Exploration Leader, Insights @ IKEA | New Business Development, Strategic Thinking. More than 30 years of experience of innovation. Managed the development of IKEAs global platform for qualitative research which has democratised consumer research at IKEA. I am currently exploring how sharing insight across industry can enrich our common understanding .

As Founder and CEO of ReDem®, we have been developing a SaaS platform that leverages AI for survey quality assurance, aiming to improve data integrity through technology.

Since October 2024, I have served as the President of the Austrian Market Research Association (VMÖ), actively working to advance the insights industry. Internationally, I am engaged with the Global Data Quality (GDQ) initiative.

Constanza Cilley is co founder and MD of Voices!, research and consultancy. She is President of Saimo (association of marketing and opinion researchers in Argentina), member of the Board of Wapor Latinoamerica (and one of the founders), of the board of WIN and serves in the committee of education for Wapor Global. Former MD of TNS. Has given presentations in all regions of the world and is in the media +100 times per year

Founder of Lovebrands, a global strategic insight, innovation and brand consultancy

Vito is a 15 year insights professional leading Insights at KraftHeinz for Canada and NA Coffee. Prior to joining KraftHeinz, Vito spent 10 years working at Unilever in North American across iconic brands like Dove, Dove Men, TRESemme, Axe, Degree/Rexona and Dollar Shave Club.

Joey Ophof is an Associate Director at SKIM who partners with clients in APAC to develop and implement effective revenue and innovation management strategies. He believes in building strong relationships and understanding each client's unique needs. Joey is the winner of the 2024 ESOMAR APAC YES! award.

Oana Popa Rengle is a qualitative researcher with 25 years of experience, a certified idea generation and creative problem solving processes facilitator, and a psychotherapist practicing Systemic Family Therapy.

Head of Brand and Marketing for the Tata Group.
Experiences across the world’s of Customer Insights, Brand Building, Behavioral Economics and Digital marketing strategies.

Since 1995, Dr. McCandless has specialized in Neuroethology—the study of brain function during natural behavior and stimulation—with a focus on motivation, goal-directed behavior, navigation and spatial orientation, gaining extensive experience in the direct investigation and analysis of the neurophysiological systems underlying the structure and causes of behavior, as well as non-invasive
brain imaging methods such as fMRI and advanced computational modeling and statistical analysis of dynamic systems.

Dr. McCandless is the recipient of four competitive Federal Awards to support his research into the neurophysiology of behavior and cognition. He has published in major peer-reviewed journals, and presented his work at national and international conferences. After leaving academia to investigate real-world, everyday human behavior at-scale, he has won the IBM LEAD Award for Shopper Insight, the EXPLOR Award for Research Innovation from DM2 and the Insights Association, and the ESOMAR Research Effectiveness Award (Gold), among other honors.

Dr. McCandless earned his A.B. in Psychology at the University of Chicago, M.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh, and Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He also holds a Certification in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, a National Science Foundation Center of Excellence.

Dolphine Mongina is a Geospatial Data Scientist at VIDA, a company that accelerates the pace of electrification in Africa and assesses the risk of climate change on critical infrastructure. In her current role, she provides critical geospatial data that helps VIDA realize its impact.
With over 4 years of experience in geospatial and statistical analysis, she has become an expert in applying Geospatial Information Systems and Remote Sensing to address challenges in various sectors, including market research, energy, environment, climate, and agriculture.

She has a keen interest in applying cutting-edge technology, geospatial technologies, and primary research to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change in the agricultural sector in developing countries. This interest recently led her to lead a project on boosting economic growth and shaping livelihoods in the agricultural sector using machine learning in Kenya and Malawi. This topic was presented at the 2023 ESOMAR annual congress.

Outside of work, Dolphine enjoys watching plays and participating in theater activities. She also enjoys listening to poetry as a simple and enjoyable way to relax and unwind

Kristin is a passionate industry shapeshifter. Insight professional, author, academic, keynote speaker, statistician, qualitative researcher, creative, strategist and brand builder.
Kristin has been the recipient of many industry nominations and awards, including the Fernanda Monti award (ESOMAR), the Ginny Valentine Bravery Award, Insight250 and MRS Research Hero. She is the founder and owner of the London-based creative consumer consultancy, Kubi Kalloo and a Fellow of the MRS.

Aeton Lim brings extensive consulting and forecasting experience on innovation and go-to-market strategies, particularly for leading, world-class clients in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry, both in the Asia-Pacific region and other markets within Europe, the United States and Latin America.

In addition to his innovation consulting work, Aeton is an NIQ award winning thought leadership contributor whom regularly provides his perspective to Asia C-suite thought leadership pieces to help advance and shape industry perspectives. He is also an Honoree in the prestigious Global GreenBook Future List in 2025, a recognition to his leadership, professional growth and helping to trailblaze the future of the industry.

Alongside that, Aeton is a Next-Gen APAC Leader whom drives the annual global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) agenda and input to key business DEI priorities at the corporate level. Aeton have also helped NielsenIQ Singapore obtain Company of Good National Award from the nation’s President through advocating and promoting partnerships with commercial and non-profit partnership as a force to do good.

Outside of work, Aeton is an accredited board director at the Singapore Institute of Directors that advocates for effective corporate governance, sustainability and transformation for meaningful change. He has also mentored non-profit leadership alongside board-level executives, providing guidance on growth direction.

Minh currently leads research and development of Predictive and Generative AI products in marketing and marketing research for the APAC Consumer & Market Insights team at Google. He brings over 10 years of experience of research & development of privacy-centric marketing effectiveness solutions on platforms such as Ads Data Hub, Geo Experiments, and Marketing Mix Modeling.

Prior to his current role at Google, Minh developed ads planning & measurement solutions for advertisers and agencies at Dentsu Inc. and Facebook (now Meta) in Japan. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences such as ESOMAR Congress (2022, 2023, 2024) and Insights Festival (2021), ESOMAR APAC (2020, 2023) and has also served as a lecturer at Tokyo Tech, Hitotsubashi University and New South Wales University.

Minh earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a specialisation in AI from the Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology.