Marketer of the Month

Moutia Khatiri serves as Global CTO for Online & Omnisales at L'Oréal Groupe , a tech accelerator, bringing extensive expertise as a technical architect and cloud computing specialist. With years of cross-industry experience, he has established himself as a DevOps authority and innovation leader. His diverse sectoral background provides him with unique insights into technology implementati...

AI, Ethics & Elections: Why Standards Matter More Than Ever In this snippet, Matthew Blakemore, CEO at AI Caramba!, opens up about a critical concern: AI being used the wrong way to influence politics. Driven by the need for stronger guardrails, Matthew stepped into the world of global policy and standards… ⚙️ Working with the British Standards Institute 🤝 Collaborating with experts like Juli...

Real Brands Start with People, Not Logos! When your team lives the brand, your customers feel it. 💛 In this snippet, Oz Alon, Co-founder & CEO of HoneyBook, breaks down why their brand isn’t built in a boardroom; it's built by the people behind it. From being obsessed with member love to taking every review personally (the good ones fuel them, the bad ones drive them to fix things fast),...

🧪 AI and Science: The Next Wave of Discovery Martin Riedmiller, Research Scientist and Controls Team Lead, Google DeepMind AI is moving beyond pattern recognition and becoming a true partner in scientific discovery. From cognitive science to physics to drug design, we are entering a future where AI not only helps us understand the world but also uncovers insights that humans alone might miss. As...

🚀 Driving Scalable AI Adoption According to Hugo Hamad, Head of AI/GenAI Factory at AXA en France and former Director of AI at Decathlon, successfully scaling AI isn’t about luck, it’s about building the right enablers. From his journey at Decathlon to leading AI at AXA, he breaks it down into three essentials: 1️⃣ Industrial Mindset & Products 2️⃣ Business Ambassadors 3️⃣ Delivering User Exp...

Dr. Satyajit Wattamwar is a Data Science & Digital Expertise Leader with over 17 years of professional experience in enabling digital transformation across manufacturing, R&D, and innovation processes. He currently leads the development of in-house cloud AI platforms and data science technologies for cross-country, cross-functional business initiatives. His expertise spans predictive model...

🌟 Inclusion Starts With Awareness, Clear Goals, and Real Support According to Kamini Belday, Head of Global Payments, IBM Cloud, real progress begins when people understand their unconscious bias. Formal training helps people notice it and see how it shows up in real situations. That’s the first step. The next step is intention. In one of her past roles, Kamini helped drive a 30 percent represent...

🎙️ Building Better Products Together: Samuel Beek, Chief Product Officer, VEED At VEED, product is never built in a silo. Samuel Beek shares how engineering, product, and marketing work as a tight triangle, spotting trends, understanding what people are talking about, and turning emerging AI capabilities into real features users actually want. From daily conversations with the tech team to trackin...

🔐 Tokenization isn't just security, it's intelligence. For Brice van de Walle, Executive Vice President of Core Payments Europe at Mastercard, the future of fraud prevention lies in tokens that are uniquely bound to specific merchants and use cases. No more stolen card data being reused. No more fraudulent transactions across multiple merchants. Just secure, merchant-specific tokens that...

John Hearty leads AI Governance at Mastercard , ensuring that AI systems the company builds or buys are fair, transparent, and effective. He drives responsible AI adoption, engages regulators, and advances tools, training, and research to embed AI ethics across the organization. With a background in R&D and global payments infrastructure, John holds 40+ patents and serves on ISO AI standards c...

🌟 Mentorship Means Seeing Potential Before They See It Themselves According to Kamini Belday, Head of Global Payments, IBM Cloud, true leadership is about lifting others up. Early in her career, Kamini walked into rooms where few people looked like her or talked like her. The finance and tech world was overwhelmingly male-dominated. But leaders saw her potential and nominated her for roles she di...

The Changing Economics of IoT 🌐 In this clip, Kai Hackbarth, Head of Product & Solutions at Bosch, talks about the ongoing consolidation in the IoT industry and why many businesses are rethinking their approach. He explains how high infrastructure costs in SaaS and PaaS models have made it challenging for companies to achieve profitability, even with large-scale data platforms. Kai also highl...

Building a Compliant and Scalable FinTech Ecosystem 💡 Pavan Bachwal, VP and Head of Ericsson Financial Services at Ericsson, explains how Ericsson is empowering banks, fintechs, and OTT players in Europe with a stable, scalable, and compliant technology foundation. 🔐 With a strong focus on regulatory and security compliance, from PSD2 and GDPR to SWIFT integrations and PCI certifications, Ericss...

