Keynote Presenter:

Chetan Sharma is a recognized industry expert in the wireless industry. Executives from leading wireless companies around the world seek his accurate predictions, independent insights, and actionable recommendations. He has served as an advisor to senior executive management of several Fortune 100 companies in the wireless space. Some of his clients include NTT DoCoMo, China Mobile, Disney, KTF, Sony, Samsung, Virgin Mobile, Sprint Nextel, AT&T Wireless, Alcatel-Lucent, KDDI, Reuters, Qualcomm, Reliance Infocomm, SAP, Merrill Lynch, American Express, and HP. Chetan is also author of 5 books on wireless.

George Papadakis is a telecom executive with international exposure and comprehensive experience in marketing, business development, operations and project management. Successfully launched innovative brands, products, services & leading edge technologies and fully familiar with the dynamics of markets. Famous for his dancing skills especially when the music has Latin rhythm and notorious for his cooking skills.

Dian Candra Kusuma studied at Indonesian University where he obtained his B.Sc in 2001. Currently he is a Specialist of Ring Back Tone system in a biggest GSM operator in Indonesia, Telkomsel. Previously he has a lot of experiences in Semiconductor Manufacturer Company and Satellite Communication Company. Robotics and programming are his hobbies, and he earned award for The Best Design of Robot Contest in Osaka-Japan at 1995.

As co-founder and Executive Chairman of mBlox, Andrew Bud provides the strategic vision for mBlox leveraging his deep industry expertise. Andrew has a wealth of experience in the mobile industry and is widely recognized as an expert in the areas of mobile content, billing and enabling services.

Prior to assuming the role of Executive Chairman in 2003, Andrew was the CEO of mBlox Ltd, which he co-founded in 1999 and led to profitability. Andrew is Global Chair of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), which he helped found in 2001 and to which he was re-elected in 2003 and 2005. He was elected global chair in 2008. From 2005 to 2008, he served on the Board of PhonepayPlus, the UK regulator of premium-rate telecoms services. Andrew is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IET, with a degree from Cambridge University.

Andreas Tsindos has worked in the Mobile Telecoms industry for the past 9 years with a varied experience from network, system engineering and product and business development. He has worked for large organisations like Siemens and Vodafone and now for the past 12 months has been with Jamba, now wholly owned by Newscorp, in the Global Business development team.

Tatiana Barkun is a Specialist and Project Manager at the Products & Services Division of Velcom. Before that she was a Product Manager for the mobile operator “BelCel”. Prior to that Tatiana provided consulting at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce.

Tatiana holds a BA in Roman Languages and International Economic relations form the Minsk State Linguistic University.

Evrim Dirik received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Koc University in 2006.  During university, he created a campus web site that includes one of the popular niche & young targeted social network in Turkey. As he had experiences in online advertising, he later focused on mobile advertising. He started his professional career at Turkcell in 2006, as a business analyst. Now, he is responsible for new product development and product management in Mobile Marketing & Advertising division. He also continues his educational career in Master of Management Information Systems.

Guy Ami-Ad is managing mobi since it establishment in 2007 to be the first mobile marketing agency in Israel. Prior to mobi, guy gained experience in traditional marketing (Roche pharmaceuticals) and digital media. Guy specialized in mobile and cross media campaigns and profiles targeted activities and he is the Co-founder of the Israeli forum of mobile advertising & marketing. In his spare time guy enjoy running and photographing.

Among mobi's clients are: Coca-Cola co', Carlsberg, P&G, AXE, Yellow pages, Easy-Forex and leading local brands and advertising agencies

Si Crowhurst is founder, Business Development Director and Technical Advisor of the London creative mobile advertising agency, We Love Mobile. Having worked in mobile since 1999, his career started at 3GLAB, where he was responsible for the multimedia technical architecture design and implementation for the Third Generation network of Hutchinson Telecom. Si then spent over six years in a number of roles at Orange, most recently as a Head of Programmes for the Orange Group Programme Delivery team. During this time, he became an extremely respected figure in delivering complex multinational mobile multimedia services. He led teams who were instrumental in defining converged platforms and mobile applications, specifically for messaging, music, video and TV. He has been involved in mobile advertising trials within Operators for several years and fully understands the models.

Luciana Pavan has been working with MTV Networks for 8 years in total. She started in the US with the Nickelodeon channel as a Marketing Manager for Latin America, moving to London to work as a Senior Digital Media Business Manager across all the network channels (VH1, MTV, Nickelodeon, VIVA,  Comedy Central) for Emerging Markets covering Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, Russia and Africa.

Before MTV she did her MBA in the US and worked for Goldman Sachs as a Marketing and Sales Coordinator.