A 5-year Googler, Samuel joined Google Philippines two years ago as Market Lead, with a special mission to help digitize Filipino businesses.

Prior to this role, Samuel was part of Google France, where he was working with leading advertisers and agencies. He has deep knowledge of marketing and leadership and a keen understanding of how digital is providing opportunities for companies of all sizes and shapes.

Prior to joining Google France, Samuel was an Account Director at Havas Media.

Prashant is the Founder of Entropia, a next generation integrated brand and digital consultancy.

Entropia, 3 years since its founding, has grown to 65 clients and 220 + people across South-East Asia, and consistently ranked as the most awarded agency, both in Malaysia and the APAC region.

It has gone on to launch a big data offering - Sentient, a personalized marketing service; Roxy, an extended reality offering; EXR and Aladdin, a B2C IoT offering, thus, helping businesses make the best of Industry 4.0.

In his earlier role, he was the President of IPG Mediabrands Asia (NYSE: IPG) for 4 years, turning the region into the fastest growing region in the network. He led the winning of Johnson & Johnson, Yum brands, Reckitt Benckiser and Malaysia Airlines businesses across the region. He also served on the Global Product Council for the network.

A one-time dotcom entrepreneur, he has been a thought leader in the areas of marketing in the digital age.

At IPG, he launched a range of new offerings in the areas of social marketing, data management, E-Commerce services and next generation creative services, which all went on to become successful offerings winning Asia wide recognitions and exported widely in the network.

He also served as CEO of IPG Mediabrands Malaysia for 8 years growing the company from #9 in the market to the largest in the period. Under his watch UM Malaysia became Agency of the year six times in 7 years at Malaysian Media Awards. It also became the #1 Media agency in the world out of 900 agency offices rated by RECMA Paris - the industry rating body, twice in a row.

Prashant served on the prestigious Cannes Media Lions jury as one of the youngest. He has been a speaker at leading global industry events, such as, DMEXCO Germany and Festival of Media Global, Rome. He has also been interviewed by Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg for his digital leadership.

He is an alumnus of prestigious St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and Harvard Business School.

He is a budding aviator and father of two little sons.

Matthieu is the Country Marketing Director of Reckitt Benckiser, PH. He leads the marketing team - media, insights, medical and performance marketing.

Passionate about touching people’s lives. Matt thrives in creating new-to-market solutions and building a different and better tomorrow. In Matt's world, this starts with connected solutions.

He has 15 years, FMCG experience in a wide range of marketing functions and countries from New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Philippines, and UK.

He worked at Dettol GBMM - White Space Innovation as Global Marketing Director, lead the entire development cycle: from initial scope - operating and commercial model, NPD pipeline and ecosystem.

He was Global Marketing Manager of Surface Cleaning, Andrex European Marketing Manager of Innovation of Kimberly-Clark, UK, ANZ Innovation Brand Manager of Fonterra, New-Zealand.

Matthieu holds degree in International Management and Marketing at Bordeaux Business School of Management, France.

The CEO behind the explosive growth of makeup scale-up Ellana Mineral Cosmetics, Diego Buenaflor, doesn’t believe that E-Commerce is emerging: it’s already here. This vision has led Ellana to becoming the #1 single-brand colour cosmetics E-Commerce site in the Philippines, based on revenue.

Beyond digital brand building, Diego’s data-driven approach to strategy and future-casting have earned him a respected position on the board of the Chamber of Cosmetics Industry of the Philippines, where he also serves as Vice-President of Special Projects.

As an advocate for the digital transformation of the Philippine retail and cosmetics industry, Diego co-founded the Philippines Chapter of Fashion and Beauty Tech. FAB is a community for data driven founders in the fashion and beauty industry.

Prashant is the Country Head of ShopBack, leading the wave of smarter shopping in Asia Pacific.

Former Vice President-Sales of Zomato, overall in-charge of City's financial health, leading and developing these 5 teams: client acquisition and retention, strategic accounts team, corporate sales team, sales operations and support, and table reservations.

