First Announced Speakers of the Global Webit Congress 2014

Dr. Plamen Russev

Founder and Executive Chairman, Webit.Foundation / Serial entrepreneur | Futurist | Philanthropist | Investor with over 30 years experience in tech and investments (direct and as LP)

James Sandoval

SVP & Managing Director EMEA at Signal

Lars Silberbauer Andersen

Global Director of Social Media & Search at LEGO

Dr. Torsten Wingenter

Head of Digital Innovations, Lufthansa German Airlines

Dominic Trigg

SVP, Managing Director Europe at Rocket Fuel

Alexandru Cernatescu

CEO & Co-Founder - Infinit Solutions Agency

Mariano A. Bosaz

Global Digital Director, The Coca-Cola Company

Ian Munford

Director of Product Marketing and Enablement for Media Solutions at Akamai Technologies

İlker Baydar

CEO at Markafoni Group

Caroline S. Henne

Regional Director Digital Market Intelligence CEEMETA at GfK

Olly Barnes

Vice President Music at Rdio

Dr. Gyula Fehér

Co-Founder and CTO of Ustream

Robert Tas

Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President at Pegasystems

Norm Johnston

Unruly / Global CEO

Damien Perillat

Damien Perillat, General Manager CEE of PayPal

Jochen Wegner

Editor-in-chief, ZEIT

Erkan Kilicaslan

Partner at Iris Capital

Dirk Henke

Managing Director Eastern Europe & MEA, Criteo

Yılmaz Yaman

Deputy Director General at Anadolu Agency

Jordan Kretchmer

Founder and CEO of Livefyre

Glen Richardson

CMO of Fruugo

Jon Myers

VP & Managing Director EMEA at Marin Software

Ariel Luedi

CEO, Hybris

Igor Beuker

Speaker, Publicist, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor

Rob Griffin

Global Director of Product Development at Havas Media

Ralf Haberich

CCO, Webtrekk

Emre Ekmekçi

President Business Development at Doğan Online

Timothy Bataillie

Director of Business Development MENA & Turkey at Engagor

Pete Blackshaw

Global Head of Digital Marketing and Social Media for Nestlé

Stewart Rogers

Director Marketing Technology at VB Insight

Shane Shevlin

Commercial Director EMEA

John Sheehy

President, Global Operations at Starcom MediaVest Group

Gary Liu

Head of Spotify Labs

Tolga Arıcan

CEO / Partner at Manifakture

Kaya Taner

CEO & Co-founder of AppLift

Stanislav Georgiev

Head of Media & Content at Telekom Austria Group

Jim Rosenberg

Chief Digital Strategy Officer at UNICEF

Dr. Mahmut Kurşun

Chief Information Officer, Ciner Group, Vice President, IAB Turkey

Jean-Paul Edwards

Strategy and Product Development Director at OMD EMEA,

Aljoša Jenko

Founder and CEO of Httpool

Reshma Nagpal

Founder and CEO, e-­bee

Benjamin Hansz

Vice President, International Client Management, Fiksu

David Moore

Chairman of Xaxis and President of WPP Digital

Berk Uziyel

Director at SPI INTERNATIONAL / FILMBOX

Emi Gal

Founder & CEO of Brainient

Jonathan Wisler

General Manager EMEA, SoftLayer, an IBM Company

Jason Ball

Investment Director / Head QCV Seed, Europe at Qualcomm Ventures

Linus Dahg

Early Stage VC at Wellington Partners

Bakhrom Ibragimov

Operations Leader at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Vishal Gupta

Managing Director, Cisco

Ivan Hernandez

Co-Founder, The Digital Loop

Ivo Radulovski

Web Strategy Expert, Entrepreneur and Investor, Segments

Thomas Aidan Curran

Founder of Telemos AG

Lee Clancy

Senior Vice President of Product & Mobile Strategy at Naspers eCommerce

Yaser Bishr

Executive Director of Strategy and Development at Al Jazeera Media Network

Paul Kewene-Hite

Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, INSEAD (Singapore and France)

Suneel Bandhu

Member of Mumbai Angels

Ondrej Bartos

Partner at Credo Ventures

Aurélie Pols

Chief Visionary Officer & Founder of Mind Your Privacy

Max Niederhofer

Partner, SunStone Capital

Cem Sertoğlu

Partner at EarlyBird Venture Capital

Rahul Sood

General Manager & Partner at Microsoft Ventures

Ben Medlock

Co-founder, CTO of SwiftKey

Andrew Ng

Chief Scientist of Baidu; Chairman and Co-founder of Coursera

Eric Klinker

co-Founder and CEO of Resilio Inc.

Peter Fredell

CEO of Seamless

Carlos Conde

Chief Technology Evangelist at Amazon Web Services EMEA

Mikko Kotila

Co-Founder at povert.io & Chief Propagator at the 10x Computer Club

Hanno Stegmann

CFO and Managing Director at SevenVentures

Andrew Yeoman

CEO and co-founder of Concirrus

Ronaldo Mouchawar

CEO, Souq.com

JP Rangaswami

Chief Scientist at Salesforce.com

Alan Atkins

Vice President & Global Head IoT | Digital, Wipro

Mohanned Audeh

Business Development Director at Zain Jordan

Tony Conrad

Co-founder and CEO of about.me, Founder/Venture Partner at True Ventures

Craig Hollingworth

Business Development Officer and Co-Founder of Concirrus

Dr. Philip Boigner

Vice President - TIG Ecosystem Technology Investment at Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority

Orkun Saitoglu

COO of Iyzico

Dmitry Chikhachev

Co-founder and Managing Partner at Runa Capital

Elias Ghanem

CEO and co-founder of Telr.com

Peter Smith

President of Blockchain

Jeff Lynn

Co-founder and CEO at Seedrs

Maximilian Müller

CEO at Moticon

Gianpaolo Bruno

Director of Strategic Planning, Economic Research, Overseas Offices at Italian Trade Promotion Agency (ICE)

Muhannad Ebwini

Co-founder and CEO Gate2play

Ahmad Hanandeh

Chief Executive Officer, Zain Jordan

Ville Mickelsson

Chief Executive Officer of Cyberlightning

Alexander Galitsky

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Almaz Capital

Tomasz Czechowicz

Founder and CEO at MCI Group