Rob is the principal provider of operational, strategic and tactical counsel for solutions for better digital advertising infrastructure and opportunities for revenue growth to some of the worlds largest companies.  Rob publishes a regular monthly column for Marketing Land and his thought leadership has been featured in AdAge, AdWeek, Mediapost, AdExchanger, Business Insider and MyersBizNet.While at The 614 Group, Rob has led strategic engagements for clients such as Condé Nast, Interpublic / Mediabrands, IBM Watson, TAG, and Panasonic and has worked to recruit a world class board of advisors and a team of consultants who properly represent the brand and make customer satisfaction a core value.He has extensive experience in digital media and is a distinguished leader in the Ad Tech industry.  Among his many accomplishments, Rob has served as Board Member and Executive Advisor to the IAB on International Affairs, as the CFO/COO and President of the global advertising network CPXi.

Chiro has been with Unilever for the last 11 years working across various roles and geographies. He is currently the Global VP for media and digital for Personal Care working on an iconic portfolio of brands like Dove, Rexona, Lifebuoy, Lux, Closeup and Pepsodent and also leads the integrated media strategy at Unilever. Before Unilever he worked with a leading marketing communication group across key clients and key geographies in various leadership roles. He is also currently a member of the Asia advisory board at the World Federation of Advertisers.

Sapna has been a key figure at Publicis Groupe for several years, with her current position being the Chief Solutions Officer, APAC. In this role, Sapna is tasked with accelerating innovation in capabilities for clients to win in the platform world.

Sapna has held numerous positions in the group, with diverse experience across the region. She has deep China understanding with roles as Chief Intelligence Officer for Publicis Groupe, China and prior to that, as CEO of Starcom China.

Sapna has worked in various disciplines within the advertising industry. She has hybrid experience across media and creative agencies and has spent the last few years delving into data and technology. This enables her to seamlessly connect solutions across identity, media, creativity, and technology.

Sapna’s relentless focus on solving business problems has made her a trusted advisor to clients. She is deeply involved in Publicis Groupe’s APAC sustainability initiatives, with priority on making a difference for people within the Groupe, for clients and for the industry.

Durreen Shahnaz is a pioneer in impact investing and the founder of IIX. IIX connects the Back Streets of underserved communities to the Wall Streets of the world and has unlocked close to US$300 million of capital impacting over 150 million lives and promoting climate action across the globe. Durreen’s work in breaking molds and restructuring power dynamics with the founding of the world’s first social stock exchange, the world’s first gender bonds, and connecting women’s voices from the last mile to financial markets. Her work of connecting and equalizing the power dynamics of the Global North and the Global South has given her unique insights into the interplay of the brand, media, and finance. Durreen will explore how the brands can enhance their value in the market, with their consumers and integrate their own brand safety with the deep and genuine practice of inclusion, equity, and sustainability.

Kenward works across the global agency groups as a member of the Global Agency team at TikTok to strengthen agency relationships and long term business partnerships. As the Global Agency Director, his core focus is on delivering global joint business planning and partnerships across agency networks, driving innovation for agency clients on TikTok and realizing agency team's TikTok ambitions to grow together.

Prior to joining TikTok, Kenward spent 15 years across media, data, and creative agencies across hospitality, CPG, Telecoms, technology and non-profit sectors across APAC and the Americas.

Josh Gallagher is Chief Operating Officer, APAC at EssenceMediacom, GroupM’s newest and largest agency that is committed to delivering marketing breakthroughs for brands.

In his role, Josh is tasked with scaling EssenceMediacom’s capabilities and providing consistent leadership for its clients across the region. With a focus on driving the agency’s culture, he aims to bring a forward-thinking and challenging mindset, helping people and clients to continually grow. He believes that in an industry that is ever-changing, the ability to evolve the way of working through more agile talent and technology capabilities will deliver work that transforms clients’ businesses.

With 20 years of industry experience, Josh uses his expertise across brand communications, digital, content, technology and data to drive business growth. He has built profitable practices from the ground up, along with developing teams of market-leading specialists. With his progressive mindset, he has taken the lead in global ecommerce consulting practices. He has also authored unique training approaches to constantly develop how teams better immerse themselves in clients’ businesses.

