WEBIT.FESTIVAL Europe
13-15 May 2019, NDK, Sofia
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Exploratorium stage
Opening: Digitalisation
Kiril Ananiev (Republic of Bulgaria / Minister of Health)
Keynote: Population Health
Mark Davies (IBM / Chief Medical Officer)
Keynote: Age is just a number?
Dr. John Beard (World Health Organization / Former Director of Life Course and Ageing)
Keynote: Immortality as a policy objective – good or bad
Joseph Elborn (European Health Parliament / President)
Keynote + Demo: iRise
Lubomir Vassilev (iRise Mechanics / Founder & CEO)
Keynote: The Passion Project – the stories of everyday healthcare heroes.
Vernon Bainton (Havas Lynx Group / Chief Medical Officer)
Matt Eagles (Havas Lynx Group / Head of Patient Engagement)
Keynote: Future of Healthcare
Dr. Daniel Kraft (Singularity University / Chair for Medicine)
Keynote: AI and Benefits to Healthcare
Mark O’Herlihy (IBM Watson Health / Managing Director EMEA)
Keynote: Clinical decision making by AI
Hila Azadzoy (Ada Health / Managing Director, Global Health Initiative)
Keynote: AI transforming healthcare insurance
Plamen Petrov (Anthem Inc. / VP Artificial Intelligence and Exponential Technologies and Chief Data Officer)
Keynote: Blockchain in healthcare
Tatyana Kanzaveli (Open Health Network / CEO)
Keynote: Disrupting communication
Dr. Sandeep Bansal (Medic Creations / Founder and CEO)
Panel discussion: Integrated Care
Prof. Shafi Ahmed (Chief Medical Officer, Medical Realities / Surgeon | Futurist | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Humanitarian)
Mark O’Herlihy (IBM Watson Health / Managing Director EMEA)
Mark Davies (IBM / Chief Medical Officer)
Keynote: How to innovate your thinking?
Mariya Filipova (Anthem, Inc / VP of Innovation)
Fireside chat: Digital Health Transformation in Abu Dhabi
Prof. Shafi Ahmed (Chief Medical Officer, Medical Realities / Surgeon | Futurist | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Humanitarian)
Abdulla Al Ali (Department of Health Abu Dhabi / Senior Health Quality Auditor)
Dr. Dirk Richter (Department of Health Abu Dhabi / Senior Advisor to Director Healthcare Quality Office )
Keynote: Changing the experience of Health
Eugene Borukhovich (PHS Fund / Entrepreneur in Residence)
Keynote: The Strategy to Success
Christopher Hafner (Grovelands / Executive Director)
Keynote: Use technology to save lives
Stefano Cucca (Radoff Srl / Strategic Manager)
Keynote
Stefano Cucca (Radoff Srl / Strategic Manager)
Keynote
Dr. Vishal Nangalia (Founder MedicalandMe, Consultant Anaesthetist and Medical Machine Learning Ninja)
Keynote
Paul Roberts (GPDQ / CEO)
Keynote
Marina Borukhovich (YourCoach Health / Founder & CEO)
Keynote
Bilyana Vasileva (Bayer / Digital Specialist)
Keynote
Mohanad Fors (Digital Health Innovation Lab, Novartis / Head of Biome)
Keynote: Mapping the human genome
Anu Acharya (Mapmygenome / CEO)
Keynote: Digital Therepeutics
Roberto Ascione (Healthware Group / CEO & Founder)
Keynote: Curing the Incurable
Dr. Jack Kreindler (The Centre for Health and Human Performance / CEO)
Keynote: Health in a world of digital biomarkers
Dr. Andreas Caduff (Biovotion / Founder)
Panel discussion: Digital health and innovation ecosystem in Bulgaria
Dr. Rosen Dimitrov (Novartis Bulgaria / Public Affairs Manager)
Prof. Dr. Ivo Petrov (Acibadem City Clinic Sofia / Head of Cardiology and Angiology Department)
Dr. Stanimir Hasurdjiev (Bulgarian National Patients’ Organization (NPO) / Founder and Chairperson)
Keynote: Digital Surgery
Prof. Shafi Ahmed (Chief Medical Officer, Medical Realities / Surgeon | Futurist | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Humanitarian)
Keynote: Virtual Reality: when digital health gets therapeutic
Denise Silber (Doctors 2.0 & You / CEO)
Keynote: Oncomfort Digital Sedation: pure play digital therapeutics in anesthesia.
