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Global brand experience and commerce leader at Dentsu, known for bridging creative strategy with data-driven marketing and retail media innovation.

Associate Professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School who bridges academic research and industry practice in advertising technology, media strategy, and digital advertising ecosystems.

Senior advertising executive at Pinterest driving measurement and insights strategy, with deep roots in Facebook/Meta's ad measurement and research ecosystem.

Bijan Tehrani is a cinema and advertising technology executive known for his work at Club and his deep expertise in video advertising, content monetization, and streaming media.

Amazon advertising executive with deep expertise in programmatic and retail media, helping shape how brands leverage Amazon's massive first-party data ecosystem.

AdTech executive and startup coach with deep programmatic advertising expertise.

Co-founder and CEO of Lil Snack, a gaming and interactive ad format startup, with deep roots in mobile gaming monetization and AdTech product leadership.

Co-founder and CEO of Audigent, Drew Stein is a leading architect of post-cookie programmatic infrastructure, pioneering supply-side data curation and privacy-safe identity solutions for the open web.

CEO of Mediaocean, the infrastructure backbone processing $200B+ in annual media spend — a serial AdTech entrepreneur who has spent two decades building the financial and workflow systems that power global advertising at scale.

Co-founder and CEO of Preciso, a DSP bringing self-serve programmatic infrastructure to underserved Latin American and Iberian markets.

Co-Founder and CTO of Kevel (formerly Adzerk), Blake Commagere pioneered API-first ad serving infrastructure that powers retail media networks and custom ad platforms for major publishers and marketplaces.

Co-founder and CTO of Sizmek, one of the largest independent ad serving and programmatic platforms, who helped build the technical backbone of global digital advertising infrastructure.

CEO of the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) for over two decades, Bob Liodice is one of the most influential voices shaping marketing accountability, brand safety, and industry standards in the U.S. advertising ecosystem.

AdTech veteran and digital transformation leader, Bob Lord is a senior executive at Horizon Media known for driving innovation at the intersection of media, data, and technology.

Bohuslav Rychlik heads programmatic and ad tech at Seznam.cz, the Czech Republic's leading independent search and media platform and one of Europe's most notable alternatives to Google dominance.

Software engineer and author best known for 'Programming TypeScript'; now building AI developer tools at Anthropic — a technical bridge between web engineering and the frontier AI era.