Some of the world’s most influential brands have tapped into Josh as a key advisor. He has defined marketing transformation for global consumer packaged goods brands, delivering first-to-market solutions that have won at global award shows for creativity, media, data and technology. With international awards jury experience, industry body representation and countless speaking engagements at events, Josh has a passion to make the industry more positive and provocative.

Jeynelle also known as buffbaby88 on her socials shares about her life on TikTok with a touch of humor to it. She blew up on TikTok during the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdown where she talked about how she coped with weight loss and her mental health. Not only does she enjoy spreading positivity, she loves posting lifestyle content, vlogs about her fitness journey and exploring cool fashion trends!

Triveni is a senior marketing leader with expertise in the space where Digital and Brands collide and her mission is to make old brands young again!

By day, she future-proofs billion-euro Unilever personal care brands. She taps into technology at the peak of the hype cycle and democratizes it – making it a vehicle for brand storytelling & commerce. With a track record of delivering brand storytelling across Web 1, 2 & Web3 in India, China, SEA. She's also proud to be evolving iconic, analog brands into ecosystems of product & digital services, so they continue to stay relevant to next-generation consumers.

In her own time, she's mentored Singapore D2C/start-ups, volunteered for senior citizens’ digital literacy programs, and writes to inspire mid-career women as they make brave pivots.

Over the last 20 years Nick has held a number of senior leadership roles around the world having worked in both the UK & Singapore before returning to Australia to lead Dentsu’s Global Digital Marketing Agency iProspect as CEO ANZ prior to joining Microsoft in 2019. Nick spent more than 10 years with WPP’s flagship Media Agency Mindshare where he held a number of leadership roles including: Head of Search UK, Head of Digital APAC and the CEO of Mindshare Singapore. Nick’s wealth of experience also includes spending more than 3 years with Facebook Singapore as the APAC Regional Director leading the development and expansion of the tech company's Marketing Analytics platform "Atlas" before transferring to Facebook’s Marketing Science unit to lead the Global Agency and Global Accounts teams. In his role at Microsoft Advertising, Nick is the Regional Vice President for APAC, responsible for the regions strategic growth, development and operational capabilities within the Asia Pacific region. Responsibilities include the strategic development and operational delivery of the regions Microsoft Advertising’s growth, partnerships and service offerings across digital media, search advertising, technology and analytics. With a deep understanding of the organizational complexities businesses face today, from small businesses to large enterprises with the mission is to help empower every person and every organization to achieve more.

Tawana has been a part of the Global Agency Client and Category Team at Meta for the past 7 years. Originally based out of our New York, in 2019 she joined the APAC Leadership team. In her current role, she leads a team advising CMOs, business leaders and agency partners for the largest and most influential Global brands on how best to use mobile advertising and commerce solutions to accelerate the growth of their brands. Outside of her core role, Tawana is a board member for the IAB Southeast Asia & India and prior to Meta spent 15 years leading brands, e-commerce and innovation teams at J&J, Pfizer, GSK and Intuit.

Clara Koh is Head of Public Policy for Singapore and ASEAN at Meta where she leads engagement with government, academics and community organizations across issues related to technology, the economy and society. She is also a member of Singapore’s Media Literacy Council. Prior to this, Clara was at Brunswick Group, a strategic advisory firm specializing in business-critical communications, and the Country Director of Singapore at Vriens & Partners, a Southeast Asia-focused political risk and government relations advisory firm. Clara began her career with the Singapore Foreign Service, where she spent over 6 years helping to manage Singapore’s relations with Indonesia, Thailand and the United States. In that time, Clara served as First Secretary at Singapore's embassy in Washington, DC.

Mrs Anita Low-Lim is Chief Transformation Officer at the TOUCH Community Services. She has more than 20 years of experience in programme design, evaluation and research to build a future-ready social service sector. Her interest lies in developing effective and cutting-edge programmes through the platforms of service learning, mental health, cyber wellness, and the analysis of role transitions in the family. She was credited with the set-up of TOUCH’s Impact & Research Department in 2017, which has enabled the organisation to articulate and measure the outcome and impact of its programmes to lend greater credence to its work. She is a member of the Media Literacy Council and co-chairs the Youth Alliance for Mental Health under the National Council of Social Service. 

