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Digital Summit Asia Sri Lanka 2026

The Epicentre

Asia’s greatest influence was never built through lines. It was built through Centres of ideas, culture, and exchange. Today, those forces converge once again. This is where the next movement begins.

01 & 02 October 2026 @ Waters Edge

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A new epicentre

The Epicentre

Join us this October.

The future of digital is not being built in one place.

It is emerging from a new Centre of creativity, technology, and intelligence.

For centuries, Asia changed the world through connected Epicentres of ideas, culture, and exchange.

Today, a new Epicentre is rising.

  • Creators.
  • Innovators.
  • Entrepreneurs.
  • Communities.

Each with the power to shape what comes next.

Digital Summit Asia brings them together.

To create new conversations.
New possibilities.
And a new Centre of influence.

Because the future belongs to those who move it.

The programme

Two days at
the epicentre

  1. 08.00 – 09.00

    Registration + Morning Networking with Breakfast

    DMASL
  2. 09.00 – 09.15

    Welcome by DMASL Summit Project Chairs

    DMASL
  3. 09.15 – 09.30

    Speech by Chief Guest

  4. 09.30 – 10.00

    Session 01 – Opening Keynote

    Presentation
  5. 10.00 – 10.30

    Session 02 – From Watch It to Want It: The TikTok Effect by

    Presentation
  6. 10.30 – 11.00

    Session 03 – Creator Economy and how to use it efficiently by

    Presentation
  7. 11.00 – 11.30

    Session 04 – What does creativity mean when almost anything can be made? by

    Presentation
  8. 11.30 – 12.00

    Session 05 – Making People Care: What Your Brain Does Before You Decide by

    Presentation
  9. 12.00 – 12.30

    Session 06 – Stop Answering Briefs. Start Answering Consumers by Varun Khiatani & Namrata Chawla

    Presentation
  10. 12.30 – 01.30

    Networking Lunch

  11. 01.30 – 02.15

    Breakout Rooms

    • Main Stage Session 07 – From Local to Global: Expanding Your Local Business Worldwide by
    • Breakout Room 1 Session 1 – The Hotel Marketers Playbook by Abhay Kanna
    • Breakout Room 2 Session 1 – The Discovery Wars: How Brands Get Chosen When AI Answers First by BrandRadar
    • Breakout Room 3 Workshop 1 – The Full-Funnel Effect for Services: Turning TikTok Attention into Action
    Breakout
  12. 02.15 – 03.00

    Breakout Rooms

    • Main Stage Session 08 – The 12 marketing myths we need to unlearn to be more effective by
    • Breakout Room 1 Round Table Discussion – Future of Travel
    • Breakout Room 3 Workshop 2 – The Creator Operating System Audit by
    Breakout
  13. 03.00 – 03.45

    Breakout Rooms

    • Breakout Room 1 Waterside Chat – Creators in Travel
    • Breakout Room 2 Session 2 – An Anatomy of An Idea by Himanish Ashar
    Breakout
  14. 03.45 – 04.00

    Tea Networking

  15. 04.00 – 04.30

    Session 07 – “Why so serious?” Humour in advertising communication by Prateek Suri

    Presentation
  16. 04.30 – 05.00

    Session 08 – The Thinking Performance Marketer in AI Era by

    Presentation
  17. 05.00 – 05.15

    End of Day 01 & Invitation to Night Summit

  18. 06.30 – 09.30

    Night Summit

    Zone A — Speed Networking Zone B — The Talent Zone C — Card Kudu Game Zone D — Gaming Zone

    Zones

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About DMASL

The Digital Marketers Association of Sri Lanka strives to be the representative of the digital marketing, marketing technology and online media industries of the country, bringing together these diverse individuals on their own professional merit.

This will be a platform for organizations and individuals to expand their horizons in the field of digital marketing while contributing to the evolution of the industry.

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The venue

Join us for an
incredible Summit

01 & 02 October 2026

At Water’s Edge Colombo 316,
Ethul Kotte Rd,
Battaramulla
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Dissara Udomdej (Ohm)

CEO & Founder, Yell Worldwide

Ohm Dissara Udomdej is the Founder and CEO of YELL Worldwide, as well as the creator of Thailand’s first advertising agency network. Under his leadership, YELL has expanded its presence from Southeast Asia to the Chinese market as Thailand's first advertising agency operating across 8 major cities.

