Avinash Kaushik is the digital marketing evangelist for Google and the co-founder of Market Motive Inc.

Through his blog, Occam’s Razor, and his best-selling books, Web Analytics: An Hour a Day and Web Analytics 2.0, Kaushik has become recognized as an authoritative voice on how marketers, executive teams, and industry leaders can leverage data to fundamentally reinvent their digital existence. Kaushik puts a common-sense framework around the often frenetic world of web analytics and combines that with the philosophy that investing in talented analysts is the key to long-term success. He passionately advocates customer centricity and leveraging bleeding-edge competitive intelligence techniques.

Kaushik has received rave reviews for bringing his energetic, inspiring, and practical insights to companies like Unilever, Dell, Time Warner, Vanguard, Porsche, and IBM. He has delivered keynotes at a variety of global conferences, including SES Conference & Expo, Monaco Media Forum, iCitizen, JMP Innovators’ Summit, The Art of Marketing, and Web 2.0.

Acting on his passion for teaching, Kaushik has lectured at major universities such as Stanford University, University of Virginia, University of California—Los Angeles, and University of Utah.

Kaushik received the 2009 Statistical Advocate of the Year Award from the American Statistical Association, and the 2011 Most Influential Industry Contributor Award from the Web Analytics Association.

Tianfang Feng joined Baidu as Chief Consultant for Search Engine Marketing. He oversees Baidu Search Marketing Professional Certification Program, SEM analytics and product integration.

Prior to Baidu, Tianfang served at Efficient Frontier, a leading digital performance marketing company where he was responsible for SEM analytics and strategic planning for clients across verticals, including Honda USA, Nordstrom.com, Bing Travel Engine and Expedia Global. He was also tasked with the expansion of Efficient Frontier in APAC.

Tianfang has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University and an MS in Management Science from Stanford University.

Patrick Abotsi is the founder and CEO of Sinovantage International, a Shanghai-based search marketing and internet service company. Born in Lome, Togo, he has been living in China for twelve years. Coming from a finance background, he has been working in the Chinese search industry over the last six years. His clients include primarily foreign companies operating in mainland China, export-oriented Chinese companies as well as international agencies with clients targeting the Chinese market.

Patrick Abotsi has a master degree in Finance from Fudan University, Shanghai.

Simon demonstrates over 15 years experience in the digital, direct & social industries.  He has managed a large portfolio of blue chip clients , working across a variety of industries, most notably FMCG, Automotive, Fragrance, Information Technology, Travel and Retail.

Simon is responsible for driving & delivering social media strategies, buzz monitoring initiatives, social engagements & activations for Tier 1 clients including Nike, Diagio, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, Mercedez-Benz, Gucci, Pizza Hut, Telkomsel, PepsiCo, DELL, SAP, Dulux, GSK, Sony & DeBeers throughout the APCI markets.

Louise is the Founder & Managing Partner of HOOLA, a consultancy company specializes in strategic planning for digital marketing, e-Commerce and e-CRM.

Louise last held the position of President at DIGITAS Greater China – one of the biggest digital marketing agencies worldwide. DIGITAS is wholly owned by the Publicis Groupe.

During her tenure at DIGITAS, Louise supervised the operations in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo. Her client portfolio includes Ford, iShares, L'Oreal Group China & Japan, Unilever China, etc. Louise also sat in Publicis Groupe China Board, which was established to strengthen the Groupe's presence in China.

Louise has held key positions in JAHK, Universal Music, Bates and Grey Interactive. Originally from Hong Kong, Louise is now based in Shanghai.

Matthias Baur is the Corporate e-Business Development Director at Reed Exhibitions based in London. In this role he works with all Reed Exhibition units worldwide to define and develop the online strategy of the company. Alongside this role Matthias Baur is also the regional e-Business Director for Asia Pacific & Central Europe and the Corporate Sponsor for New Business Development in China.

Matthias Baur started his career at Messe Frankfurt and has been working in the exhibition and B2B industry for over 13 years.

Napoleon Biggs is responsible for driving digital business growth and integration across Fleishman-Hillard's regional footprint of 13 offices in Asia. His focus includes strategy, client consulting, program development, and staff training, networking and education.

Napoleon is a reputed digital communications thought leader and influencer in multiple Asia-Pacific markets. A successful program he created, "Web Wednesdays," is the only pan-regional forum and network of its kind for communications practitioners focused on digital integration. Since he founded it in Hong Kong in June 2007, the "Web Wednesdays" community of Asian digerati has grown to over 2,500 members with monthly gatherings in Hong Kong, Singapore, Guangzhou, Beijing, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City.

Upon completing his Chinese studies in Beijing, Napoleon started his career in sports marketing and satellite TV news. When the Internet took off in the late '90s, he launched the Asia Capacity Exchange, a Web-based B2B platform for trading international telecoms bandwidth. As the move to get online gathered pace, Napoleon then co-founded and built a digital marketing consultancy, Web Guru Asia, servicing clients from offices across six Asian cities. His latest endeavour was Palava Digital, which advised clients how to engage consumers, measure performance and generate revenue through social media.

Napoleon is available for conversation on @webwednesday

Elmer is the founder of SEO Hong Kong, a local search engine marketing firm where he works directly with clients or partners with web design and advertising agencies in their search marketing campaigns.

