Speakers

We have a fine list of speakers joining us for SPOT Interactive 2014. Take a look below. We will add more names to the programme as we go along.

Moderator

Paul Tyler is English, his work is international and he lives in Copenhagen. Paul founded Handling Ideas – a creative consultancy developed from a twenty-year career spanning television and cross-media production at the BBC, theatre management, format development and undergraduate teaching. He makes companies more effective at responding to the ever-growing need for deeper user engagement and consistent user experience across multiple devices. Working within content and story, service & campaign development, his remit is broad, from mapping character journeys against audience behaviours to revealing dependencies for triggering user-generated content. Paul is moderator of the SPOT Interactive conference held on Thursday May 1st where he will guide us through the day. On Friday May 2nd Paul will also be doing a workshop on “How to create a meaningful user journey”.

Twitter: @paultylerdk

Speakers

Agathe Guerrier is Strategy Director at BBH London and the Head of BBH Labs. She has worked with global brands for a decade in Paris and London. She is also a Vinyasa Yoga teacher and an occasional vegan.

Twitter: @agatheg

Cliff Fluet

After more than a decade as in-house counsel in the music and broadcast industry, Cliff joined Lewis Silkin LLP as partner in April 2006. Heading the Media & Entertainment group within the firm’s Media, Brands & Technology team, he now acts for some of the world’s largest names in mobile, brands, recorded music, live music, radio, audio-visual production and online. The Media & Entertainment Group is ranked in the “Legal 500” and “Chambers” and Cliff is ranked as a ‘leading individual’ in both directories. Cliff is also a director of “Eleven”, a business advisory company working with disruptive business models in the world of digital media, film and sport. Cliff specialises in working with clients whom are embracing content-based entertainment for the first time such as FMCG and lifestyle brand owners, advertising agencies, digital agencies, investment funds and financial institutions. He has a passion for working on innovative new business models, advertiser-funded programming and in the monetisation of format rights.

Twitter: @Fflic

David Mattin is head of Trends & Insights at trendwatching.com and has over 12 years experience in writing and speaking about technological, social and cultural change. After graduating with a first class degree in History from the University of Cambridge, David’s career began at the features desk of The Times, where he wrote on lifestyle, culture and business. Since then, his business, innovation and trends journalism has appeared everywhere from Fast Company to the Guardian to Google Think Quarterly. An experienced broadcaster, David also has written and presented current affairs documentaries for BBC Radio 4. In addition, David has consulted on consumer insight and innovation for brands ranging from BMW to Ray-Ban to Johnnie Walker. Today David is responsible for trend thinking across free and Premium content at trendwatching.com

Twitter: @DMattin

Esben Kjær Ravn believes the world needs digital quality time, and that’s why he founded his company Kong Orange in 2011. Esben’s aim is to fuse entertainment with cultural depth. Always. When that combo is successful he believes the two elements ignite and become much more than the sum of them.

Gerard Whelan is an award winning graphic designer and art director working within the realm of print and digital media where he works with both national and international clients. As an internationally known designer he has had his work published in over 15 international design and art direction books and magazines including Computer Arts and Logo Lounge. He has also had work featured on many of the world’s top creative blogs including Creative Review, ffffound and the Dieline. A former lecturer in the college of Marketing and Design in Dublin Gerry has given talks both nationally and internationally on creativity, art direction and design. He focuses on producing creatively challenging work that delivers results to stakeholders.

Twitter: @brandcentral1

Henry Mason is Managing Director at trendwatching.com and a sought-after keynote speaker who delivers engaging, interactive and intensely practical sessions that show organizations how to both understand changes in consumer behavior and how to seize the subsequent innovation opportunities. Henry has given keynote presentations and workshops in more than 20 countries across 6 continents and is an accomplished trend watcher, consumer analyst, and presenter. He holds a first class degree in Politics & International Relations from the University of Nottingham, and has been fascinated for many years with understanding change, whether in society, business, or politics.

