Wearable devices are all around and wearable technology is changing our life styles by allowing us to track and interact with the surrounding world in new ways. They are changing the perception of the ways we see, hear and interact with the world around us. According to ABI Research, about 90 million wearable devices will be sold in 2014 and demand will be higher in 2015. Most wearables are related to health and fitness but the future will see them in other fields. What are wearable devices? According to Wikipedia “wearable technology“, “wearable devices“, and “wearables” all refer to electronic technologies or computers that are incorporated into items of clothing and accessories which can comfortably be worn on the body. Wearable devices, similar to mobile phones and laptop computers can perform the same computing tasks in some cases outperforming them. They have embedded sensors and can transmit information. Wearable technology tends to be more sophisticated than mobile devices providing sensory and scanning features not typically seen in mobile and laptop devices, such as biofeedback and tracking of physiological functions. Why do we use them? They are all around us watches, glasses, contact lenses, e-textiles and smart fabrics, headbands, jewelry such as rings, bracelets, and earrings. Most wearables on the market today are fitness and healthcare monitors. Worn on our head like the Google Glass and Oculus Rift, on our wrist like the Pebble steel, Fitbit Flex or Nike + Fuelband, Moto 360, on our chest like the Uber Armour Chest strap or Polar Wearlink and Transmitter, on our ankle like the Adidas F50 Aadizero TRX Cleats. They are being intercorporated in our clothes. They can be attached to a baby like the Sproutling Baby monitor that senses, learns and predicts a baby's sleep habits. What are the future trends for wearable devices? Wearables still are a technology for early adopters. They are not perfect and there are still lots of questions to be resolved. Privacy, safety, design and customer adoption, just to mention a few. However, the future of wearable devices looks promising. Juniper research predicted the market to jump from its current $2 billion value to $19 billion by 2018. An in the world of IoT giants like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, IBM are working on new and improved solutions to help wearables. Apple is set to release its new and exciting iWatch expected to be a game changer. Intel is working on standards of interoperability.  We are seeing better integration and new applications developed for the wearable devices. The startup community is also working on new devices and solutions. Join us at the blue track of the Global Webit Congress to learn more on these promising new technologies. Get your early bird ticket now.

Confident, successful and an energetic sales executive, Chris Cunningham leads appssavvy as CEO. Appssavvy is a mobile advertising technology company, with the simple goal of making advertising better. It focuses on disrupting brand advertising by putting people at the center, using context and timing as the drivers, and closing the gap on understanding intent. Starting as a sales/marketing services organization in 2008, appssavvy grows to more than $20M in annual revenue by the end of 2010, reaching profitability. After this success that year, Chris went on to tackle his second major challenge at appssavvy – transforming it into a technology company. Launched in late 2011, appssavvy’s mobile advertising platform is growing faster than the company’s initial business and is empowering brands to reach people, within natural breaks of activities, when they are most receptive, in real-time. Outside of appssavvy, Chris is a recognized leader in the digital advertising market as a whole. Featured speaker at International CES, IAB's Annual Leadership Meeting, dmexco, Web Summit, limited partner in Bowery Capital, member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, regular contribution to CNBC & Bloomberg TV via on-screen appearances, active leader in the IAB, co-chair of IAB Social Media Committee, etc. Named one of the "Most Important People in Mobile Advertising" by Business Insider, Chris is a finalist at Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. Mobile cannot be categorized as just a trend anymore. It is a necessity. Meet Chris Cunningham at Global Webit Congress in order to learn all the mobile ‘secrets’. Book your tickets with early bird prices now!  

A lot has been said about the spectacular Istanbul that will host Global Webit Congress in October and about the impressive venue Haliç Congress Center. Moreover, the splendid agenda with the inspirational speakers. Now, the time to talk about the spectacular well-known Webit Party has come.

Global Webit Congress is famous for its memorable parties. Webit Party in 2014 is powered by Fashion TV - the international fashion and lifestyle broadcasting television channel. Webit 2014 will be the meeting point not only of the World's Digital and Tech Prophets but also of the most beautiful models from all over the world.

Founded in France in 1997, FashionTV has become one of the most widely distributed satellite channels in the world: 31 satellite and 2,000 cable systems, with a total of 500 million households in 193 countries across the five continents. Today, FashionTV is a multi-media platform offering a review of global fashion and is independently owned and operated from the headquarters in Paris, London and Vienna.

