Conference and Expo5-6 March, 2025Awards6 March, 2025
Conference and Expo5-6 March, 2025Awards6 March, 2025
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
GET THE DAY OFF TO A DELICIOUS START WITH COFFEE & FRESH CROISSANTS
9:45 AM - 10:20 AM 
Gen Z, with its unique preferences and digital fluency, demands a tailored marketing approach. Discover the latest tactics, campaigns, and technologies that legacy brands are using to drive authentic connections, foster brand loyalty, and capture the hearts and wallets of the Gen Z audience.
10:20 AM -10:30 AM 
Hear how Snapchat has cemented itself as the preferred platform for young Indians and the resulting opportunities for brands.
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM 
The conflict between short-term conversion vs. building long-term brand equity, stems from the illusion of measurability that performance marketing gives. The visualisation of the marketing funnel as discrete sections of silo’d engagement, misses the omnichannel nature of customer behaviour. The challenge before marketers in 2024 will be to balance brand building & performance marketing. To be executed, while ensuring that artificially created silos in the customer funnel are not thwarting over-all growth.
10:45 AM - 10:55 AM 10:55 AM - 11:05 AM Marketing professionals are now empowered to reach audiences like never before, leveraging a borderless marketplace. Discover the strategies, insights, and innovations that redefine marketing in an era where consumers can make purchases anytime and anywhere creating boundless marketing opportunities in this ever-expanding retail universe.
Social & Retail emerged as the biggest performance drivers for brands in ad:tech ‘Drivers of Growth 2024’ survey.
– Are they essentially better at driving growth beyond Search & Affiliates?
– What kind of new efficiencies do these channels bring to the table?
– What new techniques of optimization should brands use here.
The session explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, creativity, and omnichannel strategies in the ever-evolving retail landscape. Experts will share insights on leveraging automation, enhancing customer engagement, and bridging the gap between digital and physical retail experiences.
This track explores strategies that not only build brand resilience and long-term sustainable growth, but also imbue it with a powerful sense of purpose. Discover the tools and insights you need to create a journey of brand resilience and ensure sustained and fast-paced growth for your brand.
Conversational commerce has emerged as a key channel for retailers and ecommerce players especially in the D2C space. What are some of the best practices here?
– Role of AI in conversational commerce
– Virtual vs Real assistants handling customer support, drive through assistance etc.
– Virtual Product try-ons through AR for commerce
– Platforms that socialise the buying of products through peer to peer product recommendations.
– Voice tech.
You already know that selling to your existing customers is exponentially easier (and cheaper) than chasing cold clicks. This session explores opportunities like segmenting SMS & email campaigns, implementing cross sell & upsell strategies & much more to drive growth through retention.
12:10 PM -12:30 PM Retailing across Asia Pacific poses many challenges. The area is large, the populations diverse and the trading contexts are all very different. In this session Kumar Rajagopalan, CEO of the Retailers Association of India and Ryf Quail, Managing Director of NRF: Retail’s Big Show Asia Pacific will discuss the big issues facing Asia Pacific retailers, what is important and what you need to know to operate successfully across the region. Ryf and Kumar will also provide a preview of NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show Asia Pacific. The inaugural show will be held at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on 11-13 June this year.
Discover how the influencer space has evolved, with brands now collaborating with macro and micro influencers simultaneously. Uncover strategies for driving efficiency in this ever-evolving landscape and see we are redefining the way brands influence and sell.
How are recent innovations at Video Marketing and how it can drive results for brands?
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM 1:50 PM - 2:20 PM The TV industry is undergoing a major shift as viewers move from traditional TV to streaming solutions with a plethora of choice in both content and platforms. While this convergence has got the advertiser’s attention, the challenges include difficulty in tracking performance… Read More
With cookie deprecation, Google Sandbox, Walled Gardens and First Party Data becoming your daily conversations, the track explores ways to create a unified experience for customers and single attribution windows for brands across screens, devices, and hybrid modes.
Challenges and opportunities in reaching your audience as we bid farewell to third-party cookies.
– Leveraging first-party data – tools & tech
– Identity resolution and its role in enhancing campaign precision and effectiveness.
– How Web 3 and open ecosystems are challenging the Walled Garden status quo.
– Dynamic shifts that are redefining the way we view online networks, paving the way for innovation and change.
FPD is the most reliable source of data for marketers, esp in a market where tracking restrictions are tightening. However, consumers are reluctant to hand over their data, without a solid hook, aka trust, transparency, and tangible uses of the data.
In this session, we’ll explore the challenges brand and marketing teams face in collecting first-party data and delivering personalised experiences. We’ll also look at best practices, real-world examples and discuss how we can develop creative and compelling value exchanges for prospective and existing buyers. What’s your hook?
Infusing Intelligence into process and customer obsession in culture.
– CX to come at par with brand narrative
– Journey to be plotted with emotions at every stage
– Man + Machine: The sharpness of AI vs empathy of human connect
– Culture – from motorcycles to motorcycling
– Solving for Advocacy through the ownership experience
This track explores strategies that not only build brand resilience and long-term sustainable growth, but also imbue it with a powerful sense of purpose. Discover the tools and insights you need to create a journey of brand resilience and ensure sustained and fast-paced growth for your brand.
What steps can we take as an industry to provide more visibility on programmatic spend, to enable investments to be made more strategically and achieve the best ROI?
With constrained budgets, there’s an intensified focus on squeezing more revenue from each customer. Upselling and cross-selling are no longer nice-to-haves—they’re essential survival tools. The challenge is to steer the ship through choppy market waters and ensure profitability.
4:25 PM - 5:00 PM As more and more business activities get digitized, large amounts of digital information exist on virtually any topic of interest to a business. However, the challenge remains on how to take out intelligence from data and translate that into business advantage. Here we discuss how brands are using big data intelligently will improve business performance.
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Network with our 2024 Speakers, ad:tech & iMedia Advisory Boards, VIP guests & All Access delegates at our closing ad:tech Mixer. Cocktails and Snacks on the house.
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