Diane Jooris (Oncomfort SA / Chief Scientific Officer)
Keynote: Future challenges for surgical research and oppurtunities for technology
Prof. Charles Knowles (Queen Mary University of London / Clinical Professor of Surgical Research)
Keynote: Future of Immersive technology
Matt Leatherbarrow (Medical Realities / CEO and a Co-Founder)
Keynote: Technology Enhanced Learning Using For Globalisation of Surgical Education
Bijendra Patel (Malta University / Professor)
Closing Webit Health
Prof. Shafi Ahmed (Chief Medical Officer, Medical Realities / Surgeon | Futurist | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Humanitarian)
Industry stage
Panel discussion: Tourism Innovation Startups and Tech Solutions in Bulgaria. How they guarantee more satisfied tourists?!
Katya Todorova (MEmotion / Founder)
Andrey Lilov (URBO / Founder & CEO)
Viktor Todorov (Clientric Ltd. / Head of business development and operations)
Kalin Kamenov (Mayor of Vratsa)
Gencho Genchev (Media 35 / Managing Partner; Radio and TV host)
Elitza Stoilova (Umni.co / CEO)
Martina Bojanska (Metropolitan Hotel Sofia / Director of Sales & Marketing in Metropolitan)
Tanyo Shishkov (Nobel by Chef Shishkov / Chef and Creative Director)
Q&A
Discussion with invited only audience
Panel Discussion: What the business needs to know about the SEM trends in 2019
Ognian Mladenov (SEOM.bg / SEO Expert)
Stanislav Dimitrov (Konversa / Founder)
Dimitar Dimitrov (InBound / Owner)
Nikola Minkov (Serpact / Founders & CEO)
Gennadiy Vorobyov (Netpeak Bulgaria / Founder and CEO)
Q&A
Lunch Break
Panel Discussion: Digital Performance practices that really work
Georgi Malchev (Xplora.BG / Managing Partner)
Ognyan Popov (Prospecto Group / Founder)
Martin Milanov (Tavex Bulgaria / Head of Marketing)
Veselin Rogelov (NET1, Marketing Expert; Mobishape, Marketing Director)
Victoria Stancheva (Fashion Days / Marketing Manager)
Keynote: Why the Brand always wins the game...
Katya Todorova (MEmotion / Founder)
Panel Discussion: How to create Premium, Boutique or Mass Brands that matter
Katya Todorova (MEmotion / Founder)
Tsvetelina Nenkova (SuperHosting.bg / Marketing Manager)
Olya Antonova (Trastena Wines / Managing Partner)
Keynote: Social Media Trends in Bulgaria
Biser Valov (Beyond ID Studio / CEO)
Keynote: А single video on Facebook with more than 100 000 000 video views!? Really?
