Agenda - Shape the Future. The future of mobile defines the future of business.​ | MMA / Marketing + Media Alliance

Agenda - Shape the Future. The future of mobile defines the future of business.​

Monday, April 16, 2018

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Networking

Registration & Networking Breakfast

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Remarks
10:00 AM – 10:25 AM Keynote

Keynote Speaker - IBM Innovation and Incubation Labs

10:25 AM – 10:50 AM Standard

The State of Performance Marketing: From Strategy to Attribution

Marketers are facing myriad business challenges to rethink the way they operate performance marketing and to deliver stellar results. With the pressure on, learn from experts what are appropriate strategies for performance marketing, how does mobile technology influence performance marketing, and how are marketers in MENA leveraging data to increase marketing performance.

In Partnership With:
10:50 AM – 10:55 AM Standard

MMA Interstitial - MATT

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) launched an industry-wide research initiative called SMoX, aimed to quantify the value of mobile in the advertising mix and to provide fact based advice to help marketers maximise the impact of their mobile investment. Hear the latest results from this initiative and discover how you too can maximise your mobile marketing spend. Also the MMA Marketing Attribution Think Tank (MATT) will help rethink the world of marketing measurement and attribution, and give marketers better measurements, tools and confidence in connecting marketing to business outcomes.

10:55 AM – 11:15 AM Standard

Mobile Ad Fraud: A High Stakes Arms Race

Fraud is polluting the mobile app ecosystem at increasingly alarming rates. With defense mechanisms becoming more robust, so too are attacks as fraudsters rapidly adapt. The session will explore the latest threats and how they can be effectively blocked before inflicting damage. Unique UK-specific fraud benchmarks will be shared.

In Partnership With:
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM Networking

Networking Break

11:30 AM – 11:55 AM Standard
11:55 AM – 12:15 PM Standard

AdColony - Attention

Capturing people’s attention is the foundation of effective advertising. 
This statement isn’t news to any of us. Attention spans are short and fragmented, people are multi-tasking, jumping from one screen to another, and drastically shifting their media habits.  The attention span of the average adult has declined from 12 seconds to 8 seconds in the last 15 years.  Lets explore what this opportunities this creates for mobile  

In Partnership With:
12:15 PM – 12:20 PM Standard

MMA Interstitial - MOSTT

An introduction to MMA's MOSTT* - rethinking the world of the modern marketing organisation. *MOSTT - Marketing Organisation Structure Think Tank. 

The main forces shaping the new marketing landscape are Mobile. Analytics. Real Time. Social (M.A.R.S.) 

Learn how to compete on MARS through insights and findings from the M.A.R.S. project - a MOSTT Think Tank into the Future of Marketing Capabilities.

12:20 PM – 12:45 PM Panel

How mobile changed the advertising ecosystem?


What has changed for advertisers and publishers? New challenges and new opportunities arising in mobile marketing. 

In Partnership With:
12:45 PM – 13:05 PM Standard

'Doing Mobile Video Right'

VASt vs VPAID, viewability and formats for in app advertising

In Partnership With:
13:05 PM – 13:50 PM Networking

Networking Lunch

13:50 PM – 14:15 PM Keynote

The Neuroscience of Mobile Marketing


Neuroimaging and machine learning techniques are slowly changing the way we understand how the brain works. Mobile continues to grow in relevance and keeps changing and redefining business. Consumer neuroscience  and computer generated neural nets are currently transforming our understanding of how brains process mobile content. Measuring sub conscious drivers and predicting what people see and soon how they feel about it.

14:15 PM – 14:40 PM Standard

Is Programmatic the new normal?

Marketers are facing myriad business challenges to rethink the way they operate performance marketing and to deliver stellar results. With the pressure on, learn from experts what are appropriate strategies for performance marketing, how does mobile technology influence performance marketing, and how are marketers in MENA leveraging data to increase marketing performance.

In Partnership With:
14:40 PM – 15:00 PM Standard

Disruption already started by new media, innovation and startups

We’ll discuss on the top trendy topics driving the marketing such as influencers, AI, data oriented customized marketing, IoT and the increasing capability of the tech startups.

In Partnership With:
15:00 PM – 15:15 PM Standard

How would you like your data?

In this session we’ll discuss how different sectors are using their data in their own ways for advertising, acquisition or retention.

In Partnership With:
15:15 PM – 15:30 PM Networking

Networking Break

15:30 PM – 15:50 PM Keynote

Bringing Purpose to Laundry in the Middle East

15:50 PM – 16:15 PM Keynote

Doğan TV

16:15 PM – 16:30 PM Remarks

Closing Remarks

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