Twitter: @trendwatching

Jesper Harding is CEO at YOKE. He has a Master in Information Studies from Aarhus University with focus on design processes, storytelling and interaction design. At YOKE Jesper is responsible for all new businesses, client management and project planning. The latter includes strategic planning on both micro and macro level. Within the creative sphere Jesper has worked with facilitating workshops and different means of conceptualizing as well as structuring design processes and the stories to be told in each project. Furthermore Jesper works with different types of audio productions such as soundscapes, sound effects and live audio recording.

Julie Broberg is Co-Creation Manager with the LEGO Group, where she helps LEGO innovate cutting edge relationships and exciting new products together with their vast body of creative and enthusiastic fans (called AFOLs – or Adult Fans of LEGO). In another lifetime, she was a Fulbright Scholar and studied at the University of Chicago, Arizona State University and the University of Iowa.

Twitter: @julochka

Kristoffer Okkels is a digital business developer at the biggest Nordic digital agency, Creuna, where he is dealing with strategy and concept decvelopment on the basis of a broad technological knowledge and a deep business insight. Earlier on Kristoffer was the Digital Head of Datagraf Communications and also he has been a business developer at Innovation Lab.

With his company Makropol Mads Damsbo has taken the lead amongst his generation in developing transmedia experiences. His work includes projects like World Online Orchestra, an ambitious browser based interactive symphony, that allows users to upload videos of themselves playing Beethoven’s 7th, that is then stitched together as a gigantic user-generated world orchestra. Other projects that define Mads include: a film that takes place in the cinema and live as a theatre, simultaneously. An iPad adventure game based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s crime series “Department Q”, an interactive rock documentary about the musician Teitur and two viral successes with Copenhagen Philharmonic. Lately Mads has produced the popular virtual reality installation “The Doghouse” and is a co-founder of a site specific sound-sharing app called Recho.

Twitter: @madsdam

Mads Toft founded Content in 2006 and he is the man to guarantee, that each project within the company reaches its goal and that the result is good and sustainable. Mads focuses on the interaction between content, platform and distribution as well as on the value of understanding the modern consumer. He has more than 15 years of experience from ad agencies and digital agencies. Also he has a Master in Management from Henley Management College and a Bachelor in International Marketing from Staffordshire University in England. Mads just won a Danish Internet Award for his work with Samsung, Universal and the popular Danish artists, Nik & Jay. For the same campaign Nik & jay won the Spotify award of the year at the Danish Music Awards.

Twitter: @madstoft

Martin Ibsen is a digital concept developer, an entrepreneur, a Shareplay agent and one of the authors behind the book “De Nye Fans” (The New Fans) behind. Since 2008 he has been working with digital concept development and strategy. Also he is an experienced speaker and he has held lots of talks and workshops throughout Denmark.

Twitter: @MartinIbsen

Mikkel Bech is the Chief Creative Director of a design and technology company from Aarhus called Redia. Mikkel has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Aarhus, but deals with almost all the non-computer scientific stuff at Redia – design, concept development, user centered processes, motion graphics, video, photography and so on.

Twitter: @bechbox

René Thalund plays the keyboards in Nephew, and he is also deeply involved with the live productions in the band. Also he is the founding father of the music site gaffa.dk and a big advocate for usability. Furthermore René is the co-owner of the design shop mumuland.dk.

Twitter: @Nephunited

Scott Cohen is the Co-Founder and VP International of The Orchard. The Orchard is a pioneering music, video and film distribution company and top-ranked Multi Channel Network operating in more than 25 global markets. In addition to building The Orchard’s distribution business, Scott oversees Orchard Management, which manages the careers of The Raveonettes, Dum Dum Girls, Deer Tracks, and Queen Kwong, and advises a host of other established and emerging artists. Scott began his music career in the late 1980s in independent and major label artist management. Over the years, Scott has earned a reputation as a well-recognized public speaker and lecturer, travelling the world sharing his experience and insight into the digital age and its new business models. Scott is also a visiting professor at London Metropolitan University, and sits on the BPI Council.