With web development background, Elmer previously worked as search consultant of an international search agency, where he worked with multinational companies in travel and hospitality, consumer electronics and finance industries.

Elmer writes his thoughts on search and other Internet disciplines with a local flavor at SEO Hong Kong blog. He also shares his views to local community of marketers and Internet professionals through speaking engagements.

Links:
SEO Hong Kong – www.seo-hongkong.com
SEO Hong Kong blog – www.seo-hongkong.com/blog/

Mel's role as Community Manager at Microsoft Advertising is to build relationships within the online advertising community by supporting and educating through the Microsoft Advertising Blog, evangelising through social media and by speaking about internet marketing at conferences, trade shows & other events.

Mel began his digital advertising career as an editor at the search engine LookSmart in 2000, spending time at 24/7 Search as an Search Account Director before moving to Microsoft in 2005.

He was part of the team that planned & executed the UK roll-out of Microsoft adCenter in August 2006, and it didn't take much persuasion for Mel to join Microsoft Advertising Community Team when it became apparent that Social Media Marketing was going to be huge!

Mel has spoken about adCenter, Search, Social Media & Digital Marketing at conferences and events in the UK, Las Vegas, New York, Toronto, Reykjavik, Dublin, Barcelona & Tenerife.

Do follow him on Twitter and Facebook!

Anna Chan is the Managing Director of Reprise Media Asia. Based in Hong Kong, she oversees the development and effectiveness of Search within Mediabrands' agencies Initiative and UM in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Some of her clients include Microsoft, MasterCard, Johnson & Johnson, AIA, Tiffany and SmarTone Vodafone.

Anna began her career as an Advertising Account Executive in San Francisco. Anna has over 11 years of experience in Asia. Prior to this role, she was the Head of Search for UM in Asia Pacific and before that, sales manager at Yahoo. Here she managed the direct sales team and developed pioneering search strategies for major corporate brands. Other responsibilities included analyzing client ROI / CPA data as well as website architecture.

Anna is a regular speaker at Search Marketing conferences, including Ad:Tech, ADMA, British Chamber of Commerce, Pacific Conferences, etc. She is also regularly quoted in the press and in industry journals.

Anna has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Chi-Chao Chang is charged with all facets of xAd’s product management and technology development, including overall strategy, identification of new customer segments, and advancement of a vibrant local-mobile marketplace. Prior to xAd, he headed Yahoo!’s global search operations and the company’s ongoing relationship with Microsoft. While at Yahoo!, Chang held various senior leadership roles. As vice president of products, he was in charge of product management, research and development, display advertising, analytics, and testing of the company’s Sponsored Search and Content Match product lines. Most notably, he built the Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard system and Yahoo!’s Search Assistant, which is the first peer-reviewed search engine.

Brandon Cheung is Strategic Planning Director at Isobar and Carat Hong Kong. His client experience ranges across hotels, sparkling beverages, alcohol, insurance, mobile phones, and athletic shoes. He has 8 years of interactive marketing experience across San Francisco, Los Angeles and Hong Kong.

Brandon is also the founder of Astro, Isobar's proprietary global social media CRM system. As a frequent speaker on the topics of social media business and emerging media opportunities, Brandon spreads his love for the Internet day in and day out.

Wallace Cheung is a Director covering China Internet and Media stocks, and is a member of the regional telecom, Internet and equipment team. He was ranked in both AsiaMoney and Institutional Investor polls from 2004 to 2010. Before joining Credit Suisse in May 2005, Wallace worked at DBS Vickers (HK) covering telecom, Internet, telecom equipment and software stocks for five years. He received his MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Bachelor's degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Hong Kong. Wallace is a CFA and based in Hong Kong.

Philip G Chiu is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Beyond Media Global. BMG is the Asia Partner for Sequoia Capital and Arts Alliance Backed KENSHOO Search. KENSHOO is integrated with BAIDU, Yahoo, Google, Yandex, Facebook. Marquee Clients include ZUJI, CTRIP, leading Agencies in Japan, India and Australia as well as top tier brands in Asia. Headquartered in Hong Kong, BMG also has a branch office in Shanghai and a representative office in Tokyo. Previously, Mr. Chiu was Senior Vice President of SearchForce, Inc, responsible for Global Business Development and Corporate Partnerships. Prior to SearchForce, Mr. Chiu was the Regional Monetization Manager for Asia Pacific at Yahoo, Inc. Mr. Chiu spent the earlier part of his career at Bank of America's Investment Bank in New York City. Mr. Chiu graduated with Honors from the Johns Hopkins University and is a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He is a avid supporter of non profits and social enterprises.

Eddie Choi, Managing Director of the Hong Kong-based digital agency FrontiersDigital (F-D). F-D is a wholly owned subsidiary of Milton Exhibits Group. Milton Exhibits Group is a leading event enabler in the Asia Pacific region with offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Macau, Taiwan, and Singapore. Eddie is a widely recognized digital marketer in the Greatest China region for his strategy works that adopted by many multinational corporations. Eddie had been invited to speak for different marketing conferences in Asia including SES China, Ad Tech China, and also numerous of private conferences held by the government and commercial organizations. Eddie's specialty is search and social marketing particularly with a deep understanding of the market in China. He is a member of SES global advisor and a contributed columnist of Clickz Asia.

