WEBIT.FESTIVAL Europe
25-27 June 2018, Arena Armeec, Sofia
Webit.Foundation is proud to announce that the Innovate! & Plenary Sessions of Webit.Festival Europe 2018 are chaired by EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Society Mariya Gabriel.
The stage of the Innovate! & Plenary Sessions shall welcome some of the worlds global leaders who shape the future now and who will be part of the discussions on how to re:Invent Europe's Future.
The plenary session will be organized
around six major building blocks:
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The big picture:
What vision for a human-centred digital Europe in 2030-2050? -
Building a democratic digital society:
What place for values and culture in the Digital Age? -
Investing in people:
What priorities for digital skills and education? -
Building the Gigabit society:
What priorities for Infrastructure 4.0? -
Protecting people and business:
How to meet domestic and external challenges on Cybersecurity? -
Empowering Women in Business and Politics:
How digital can help to break the glass ceiling?
Other topics include
Innovation Brand Strategies Marketing Automation Digital/Tech Innovations Disruptive Tech Convergence Transforming the Economy Applications of (VR/AR)AUDIENCE
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43%
Enterprise executives:
CMOs, CTOs, CIOs; -
20%
Ad / Media /
Digital Agencies -
17%
Tech Solution
Providers -
11%
Entrepreneurs /
Start-ups - 09% Scientists
- 84% Europe
- 9% USA
- 7% MENA
- 5% Asia
- 1% Rest of the World
Speakers
Why exhibit?
- Direct access to top level marketers, digital transformation experts, entrepreneurs, founders, innovators, members of the academia and enterprise executives from Europe and all over the world
- Access to business leaders from different industries, who need to advertise their products in the best way possible
- Media Coverage
- 1:1 meetings between some of the best marketers, digital transformation experts and AI/VR experts in the world and the business
Attending Companies
The best about Webit.Festival is the dynamism. Everyone here is an entrepreneur, even the smallest, but also large companies here have entrepreneurial spirit. It is being shared and it’s contagious.
Paul Misener
VP, Global Innovation Policy and Communications, Amazon
The best about Webit.Festival is the diversity of different perspectives on offer. Quite often conferences focus very much on business and marketing while this is bringing the whole ecosystem together - educational thinkers, policy thinkers, startups, and I think this is very commendable.
Chris Clarke
Chief Marketing Officer at Digitas LBi
People from so many countries. What you may learn from them and share is wonderful.
Safdar Mustafa
Head of Product Management at Al Jazeera
It’s great. I see so much energy here and it really resonates with me. These are the kind of digital experts that can really make a difference. I feel really at home here.
Dennis Van Heezik
Global Head of E-Commerce, Philips Lighting
This is an amazing conference. Two years ago I predicted that Webit will be one of the largest in Europe and I’m so happy this is happening. I love to absorb the vision of other speakers but also the energy, the networking, the people.
Igor Beuker
Professional Speaker, Serial Entrepreneur, New Breed Trendwatcher
It is my first time here and I learned a lot today about what is going to happen in the next 5 years. It has been really interesting to speak with a lot of people, to network, find out what they do and how we can work together in the future. There is a lot that I can take back to the Wall Street Journal.
David Lennon
Global Creative Director, WSJ. Custom Studios
It is a truly a global initiative to make great high-level international connections. Reach brands, audiences, publishers with impact in spontaneous fashion.
Ben Barokas
Ex-General Manager, Marketplace Development at Google
It is fantastic to be here and one of the reasons is that I can meet enormous amount of people, learn from them and share something back. A lot of the innovative stuff and cutting-edge tech are presented here.
Ward Van Duffel
VP, Direct to Consumer, LEGO
Webit is a lovely event and a very good organization. It has a lot of verticals and slices in terms of what you can hear and what you can say. So I think it is great and it was worth coming in here.
Andrey Khemmelis
Deputy GM, Emerging Technology, Iponweb
The best about Webit is that it is a really a big buzzling conference. So you run into other people, you get ideas, you cross so many new things and it is really a splendid experience to actually find the things you never thought about before.
Michael Paustian
Creative Director and Head of Strategic Product Development, Axel Springer
I’m honoured to be here. Some of the guests are amazing and you’ve got such a wide variety of guests from policy makers, world leaders and CEO’s to startups and young people.
Graham McDonnell
Creative Director, T Brand Studio International - The New York Times
I feel amazing at the Webit.Festival. This is an event organized with the unique purpose to actually drive the future, so I feel fantastic here.
Martin Wezowski
Chief Designer, SAP
I had no idea that in Bulgaria I can be at such professional festival that brings together so many diverse people.
Roby Stancel
Partner for Europe and Innovation at VCI
It is an amazing Congress, it is an amazing audience you have here - incredibly large amount off people - very engaged. I am very excited to see opportunity for new businesses - to have a platform like this!
Nic Jones
Ex-Senior Vice President, International at VEVO
It is fantastic to meet so many different, successful people from so many companies and countries. It is basically a few conferences within a Congress which is unique and you get a chance to get a lot of point of views. You've got the telcos, you've got the web, the developers, the startups and again over a hundred nationalities - that says it all.
Yuval Dvir
Ex-Director Business Transformation at Skype
Being here is very inspiring because you have an incredible variety of talent and incredible variety of perspectives that you don’t typically see in other areas. I love the fact that there is a combination of technologists, policy makers and marketers, all talking about very similar streams, but with very specific personalization elements.
Nasser Sahlool
VP, Digital Strategy, DAC Group
I think the best about Webit.Festival is the combination of professionalism organizing the event and also maybe the cultural element of Eastern Europe. I guess I see much more enthusiasm and people are much more flexible to listening to ideas.
Cristian Citu
Senior Director, Group Digital Strategy, DHL Global Headquarters
Amazing! you see people from all over the world. You see people who normally meet at separate events and now they are all here.
Enon Landenberg
President & CEO at Infinity Augmented Reality
First it is good to network. The people that are here are breaking barriers in their sectors. We come from different verticals and we are sharing a lot of information and knowledge. More networking events like this is required.
Mark Val
Founder & CEO, ARX
