THE CONFERENCE FOR GROWTH MARKETING INNOVATORS

Thursday 26th of October – Radialsystem V – Berlin, Germany

WELCOME TO SCALE17

THE CONFERENCE FOR GROWTH MARKETING INNOVATORS

Break with the past. Look to the future. SCALE17 explores today’s innovations and tomorrow’s possibilities in marketing, media
and more.

Hear from digital brands that are bridging the gap between old methods and the new. Get inspired with visionary talks and concrete insights. Discover lightning pitches from innovative tech startups.

From the rise of technology like programmatic and virtual reality,
to bold new approaches in creative and media, SCALE17 is the
go-to conference for marketers with one eye on the future.

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MAIN STAGE

8:30 – 9:30

Doors open

9:30 – 9:40 am

Opening greeting – Matthias Riedl, DCMN

A warm welcome to SCALE17 by DCMN’s Co-Founder Matthias Riedl.

9:40 – 10:20

Unlocking innovation with design thinking – Corey Ford, Matter

Opening keynote

Why failed experiments are important by Corey Ford, Managing Director at Matter.

10:20 – 10:50

Creatives that convert – Sarah Moriarty, Blinkist

Case study

How to tell the right stories to boost growth by Sarah Moriarty, Head of Brand Marketing at Blinkist.

10:50 – 11:20

Influencer marketing vs traditional TV – Leetchi & Jimdo

Panel discussion

Is influencer marketing the new TV advertising? A panel discussion with Benjamin Bianchet, General Manager at Leetchi and Hillevi Lausten, Head of Media at Jimdo.

11:20 – 11:50

Morning Coffee Break

11:50 – 12:20

Breaking into the ecosystem – L'Express + more speakers TBA

Panel discussion

Strategies for tackling the walled gardens of Facebook, Google and Amazon. A panel discussion with Jerome Perani, VP Growth & Partnerships at L’Express + more speakers TBA.

12:20 – 12:50

Branding the app store – Adeline Lee, Clue

Case study

Using this untouched channel to position your brand by Adeline Lee, Director of Product at Clue.

12:50 – 13:50

Lunch Break

13:50 – 14:30

Winners and losers in the programmatic game – Rocket Fuel, Honeycomb TV + more speakers TBA

Panel discussion

Debating the merits of automation with Volker Ballueder, VP Client Success at Rocket Fuel, Honeycomb TV and more speakers TBA

14:30 – 15:00

Corporate digital fitness, why growth hacking is a bad idea – Claude Ritter, Book A Tiger

Case study

Corporate digital fitness, why growth hacking is a bad idea by Claude Ritter, Co-Founder & CMO at Book A Tiger.

15:00 – 15:30

Building your optimal marketing tech stack – Readly, deinHandy.de + more speakers TBA

Panel discussion

Best practices for digital brands with Philipp Montgelas, CMO at Readly, Robert Ermich, Founder & CEO at deinHandy.de + more speakers TBA

15:30 – 16:00

Afternoon coffee break

16:00 – 16:30

Augmenting reality – Fast Forward Imaging & Vire

Panel discussion

Will virtual reality and augmented reality transform marketing? A panel discussion with Anna Rojahn, Founder at Fast Forward Imaging and Larissa Kyrion from Vire.

16:30 – 17:00

The future is optimised – Sebastian Göritz, DCMN

Case study

Measuring indirect effects in offline marketing with Sebastian Göritz, Director of Offline Marketing at DCMN.

17:00 – 17:30

TBA

17:30 – 18:00

In defence of instinct, how creativity and inspiration fit into a data-driven marketing world – Rob Alderson, WeTransfer

In defence of instinct – how creativity and inspiration fit into a data-driven marketing world with Rob Alderson, WeTransfer

18:00 – 18:15

Closing note & thanks – Matthias Riedl, DCMN

18:15 – 00:00

Aftershow networking party

TECH LOUNGE

Get inspired with lightning pitches from innovative tech startups

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Adeline Lee
Director of Product – Clue
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Talk topic: App store optimisation.

Adeline Lee is the Director of Product at Clue, one of the world's most popular female health apps. With 10 years of experience in telecommunications and tech, she currently focuses on both marketing (ASO, localization and digital marketing) and product (definition, conceptualization, implementation and messaging strategy).

She previously worked as the Director of Global Partnerships for Telenor Group based out of Bangkok, leading social media partnerships with companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia.

Anna Rojahn
Founder and Managing Director at Fast Forward Imaging

Anna is a serial technology entrepreneur based in Berlin. With degrees in Product Design as well as Brand and Innovation Management, she used to work as a Product Manager in the Luxury Goods industry, traveling back and forth between Germany and Asia.

