8:00 - 9:30 Registration

9:00 - 10:00 Wake Up Coffee With Delo on the Terrace

9:30 - 10:00

Warm Up With Naida: Start Me Up or Rock'n'Roll In Media Trends

Naida Kundurović, Host and Producer, Bosnia and Herzegovina

10:00 - 11:15

The Unbreakable Rules of Marketing

Marketing is about getting people to love you. Love for you, your ideas, your products, your services, your organization...The Unbreakable Rules of Marketing will show you how to get that love. Cathey will answer why organizations don’t stand a chance without a strong brand and what you need to maintain one. She will show you how to evoke emotions to engage people and create a unique differentiator and what tools you need to develop a strategy for your marketing, so you don’t waste time, effort and money on useless tactics.
Cathey Armillas, expert marketing strategist, international speaker, author, USA
Cathey Armillas, expert marketing strategist, international speaker, author, USA

11:15 - 11:40 Creative break by Atlantic grupa

11:40 - 12:00

"The Attention Deficit: How Brands Can be Heard in a World of Media Overload"

The competition to be heard has never been greater. People have access to more content, at more speed and across more devices than ever before. How can brands cut through and build connections with people when the choice of what to engage with is so vast? We will investigate how technology and media are impacting attention, how can brands get attention and how can you measure it.
Phil Shaw, Head of Digital and Innovation, Ipsos Connect, UK
Phil Shaw, Head of Digital and Innovation, Ipsos Connect, UK

12:00 - 12:45

Advertising Effectiveness: the Long and the Short of it

In a world where marketers are under pressure to deliver immediate results, this presentation comes as a timely warning. It shows that short term results are not a reliable guide to long term success. As a result, strategies designed to maximise immediate effects can actually reduce profits. Les will show how short and long term effects work, and how to balance them so as to maximise ROI. And along the way, he will demolish several marketing myths. 
Les Binet, Head of Effectiveness, adam & eve DDB, UK
Les Binet, Head of Effectiveness, adam & eve DDB, UK

13:00 - 13:45

Executive Talk: From Idols to idol*

In the era of instant idols, talent shows and X-Factor we tend to forget about the idols from the past. Odbrana i poslednji dani (Defence and last days) is the album by group Idoli from 1982. Up until now, it remains one of the best-selling albums in former Yugoslavia. One of the founders of the group is Srđan Šaper, who, right after his successful movie career, ended up in communications business. Back in 1997 he started collaboration with McCann Erickson and founded I&F McCann, which is among the top three agencies in the region today. Srdjan Šaper will present his view on development and current status of the advertising networks in the region. But most of all he will reveal his business philosophy, working with people and achieving goals. 

*The talk will be in Serbian language.
Srđan Šaper, Founder and CEO, I&F McCann Group, Serbia

Host: Marjan Novak, Editor, Marketing Magazin, Slovenia

Marjan Novak, Editor, Marketing Magazin, Slovenia

13:45 - 15:00 Lunch Break

15:00 - 16:00

Change is Inevitable, Progress is Not

We humans have a wonderful talent for shaping the future. At our best we are able to think our way to what we want from where we are. High adaptability people get stronger, smarter when faced with adversity. They use imagination to create brilliant strategies that provide clever paths to better places. As we develop our confidence in our ability to adapt new situations we can transcend old problems. Max will work with us to apply lessons about high adaptability and bring this focus to life with examples, humour, emotion so you will gain memorable personal, practical insights to help you in the real world.We will explore how strategy, culture and innovation work together and how do we engage talent and goodwill of our people with strategy. 
dr. Max Mckeown, Writer, Consultant, Researcher, UK
dr. Max Mckeown, Writer, Consultant, Researcher, UK

16:00 - 16:40

Bringing Brand Advertising to the Programmatic Era

Brand Advertising has given marketers the ability to harness and automate mass data in order to precisely reach and successfully engage their audiences. Using case-examples and data samples, Mats Persson will explain what programmatic branding is and exactly how the industry has learnt from previous mistakes, in order to overcome Brand Advertising´s teething problems. Despite the unquestionable benefits that Brand Advertising brings to the table, some brands are still hesitant to adopt this technology due to worries in regards to brand safety, fraud, viewability, creativity and a host of other issues. 
Mats Persson, Chief Operating Officer, Adform, Denmark
Mats Persson, Chief Operating Officer, Adform, Denmark

16:45 - 17:30

Panel: No Risk No Fun

We usually see only the best ideas and business decisions. The ones that were awarded and successful. But we all know that in order to succeed we sometimes have to take risks. And even fail. Relaxed and witty conversation about mistakes that led to success. Or not. Judge for yourself. 
Cathey Armillas, USA
 Mats Persson, Adform
 Matt Longstaff, AKQA, UK

Host: Barbara Modic, CEO, Pristop Media, Slovenia

Barbara Modic, CEO, Pristop Media, Slovenia

18:00 VAL 202 Prava moč radia @GH Bernardin Terrace

Socializing and networking are the empowering forces of every business. Find out what is possible on the SEMPL terrace. 

