Manny was a born marketing strategist supported by his experience as a Strategy Director for multiple ad agencies, namely Publicis Manila, NuWorks, and Ogilvy.

He has been in the brand and marketing communication industry for more than 15 years, and has developed marketing communication, data, and digital strategies for brands such as Nestle, Unilever, P&G, Jollibee Foods Corporation, San Miguel Beer, Asia Brewery, Philippine Basketball Association, Belo Essentials, Smart, PMFTC, Monde Nissin, and Resorts World Manila, among others.

Manny is a program chair and lecturer for the Digital Marketing Fundamentals Program at CDM, the Philippines’ leading provider of digital marketing training and transformation solutions.

Shayne has been in the media industry for more than 16 years, having spent her advertising agency journey with Starcom, Carat, UM, Mediacom, iProspect, and now as Chief Digital Officer of Havas Media-Ortega.

She brings with her rich experiences from traditional media to digital, from media planning and buying to business development and performance marketing. True to her media craft, Shayne has brought home recognitions locally and regionally – three of which include Campaign Asia Digital Agency of the Year Award 2017, '40 under 40' individuals in APAC, and one of the Women to Watch also by Campaign Asia in 2016 and 2020 respectively.

Shayne is a program chair and lecturer for the Digital Marketing Fundamentals Program at CDM, the Philippines’ leading provider of digital marketing training and transformation solutions.

From managing multiple accounts at the servicing side as an account director for MRM//McCann where he drove business results for NIVEA, Ayala Land, Havaianas, and BPI Asset Management, among others, Miko now orchestrates Singlife Philippine’s digital strategy.

In his downtime – which is still quite busy on its own – Miko continues to hoard camera films for his film photography, leverage his project management skills for his travel itineraries and compete for the cheapest airfare flights.

Miko is a program chair and lecturer for the Marketing Technology Foundations Program at CDM, the Philippines’ leading provider of digital marketing training and transformation solutions.

Jeano Cruz is the Creative Director and Head of Social at GIGIL. He believes his social career started in 2016 when his Korea puns post went viral on Facebook, despite being very corny.

Since then, he has aimed to apply his learnings from that experience to his advertising work, eventually helping brands like 7-Eleven, Cobra Energy Drink, Saint Jo Flowers, Orocan, CIMB Bank PH, and more to go viral.

In one year, Jeano's work with the ideas agency has since collected awards at Spikes, AdFest, CLIO, Boomerangs, Kidlat, Tambuli, and more. Recently, he is one of the core drivers that helped GIGIL bag the Philippines' Independent Agency of the Year & Creative Agency of the Year (Campaign Asia 2020) and Most Effective Independent Agency in Asia (APAC Effies 2020).

Jason is the Head of Global Content Strategy, Partnerships, and Business Development for Shell Eco-marathon, the global academic program by Shell focused on energy optimization and one of the world’s leading student engineering competitions.

Prior to Shell, he was the Business Development Director and Communications Strategist for ADA Asia’s Philippine office. ADA Asia is one of the region’s top agencies in data, analytics, and business insights. He also started his career with one of the country’s largest creative agencies, McCann Worldgroup Philippines. In less than eight years, he moved up from social media manager to become the Head of Digital Strategy and lead for social marketing for Asia-Pacific.

He has worked on nearly 200 brand campaigns so far and is a key player in some of the most culture-changing work from the marketing industry. Jason is a teacher at heart and is a recognized educator, corporate trainer, and international speaker.

Outside of the industry, he creates work-life inspiration content on his YouTube channel, Better Today with Jason Cruz.

Jason is a program chair and lecturer for the Social Media Program at CDM, the Philippines’ leading provider of digital marketing training and transformation solutions.

With 15+ years of experience in digital marketing for multiple brands from across industries. Areas of expertise include content and platform strategy, online media, and campaign analysis. Led development and integration of product-based solutions through the agency’s internal capabilities and strategic partnerships. Handled campaigns that received industry recognitions local and international.

A Carlos Palanca Award-winning writer and an AB Journalism graduate from the University of Santo Tomas, RJ has been in the field of corporate communications and marketing for over 15 years.

Prior joining Mang Inasal, she was Group Marketing Manager in SM Supermalls for almost 7 years; PR Accounts for Broadcast and Digital in ABS-CBN's Integrated Corporate Communications Division for 6 years; and Internal Communication Officer in Chowking for 4 years.

In SM, she led the Family Segment Marketing group that has reaped over 20 local and international recognitions from various award-giving bodies for several customer insight-based campaigns and programs. Among which is a brainchild that's very close to her heart -- SuperMoms Club, the Philippines' first ever and biggest branded social community with over 200,000 members to date. In 2021 alone, SuperMoms Club was named Outstanding Innovation during COVID-19 in Global Business Excellence Awards, Bronze Award under the Best Social Media or Word of Mouth Campaign in the 21st Dragons of Asia, Engaged Community of the Year in The International Business Awards 2021, and the Best Customer Experience Breakthrough Award from the prestigious World Retail Awards.

A writer by heart, a communicator by profession, a mommy blogger by passion, and a life-long lover of learning.

Over 12 years of experience in various fields of advertising including Media Planning/Buying, Digital Creative, Content Marketing, Social Media Strategy, and Connection Planning.

I was a graduate of OMD Philippines' first Media Management Internship Programme (2009) and stayed in the company for 6 years with exposures on both traditional and digital media. I have worked with various brands from different categories such as retail, pharmaceuticals, banking, automotive, electronics etc. - SM Retail, Pascual Laboratories, AXA, Epson, Huawei, Viber, VISA, KIA, Levi's to name a few.

In 2015, I joined Primer Group of Companies as Digital Creative and Content Lead. I was able to provide digital strategies, campaigns, executions and solutions for some of Primer's roster of globally-renowned retail brands - Herschel Supply Co., JanSport, FitFlop, Native Shoes, Hedgren, Poler, Bratpack, ROX, ResToeRun, etc. Aside from local projects, I also had the privilege of crafting regional digital campaigns for various Primer brands across Southeast Asia. Most recently, our regional campaign for Native Shoes, "Native Wanderlite" (A Social Digital Promotion across 6 Southeast Asian markets) won Best Digital Promotion at the Native Shoes Global Conference held in Canada.

In 2017, I joined the Havas Ortega Group as Communications and Connection Planning Manager and have handled a good roster of brands in various categories such as Pharmaceuticals, FMCG, Finance, Energy, Leisure/Entertainment, Insurance, etc.

At present, I lead the Intelligence and Strategy Teams at Havas as MX Intelligence and Brief Director providing meaningful, integrated strategies across business units and key accounts. I've also written and co-wrote several thought leadership pieces including the REACT: Prosumer Report on Sustainability and The World Re-imagined: Prosumer Report on Health and Hygiene.