Ricky Chu is a veteran with over 15 years experience in IT, Telecommunications and Media Industry

Ricky Chu is a pioneer on mobile marketing and a successful entrepreneur in new digital media business in the region. In 2003, he founded Gravitas Limited, which pioneered the Mobile Marketing Industry in Hong Kong. In the last 7 years, Mr. Chu has initiated over 1,000 successful mobile campaigns for 100+ brands of Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations and renowned local groups in the region. Gravitas got many remarkable industry awards, including "Local Hero Award" and "Silver Award" in Marketing Magazine's Mobile Marketing Agency of the Year Awards 2010, the "Best Mobile Campaign Award" at Asia Interactive Awards 2009; and the "Creative WiFi Application Award" awarded by Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Association. All of these accolades further strengthened the leading position of Gravitas in the industry

He is now an active member in Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA), Retail Technology Industry Association (RTIA), Hong Kong Wireless Technology Industry Associations (HKWTIA) and Mobile Marketing Association (MMA Global) and maintains excellent relations with client marketers, advertising agencies, media companies and telecom operators in the industry.

He graduated in Hong Kong Baptist University with a bachelor degree in Business Administration with major in Marketing and holds a Graduate Diploma in China Marketing & e-business jointly awarded by HK Institute of Marketing and HKU SPACE.

Cindy Deng is Sr. Director and Head of Performance Advertising for Yahoo!'s Asia-Pacific operations where she is responsible for the overall growth and monetization of the search and performance display businesses. In this role, Cindy oversees the region's advertiser, publisher, and product strategies and drives end-to-end go-to-market plans for global and regional initiatives.

Prior to joining Yahoo! Asia, Cindy led the roll-out of Panama (Yahoo!'s new search ad platform) across 19 international markets. Immediately following the success of the Panama launch, Cindy also drove and executed on the launch strategies for Marketplace Design (Yahoo!'s ad ranking model) which contributed over $300M in revenue.

Cindy holds an MBA degree in Marketing and Strategic Management from the Wharton School and MA degree in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at University of Pennsylvania.

George Godula is co-founder of Web2Asia – a consultancy and incubator for Internet & E-Commerce companies in China and Japan. Clients include Western companies such as Bigpoint, Jimdo and Panjiva as well as local online players such as Alibaba and Tencent. George is also the Managing Director Asia of the international Direct Response Advertisement Agency MH | direkt. The agency is specialized on conversion oriented & ROI driven online and offline marketing. Clients include consumer brand advertisers, E-Commerce and B2B companies such as Esprit, Swarovski, Bosch, Henkel, Nokia Siemens Networks, W.L. Gore, Kaiser & Kraft or Gildemeister AG.

Mike Grehan is global VP, content, at Incisive Media, publisher of Search Engine Watch and ClickZ, and producer of the SES international conference series. Previously, he worked as a search marketing consultant with a number of international agencies, handling global clients such as SAP and Motorola. Recognized as a leading search marketing expert, Grehan came online in 1995 and is the author of numerous books and white papers on the subject. He is chair of the SES advisory board and in March 2010 was elected to SEMPO's board of directors.

As Regional Director for Turner Entertainment Interactive Media (Turner Interactive) and General Manager of TurnOut Ventures Limited, Benjamin leads the development of the interactive business unit tasked with expanding online consumer engagement and commercial opportunities across Turner's kids, animation and entertainment brands through the launch of new online community-based games and bringing to market online video and e-commerce services to complement Turner's television and consumer products divisions. His role also includes the management of over 16 consumer websites in Asia Pacific spanning Cartoon Network, Pogo (India), WB (India), truTV, and Turner Classic Movies, and overseeing staff across offices in India, Korea, Hong Kong, plus operation centres in China and the Philippines.

Additionally, Benjamin manages TurnOut Ventures Limited, a business focused on the development of original content across digital media and consumer products. TurnOut Ventures is currently developing and operating massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) based around Ben 10, Tom and Jerry, and characters from the Cartoon Network Universe. TurnOut Ventures is also driving the global brand and product development for Tuzki, an expressive bunny character fast emerging as an icon of the Internet generation,.

Prior to joining Turner, Benjamin was Marketing Director at eBay and managed new business ventures in Southeast Asia at Yahoo!

Originally from Australia, Matt has lived in Asia for over 20 years. He started in the Internet in 1997 as the co-founder and employee #1 for SpaceAsia Media, the first Pan-Asian ad network founded in Asia. SpaceAsia sold in 2000 to Engage Inc (CMGi) becoming Engage Asia with Matt staying on as VP APAC after the sale. In 2003 Matt founded Activ8 Worldwide as a JV with Outblaze Ltd which handed global media sales for Mail.com, Sanrio Digital (Hello Kitty), the Opera browser plus a number of other leading brands. After the sale of Activ8's primary assets Matt took a board director's seat on the Malaysia listed Oriented Media Group Berhad. In 2009 Matt took a postion at News Corporation's .FOX Networks as VP for Asia Pacific and Middle East.

Professor Lonnie Hodge, is the recipient of many awards and fellowships in writing and speaking, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He is the author of Fishing for the Moon (poetry), An Evening with William Butler Yeats (play) and Luther, among others (play). Lonnie writes for several International journals and magazines. He is also the creator and CEO of Culturefish Media, an international Public Relations company specializing in building clients for Chinese businesses. Lonnie has been active in social media since 1978 when he was a member of the Army War College's Task Force Delta.

