David Uribe
Regional Head of Data and Digital
TBWA Africa & Middle East
David Uribe is a Colombian professional and author currently residing in South Africa and working as Regional Data Director at TBWA for the markets of Africa, Middle East and some European markets. He is also the Head of Digital at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in South Africa.David is the co-founder at smartBeemo.com, one of the largest online education platforms for Spanish speaking audiences today.
David recently published his first book titled “101 Tips to Improve Your Social Media Presence”, a book that was designed by 101 different artists from more than 22 different countries.
He is also a long time professor at the Miami Ad School, the most awarded advertising school in the world.
David has a Bachelor’s degree of Science in Advertising, a master’s degree in Digital Business from the University of Barcelona, a certificate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Big Data Analytics and a diploma from Harvard Business School in Digital Strategy.
Surya Emmylinda
Data Strategy Director
Germany
Surya started the analytics discipline in Singapore, at a social listening agency where she helped brands gain insight from social conversations.
Shortly after, she joined TBWA\ Digital Arts Network (DAN) Singapore, being one of the core members and the leading regional Data Analyst for MasterCard’s Digital and eCommerce Engine. She developed and implemented an analytical and measurement framework for the business across Asia Pacific to optimise our digital performance and deliver tangible business results. During her time at DAN, her MasterCard team collected multiple awards for data-driven marketing and for the use of consumer insights and data analysis, and made MasterCard an example of data-driven excellence in the Asia Pacific region.
Today she is based in Berlin, Germany, as the Data Strategy Director at HEIMAT & TBWA\Group Germany, being responsible for building the data capabilities and practices in the German-speaking region. Because it’s not challenging enough to evangelise data in the creative world, she has to try to do it in a foreign language.
Noah Khan
Regional Head of Digital
Africa and Middle East, TBWA
Noah heads up digital and innovation across Africa and Middle East for TBWA and DAN. He joined TBWA\ in 2013 where he developed and grew the digital and innovation practice across the Middle East supporting clients such as Nissan,Infiniti, Standard Chartered bank, Emirates Airlines, NURVE AMI, Qatar Tourism amongst others before taking on regional responsibilities. Noah has been leading the roll out of Disruption® Live and developing strong digital capabilities across the region. He has most recently been developing strategic partnerships with Google, VICE.
Noah has worked in the digital space for over 21 years, having worked with organizations such Barclays premier league, ITV, BBC, Turner Broadcasting, Trinity Mirror Group, Channel 4, Abu Dhabi Media and Possible Worldwide. Noah holds an MBA and a BSc(hons) in Software Engineering.
