d3con 2027

Arndt C. Groth is an advisor, investor and board member in numerous investments. He is also co-founder and Chaitman of SceneContext.ai, a platform for contextual advertising, content recommendations and video search. Among other appointments, Arndt C. Groth was CEO of the listed PubliGroupe AG in Switzerland, CEO of Smaato and President of BVDW e.V. for 10 years. In 1998, he founded DoubleClick Germany and later served as VP Europe responsible for the entire Northern European business, which was later acquired by Google.

Since 2003, Burkhardt Funk is a full professor of information systems research at Leuphana University. His research interest encompass statistical model building for user behavior in various application domains, such as decision problems in online advertising. In his group predictive models based on user journey data and methods for SEA bid management have been developed. Together with partners from the industry these models are evaluated in practical applications. Burkhardt is also an active entrepreneur and has co-founded Adference and uniquedigital.

Charged with spearheading the company’s international expansion efforts, Jay brings more than fifteen years of interactive marketing and international business experience to his role. He has been responsible for building the company’s presence from the ground up across the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, and more recently Japan, Scandinavia, LATAM and MENA regions. Before joining Rubicon Project in May of 2009, Jay served as SVP at MySpace/Fox Interactive Media. He was the social network’s first hire outside of the US, where he launched and oversaw operations and expansion across 12 European territories. Prior to joining MySpace in February 2006, Jay served as Director of International for Silverpop, the leading email marketing software and services provider and greenfielded their business into the UK. He previously was a member of the founding team and served as the Director of Marketing for Radical Communications, where he drove the company’s day to day marketing operations. Jay began his career in interactive media in 1998 directing the digital marketing practice for AlexanderOgilvy Public Relations, managing the DoubleClick and RelevantKnowlege accounts for the boutique technology marketing communications firm. Jay has recently been recognized as ‘Ad Tech Personality of the Year’ at ATS London 2015, The Drum’s 8th most influential person in digital media in the UK, and was listed 30th on City A.M.’s Top 100 Media Powerlist. He has also served as a press aide to former President Jimmy Carter and holds a B.A. in History from Emory University.

Dr. Frank Eickmeier is a lawyer and partner at IT/IP-chancery Unverzagt von Have since 1997, focussing on online marketing law. He is also an accredited surveyor at the county data protection centre of Kiel (ULD). Frank Eickmeier and his team counsels several designated online companies, publishers, advertisers and marketers, but also media agencies, content producers and technology providers with questions regarding the online world. Early Frank Eickmeier started specialising in important data protection questions, which are relevant for business models of online marketing companies. 4 years ago, he founded ePrivacy with Prof. Christoph Bauer. He also is the author of the blog www.onlinemarketingrecht.de

Thomas Promny founded the d3con in 2011. Since 2000 he has been an internet entrepreneur focusing on ecommerce and online marketing businesses.

Lothar Krause is Vice President Europe at the media tech company Affinity and is responsible for the further expansion of the successful VEVE and Siteplug brands. He has held various management and marketing positions since the early 2000s and has made a name for himself in the industry. As a guest speaker and moderator, Lothar can be found at universities and conferences. In recent years, he has discussed the development of the digital out of home channel at D3CON and other events. Lothar has been following the development of programmatic advertising as a pioneer in Germany since 2010. In addition to previous positions at eBay, zanox (AWIN), zalando, sociomantic and Opinary, the business administration graduate shares his knowledge as a consultant and advisor with companies such as ID5, sourcepoint, adsquare, Sage+Archer and others. Lothar is convinced that programmatic sales will continue to rise and that the full potential is far from being exploited.

Oliver Hülse joined Integral Ad Science as Managing Director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland in April 2017. Oliver is responsible for IAS’ growth in the CEE region. Hülse has been in the media industry for more than 20 years and prior to Joining IAS, Oliver held the position of Managing Director at Rocket Fuel.