James is the founder and CEO of BPOVIA, the world's leading provider of remote employee solutions. James has more than 10 years of experience in internet marketing, technology, government service and China business development. Prior to founding BPOVIA, James held executive positions in the China Yurun Group (1068.hk). He has played major roles in international M&A; activities in the China Yurun Group.

James graduated from the University of Southern California with Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

Bill is the President of Back Azimuth Consulting and is considered the top thought leader on Global Search Engine Marketing and is an internationally recognized Search Marketing speaker having spoken at conferences in over 30 countries.

Bill is the co-author of the best selling book "Search Engine Marketing, Inc." Driving Traffic to Your Companies Web Site from IBM Press now in it's 2nd Edition. Bill also writes a popular blog on search and social media marketing at http://www.whunt.com as well as monthly columns for various publications. Bill is also a member of the SES Conference Advisory board.

Having delivered hundreds of keynote speeches and seminars nationwide, Aaron Kahlow is one of the more well-known faces in the online marketing and advertising space. He is considered a leading online marketing educator and can translate online marketing technology jargon into simple marketing and business terms. He is a recognized authority on social media, e-mail marketing, website usability, SEO, web analytics, and overall web strategy. Metropolitan Magazine named him one of the “Top 40 entrepreneurs under the Age of 40” in 2006. Kahlow served on the International Board of Directors of the Business Marketers Association and in an advisory capacity on several other boards.

Raffi Kamalian is the COO of alivenotdead.com, an online community for artists and their fans based in Hong Kong. Since launching in 2007, alivenotdead.com has grown to over 1700 artists and 500,000 users from around the world. alivenotdead.com has worked on social media-based marketing campaigns with many brands including adidas, Coca-Cola, Nokia, Esprit and Diesel Jeans. Prior to the founding of alivenotdead.com, Raffi was working as an assistant Professor in CUHK's Faculty of Engineering.

As Chief Digital Officer, Andrew is responsible for driving the digital agenda for Euro RSCG across Asia Pacific, from pursuing the agency's digital opportunities to working across teams and clients, including recent global digital wins, Unilever and IBM. Based in Singapore, he is also responsible for recruiting and training the best digital talent in the region while working closely with regional and global teams.

Prior to joining Euro RSCG, Andrew was the VP of Marketing for Asia-Pacific at enterprise cloud computing leader, Salesforce.com, where he defined the go-to market strategy in the region; managing teams spanning strategy, digital, PR, events and field marketing. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Ogilvy, in a variety of regional management roles, in particular running OgilvyOne for North Asia. In this role he spent much of his time in China and Korea establishing the One operations in those markets. While in China, Andrew was instrumental in setting up Audi's first direct customer acquisition program which subsequently evolved into their pan-regional customer loyalty program.

With over 20 years of industry experience, Knott has worked with brands such as IBM, Unilever, J&J, Visa and Nike in various markets throughout the region, including Japan, China, Korea, India, Singapore/SE Asia and Australia.

Adaline Lau, ClickZ Asia’s editor, oversees day-to-day editorial operations covering digital marketing including search, social media, mobile, analytics. Before ClickZ, she was a senior reporter at Marketing Magazine and worked as a journalist for The Singapore Marketer and Asia Pacific Broadcasting.

Mr. Casey Lau is a Vancouver-born digital pioneer who started his career in Hong Kong 15 years ago. Mr. Lau's newest venture is leading the team at Popcorn Media Network, a Hong Kong-based online publishing company that produces 3 daily blogs: Butterboom.com, Neonpunch.com and Winebuz.hk. Interviewed and featured in publications like Asiaweek, Newsweek, South China Morning Post, The Standard, Mr. Lau was voted one of Hong Kong's Most Interesting People by HK Magazine.

Eden gained extensive exposure in the China market when he started working in China in 2005, in the capacity of Group Marketing Director of an on-line MMORPG game business and CEO of a retail chain. During that period, he witnessed the strong growth of social media in China. Before moving into China, Eden held senior brand and marketing positions in Hutchison Telecom and Hongkong Telecom/PCCW where he pioneered quantitative analytics in studying brand and customer dynamics. He extended and applied that knowledge on the Brandtology platform, and provides business insights to his clients' on their social media activities. Eden holds a MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and also completed an International Executive Development Program in INSEAD, France.

Ms Donna Li is the General Manager of Strategic Marketing & Media Planning of Renren Inc, the leading real-name social platform in China. She oversees RenRen.com, Nuomi.com, 56.com trade marketing as well as online advertising business, offering most effective marketing solutions via social media mechanism to clients of all major business sectors.

Prior to joining RenRen, Donna was the trade marketing director of Taobao, Alibaba, and Yahoo, and has gained most cutting-edge knowledge and solid experience from portal, to search to e-commerce. She also acted as the media planning head for Yahoo global cross-border deals, working extensively with world Multi-national brands and research institutes.

Ms Donna Li holds an EMBA from CEIBS.

Rosemary Lising is responsible for developing and growing GroupM's search business practice across the Asia Pacific region. This includes business planning and operations, business development, agency integration, and training development. Prior to joining GroupM, she established the search marketing and online media practice for Blue Interactive Marketing (now a WPP company), where she worked with several global and Asia-wide clients including Hewlett Packard, eBay, Lufthansa, BEA, and Polycom. From 1999 to 2002, Lising was general manager of the DoubleClick Media operations in South East Asia, launching the Singapore office and satellite operations. From 1991 to 1998, she did strategic media planning for firms such as Foote Cone Belding, Zenith Media, and Ogilvy & Mather.

