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Oliver leads Reddit’s Large Customer Sales Team covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is responsible for growing Reddit’s DACH advertising business and works closely with cross-functional teams to ensure innovative products and solutions are brought to the markets. Oliver has over 15 years of experience across Marketing, Media and Technology at Pinterest, Google, Facebook and Apple. Together with his team, Oliver seeks to provide best in class services and solutions for the biggest advertisers and their agencies in the regions.

Andréa is Chief Marketing Officer at Pinterest where she oversees the global marketing, insights and creative teams responsible for telling the Pinterest story to Pinners, Creators and Businesses all over the world. As a published author and in-demand speaker around the globe, she speaks and writes enthusiastically about brand strategy, entrepreneurialism, product innovation and design thinking. Andréa has been named Ad Age’s 2021 Marketer of the Year, a 2021 Ad Age Leading Woman and a 2021 Brand Innovators Top 100 Women in Brand Marketing.

Daniel Kaczynski is a communications entrepreneur, consultant and multi-supervisory board member. With his companies Forward Advisors and Swisscontent, he works for numerous blue-chip companies in the DACH region. He is also a board member of the Content Marketing Forum, where he is committed to the creative combination of content, storytelling, channels and strategy.

Miah Sullivan joined Hugo Boss in May 2021 as Senior Vice President Global Marketing and Brand Communications, with the specific mission to lead the team in a historic brand refresh. Following the new Claim 5 growth strategy, last January HUGO BOSS successfully kicked off its transformation with the simultaneous launch of new logos and two star-studded global campaigns for BOSS and HUGO respectively. Under her leadership and social-first approach, the brand launches have gained a coverage of 24 billion impressions and 924 million engagements across social media in 3 months – a record-breaking result for the company. Prior to joining Hugo Boss, Miah was the CMO of several global brands such as Lanvin Group/St John and Furla. Previous to that, she also served in various Marketing leadership roles during her time in Luxottica Group. Originally from the U.S., Miah has also lived and worked extensively throughout Europe and Asia.

Laura Kampf is a maker! Not ringing any bells? She creates crazy things in her workshop and uploads videos of the creation process to her YouTube channel–and her 300,000 followers. Whether it’s a beer bike, a children’s bicycle carousel, a tiny house and a drill-propelled raft, every new workshop and project sharpens and expands Kampf’s skillset and motivate the world to engaging in DIY activities. Furthermore, she appears in seminal German kids show "Sendung mit der Maus" and has built a bottle opener with Mythbusters legend Adam Savage.

Talisa Tossell began her full-time career in social media in 2016, making a slime account to post all the videos she found herself liking from different corners of the world. After gaining more and more subscribers, Talisa made her first slime tutorial and received millions of views overnight. Since then, her audience has grown to over 2 Million subscribers on YouTube and over 900k on Instagram. Talisa also expanded to posting on TikTok and Snapchat, cultivating a strong and engaging community across all platforms.

Sina Stieding is Culture & Trends Manager at YouTube for Germany and Austria, where she is in charge of all YouTube trending products, including the Trending Tab, and explaining how brands can leverage video culture to charge their brands with relevance. Previously, she managed the trending product on Amazon Alexa in Germany and worked as a freelance journalist for several years.

Dr. Maik Kleinschmidt has been Director Marketing Europe at C&A since 2019 and is responsible for brand management and marketing activities in all online and offline channels in 18 European countries. Under his leadership, C&A focuses on brand strengthening and modernization and the expansion of digital channels. His team works across channel and country borders on integrated customer communication. Maik has been working on growth strategies with leading brands and retailers in the fashion and consumer goods sector for the past 15 years. He previously served as managing director of digital and marketing at Tom Tailor Group and as a marketing and sales transformation consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.

Volkmar Foelsch has been Regional VP DACH at Sellforte since 2021 and is responsible for Sellforte’s further growth in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He has a strong background in Data Driven Decision Making / Automation, Advanced Analytics and AI and has been working with US- and European based Start-Ups / Scale-Ups for over 10 years serving leading international clients with focus in Retail, Consumer Goods and Media. Prior to joining Sellforte Volkmar worked in leading sales positions for Blue Yonder, CrossEngage and ThinFilm Electronics.

Mogens Storgaard Jakobsen is Chief Sales Officer and Co-founder of AudienceProject, a technology-based market research company founded in Denmark and operational worldwide.In 2010, Mogens co-founded AudienceProject to improve market research in the digital age by combining traditional market research with technology, big data and machine learning.Since the foundation of AudienceProject, Mogens has been part of growing the company from a small start-up to a medium-sized scale-up with more than 50 employees in four different countries across Europe.With his solid experience in market research and technology, he helps businesses get the most value from their advertising spend or inventory.

