As the Director of Marketing, Sales and e-commerce, Thomas is expertly placed to discuss the move to mobile and Doc Morris’ very successful responsively designed mobile webshop.

Zoltan Maklary is Head of Performance Marketing at notbooksbilliger.de, the largest German online retailer in the consumer electronics segment. Notebooksbilliger.de generated over 600 million euro revenue last year with a year-over-year revenue growth of 25%. Zoltan joined notebooksbilliger.de in 2016 and he is in charge of the online marketing activities.

Felix has over 13 years work experience in the various fields of SCM, eCommerce and IT. Felix is currently responsible for responsible for Payment, fulfilment and Customer Service within the PUMA Europe eCommerce business in 23 countries.

Juliane Homuth is Head of Marketing Analytics & CRM at MYTOYS GROUP, the leading shop in family e-commerce in Europe. Her focus is the set-up of analytical CRM, marketing automation and effective personalization to ensure successful lifecycle management of more than 4 million customers. Before joining myToys in early 2014 she headed the Product Management of Digital Imaging for SONY in Germany.

As Vice President Commerce Platforms, Gina Deeble is committed to positioning QVC as a pioneering multi-channel retailer. Since May 2016 Deeble has been responsible in this function for the departments E-Commerce, Broadcasting, Content and Platform Development. Thus she stands for the development and networking of QVC’s platforms - TV, internet, mobile and the social media. “We want to drive the QVC community’s engagement across all our platforms, so we consistently gear the user experience on these platforms to customer needs and preferences." Deeble is originally from the USA, but spent over two decades at QVC UK. She was a member of the team that established QVC Germany in 1996. At QVC UK Deeble worked in broadcasting, planning, merchandising and e-commerce. As Head of Interactive Content at QVC UK, Deeble was responsible for the development of QVCUK.com and the QVC Active service for Sky, Freeview and cable. She also assumed the function of Director of Interactive Commerce in the UK, and was appointed as Director of Multi- Channel Planning & Commerce in 2012. Since March 2015 Gina Deeble is working with QVC Germany and was initially responsible for the departments E-Commerce, Planning and Programiming. Under Gina Deeble’s leadership, the share of revenue attributable to e-commerce in the UK rose from six percent in 2000 to 40 percent in 2014.

Grimur comes from a corporate background. As former Head of Digital Innovation and Member of the Supervisory Board of a major global apparel company, he is an expert on digital transformation, strategy and innovation management. He has successfully built high performance teams and platforms world wide and uses his extensive knowledge of social business structures from a former role as Global Social Media Manager. Grimur is an award winning keynote speaker, advisor and entrepreneur.

Christian Möhring is head of Digital at IKEA Germany, the Swedish life at home expert and world’s largest multichannel retailer for home furnishing products. Before his time at IKEA Christian had the opportunity to work for the US Sports Brand NIKE, in Germany and latest on a European level, where he was responsible for Digital Brand and Commerce.

Gareth Locke is Director Performance Marketing at mytheresa.com. mytheresa.com is one of the world's leading online retailers for women's luxury fashion. Over 400 employees work together to create an unforgettable online shopping experience. Mytheresa.com offers a selection of products from over 200 of the most important designer collections, outstanding customer service, as well as fast and reliable delivery to more than 120 countries all over the world.

Frank Seemann is the Managing Directpr at Erfurt & Sohn KG, located in Wuppertal, Germany. Erfurt is global market leader in producing and distributing wallpaper for the professional and DIY markets. 7 years ago Erfurt launches its wallpaper for digital printing an won several prices. As an online-channel for the B2C- and SOHO-markets Erfurt operates the company JuicyWalls (www.juicywalls.com).

Dirk Lauber is the CEO at Empirie.com. Previously, he was responsible for all of the e-commerce activities of the Baur Group in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with an online demand of approximately EUR 1 billion. In addition, he lead the fourth largest German e-commerce agency with in-house service for approx. 40 Otto Group companies around the world. As CEO of the online advertising and consulting firm Octobo he supports about 20 companies of the Otto Group in online store activities. Among others Baur.de were nominated imwalking.de for the E -Commerce: "Online Shop of the Year," "Innovation Award" and "Best Mobile Shop."

