducted extensive research on research exploring new and better ways to conduct research. They have won multiple awards for their ground breaking work in the areas of research gamification and prediction science, spanning the fields of consumer, advertising, business and political research.

Interested in more work from Jon Puleston? Have a look at some past content in ESOMAR's Resources Library by ANA, the first artifical intelligence powered search engine for ESOMAR data, research and analytics knowledge content! Find out here

Sessions:

• Research Disaster Movies (18 December 2018 - 16:10) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Joris Huisman

Managing Director, SKIM, Netherlands

Interested in more work from Joris Huisman? Have a look at some past content in ESOMAR's Resources Library by ANA, the first artifical intelligence powered search engine for ESOMAR data, research and analytics knowledge content! Find out here

Sessions:

• LIVE | Fire-side chat with Joris Huisman (18 December 2018 - 17:55) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Justine Lukas

Director, Kantar Millward Brown, Singapore

Justine is a director in the qualitative team at Kantar, based in the Singapore office. Having spent much of her twenty year career in the consultancy world in London, she returned to Singapore over four years ago, having lived there for several years in the 1980’s.

Having had an international childhood, she has an innate interest in different people and cultures, and what this means for brands and organisations in today’s world. Being a quallie in a regional hub such as Singapore is all about understanding different people across the region and the world, listening their stories and what brings meaning into their lives.  Whether this be about expensive skincare, attitudes to motherhood, what they want from credit cards or attitudes to charity and giving, it is about getting under people’s skin to find this meaning – and how to connect the dots for business and organizational growth in an intuitive way.

Justine’s experience spans business and brand strategy, communications, exploratory consumer understanding across continents, countries and categories and ranges from sitting with people in their homes, digital blogging, creative workshopping – up to facilitating international stakeholder events.

Sessions:

• BEST INTERNATIONAL NFP CASE STUDY | Empowering Digital Storytelling for Good (18 December 2018 - 13:45) / Speaker

Laura Gomez

Senior Researcher, ProColombia, Colombia

Laura has a degree in International Business Management from Universidad del Rosario and a Masters in Marketing from Universidad de los Andes. Her first job experience was in India and since then, Laura has embarked on various world adventures which call out to her biggest passion in life, travel. She has learnt about other cultures including their unique customs and languages; Laura speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese, and soon will give herself the challenge of learning Chinese.

Interested in more work from Laura Gomez? Have a look at some past content in ESOMAR's Resources Library by ANA, the first artifical intelligence powered search engine for ESOMAR data, research and analytics knowledge content! Find out here

Sessions:

• LATIN AMERICA 2018 Best Presentation | Country Branding (18 December 2018 - 15:45) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Niels Schillewaert

Managing Partner USA & Co-Founder, InSites Consulting, United States

Interested in more work from Niels Schillewaert? Have a look at some past content in ESOMAR's Resources Library by ANA, the first artifical intelligence powered search engine for ESOMAR data, research and analytics knowledge content! Find out here

Sessions:

• Interview with current ESOMAR President Niels Schillewaert (18 December 2018 - 17:35) / Speaker

Nina Rahmatallah

Chief Client Officer, Kantar, United Kingdom (GB)

Sessions:

• How We Used a Robot to Solve a Very Human Problem (18 December 2018 - 13:00) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Pedro Fernandez

Vicepresident of Innovation and Intelligence, ProColombia, Colombia

Vice-president of Innovation and Intelligence in ProColombia. Prior to this position, Pedro was a consultant for the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank supporting statistical projects throughout LATAM.

He was also Deputy Director of the DANE, Colombia's official Statistics Agency, where he specialized in the measurement of economics and demographics. Pedro had worked in market research for companies like Nielsen, YanHaas, Ahzul and Telecom before this. He is also a professor in Marketing research at Universidad Javeriana, one of Colombia's leading Universities. Pedro has a degree in Business and a post-graduate degree in Political Marketing and Public Opinion from the Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. In addition to this, he also has a Master degree in Marketing Research from Barcelona University.

