Keynote Speakers

Jamie Rosenberg

VP, Android & Google Play Business

Jamie runs the ship. 

 

 

Ishan Chatterjee

Director, Google Play EMEA

Ishan focuses on growing Google’s digital content business for apps, games, movies, TV, music, and other content verticals in EMEA.

Kobi Glick

Product Manager, Google Play

Kobi manages app publishing and distribution on Google Play.

Hrishikesh Aradhye

Director of Engineering, Google

Hrishi leads machine intelligence and data science for some of Google's largest platforms, including Chrome, Android and Google Play. 

MC's

Shannon Low

Head of Android Apps and Games Business Development, EMEA

Shannon heads up the Google Play business development team in EMEA and helps top app and game developers succeed.

 

Tamzin Taylor

Head of Google Play Apps & Games Business Development, Western Europe

Tamzin and her team help top Western European apps & games developers succeed on Google Play.

Sarah Thomson

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Coming from the US team, Sarah is focused on building the indie community that fuels innovation, diversity and richness on Google Play.

Albert Reynaud

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Albert manages partnerships with media and entertainment developers. He loves triathlons and playing music. He's good with the accordion.

Google Speakers

Adam Carpenter

Head of Developer Business Growth, Play Growth Consulting

Adam heads the developer business growth team and leverages Play data to improve partners' performance.

Albert Reynaud

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Albert manages partnerships with media and entertainment developers. He loves triathlons and playing music. He's good with the accordion.

Alexey Kokin

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Alexey helps app developers in CEE build better apps and find success on Google Play.

Chongsa Kim

Head of Games Business Development, Google Play, Japan

Chongsa leads the games business development team in Japan. He loves to go camping with friends and playing multi-player games out in nature.

Greg Ivanov

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Greg helps social & music developers in UKI grow their business. He is the VR lead for Daydream apps in EMEA and his main interest in the real world is music and being a DJ.

Ignacio Monereo

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Ignacio provides strategic & tactical advice for mobile games both in the 2D and 3D worlds. He also loves to travel and to illustrate his trips in his blog abzurdo.com 

Iky Sandorffy

Head of Google Play Apps & Games BD, Middle East & Africa

Iky is a business development manager based in Tel Aviv, working with Google Play apps and games developers in Middle East and Africa.

Jakob Kalbfell

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Jakob works closely with news and commerce partners in Western Europe to help them grow their business. That's when he's not motorbiking or working for the NGO zukunft-madagaskar.de 

Jeni Fisher

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Jeni works closely with EMEA lifestyle and travel app developers. In her spare time she likes reading a good book and honing her interior design skills.

Laurence Kozera

Strategic Partner Development Manager, Global Product Partnerships

Laurence leads German partnerships for the Google Assistant. When not talking to partners and devices, she loves hiking around Switzerland.

Lei Zhang

Head of Google Play Apps & Games BD, Greater China

Lei leads the Business Development in Greater China, with the mission of bridging the developer ecosystem of two parallel universes.

Mohammad El-Saadi

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Mohammad manages partnerships with app and game developers across MENA and Turkey.

Niko Schröer

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Niko is a subscriptions expert and partner manager for social, entertainment and sports developers. He loves sports in the real world too.

Raj Ajrawat

Head of Social & Communication Apps Business Development, Google Play

Raj works closely with social and communications developers, to grow their audiences and business on Android and Play.

Riccardo Govoni

Engineering Manager, Google Play

Riccardo leads Android Vitals, app performance reporting and guidance for developers in Google Play.

Romain Mardot

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Romain is a business development manager for Play Games in Central and Eastern Europe, based in Moscow.

Ross McLachlan

UX Researcher, Google Play

Ross is a UX researcher on the Play Console team working on tools to help app developers improve the stability and performance of their apps.

Tamzin Taylor

Head of Google Play Apps & Games Business Development, Western Europe

Tamzin and her team help top Western European apps and games developers succeed on Google Play.

Tobias Knoke

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Tobias manages partnerships with game developers in Western Europe and has once auditioned for German X-factor.

Partner speakers

Andrea Trocino

Director of Technology - Web and Apps, ASOS 

Andrea and his teams build and run the ASOS Website and their Android and iOS native apps. His main focus for the last 5 years at ASOS has been on how to create and constantly evolve awesome shopping experiences on mobile for 15+ million customers worldwide.

Antony Ribot

Co-Founder & CEO, ribot

Ribot experiment within the boundaries of design, technology, behavioural trends and biases to create useful and intuitive tools that the everyday person uses time and time again. Antony and his team have launched apps across a range of platforms over the last 10 years. 

Ben Schuman-Stoler

Head of Audio, Blinkist

At night, Ben turns into the girl-with-crossed-arms emoji.

Bradley Crooks

Head of Digital Entertainment & Games, BBC Worldwide

With experience in TV, film, games and advertising, Bradley's speciality is in digital platforms and disruptive technologies such as VR/AR, cross-media delivery and livestreaming. 

Daniel Zohar

CTO, Memrise

Daniel is CTO and chief learning technologist at the language learning startup, Memrise. He speaks three languages, codes in a dozen, and has been known to spar with his CEO.

Fabian Herrmann

Senior Design Lead, IDEO

Fabian's focus is on the intersection of business and brand – where shaping a business, product or service strategically go hand in hand with bringing that strategy to life through design. His love for all things visual is rivaled by a secret passion for systems and numbers.

Franz Blach 

Design Director, IDEO 

Franz helps clients across industries to create relevant products, services and experiences – which are inspired by people, guided by purpose and successful in the market.