20:30 - 21:30 Sempler Award Ceremony @Europa Hall

22:00 - 4:00 POP Till You Drop Party @Paprika Club, Portorož

9:00 - 10:00 Wake Up Coffee With Delo on the Terrace

10:00 - 10:30

And the Winner Is …

Video screening of the award winning media strategies and the finalists. 
Naida Kundurović, Host and Producer, Bosnia and Herzegovina

10:30 - 11:00

Advertising Chess: Who Makes the Next Move?

Advertising business remained relatively unchanged for the last 50 years. The advent of programmatic advertising, the automated and data-driven buying, planning and selling, has sparked a revolution that reconfigures power relationships in the advertising value chain and has significant impact on the future of media. This presentation investigates the potential of programmatic and documents how players across the value chain rethink their role and reposition themselves in order to secure a sustainable future.
Daniel Knapp, Senior Director, IHS, UK

11:00 - 11:30 Creative break by Atlantic grupa

11:30 - 11:50

The Digital Ad Fraud Challenge – It's Time for Action

Over the last year we have seen some big, scary fraud numbers with headlines quoting as much as 60 per cent of impressions being delivered to fraudsters. Combine this with a viewability problem, where ads are still served in a way that hardly anyone sees them, and you have a big question on how well you spend your money online. In order to make online advertising much more efficient, you have to act now! Learn how to control media quality online. 
Niall Hogan, UK Managing Director, Integral Ad Science, UK

12:00 - 12:45

Panel: Do Advertisers Expect Too Much From Media?

Special Guest: Robert Čoban, Co-founder and President, Color Press Group, Serbia

Advertisers have never been so close to media as they are today. Product placement, promotional articles and special projects became a crucial part of the daily cooperation between media and advertisers, but they are mostly not included in media plans and research, and they do not even have special budgets. Do advertisers expect too much from media? How do editors in media react to increasing demands of advertisers? What is the role of media agencies in this situation?
Robert Čoban, Co-founder and President, Color Press Group, Serbia

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30

Instagram – A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

With 400 million users, Instagram has become one of the most important platforms to share not only great pictures but also moving stories and true inspiration. That is why more and more companies and brands discover this application to share their ideas with a worldwide audience, which opens a completely new and young market. If you want to take part, you have to be quick, smart and think forward. Max will give an overview of what makes the difference between just an ordinary advertising and a successful Instagram campaign.
Maximillian Münch, Photographer and Social Media Strategist specialised in Instagram, Germany

14:30 - 14:50

Data Driven Marketing in a Digital World

Ongoing debates about shifting consumer behavior are so yesterday. We are not addressing the question "What is going on?" anymore. Instead we now have precise data showing us the changing landscape. Finding the right way to tap into data for more effective marketing has become the first essential ingredient for success. The second one is finding out how to connect with your audience on mobile and across devices. And Mike will reveal how to master them all.
Mike Bevans, Director of Advertiser Product Marketing, Yahoo!, UK
Mike Bevans, Director of Advertiser Product Marketing, Yahoo!, UK

15:00 - 15:45

The Invisible Playground

In the digital realm, the only reliable way for brands to predict the future is to become the future. Why, and more importantly how, this can be done is the subject of Matt Longstaff’s talk, which explores creativity on the edge of possible.
Matt Longstaff, Associate Creative Director, AKQA, UK
Matt Longstaff, Associate Creative Director, AKQA, UK

15:45 - 16:00

It's a Wrap

Naida Kundurović, Host and Producer, Bosnia and Herzegovina

11:00 - 12:45

Go Mobile or Go Home: From Theory to Practice

What are the mobile advertising options in our region in comparison with the global ones? Saša is going to show-case how to set up an effective mobile advertising campaign. 
Saša Stanković, Digital Strategy Expert, Pro Media Group, Croatia

13:00 - 13:45

Google Tag Manager - One Tool to Rule Them All

Master the tool that will enable you to enjoy faster, tighter control over your digital marketing and analytics programs. Save your time and get high quality data.
Zorin Radovančević, Internet Marketing and E-Commerce Project Manager, Escape, Croatia

13:45 - 15:00 Lunch Break

16:00 - 16:45

Make a Bread Out of A Crumb on Facebook!

Get your pixels right – intermediate to advanced Facebook advertising workshop for brand managers.
Nika Papić, Web agency Ideaz, Slovenia
Tilen Šali, Web agency Ideaz, Slovenia

11:00 - 12:45

How To Become LinkedIn's All Star?

The world and the customers have changed and what it used to work does not work anymore. According to recent surveys, social media networks affect 75% of purchase decisions in B2B sector. The most effective among them is LinkedIn. However most of the companies in our region are still not using it. In this workshop you will learn how to set up LinkedIn profile and communicate with your business partners, find out about the possibilities of advertising and forms of targeting that can be used to reach the B2B segment and also how to use LinkedIn to achieve B2C segment with the premium brands. Whether you decide to jump on the LinkedIn train or not one thing is certain: your competitors are on board and are going full speed ahead.

Brigita Lazar Lunder, Speaker and Consultant, Slovenia 
Tadej Rovtar, Senior Account Manager, Httpool, Slovenia

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:45

10 Rules of TV Strategy

TV ads should be compellingly creative, simple, emotionally powerful, integrate the brand and feature a catchy tune. These are among 10 evidence-based learnings from Ipsos' tracking and testing database. Rather than a formula for success, Nataša will reveal a template for great TV advertising. 

Nataša Kejžar Mohorč, Director, Ipsos, Slovenia