Interested in more work from Pedro Fernandez? Have a look at some past content in ESOMAR's Resources Library by ANA, the first artifical intelligence powered search engine for ESOMAR data, research and analytics knowledge content! Find out here

Sessions:

• LATIN AMERICA 2018 Best Presentation | Country Branding (18 December 2018 - 15:45) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Pieter Paul Verheggen

CEO and Managing Director, Motivaction International, Netherlands

Pieter Paul Verheggen studied Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. He then spend one year in France honing his managerial and organisational skills in one of the well known theatres of Paris. On returning to The Netherlands he joined Motivaction, one of the leading Dutch agencies for marketing research. Since 2009 Pieter Paul has held the position of CEO at Motivaction. With over 20 years experience in market research, Pieter Paul now specialises in FMCG, B2B (IT and finance) and Healthcare. He is seen as a trusted advisor in the areas of new product development, communication, positioning and branding studies. Due to his 'getting things done' mentality he was offered the position of Chairman of the Dutch Market Research Association (MOA) which he held for 12 years. Following his tenure in this position he was honoured with a special MOAward for his valuable contribution. Since January 2015 Pieter Paul has been installed as council member of the ESOMAR board, the international market research organisation. Pieter Paul has published some well respected books related to Etnomarketing and the future of marketing research. He lectures market research at MBA courses at the Maastricht School of Management and is further known as member of the jury for the Dutch Commercial Director of the Year Award.

Sessions:

• LIVE | Interview with Pieter-Paul Verheggen (18 December 2018 - 18:10) / Speaker

Radha Ravattu

Systems Developer, ESOMAR, Netherlands

Radha Ravattu, working as Systems Developer at ESOMAR, has experience of 4.5 years with project development, architecture, management and analysis and has been with ESOMAR from 1.5 years as a part of Research and Development team.

Sessions:

• LIVE | Interview about the ESOMAR Resources Library By ANA, ESOMAR's intelligent reference tool (18 December 2018 - 12:55) / Speaker

Razvan Bondalici

ESOMAR Foundation Programme Coordinator, ESOMAR, Netherlands

Sessions:

• LIVE | Interview about the ESOMAR Foundation's work (18 December 2018 - 14:05) / Speaker

Rebecca Lim

Head, Our Better World, Singapore

Rebecca heads up Our Better World (OBW), the digital storytelling initiative of the Singapore International Foundation that leverages the power of stories and digital media for social impact. She leads her team and a regional network of impact storytellers to tell stories of people doing good in Asia. The aim is to inspire their global online community to take action, so that the subjects of their stories (non-profits and social enterprises) get the help they need to impact more lives.

 An eternal optimist, she combines her eye for opportunities with her love for people, bringing partners alongside on this journey of pursuing a shared vision of OBW pioneering digital disruption for social impact in Asia.

Rebecca’s experience spans strategic communications, integrated marketing, public relations and brand management. Her experience over the last two decades has been in the sectors of her twin passions - tourism and non-profit. After a life changing three-year stint in Mumbai, she now applies her marketing and communications skills to impact lives through digital storytelling.

Sessions:

• BEST INTERNATIONAL NFP CASE STUDY | Empowering Digital Storytelling for Good (18 December 2018 - 13:45) / Speaker

Rhiannon Bryant

Senior Manager of Global Events, ESOMAR, Netherlands

Rhiannon Bryant, Senior Manager of Global Event at ESOMAR, has more than 20 years' experience within the global events industry and has worked at ESOMAR for 15 years, leading the events team for the last six.

Sessions:

• LIVE | Interview about upcoming ESOMAR events (18 December 2018 - 15:15) / Speaker

Ross Delaney

Head of Strategy & Innovation, Paymark, New Zealand

Sessions:

• Research Effectiveness Award 2018 Gold Trophy Winner (1st Place) | The Merchant DNA (18 December 2018 - 12:40) / Speaker

Shaun Fitzgibbon

Partner, TRA, New Zealand

Sessions:

• Research Effectiveness Award 2018 Gold Trophy Winner (1st Place) | The Merchant DNA (18 December 2018 - 12:40) / Speaker

Sumbul Fatima

Member Relations Opportunities Executive , ESOMAR, Netherlands

Driven and Diligent MBA graduate with passion for customer success, operations and international sales. Currently working as a Sales Opportunities Executive at ESOMAR. 

Sessions:

• LIVE | Interview about ESOMAR Membership (18 December 2018 - 16:05) / Speaker

Valentina Malangone

Librarian Project Executive, ESOMAR, Netherlands

Valentina holds a master’s Degree in Library Management from the University of Salerno (Italy), where she held a role at the Central University Library of Salerno being responsible for the cataloguing of the monographs of the Vuolo Collection - using a specific software - and then integrating them into the library catalogue.