With an in-depth business presence in core regions, YELL supports brands seeking to enter and grow across ASEAN markets. With nearly two decades of experience in advertising and creative marketing, he combines entrepreneurial leadership, creative thinking, and practical expertise in brand strategy and cross-border business expansion. He has served as a juror, speaker, coach, and mentor in the international industry, contributing to the development of creative talent and the advancement of the advertising field. Today, he is widely recognized as one of the leading experts in Asia’s creative marketing sector.

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Naved Qureshi

Business Head, Southeast Asia, Voxxy Media

Naved Qureshi has spent 20 years chasing one question: Where does consumer attention move next? His career has taken him across FMCG, retail, banking and beverage alcohol – and today, into the creator economy.

As Business Head, Southeast Asia at Voxxy Media, Naved works with brands to move beyond one-off influencer activity and build creator-led growth systems that connect culture, communities and commerce. Previously, he was Marketing & Digital Lead, Southeast Asia at Diageo, leading integrated marketing and digital transformation across multiple markets. From launching a bank in India to building brands in fiercely competitive categories, Naved has consistently worked where brand, content and commercial growth meet. His point of view is simple: creator-led marketing only works when it is culturally true, operationally scalable and commercially provable.

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Aneek Ahmed

Founder of The Outwit Company & The Certified Strategic Marketer Platform.

A brand strategist with 30 years across Asia and Europe. His career spans eight countries and both sides of the table — creative agencies and client-side — most recently in director-level brand roles across Asia and Europe for The Coca-Cola Company handling billion dollar brands with multi-million dollar budgets.

That mix is the point. He builds strategy sharp enough to matter and practical enough to execute — the rare ability to carry an idea from the strategy deck to what a shopper actually meets. Outwit is built around depth, not headcount: one senior strategist on the problem, and a whole bunch of connected experts bespoke to a client brief.

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Lulu Raghavan

President, APAC – WPP Brand & Design

Lulu Raghavan is the President for WPP Brand and Design in APAC. She works closely with the market leaders and their leadership teams across APAC to nurture a culture of high performance and extraordinary creativity to drive business growth.

Lulu has spent over 25 years at the company across Landor offices in San Francisco, New York, London and Mumbai in various roles. She set-up Landor in India in 2008 and has grown it to be India’s largest and most reputed brand and design consultancy. She also brings deep experience working with leading Sri Lankan brands, including DSI Samson Group, Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts, CIC Holdings, Ambeon Capital, Brandix, Link Natural and Nations Trust Bank, among others.

She is a well-known industry commentator who frequently speaks and writes on brand and design at various forums. Notable awards and achievements include Campaign India Mentor of the Year 2023, Campaign India Woman Shaping Change 2023, IMPACT Top 50 Women in Media, Marketing and Advertising (2024, 2023, 2019, 2015), Cannes Lions Design Jury 2018. She has co-authored 5 business school case studies on branding which are in wide circulation globally. She conceptualized and anchored “Beyond Logo”, a TV show for Bloomberg that evangelized the transformative power of brand on business.

Lulu is a strong advocate women in leadership and actively mentors younger women in her free time. She is proud to have helped establish WPP Stella in India which is a mentoring programme for high potential women. She teaches frequently at various business schools on branding. She is also the author of “Go Further, Faster: Shaping a Life that Matters.” Lulu serves as a Trustee for Dignity Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the wellbeing of senior citizens in India.

She holds a BA in Economics and Applied Math from Davidson College in the US and an MBA in International Business and Marketing from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research in India. She understands and speaks five languages including English, Hindi, Tamil, French and Spanish.

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Farah Mehdi

Client Partner, CSAA: Consumer Business – TikTok (ByteDance)

Farah Mehdi is a regional business leader at TikTok, driving growth and partnerships with CPG businesses. She works with brands and agencies to unlock the power of TikTok to build brands, connect with communities and drive business results. Farah is passionate about helping brands move at the speed of culture and turn creativity into measurable growth.

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Danny Advani

Head of Content & Business – Dot Media

Danny finds his deepest satisfaction in the moment where culture and brands collide — and something genuinely new enters the internet. That instinct has quietly shaped some of India’s most awarded digital work over the past 14 years.

