Emma Chiu leads Wunderman Thompson Intelligence, the agency’s in-house futures and innovation think-tank.

Emma consults with brands on how build long-term strategies based on qualitative and quantitative insight that incorporates cultural and behavioral change, sector innovation and zeitgeist shifts. She has worked with brands including Microsoft, Shiseido, Unilever, Samsung and Nestlé.

In early 2020, Emma spearheaded the launch of the Wunderman Thompson Intelligence “Future 100” Report, which helps people prepare for emerging consumer behavior with 100 original trend predictions from Wunderman Thompson Intelligence. Split into 10 categories, each trend delivers a digestible snapshot of movements so far, while clearly explaining why brands and marketers should pay attention.

Emma’s foresight and thought leadership has been picked up by global publications and has been featured in The Telegraph, Creative Review, New York Magazine, Dazed Digital and Vogue. She is also a member of the WARC Awards 2020 judging panel and The International Color Awards 2020 judging panel. In addition, Emma regularly speaks at international conferences including SXSW Interactive, Adobe Max and Pause Fest.

She lives in New York.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-chiu-86a4491b/

With over 17 years of advertising and marketing experience I have assisted transforming medium and large organisation in digital first organisations.

Focussing on innovation and ROAS, brands and agencies have been able to grow and refocus their advertising strategies and media buying.

With a focus on EMEA I now operate out of the UK to build the MMR brand further internationally and provide brands with hard hitting solutions in the current challenging climate.

My main focus is to make your life easier and provide transparency and enable teams to be more efficient so ultimately your organisation becomes more powerful and cost effective.

On a personal level I am a coffee aficionado who sources beans, roast them to produce a highest standard of espresso...

Entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Videocites, a high-end technological startup that developed a novel, video-based search engine to help track, claim, analyze and monetize all video distribution throughout the web for content owners, publishers, and advertisers.

I have close to 25 years’ experience in the Retail and CPG industry.  I began my career with Asda (Wal-Mart) before moving in to CPG Sales and Client Management with McCurrach UK, the UK’s leading field sales force provider to the CPG industry.  I spent 10 years operating as part of the Senior Leadership Team at McCurrach UK, growing some of their key accounts, managing large scale teams through periods of significant change and overseeing the introduction of key technologies that would deliver future business growth and efficiencies. After 17 years with McCurrach I made the move to Trax Retail where I am now helping to drive growth in the CPG/Retail markets with disruptive computer vision technology, on-demand workforce, and IoT hardware.  All of which helps the business to grow within our existing client base, and through new opportunities around the world.

Hadar is an accomplished business development and corporate innovation leader as well as corporate lawyer with over nine years of experience, specializing in high-tech and M&A. 

As the Director of Porsche Digital in Tel Aviv, Hadar and her team scout for companies and technologies that can transform Porsche and interact with them via projects and investments. Previously, Hadar led Deloitte's new startups practice, rebranded as “Deloitte Catalyst”, where she and her team provided a unique value to startups and Fortune 500 companies, by creating meaningful relationships, business collaborations as well as global growth opportunities and market integration.

Hadar is a certified lawyer having represented various companies and Venture Capital funds in the US and Israel and an alumna of the IDF Elite Intelligence Unit, 8200. 

She holds Bachelor degrees in Laws and in Business-Administration as well as a Master’s degree in Laws from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC).

​​​​​​Harry Antonio enjoys helping marketing organizations become more effective and efficient. He has spent the last several years focusing on AdTech’s role in performance advertising, and has served as trusted advisor to some of the industry’s most sophisticated user acquisition teams. Harry holds a B.A., MBA, and M.S. in Marketing. He currently serves as Paragone’s Head of Customer Success, US.

Recently moved from Tel Aviv to London to grow the ecosystem of partners in EMEA focusing on e-commerce platforms, agencies, and technology partners. Itay holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University and has years of experience working with different start-ups on the Go To Market side. In his free time, Itay enjoys hiking and traveling with his wife and two kids

“Liam is Global Head of Innovation at MediaCom, where he is helping develop and deliver business & digital transformation agendas for some MediaCom’s largest clients through the use data, technology and start-ups as part of the BLINK Consulting team.

