About The Speaker
Lazar Dzamic
Lazar Džamić is a lecturer in Digital Marketing at the Faculty for Media and Communications in Belgrade (FMK), Business School Lausanne (BSL) and the Economic Faculty in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is one of the foremost brand and marketing strategists in the region, with more than 20 years of strategic marketing experience in one of the most competitive markets in the world. He is a former Head of Brand Planning in Google's creative think tank ZOO in London, where he created the strategy team and introduced to the industry two of the world’s first Creative Data Scientists. His mission at Google was to ‘turn light into heat’: a vast amount of Google data into surprising and deep insights for creating great brand stories. Prior to Google, he also served as a Strategy Director in several London creative agencies and was one of the first digital strategists in the United Kingdom. He worked on campaigns and programs for some of the UK’s most loved brands such as Tesco, John Lewis, Waitrose, Virgin Holidays, Nando’s etc. After his return from London, Lazar is a much sought-after trainer for digital marketing transformation, working with some of the biggest local and regional clients such as Telenor, Mercator, Adidas, Erste Bank and others. He was a member of the Council for Creative Industries of the RS Prime Minister, advising on aspects of developing Serbia’s creative sectors, as well as the creative industries consultant for The European Bank for Development and Reconstruction (EBRD). He is a Marketing trainer at the regional PwC Mini MBA Academia, an ex-journalist, contributor to The Guardian and also a bestselling non-fiction author. He is a regular speaker at global and regional conferences on topics of digital marketing and brand storytelling. His book, The Definitive Guide to Strategic Content Marketing was published by Kogan Page in July 2018.