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Mark Shuttleworth is best known for founding Ubuntu the popular free operating system for desktops and servers, and Canonical. Mark Shuttleworth the 40 year old British and South African entrepreneur, is also an astronaut and the first citizen from an African country to travel in space in 2002. Mark has an exciting and challenging career. While studying finance and IT at the University of Cape Town, Mark founded Thawte, a company specializing in digital certificates and cryptography that was acquired in 1999 by VeriSign. In 2000 he founded HBD, an investment company, and setup the Shuttleworth Foundation, which funds innovative change in society by supporting Fellows and investing in their projects. In 2002 he visited the International Space Station as a member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34. After a tour of schools in South Africa promoting science and mathematics for aspiring astronauts he started work on Ubuntu. Mark also champions design-driven development and has a focus on quality and cadence in the engineering work done at Canonical. Mark Shuttleworth is one of the exciting keynote speakers at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit at the Global Webit Summit in October. Here is your chance to meet Mark Shuttleworth at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit. REGISTER NOW!

If you ask someone from the tourism industry, they will recommend the period September - November. Why? That's when the crowds diminish, the rates drop, and weather is spectacular. What makes Istanbul so important you may wonder. First of all, the history, for sure. The city served as the capital of four empires: the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Latin Empire and the Ottoman Empire, so you image how rich in history it is. Amongst the top tourist attractions you can find Istanbul Galata Tower, Istanbul Maiden’s Tower, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Egyptian Bazaar, Istanbul Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmet Mosque), Istanbul Basilica Cistern (YereBatan Sarnici), Istanbul Vialand (Turkey’s Disneyland), Istanbul Topkapi Palace Museum, etc. Amazing city with irresistible atmosphere.

If you ask someone from the Digital industry about the best time to visit Istanbul, they will tell you two days: 1-2 October. The time when the global digital and tech leaders gather together for a memorable experience - the 6th Webit Global Congress.

Till the end of August you have tickets with early bird prices that you should not miss. Take the Red Pass which will provide you with access to Digital Marketing & Innovation Conference only for €160. The same price is valid for the Blue Pass which provide you with access to Leaders of the Future tech Summit. The Gold Pass will provide you with full access of both the Red and the Blue Pass, plus the official Webit party. Last, but not least is the Platinum Pass which provides you with the full access of the Gold one and in addition you receive access to CEOs Networking Lunch, Chairman's Dinner on a boat on Bosphorus, Leaders Networking Lunch and the Official Webit party. The early bird price for the Platinum Pass is  €1200.

Have in mind that early bird tickets are almost 50% cheaper than the final prices. So do not miss them, save money and enjoy your time in the city of Istanbul. 

Justin Kan the successful 31-year-old American entrepreneur and investor is one of the co-founders of Twitch the largest live streaming video platform and community for gamers. He is a speaker at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit. Lately Twitch has made the news with plans by Google to acquire the live video gaming platform for $1 billion. Twitch is a very popular life streaming video platform focused on e-sport and video gaming. According to the company blog, it has a very lively community of gamers with more than 45 million visitors per month and the average viewer watches an hour and a half a day. Justin Kan graduated from Yale University in 2005 with BA degrees in physics and philosophy. He co-founded Justin.tv in 2007. In 2011 together with Emmett Shear he launched Twitch as a subsidiary to the very popular live streaming site Justin.tv. Broadcasting his entire life at Justin.tv and popularized the term "lifecasting". He is also a co-founder of the mobile social video application Socialcam acquired in 2012 by Autodesk for $60 million. In addition, he serves as a partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator. Justin Kan also contributes for technology news site TechCrunch and co-founded Kiko Software, the first ajax based on-line calendar funded by YC in 2005 and sold to Tucows in 2006. Justin Kan will be a one of the exciting  speakers at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit. His experience is astounding and he has a lot to share. It is a pleasure to have him as a speaker at the Global Webit Congress. Here is your chance to meet Justin Kan at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit. Get your ticket now!

The fierce competition for speakers at the 6th Webit Global Congress is over, so we have the winners. RECORD BREAKING 53'123 people voted for 312 candidates to join the amazing speakers of the Global Webit Congress 2014. The number of participants was impressive as well as the fact that we had participants from all over the world. Amongst the applicants, there were experts from companies like SAP Platform Solutions, Software University, Gemius SA, Ernst & Young, Publicis Groupe, Google, Groupon, International, NASDAQ OMX, Cisco Systems, Gartner, etc.We are pleased to present you:

• Ivo Radulovski, 3323 votes - Segments, Web Strategy Expert, Entrepreneur and Investor
• Ivan Hernandez, 2768 votes - The Digital Loop, Co-Founder
• Vishal Gupta, 2645 votes - Cisco Systems, VP & GM, Global Internet of Everything Solutions & Services for Healthcare, Finance, and Retail @ Cisco
• Mariano A. Bosaz, 2615 votes - The Coca-Cola Company, Group Digital Director Eurasia Africa The Coca-Cola Company
• Igor Beuker, 2476 votes - Igor Beuker, Pro Speaker

Except for the opportunity to want to talk in front of an audience of 10’000 C-level Digital and Tech executives, decision makers and global media from 110 countries, the winners shall also get a Webit Platinum Pass at value of 2000 EUR. It will provide them with full access to the whole Congress, CEOs Lunch, Leaders Lunch, Speakers Lounge plus all Networking Lounges, Chairman’s Dinner on a boat on Bosphorus and Speakers Hammam Dinner as well of course to the official Webit Party on the man-made island Suada! In the next few days, you can expect interviews with the winners. Meanwhile, hurry up and book your ticket for the front line!

He is 29 years old and he comes from Romania. One of Forbes Romania’s Top 30 under 30 in 2012, he has been acknowledged as a representant of Europe’s new wave of entrepreneurs by the Financial Times in 2010 and won Seedcamp, Europe’s leading start-up competition, in 2009. His name is Emi Gal and he is one of the remarkable speakers at the 6th Webit Global Congress. Emi Gal is the founder & CEO of Brainient, a video advertising technology company headquartered in London, with offices in Bucharest and New York. Prior to Brainient Emi started two other technology businesses and advised or invested in various other startups. He is also one of the founding members of the Digital Catalyst Fund, an early stage venture fund that helps technology startups source tech talent in Romania. Emi is an occasional columnist for The Daily Telegraph and TechCrunch Europe and writes regularly on his blog at emigal.com. Outside of his business interests Emi loves quantified self experiments, sports and languages. Emi has a simple straightforward general concept - he wants to entirely change the way we perceive ads and video. One of his last conclusions is that “mobile is eating the TV, hindered only by the lack of mainstream LTE availability. But it’s getting there, faster than any of us expected it”. Emi knows what he is doing and more importantly why he is doing it. He is a totally influential speaker who will inspire you to expect and even to make a change. Don’t miss the opportunity to meet this person. You and your business will not be the same after Webit Global Congress and your meeting with Emi Gal. Apply now!

Did you see the Webit speakers? Amongst the global leaders presenting at Webit Congress - Digital Marketing & Innovation Conference on 1-2 October in the fabulous city of Istanbul you can see.

• Raja Rajamannar (CMO, Mastercard Worldwide)
• Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ (Chairman & CEO of Yandex.Turkey)
• Pete Blackshaw (Global Head of Digital & Social Media, Nestle)
• Ran Harnevo (President Video, Aol)
• Jimmy Maymann (CEO, The Huffington Post)
• Peter Vesterbacka (CMO Rovio Entertainment)
• Lars Andersen (Global Director of Social Media & Search, LEGO)
• Nikki Mendonca (President EMEA, OMD)
• Sandy Carter (General Manager, IBM)
• Julie Roehm (SVP Markeitng, SAP)
• Ariel Luedi (CEO, Hybris Group)
• Dominic Trigg (SVP, MD Europe, Rocket Fuel)
• David Moore (Chairman, Xaxis / President of WPP Digital)
• Tom Bowman (SVP, BBC Worldwide)
• Jordan Kretchmer (Founder and CEO, Livefyre)
• Norm Johnston (Chief Digital Officer, Mindshare WW)
• Jon Myers (VP & Managing Director EMEA, Marin Software)
• John Sheehy (President, Starcom MediaVest Group)

Don't miss the chance to connect with thousands of C-level global/regional advertisers, agencies, publishers, ad/marketing tech providers and disruptive startups. See the full Webit Congress Agenda.

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1 day left to apply for Audience Selection Speakers of Webit.


SPECIAL Early Bird Ticket Prices available only 30 days more. Book your place in the front row and join over 10'000 attendees (57% C-level execs) from 110 markets (countries)! Book your ticket for the Global Webit Congress at Early Bird Prices today (4 types of tickets available - the Platinum Ticket provides access to all Congress events, all Networking Areas, the CEOs Lunch, The Chairmans' Dinner on a Bosphorus Boat, Leaders' Lunch + the Special, Secret Inferno VIP tour on 30 September in Istanbul)