Award-winning global marketer with 20+ years of experience spanning creative, media, research, and strategy functions from both agency and client perspectives. Expert in shaping multifunctional teams to harvest growth with a focus on fusing communications and commerce with technology and data. Adept at reshaping and leading client-agency teams to address changing media and retail landscape using insight, investment and innovation. Nationally ranked cyclist bringing performance team building into the office. Advocate for talent development and coaching within teams to achieve goals. Passionate about identifying marketplace trends and opportunities and translating them into positive growth platforms for top global brands including Mars, American Express, Visa, Pernod Ricard, P&G & McDonald’s.

Shawn Lim is a seasoned professional in the world of media and technology, currently serving as the Media and Technology Editor at Campaign Asia Pacific.

He brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to his reporting, covering topics ranging from ad tech platforms and digital media to the future of work and mental health.

As an editor, Shawn is dedicated to staying ahead of the curve and keeping his finger on the pulse of the latest developments in the industry. He is well-versed in commercial models, subscription strategies, connected TV/OTT, social media, and more, making him a sought-after commentator and analyst.

In addition to his editorial work, Shawn is an active participant in the industry, moderating roundtables, panel sessions, and emceeing industry events. He is also in charge of projects like Campaign's 40 under 40, showcasing the rising stars of the tech and media world.

Nick Stringer is Vice President of Global Engagement and Operations. Nick's role is to develop TAG's international footprint and to ensure a consistent approach across markets to tackling criminal activity and promoting brand safety in the digital advertising supply chain. He liaises with companies, industry groups and trade bodies all across the world to achieve this. Nick is a certified Brand Safety Officer (BSO) and is based in London, United Kingdom. Between 2008-2015, Nick was Director of Regulatory Affairs at the Internet Advertising Bureau UK (IAB UK), establishing IAB UK's public policy and regulatory affairs department and spearheading the digital advertising sector's efforts to grow within an optimal policy and regulatory environment. This included the development of various UK and EU good practice initiatives such as on privacy, native advertising, display advertising trading, copyright and social media. It also included advocacy – both at UK and EU level – on privacy and data protection legislation, including the EU ePrivacy Directive and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Between 2009-2015, Nick was also Vice-Chair of IAB Europe's Policy Committee and between 2013-17, Nick chaired the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA), the sister body of the US Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), which administers the EU industry initiative on interest-based advertising. Prior to IAB UK, Nick worked at leading UK mobile network operator, Orange (now EE), leading public policy issues across both mobile and broadband sectors. He has also worked in the UK Parliament. Nick earned a BA in Politics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom.

Ben leads the development of the UM Futureproof product proposition across the Asia Pacific region. Having worked across both client and agency roles in Asia and European markets Ben’s breadth and depth of experience spans all marketing disciplines. Beginning his career with PepsiCo, Ben spent fourteen years working across marketing, insights and sales aligned roles, before transitioning to Shanghai to lead the consumer strategy team for the Greater China PepsiCo Foods business. Prior to joining UM Ben was Managing Partner at MEC, now Wavemaker where he led a portfolio of FMCG, luxury, retail and government clients. With additional experience gained across clients including Samsung, where he led the global Kantar relationship for three years, Burberry, Pernod Ricard, Coca Cola, Unilever and Johnson and Johnson, Ben holistically builds strategic business growth and development in a commercially relevant way. Ben graduated from Brunel University in London with a BSc (Hons) in Management Studies.

Jona Oboza is the Country Manager for Southeast Asia and Korea (SEAK) at PubMatic. Based in Singapore, she has a 12- year strong track record of performance in accelerating cross-functional, dynamic, and high-paced digital and programmatic businesses across marketing communications and tech companies in Asia. Prior to PubMatic, Jona has pioneered the launch of an online advertising company in The Philippines, and held leadership roles across the global media agency network groups– GroupM, Xaxis, Omnicom, and Publicis Media, spearheading new business growth, client strategy, operational excellence and the overall digital transformation learning agenda across APAC, Southeast Asia and Greater China regions.

