Anna Yashchenko

Mobile Solution Specialist / Google

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Anna works for Google as a mobile solution specialist. Previously worked for Sterno.ru internet agency. Anna specializes in mobile advertisement and promotion.

Mikhail Chernomordikov

Evangelism Unit Lead / Microsoft

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Mikhail is responsible for technology partnership and client platforms activities (Windows, Windows Phone, Internet Explorer). He works with application developers, from the recent startups to the largest Internet companies. Since 2007, Mikhail works in the Russian division of Microsoft. During 2010/11, he worked at the Microsoft USA headquarters as an international strategy manager. Mikhail is a regular speaker at various conferences, he has his own blog, Twitter, and podcast.


Akin Babayigit

Strategic Partner Manager / Facebook

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Akin Babayigit is a Strategic Partner Manager for Facebook, based in London. He currently looks after mobile gaming relationships in the EMEA region, as well as looking after new developer acquisition. Prior to Facebook, Akin was an advisor to Sidar Sahin, the CEO of Peak Games. Prior to moving back to Europe, Akin spent several years in the US working for Skype, InMobi and McKinsey & Co. At Skype, Akin helped the management team navigate the spin-off from eBay, and worked closely with the investor consortium to identify strategic priorities and helped the management improve user engagement and monetization and drive the mobile efforts aggressively prior to company’s sale to Microsoft. Akin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Yale University, and a BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Maxim Donskih

Head of Publishing Department / Game Insight

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Founded in 2010, Game Insight is a global-facing developer and publisher of varied, user-focused, and free-to-play games for all major mobile and social platforms, including iOS, Android, Facebook, and Web.

Alexander Lyskovsky

CEO / Alawar Entertainment

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Alexander Lyskovsky co-founded Alawar Entertainment in 1999. Since then, the company has evolved into one of the world's leading publishers and the top distributor of casual games in Eastern Europe. Today, Alexander is Alawar’s CEO and chairman of the board. In addition to being involved with the strategic development of Alawar, Alexander plays an active role within important gaming project production. Aside from his duties as Alawar’s CEO, he also devotes much of his time to supporting other Russian IT companies. Alexander is also working tirelessly to create a community of game industry professionals in Eastern Europe.

Oleg Pridiuk

Evangelist / Unity

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Oleg Pridyuk was engaged in Unity mobile platforms segment since Unity iPhone 1.0.1. He is a technical evangelist all willing to share his experience. He is known for helping the talented developers.

Andrew Tertizkiy

Founder / Social Quantum

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Andrew Tertitsky came into the industry of online entertainment 2 years ago and during this short period created a company that took the leading position among the developers of social applications. To date, Social Quantum has seven studios in the CIS and Eastern Europe. Andrew graduated from the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute (State University), Department of Physics and Power Engineering Problems.

Simon Podd

Comercial Director, EMEA / Flurry

At Flurry, Simon is the commercial director for the EMEA region. Prior to Flurry, Simon was most recently head of sales at Zodiak Active, the branded content division of Zodiak Media, a multi-national independent television production company. Prior to Zodiak, Simon was head of sales for Bebo UK & Ireland, working as part of the team that pioneered and developed new social media advertising revenue models in which products and services are offered in a sophisticated blend of plot integration, traditional product placement and on-network online advertising. Bebo was acquired by AOL in 2008. Prior to Bebo, Simon spent 10 years in advertising sales within the publishing sector at Associated Media and the London Evening Standard.

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Yevgeniy Lisovskiy

Marketing Director / LitRes

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For more than 9 years Yevgeniy Lisovskiy has worked in the field of internet marketing, holding senior positions in leading companies of his segment: Radmin.com (software), KupiBouns.ru (promotional services), BabyBoom.ru (baby products). Since 2011, he has been at the position of marketing director at "LitRes".

Nikolai Davydov

Investment manager / iTechCapital

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Nikolai is engaged in a full cycle of investment transactions and is involved in the management of portfolio companies. Prior to joining iTech in January 2010, Nikolai has been developing service businesses of western system integrators in Russia and working with IT midmarket companies at Cisco Systems. Since 2007, Nikolai has been consulting Russian and British entrepreneurs and small companies, specialized on IT and high technology, in strategic management and capital raising.

Ilja Laurs

Founder / GetJar

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Ilja Laurs is the Founder and Chairman of GetJar, world’s largest independent mobile application store. “European Manager of the Year 2011” by European Business Press Association, “25 European Tech Leaders” by Wall Street Journal, “Top 40 most influential people in mobile communications” by Informa Telecoms and Media, “10 Start-ups That Will Change Your Life” by TIME magazine and “Technology Pioneer 2011” by World Economic Forum are only a few of his numerous industry achievements. As a recognized thought leader, Ilja speaks on all major telecommunication conferences and is regularly quoted in Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg and many other news sources. In February 2010, Ilja made the cover of the America's leading entrepreneurship magazine "Entrepreneur". Since 2005, pioneering in the app store concept, GetJar provides app distribution to 450,000 developers, from one-man shops to brands like Google, Microsoft and Facebook. As of April 2012, GetJar distributes 400,000 mobile applications and has served over 2.5 billion downloads.

Junde Yu

VP Business Development APAC / App Annie

Junde manages business development and sales in Asia Pacific for App Annie. He started his career in web startups while he was in university, and has since accumulated experience at web and mobile startups and corporations, in particular business development roles at companies like Scoreloop, SingTel, and Tapjoy. Junde graduated with a Computer Science degree from the National University of Singapore.