Sessions:

• LIVE | Interview about the ESOMAR Resources Library By ANA, ESOMAR's intelligent reference tool (18 December 2018 - 12:55) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Vanessa Oshima

VP Marketing Division, Starbucks, Japan

Interested in more work from Vanessa Oshima? Have a look at some past content in ESOMAR's Resources Library by ANA, the first artifical intelligence powered search engine for ESOMAR data, research and analytics knowledge content! Find out here

Sessions:

• Learning - Every Damn Day (18 December 2018 - 18:20) / Speaker

ESOMAR Member

Wander Meijer

Director Asia Pacific, GlobeScan, Hong Kong

Sessions:

• ASIA PACIFIC 2018 Best Presentation | Research to the Rescue (18 December 2018 - 15:25) / Speaker

Xabier Palacio

Senior Industry Analyst, ESOMAR, Netherlands

Xabier is Senior Industry Analyst at ESOMAR and coordinates the production of its flagship report, the Global Market Research besides analysing global trends within market research, improving established publications and producing new ones to increase the value for our members and the industry.

Originally from Spain, Xabier has been living in the Netherlands for a number of years, where he studied a Master in International Economics followed by a Master in Marketing at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. He is fluent in Spanish and English, has a decent command of Dutch, and loves music about as much as analysis.

Sessions:

• LIVE | Interview about the ESOMAR Global Market Research Report (18 December 2018 - 13:20) / Speaker

Dafni Bachou

Senior Marketing and Communications Specialist, ESOMAR, Netherlands

Sessions:

• LIVE | Opening (18 December 2018 - 12:30) / Host
• LIVE | Interview about the ESOMAR Resources Library By ANA, ESOMAR's intelligent reference tool (18 December 2018 - 12:55) / Host
• LIVE | Studio time: Social Good (18 December 2018 - 13:40) / Host
• LIVE | Interview about upcoming ESOMAR events (18 December 2018 - 15:15) / Host
• LIVE | Interview about ESOMAR Membership (18 December 2018 - 16:05) / Host
• LIVE | Studio time: New Year's Resolutions (18 December 2018 - 17:15) / Host

Kim Smouter-Umans

Head of Public Affairs & Professional Standards, ESOMAR, Netherlands

At ESOMAR since 2012 working as ESOMAR's Head of Public Affairs and Professional Standards, Kim leads ESOMAR's Government Affairs and advocacy programmes globally as well as guiding the modernisation of ESOMAR's Professional Standards Work. He is tirelessly working to promote and advance the interest of market, social, and opinion research in front of governments, consumer and privacy advocates, and the general public.

Kim Smouter previously worked as Director General of a European civil society network comprising over 19 associations in 21 European countries. He has also held roles representing local governments in Europe and served as the coordinator of a cross-party working group in the European Parliament.

Interested in more work from Kim Smouter-Umans? Have a look at some past content in ESOMAR's Resources Library by ANA, the first artifical intelligence powered search engine for ESOMAR data, research and analytics knowledge content! Find out here

Sessions:

• LIVE | Update about ESOMAR's work on Professional Standards and Associations Sounding Board (18 December 2018 - 16:55) / Host

Luke Raben

Digital Marketing Assistant, ESOMAR, Netherlands

Sessions:

• LIVE | Opening (18 December 2018 - 12:30) / Host
• LIVE | Studio time: Social Good (18 December 2018 - 13:40) / Host
• LIVE | Interview about the ESOMAR Foundation's work (18 December 2018 - 14:05) / Host
• LIVE | Studio time: Qual Angle, Data Edge (18 December 2018 - 14:15) / Host
• LIVE | Interview about the Young ESOMAR Society (18 December 2018 - 16:50) / Speaker
• LIVE | Studio time: New Year's Resolutions (18 December 2018 - 17:15) / Host
• Interview with upcoming ESOMAR President Joaquim Bretcha (18 December 2018 - 17:50) / Host

Neda Eneva

Senior Strategic Marketing & Communications Manager, ESOMAR, Netherlands

Sessions:

• LIVE | Opening (18 December 2018 - 12:30) / Host
• LIVE | Interview about ESOMAR Plus (18 December 2018 - 13:30) / Host
• LIVE | Interview about the Young ESOMAR Society (18 December 2018 - 16:50) / Host
• LIVE | Update about ESOMAR's work on Professional Standards and Associations Sounding Board (18 December 2018 - 16:55) / Speaker
• LIVE | Studio time: New Year's Resolutions (18 December 2018 - 17:15) / Host
• LIVE | Looking Ahead at 2019, with Finn Raben (18 December 2018 - 17:25) / Host
• LIVE | Interview with Pieter-Paul Verheggen (18 December 2018 - 18:10) / Host