Recognised as Social Samosa’s 40 Under 40 in 2026 and CMO Asia’s Most Influential Digital Marketer in 2025, Danny has spent his career as a growth strategist and made the vertical of creator economy from a line item into a revenue engine. At Only Much Louder, the influencer vertical he led contributed 35% of the organisation’s total revenue — while he maintained team attrition below 3%, in an industry where 25% is considered normal. His campaign for Tata Capital won the SAMMIE for Best Use of Creators. His work for Maybelline New York — Fit Me As I Am — won the E4M Best Product Launch Campaign.

Together with the E4M for Influencer Marketing Agency of the Year and wins at Maddies and Screenage, his campaigns for Google, YouTube, Netflix India, HUL, and Philips have quietly accumulated a body of work the industry has repeatedly chosen to recognise. As Head of Content & Business Strategy at Dot Media, he is currently building three new verticals — Content backed by creators, IP and storytelling and creator-first branded content — each projected to contribute meaningfully to the agency’s topline within the year.

Over his career he has produced over 500 films across TVC, DVC, social, and platform-first formats for more than 50 brands spanning FMCG, D2C, tech, finance, and OTT. His belief is simple: the format should follow the idea. And the idea should always find the cultural white space a brand can own before anyone else does.

Danny is known for building teams that don’t leave and clients that keep coming back. He is trying to build an industry he is proud of.

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Sundar Swaminathan

Marketing Science Advisor, Ex Head of Global Brand and International Marketing Science at Uber

Sundar is a Marketing Science Advisor helping CMOs prove the ROI of their Marketing Investments across the entire funnel. Most of his experience was at Uber where he built various of their Marketing Science teams including their first ever Brand Marketing Science program. After that, he spent years at Startups and Scaleups in both FTE and Advisory positions.

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Oliver Atkinson

Director of Narrative Strategy – Casual Films

Oliver Atkinson is Director of Narrative Strategy at Casual, a brand storytelling film company working with clients worldwide. He helps organisations make complex, rational propositions feel human without giving up credibility.

He created StoryPulse, an approach that starts with the story the audience is already telling themselves, then shapes the brand narrative to sit inside it, so the brand becomes part of that story rather than an interruption to it. He also works on proving storytelling effectiveness physiologically: measuring how immersed an audience genuinely is in the moment, rather than what they report afterwards.

His work draws on narrative psychology, behavioural science and neuroscience, applied across brand strategy, creative and client pitches. He speaks regularly on storytelling and creative effectiveness, and co-hosts The Audience Connection, a podcast about attention, persuasion and narrative.

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Ovais Ahamed

Founder of Senator We Run Ads

Ovais is the founder of Senator We Run Ads – A performance Marketing agency and Self Learning Platform.

He is a Performance Marketing & Programmatic Advertising expert with 12 years of experience. Worked with some of the biggest brands, Agencies and AdTech companies in GCC & Germany like Google, Nissan, SkyNews Arabia, Delivery Hero, Talabat, Foodpanda and many more.

Ovais also creates content related to Digital Marketing strategy and Marketing technology and has more than 285K subscribers on YouTube, 100K+ learners on uDemy with some bestseller digital marketing courses.

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Laurent Thevenet

Head of Creative Tech APAC, Publicis Groupe

Laurent Thevenet is a creative technology leader working at the intersection of art, data, design, and engineering. Over the last 25 years, he has worked across tech startups and creative agencies, delivering large-scale digital campaigns, products, platforms, and physical experiences across APAC for brands including Nike, Google, Netflix, YouTube, Heineken, McDonald’s, Suncorp, Cathay Pacific, and AXA.

Laurent currently helps drive Publicis Groupe’s AI enablement agenda across APAC, while leading a regional collective of 30+ hybrid talents delivering frontier creative technology work for Publicis Groupe clients. He remains an active practitioner across emerging technologies, with a constant focus on turning new possibilities into practical creative solutions for teams and clients.

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Kerem Gorkem Orhan

Client Partner, South Asia and Turkey
TikTok - ByteDance

As Client Partner at TikTok, Kerem works with brands and agencies across Finance, Telco, Retail, and Auto industries in Turkey and South Asia to unlock growth through TikTok.

With 10+ years of experience across TikTok, Google, and Deloitte, he brings a strong perspective on digital marketing, strategic partnerships, and business growth, helping brands turn changing consumer behaviours into meaningful business outcomes.

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