FashionTV is the only 24/7 fashion, beauty and style TV channel worldwide and provides glamorous entertainment with emphasis on the latest trends. FashionTV is the first global media vehicle to deliver the latest fashion trends, models, events, news and gossip and is first in information - when it happens, where it happens. Innovation is part of the FashionTV’s mission, so it is the first to show the latest trends, fashion weeks, models, events and fashion locations all around the world. FashionTV's unique mix of production, distribution, innovative technology and broadcasting give its viewers a VIP seat in the best available quality. Everything that happens in the world of fashion and trends, happens on Fashion TV.

Setting the highest standards for excellence in fashion and lifestyle broadcasting, Fashion TV is a leader at the fashion market as well as Webit at the digital and tech world. At Webit 2014 party you will feel special and glamorous next to C-level managers and popular models. Book your ticket with early bird price till the end of August and prepare your most fashionable outfit. You will need it!

The blue track of the Global Webit Congress will be featuring such key concept as what does entrepreneurship, startups and business knowledge have in common. Prominent speakers together with Tech leaders, influential Founders, CTOs, CIOs of the world’s most innovative companies, disruptive start-ups, top talents, and over 400 investors and 300 accredited media will participate in these inspirational discussions. Join them now! People tend to think about entrepreneurship exclusively in the context of startup ventures with a couple wild-eyed risk takers working out of a garage. What is entrepreneurship actually? Why is it relevant to all stages of life in business? How can it make even a mega-multinational more successful? What are the stages of entrepreneurship, what all stages have in common, and why you are more entrepreneurial than you think (and that is a good thing). Entrepreneurs need everything that is taught at a business school. Whether you are starting a company, buying an existing company to run or turn around, turning around a failing division inside of a company, or building a new business unit for your successful company …entrepreneurs use every tool to get the job done. At the blue track of the Global Webit Congress one of our keynote speakers, Paul Kewene-Hite will briefly explore why entrepreneurship is vital to business of any condition and size. Paul Kewene-Hite of INSEAD has over 23 years business experience with start-ups and major technology companies.

He actively mentors and consults to business and social entrepreneurs as well as governments and companies of all sizes. He has successfully worked in every corner of a technology company from tech support to finance to sales and business development to CEO.

He was a Technology Evangelist at Apple, and Director of Strategic Planning and New Business Development at NEC Computers. He was a venture capitalist and has served as VP, President and CEO of technology startups in the USA and Ireland. In addition to building technology companies, he has restructured and turned around companies in Australia and the US, he has launched a new venture in China, he built a strategic plan for an initiative by the Welsh government. He has opened new markets for businesses around the world. He has been instrumental in landing hundreds of millions in revenue for companies, and he has been intimately involved in raising millions in venture capital for multiple ventures. He has authored technology white papers and business plans, and has performed extensive business planning from full P&Ls to operations to market launches.

At INSEAD he is Director of the Entrepreneurship Accelerator, the Head Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) as well as an Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship. Quite an impressive experience. Visit the Leaders of the Future Tech Summit to hear him and join the discussion on Startups, Entrepreneurship and Business knowledge book your tickets with early bird prices now.  

He finds return business the key to success as well as mobile a trend that is not going to slow down. He is a digital advertising specialist responsible for spearheading the European business at Rocket Fuel. His name is Dominic Trigg and he is one of the speakers at Global Webit Congress. Since early 2011 Dominic has managed a rapidly expanding advertising operation, working with most leading agencies and many global brands. Having demonstrated impressive results for UK advertisers, the past two years have seen the opening of new offices in Germany, Holland, France, Italy, Spain, and the Nordics. Dominic came to Rocket Fuel from TradeDoubler, Europe’s number-one affiliate network, where he was Vice President of International. He has a long track record in the online advertising arena, having held a number of senior management roles. He worked as Managing Director for Infospace Europe, Director of Yahoo Europe's Ad Operations, and was Advertising Director for MSN UK, Hotmail, and Expedia during the .com boom years. Prior to that, he ran the first online advertising team at British Telecom, where he utilized his years of experience in traditional advertising. Dominic is a respected public speaker on digital advertising and programmatic media buying, bringing more than 15 years’ experience and endless enthusiasm to the stage. Recent appearances include the Festival of Media Global, IAB Engage, and Rocket Fuel’s quarterly breakfast seminars. Dominic was a Media Accelerator Programme finalist in 2012, acknowledging his fantastic work at the helm of a start-up business that was destined for a great future in media. Awarded #4 on Forbes' 2013 Most Promising Companies in America list, Rocket Fuel was founded by online-advertising veterans and rocket scientists from NASA, Yahoo!, Salesforce.com, and DoubleClick. Global Webit Congress gives to you the opportunity to meet such a passionate and inspirational expert. Do not miss this chance and book your ticket with early bird price now!