We are getting closer to the Global Webit Congress. You have been wondering who the Speakers at the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit are. We have the pleasure to announce who they are. Moreover, they are a lot and very qualified professionals from leading companies changing the tech scene. They are so many and every day we are adding more and more. Nevertheless, just to give you a glance at these fine professionals here are some of them: Justin Kan (Co-founder Ycombinator/Twitch/Justin.tv) Mark Shuttleworth (Founder Ubuntu & Canonical) Tony Conrad (Co-founder and CEO of about.me, Founder/True Ventures) Nicolas Burton (Founder BlaBlaCar) Brady Forrest (Highway1) Diede van Lamoen (Stripe) Linus Dahg (Partner, Wellington-Partners) Bakhrom Ibragimov (EBRD) Jason Ball (Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures) Max Niederhofer (Partner, SunStone Capital) Cem Sertoglu (Partner, EarlyBird Venture Capital) Ben Medlock (Co-founder/CTO SwiftKey) Pat Phelan (CEO & Co-founder Trustev) Peter Fredell (CEO, Seamless) JP Rangaswami (Chief Scientist, Salesforce.com) Yossi Vardi (Prominent Investor) Tzahi (Zack) Weisfeld (Co-Founder, Head of Microsoft Ventures Europe & Global Accelerator Program) Dmitry Chikhachev (Co-founder & Managing Partner at Runa Capital) Sina Afra (Co-founder of Markafoni & Investor) Tomasz Czechowicz (Founder and CEO at MCI Group) Eric Van der Kleij (Founder & Head of Level39) Ayelet Noff (Founder and CEO, Blonde2.0) Alexander Galitsky (Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners and Skolkovo Board Member) ... And many more   Hurry up! Get an early bird ticket while they are still available.

To succeed at the early stage startups need wide exposure, solid contacts, a chance to meet potential investors and a marketing budget to promote their idea. You have a great idea, a wonderful product, a strong team, the market and timing is right but you need exposure. A chance to pitch your idea at potential investors and customers. You need to market at scale and a dedicated marketing budget for the seeding stage. Does your startup need all this? Then the Founders Games at the Global Webit Congress is exactly for you. The Global Webit Congress created the 1 Million EUR Marketing Grant for startups to give them a special market advantage and to boost the business and the opportunities to success. That is right! 1 Million EUR marketing budget for startups. The founders of the Global Webit Conference have allocated 1 million Eur for up to 200 startups from EMEA and Asia. Apply and get your free expo stand at the Global Webit Congress, over 600 free Webit tickets worth over 2000 Euro each and advertising budgets in some of the major EMEA media. Build contacts; meet potential partners and clients. Promote your startup in front of the CEOs, CMOs and CTOs of the world largest and most innovative companies. That is what the Founder Games at the Global Webit Congress is all about. A chance to pitch your idea to the world. Hurry up; the application window is closing soon. Apply for the Founders Games.

If you want to be famous, if you want to talk in front of an audience of 10’000 C-level Digital and Tech executives, decision makers and global media from 110 countries, hurry up and apply for a speaker at the 6^th edition of Webit Global Congress. You have only one day left. Amongst the applicants, for the moment, you can see names like:

• Paul Devlin - SAP, Director SAP Platform Solutions
• Svetlin Nakov - Software University
• Attila Weisz - Gemius SA, Business Development Director
• Iain Blakeley - Ernst & Young, Partner
• Marta Klepka - Publicis Groupe, CEE Digital and Innovation Director
• Julie de Pimodan - Google, Talents Incubator, Google platforms evangelist
• Giuliomario Limongelli - Groupon, International Vice President for Southern Europe
• Nikkole Couture - NASDAQ OMX, Head of Multimedia Solutions Commercial
• Cuneyt Unar - Google, Business Development Manager at Google AdMob
• Vishal Gupta - Cisco Systems, VP & GM
• Vassil Mladjov - Gartner, Research Director at Gartner, etc.

The list is much longer and you can see it here. The competition is fierce and this is what makes Webit a fabulous event for all the digital industry. The speakers are from all over the world so you will be able to see `the whole picture`. Not only the speakers, but also the delegates at Webit are high-level managers at international companies like Google, Groupon and Gemius. The selected speakers shall also get a Webit Platinum Pass at value of 2000 EUR with full access to the whole Congress, CEOs Lunch, Leaders Lunch, Speakers Lounge plus all Networking Lounges, Chairman's Dinner on a boat on Bosphorus and Speakers Hammam Dinner as well of course to the official Webit Party on the man-made island Suada! The application does not guarantee you speaking slot at the Global Webit Congress. The organizers shall invite speakers among the top voted by the audience. The more people vote for you - the higher the chance to be invited to join. The organizers reserve the right to select among the most voted - the speakers and the topics that match the Webit Congress Agenda topics and requirements. The Congress agenda is governed by 60 global leaders Programme Committee and the selected Webit Audience Choice Speakers need to be aligned with their requirements including top executive role within the company, unique content, most successful case-studies, game changing products and services among them. Do not lose time and use this one last day left either to apply or to vote for any of the candidates. Webit is for you, so feel free to participate in making it memorable. Your time is now!