🎙️ Making AI Simple (Again): Samuel Beek, Chief Product Officer, VEED As VEED transitioned deeper into the AI space, some users felt overwhelmed by new features. Instead of ignoring that feedback, the team doubled down on simplicity, investing in better discovery and adding an AI agent you can literally talk to for edits. Because great products aren’t just powerful, they’re easy, intuitive, and hu...

🎯 Data isn’t just important, it’s everything. For Rollo Goldstaub, Global Head of Sports Partnerships at TikTok, every decision in the sports sector must be backed by evidence, not opinion. 📊 From using data-driven insights to shape partnerships like TikTok’s upcoming collaboration with DAZN for the Club World Cup 🏆 to recognizing early adopters who embrace new trends first, Rollo highlights ho...

⚙️ Optimizing Data for Better ROI and Efficiency 💡 Pavan Bachwal, VP and Head of Ericsson Financial Services at Ericsson, shares how data is a continuous journey of learning and improvement. His team constantly works to enhance how their APIs and features are used by customers, driving faster turnaround times and reducing the total cost of ownership. 📊 By studying how customers interact with dif...

Public + Private Innovation Will Shape the Future of Payments Eric Tak, Head of Division, Digital Euro Product Proposition, European Central Bank, emphasized that while crypto isn’t likely to take off in everyday retail payments yet, the bigger picture lies in the collaboration between the public and private sectors. The Digital Euro will provide a secure, stable platform for basic payments, a fou...

🎥 From Chat to Creation: Meeting Users Where They Already Are- Samuel Beek, Chief Product Officer, VEED When the ChatGPT Store launched, the team at VEED didn’t wait for perfect data or lengthy analysis. They built the bot as an experiment, something small, fast, and curious. And it took off. Constantly ranking in the top 10 ChatGPT apps, it proved that sometimes the smartest move isn’t over-opti...

🧠 Beyond Language Models: Why Reinforcement Learning Still Matters: Martin Riedmiller, Research Scientist & Controls Team Lead, Google DeepMindWhile large language models have taken center stage with their incredible capabilities, Martin reminds us of something crucial: true intelligence isn’t just about processing existing data, it’s about learning from experience. Reinforcement Learning (RL...

Harish Sarma is an accomplished executive with extensive experience spanning technology, sports, media & entertainment, built on a foundation in investment banking. As VP of Business Development and Partnerships at Yahoo Mail, he focuses on growing key metrics through strategic partnerships and business development. On The Menu: Yahoo Mail's revolutionary Catchup feature for inbox management T...

☁️ Hybrid Cloud + AI = The Future of Modern Banking According to Kamini Belday, Head of Global Payments, IBM Cloud, hybrid cloud isn’t just a tech upgrade; it’s a transformation strategy. It allows banks to leap from legacy monolithic systems into flexible, microservice-based architectures while still maintaining compliance and control. With a hybrid cloud, financial institutions can: ✅ Leverage...

🎯 Marketing Will Evolve Beyond Metrics, It’ll Be About Meaning Igor Mikhalev, Partner & Head of Emerging Technologies Strategy, EY-Parthenon, envisions a future where marketing ceases to exist as a standalone function, instead becoming an extension of the product experience itself, seamlessly integrated into people’s lives. He suggests a radical shift in how we measure success, moving away fr...

🚀 Driving Scalable AI Adoption According to Hugo Hamad, now Head of AI/Gen AI Factory at AXA en France and former Director of AI at Decathlon, successfully scaling AI adoption isn’t about luck; it’s about building the right enablers. Drawing from his experience leading AI initiatives at Decathlon and now AXA en France, he highlights two crucial factors for success: Industrial Mindset & Produc...

🌍AI Regulation Needs a Global Standard Matthew Blakemore, CEO at AI Caramba!, raises an important concern about the imbalanced regulatory landscape in AI development. As the EU AI Act introduces stringent frameworks, many innovative businesses might choose to develop their tools in less regulated markets, taking advantage of greater flexibility before bringing those same tools to more restricted...

"Money with Context, The Magic of Managing Clients and Cash Together" For Oz Alon, Co-founder & CEO, HoneyBook, true business clarity begins when creatives manage clients and cash in one place. 💼💰 At HoneyBook, this integration turns numbers into insight, giving service-based professionals a complete view of their business and the confidence to make smarter decisions. He describes...