I don’t know if there is something that exercise children’s creativity more than LEGO. LEGO Group considers children and children’s play to be the cornerstone of everything they do.The company takes this responsibility seriously and always sets ambitions high, as only the best is good enough for the builders of tomorrow. The LEGO Group is engaged in the development of children's creativity through playing and learning. Based on the world-famous LEGO® brick, the company today provides toys, experiences and teaching materials for children in more than 130 countries. At the stage of the 6th Webit Global Congress you will have the opportunity to meet an expert from the amazing LEGO’s team. Lars Silberbauer Andersen is Global Director of Social Media & Search at the LEGO Group and is driving the well known and innovative toy company's social media & search strategy and execution. He has building the company's social media engagement from scratch and now leads a global team of social media & search marketers that drives real time engagement with consumers worldwide. In 2014 he launched LEGO® TV in 24 markets. LEGO® TV is a native mobile experience for kids where they can experience high quality animated LEGO content and also heads up the LEGO YouTube channels. Previously he worked for 10 years in the digital and broadcast media industry as digital strategist and later creative manager driving digital strategy and leading project development for Danish Broadcasting Corporation. He has also worked in the US, driving web development and user research. He holds and MA in Digital Media Science and a HD in Innovation and Organizational Strategy. Lars combines digital and social in the best way. He has great interpersonal skills and is such a humble speaker. Creativity can be contagious, so come at Webit in October and meet Lars. Book your tickets now with early bird prices.

Everyone is online, even dogs and cats have their online profiles in Facebook and Twitter. Are these online identities real? Are they protected and safe? No seriously with the boom of the Internet and the mobile connected devices we are using online identities either real or fake to log in, share data, communicate, buy stuff and make payments.We cannot do without them. No way. It seems that the online identity is becoming our new passport to the world, the digital world. When we interact with someone online is he real? How can we be sure of that? The implications of establishing a real online identity are many fold. Now our mobile devices store the online identity. We use the mobile phone in new ways safe log in to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+. We use them for e-commerce and payments. We use mobile apps to purchase and pay for products and services. We use them at the bank, at the retailers. Even the money we have is stored in our e-wallet both online and on the smartphone. We use our funds with an online identity. When someone makes a payment online, the online profile is authenticated and verified. Are personal details safe online? How secure is this? Can someone hack our online identity? How can we protect against fraud? What are the future trends? Online Identity, Security and Fraud are hot topics at the blue track of the Webit Global Congress. Tech leaders, influential Founders, CTOs, CIOs of the world’s most innovative companies, disruptive start ups, top talents, and over 400 investors and 300 accredited media will participate. Hurry up now is the time to book your place for the Global Webit Congress at an early bird price.

In order to capture people’s attention nowadays, we need a good story. Sounds pretty simple, but it is not. Daily an immense quantity of information surrounds us and customers are more picky when it comes to new information. So, without a compelling story, our product, idea, or personal brand, is dead on arrival. The 6th Webit Global Congress is a gathering point for experts at storytelling and let us present you an expert, who can say that storytelling is a lifestyle for her. Julie Roehm is currently the “Chief Storyteller” and SVP of Marketing for SAP. In this role, Julie and her team are helping to humanize the SAP brand via the stories of their customer’s and their customer’s customers. Her team also has responsibility for the corporate portfolio marketing and strategy, thought leadership as well as services marketing. Prior to this, Julie owned and ran a marketing and strategy consulting firm, /Meta, LLC for over 5 years. Before that Ms. Roehm was the SVP of Marketing Communications for Wal-Mart Stores which was succeeded by her role as the Group Director of Marketing Communications for DaimlerChrysler which succeeded her various management roles at Ford Motor Co. The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business bestowed their Distinguished Alumni Award on Julie Roehm in 2006 Julie was awarded the honor of Top 100 Most Influential Women in the Automotive Industry in 2005 and in November of the same year, Chrysler was named Interactive Marketer of the Year by Ad Age, under Julie Roehm's leadership. Julie has also been awarded Working Mother’s Top 25 Women of 2004. It is an honour for us to have her as a speaker at the stage of Webit Global Congress as well as listening to a professional storyteller will be a pure pleasure for you. Book your tickets with early bird prices now.