Former Head of Sales, Delhi NCR, leading the client acquisition and retention team for Zomato. Ensuring achievement of sales targets for Ad Sales in Delhi NCR.

Lead the development of sales capability by recruiting, developing and managing the sales team.

He was Senior Manager - Sales and Marketing of Gurgaon, handling on field sales in Delhi, NCR through lead generation then acquiring and retaining the clients. Maintaining client relationship and working for an online marketing plan for the complete promotion.

He worked at IILM Institute for Higher Education, Delhi, NCR as Manager Sales & Marketing for planning business and market strategies for the institution and executing them through events, media buying and collaborations with universities and educational institutions.

Former Client Servicing and Content writing, worked as content writer, handling the client relationship and customer engagement.

Prashant holds Bachelor of Science in (Hons.) in Mathematics at Delhi University, 2004 - 2007, and MBA in Marketing, IILM.

Denise is the Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Quiddity Usability Labs, a firm that specializes in User Experience, building and improving digital products that are grounded on usability principles. Her current roster of clients includes Cebu Pacific, McCormick Culinary, UnionBank, and some pretty nifty start-ups.

Prior to Quiddity, she held the role of Agency Business Lead in Google, which she joined in 2012 as part of the inaugural team that was to eventually launch the Google Philippines office. There she worked to foster online marketing evangelization, develop digital capabilities, and strengthen partnerships with local advertising and media agencies.

Denise has spent over a decade in the advertising industry, cultivating client partnerships in her past agencies MRM, Publicis JimenezBasic, Bates 141 and Ogilvy, with brands, such as, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestle, L’Oreal, Kimberly-Clark, Pfizer, J&J, Motorola, Jollibee, Globe Telecom, Ayala Land, Unilab, and San Miguel.

Having endeavored all dimensions of traditional advertising, from PR to above-the-line, Denise inevitably came back to her roots, embracing her inescapable passion for all things digital – an attribute no doubt inculcated by her Computer Science education at De La Salle University.

A noteworthy speaker, Denise has designed, conducted and participated in hundreds of workshops and seminars covering everything from user experience, product development, digital marketing, brand activation, strategic planning and ideation.

In her spare time, Denise enjoys the company of her husband and two boys, plays Ultimate Frisbee, and volunteers her expertise as a mentor and coach for programs, such as, MarkProf, Globe University and Certified Digital Marketeers. And yes, she speaks Tagalog fluently.

Bia Fernandez-Famularcano is the proud mom of a 3-year-old infinite ball of energy.

She is currently a Creative Director at Publicis Jimenez Basic, handling some of the biggest Filipino brands, such as, Monde and Unilab.

Bia’s work has been recognized at Cannes, AdFest, Spikes Asia, One Show , Clio, LIA, Kidlat, and more but she has no plans to rest on her laurels.

‘Digital Transformation Agent and Evangelist, Culture Maker, Data Whisperer And Chief Storyteller – At Large.’

Ed is the Founder and CEO of Castle By The River, A Digital Transformation Agency.

He has over 25 years of experience in the field of advertising, digital marketing, public relations and strategic planning.

Prior to moving in the start up and consultancy arena, Ed’s career spanned across key markets in Asia and worked with global advertising and marketing networks: Omnicom Group and Havas.

He was CEO of Digital Arts Network (DAN)/TBWA Manila; Co-Founding Partner of Havas Media Ortega in Manila; Chief Innovation Officer, Havas Media China; CEO of Havas Digital, Beijing; CEO of Havas Digital Mumbia, India; CEO and President of Media Contacts, Philippines (now Havas);Regional Account Director, Euro RSCG (now Havas) in Singapore.

He has led numerous innovative advertising and digital marketing campaigns and handled the businesses of Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Intel, Volvo, Smart Communications and Globe Telecoms among others.

Ed is one of the Co-Founding Directors of the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP) - the country’s premiere industry authority in digital marketing, and DCOM (Digital Commerce Association of the PHilippines). He is recognized Father of the ‘Boomerangs’– considered as the Oscars of Digital marketing campaigns in the Philippines, and just recently, Ed was the Director-In-Charge of the highly successful first Philippine Digital Congress in 2016 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC).

Roche leads a group of creative marketers whose mission is to change the way people feel about insurance. She spearheaded the launch of the brand in the Philippines in 2014 and played a large role in growing the company from 29th to 8th place after just a few years. FWD has won multiple marketing and digital awards from the Asian Banking & Finance Insurance Asia Awards and Philippine Quill. Roche spent working across Southeast Asia in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines managing technology, financial services and lifestyle brands. Roche is a sought after Juror and Presenter at international E-Commerce, marketing and advertising shows.

Jonathan Joson has 13 years of experience in digital marketing, working with the country's largest consumer and finance brands to help reach millions of Filipinos. He spent 2 years in Hong Kong as Colgate-Palmolive's agency-on-record's Digital Planning Lead, and most recently led Google Philippines' Performance Marketing group to help the country's largest banks and airlines help get real business results from digital marketing.

He is one of the country's few homegrown experts on digital media, and has received national and regional citations for his work, including Southeast Asia's Planner of the Year from Campaign Asia-Pacific in 2012, and the '40 Under 40' List of rising talent from the same magazine in 2013.

He has since left the media industry to focus on building e-commerce businesses: Boozy, the #1 liquor delivery service; HairMNL, the #1 professional hair care site; and helping blue chip clients start their e-commerce journeys with Entropia CBR.

Julie Ortuoste is the Co-Founder of HaiMNL.com. She spent the first four years of her career handling trade marketing for big pharma and FMCG companies.

After getting married and starting a family, she quits corporate life to start a salon business, which unexpectedly, expanded to have an E-Commerce site selling professional hair care products, HairMNL.com. Through this business, Julie now happily increases access to quality hair care products in the Philippines, all the while being able to change her hair color everyday!

Charlie Diaz is the Founder and CEO of BigBenta Corporation. He launched Philippine based tech start-up for the small and medium enterprises (SME) and freelance skilled workforce. BigBenta has become the dominant player in the online marketplace and developed several in-house service platform intended to serve specific target market.

He has over 25 years of experience in telecommunication business from local and international markets, and 11 years was spent in delivering telecom projects in Asia, Midle East and Africa.

Prior to moving in the start-up business, he was Director, Telecom Practice, Asia Pacific of Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) PH, 2013 - 2016.

He worked in Detecon (Deutsche Telecom Consulting) Asia-Pacific Limited as Managing Consultant, 2006 - 2013.

He is a former Group Head for Marketing and Strategy, Globacom Limited, 2005 - 2006. He is a Director for Mobile Solutions, Alcatel Philippines, Inc., 2003 - 2005, Fixed and Mobile Operator of Globe Telecom, Inc. , 2000 - 2007, and NWS Systems Marketing Manager of Nokia Philippines, Inc., 1997 to 1999.

He brought home some recognitions - from Philippine Innovation Entrepreneurship, Mission Inc. as Pinoy Leadership Innovation Award in 2018 and Multiple Citations and Credits in 2017 from DTI for Entreprenurship Mentory and Advocacy, PH.

Charlie earned his Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering (BSECE) from Mapua Institute of Technology.

He holds a Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Ateneo Graduate School of Business.

Jacqe Y. Gutierrez is the CEO and Co-Founder of Happy Skin Cosmetics, BLK Cosmetics, and Seoul White Korea - three original and homegrown brands that were launched in the span of 6 years and are currently growing at rapid speed in their own respective categories.

The entrepreneurial journey of Jacqe began with Happy Skin’s launch in October 2013. Using her extensive knowledge of the beauty industry, honed through nine years of experience in Unilever Philippines and Southeast Asia, she developed Happy Skin’s entire market entry strategy after recognizing that there was a widely untapped market for a 'masstige' local makeup brand that could offer premium, covetable products with a budget-friendly price tag.

Five (5) years after Happy Skin’s launch, Jacqe remains hands-on with the brand’s day-to-day operations, which includes product development, marketing, sales, operations, finance, and human resources. This level of management has enabled Happy Skin to compete and adapt in the fast-paced cosmetic industry and to grow even faster than its category growth.

In 2017, Jacqe brought her leadership and expertise to launch two more homegrown brands—BLK Cosmetics, which she created with celebrity Anne Curtis, who serves as the brand’s creative director; and Seoul White Korea, an industry pioneer that’s the first locally conceptualized brand in the K-beauty segment.

With Jacqe’s strategy, BLK focused on reaching a wider audience in the cosmetics category. It entered as a player in the mass premium segment, where 80% of the market is currently at. To date, it is amongst the top brands in retail giant Watsons, winning awards for Most Successful New Brand and Most Promising New Cosmetic Brand on the year of its launch.

Seoul White Korea, on the other hand, is a new entry in the personal care category—the largest and most competitive segment of fast-moving consumer goods. Currently, Happy Skin, BLK, and Seoul White Korea are all enjoying growth in sales, as well as increased loyalty from the online community.

Through these 3 brands, Jacqe has built sustainable, fast-growing businesses that continuously gives jobs to Filipinos.

She won the Asia CEO Awards Circle of Excellence Young Leader of the Year in 2018, The 12th Mansmith Young Market Masters Award for Entrepreneurial Marketing in 2017, and the ASEAN Women Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017.

She continues to pave the way for local brands and entrepreneurs to have a voice in the beauty industry, giving them a platform where once only international players could thrive in.

Grace David is a marketing professional and youth advocate with more than 15 years of experience in brand management, marketing and sales in large local, regional and global institutions – including San Miguel Corporation, Kraft, Mondelez and Kerry.

As Chief Partnerships Officer at Edukasyon.ph, Grace leads a team focused on building a holistic education ecosystem for the Filipino youth.

Working directly with higher education institutions locally and abroad, as well as government bodies, foundations, and industry-leading brands and corporations, Edukasyon’s partnerships, co-created campaigns and tech solutions come together on the country’s largest online youth platform – helping millions of students from Senior High and beyond make self-aware education decisions that lead to a fulfilling career and life.

Currently, Ian is the Country Manager of Mundipharma PH, a leader in pain management, wound care, oral care, feminine care (all-time high shares), digestive health (Senokot), and eye care. The company is one of the largest entity in Southeast Asia and fastest growing affiliate in the world.

He was Vice President, Pharma of Glaxosmithkline PH, Director-Sales Operations Planning of Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc., National Sales Manager and Commercial Business Planning Head of Colgate-Palmolive Philippines, Inc. and National Sales Manager in Russia.

His leadership team established Mundipharma PH as one of the best companies to work for in Asia (HR Asia Magazine 2019).

He was recently recognized as a Top Leader at the 2019 Pharma Gorilla Global Conference in Singapore.

He is ranked #25 in the Top 100 Filipinos to follow on LinkedIn for inspiration and learning.

He was a Senior Lecturer, MBA Program and part-time Professor at the UP College of Business Administration (now Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business). He developed and taught the first and only Strategic Sales Management Course, MBA program of the University of the Philippines.

He graduated Master of Business Administration (MBA) from University of the Philippines.

He holds Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree in Marketing from University of the Philippines.

Angelito is the EVP and Chief Innovation Officer of RCBC, the Philippines’ leading and award-winning industry leader on digital transformation and inclusive digital finance.

He has over 20 years of experience in banking, telecommunications, payments, development finance, and financial technology. He merited over 50 global and regional awards including being cited as one of the Top 100 FinTech Leaders in Asia, the first and only Filipino, for scaling digital innovations and financial inclusion.

He was named 'Mr. FinTech of the Philippines' by BizNewsAsia magazine. He started the PLDT Group’s FinTech’s business and is among the founding executives of Voyager and PayMaya. He was the Managing Director of FINTQnologies Corp, the FinTech arm of Voyager Innovations.

He was with Visa on global mobile payments covering 32 markets in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa. He was with the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group focusing on mobile money transfers in Mongolia. He is the founding chairman of the FinTechAlliance.ph and President and Trustee, Gov. Nestor A. Espenilla Jr. Institute for Growth towards National Inclusion, Transformation and Empowerment.