Max Thinius is an expert for the development of disruptive innovations. Therefor he developed a system called "play-innovation" wich makes it possible, even for corporates or big KMUs to create disruptive models out of their own structure and bring it successful to market. Since 1988 Max is as well an expert for questions on sustainability and was one of the major developer of the "integral company", a company which gains its success in a cooperation with innovating prosperity for society. Besides he is company-spokesperson of AllyouneedFresh.de, Germanys biggest online-supermarket from Deutsche Post DHL Group, as well as spokesperson of Forum Lebensmittel im bevh (Bundesverband E-Commerce und Versandhandel Deutschland e.V) and co-founder of the "NextGenerationFood" Think-Tank - the mother of all Food-Think-Tanks.

Martin became a member of the trivago team in 2011. Since joining, he has established and overseen the Global Display, Email and Affiliate Marketing activities that are run by his team of 40+ people.

Nils is the founder of RCKT, a Berlin based consultancy which leads brands and businesses into the digital age. RCKT is a company of Rocket Internet SE. Before making the leap to RCKT, Nils functioned as the Global Head of Communications for the Africa Internet Group (AIG). AIG is an online joint venture of international companies Millicom and MTN Group, together with Rocket Internet. Additionally, Nils worked as VP of Communications at Rocket Internet, supporting a global network of startup companies. Prior to joining Rocket, Nils assisted several startups during their launch, worked two years in the advertising industry and served as a big data analyst for GFK’s digital unit, Germany’s largest market research institute. Nils studied Media Sciences at the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hannover, and Economics at the University of Lugano and at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen.

Ingrid Hochwind is an account executive at Google Germany. As a key account holder of global FMCG companies she is responsible for shopper marketing, EMEA. Previously she took care of large trade companies in Germany and in the United States, which were focused on digital solutions in retail advertisement. Before her time at Google, Ingrid used to work in the marketing sciences department at Accenture.

Mirko finds that through doing strong, data driven market research he has been able to drill into the core target group as Mr. Spex, thus improving his customer’s lifetime value. This way he can cater to the existing customer base based in a more strategic fashion. In particular he has achieved triple digit growth as a result of these new strategies.

Thilo Bendler Vice President Knowledge Management for Otto Group. Having moved into the role in 2012, Thilo's main responsibilities include consulting of all Otto Group Companies with a focus on Marketing, Sales, Assortment and Strategy. He also oversees organisation of Know-how Exchange for the Otto Group, and development and maintenance of the DACAPOi Best Seller data base.

Chris is a Canadian experienced marketeer and entrepreneur living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been involved with many projects on digital strategy and social media, including working with large brands like Coloplast, Carlsberg, Burger King, and HP. He is a skilled presenter and brings a unique style of knowledge, inspiration and engagement to his keynotes. 

He has been named by Mashable as one of the Top 50 Marketing Influencers on Snapchat and by Forbes Magazine as the #1 Business Guru on Snapchat. 

He is also the host of the Kubby Show, a weekly practical and tactical video series for marketing tips, news and rants on Youtube.

As Director Performance Marketing, Dorothee leads the online marketing team at Project A and decisively influences the marketing of their portfolio companies, acting either as a sparring partner or as the interim CMO. Dorothee can build on ten years of experience in online marketing. During this time, she was responsible for the sales team at Zanox, where she led the T-I-M-E-S department, before helping to grow the business at Zalando, almost from its start.

Thomas Tischer, Head of E-Commerce Product Mgmt. & UI/UX, Air Berlin PLC & Co. Luftverkehrs KG As an E-Commerce specialist with more than 11 years of experience, Thomas manages the enhancement of all B2C online solutions of Air Berlin including the website airberlin.com as well as web applications and mobile site. Working in the airline industry for over 15 years now, he’s become an expert in Airline Business and knows the Do’s and Don’ts of e-commerce activities. Together with his acquired E-Commerce knowledge within other industries, Thomas now uses his expertise for Air Berlin to drive innovations and future development.

Axel is strategic Head of Customer Experience in the Product Development department at HRS Hotel Reservation Service in Cologne, Germany. He joined HRS as Head of User Experience Design in November 2014 where he amongst other things expanded the internal UX Team. Previous to HRS he worked for seven years as Information Architect / Manager Experience Design at SapientNitro. There he supported various clients in the aviation, eCommerce, banking and telecommunication sectors across Europe in creating customer centered solutions and managing their digital and mobile transformation. Axel studied industrial design with focus on computational design at the University of Wuppertal and works since 1998 in the digital realm. Besides customer centric thinking he is passionate about agile transformation and lean UX.