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Have you ever wondered why some companies just seem to be ahead of the curve on app stores? Is it luck? Wizardry? Or scientific app store data? Come discover the science behind some of the most successful app store strategies today. We guarantee it'll help improve your app store ROI.

Chris Hanage

General Manager Europe / Papaya Mobile

Chris started his career in magazine and digital publishing before moving into mobile games. After an MBA at London Business School he headed up the business development functions at Synergenix, Infospace and Player X before moving to Papaya in 2011 where he now runs the European division.

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Alisa Chumachenko

CEO and Founder / Game Insight

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Alisa Chumachenko served as VP of Marketing and Advertising at the largest Eastern European game holding company, Astrum Online Entertainment, from 2007-2009. AOE is a recognized market leader that runs dozens of browser-based and client-based massively multiplayer games and casual games. It was merged with the Mail.Ru Group in 2009. In 2009, Ms. Chumachenko left AOE and went on to found Game Insight in 2010. Originally, the company focused primarily on social gaming, but later evolved to focus on mobile gaming. Within this brief time, the company has become one of the leaders in the global mobile market. Today, Alisa leads the executive team as Chief Executive Officer and focuses on strategic management of the company’s current and upcoming initiatives.

Leonid Bugaev

Creative Director / Nordic Agency AB

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Expert in the field of mobile technology, co-owner of the digital advertising agency, Nordic Agency AB (Moscow-Stockholm), founder of Academy of Experts. Advises advertising agencies and marketing departments of large companies. Jury member for various startup forums. "Goes up like a rocket! Rather, like a Buran", thus the clients of Leonid's agency speak about him. Prior to starting his own business, Leonid has worked at Art. Lebedev Studio and has taken part in a number of startups. In 2012, the publishing house Alpina Publisher published a book by Leonid Bugaev, "Mobile Marketing: How to charge your business in a mobile world".

Igor Matsanyuk

Founder / IMI.VC

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Igor Matsanyuk is one of the most successful businessmen in the field of international Internet and interactive technology, and is considered to be one of the forefathers of the Russian game market. In 2004, Mr. Matsanyuk established the company IT-Territory, a developer of online games, then built it up into Astrum Online, the most successful game company in Eastern Europe. By 2009, Astrum Online was the biggest developer and distributor of client- and browser-based massively multiplayer online games, and merged with the Mail.ru Group. Mr. Matsanyuk became the first vice-president and majority shareholder in the united company. He then left the company in the summer of 2010, and went on to work on numerous successful startup projects.

Leonid Sirotin

Генеральный продюсер / Game Insight

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Upon obtaining a university degree in economics in Germany, Leonid Sirotin entered in the game industry in 2004. Mr. Sirotin first established a casual/online development studio, and went on to accept a position as President Advisor/Project Lead at Astrum Online Entertainment in 2008. In 2010, Mr. Sirotin’s development studio became a part of Game Insight, and his studio’s first project, Mystery Manor was launched shortly thereafter, and went on to become one the company’s most popular games worldwide. Mr. Sirotin’s considerable experience in developing and producing successful games, and his deep professional knowledge of the game industry, have led him to the position of Chief Producer at Game Insight, where he oversees development of all social and mobile titles.

Alexey Solovyov

Managing Director / PROSTOR CAPITAL

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Graduated from Bauman’s Moscow State Technical University (MSTU). Joined PROSTOR CAPITAL after resigning from ru-Net, an investment company realizing direct investments and managing companies and assets in the field of IT and the Internet, where Alexey held the position of IT-businesses development director. Earlier, in 2002-2009, worked in the largest Russian IT-companies IBS and Optima, where he grew from the manager to the director of the strategic development department, being involved in the implementation of a number of investment projects in the areas of M&A, strategic development, launching new product lines, and expanding into new markets. In 2011 he was invited by the founders of the PROSTOR CAPITAL venture fund, investing in the fast growing IT and Internet companies. Alexey is leading the fund management company, being in charge of investment strategy implementation and mutual relationships with the industry.

Anatoly Ropotov

CEO / InnoWate

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Anatoly Ropotov has been dedicated to producing top-notch games on all platforms for the last decade. From social, online and MMO (as EVP of Products for Astrum Online Entertainment) to casual, mobile and console (as Head of Games Division at CTXM), he has over 100 products to his credit. His studio, innoWate, created the very first social city-building game and in partnership with Game Insight, followed up with tremendously successful sim ("My Country") and RPG ("Rule the Kingdom") titles, which were released on over 10 platforms.

Alexandr Vaschenko

Founder / NARR8

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An artist himself, Mr. Vaschenko started at IT-Territory as a lead designer, then took on a leadership role in the game design department, and later become the head of development at the studio. Mr. Vaschenko went on to manage development at Astrum Online, and created and developed several successful projects for the company. He also co-founded, and acts as a mentor and consultant at, Farminers Startup Academy, and co-founded the investment company IMI.VC.

Andrew Zmeul

Head of BI and Data Science / Game Insight

Nine years on the data analysis in IT companies and the financial sector. Specializes in the behavior of the audience of the web and mobile projects. Engaged in the analysis of business processes in one of the largest Russian media holdings, SUP Fabrik.

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Andrew will join the discussion at the round table "Analysis of the mobile market: Facts and figures".