2025 Speakers
As SVP Commercial Strategy & Growth, Mike is responsible for establishing & executing the growth strategy for the business of Hyper Hippo’s live games and maximizing the profitability of the business. Prior to Hyper Hippo, Mike spent 20 years scaling new digital businesses in the entertainment industry at Comcast and NBCUniversal.
Phil Shpilberg, founder and former president of GameChangerSF (sold to Pixis), is an AI-focused data scientist with over a decade of experience in gaming and mobile marketing.
Athar “Z” Zia is the CEO of BLKBOX.ai, an AI-powered all-in-one creative intelligence platform for mobile marketers to analyze, ideate, create, test, and scale.
With deep expertise in statistics, ad auctions, and performance marketing, Z previously helped scale a top gaming advertiser to become the fifth largest on Meta — achieving a track record of $1M in daily ad spend. Driven by the rise of artificial intelligence and creatives being the key lever to unlock scaled ad performance, he then left Meta to build BLKBOX.ai in 2020.
Home of the Gamesforum events series, Mobilize & Monetize podcast, leading mobile game analysis and more about the world of mobile games marketing and monetization.