Business transformation expert with a proven track record on delivering improvement in revenue generation and value creation, and identifying and prioritising strategic gaps and threats in achieving business and investment goals. Strong focus in developing guidance & governance frameworks on how to create and maximise media savings, leading digital performance measurement, pioneering product and partnership development approach, and leading pitch management and transition.

Paul Waller is Chief Investment Officer, APAC at EssenceMediacom, GroupM’s newest and largest agency that is committed to delivering marketing breakthroughs for brands.

In his role, Paul leads EssenceMediacom’s media investment and execution offering for the APAC region. Having worked in multiple countries across continents, he combines an eagerness to explore with a passion to deliver responsible, accountable and effective advertising.

Rob is the principal provider of operational, strategic and tactical counsel for solutions for better digital advertising infrastructure and opportunities for revenue growth to some of the worlds largest companies.  Rob publishes a regular monthly column for Marketing Land and his thought leadership has been featured in AdAge, AdWeek, Mediapost, AdExchanger, Business Insider and MyersBizNet.While at The 614 Group, Rob has led strategic engagements for clients such as Condé Nast, Interpublic / Mediabrands, IBM Watson, TAG, and Panasonic and has worked to recruit a world class board of advisors and a team of consultants who properly represent the brand and make customer satisfaction a core value.He has extensive experience in digital media and is a distinguished leader in the Ad Tech industry.  Among his many accomplishments, Rob has served as Board Member and Executive Advisor to the IAB on International Affairs, as the CFO/COO and President of the global advertising network CPXi.

With an established track record of using technology to provide client solutions and in generating novel revenue streams, Sunil has successfully led market enablement of data-led solutions, digital leadership and has built one of the strongest digital & programmatic practices in the region. Sunil is now focused on future-proofing Dentsu’s approach to data, platforms & products to provide market leading client solutions.

Snigdha is a data-driven growth marketer with 15 years of commercial experience across Tech, Non-Profit and Payments industry. She is passionate about combining data-driven insights & creative ideas to create culturally relevant marketing programs that drive business growth. She has led many pilot marketing programs across Asia Pacific, South-East Asia and Latin America region.  She is also a firm believer in the power of digital marketing & AI in driving impact at scale, via a test-learn-scale approach.

With 22 years of experience in the digital media industry, Jonathan began his career at specialist independent digital agencies in the UK before moving to Omnicom Media Group where he built digital teams in Europe and Asia.  He joined Publicis Groupe in 2016 to accelerate programmatic and digital transformation for the Groupe working with global and regional clients such as Samsung, P&G, Citibank and Singapore Tourism Board. A champion of the open web, Jonathan is passionate about bringing knowledge and capabilities to clients and agency teams throughout Asia. While locked down in Singapore for the past two years, Jonathan has kept busy establishing some additional interests in motorbikes, motorboats, crypto investing and rugby coaching on weekends!

Fionn is the founder of Stickler, a specialist in Live Commerce, helping brands & and retailers navigate this fast growing channel through multi-platform management and analytics.  Fionn has been a protagonist within the digital industry for 25 years, with 20 of those in APAC. In his career he has overseen some of the region’s leading digital companies including Dentsu, Kaibo, Outbrain, Blis and dgm. He is a specialist in emerging technologies, consumer channels and user behaviour. In recent years Fionn has been focused on the phenomenon of Live Shopping. He has closely followed its growth from an emerging Chinese novelty to a sales powerhouse – now delivering 15% of the world’s ecommerce. Stickler is focused on building an ecosystem that will enable brands to maximise their connection to consumers.

An agile learner and a results-oriented media professional with nearly 25 years experience in the ad industry handling renowned accounts such as P&G, Unilever and most recently PepsiCo. She has deep experience  in providing integrated business and marketing solutions to local, regional, and global clients. A proven pioneer with transformative business impact at speed and at scale across diverse set of services from global communications planning, business intelligence, audience science, branded content and large scale digital transformation. Her true legacy is in creating a world class team proving that true global talent can sit anywhere. As one key senior client said, her team in Singapore achieved global rockstar status under her watch. 

She is passionate about the never-been-done, never-been-dreamed-of. She strives to inspire both her team and the client to imagine the unimaginable and partner with them to make it come true.