2024 Speakers
Joao is the CEO & founder - Replai that uses an innovative data-to-ads process to generate mobile video creatives. Replai counts with over 5 billion dollars of ad-spend per year processed by their video generation platform, where they are helping the world leader studios on mobile gaming.
Ying is a passionate advocate for ASA full services, dedicated to expanding North American clients' businesses through BrightLake's best-in-class offerings. With extensive experience as a senior leader at Meta, Google, and Unity, Ying brings deep insights into the gaming and apps industry. Her expertise particularly shines in growing app native businesses in the global market.
Phil Shpilberg, founder and former president of GameChangerSF (sold to Pixis), is an AI-focused data scientist with over a decade of experience in gaming and mobile marketing.
Jen is a marketing leader with over 25+ years of experience at major game, toy, & entertainment companies.
She’s worked alongside developers in marketing, publishing, and growth roles at Riot, Scopely, EA, & Zynga specializing in product marketing with game teams. She’s also established & led new teams while educating leadership on the values of UA, mobile publishing, and product marketing.
Currently, Jen is a Strategic Marketing Consultant at Beta Hat Market Research & JadeInferno Consulting.
Alex's experience has been working with innumerable clients, KPIs, technology platforms and ad products for over thirteen years in the digital world. He now leads the in-house media buying team at Riot Games, focusing on user acquisition and revenue growth for their titles.
Alon Golan leads product initiatives at Bigabid, a data-driven DSP focused on app growth. He specializes in creating innovative solutions that harness data science to enhance performance and drive results for mobile app advertisers.
Athar “Z” Zia is the CEO of BLKBOX.ai, an AI-powered all-in-one creative intelligence platform for mobile marketers to create, test, analyze, and scale.
With deep expertise in statistics, ad auctions, and performance marketing, Z previously helped scale a top gaming advertiser to become the fifth largest on Meta, achieving a track record of $1M in daily ad spend. Driven by the rise of artificial intelligence and creatives being the key lever to unlock scaled ad performance, he then left Meta to build BLKBOX.ai in 2020.
As SVP Commercial Strategy & Growth, Mike is responsible for establishing & executing the growth strategy for the business of Hyper Hippo’s live games and maximizing the profitability of the business. Prior to Hyper Hippo, Mike spent 20 years scaling new digital businesses in the entertainment industry at Comcast and NBCUniversal.
A multiple award-winning creative, Tina is Creative Director for ACTIVISION, leading a diverse team in innovative content across UA paid & organic platforms for players around the world of Call of Duty: Mobile, Crash Team Rumble, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and the upcoming Warzone: Mobile.
Prior, she was Creative Director driving creative & strategic campaigns across digital, experiential, interactive & AR/VR for entertainment brands NBCUniversal, Netflix, HBOmax, Hulu, TNT & Showtime for shows, such as Law & Order: SVU, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Tommy & Pam, Good Girls & This Is Us, amongst others.
Tanner Hanson is the President of RevU, where he is responsible for the business’ growth, product, and account management. He joined RevU in 2022 to transform the business into a multi-platform solution for publishers and advertisers.
Prior to RevU, Tanner led US account management across advertisers and publishers at ironSource (now part of Unity Technologies), overseeing both ad network and offerwall clients. He started his mobile career after a post-college stint in retail on the agency side, running app campaigns for clients including Square, Eventbrite, and Meta. Tanner is Bay Area born and raised, currently based in San Francisco.
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