Jonathan Liu is SEM Manager for Expedia, managing APAC paid listings for the Hotels.com brand across 15 localized websites across Google, Yahoo!, Naver and Baidu. Other Expedia brands include Hotwire.com, Tripadvisor, Egencia, eLong and Venere. Prior to joining Expedia, Jonathan founded Moonlight Marketing, a social media consultancy focused on helping brands and organizations develop and execute social media strategy. Client projects included IHG, Alibaba, Conrad Hotel, Incisive Media, Embrace Global and Galaxy Macau, among others. From 2005 to 2010 Jonathan worked at Yahoo! with large search marketing advertisers in the US and Asia Pacific. Jonathan graduated from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor with a BA in Political Science and Economics.

Lawrence Lo is the business director of digital at OMD, a global communications agency. With more than eight years of online and search marketing experience Lawrence has a passion for bringing his clients results through innovative online strategies, with a focus on search. Other areas of passion include, social media and email marketing. Lawrence holds a B.A. in Marketing from the California State University of Fullerton.

Jeff Lyndon is the COO of Humble Gaming Limited, a Hong Kong base mobile game and application developer/publisher. Jeff started his game developer career since 2001. Through out his career he have launched 3 full scale massively multiplayer games and 25 other titles in various platforms including iPhone, iPad, Window, Mac, Xbox, Facebook and more. With the titles and projects Jeff have been involved, he is recognized as one of the most experience game developer in Hong Kong and Southern China. Jeff have also spoke at events & conferences such as Ad-Tech, BloggerCon, TEDx Events in the region on topics including marketing, digital entertainment and creative thinking.

Jeff recently received the 2009 "30 Under 30 Game Developer Award" from one of the most prominent game industry magazine: DEVELOP and 2nd runner up in Twitter's Short Awards 2009 under Gaming Category.

Scott McBride, a member of the Ogilvy PR Asia-Pacific 360° Digital Influence team based in Hong Kong, is a digital marketer with over 11 years client and agency side marketing experience.

Managing both regional and local clients, his role is to build Ogilvy's Social Media practice across the region by bringing the world of digital and social to brands.

Prior to joining the Asia-Pacific 360° Digital Influence team, Scott was General Manager for OgilvyOne Malaysia working on through-the-line and digital accounts such as Guinness, Heineken, IBM and Maxis.

Before moving to Asia, Scott founded, managed and latterly sold a successful integrated and digital agency.

Based in Glasgow, Scotland, the agency won awards across the UK and Europe with a client footprint that stretched from the United States to Asia.

Scott studied marketing at The University of Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, and Business Management at the University of Calgary, Alberta Canada.

Matt McGowan joined Incisive Media in 2006 and is responsible for the North American business in addition to overseeing all marketing, sales, editorial, and operations for ClickZ.com, ClickZ.asia, SearchEngineWatch.com, and the multinational SES Conference and Expo series. Prior to joining Incisive, he was VP at PropertyRoom.com, where he oversaw all sales, marketing, and operations for the US-based auction services company. Earlier in his career in San Francisco, McGowan developed a go-to-market online strategy for the multinational publishing house Pearson Plc.; before that, he worked on the institutional desk for Schwab Capital Markets and Trading, a division of Charles Schwab Inc., in New York and San Francisco.

Based in Hong Kong, Debra Meiburg is a celebrated wine journalist, TV personality, wine educator and in-demand speaker who holds the top honour in the wine world - Master of Wine.

A former wine professor who is not afraid to get dirt under her fingernails, Debra has worked harvest in Chile, pruned vines in Bordeaux and was a cellar-hand in New York. A widely respected wine judge, she recently founded and is director of the world's first truly Asian wine competition, the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition.

Debra's latest venture, an online video series named Meet the Winemaker, is a charming access-all-areas look at the wine industry, where she reveals the personal side of the industry's top dogs and rising stars.

Make no mistake, Debra has a serious tongue for wine, but her approach is a little tongue in cheek. Through her numerous wine-related pursuits, Debra is determined to take the everyday wine lover beyond the bottle to discover the intricacies of their own tastebuds and thoroughly enjoy the pleasures of wine. See www.debramasterofwine.com for more about Debra.

Jay Oatway is Hong Kong's most followed digital journalist, covering web trends and the impact of technology on society. He now has more than 95,000 followers on Twitter.

With more than a decade of experience in tech-culture journalism and new media marketing, Jay's work has tracked every stage of the digital revolution--from early websites to the latest in social media tools. He was previously the celebrated tech columnist for POWER magazine, and the editor of the mobile lifestyle magazine Charged. He's been a 'trend hunter' for Portension.com and supports his micro-blogging with longer commentary on beyond140.jayoatway.com. And he has worked as a Creative Director in experiential marketing.

Jay is currently freelance consulting for businesses, while working on a book chronicling the unprecedented ways people are utilizing social media to overcome adversity in times of humanitarian and ecological crisis.

Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing, specializing in Internet marketing consulting, training, and implementation services. A veteran Internet marketer, Odden has consulted for clients such as HP, McKesson, Gorkana, Marketo and StrongMail. He is the author of Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing, and has been cited by The Economist, U.S. News & World Report, and Fortune Magazine. He writes a monthly column for ClickZ called Social Media Smarts and edits Online Marketing Blog, rated a top marketing blog by Advertising Age, Social Media Examiner and Junta42. He also conducts seminars for companies, and regularly presents at marketing, media, and public relations industry conferences world-wide.

Luke Organ, currently Director of Sales and Marketing at the Sony Ericsson Women's Tennis Association (WTA) based in Beijing, is a sports marketer with rights holder and agency side marketing experience.

Managing the marketing objectives for the WTA across Asia Pacific, his role is to build the WTA's Social Media presence across the region by leveraging the world of digital and social for the WTA and its members including their tournaments, their players and their sponsors.

Prior to joining the WTA, Luke was a Director of global sports marketing agency Frontiers Group based in Shanghai and also Vice president of the parent Private Equity firm Pacific Investments working on 360° marketing initiatives for the agency's clients as well as analyzing new media and leisure investments in his PE role.

Before moving to Asia, Luke was part of a new experiential media owner for 3 years then worked within Blowfish Digital servicing clients such as EBAY, Paypal and Agent Provocateur.

Luke studied Sport Business at Sheffield Hallam, UK, and Advanced Financial Modelling at the London School of Business and Finance, whilst currently undertaking his CIMA.

Allen Qu leads the Netconcepts China team to provide analysis, consultation and implementation of natural and paid search strategies for world’s leading companies in the US, Australia, New Zealand and China markets, including Expedia, eLong.com, The Planet, Taikang Life, Microsoft, Qunar.com, Zhaoping.com, New Oriental Group, eBay.cn, Gigabyte, Abang.com, Tuniu.com, Edeng.cn, EE-Media, UUSee.com, RealEstate.co.nz, Air New Zealand and many more. Allen's expertise includes search engine optimization, paid search management, social media optimization, permission/email marketing, blog & viral marketing, PR optimization and integrated marketing strategies. The SEO & SEM programs that Allen has been managing have achieved remarkable successes. Allen also has extensive experience in managing e-commerce operations before joining Netconcepts. In addition, he's the frequent speaker at search & online marketing conferences, including SMX, ad:tech and other internet related events, conferences and TV shows. Allen has also been providing SEO and online marketing trainings for Google, Baidu, government agencies and various organizations.

Allen graduated from The University of Auckland with marketing and IT degree. He is Google AdWords Qualified Individual, Yahoo! Search Marketing Ambassador, Certified eMarketer and Certified Direct Marketer. He also experienced in web development & multimedia, designing and building web 2.0 sites and applications."

Based in Langham's Corporate office, Sean is responsible for leading Langham's global eCommerce initiatives which include; building Langham's online revenues; growing Langham's digital brand equity; leading online partnerships with Online Travel Agents and fostering a group wide culture of digital innovation and leadership. Sean has held various management, marketing and e-business leadership roles within multi-national companies. Prior to joining Langham, Sean worked for Travelocity Asia Pacific and established ZUJI as the leading online travel agent in Singapore and Hong Kong. Sean has also consulted to 15 of the top investment banks in the world, working to build an electronic bond trading platform across Asia. Key disciplines included strategic market entry plans, e-commerce platform development and the marketing of the platform across Asia. Sean has significant travel industry experience, most recently with Air New Zealand, where he lead the e-commerce team to build a global website serving 26 countries. Sean also lead the e-commerce marketing team at Toyota where he was responsible for bringing the global motor vehicle giant online and in touch with customers, suppliers and partners. Sean has worked in New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore and has tertiary educational qualifications from the University of Auckland in Law and Political Science.

Ross Settles is a Knight International Journalism Fellow leading a project in Malaysia to integrate citizen journalists into the country's leading independent news site.

Most recently, Settles managed the online business operations for Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. Prior to SCMP, he directed marketing and business development efforts for Knight Ridder Digital, the online subsidiary of what was once the second largest U.S. newspaper publisher. During his tenure at Knight Ridder, Settles led efforts to invest in and implement strategies using new online technologies: social networking (Tribe Networks), vertical search (ShopLocal), news search and aggregation (Topix). Settles worked closely with local news and business operations to develop new business and distribution models for these new investments.

Before Knight Ridder, Settles led marketing and international development efforts for technology media company Red Herring Communications. Settles began his work in the newspaper industry at Times Mirror; he ran marketing for The Baltimore Sun and led product development for Times Mirror's online subsidiary.

Settles joined Times Mirror after serving as publisher of the Open Society Institute-funded Open Media Research Institute (OMRI) in Prague. In this position, he oversaw commercial operations for this provider of independent reporting and analysis of developments in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Settles has spent a decade working and studying in China and East Asia. He speaks, reads and writes Mandarin Chinese. Settles holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian studies from Princeton University.

Hari is the Asia Pacific Director of Performics; the Publicis-Vivaki arm specialized in Search Marketing and Digital campaign analytics based out of Singapore. Performics handles the Search marketing strategies for global brands such as Delta Airlines, Malaysia Airlines amongst others. Hari is a seasoned digital marketing professional with over 13 years experience in the AP region spanning integrated digital media strategy/planning, Performance / ROI based marketing, Digital media analytics & measurement. His track record includes successfully building & deploying digital strategies for a repertoire of brands in AP region such as Singapore Airlines, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, J&J, Nike, Intel, Nokia, Samsung to name a few. Hari set up the digital media discipline in BLUE Interactive SG (2008); served as the National Director – Starcom IP India (2007); served as Integrated Media Director for Dell South Asia (2006); set up Mediacom Interaction Singapore (2005) and also served as Director – Mindshare Interaction (2004). His interests include metaphysics, music, motorcycles & life in the wild.