Yuli Tonkin (Entrepreneur, Investor, Writer)
Panel Discussion: Video Marketing that makes/breaks the rules
Peter Vladimirov (PVDigital / Digital Transformation, Consultations, Internet marketing)
Vladimir Karamazov (Аctor)
Keynote: Cause Marketing - how the “miracle” happens
Lazar Radkov (Live To Lift / Founder)
Panel Discussion: Creative is what makes the difference
Nikolay Dievski (HEINEKEN / Brand Manager Stolichno, Starobrno, & Ciders)
Angel Iskrev (proof /Digital Creative Director)
Georgi Zlatkov (The Smarts / Creative Director)
Elena Petrov (AVON / Brand Communications)
Maksim Stoimenov (Fine Acts / Communications Director )
Tanya Petrova (Pernod Ricard Bulgaria / Brand and Digital Manager)
Startup stage
Zana
Dandelin
Skychain Global
Voice Care
ECG-Excellence
Nurturey
TESTCARD
Radoff
I Rise Mechanics 357
Diasyst
QUO Health
e-Fásli
zio health
Biomyc
Nasekomo
Plant-e
BIOPOOLTECH
Absolute Module
Eco Wave Power
ConnectedYou
Hivemind AG
Sensolus
Spanner CI
DoBox
Rouster
Rebartek
Yanu
FragaX
POWER DRONE
Escreo
Modeo Systems
Investors panel: Investors' Point of View: Investing in Early Stage Startups
Jon Soberg (MS&AD Ventures / Managing Partner)
Ethan Pierse (CryptoAssets Institute | BorderlessVentures / Director | Founding Partner)
David Citron (Global Founders Capital / Partner)
Gwendolyn Regina (Entrepreneur First / Entrepreneur)
Wefarm
Goffee
Stayforlong
15toGO
WANDA MAPS
Wowanders
Airning
GLYD
Flat Manager
Car Scanner
AMPECO
Flyt Aerospace
Danube Tech
tomsfive
Fractal Mind
DealMatrix
Cyclr
FEIA
Ectabyte (Veontime)
Kokoro
AreaWFI
DigitalTwin Technology
Truelinked
Nosoft
LeftShift IT
Stack
GLUCE
Aurity
Tappable (NXT)
ARV Syndicate
AGOPOLIS Coin
Influbook
Mind Rockets Inc
Fazla Gıda/Whole Surplus
Bruce
AnyMind
Investors panel: Investor's point of view: Investing in growth stage companies
Jordan French (Grit Daily / Executive Editor)
Gwendolyn Regina (Entrepreneur First / Entrepreneur)
Dr. Nicolai Schättgen (Match Maker Ventures / Founder)
Marisa Todd (Code & Theory / Managing Director)
Closing
Rachel Peck (Microsoft / Startup Business Development Lead EMEA)
Andrew Macadam (Microsoft / Western Europe Managing Director for Startups)
Innovate stage
Opening Innovate! Summit
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))
Keynote: Industry 4.0: What the future holds for manufacturing
Jessica Leigh Jones (Sony / Engineer)
Keynote: Should we resolve conflicts aggressively or peacefully?
Alexandre Roulin (University of Lausanne / Professor of Biology)
Fireside Chat: The Evolution and Challenges Of The On-Demand Economy
Ralph Simon (CEO, Mobilium / "Father of the Ringtone" | Co-Founder, Jive Records (Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) | Produced Live 8, Live Earth, FIFA World Cup)
Oisin Hanrahan (Handy / Founder & Chief Executive Officer)
Keynote: Build a successful data driven media organization in the current era
Karthic Bala (Condé Nast / Chief Data Officer)
Keynote: Digital Journey of Turkish Airlines
Mehmet Gurkaynak (Turkish Airlines / General Manager Bulgaria )
Keynote: Innovate or die! – The future of retail.
Martin Wild (MediaMarktSaturn / Chief Innovation Officer)
Keynote: Introduction to Quantum Computing
Bo Ewald (D-Wave Systems / President)
Demo: How Drones disrupted the traditional geospatial (land management, mapping) as well as agriculture businesses by automation data collection and making a very manual task fully automated.
Jean-Thomas Célette (senseFly / Managing Director)
Keynote: Introducing companies to this new art of the possible - AI, the math at an enormous scale.
Keith Strier (EY / Senior Partner)
Fireside chat: Why and How Governments Are Taking Unprecedented Steps To Shape the Private Sector Adoption and Use of AI
Keith Strier (EY / Senior Partner)
Wayne Grixti (Malta Digital Innovation Authority | MALTA.AI Taskforce / CTO, Chairman )
Demo: Same-day Europe-wide delivery for EUR 5 or less... and other ways drones will reframe the global economy
Svilen Rangelov (Dronamics / Co-Founder)
Demo: iRise
Lubomir Vassilev (iRise Mechanics / Founder & CEO)
Panel discussion: AI - the good, the bad and the ugly
Dr. Ben Goertzel (SingularityNET / CEO & Founder)
Jesus Mantas (IBM Global Business Services / Managing Partner)
Leah Hunter (Author)
Keynote: Brand safety in the era of programmatic: mission impossible?