Florian Harms is a journalist, author and Co-Managing Director of Ströer News Publishing GmbH. Since 2017, he has been Editor-in-Chief of Germany's widest-reach news site t-online in Berlin. With his 150-strong editorial team, he has increased visits by more than 60 percent. His morning briefing "Tagesanbruch" keeps decision-makers throughout Germany up to date. He is now taking the next steps on his way to becoming Germany's leading digital media brand with a relaunch and a regional offensive.

After holding various positions at agencies and publishers, Miriam Arnoldy joined Ströer in 2019 and is responsible for Brand Management for the Ströer Content Group. Her passion is innovative solutions and cross-media concepts. She inspires clients in all matters related to their marketing goals.

What does the future of t-online look like? On the screen of Robert Becker, Program Manager at Ströer, the answer to the question seems to be a little closer. The 48-year-old is currently overseeing the relaunch of the news portal's platform. It all started almost two years ago when he joined the project. The development processes were optimized and the teams realigned. Before that, he spent 10 years in Switzerland. He gained experience with journalistic products as chief of staff at Handelsblatt. The Berlin native does not only use his creativity in his job. As a musician, he has also played in front of more than 50,000 spectators. An encouragement even in difficult project times. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

We’ve been passionate readers and subscribers to "The Hustle," a fantastic, to-the-point business newsletter that pops up daily in our inbox—and over 1.5 million others around the world. Sam Parr is the founder of the operation, which has built up a rapidly growing paid content business. In 2021, The Hustle was acquired by CRM giants Hubspot.

Paul Ripke is a fashion blogger, Youtuber and German Instagram stars. He got his start as photographer for German hip-hop artist Marteria and some members of the German national team. In 2014, he was on the pitch after the World Cup final in Rio and became a household name in Germany with his shots of the German victory. Today, he accompanies Lewis Hamilton during the Formula 1 season and co-hosts the popular German podcast Alle Wege führen nach Ruhm (AWFNR).

Christina Schehl is Vice President and Head of frog Germany. frog, as the leading global creative consultancy and part of Capgemini Invent, partners with passionate leaders and visionary entrepreneurs to re-invent businesses, drive growth, and orchestrate customer-centric transformation. With more than 275 strategists, creatives, data scientists and tech experts, Christina and her team build the strategy and innovation unit of Capgemini Invent in Germany. For almost 15 years, Christina has been advising clients across various industries in customer experience from strategy to sustainable transformation.

After positions as Client Lead at Grey, BBDO, DDB, Saatchi & Saatchi and as Marketing Consultant for Digitas & Publicis Media, Dirk Otto has been responsible for the national & international marketing of Eurowings, the leading European value carrier of the Lufthansa Group, since 2018. There, he is agnostically responsible for all matters of brand, marketing strategy and activation driving the digital transformation of marketing and the repositioning of the brand in times of great crisis and change. He is a forward-thinking believer in a customer-focused & data-based marketing approach, that is not reduced to optimizing ad placements but always keeps people and insights in focus, with the goal of "creating value starting from the consumer."

Frank Thelen first made his name through “Die Höhle der Löwen,“ the German version of Shark Tank or Dragon’s Den, depending on which side of the Atlantic you’re from. Thelen is now the most-prominent tech investor in Germany. Thelen’s track record includes numerous notable exits, including 6Wunderkinder (sold to Microsoft), Mytaxi (sold to Daimler) and Kaufda (taken over by Axel Springer).

Nils Graef is Managing Director at Amazon Advertising in Germany. Nils has worked in digital advertising, media and retail for 20 years, is one of the founders of the digital agency Cocomore, an alumnus of BCG, and the former Category Leader for Books at Amazon Germany. Nils has an MBA from IESE Business School (Barcelona) and Bachelor’s degrees from ESB (Reutlingen) and Northeastern University (Boston).

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Emre is a director in Google’s Ads division for Central Europe and responsible for their sales and account management activities for the German market. He is passionate about helping businesses connect with their customers through technology. Throughout his 11+ years at Google, he has directly worked with more than 500 businesses to help them achieve their marketing and business objectives through digital solutions. Emre is one of the Executive Sponsors for Search and Performance Ads in EMEA, supporting the development and incubation of new solutions and ensuring customer feedback is received and actioned in the Product organization. Emre is also a passionate coach and mentor for youth and emerging talent from underrepresented groups.