Her current venture, Fast Forward Imaging, develops highly automated solutions for digitising physical products: founded in 2013, FFWI is a leading technology company in the space of automated image generation and processing. Beyond product photography, FFWI is active in developing concepts and solutions for Augmented and Virtual Reality applications such as Virtual Commerce.

Anna Rojahn also acts as speaker for the competence circle textil+mode of the Bundesverband Deutsche Startups in cooperation with the Gesamtverband Deutsche Textil+Modeindustrie.

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Benjamin Bianchet
General Manager – Leetchi
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Benjamin Bianchet is the General Manager of Leetchi.com. He has a strong experience in digital marketing as well as working with agencies and advertisers. Before joining the Leetchi Group in 2011 as CMO, he worked at Google and Exalead. Benjamin graduated from IPAG Paris and ESC Grenoble business schools.

Claude Ritter
Co-Founder and CMO at Book A Tiger
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Claude is co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of BOOK A TIGER, a digital facility management company, serving private and business clients in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Austria. Since its launch in 2014, BOOK A TIGER has raised approximately 20m EUR in venture capital and operates a network of >500 employed cleaners as well as dozens of other facility management companies that partner with BOOK A TIGER.

Prior to BOOK A TIGER, Claude co-founded Berlin based Lieferheld/Delivery Hero in 2010 and served 4 years as Chief Product Officer for Delivery Hero, the world’s largest food-ordering network present in 33 countries. Before Lieferheld, he spent 5 years as CEO of The NetCircle, a Shanghai based web company that develops and operates large scale community websites. He also co-founded DUQI, a Chinese real-time photo sharing site, and Aionics, a web agency based in Switzerland.

Next to being an entrepreneur, Claude is co-founder and partner at Cavalry Ventures, a Berlin early stage venture fund. Claude is originally from Switzerland, grew up in the town of Oberentfelden and studied Business Information Systems at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.

Corey Ford
Co-Founder & Managing Director at Matter

Corey Ford is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Matter, a start-up accelerator for entrepreneurs building scalable media ventures that create a more informed, empathetic, and inclusive society. Matter invests seed capital and provides intensive support through a human-centered, prototype-driven start-up accelerator in San Francisco.

Prior to Matter, Corey built Runway, a pre-team, pre-idea incubator for entrepreneurs at Innovation Endeavors. He also taught design thinking innovation at the Institute of Design at Stanford University, also known as the d.school.

Corey began his career in public broadcasting managing the production of 17 films for the PBS/WGBH series FRONTLINE, winning an Emmy and a duPont-Columbia Gold Baton Award. He earned an MBA at Stanford and was a Morehead Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Florian Bonnet
Head of CRM at HelloFresh
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Talk topic: Joint presentation with CrossEngage

Florian Bonnet is Head of CRM at HelloFresh, the leading global provider of fresh food at home. In this position, he is responsible for the retention, engagement, and reactivation of customer relations in all markets. Overall, the company has 850.000 active subscribers and delivered 23.9 million meals in the last three months of 2016.

Bonnet has a PhD in theoretical physics and worked as a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in Paris. Before he started working at HelloFresh, he was Lead Customer Intelligence & Data Science at Jumia, Nigeria's No.1 Online Shopping Mall.

About Hellofresh:
HelloFresh currently operates in the USA, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Canada and Switzerland. HelloFresh delivered 23.9 million meals in the 3-month period up to 31 December 2016 to over 850,000 active subscribers. HelloFresh was founded in November 2011 and is based in Berlin. Additional offices are located in New York, London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Sydney and Toronto. HelloFresh was ranked as the fastest growing European company by the Financial Times based on revenue growth between 2012-2015.

Hillevi Lausten Head of Media – Jimdo View Hillevi's Xing profile. Hillevi Lausten, Head of Media, is responsible for the international offline and online media strategy of the award-winning website builder Jimdo. Hamburg-based Jimdo is the easiest DIY website builder on the market and has helped create over 20 million websites. Prior to this, Lausten was on an agency career path in Hamburg and was responsible for international advertising accounts. During her time as a freelancer, she worked for big companies like Burda as well as small start-ups where she was involved in media strategy. She completed her studies in communication sciences, psychology, and civil law in Münster. Afterwards, she took part in a cultural exchange in Australia during a one-year stay abroad, where she gained experience she now applies to international campaign planning.

Jérôme Perani

Growth & Partnerships VP at Groupe L’Express

Jerome brings 20 years of experience of helping digital companies to embrace new strategic positioning. He has worked for European subscription companies (Orange, Canal+), technological providers (Viaccess, NDS) and French media groups (Lagardere, L'Express).
He is a passionate believer in the growing role of applications and mobile services as key revenue engines and customer relationship tools. As VP Growth & Partnerships of Groupe L’Express, he is in charge of piloting performance marketing partnerships and developing digital audiences of L'Express, a leading news publisher in France (12 million monthly active users).
Jérôme, 47 years old, has a Masters Degree in IT and telecoms from Telecom ParisTech, and a PhD in Economics from the University Pantheon-Assas.