George Abramovici

Business Performance Director, King

Eva leads a team of data scientists and business performance managers that look to optimise the player experience and business performance of King games through big data.

Harsimrat Sandhawalia

Computer Vision Engineer, EyeEm

Harsimrat has been working in computer vision and machine learning for the past 8+ years with organisation ranging from start-ups, corporate research, academic and public research labs.

Jean Okęcki

Product Manager, LaFourchette

Jean is responsible for LaFourchette's mobile app, Europe's leading restaurant booking service. His goal is to make sure diners get the best table discovery, search and booking experience.  

 

Jens Begemann

Founder & CEO, Wooga

Jens founded Wooga in 2009, a Berlin based casual games developer focussing on puzzle and hidden object games for mobile.

John Kneeland

Product Manager, Bumble

Bumble's vision is of a kinder way to meet new people--for dating, friends and now networking. As Product Manager, John is working and learning every day to bring that vision to life.

Jon Butterfield

Head of Growth, 1tap

Jon has led 1Tap to become one of the main financial apps for the self-employed in the United Kingdom and now its expansion into a number of new European markets. 

Kay Meseberg

Head of VR/360, ARTE

Along side a career in television Kay developed the ARTE Future platform and, following the success of Polar Sea 360°, he continues exploring content from a 360° video and virtual reality perspective.

Kemal Ugur

Co-founder, AVCR

AVCR is a 100% bootstrapped technology company building globally succesfull mobile applications used by millions of people. Their first app is Funimate, a video editor and a creative community that includes patent-pending technology for real-time video editing.

Kristina Narusk

Head of Product, Memrise

Kristina manages daily product development across platforms and works on monetisation features at Memrise, a language learning app awarded the Google Play Award for best app in 2017.

 Mickey Elimelech

CMO, Space Ape Games

Space Ape Games is an award-winning, London based, mobile gaming company behind four successful mobile titles - Samurai Siege, Rival Kingdoms, TRANSFORMERS: Earth Wars, and most recently Fastlane: Road to Revenge.  

Niklas Jansen

Co-Founder, Blinkist

Blinkist is a bite-sized-learning service that condenses knowledge from great nonfiction into powerful little packs. Niklas drives product strategy and ensures the culture is flourishing. He's passionate about learning, self-organized companies, and breakfast.  

Paul Gouge

CEO, Playdemic

Paul is the CEO and co-founder of Playdemic, the developer behind Golf Clash, one of the world's top grossing mobile games.

Peter Stahl

Games Producer, Resolution Games

Peter is a driving force helping the company create immersive gameplay experiences anyone can enjoy. Prior to joining Resolution Games, Stahl was a long-time producer with EA DICE.

Rojahn Ahmadi

Founder, NeuroNation 

Rojahn is one of the founders of NeuroNation. There, he's responsible for the product. Having studied computer science with focus on AI / Machine Learning, he has always been curious about human intelligence as well.

Saad Choudri

Chief Commercial Officer, Miniclip

Saad is passionate in both digital and traditional board games with over a decade of experience in the gaming industry.

Sergei Zaitsev

Business Development Director, Playrix

Playrix is one of the leading developers of mobile games. The team is behind Township, Fishdom and Gardenscapes.

Group discussion & 1:1 hosts

Boris Farber

Senior Partner Engineer, Google

Boris connects Google technology to customers and partners, focusing on Android binary analysis and performance optimisations.

Dmitri Martynov

Head of Google Play Apps & Games BD, CEE

Dima and his team help developers to grow local CEE and global business on Google Play.

Gavin Kinghall Were

EMEA Lead, Google Play BD Solutions

Gavin leads the Play BD Solutions team in EMEA, providing reviews and consultations on app quality and UX to partners.

Jamie Lee

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Jamie helps game developers in Korea build better games and find success on Google Play.

Julius Schröder 

Senior App Specialist,  AppDev Sales, Google

Julius is an app promotion specialist with a focus on app internationalization. 

Luiz Gustavo

Developer Advocate, Developer Relations, Google

Gus works with developers helping them build great apps for Android with Firebase and ML

Milena Nikolic

Engineering Manager, Google Play

Milena leads device targeting, release and go-to market tools and other app distribution efforts for Google Play.

Peter Friese

Developer Advocate, Developer Relations, Google

Peter works with developers around the world to solve real world challenges using (not just) Google's products and APIs. Having moved from London to Hamburg just recently, he appreciates a hot cup of tea to cope with the weather.

 

Pieter Greyling

Partner Engineer / Developer Advocate, Developer Relations, Google

Pieter works in the Google Developer Products Group Team and is co-author of Practical Android Projects.

Reha Hoşhanlı

Apps Partnership Manager, Gaming, AppDev Sales, Google

Reha is an app promotion specialist working with developers from Germany, France, Turkey & MENA with a focus on gaming.

Shazia Makhdumi

Global Head of Family & Education BD, Google Play

Shazia leads the team responsible for bringing the best educational and family apps and games to Google Play. 

Stephen Fulwider

Staff Software Engineer, Google Play

Stephen leads the engineering team responsible for in-app billing and subscriptions on Google Play. 

Tim Messerschmidt

Regional Lead DACH, Developer Relations, Google

In his role, Tim oversees the German-speaking countries. When not working with Android, he loves working with Node.js, and researching user authentication concepts. Recently, Tim authored a book about identity concepts and data security for O'Reilly. 

Tom Grinsted

Product Manager, Google Play

Tom specialises in app and subscription metrics and reporting for developers.