Barbara Wilmot

Barbara Wilmot is a business consultant and trainer with over 20 years' experience in the market research and professional services sectors. Her work encompasses marketing and communications, business and account development, plus research. As a French and Italian speaker, Barbara is sensitive to the cultural issues and needs of non-native as well as native speakers of English, who all need to communicate effectively today with ever diversifying audiences in an international business environment.

Before establishing her own consultancy in September, 2001, for over 10 years Barbara was a researcher herself and developed commercial opportunities for the then TNS group. Today, in addition to consultancy work, Barbara Wilmot designs and delivers bespoke training courses to meet the objectives of individual organisations. These courses are based on her own, hands-on, practical experience of building business and leveraging client relationships.

Barbara Wilmot has been a business skills trainer for the UK's Market Research Society since 2006. Her research clients include: BMRB, Ipsos-MORI, FreshMinds, Millward Brown, GfK, Winkle, Opinium Research, Kantar Operations, Lucid, NatCen, MMR Research, FlyResearch, BDRC-Continental, Breaking Blue, Acumen Fieldwork, Accent Research. Other clients include: London School of International Communications, Mathys & Squire, Gingerbread, Skills Development Scotland, Cartus Corporation, Benedictine Institute.

Sessions:

• Business Negotiation (04 June 2019 - 09:00) / Masterclass leader

Francois Petavy

François Pétavy is the CEO of eÿeka, a global leader in creative crowdsourcing. eÿeka connects the dots between François’ passions and experiences in marketing, technology and content across the last 20 years. Before joining eÿeka early in 2008, François was in charge of developing new business models with the goal of growing eBay in France. He started his career as a Producer at Ubi Soft (a leading video game publisher), then brought leading brands to the Internet within digital agency AGENCY.COM. François graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom ParisTech, and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Sessions:

• Insight Activation (05 June 2019 - 09:00) / Masterclass leader

ESOMAR Member

Jon Puleston

Jon Puleston is VP of Innovation at 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 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!

Sessions:

• The Art and Science of Asking Questions (04 June 2019 - 09:00) / Masterclass leader

Preriit Souda

For the last 9 years, Preriit has helped organizations answer different strategic questions by unraveling explicit and implicit human expression, through the mining of social and digital data, alongside other data sources, like consumer surveys, IOT (Internet of Things) data, CRM data, mobile behavioral data, weather data, locational data, etc. Preriit has consulted clients from a range of sectors, including: CPG/FMCG, Finance, Travel, Telecom, and Public Sector. He has done this across different geographies like the UK, US, China, India, Continental Europe, Asia Pacific, Oceania, Middle East, and North Africa.

Preriit has won several awards including ESOMAR Best Paper (Global) 2017, MRS (Market Research Society UK) Grand Prix 2016, MRS New Insights Methodology 2016, MRS Best Research using Social Media 2016 & 2017, ARF (Advertising Research Foundation, USA) Rising Star-Gold 2014, ESOMAR Young Researcher of the Year (Global) (2011), Best Analytics paper at MRS (India) Annual Conference 2012.

Preriit regularly speaks on industry platforms and publishes work. Some of his recent appearances include ESOMAR, IIEX, MRS, MRSI, ARF, SRA, WARC, NewMR, AURA, etc. Articles include papers for ESOMAR, Admap, CASRO, ARF, WARC & KD Nuggets, etc.

Sessions:

• Data Science for Generating Marketing Insights (03 June 2019 - 09:00) / Masterclass leader

ESOMAR Member

Sven Arn

Sven Arn is Managing Director and Partner at Happy Thinking People. He has been with the company since 1991, and became Managing Director in 1997. His focus is on international and cross-cultural research, with a specific expertise in insight development, positioning, and brand strategy.

Sessions:

• Qualitative Research in the Age of Data Fusion (03 June 2019 - 09:00) / Masterclass leader

Tara Phillips

Tara Phillips is the founder of Cause & Affect Speeches. International business leaders and professionals use her services to transform their presentations and talks so that they influence, inspire and make things happen.

As a public speaking expert, trainer, and certified coach based in Amsterdam, Tara draws on 14 years of experience to equip individuals and organisations with the tools to be clear, confident and compelling.

Tara has worked with clients such as TomTom, Adobe, Philips, ING bank, Heineken, WeTransfer, helping professionals elevate their careers and achieve real business results through the power of public speaking.

As a TEDx speaker coach since 2010, Tara has coached over 50 speakers for TEDx events across Europe. She's helped speakers present their ideas at TEDxAmsterdam, CERN and Monte Carlo, with some going on to speak at TED Global and reach millions worldwide via TED.com.

With a calling for meaningful communication and making a positive difference, Tara's previous career incarnations were in PR & Marketing for fashion brands such as MORE & MORE and S. Oliver and owner of TDP Coaching.

Sessions:

• Powerful Storytelling - the Art of Presenting (05 June 2019 - 09:00) / Masterclass leader

ESOMAR Member

Tom De Ruyck

Tom is a Managing Partner at InSites Consulting (one of the world's most innovative marketing consultancy and consumer research firms) where he is responsible for innovation and advising global brands (examples of which include IKEA, Heineken etc.). Healso teaches as a Professor at different business schools in Europe, and is on the board of several (industry) organisations.

He is co-author of 'The Consumer Consulting Board' and has published over 70 white papers, articles in academic journals, business books and trade magazines. Besides that, he is an influential blogger and tweeter (@tomderuyck).

Tom was awarded for his work many times, amongst others by the American Marketing Association, ESOMAR, and the CMO Council USA and Asia.

Sessions:

• Insight Activation (05 June 2019 - 09:00) / Masterclass leader