Manuel Hinz
Founder & CEO of CrossEngage
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Manuel Hinz is an experienced entrepreneur, consultant and interim manager with a track record of leading several e-commerce startups from the initial setup to a successful exit. As the Head of Corporate Development and interim CFO, Manuel accompanied the trade sale of DailyDeal to Google. Supported by Project A Ventures, he founded the price comparison site Toroleo (asset deal with Delticom AG) and consulted to several fast-growing e-commerce startups, such as Scarosso in the Interim CMO role. Beyond his operational experience, Manuel advises Earlybird Venture Capital and eTribes Connect.

In 2015, Manuel and Markus Wuebben founded CrossEngage, an open marketing platform that enables marketers to orchestrate their marketing communications across all channels.

Moritz Wuttke

COO at Honeycomb

Mr. Wuttke is the COO of Honeycomb.tv, London, the leading Programmatic TV Video Distribution Platform starting January 2016. Previously he held positions as MD Asia, Adstream Holdings, the world leading Digital Advertising Asset Management and Delivery Service Company. He was on Adstream Holdings Board from 2005 to 2009 and joined in 2010 as COO.
Mr. Wuttke has been on the board of several Chinese Advertising and Media companies, while he was working in China from 2005 to 2009 for Publicitas as CEO Asia. Beforehand he has been working and living in Switzerland where he was Member of the Executive Management Board of PubliGroupe (PUBN, Swiss stock exchange) and served on the boards of Yellow Pages, Online Classifieds, and several International Digital and Media Companies like 24/7RealMedia (ex-NASDAQ) or CPX Interactive.
He started his career in Germany at Bosch (Telecommunications) and later became the Managing Director of the first German Internet Portal Online Park, owned by PixelPark and Bertelsmann (1994). He received Masters Degrees in Science and Business Administration from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

Oliver Hülse
Managing Director CEE at Integral Ad Science
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Oliver Hülse joined Integral Ad Science (IAS) as Managing Director for Central- and Eastern Europe in April 2017. Oliver is responsible for IAS’ growth in the CEE-Region. Previously, Oliver held the position of Managing Director at Rocket Fuel. Beyond Integral Ad Science, Oliver Hülse is committed to further establishing the topic of brand safety in the market, by informing and educating all relevant players within the advertising industry.

Oliver, a 44-year-old Hamburg local, has been in the media industry for more than 20 years. He started his career in digital media sales at German media companies such as Verlagsgruppe Milchstrasse and Tomorrow Internet AG, before being appointed VP International Operations at Interactive Media CCSP GmbH.

Philipp Montgelas
CMO at Readly
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Philipp Graf Montgelas (48) is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for Readly, a fast growing Swedish start-up offering unlimited access to hundreds of magazines for only €9,99 a month. Having started his career with Roland Berger Management Consultants and Loewe New Media the MBA graduate from Augsburg University co-founded the German subsidiary of UK based lastminute.com, one of the most prosperous European start-ups, in early 1999 with full responsibility as Managing Director until the end of 2001. In subsequent years Montgelas successfully managed the start of Onmeda.de as a Director with OnVista Media or restructured NetDoktor.de, Germany's biggest health portal as a Managing Director and Investor. With his extensive digital expertise, he has been a valuable independent management consultant and interim manager for start-ups, publishers and media companies to develop, grow and scale their digital business. Montgelas is married and a father of three children.

Sarah Moriarty
Head of Brand Marketing – Blinkist

Sarah Moriarty is Head of Brand Marketing at Blinkist. The Blinkist app gives you the key ideas from bestselling nonfiction books in text & audio packs that you can read or listen to in less than 15 minutes. With over 8 years of experience in communications and marketing, she is passionate about developing digital content strategies, building brands, and reading books. You can talk to her about any of these topics (and more) on Twitter @moriartyparty.

Sebastian Göritz
Director of Offline Marketing at DCMN
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Volker Ballueder
VP Client Success at Rocket Fuel
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Volker is an expert in digital marketing, in particular, programmatic marketing, social media and data. He is currently VP Client Success and responsible for the Analytics and Operations division of all international regions at Rocket Fuel.

Prior to Rocket Fuel, Volker was involved with project work in the programmatic media sector (for agencies) and has established an industry-respected real-time bidding (RTB) provider (mexad/DataXu) in Great Britain. There he was leader of the English and international sales team, the account management team and the service team.

Furthermore, he has had a decisive influence on the company's success throughout Europe. Volker's early career was dominated by search marketing and agency roles, in which he developed digital marketing strategies for leading brands. Volker is a frequent speaker/presenter at leading marketing and advertising events such as IMedia, Future of TV Advertising, New Video Frontiers, OMMA RTB, Admonsters, Ad Trader etc.