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President of Yahoo Advertising overseeing one of the largest combined DSP/SSP operations in the industry, with deep roots in the AOL and Verizon Media lineage of programmatic advertising.

Founder and CEO of Prohaska Consulting, Matt Prohaska is one of AdTech's most connected strategic advisors, helping publishers, vendors, and holding companies navigate programmatic complexity and M&A.

EVP of Global Partnerships at LiveRamp, Matt Spiegel is a key architect of the post-cookie identity ecosystem, driving strategic alliances that underpin privacy-compliant data collaboration across the digital advertising industry.

CEO of Basis Technologies (formerly Centro), leading one of AdTech's largest independent platforms for agency advertising automation and programmatic media buying.

CRO at Criteo driving the company's pivot from retargeting giant to full-stack commerce media platform, with deep expertise in performance advertising and retail media monetization.

Maureen Bosetti is a senior media executive at Initiative, an IPG Mediabrands agency, where she leads partnerships with major media and technology platforms. She is a recognized voice on media investment, platform partnerships, and the evolving agency-AdTech relationship.

Senior Reporter at Digiday who has become one of the most closely followed journalists covering programmatic advertising, publisher monetization, and the evolving digital media business.

Principal author of PwC's Global Entertainment & Media Outlook, Megan Brownlow is one of the most cited analysts tracking advertising market evolution, digital media economics, and streaming transformation across global markets.

CEO of Criteo who transformed the company from a retargeting specialist into a commerce media powerhouse, navigating cookie deprecation and privacy regulation while building one of AdTech's most significant first-party data ecosystems.

Megan Jones serves as Head of Publisher Development at Prebid.org, the industry's leading open-source header bidding solution, where she drives adoption of Prebid technology among publishers and manages relationships with the ecosystem of bidders and technology partners. She is a key figure in the open-source programmatic community and regularly speaks on topics of header bidding, publisher monetization, and supply chain transparency. Her work helps shape the technical standards that underpin a large portion of programmatic display advertising.

Chief Data Officer at Omnicom Media Group, Megan Pagliuca is one of AdTech's leading voices on privacy-first data strategy, identity resolution, and the industry's transition to a cookieless future.

Co-founder and CEO of Permutive, the privacy-first DMP pioneering cookieless audience targeting through edge computing — a defining voice in the post-third-party-cookie advertising era.

VP of Roundel, Target's retail media network — one of the largest in the U.S. — driving the convergence of first-party shopper data, programmatic advertising, and brand partnerships at scale.

Veteran AdTech journalist and editor at AdMonsters, known for authoritative coverage of programmatic advertising, ad operations, and publisher monetization strategies.

CMO at Magnite, the world's largest independent SSP, where she leads brand and go-to-market strategy for the programmatic and CTV advertising ecosystem.

VP and Market Leader at Kargo driving premium mobile advertising strategy at the intersection of creative technology and programmatic, with deep expertise in publisher and advertiser partnerships.

CEO of The New York Times Company who has championed privacy-first advertising and subscription-led media economics, making her one of the most influential voices in premium publisher monetization.

CEO of Magnite, the world's largest independent SSP, who architected the Rubicon Project-Telaria merger to create the dominant CTV monetization platform in programmatic advertising.

Chief Revenue Officer at Raptive (formerly AdThrive), one of AdTech's leading independent publisher monetization platforms, driving revenue strategy for thousands of content creators across billions of monthly ad impressions.

Chief Strategy Officer at Quantcast driving AI-powered advertising and cookieless identity solutions at the forefront of privacy-compliant programmatic.

Senior Director of Product Management at Google Ad Manager, shaping product strategy for one of the world's most widely deployed publisher ad servers and programmatic platforms.

President of AppLovin, Michael Rubenstein is a key architect of one of mobile advertising's most powerful programmatic platforms, driving the company's transformation into a dominant force in app monetization and user acquisition.

Co-founder and CEO of VideoAmp, the company challenging Nielsen's dominance by building next-generation cross-screen TV measurement and currency solutions.

Director of Market Insights at the ANA, Michael Sweeney drives influential research on ad fraud, media transparency, and programmatic accountability that shapes advertiser policy and industry standards.