Karl Wehner joined Alibaba Germany in June 2016 as Director, Business Development, where he is responsible for driving partnerships in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Eastern Europe and Turkey. Karl has over fifteen years’ experience in e-commerce and sales, having started his career in e-commerce at Amazon Deutschland in 1999. At Amazon, he was responsible for the launch of Amazon Marketplace in Germany and the launch of Amazon’s co-branded credit card, “Amazon Kreditkarte”. Before joining Alibaba, Karl successfully set up the 3rd party marketplace for takealot.com in Cape Town, now South Africa´s largest e-commerce company.

Mara is responsible for the onsite personalisation of the Otto Group sites and specialises in creating personalised and inspiring pages.

Stefan Tobel has been working at ABOUTYOU since 2014. As Head of Shop he is responsible for the operation and further development of aboutyou.de. His responsibilities include the areas conception, design and programming of the shop-features as well as A/B Testing. Since launch in May 2014, ABOUTYOU has won several awards for its UX and innovative features. Stefan Tobel is graduate of ESCP Europe. Before joining ABOUTYOU, he's been working as strategy consultant for Otto Group, one of the World’s largest e-commerce players.

Luca’s proudest business achievement is the re-launch of Swiss.com into a revolutionised customer experience featuring responsive design, digital travel guides, personalised information, responsive design and innovative customer experience.

Samuel is an eCommerce Project Manager with strong commercial acumen. Solution focused, he is interested in all things tech, in particular analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Samuel has history of working with e-commerce start-ups, driving technical delivery in line with commercial business requirements. Currently, Samuel is working as part of Condé Nast's eCommerce offering, Style.com, engaging with top-tier luxury brands and delivering technical solutions in the ever changing world of fashion.

Daniel is the Head of Online Transformation at Vodafone Deutschland, his passion is revolutionising the Vodafone mobile experience and specialises in creating efficient and customer centric strategies.

Andre Schoenherr is a digital enthusiast and is going to be discussing the B2B perspective of e-commerce, looking specifically at customer engagement and how B2C companies can learn.

Hartmut Deiwick is commercial director at APONEO, one of the top online pharmacies in Germany. He helped evolving the company into a quality leader and a first mover with regard to some innovative customer-related services such as same-day delivery. Together with technology companies, he is currently working on wearable e-health devices.

Saim Alkan, CEO of AX Semantics is a poineer in the field of natural language generation. With years of experiences in content creation, it's requirements, expectations towards quality as well as efficient implementation of publishing processes, Saim Alkan and his team developed a solution that generates high-quality content in up to 18 languages focussing on e-commerce, business intelligence & publishing. Saim Alkan is also involved as lecturer in the fields of online communication and "robot journalism".

Gerald Krainer is Director of Digitalization at FMC (Future Mobility Corporation), a newly formed EV startup planning to launch a family of premium, fully connected and self-driving cars starting from 2020. Since Krainer´s arrival in October 2016 it was the aim to create an exceptional, seamless customer journey in a digital environment against traditional pain points.

Laura Reiser-Nurse is a multi-discipline marketing professional carrying extensive experience in IT & SaaS Field & Industry Marketing. In her current role as Head of Marketing at Bazaarvoice, the world’s largest shopper network that connects people, products, brands and retailers at each stage of the buying journey, Laura drives demand generation and brand awareness efforts in the DACH & Benelux region. With a passion for social commerce and customer engagement she breaks the mould of a traditional marketer, constantly looking at new approaches and ideas. Prior to joining Bazaarvoice she worked in different marketing and inter-disciplinary project management positions at companies like BMW and SAP and holds a Master´s Degree in Arts Administration & Cultural Policy.

Engin Yilmaz is a Senior Online Marketing Manager at Foodpanda GmbH in Berlin, Germany. An acknowledged digital expert, he held a position as Online Marketing Manager with Zalando before he joined the start-up Foodpanda in early 2015, which brings together about 26,000 restaurants, numerous local delivery vendors, and six million active customers from 20 countries on its open online marketplace.

Florian Düngen is an Account Manager for Adobe Media Optimizer at Adobe Systems GmbH. Leveraging many years of experience in online marketing, he is currently focusing on technical and conceptual Search Engine Marketing (SEM)consulting.

