Meet our industry experts
We've invited Googlers and experts from around the world to speak with you about the topics on our agenda.
Anastasia Golovanova
Shopping Product Lead, Google Customer Solutios EMEA
Anastasia is a Shopping expert in EMEA, with primary focus on Smart Shopping solutions for retailers. She is passionate about Machine Learning and is keen to bring the best from both worlds (Shopping and ML) to the markets, to help EMEA retailers excel and flourish.
Anna Kovalenko
EMEA Senior Product Lead - Display Solutions, Google
Over 6+ years at Google, Anna has worked with over 1500 customers on digital growth. She is now a Product Lead on Google Display solutions in the region of EMEA, bringing best in class products to performance advertisers, educating customer facing teams, as well as being the voice of Google's customers to the product design teams to ensure solutions meet customer needs.
Artur Mosiak
EMEA Product Lead (Smart Bidding), Google
Over 5 years at Google. Started with Display and Video 360 (DBM), primarily working on campaign strategies and product development. After few years moved to Google Ads, to also work on product development and expansion of Smart Bidding usage in EMEA.
Balazs Gyongyosi
Digital Analytics Team Lead, Mito
At Mito since 2015. 7 years of experience in Search Engine Marketing, Paid Search, Paid Social and Web Analytics. High expertise in PPC platforms, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. Clients: Decathlon, Office Shoes, Tchibo, HBO, MOL Hungary, Speedo, Golf Online UK, Raiffeisen Bank, OTP Bank, Sportingbet UK, Epson.
Christoph Magnussen
Founder & CEO, Blackboat Internet GmbH
Entrepreneur by career, filmmaker by heart, new work and technology enthusiast. Christoph Magnussen has been an entrepreneur since high school, setting up his first company at the age of sixteen. Alongside his role as CEO of his most recent company, Blackboat (a cloud-tool consultancy company based in Hamburg, Germany) Christoph is also well-known as the podcast co-host of one of Germany's top business podcasts, "On the Way to New Work" as well as being a well recognised and extremely motivating keynote speaker. In recent years he has also begun producing YouTube Videos on the topic of cloud, tools and new work methods, even sharing some of his speeches online. He is an avid creator and has reached an online following for his videos of over 25,000 people. He hopes to inspire the #Endof90iesIT and the #Futureofwork by continuing on the journey he has been on for over two decades.
Dmytro Sholomko
Google Country Director, Ukraine
Dmytro has Google Country Director in Ukraine since May 2011 and responsible for product development, sales and business planning. Prior to that, from July 2006 he had been working as a Google Consultant and later as a Google Business Development Manager in Ukraine. Before joining Google, Dmytro operated his own consulting company, UBL, which had specialized in providing informational and consulting support to the largest Ukrainian IT and telecommunication companies. Prior to that, Dmytro held the position of Director of the online division of Euromoney publishing company in Ukraine, and has been involved into various local online projects development. Dmytro has studied at NTUU KPI and has the Software Engineering background. Except for work, Dmytro enjoys photography, football, modern history and brewing.
István Bálint
PPC Team Lead, Mito
István Bálint, PPC expert, who's been doing all forms of digital ads for more than 6 years. As a PPC Team Lead of Mito, one of the leading creative communication agencies in Hungary, he is planning and managing campaigns for global brands, like Nokia, Cetelem and Euronics, in more than 100 countries, with a total budget of 3M+ € per year.
Karolina Kraszewska
Sales Manager, Google Marketing Platform
Working closely with agencies and direct clients in CEE region helping them to improve their performance within Google Marketing Platform. 4 years of experience in Digital Marketing with deep knowledge of digital ecosystem and programmatic. Worked both on Buy-side and Sell-side and managed many complex campaigns for global brands across different regions.
Ludek Motycka
Marketing Director - CEE, Google
Ludek has been at Google since 2010. He has been in top management for over ten years, working in McKinsey & Company, HSBC Bank or Beneficial Finance Inc., where he gained extensive managerial experience in both the IT / TELCO areas, but also in the financial sector. He graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, where he completed his Ph.D. studies in the field of marketing. He speaks English, Polish and German. Among his hobbies are mainly family, sport and live music.
Marek Dobrý
Group Head of Brand, Heureka Group
Marek works as Group Head of Brand at Heureka Group. He is responsible for brand activities in shopping advisor Heureka in the Czech and Slovak Republic and also for the strategical development of the brand in other companies in the CEE region. He loves sport, especially football and tennis, literature and he also wrote a book of short stories with quite a controversial name which he could disclose you personally.
Michał Protasiuk
CEE Media Research Manager, Google
Media Research Manager at Google, market research lead in CEE region. He specializes in marketing effectiveness, media research and consumer insights. Before Google he spent 13 years at SABMiller in Poland as a Head of Consumer Insights team. Highly interested in development of innovative research methodologies based on behavioral economics, gamification and wisdom of crowds.
Nataliia Kushnir
Manager, Emerging Europe, Google Customer Solutions
Marketing professional with experience working across corporate and startup sectors, currently leading Google Customer Solutions teams across Adriatics, Baltics and Romania growing Agencies and Clients business with the help of Google Ads, YouTube and Programmatic.
Petar Mitrovic
Head of Paid Marketing, FishingBooker
Over 5 years of experience in Google Ads. Early employee and Head of Paid Marketing at FishingBooker. Leading a team of PPC specialists in pursuit for user acquisition growth.
Štěpán Tomíček
Client Service Unit Leader, H1.cz
I am an enthusiastic, always optimistic marketing professional with more than 7 years of experience, specializing in both inbound and outbound travel business. Love discovering new products and technologies and using them to our clients benefits.
Thomas Barta
Marketing Leadership Speaker and Author
Thomas Barta is the world’s premier expert, author, and keynote speaker on marketing leadership. Thomas is a former partner of McKinsey. His research brings a fresh perspective to the world of marketing leadership including the world’s largest study, with over 68,000 assessments on what makes for an impactful marketing officer. Thomas is the author of the leadership book The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader. He writes for Forbes, Marketing Week, and his own TryThis.Blog.