Twitter: @ScottCohen_

Simon Kibsgård is lead digital business developer at the Nordic agency Creuna. He focuses on Customer Experience Management and building the organizational setups and digital tools to provide great experiences, drive loyalty and sales and improve business intelligence. Specialist in combining market insights, tech and communication in strong business, concepts and solutions. Simon is external lecturer on Customer Experience Management at the University of Aarhus.

Twitter: @simonkibsgaard

Steen Rasmussen is Director of Innovation with IIH Nordic and a distinguished thought leader in the field of digital analytics. Nominated as Digital Analytics Practitioner of the Year by the Digital Analytics Association (DAA) in 2014, he has made significant contributions to the results and business side of the digital industry. He is frequently called upon to speak at conferences around the world from Silicon Valley to Budapest on digital business & strategy and is an often-quoted media contributor on the topic of digital intelligence and analysis. As a trained board member he understands where digital fits into the bigger picture when it comes to business.

Twitter: @Strasm

Tav Klitgaard is a young but seasoned tech entrepreneur. He founded ABCiTY A/S and successfully brought a children’s edutainment universe from idea to market, funding and managing the company for more than five years. He is educated at The Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen (BA in Music performance 2004), IT University of Copenhagen (M.Sc. in IT 2007), and Copenhagen Business Academy (Diploma in Management 2012). He is currently working as Creative Product Owner at Issuu.com, connecting 85 mil monthly visitors with more than 16 mil digital publications.

Twitter: @tavklitgaard

Thomas Scherning is a software engineer and director in Apptitude, where he has contributed to the development of a long row of smartphone apps for different brands and organisations since 2010. Thomas has a strong desire to use the technology the best way possible to create and support a good experience for everybody involved.

Twitter: @scherning

Thor Hampus Bank is film director and partner in GotFat Productions, where he has directed and produced commercials, music videos and documentaries etc. since 2010. Also Thor is the project manager of the Re:Mix platform.

Twitter: @thorhampusbank

Victor Pineiro

As Strategy Director at Big Spaceship, Victor helps shape engagements for a number of clients including YouTube and Skittles, whose Facebook audience he helped grow from three million to 20 million with one of the highest engagement rates on the social network. Victor continues growing out Big Spaceship’s content and social media practice. Recent clients include YouTube/Google, Crayola, Chobani and Wrigley.

He is also the writer and producer of Second Skin, a documentary on virtual worlds which premiered on opening night of SXSW to rave reviews, broke audience records at a number of film festivals, was named number 4 Documentary of 2008 by Ain’t It Cool News, a Best Movie of the Decade by Film School Rejects, won Best Documentary at ACE Fest in NYC, and was distributed internationally by Liberation Entertainment in Summer 2009. It had a theatrical run in multiple cities throughout the summer, and was the most watched movie on Hulu for the month of August 2009.

Victor was recently ranked #14 on Business Insider’s 30 Most Creative People In Social Media Marketing. He has written articles for Ad Age, Fast Company, Psychology Today, BoingBoing, Vice Magazine and Mashable.

Twitter: @victorpineiro

Åsmund Sollihøgda is the designer behind Studio Åsmund Sollihøgda – a cross-disciplinary atelier of graphic and interaction design that works with a broad variety of cultural and artistic projects. With a foundation in traditional crafts, new media and digital technology are key in solving assignments for a series of partners and clients. Working closely together with partners as Makropol, Dark Matters and Adomeit Film. Selected clients the past year have been The Royal Danish School of Architecture and Design, Zentropa, Betty Nansen, Sjællands Symfoniorkester, The Danish Film School, The Cultural Ministry of Denmark, Profile Pictures, Madeleines Madteater, Ny Nordisk Mad, Skagens Museum, Statens Museum for Kunst and Roskilde Festival.

Twitter: @asmundsol