Ryan has been working at the intersection of marketing, technology, media and commerce for the past 12 years. He has held leadership roles across marketing/eCommerce/business development at multinationals like Procter & Gamble and small startups. Recently, Ryan co-founded a profitable start-up and helped scale customer acquisition at two leading MarTech SaaS start-ups in Europe. Additionally, he also delivered 40 + digital marketing seminars for some of world’s largest brands (e.g. Philips, Barclaycard, Barclays, GSK, etc.) training CMOs and business leaders on digital/social strategy, content marketing and consumer journey mapping. At Olapic, Ryan successfully holds relationships with key enterprise clients throughout the entire EMEA region, empowering them to leverage earned content across their marketing mix and maintain long-lasting, profitable customer relationships.

Stephen has been at AO World for over 9 years and has held a number of roles. He is currently Director of Logistics for AO.de and is responsible for ensuring that AO customers get an exceptional delivery experience in its international business. AO’s philosophy is built around the customer experience and their in-house logistics is a key component of delivering that moment of difference for AO’s customers.

Oliver Prothmann has been since March 2014 the President of Bundesverband Onlinehandel e.V. (BVOH; German Federal Association Online-Trade), an association representing SME online retail businesses across Germany. Prior to his office as president, Oliver Prothmann worked as the director of the city portals BerlinOnline and Berlin.de. He was in charge of the first internet banking of the Berliner Sparkasse (Savings Bank) and the online marketplace ElectronicScout24 for T-Online (Deutsche Telekom). As one of Germany’s leading eCommerce specialists Prothmann was responsible for the business retailers of eBay and PayPal for many years. Today he is the general manager of p.digital, an ecommerce consultancy with a special focus on international marketplaces. Since 2013 Oliver Prothmann is also the spokesman of the initiative Choice in eCommerce, which acts against restrictions in eCommerce. In December 2013 Choice in eCommerce had the opportunity to hand over a petition with nearly 15.000 voices of European online merchants to the European Commission Vice-President Olli Rehn.

Following a 10-year career originating in the classical advertising industry (ad agencies, media houses, etc.), in 2012 Samuel steered himself towards a future focused on CRM and data-driven marketing. He has been working in the retail space for Manor, the Number.1 Department Store in Switzerland, for the past two years where he is responsible for implementing their CRM system and all associated campaign processes and tools. Samuel is a self-confessed CRM-Immigrant, obsessed with actionable data, campaign automation and happy customers.

After 10 years as a researcher in algebra & geometry at leading institutions (Yale University, CNRS, as well as visiting positions in Moscow and Kyoto), David took a break from academia in 2008, to explore machine learning and digital marketing. He founded Tinyclues after realizing that mainstream approaches to data-mining in relational databases were mathematically wrong. He holds a PhD in pure mathematics.

Andrea Ramponi hält die Position des Director DACH bei Qubit, dem führende Anbieter für datenunterstützte Personalisierung, Segmentierung und digitaler Analysen, inne. Herr Ramponi hat 15 Jahre Erfahrung in der digitalen Industrie unter anderem in leitenden Positionen bei Marin Software GmbH, Netbiscuits GmbH und weiteren Internet- und Mobilfunkunternehmen.

Gianluca Randisi - born in 1986. After completion of his Marketing studies in Milan he worked as a Quantitative Research Assistant for the SDA Bocconi Business School. From 2013-2015 he worked as Head of CRM at CupoNation. In 2015 he became Team Lead CRM at Home24 AG, where he now is the Director Brand and Content Marketing. Under his responsibilities are the Teams: Brand Management, Campaign Planning, Content Management, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Graphic, Onsite Content and Placement Optimization, Photo Production, Photo Post Production and Social Media.

Nils is part of Trustpilot's agile Growth teams, responsible for exponential and scalable company growth with focus on reach, product adoption and product retention. 

Before joining Trustpilot in 2012, Nils built scalable, automated retention marketing programs at Google, helping the search giant drive product adoption, user retention and revenue for its most important source of revenue, Google AdWords. 

Nils lives with his wife and son in Copenhagen.

Michel Mayor is Head of Solutions at blue-infinity, a leading player in digital transformation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Michel oversees a team of pre-sales engineers with the primary mission of equipping leading European retailers with the most relevant customer engagement strategies and solutions. Prior to joining blue-infinity, Michel acted as Global CRM Centre of Excellence Leader for a US-based Fortune 100 company, active in 13 industries across 4 regions. His passion for technology, combined with his international business development background help shape the personality of this tech-savvy, multi-cultural digital professional.

