Mirek Wasowicz
IgnitionOne

Mirek Wasowicz oversees operations and business development in countries of Central and Eastern Europe as Sales Director CEE in IgnitionOne company. Mirek has more than 15 years experience in digital marketing. Starting his career in computer games industry, he then spent four years working on various emarketing and IT projects in Poland and Sweden. He was also a founder of a lead-generation software company, that he sold before joining IgnitionOne. He worked across a broad range of both B2B and B2C clients including BMW, Volvo, Toyota, Coca-Cola, Wrigley's, T-mobile, to name a few.[link]
The International Conference within the rASiA.com Forum session “Innovative Banking Technologies 2012. Advanced solutions.”

Eric de Fontenay
CEO & Founder of MusicDish

Starting in the 90's as a telecom consultant, Eric de Fontenay has spent his career steeped in the "digital revolution." He founded digital media firm MusicDish, subsequently launching the largest music newswire Mi2N. In 2009, he turned his focus on China's music industry, culminating in the MusicDish*China brand. He's since worked on projects for major artists in China and Taiwan, partnered with music festivals such as Love Peace and Midi Music Fest as well as developing Western acts and brands in China. He's been quoted in media as diverse as FT China and China Daily to Portugal's DIF magazine.[link]
The International Conference within the rASiA.com Forum session “Innovative Banking Technologies 2012. Advanced solutions.”

May 17th, Moscow, Digital October, Bersenevskaya Embankment, 6.
The first Russia and Asia Forum within rASiA.com - one of the biggest international events in Moscow, Russia and Asian countries business society press conference took place on Thursday, April 26. The official programme of the Forum, the participating countries and the main plans and perspectives of the Forum were announced during the confererence.
Thursday 17 May 14:00

Session: “New media. Actual advertisement and marketing solutions”

place:Digital October

The advertisement is the mover of commerce and for all digital sphere. The advertisement advances together with media. New media advance in many sectors and countries getting ahead traditional media. The quantity of the advertisement in Internet and mobile sphere is often bigger than traditional sectors of advertisement but there are new opportunities and new instruments for marketing and for advertisement campaigns. New media and advertisement synergism gives great forecasts for the future and some of them have already given record results. The speakers from Asia will share their experience in new media.

Thursday 17 May 10:00

Session “Innovative banking technologies of 2012. Modern solutions. Financial and investment partnership of Russian and Asian banks”

place:Digital October

Banks play their part in new digital sphere development. The representatives of world banking system will present new innovative solutions , payment systems and business models in parallel with e-commerce sales volume increasing, monetization of many services, stream of e-money.

Wednesday 16 May 14:00

Session: “Internet and wireless mobile technologies”

place:Digital October

Digital sphere grows everyday. There are practically no companies who did not place part of their business in this digital sphere and some of them placed the whole business into digital sphere and settled down there. The weight of such fact either it's perspectives which are making known not only for social communications but also for wide business aspects is incontestable. And there are even more perspectives in the wireless technologies sphere now. The new generation networks LTE will intercharge fixed connection including Internet. What will it be? How it will be? What benefits you can get knowing and using new services? Answers for all these questions you will be able to know at “Internet and wireless mobile technologies” session.

Wednesday 16 May 10:00

Session: “Entertainment indusrty and the content”

place:Digital October

It is not a secret that content of big size such as audio, music videos, animation, films, games are the main driving force in the digital space. Every day hundreds of millions of people look for such content in the Internet, listen to it, watch, load, share and also create it. For many sectors of big and serious business which is growing in the digital sphere the user's acting with entertainment models, models of preference, recommendations are the base for analytics researches and serious questions decisions making.


Anastassia was born in Russia. Graduater from Moscow National University, then she went to Germany and made a soaring career. She held high positions in such companies as Mercedes, Deutsche Telekom, and today Anastassia is the Senior Vice-President of global operations of Qualcomm company, which is the leader in wireless telecommunication facilities.

Jessica Kam
Producer, Heart Farm Pictures Film-tv award produser

Jessica Kam is a senior TV executive and film producer who has more than 15 years of experience in film, TV, music, news and digital media, with a wealth of media experience that spanned 3 continents.

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Alexander Olkhovsky
Projects lead, Sberbank of Russia

Over 9 years of experience in telecommunication, e-commerce and digital media.

First business registered in the age of 17 – regional content provider “Mobikon” grown from one-man company to market leader to be later integrated in A1 Group. Founder of Softbox.ru – legal software catalog, sold to RBC holding in 2005. Opened first legal Russian distributor of digital music in 2006 – “Music Online”.From 2007 – R&D chief in Next Media holding (Promo.ru, now part of Ogilvy Group). Founder of UniBill– payment service provider with innovative risk management solution that guaranteefraud protection.

Graduated Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Financial Management Faculty, Moscow. Diploma topic – “Investment projects efficiency estimation”.

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Matthias Röder
Eliette and Herbert von Karajan Institute

Dr. Matthias Röder is the managing director of the Karajan Institute and as such responsible for the overall strategy and worldwide business development of the KARAJAN® brand and its associated products. Dr. Röder joined the Karajan Institute in 2011 from Harvard University, where he was a member of the music faculty and also received a PhD in musicology in 2010. At Harvard he founded the Digital Musicology Study Group (now at MIT) and worked on several music technology and digital learning projects with partners such as the Packard Humanities Institute or the American rock band Incubus. Prior to Harvard University, Matthias studied music at the renowned Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

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Bill Yanbin Zang
Shanghai Synergy Culture & Entertainment Group

Vice President of Shanghai Synergy Culture & Entertainment Group, Chairman of China Recording Industry Committee, Vice President of China Audio-Video Association

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Jean Hsiao Wernheim
a-Peer Holding Group

International Chief Executive, Shanghai Synergy Culture and Entertainment Group; Co-Founder of a-Peer Holding Group.

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Alexander Shulgin
Author and Composer, Founder of Gruppa Kompaniy Familia, Founder of rASiA.com

Alexander Shulgin is a famous Russian composer and businessman.

As a composer Shulgin has had more than 400 published writings: 250 songs (52 of which were Number 1 in music charts and 7 were awarded for “Song of the Year”) and about 200 instrumental pieces, 20 hit albums, 5 of which were Number 1. He has also had 10 Number 1 albums as co-producer. Shulgin also has worked with a lot of Russian and foreign artists.

Shulgin also was the producer and judge of such popular TV music contests as "Star Factory" (the Russian version of American "Star Academy") on the first national TV-channel and "Become a Star" (the Russian version of "Pop Idol") on the second national TV-channel.
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The first international large-scale event rASiA.com was held in May 2012 in Moscow. There were no events of such a level in Moscow before. rASiA.com 2012 consisted of two parts - Forum and Festival. 
The second day of rASiA.com Forum was more lively. While Sessions were continuing in main conference hall there were also seminars and lectures in additional rooms. 
About the first day read here.