He has an undergraduate and graduate degrees on Political Science and Public Administration, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Santo Tomas.

He completed his Masters in National Security Administration, National Defense College of the Philippines as a state scholar.

He attended the Cambridge Intellect Leadership Programme in 2019 on Digital Transformation by Design at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education.

Zack Briones is currently the Vice President of Project Commerce, a full-service E-Commerce dropshipping agency servicing both Filipinos and international investors for the Philippine E-Commerce. He is a Digital Entrepreneur and Marketer.

Zack is a copywriter and data analyst. He is a realist; recognizing all possible problems that are happening for businesses, and he will take that as an opportunity to create something better for both business owners and the consumers.

In addition to running Project Commerce, he is currently managing an E-Commerce Masterclass together with his team that only started this year and had already 100+ students in his group. He managed to teach these students how they can profit from 5-6 digits in their starting year with the same methods that he used.

He is managing multiple businesses which are: Project Commerce, Zack Briones Masterclass, Basic Studios, Go-go Bangus, Honeycomb PH, and other general merchandise E-Commerce Stores.

He was the one who created two well-managed groups on Facebook which are Digital Marketing Philippines and E-Commerce Philippines with a thousand members who are helping one another.

Homer Nievera is a digital transformation advocate and serial techpreneur.

Known as a digital evangelist, he once headed both social media pioneer Friendster.com and social commerce innovator Multiply.com as Global Head of Partnerships and Advertising Operations for both sites -- the only Filipino to hold such important global posts for US and Silicon Valley-type firms at that time. Homer also formerly headed digital media firms that represented MSN, Yahoo, Google and Facebook.

He co-founded 2 tech firms in the US of which he later exited, then came home permanently in 2014 to focus on helping Philippine startups. Today, Homer serves on the board of some startup firms involved in ecommerce, media, IoT, esports, fintech, food sustainability, organics, retail and training.

He and his wife are relationship mentors and are the faces behind the Facebook Page “He Said, She Said Philippines” which won the 2018 Venerable Fulton Sheen award for excellent online and social media communications program for Christian advocacies.

Homer is a Certified Distance Educator, Viral Marketer and Content Marketer with undergraduate and post graduate studies in distance education and communication research from the University of the Philippines. He is an alumna of Don Bosco and the U.P. Integrated School (elementary and secondary, respectively) and of the Asian Institute of Management where he finished a double program on Entrepreneur Management & Startup Innovation and Startup Management. He finished his Viral Marketing Program from the Wharton Business School, his program on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies from Harvard University, and his program on Social Enterprise Planning and Management from MIT.

Homer guest-lectures at the Thames International Business School and is a regular speaker and resource person on digital transformation and social enterprises.

Flo is a Digital Consultant Veteran, having been in Big Tech for the last 5 years. He's moved from business operations to sales, and has been a strategic consultant to Malaysia's top 30 SMEs and Funded startups, ranging across verticals including Mudah, iflix, and Carsome in 2019 / 2020. Having made many successes across Singapore, Pakistan, and Malaysia markets, he now focuses on replicating the successes in the Philippines.

He grew their advertising spends (which is a proxy of top-line revenue growth of these businesses) by 70-100% YoY since taking charge in 2019.

He now advises not just CMOs, but also COOs and CTOs, as the digital ecosystems of companies become much more tightly integrated across business units, each depending on one another for the success of the overall business.

On the side, he's deeply passionate about nurturing the next generation of successful startups, digital consultants, and transforming legacy businesses around APAC.

A full-stack strategist sitting at an intersection technology, analytics, and marketing. He currently leads Entropia's CX & Commerce unit responsible for partnering with marketing stakeholders to craft and execute marketing strategies, build digital and innovation capabilities, and transform consumer experiences.

Prior to Entropia, he led Reprise in Malaysia- a performance agency under IPG Mediabrands, focused on implementing digital led communication frameworks and data driven solutions for some of the leading brands in the telecom, airlines, banks/Insurance Infant Nutrition /baby care, QSR & retail categories.

