Maria Todorova, Co-founder, CEO & CCO of Next-DC

Maria is a former art director of Euro RSCG and Ogilvy and Mather Sofia. During her career she has won four times the prize for advertising agency of the year – as an art director in McCann Erickson Sofia and Ogilvy Sofia.

She been awarded numerous local and international creative and Effie awards. She has been nominated for "Women of the Year" in 2011 for her contributions to the culture as a curator of Sofia Design Week 2011 and is featured in "Capital"'s "Top 100 of most influential women in Bulgaria in 2012".

Maria believes that creativity and technologies build experiences, which inspire and change people, and most of all, connect them to the world as never before.