Keynote: Build a successful data driven media organization in the current era
Karthic Bala (Condé Nast / Chief Data Officer)
Keynote: Digital Journey of Turkish Airlines
Mehmet Gurkaynak (Turkish Airlines / General Manager Bulgaria )
Keynote: Innovate or die! – The future of retail.
Martin Wild (MediaMarktSaturn / Chief Innovation Officer)
Keynote: Introduction to Quantum Computing
Bo Ewald (D-Wave Systems / President)
Demo: How Drones disrupted the traditional geospatial (land management, mapping) as well as agriculture businesses by automation data collection and making a very manual task fully automated.
Prof. Rob Wolcott (Kellogg School of Management / Clinical Professor of Innovation)
Shaukat Shamim (Youplus / Founder & CEO)
Demo: In-flight wireless drone charging
Leonid Plekhanov (Global Energy Transmission Co. / Chief Executive Officer & President)
Keynote
Prof. Rob Wolcott (Kellogg School of Management / Clinical Professor of Innovation)
Keynote: The future of health and medicine
Dr. Daniel Kraft (Singularity University / Chair for Medicine)
Keynote: The search for Life in the Universe
Dr. Simon Worden (Breakthrough Prize Foundation / Chairman)
Demo: EnduroSat
Raycho Raychev (EnduroSat / Founder)
Panel discussion: Investors point of view
Sriram Prakash (Deloitte / Global Lead, Innovation M&A and Venturing Services)
Ralph Simon (Mobilium / Innovator, Founder)
Gilad Novik (Lakestar / Partner)
Hristo Stoykov (EIB / Head of Division for Growth Capital and Innovation Finance)
Founders Games Award Ceremony - Selecting the best global startups
DEMS Stage
Panel discussion: Demystifying the UHD HDR delivery. Rationale standards and compatibility of this next-level user experience.
Thierry Fautier (Ultra HD Forum / President-Chair)
Ingmar Schmidt (Swisscom TV / Senior TV Portfolio Manager)
Amos Rozenberg (Paramax Films / CEO, Founder)
Gavin Ho (Insight TV / Technical Director)
Dan Akrich (iKOMG / AVP Sales Western Europe & Africa)
Panel discussion: Superaggregation - next phase evolution or yet another disruption? What are the strategic choices laid out in front of the telcos, operators, broadcasters and content houses?
Stanislav Georgiev (Intl. Senior Media Executive)
Maria Rua Aguete (Omdia / Executive Director)
Ingmar Schmidt (Swisscom TV / Senior TV Portfolio Manager)
Charles Dawes (TiVo / Senior Director, International Marketing)
Panel discussion: Content acquisition in times of abundance and changed consumer behaviour
Stanislav Georgiev (Intl. Senior Media Executive)
Marijana Vukašinović (Telekom Srbija / Head of Content Management)
Szilvia Kiss (Telekom Hungary / Senior Manager)
Irena Battelino (Telekom Slovenije / Head Content & Media Marketing Services)
Elena Panova (One Vip Macedonia / Residential Sales Director and Marketing Director)
Fireside Chat: Launching a music streaming app - global vs. local challenges, rights management - case study A1 Xplore Music & Muzikata BG
Keynote: Run for the Diamonds! How to build a successful YouTube business
Valentin Pintilescu (LooLooKids / Development Manager)
Keynote: QUO VADIS TV?
Marin Ćurković (AdScanner / Co-Founder & CEO)
Panel discussion: TV measurements and targeted advertisement - should and could the status-quo of the media advertisement industry be disrupted?
Dobromira Boyadzieva (Arthur D. Little’ TIME practice / Principle MENA)
Kristian Ćurković (AdScanner / Co-Founder & Managing Partner)
Stéphane Printz (FreeWheel / Sr. Regional Director Northern Europe)
Panel discussion: Closing session: Industry trends - the Webit.DEMS committee's roundtable
Stanislav Georgiev (Intl. Senior Media Executive)
Chris Dziadul (Broadband TV News / Co-founder & Co-owner)
Maria Rua Aguete (Omdia / Executive Director)
Thierry Fautier (Ultra HD Forum / President-Chair)
Invest Sofia Stage
Sofia's Place: Presentation – Fund Of Funds
Peter Mihaylov (Fund of Funds / Senior Expert, Investments in the SME Sector)
Sofia's Place: Presentation – Accelerator Startup Sofia: pilot program of Sofia Municipality for accelerated access to financing for innovative, start-up and social enterpreneurs in Sofia
Nikolay Tsenkov (Municipal Guarantee Fund for SMEs / Director)
Alexander Sarafov (Accelerator Startup Sofia / Senior Expert & Manager)
Denitsa Boeva (Accelerator Startup Sofia / Manager)
Sofia's Place: Presentation – Sofia Investment Agency
Ana Georgieva (Sofia Investment Agency / Senior Expert, Investment and Business Development)
Lunch Break
Sofia's Place: Presentation – The Bulgarian Startup Association BESCO
Dobromir Ivanov (BESCO / CEO)
Sofia's Place: Presentation – Sofia Tech Park And Source
Salim Virani (Source Institute / Founder)
Natanail Stefanov (BESCO / Executive Board, Sofia Tech Park)
Sofia's Place: Presentation - Founder Institute
Milen Ivanov (Founders Institute / Director)
Sofia's Place: Presentation – CEO Angels Club
Milen Ivanov (Founders Institute / Director)
Sofia's Place: Accelerator in 1 hour
Salim Virani (Source Institute / Founder)
Microsoft booth
Microsoft booth: Tech: Containers on Azure
Alex Yochev (Microsoft / Technical Evangelist)
Microsoft booth: Partner: Visual documentation of a car in 120 seconds
Sławek Potasz (InMotion Labs / CEO)
Microsoft booth: Partner: Transformative power of language reasoning technology
Luke Pytel (Smabbler / CEO)
Microsoft booth: MS4UP: An Introduction to MS for Startups
Johnny Gorman (Tailored Brands / Microsoft for Startups Head of Operations EMEA)
Lunch break
Microsoft booth: Tech: An overview of Machine Learning offerings on Azure
Todor Todorov (Microsoft)
Microsoft booth: Partner: Continuous authentication with Behavioural Biometrics. Invisible protection for your customers compliant with PSD2 and GDPR.
Adam Forma (Digital Fingerprints / Business Development Executive)
Microsoft booth: Tech: An overview of Azure Cognitive Services (applied AI)
Alex Yochev (Microsoft / Technical Evangelist)
Microsoft booth: Partner panel by UI Path
Microsoft booth: MSASUP: Grow your business with Microsoft for Startups
Tor Tsuk (Microsoft / Startup Business Development)
Microsoft booth: Partner: Banking&Insurance –It's about speed, not just cost
Paula Costea (Fintech OS / Technical Solution Director)
Microsoft booth: Tech: Overview of Server lesson Azure
Lukasz Foks (Microsoft / Azure Developer Lead, Central & Eastern Europe (CEE))
Workshop stage
Workshop Zone - European Innovation Council: Funding Breakthrough Innovation from the Idea to the Market
Teodora Sotirova (European Commission / GIS-TransferCenter (part of the EC network of national contact points))