Revolutionizing AI with Marketing

• Gain practical tips on how you can leverage AI for your career growth and skill enhancement
• Unlock actionable insights to build more effective marketing strategies
• Learn how to better prepare your team for piloting and scaling AI

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  Shama Hyder

  Founder & CEO of Zen Media

Shama Hyder
Founder & CEO of Zen Media
Shama Hyder helps leaders and companies get good and ready for a future that’s ever changing – from consumer expectations to competing with AI. She’s the Founder & CEO of Zen Media, one of today’s leading B2B marketing and PR companies in the country. Shama is also an active Henry Crown Fellow within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.

Shama is the bestselling author of The Zen of Social Media Marketing, now in its 4th edition, and Momentum: How to Propel Your Marketing and Transform Your Brand in the Digital Age.

Shama Hyder helps leaders and companies understand strategically and practically how to connect what’s next to what now. She has been named the “Zen Master of Marketing” by Entrepreneur Magazine and the “Millennial Master of the Universe” by Fast Company. Shama has also been honored at both the White House and The United Nations as one of the top 100 young entrepreneurs in the country.

As a result of her success, Shama has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Technology Titan Emerging Company CEO Award. LinkedIn named her one of their “Top Voices” in Marketing and Social Media for four years in a row. In 2023, she was named the Top Marketing Leader by Masthead Media.
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  Nicholas Kontopoulos

  Vice President of Marketing for Twilio, Asia Pacific & Japan


Nicholas Kontopoulos
Vice President of Marketing for Twilio, Asia Pacific & Japan
As the Asia Pacific & Japan Vice President of Marketing for Twilio, Nicholas Kontopoulos harnesses over 30+ years of professional experience, built across multiple industries and geographies. He’s passionate about challenging the 'status-quo' and 'management dogma' that stifles the creative thinking processes that are paramount to delivering amazing customer experiences, Nicholas ensures that ‘Customer Experience’ is a core business ideology at the heart of the brand.

Previous to this, Nicholas was the APAC Head of Growth Marketing at Adobe DX and the Global VP for Fast Growth Markets Marketing at SAP, and has also held a number of highly strategic global and regional, Sales and Business Development and Marketing roles during his career across the globe.

During the course of his career, Nicholas has passionately pursued business strategies that both harness, and intelligently exploit the power of available technologies, both within the businesses he has worked for and those clients he has served. An international speaker, Nicholas has been regularly published on Forbes.com, News Asia, Bloomberg, CampaignAsia.com, Marketing-Interactive.com, THEDRUM.com and Customerthink.com.