Founding team member of 2 startups; one in Martech space (DeltaX.com); another web hosting platform (host.in).

Sourabh likes sharing his passion for data-driven marketing, Emerging technologies, transformation stories and an active member in Malaysian digital community.

Janette Toral is a multi-awarded E-Commerce Advocate and Digital Influencer. She provides independent insights and consultancies.

She is a Certified Advisor, Certified ScrumMaster and Product Owner, Canva Certified Creative, and Global Leadership Assessment 360 Certified Practitioner.CSS.

She is a Certified Coach, Speaker, Behavioral Analysis Consultant, Trainer, Youth Facilitator at The John Maxwell Team.

Distinguished Expert for 2nd and 3rd Expert Committee of APEC E-Commerce Business Alliance.

She helped the Department of Trade and Industry in crafting the Philippines E-Commerce Roadmap for 2016-2020.

She participated in the International Visitors Leadership Program 2011 sponsored by the US Embassy. Featured as 1 of the 6 women Innovator at the APEC Women and Economy Summit 2011, San Francisco, USA.

Former Technical Consultant/Executive Director of the Congressional Oversight Committee for the E-Commerce Law. She worked on policy creation in consumer protection (value added services, e-commerce, e-banking), data privacy for the private sector, and e-payment in PH government.

As founding President of Philippine Internet Commerce Society, she worked on the passage of Y2K Law and E-Commerce Law. She is a former Board Member of Philippine Computer Emergency Response Team (PH-CERT), Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP), and Philippine Macintosh Users Group (PhilMUG).

Dustin is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded four companies in the fields of vehicle advertising, SEO content outsourcing, daily deals and merchant loyalty and rewards.

Dustin established the Philippines' first mobile number-based loyalty program for restaurants and retailers with over 2,000,000 users and 2,000 partner-merchants under ZAP.

ZAP is part of Kickstart Ventures startup investments. Dustin led ZAP's seed and pre-series A total investment of USD $ 1.4 Million. He is responsible for overall company direction, product roadmap, market expansion, investor relations and customer growth and success.

He holds a Business Management degree from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Norelyn is the Vice President of Fiera de Manila, Inc. – a company that organizes trade shows/exhibitions, conferences, seminars and corporate events for the last 25 years.

She served as Local Consultant of JETRO, MITI (Japan External Trade Organization, Ministry of Trade and Investment).

She is a digital marketing practitioner and passionate about Analytics – how data are used to guide digital marketing strategies using social media, SEO/Search, email marketing, and E-Commerce.

She holds a Masters degree in Sociology as a Ford Foundation Scholar from the Ateneo de Manila University and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of St. La Salle, Magna Cum Laude. She holds a Certification on Exhibition Management Course in Milan, Italy.

She is one of the Founding Directors of IMMAP (Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines) and DCOM (Digital Commerce Association of the Philippines). She was President of ASAP (Advertising Suppliers Association of the Philippines). In 2011, she is one of the Board of Directors of AdBoard (Advertising Board of the Philippines).

Mike, President of Sole Provider Trading Corporation (Sole Academy), envisioned to be the best lifestyle and sport-inspired locally-born sneaker boutique in the Philippines.

He is a Partner/Investor of Tiger Athletics Trading and DASCA Sports Outlet for over 10 years.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration major in Disciplinary Studies from Ateneo de Manila University.

Rey is the Founder and CEO of Snapcart, a platform to connect brands and consumers through propriety technology platforms to collect, process and democratize unstructured data. Prior founding Snapcart, he worked at Procter & Gamble and top-tier consultancy - The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for 13 years prior transitioning to the startup space.

In 2014, as the CEO of Berniaga.com (a 701 Search joint-venture company of Singapore Press Holding, Schibsted, and Telenor), Rey led the site to be number 1 commerce site in Indonesia within just 6 months before exiting to OLX.

Rey is an avid gamer, and currently ranked in the Top 5 PVP battle globally in one of the mobile online games.