Crispin Sheridan established and runs the search practice at SAP for the shared goals of awareness, lead generation, and sales. He is responsible for paid and organic search and has driven SAP’s strategy to harness the power of the channel to drive efficiency in lead generation across SAP’s ecosystem. He manages the centralized and globally funded search practice at SAP with both in-house and agency support. Successes include integration with SAP’s primary Facebook page and the deployment of “AddThis” across SAP.com globally. He is a frequent guest speaker at SES, the e-Metrics Summit, and ad:Tech, and a member of Google’s B2B Technology Council. He writes a monthly SEO column for ClickZ.

Chen Sijie is the General Manager of Shanghai Online TV Station by SMG. He graduated from the school of Journalism, Fudan University with a master's degree. He was a director and producer of the well-known program News Probe and One Seventh in Shanghai TV. He has been the head of the Morning news program The Look Show on Dragon TV until recently, and he's been in charge of the preparatory work of Shanghai Online TV Station since 2009.

Gene Soo is the founder of StyleNearBy. StyleNearBy is an iPhone app that helps people discover new styles by showcasing places and events related to style. It is a platform where boutique owners, retailers and designers join force to provide shoppers with the best event and location guide to styles. Prior to StyleNearBy, Gene worked as a Management Consultant at Accenture's strategy practice in San Francisco focusing on customer strategy on wide variety of industries such as utility, telecom, insurance and finance. Before Accenture, Gene was a computer engineer at SanDisk Corp, the world's largest retail flash memory supplier, based in Silicon Valley. Gene holds a BS and MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University as well as a MBA from Columbia University.

Ariel Sumeruk is the Managing Director of Clicks2customers (C2C) a specialist PPC agency. His previous roles include head of Business intelligence and CTO for C2C where he directed the development of a bid management system and developed PPC pricing algorithms. Before working in the online industry Ariel was a Senior Quantitative analyst and structured product creator for Cadiz Investment Bank. He holds an MSc in Cosmology and a PhD in Plasma Physics.

Karen joined the Wharf Group in 1993 and was responsible for the launch of Times Square. In 1997, Karen had the additional responsibility of Harbour City and embraced this unique challenge to promote two malls concurrently for five years. From 2001 onward, Karen focused her efforts on Harbour City.

Karen is now the Senior Manager, Promotions and Marketing. Valuable marketing experience was gained promoting the two malls both locally and internationally with special emphasis in developing the Mainland market. In 2009, Karen took another step ahead by promoting Harbour City online, and successfully integrated the new media with traditional media.

Karen began her career at Ogilvy and Mather Advertising and joined the advertising departments of Standard Chartered Bank and American Express Bank prior to joining the Wharf Group. Karen is currently the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Advertisers Association.

As Head of Performance Advertising for AdMob Google, Bernie is responsible for growing the company's business across the Greater China and Thailand markets. Prior to joining AdMob Google, Bernie was Engagement Manager of Market Development for Motorola where he was responsible for sell in, commercialization, and marketing of media solutions and services (including SCREEN3) to operators and retail markets globally. Previously, Bernie was Solutions Architect for 4thpass Inc. and Sun Microsystems. Bernie holds BSc from Kings College, London University.

David Temple is the Global Search Lead, SMB at Dell. He has more than 12 years of search marketing experience starting with US Internet in 1998. He previously held dual roles as Digital Director at Soho Square and Regional Head of Search Marketing at Neo@Ogilvy both Ogilvy One Worldwide companies. Prior to that he was a senior search marketing consultant at FindLaw, the Internet's most trafficked legal web portal. He has developed digital and search marketing strategies for a variety of multinational companies such as Adobe, British Airways, Cisco, IBM, Intel, Motorola, RIM, PayPal, P&G, Samsung and SAP.

David is a regional editor at Multilingual-Search.com and blogs about sem training at SEMScholar.com. He is also a frequent speaker at industry events around the world including, ad:tech, Search Engine Strategies (SES), Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Expo China, Digtial Marketing 2.0 and eComXpo. He was a visiting professor and lecturer in Beijing and Guangzhou, China and now lives in Singapore.

Adrian is the Regional Head of Marketing - APAC for Puma (world's leading Sportlifestyle company) based in HK. He is focused on bringing marketing innovation and deploying a new integrated marketing model.

He has over 14 years of experience in Asia Pacific working in various countries both on agency and client side to build strong brands across consumer, healthcare and the financial services sectors. He is most passionate about integrating technology, data and marketing to deliver business outcomes which has led him on a journey through direct marketing, CRM, digital media and social media.

Adrian started his career in General Electric working on eBusiness in both the financial services and healthcare divisions. He then joined Johnson & Johnson VisionCare as Regional Head of Interactive focusing on CRM and digital. He made the leap into Universal McCann, as Regional Director of Interactive where he drove online advertising, search and social media for clients which include: Microsoft, Intel, Xbox, MasterCard, UPS, Sony, Coca-Cola. Most recently he was the Regional VP Marketing for Bausch+Lomb – Asia Pacific where he was designing the new integrated marketing model for the business.

