Agenda
Monday 19th of March 2012
| 08:00 am | Doors open, Registration, networking time with partners
Welcome Tea & Coffee |
| 09:00 am | Summit Welcome – Stavros Prodromou |
| 09:05 am | Presentation – Daily Deal Industry Challenges
Roy Blanga, Managing Director – Groupon UK |
| 09:15 am | Status 2012 – Mastering the Daily Deal
Top players will review the industry and share knowledge about how to sustain and master daily deal operations and successful approaches. Moderator: Parmy Olsen, Forbes Magazine Panel: Tobias Tschoetsch, Managing Director – Groupon UK Peter Briffet, Managing Director Living Social, UK,IE, NL Brian Harrison, Global CEO, kgbdeals |
| 09:45 am | Daily Deals – Successful fundings & acquisitions
Learn about productive partnerships, fundraising and successful exit strategies. Moderator: Mikal Belicove, Entrepreneur.com Panel: Fabian Heilemann, Co Founder – Dailydeal.de Joaquin Engel, Co Founder & CEO – Groupalia Saurav Chopra, Co Founder & CEO - Huddlebuy |
| 10:15 am | Emerging Markets, European Panel 1
Get to know how to enter different markets and receive current industry overviews about regulations, barriers and trends. Moderator: Jonathan Besnainou, Co Founder & CEO of Ohmydeal – Contributor Business Insider Panel: Lopo Champalimaud, Co Founder & CEO – Wahanda Michael Brehm, Co Founder & CEO – Rebate Networks Mark Bower, Commercial Director – TimeOut |
| 10:45 am | “Hyperlocal Deal Targeting & Customer Loyalty”
A closer ook at the latest thinking about how targeted deals can spur not just customer acquisition, but also loyalty and retention. Deals companies are finding that better geographic targeting via mobile devices can improve ROI for merchants by bringing people back for multiple times. Moderator: David Hirschman, Co Founder and Editorial Director StreetFight Panel: Omid Ashtari, Director of Business Development Europe – foursquare Nihal Mehta, Co Founder & CEO – LocalResponse Doug Templeton, Co Founder, Vouchercloud.com |
| 11:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 am | Presentation – Boost ROI with Relevancy – Real Lifecycle Marketing Tactics that Drive Revenue
Kestrel Lemen, Marketing Strategist – Bronto Software |
| 11:45 am | Customer Engagement and Interaction Strategies
Learn how specific strategies will lead to a stronger customer loyalty bond. This panel will handle alternative advertising methods, recommendation systems and customer engagement procedures. Moderator: Aliya Zaidi, Econsultancy Panel: Gerard Doyle, CEO of DiscountVouchers.co.uk Kate Garraway, Founder of Goodypass Richard Dennys, Chief Marketing Officer – Qype |
| 12:15 pm | Mobile & Real Time
See the latest technology on stage and future opportunities for the daily deal space in Real Time Payment Solutions, Mobile Coupon Management and augmented reality. Moderator: Lauren Indvik – Mashable Panel: Olivier Ropars, Senior Director, Europe Mobile Commerce – ebay Ambarish Mitra, Co Founder & CEO – blipper Cheryl Yeoh, Co Founder & CEO – Citypockets |
| 12:45 pm | Case Study – Deals, Discount and Deliverability
Guy Hanson, Director, Response Consulting, Return Path |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | ‘The Data in Deals’ – Personalise your deals using detailed consumer data. Gerard Doyle, CEO DiscountVoucher.co.uk |
| 2:10 pm | VC Panel
Learn from the panellists why they funded some of the leading daily deal sites. Hear stories about successful acquisitions, recent exits and what it takes to get under the radar of an investor. Panel: Stefan Glaenzer, Co Founder of Passion Capital Sean Seton-Rodgers, PROfounders Capital Giuseppe Zocco, Co Founder Index Ventures |
| 2:40 pm | Daily Deals goes East – European Panel 2
Take a closer look at Emerging markets, trends and successful approaches in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Moderator: Natasha Starkell – Founder & CEO GoalEurope Panel: Esra Sertoglu, CEO Grupanya Tomas Cupr, Co Founder & CEO of Slevomat Group Tomasz Dalach, Co Founder of Gruper.pl |
| 3:10 pm | Presentation – Peter Casey, UK Director – Nimble Commerce |
| 3:20 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm | Presentation – Ray Weaver - Harvard Business Review |
| 3:45 pm | Media Companies – beyond the daily deal!
Hear from media companies how to integrate daily deal features and approaches within an existing member base. Will media companies speed up the daily deal process through online & offline advertising best practices? Moderator: Christer Holloman, The Times & Sunday Times Panel: Amir Suissa, Founder & CEO of Deindeal.ch ( Ringier AG) Marc Leimann, Group Enterprise Directore – Mecom Group Kevin Wray, VP of Nimble Commerce |
| 4:15 pm | Daily Deals’ Next Move
Will the daily deal stay as the daily deal model that we know right now? How much power can a provider give to a merchant without losing on being needed? Trends, stats and forecasts about the upcoming year as well as potential consolidations will be discussed. Moderator: Ray Weaver, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School Panel: Antonia Hammer, Co-Founder & CEO - Dealgecco.com Anton Bernstein, Co-Founder - Lookingo Thomas Mork, Head of Sweetdeal Denmark - Sweetdeal.dk (Berlingske Media) |
| 4:45 pm | Daily Deal Europe Closing Speech |
| 5:00 pm | Champagne & Cocktail Reception, Sky Bar
Sponsored by Secret Escapes |