Over the past three years, the BLINK Consulting team has worked on over 50 projects for clients such as Mars, Coca-Cola, PlayStation, Sky, GSK and Warner Music. These projects have helped BLINK Consulting clients solve critical business challenges and find innovative new partners that can be deployed across their organisation.

Liam has fifteen years’ experience working in various innovation, digital and strategy roles for brands such as Mars, The Coca-Cola Company, Adidas Group, ASOS, Red Bull and Airbnb.”

Menno de Vries is a serial entrepreneur who started his first company, an online restaurant guide, in 1996 in Holland.
In 2008 he moved to Israel with his family. After TripAdvisor took over his restaurant guide in 2014, he took 2 years off to study about the land of Israel and become a licensed tour guide.

He created an international platform for tour guides and started as a tour operator in Israel. The daily Jerusalem Tour he created is ranked as the #1 Experience in Israel by Tripadvisor.

In Holland, Menno is still active with the largest cashback platform for non-profits and in between he is active as a board member of the Israel-Netherlands Chamber of Commerce.

Due to Covid-19 the company switched to virtual tourism and has successfully created tours for both private and public sectors, like Israel's Ministry of Tourism.

Michal is the Director of Business Development at Riverside, crafting our Go-to-Market strategy and building new partnerships. Prior to joining the team she had worked in the fintech industry. She is a graduate of both the London School of Economics and Tel Aviv University.

Michelle’s area of expertise is driving transformative effectiveness for clients and building out new capabilities.

Over the last 4 years, Michelle has led the reinvention of the VMLY&R Commerce offer to become a creative commerce agency launching new innovation and social commerce + capabilities as well as placing a commercial consulting offer at the heart of the business.

A champion of talent, learning & development, VMLY&R Commerce has achieved gold IPA accreditation 3 years in succession and her team are winning constant recognition including EMpower/Yahoo Finance Ethnic Minority Role List, Women in Marketing Awards.

Michelle is vice chair of WACL’s Talent Awards, mentors future leaders, is part of WPP Stella and speaks regularly at industry events.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-whelan-502839/

A serial entrepreneur with a successful history as a founder and CEO of startups. Excited by the intersection of deep tech and business challenges.

Transforming the Indoor Positioning landscape, with unique technology that combines 3ft accuracy with zero hardware installation.

A serial entrepreneur, in AdTech and MarTech, extensive experience in business development, product and marketing. Experienced advisory board with an array of tech companies in advertising solutions, from Rich Media, Video, content recommendation, micro location advertising, AdBlock circumvention, ad units and much more.

Nikolai is a sales, alliances, and business development executive with over 15 years of international experience. Prior to joining Bringg, Nikolai played a key role at ClickSoftware (field Service software leader), in the formation of its alliance with Salesforce which culminated with a $1.35B acquisition and an industry-wide transformation. Today, he is scaling the Bringg Alliances organization, spanning across Software, GSI, and Co-Sell channels, as well as the world's largest last-mile carrier hub.

In the past 10 years, Oded has been working in agencies and startups. His work in recent years, has received global recognition and won international awards, such as IKEA Thisables, winning 11 Cannes Lions (including Grand Prix in Health & Wellness, and Silver in Innovation) and the Prescription Paper Pill Bottle, developed with Saatchi Wellness.

In his startup period, Oded was part of the launch of Israel’s first venture builder, which launched 5 startups in a period of 2 years, and 2 of these are still active today. His role focused on strategy, storytelling, product, and in one of the ventures, he raised pre-seed money.

In the past 3 years, Oded has been leading open innovation at Publicis Groupe, helping startups grow through Publicis internal business units (Sapient, Production, Commerce, Data, and more), as well as with clients in various sectors. He recently formed a partnership between Sapient NA and SAP.iO Foundry to foster new relationships with startups that will be presented to both companies’ clients after a 3-month acceleration period.

Oded holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology, and an MBA, both from top universities in Israel. He is a lecturer on storytelling and branding for startups at the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel and is a mentor to startups in various innovation programs.

He holds a black belt in Karate and is studying at the “Happiness Academy”.