Hristo Hristov (Netinfo / CEO)
Keynote: how AI and Machine learning can help with brand safety.
John Montgomery (GroupM / EVP, Global Brand Safety)
Demo: Cybershoes
Michael Bieglmayer (Cybershoes / CEO)
Keynote: Future of TV
Hristo Tuchev (H-Tech / Founder)
Keynote: Saving the Earth from Space
Rick Tumlinson (SpaceFund Inc. | EarthLight Foundation / Founder)
Demo: Hoverbike
Oriol Badia Rafart (Malloy Aeronautics / CEO)
Keynote: Making brands famous in the world
Chuck Porter (Crispin Porter + Bogusky / Chairman/Partner)
Fireside chat
Prof. Rob Wolcott (Kellogg School of Management / Clinical Professor of Innovation)
Shaukat Shamim (Youplus / Founder & CEO)
Demo: In-flight wireless drone charging
Leonid Plekhanov (Global Energy Transmission Co. / Chief Executive Officer & President)
Keynote
Prof. Rob Wolcott (Kellogg School of Management / Clinical Professor of Innovation)
Keynote: The future of health and medicine
Dr. Daniel Kraft (Singularity University / Chair for Medicine)
Keynote: The search for Life in the Universe
Dr. Simon Worden (Breakthrough Prize Foundation / Chairman)
Demo: EnduroSat
Raycho Raychev (EnduroSat / Founder)
Panel discussion: Investors point of view
Sriram Prakash (Deloitte / Global Lead, Innovation M&A and Venturing Services)
Ralph Simon (CEO, Mobilium / "Father of the Ringtone" | Co-Founder, Jive Records (Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake) | Produced Live 8, Live Earth, FIFA World Cup)
Gilad Novik (Lakestar / Partner)
Hristo Stoykov (EIB / Head of Division for Growth Capital and Innovation Finance)
Founders Games Award Ceremony - Selecting the best global startups
DEMS Stage
Panel discussion: Demystifying the UHD HDR delivery. Rationale standards and compatibility of this next-level user experience.
Thierry Fautier (Ultra HD Forum / President-Chair)
Ingmar Schmidt (Swisscom TV / Senior TV Portfolio Manager)
Amos Rozenberg (Paramax Films / CEO, Founder)
Gavin Ho (Insight TV / Technical Director)
Dan Akrich (iKOMG / AVP Sales Western Europe & Africa)
Panel discussion: Superaggregation - next phase evolution or yet another disruption? What are the strategic choices laid out in front of the telcos, operators, broadcasters and content houses?
Stanislav Georgiev (Intl. Senior Media Executive)
Maria Rua Aguete (Omdia / Executive Director)
Ingmar Schmidt (Swisscom TV / Senior TV Portfolio Manager)
Charles Dawes (TiVo / Senior Director, International Marketing)
Panel discussion: Content acquisition in times of abundance and changed consumer behaviour
Stanislav Georgiev (Intl. Senior Media Executive)
Marijana Vukašinović (Telekom Srbija / Head of Content Management)
Szilvia Kiss (Telekom Hungary / Senior Manager)
Irena Battelino (Telekom Slovenije / Head Content & Media Marketing Services)
Elena Panova (One Vip Macedonia / Residential Sales Director and Marketing Director)
Fireside Chat: Launching a music streaming app - global vs. local challenges, rights management - case study A1 Xplore Music & Muzikata BG
Velizar Sokolov (ARSIS Consulting / Managing Partner)
Pinie Wang (Xplore Music / Editor in Chief)
Bobby Ivanchev (VTY Music / CEO )
Lunch Break
Keynote: Run for the Diamonds! How to build a successful YouTube business
Valentin Pintilescu (LooLooKids / Development Manager)
Keynote: QUO VADIS TV?
