Leading European Tech & Digital Conference Host Of Europe’s Top Events
Italy
United Kingdom
Marco Montemagno is a digital entrepreneur, public speaker and broadcaster. A prolific public speaker Marco’s engagements range from one-to-one interviews with well known figures such as Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) in front of 1,500 people, to live interviews with Al Gore, Jeff Bezos (Amazon Founder), Nicholas Negroponte (MIT Media Lab Founder), Tony Robbins and many more.
Marco fronts and hosts major conferences that include “Techcrunch Europe” and LeWeb in Paris, the Social Media World Forum in London, IDCEE in Kiev. He is also the principal organiser and host of the Digital Domination Summit, the world’s largest online conference featuring the world’s leading experts from the digital world.
His experience comes from curating and hosting Italy’s foremost television program about the internet on Sky News Italy for 7 years, interviewing thousands of leaders and innovators in the tech and media world in front of millions of viewers every Saturday morning.
Marco has been instrumental in the promotion of the internet and digital economy to Italian businesses and consumers via successful events to reveal the opportunities presented by the Internet. Marco was founding organizer of Social Media Week Italy (over 500 events, 500 speakers, 80.000 visitors in 3 editions), Codice Internet (a tour of Italian cities with a tech show in theaters), Al Gore Meets Bloggers (600 bloggers live on TV) and Startup Train (1.000 startuppers on a high speed train!). He has been through every medium (TV, Radio, Web, Newspapers), doing presentations in the most desperate conditions, from town squares to castles, from mega conventions of 5,000 people to hotel rooms with 2 people, from meetings at nursing homes with eighty-year-olds to face-to-face meetings with sixteen-year-olds behind school desks. His latest startup promotes new media and technologies to politicians, connecting the political world with digital innovation and opportunity. Previously Marco was co-founder and CEO of Blogosfere, one of largest and most influential blog networks subsequently acquired by Populis.
Since 2013 Marco Montemagno has delivered the world’s largest annual online conference. The Digital Domination Summit is a free to attend and features 30 of the world’s leading speakers on the web from Seth Godin of Squidoo, Peter Arvai of Prezi, the world’s premiere motivational speaker, Anthony Robbins.
“Marco Montemagno has been and still is in Italy a point of reference for the digital world. He was the first to divulge Internet on television for so many years taking care of a successful program of SkyTG24 entitled “Io reporter,” leading to the first experience of citizen journalism in the news”
“Monty is the most dynamic, and unconventional presenter I have ever seen. There is no excuse to be boring on stage—ever! If you are in business or education, you can learn a ton watching and listening to Marco Montemagno!”
“I have had the opportunity to work with Marco over the past 5 years, when I was in Microsoft and most recently at Oracle, and I must say that he’s like the good wine: getting better and better At the end of 2012, Marco has joined my Oracle’s team for a major customers’ event, and his performance and insights were truly impressive and highly appreciated by the entire audience.”
“If you’re looking for someone to bring an event to life, there is no better presenter than Marco Montemagno. He captures the audience’s attention from the second he leaps onto the stage and they remain transfixed until the very end. His knowledge of the industry is invaluable, bringing a genuine depth to any topic surrounding the digital world. I would not hesitate to work with him again on any event.”
“Monty is the most dynamic, and unconventional presenter I have ever seen. There is no excuse to be boring on stage—ever! If you are in business or education, you can learn a ton watching and listening to Marco Montemagno!”
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