Mikael founded FROSMO in 2008, today the company has over 100 employees and works with global eCommerce companies. Mikael is also co-founder and chairman of the board of Dodreams mobile game studio with hit-game Drive Ahead!. Before entrepreneurship Mikael worked at Fremantle Media, a part of Bertelsmann group.

Robert Blanck is Head of E-Commerce & Advertising at BILD Germany. He is responsible for the e-commerce platform BILD Shop, which is one of the leading e-commerce player in sports merchandising in Germany. BILD as the major news publisher is driving a high reach and traffic to the sports shop which needs an effective way to monetize this traffic with e-commerce. In his second role he optimizes the advertising revenue for BILD and is developing new advertising technologies and optimization strategies for BILD.

Florian spearheads Jampp's growth in Europe as the company's MD in Germany. He is based in their Berlin office. Having previously co-founded TradeMob, and with more than a decade's experience in mobile, Florian has been at the epicentre of the mobile app marketing landscape since 2005. He was among the first to introduce mobile app tracking technologies to the industry, pioneer an AppStore ranking strategy, and successfully apply retargeting to mobile apps. He is an active investor in the mobile and tech startup scene. And passionate about kitesurfing

Joana Picq is a civil engineer turned tech fanatic. She is a partner at Jampp, pioneers in app marketing with offices in San Francisco, London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Cape Town and now Singapore. Prior to her career as a tech entrepreneur, Joana spent 4 years at Microsoft doing business development across Europe, Middle East and Africa. She then founded multiple startups in Europe and Brazil, expanded TheNextWomen into an international magazine, worked as Entrepreneur in Residence at X.Million Capital Ventures, and launched Voyage Privé in Brazil in 2011. She acts as a board advisor and mentor for multiple startups across the world. Joana is based in Cape Town where she surfs and trail runs, but spends half her time on airplanes to visit clients and the Jampp team globally.

Each business owner has own vision. There's a great variety of startup development approaches. The number of technical approaches is endless. What to choose to reach web development project aims, keep the timeline and budget? No person can know everything, and here's where team expertise, clear communication and assistance join in my role. I facilitate not only business development, international relations, contract, invoicing and client care, but act as a link between decision makers of the project and skilled in-house development team of http://quartsoft.com/contact.

Just imagine you find a team interested in your business growth and continuity, implementing the experience gained since 1999 in consultancy and web-development. Since 2014 I have been in charge of my function, communicating the vision of the project owner to Quartsoft team, tailoring the appropriate procedures that ease communication, participating in requirement analysis and communicating methods of avoiding tech, managerial and financial risks. This would be impossible without the whole team following clear procedures, competence sharing policies, internal motivation and balancing. Whatever the business idea is, the aims of the project, its model and vision are the key information for me to analyze, research and propose several plans to the project owner for decision-making.

In seiner Position als Head of Sales leitet Sebastian Fleischmann das Selligent Vertriebsteam und verantwortet somit die strategische Entwicklung aller Sales-Prozesse. Zuvor sammelte er Erfahrungen als Sales Director der Oracle Marketing Cloud bei Oracle Deutschland, wo er den nordeuropäischen Vertrieb leitete, sowie bei Responsys, die er bei der Umsetzung effizienter und individueller digitaler Marketing-Kampagnen unterstützte. Begonnen hat seine Karriere im Online-Sales-Bereich bei der eCircle AG (nun Mapp Digital), wo er unter anderem als Senior Sales-Manager tätig war. Studiert hat Fleischmann Betriebswirtschaft mit Schwerpunkt Marketing & Human Resources an der Hochschule Ansbach.

Nele Wollert is member of the App Annie Central European team helping companies to understand and appreciate the massive opportunities presented by the growing mobile app economy. As she works with many retailers across the region, she has built up deep insight into the challenges within their fiercely competitive environment and understands how mobile can ultimately bring increased loyalty through delivering a better customer experience. Nele’s past roles at Google and as a social media consultant have also given her a great grounding in helping strategic partners establish successful revenue strategies and advising them how to develop sustainable business models across all platforms.

As a Sales Director DACH/ Strategic Consultant Christine Vonhof is supporting brands and retailers to seamlessly integrate Bazaarvoice solutions and word-of-mouth programs into exiting business processes and optimally leverage consumer-generated content. An open ear for consumers and reacting to feedback speedily are main goals to strengthen dialogue with shoppers. Before being with Bazaarvoice, the Media Economics graduate worked as a consultant at various on- and offline media houses such as Yahoo! and Mindshare.