Social Gaming and Virtual Goods - Speaker list

Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson is the co-founder and Chief Software Architect at Betware - a leading developer of interactive gaming solutions within regulated markets. He has over 20 years of experience working with state and national lotteries and gaming...

Prior to being CEO and Co-Founder of GamesThatGive (Acquired by Vitrue in July, 2011), Adam was a senior software engineer at Apple, working on many aspects of Mac OS X. Adam also worked as a software engineer for Microsoft MSN. Adam is an experienced organic farmer...

Atul is currently the Senior Equity Research Analyst covering Gaming industry at ThinkEquity. He has been regularly interviewed on TV and quoted in financial and mainstream print media such as Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Forbes, Fortune, USA...

Mark is Head of Product at Handmade Mobile Entertainment, the company behind Flirtomatic, and leads product development across web, wap and apps. Flirtomatic is an award winning entertainment service which creates fun ways to meet new people. With over 4.5m users, the ...

Toby Beresford is co-founder of Pailz.com - gamified team tasks for the workplace. Before Pailz he co-founded and sold Nudge Social Media agency where he developed social games on Facebook for Sony Playstation and Reckitt Benckiser. Deeper in his past is his...

Kai Bolik is CEO and co-founder of GameDuell. As a serial entrepreneur, he contributes the strategic vision and management experience that has made GameDuell one of the best monetizing, as well as one of the largest cross-platform social games communities worldwide. In ...

Bertram ("Bert") Chan heads Strategic Partner Marketing for Playfish, handling all aspects of sponsorships, in-game advertising opportunities and endorsements. Prior to joining Playfish, he worked as a strategy consultant at the Monitor Group and in investment banking...

Joseph Chen is the founder of Renren Inc. Mr. Chen has served as the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of the company since it’s inception. Mr. Chen is a pioneer of China's internet industry. Before founding Renren, Mr. Chen was the...

Chris co-founded appssavvy, an activity advertising technology company. His and appssavvy's vision has pioneered a new social advertising model focused on people's activity. The vision of activity advertising has established Chris as a recognized thought leader. He ...

Ethan Fassett is the SVP of Product for OpenFeint division of GREE, the world’s largest mobile social game network. Ethan is a 10+ year social and mobile veteran, having launched and managed many large social gaming, mobile and Web2.0 products for companies such as...

Celia Francis, Chief Executive Officer of WeeWorld Inc., has two decades of experience leading innovative media, mobile and internet companies. Currently, Celia sets the strategic direction for WeeWorld’s continued growth and innovation as a popular mobile and internet ...

Sebastian Funke is a serial entrepreneur in the online and media space and Co-Founder of Smeet, a rapidly expanding multi-user social game with 3 million users. After taking over as CEO of Smeet in 2009, Sebastian has expanded Smeet’s presence into several European...

Jim created and is the leader of the firm’s Social Media, Entertainment & Technology team and Virtual Worlds and Video Games team, is former head of the firmwide IP practice, and is co-leader of the Open Source team. He is a former patent examiner and leverages a...

Oscar Jazdowski is head of origination for Silicon Valley Bank’s UK office. Jazdowski has over 25 years experience of financing technology companies at all stages of development, from young venture-backed startups to large multinational companies across a broad base of ...

Gael Jouaillec is Senior Sales Manager at PayPal Mobile, working exclusively in EMEA region, focused on building the value proposition of Zong primarily in the online gaming space. Prior to the PayPal/ eBay acquisition of the company, Gael had initially joined Zong in...

Nour Khrais, Founder and General Manager of Maysalward and Chairman of Jordan Gaming Task Force with over than 11 years of international experience in the Online and Mobile Value Added Services. Prior to forming Maysalward, he worked in a multicultural environment...

Henning is the CEO of MegaZebra, one of Europe's leading social gaming companies. MegaZebra not only develops it's own games, but also publishes 3rd party games on Facebook. For more than 10 years, Henning has been actively involved in the fields of innovation and...

