Speakers
Programme Committee Chair Amy Yu
Viacom, United States
David Almy
Insights Association, United States
Greta Baisch
Facebook, United Kingdom
Diane Berry
Bain & Company, United Kingdom
Fiona Blades
MESH, United Kingdom
Carlos Bort
Netquest, Spain
Programme Committee Joaquim Bretcha
Netquest, Spain
Tim Burke
Affinio, Canada
Mayer Danzig
Research Now, United States
Andy Davidson
Flamingo, United Kingdom
Dirk Engel
Frankfurt Academy of Marketing Communications, Germany
Kyle Findlay
Kantar, South Africa
Rhea Fox
eBay, United Kingdom
Judy Franks
Northwestern University, United States
Dmitry Gaiduk
CoolTool, United States
Yini Guo
Facebook, United States
Fiona Hall
AkzoNobel, United Kingdom
Jonatan Hedin
Universal Avenue, Sweden
Mark Jefford
YouGov, United Kingdom
David Kaufmann
SUPERCRUNCH by GfK, Germany
Darrin Keller
Research Now, United States
Stephen Kirk
Universal Avenue, Sweden
Albrecht Kuefner
FactWorks, Germany
Edward Malthouse
Northwestern University, United States
Maurício Moura
IDEIA, Brazil
Carlos Ochoa Gómez
Netquest, Spain
Guest speaker Jude Olinger
The Olinger Group, United States
Programme Committee Christophe Ovaere
Opun, United Kingdom
Narith Panh
Ipsos, United States
Finn Raben
ESOMAR, Netherlands
Josef Rieder
Bain & Company, Germany
Guest speaker Alex Ruiz
Viacom, United States
Apala Sabde
SurveyMonkey, United States
Marcello Sasso
Aimpoint Research, United States
Deborah Sleep
Engage Research, United Kingdom
Caroline Smiley
Delta Air Lines, United States
Preriit Souda
Kantar Analytics, United Kingdom
Daniel Tjondronegoro
Beatgrid Media, Netherlands
Programme Committee Dr. Ralph Wirth
SUPERCRUNCH by GfK, Germany
Norbert Wirth
SUPERCRUNCH by GfK, Germany
Closing keynote speaker Paul Zikopoulos
IBM, Canada
Programme Committee Chair
Director of Product Strategy - Audience Science team
Amy Yu is Senior Director of Product Strategy in the Audience Science team at Viacom, where she leads the design and development of visual data science platforms that enable data-driven decisions across all of Viacom's portfolio brands. Amy holds a M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab and graduated from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Measurment Lead Tech & Telco Audience Insight
ESOMAR MemberChief Experience Officer
ESOMAR MemberProgramme Committee
ESOMAR Council Member / Europe & Asia Director
Understanding the consumer to develop the business has been the main focus of Joaquim’s career. He has worked in various functions along the value chain in the market research industry; end-client, agency, and service provider. Joaquim currently works as a service provider of online data collection, leading the international business of Netquest in Europe and Asia. This has allowed him to set up a new international business division from scratch and get to know different market research realities across the continents. Within Spain, Joaquim’s roles as an “end client” have been: Marketing and Purchase Director at Auchan Supermarkets and Merchandising Director for Carrefour Supermarkets. On the Market Research Agency side, he’s worked for six years as a Retail Director for TNS (Kantar) Worldpanel and Synovate.
Joaquim is currently a member of the ESOMAR Council.
Senior Vice President, Product Management
Director - Global Innovation Data Science Team
Head of Insights
Marketing Science
ESOMAR MemberVP Client Operations & Analytics
Director Product Management
Director
Albrecht is a Director at FactWorks, an international research and analytics company based in Berlin and San Francisco. He is leading visible and complex, multi-country studies for Fortune 500 companies in the areas of Digital Services, Technology and Financial Services. For FactWorks, Albrecht bridges the gap between predictive analytics and marketing insights. Having published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, he’s an avid researcher with a deep sense for business needs and knows how to tell the best stories with analytics.
ESOMAR MemberChief Client Officer
Programme Committee
Chief Marketing Officer
Christophe has passion for innovation through disruptive technology. He is a pragmatic leader who builds high performance teams, focusing on strong positive people's culture, allowing for organisational alignment with the vision and growth objectives. He has experience in multinational/multicultural team management. He is also a highly effective networker with successful track record in establishing and developing strategic client & agency partnerships.
ESOMAR MemberDirector General
Guest speaker
Data Science and Advanced Analytics
ESOMAR MemberVP Global Business Development
Manager - Customer Research & Insights
Programme Committee
Global Head of Science & Technology
Ralph is the living proof that leading a big, cross-functional team of cutting-edge IT, data management, and data science experts does not necessarily require you to be a total nerd best hidden behind his computer. While being an award-winning author of numerous methodological publications, his educational roots in Business Administration and Economics explain why he puts a strong emphasis on solutions developed by the SUPERCRUNCH team being understandable, practical and implementable, and on providing genuine business value. Prior to his current role, Ralph held several senior positions in Data Science and innovation management at GfK.
ESOMAR MemberManaging Director
Closing keynote speaker
Author and VP Big Data Cognitive Systems
Award winning international speaker & award winning author (19 published books including Hadoop for Dummies and Big Data Beyond the Hype), 360+ published magazine articles.
External public speaker with focus talks on Big Data, Women in Technology, and Leadership. Recognized Big Data Expert with strong social persona presence and influencer status. Named to over a dozen "Big Data Experts to Follow" lists, consulted on Big Data topic by "60 Minutes" TV show, and more. And IBM Vice President with focus on competitive Big Data technologies.