Adrian holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia and Master of Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Austraila. He also achieved a Six Sigma Black Belt, where he has worked on many projects to drive efficiency and effectiveness in the marketing.

A true Technology Versatilist who is a consumer of everything electronic, and loves to share those experiences.

Technology is not only his profession but had always been his hobby. As a result he lives and breaths it every minute of the day.

He consults for heads of companies in both North America and Asia, guiding their corporate technology adoptions and formulates strategies for technology uses.

Benjamin co-founded Inspire Synergy with Ray Lee, which aim to be the leading position of the industry with outstanding web business solutions. Prior to Inspire Synergy, Benjamin was a member of R&D Team of a global world leading mobile communication technology company. Benjamin is a Google Certified Web Analyst and Certified Internet Advertiser, he is also an active member of the Web Analytics Wednesday. His co-founded Inspire Synergy Ltd. has successfully joined the worldwide Yahoo! Web Analytics Consultant Network, and become the 1st Yahoo! qualified company in China that provides professional web analytics and consultation services. Inspire Synergy is also the corporate member of the Web Analytics Association, and is currently funded by the Incu-Tech Programme of Hong Kong Science & Technology Park. With his mission to establish result-oriented marketing strategy for clients, Benjamin tailor-made suitable marketing strategies for clients according to their goals and requirements, and delivers customized web solution as well as SEM/SEO performance improvement with powerful web analytical tools. Apart from special techniques to manage SEO & SEM campaigns, Benjamin and his co-founded company dedicates themselves in providing the best practice internet marketing solution for both enterprise-class clients and small-based-business owners, and are now monitoring clients' websites over millions of hits on a monthly basis, analyzing online consumer behavior and maximizing ROI.

Michael Y. XU has more than 15 years of digital marketing and financial services experience serving Fortune 500 clients and China's top-tier state owned enterprises in both North American and Northeast Asian markets. He joined Gridsum, China's leading online business optimization company, in early 2008 as Senior Vice President of Business Operations. Michael manages Gridsum Technology's strategic cooperation, business development and marketing teams, while determining how Gridsum Technology would use partner connection to deliver the best results for clients and the entire ecosystem. Under his leadership, Gridsum Technology successfully initiates solid partnership with iCrossing and Microsoft.

Michael is currently the Board of Director of SEMPO and the Co-Chairman for SEMPO's Greater China Working Group and Member of Global Committee. Through his coordination, SEMPO Greater China formed in-depth partnership with Baidu, China's top search engine. He also speaks at conferences on online business optimization and SEO/SEM. Michael received his MBA and MS degrees from California State University in 2003, and his BA degree in Accounting from Renmin University of China in 1994.

Heading iProspect North Asia, Antony's search experience includes Google and a few internet start-ups in US. His experience spans a variety of functions including search engine marketing and optimization, online advertising, email campaign management, and market research in both academic and commercial settings.

Antony began his career in the digital world by working with Google in their Mountain View Headquarters, before moving to a number of startups including oDesk and AdBrite.

Antony has worked with a number of multinational companies in finance, travel and hospitality, FMCG, telecom, consumer electronics, and pharmaceutical industries in his past and current positions.

Antony is recognized as a leading expert in the field of search and he is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences around the region.

Ray Yuen is Head of Business Development & Marketing of on.cc, the portal of Oriental Press Group (OPG). He oversees the content licensing businesses of OPG, manages the integrated marketing strategies of on.cc and forges alliances with strategic partners including Microsoft, NetEase, PCCW, Sina, Sohu, Tencent and Yahoo. Ray also supervises the operations of ontv, the first and leading free online TV in HK. Ray has 19 years of experience in video content optimization, business development, marketing and brand management in TV and Internet. Previously, he held key positions in Star TV, Turner Broadcasting System (APAC) and other renowned media.

Peter Zapf was appointed Global Sources' chief operating officer in January 2011. Mr Zapf is responsible for the company's worldwide operations including community development and China community development, content development, human resources and administration.

Mr Zapf began his career in software project management with the United States Air Force. He then joined Global Sources in Phoenix, Arizona, working on the development, sales and marketing of the company's early software and e-commerce products. Later, he worked as a research analyst at Bear Stearns in New York, focusing on the B2B market, after which he joined Hong Kong-based AsiaCommerce, a startup incubator, as chief executive officer. He rejoined Global Sources in 2001.

Mr Zapf holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in Computer Science from Troy State University, and an MBA from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management.

Michael Zung is senior Vice President, Business Integration in HSBC's Asia Pacific personal banking operations, where he launched and headed up HSBC Direct in Taiwan and was responsible for the growth of HSBC Direct in Korea and Taiwan, the first "branchless bank" in both countries. More recently, he was responsible for the launch of HSBC Advance in Taiwan. Prior to HSBC, Mike founded OneXeno, a regional digital marketing consultancy based in Hong Kong, serving clients like Turner, eBay, Toys R Us, Coach, Sasa, Marriott, and Swire Group. Mike first came to Asia 10 years ago, working for DoubleClick, where he served in various positions including Managing Director for North Asia and as a director of DoubleClick's Japan joint venture. Mike holds an MBA from New York University and an MA from University of Washington.