Cosmo has been at EMI since October 2009. Cosmo has a strong history within the industry, having previously held the positions of Director of Strategy and Business Development at Project Kangaroo, Head of Commercial Strategy, VOD at Channel 4 Television and Head of...

Plazz is an established developer for mobile- & social games and provides 3rd-party App Services on Apple IOS, Android and Facebook for Brands, Agencies and large Corporations. Juergen studied business economy and his professional experiences include...

Bobby McFarland is the Senior Director of Virtual Currency and SOCIAL2WEB™ for Adknowledge, a leading internet advertising technology company. In his current role, Bobby oversees all strategy and management for the SOCIAL2WEB™ solution and oversees the virtual currency ...

Tim Merel is Managing Director of Digi-Capital (www.digi-capital.com), the games investment bank focused across Europe, North America and Asia (China, Japan and South Korea). As well as their investment banking and venture partner work, Digi-Capital publishes its 2011...

Wili is a serial entrepreneur and investor from Finland. The last couple of years he's been particularly interested in crowdsourcing, cloud labor, and human computation -- disruptive technologies that are transforming the way people work all over the world. A hacker...

Having worked in advertising for 8 years Simon moved to into the online marketing world with leading UK bookmaker - Ladbrokes. Since then he has held roles that span business development, marketing, interactive television and gambling with roles at BSkyB’s Sky Bet and...

With a games career spanning more than 20 years beginning on old 8bits computers, Henrique has been in the forefront of every gaming revolution ever since, from the demoscene of the 80s to TV convergence, mobile, online, freemium and now social. Some of the titles he...

Simon was part of the original management team which started InComm Europe initially in 2006, (prior to the InComm US acquisition) and the subsequent launch of the UK Gift Card Mall programme with Sainsbury’s. Most recently Simon has been responsible for the strategic ...

Roelant is responsible for the commercial activities at Adyen. After starting his career as a consultant, Roelant started in the online payments industry early 2000. Throughout the years Roelant has held various international management roles in sales and business...

Hannu is a CEO and founder of Hookie Technologies. Having previously held the role of CMO he is now also responsible for business development and strategy. Hannu is a visionary entrepreneur with a mission to make contemporary people more physically active. Before...

Albin Serviant is Chief-Executive-Officer at MXP4, Social Music Gaming Studio. His role involves sourcing new business creation, guiding technology for monetizing the social music gaming platforms and being the official spokesperson for MXP4. Albin has been at MXP4...

Kam Star is a digital media entrepreneur, inventor and an award winning games developer. Creating his first game in 1986, he studied Architecture and for the past ten years has been deeply involved with innovations in influencing behaviour through play. Founder of...

Steve has been a professional manager/project manager for over 13 years in a variety of industries including finance, government and marketing, helping companies like RBS, BT and Microsoft achieve their goals. For the last two years Steve has brought his considerable...

Anne Toole is a writer and designer who focuses on bringing fun, meaningful, and relevant content to games. Her credits include the MMO WIZARD 101 and THE WITCHER, an RPG which earned her a Writers Guild nomination. Anne started in games as the first Head Writer for...

Helen has been immersed in digital for over 15 years, translating between marketing and technical teams in companies that include Sun Microsystems and United News and Media. She successfully founded and exited from New Media agency Chord9 and was on the board at...

Robert’s 19 year atypical career path spans a variety of disciplines of which the last 8 years have been focused on mobile and social gaming. Robert’s efforts were initially focused on embedded gaming technology partnerships in Europe and Asia before concentrating on...

As the CEO and Co-founder of the Paris based start-up Kobojo, Vincent is in charge of all strategic planning and overseas development of the company. From internal matters to business development, Vincent drives the thinking and the execution of the strategies. ...

As an innovative thought-leader in the world of web 2.0 technologies, Riccardo Zacconi adds his entrepreneurial spirit and passion for the world of online games and commerce to the success of King.com. Riccardo Zacconi is the CEO and co-founder of King.com, the...