April 24-25
ExCel, London

Tap into Summit

Videos and presentation slides from Summit 2013
breakout sessions are now available on demand. Selected keynote replays are also available.

Speakers

Learn from entrepreneurs and innovators who continue to push the boundaries of digital marketing and advertising.
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Felix Baumgartner

Felix Baumgartner, record-setting stratospheric daredevil. Read more ›

Felix Baumgartner (born 20 April 1969) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (24 mi), reaching an estimated speed of 1,342 kilometres per hour (834 mph), or Mach 1.24, on 14 October 2012, and became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power on his descent. He is also renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career. Baumgartner spent time in the Austrian military where he practised parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones.

Baumgartner's most recent project was Red Bull Stratos, in which he jumped to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012. As part of this project, he set the altitude record for a manned balloon flight, parachute jump from the highest altitude, and greatest free fall velocity.

Stefan Olander

Stefan Olander, Vice President, Digital Sport, Nike. Read more ›

Stefan Olander is one of the industry's leading digital marketers. Over the past decade Stefan has held a number of key marketing leadership positions with Nike. Blending his passion for the digital world with traditional communications skills, Stefan has led many of Nike's most innovative and cutting edge initiatives, from launching EMEA's new digital platform in 2000, to overseeing all communications for one of Nike's most comprehensive global football initiatives; The Secret Tournament in 2002. In his America's role he led the creation of Run Americas inspiring 115,000 people in 5 cities throughout the region (Sao Paolo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Santiago, Lima) to run a 10k race on the same day.

Stefan has also led communications development for the global world football 06 campaign (both on and offline) advertising, nikefootball.com and joga.com, a global social network for football created with Google.

As Global Director of Digital and Content, Stefan Olander was instrumental in bringing Nike plus to life creating a new consumer connection bridging the digital and physical worlds that has changed running forever. Subsequently in his role as Global Director Brand Connections he oversees the functions of Advertising, Digital Brand, Media, Content and Business Affairs for the Nike Brand.

In his role as Vice President of Digital Sport, Stefan has created and is leading a team dedicated to enhancing the consumer experience through the use of digital tools. His group is responsible for the recent expansion of the Nike+ ecosystem with the creation of the Nike+ FuelBand, Nike+ Basketball, Nike+ Training and the soon to be launched Nike+ Kinect Training which was co-developed with Xbox.

Stefan recently wrote a book called Velocity with AKQA cofounder and chairman Ajaz Ahmed.

He resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife, two sons and daughter.

Phil Fearnley

Phil Fearnley, GM News & Knowledge, Future Media, BBC. Read more ›

Phil is responsible for 8 of the 10 BBC online digital products including the BBC Homepage, BBC News, BBC Weather, BBC Sport, Knowledge & Learning, CBBC, CBeebies and Search products on web, mobile, tablet, Red Button and IPTV. Phil had responsibility for defining and delivering the BBC's award winning online digital services for the London Olympics in 2012. Phil was Programme Director for the launch of iPlayer, has an MBA from London Business School and is a serial entrepreneur founding and running SmashedAtom (an interactive TV services company), iRights (a digital rights exploitation business) and Huge Entertainment (a digital consultancy). Phil has been a consultant with Coopers & Lybrand and Ernst & Young and was European Director of Stanford Research Institute.

Ajaz Ahmed

Ajaz Ahmed, CEO and Founder, AKQA. Read more ›

Ajaz founded AKQA when he was 21 to create an ideas and invention company to help organisations embrace the digital revolution. AKQA's clients today include Nike, Red Bull and Google. AKQA has created some of the world's most recognised and iconic digital products, services and ideas.

AKQA is now the largest and most awarded company in its field with over 1,300 employees and 11 offices worldwide. With an introduction by Sir Richard Branson, and alongside Stefan Olander head of digital sport at Nike, Ajaz co-authored Velocity - the no. 1 bestselling book about the changing business and technology landscape. All proceeds are donated direct to youth homeless and global healthcare charities through Virgin Unite foundation.

Ajaz Ahmed on Twitter:
@ajaz

In addition, strategic leaders from top brands will share how they made the shift to digital.