Using social media is a requirement in today’s business climate, so it will be one of the focuses on the 6th Webit Global Congress. Sandy Carter, the author of ‘Be Bold!’ and General Manager, IBM Ecosystems and Social Business Evangelism at IBM is one of the lectors who will discuss the topic Social media.

A recognized leader in social business, Sandy is responsible for IBM’s worldwide focus on building ecosystems around the core growth areas of social, mobile, cloud, big data and analytics. She is an award-winning author of three books, including best-selling “Get Bold”, and has received numerous social media awards: “Top 10 in Social Media" by Altimeter Group, "Top 50 Social Business Influencers" by Biz Imagined Group (UK), "Brand Leader of the Year" from the World Brand Congress, #1 Social Influencer at 2014 IBM Pulse Cloud conference, and one of the "Most Powerful Women in Technology” by CNN Magazine and Fast Company.

Sandy describes herself as a very execution focused person with innovation and creativity driving her focus areas.

The book ‘Get bold!’ offers a systematic approach to creating and implementing an effective and successful social media strategy for your business. Using the author’s “AGENDA” you can boldly take your business forward. What is that agenda?

A - Aligning your goals and culture to be ready to become more engaging and transparent.

G – “Gain Friends through Social Trust” focuses on finding your fans, friends and followers, and forming best friends from your tippers or most influential clients or outside parties.

E – Engage through experiences focuses on how a company can engage its clients and employees and dives into gaming, virtual gifting, location based, mobile, or other stellar experiences to drive that engagement.

N – Network your processes. Since this is about business, figuring out how to add social to your processes is critical.

D – Design for Reputation and Risk Management! This is the #1 areas of focus for the C level — managing the risk of having your brand online

A – Analyze your data! Social analytics are the new black!

You can learn a lot from Sandy Carter about Social and the 6th edition of Webit Global Congress is the perfect moment. Book your tickets with early bird prices now.

We are living in a constantly changing, complex, interconnected world. We are seeing all kinds of connected devices all around us both at home and at the enterprise. All these connected devices create enormous amount of data, Big Data. The great challenge facing us is what to do with it. How to make it useful. At the blue track of the Global Webit Congress we are presenting speakers from leading companies that will discuss trending topics like Big Data, Big Cloud, Connected Devices and IoT.

Connected Devices at Home

Consumers are using more and more mobile devices in their everyday life. Smartphones and tablets are connecting us to the world around us. The new trend of "wearable "connected devices are linked to our mobile phones and tablets and can measure and transmit via sensors all kind of data. At home, we see ordinary devices like thermostats, lights, garage doors and kitchen appliances all becoming "smart". These devices are connected and can be controlled with a smartphone. They have the ability to autonomously adjust settings, alert users based on information and sensors from other devices both within the home or on our wrist. All these connected devices interact with each other and create Data. Lots of it.

Connected Devices at the Enterprise

At the enterprise level, the trend is of using smartphones and tablets for business needs. Enterprises see this as an excellent way to increase employee effectiveness. This creates a lot of data and enterprises are looking for ways to use all this accumulated data for its business needs. To add to all this many industrial devices are also being connected and this is a future trend. Again, this creates data, big data.

Big Data and Big Cloud

All data that we see accumulated has to be useful for both the consumer and the enterprise. It has to be stored, analyzed and automated. The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a completely new ecosystem of interconnected devices both at home at the enterprise and all around us. In addition, all these connected smart devices are creating Big Data that is being stored in the cloud. The challenges ahead are how to make all this data useful. We are just in the beginning with many challenges ahead in making this data useful. It is not surprising that companies like IBM, Cisco, Qualcomm Ventures, Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and many others are looking at real time solutions to store, share, analyze and automate this Big Data in the Big Cloud. At the blue track of the Webit influential Founders, CTOs, CIOs of the worlds most innovative companies; disruptive startups, top talents, over 400 investors and 300 accredited media will take part in the Leaders of the Future tech discussion. Join them and get an early bird ticket now!