Marin Ćurković (AdScanner / Co-Founder & CEO)
Panel discussion: TV measurements and targeted advertisement - should and could the status-quo of the media advertisement industry be disrupted?
Dobromira Boyadzieva (Arthur D. Little’ TIME practice / Principle MENA)
Kristian Ćurković (AdScanner / Co-Founder & Managing Partner)
Stéphane Printz (FreeWheel / Sr. Regional Director Northern Europe)
Panel discussion: Closing session: Industry trends - the Webit.DEMS committee's roundtable
Stanislav Georgiev (Intl. Senior Media Executive)
Chris Dziadul (Broadband TV News / Co-founder & Co-owner)
Maria Rua Aguete (Omdia / Executive Director)
Thierry Fautier (Ultra HD Forum / President-Chair)
Invest Sofia Stage
Sofia's Place: Presentation – Fund Of Funds
Peter Mihaylov (Fund of Funds / Senior Expert, Investments in the SME Sector)
Sofia's Place: Presentation – Accelerator Startup Sofia: pilot program of Sofia Municipality for accelerated access to financing for innovative, start-up and social enterpreneurs in Sofia
Nikolay Tsenkov (Municipal Guarantee Fund for SMEs / Director)
Alexander Sarafov (Accelerator Startup Sofia / Senior Expert & Manager)
Denitsa Boeva (Accelerator Startup Sofia / Manager)
Sofia's Place: Presentation – Sofia Investment Agency
Ana Georgieva (Sofia Investment Agency / Senior Expert, Investment and Business Development)
Lunch Break
Sofia's Place: Presentation – The Bulgarian Startup Association BESCO
Dobromir Ivanov (BESCO / CEO)
Sofia's Place: Presentation – Sofia Tech Park And Source
Salim Virani (Source Institute / Founder)
Natanail Stefanov (BESCO / Executive Board, Sofia Tech Park)
Sofia's Place: Presentation - Founder Institute
Milen Ivanov (Founders Institute / Director)
Sofia's Place: Presentation – CEO Angels Club
Milen Ivanov (Founders Institute / Director)
Sofia's Place: Accelerator in 1 hour
Salim Virani (Source Institute / Founder)
Microsoft booth
Microsoft booth: Tech: Containers on Azure
Alex Yochev (Microsoft / Technical Evangelist)
Microsoft booth: Partner: Visual documentation of a car in 120 seconds
Sławek Potasz (InMotion Labs / CEO)
Microsoft booth: Partner: Transformative power of language reasoning technology
Luke Pytel (Smabbler / CEO)
Microsoft booth: MS4UP: An Introduction to MS for Startups
Johnny Gorman (Tailored Brands / Microsoft for Startups Head of Operations EMEA)
Lunch break
Microsoft booth: Tech: An overview of Machine Learning offerings on Azure
Todor Todorov (Microsoft)
Microsoft booth: Partner: Continuous authentication with Behavioural Biometrics. Invisible protection for your customers compliant with PSD2 and GDPR.
Adam Forma (Digital Fingerprints / Business Development Executive)
Microsoft booth: Tech: An overview of Azure Cognitive Services (applied AI)
Alex Yochev (Microsoft / Technical Evangelist)
Microsoft booth: Partner panel by UI Path
Microsoft booth: MSASUP: Grow your business with Microsoft for Startups
Tor Tsuk (Microsoft / Startup Business Development)
Microsoft booth: Partner: Banking&Insurance –It's about speed, not just cost
Paula Costea (Fintech OS / Technical Solution Director)
Microsoft booth: Tech: Overview of Server lesson Azure
Lukasz Foks (Microsoft / Azure Developer Lead, Central & Eastern Europe (CEE))
Workshop stage
Workshop Zone - European Innovation Council: Funding Breakthrough Innovation from the Idea to the Market
Teodora Sotirova (European Commission / GIS-TransferCenter (part of the EC network of national contact points))
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