Sessions

More than 60 sessions across seven different tracks will give you new, insightful strategies for growing your business.
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Digital Analytics

Principles, strategies and techniques for applying analytics to your digital marketing campaigns. Learn more ›

Turning analytics into action means you're competing to win. Come and hear from your peers and Adobe experts as they reveal analytics principles, strategies, and techniques for optimising the performance of your digital marketing campaigns by making online, social, mobile, video and customer analytics data actionable. Web and business analysts will learn how digital analytics can effectively identify the most profitable strategies to serve customers, engage audiences with compelling content, and determine the critical inputs to achieve digital marketing success.

Web Experience Management

The latest ideas and solutions for web content and digital asset management. Learn more ›

As marketers, you will understand that there are more online opportunities to reach your customers, build brand passion and drive demand than ever before. However there is also an explosion of competing digital distractions that make what worked yesterday, less effective today, and powerless tomorrow. How do you stay relevant, stand out and keep ahead of the competition?

Join Adobe's experts, plus innovative marketers and technologists from leading enterprises, to discover the latest strategies and solutions for creating relevant brand and commerce experiences. Discover new ideas, learn tips and tricks, and get insight into the latest solutions for web content and digital asset management that will give you and your company the edge in this noisy web, tablet, mobile, and social world.

Digital Advertising

The info you need to get the best results from every media dollar. Learn more ›

Digital advertising was a $41bn business in 2012. As technology aligned with data is driving the rapid evolution of the industry, advertisers are bombarded with too many disparate and confusing options to meet their business goals. As a digital marketer, you need to focus resources on the most salient and impactful solutions in order to compete in this aggressive advertising landscape.

Targeting and Optimisation

Data-driven targeting and optimisation creates great digital experiences for your customers. Learn more ›

Regardless of what business you're in, the digital world is giving your customers more opportunities to interact with you than ever before. But your potential and existing customers are continually bombarded with digital distractions. How can you ensure that their interactions with your business are meaningful—that you're creating connections with customers that drive stronger engagement and higher conversion rates. From a visitor's “first-page” web or mobile experience, through personalised offer content and cross-selling, to frictionless discovery—the key to digital success is accurate and effective data-driven targeting and on-going, disciplined optimisation.

Social Marketing

Turn social media into a measurable, effective means of extending customer relationships. Learn more ›

Social marketing was the fastest growing digital channel of 2012 and can no longer be an isolated marketing tactic.

Social media influences all marketing activity. Businesses are now demanding social solutions that affect the bottom line, connect social activity to their business results rather than just social hype.

Social media strategists will learn the latest trends, challenges, and how leading social marketers are using social media to improve ROI and extend relationships with their customers.

Marketing Innovations

Leadership insights from the brightest minds and business leaders in digital marketing. Learn more ›

From industry luminaries to innovative business leaders, these individuals are at the forefront when it comes to business marketing in the age of the digital self. They come to Summit to share their expertise, vision and experience on how to take digital marketing to the next level. Marketing Innovations combines their leadership insights, marketing strategies and the solutions that enable them to build the next generation of marketing. Your mind will be ignited.

Tech Labs

Hands-on experience with APIs and SDKs help automate processes and utilise data. Learn more ›

Hands-on innovation. Adobe's top technologists will share innovative approaches to measurement, optimisation and targeting across all your digital marketing activities. Learn how to capture data from unique new sources in video and social media and use that data to its full effect. Learn how to use our APIs and SDKs to automate processes and leverage your data. Developers will get a hands-on experience at every lab and walk away with code assets that they can implement in their own digital marketing initiatives.

Events

Conferences were made for networking, and Summit is no exception. You'll have plenty of opportunities for impromptu meetings and brainstorming sessions. Along with daily social events, Summit is a great place to make new, lasting connections.
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Summit Party

Join us for the party of the year. With music from Brit award-winning superstar, Jessie J! Plus great food & entertainment. Read more ›

Sneaks

Get the inside scoop as we showcase what is being developed within Adobe labs, featuring top comedian Nina Conti. Read more ›

Partner Briefing

Adobe Partners attending the briefing will be the first to hear about our vision and strategy for digital marketing.
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Training

There will be two days of exclusive pre-conference training covering SiteCatalyst, CQ5 and Discover at ExCeL, London. Read more ›

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