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Co-founder of Essence Global, Andrew Shebbeare helped pioneer the programmatic media agency model and built one of the world's most influential data-driven digital agencies before its landmark acquisition by GroupM/WPP in 2015.

IAB's VP of Measurement and Addressability, Angelina Eng is one of AdTech's most influential standards-setters driving industry consensus on privacy-preserving identity, measurement, and the post-cookie transition.

President & CEO of OAAA, Anna Bager is one of AdTech's most influential trade leaders, having shaped standards for both mobile advertising at IAB and the digital transformation of the $8B+ out-of-home industry.

Google's VP of Privacy Sandbox, Anthony Chavez is the central architect of the post-cookie advertising era, leading the industry's most consequential privacy-preserving ad tech initiative.

CEO of IAB Tech Lab, Anthony Katsur is the driving force behind the digital advertising industry's most critical technical standards, from ads.txt to privacy-preserving infrastructure.

Co-founder and CEO of Aqilliz, pioneering blockchain-based privacy-preserving advertising solutions across Asia-Pacific and redefining data collaboration in the cookieless era.

Academic critic and author who scrutinizes AdTech's societal harms, surveillance capitalism, and the political economy of attention — a leading scholarly voice challenging the ethics of data-driven advertising.

Director of Ad Engineering at The Washington Post and prominent publisher-side AdTech advocate, known for championing user privacy, open-source standards, and sustainable advertising practices in digital journalism.

VP of Marketing at Prebid.org, championing open-source header bidding as foundational infrastructure for transparent programmatic advertising monetization.

Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of TripleLift, a leading independent SSP known for native and visual advertising technology, shaping programmatic strategy across native, CTV, and display formats.

Co-founder of Beeswax and creator of the Bidder-as-a-Service model, now AdTech's most candid commentator through Marketecture media.

Co-founder and CSO of Check My Ads Institute, the AdTech industry's leading watchdog forcing brands and platforms to account for how programmatic ad dollars fund disinformation and extremist content.

CEO of Smart AdServer, Arnaud Creput is one of Europe's leading voices on privacy-first programmatic advertising, championing cookieless solutions and data sovereignty as alternatives to U.S. AdTech dominance.

Chairman & CEO of Publicis Groupe who transformed one of the world's largest ad holding companies into a data and AI powerhouse through landmark deals like the $4.4B Epsilon acquisition.

Chief Customer Officer at DoubleVerify, driving client strategy and partnerships for one of AdTech's leading digital media measurement and brand safety platforms.

Chief Product Officer at Integral Ad Science, driving product strategy for digital ad verification, brand safety, and media quality across programmatic channels.

Media and AdTech strategist advising major broadcasters and platforms on CTV monetization, programmatic advertising, and the economics of digital transformation.

Founder of State of Digital Publishing and one of the industry's sharpest critics of Google's impact on publishers, blending deep technical SEO expertise with advocacy for sustainable digital journalism.

Serial AdTech entrepreneur who sold Admeld to Google and now leads Sourcepoint, the consent management platform reshaping how publishers balance privacy compliance with monetization.

COO of Magnite, the world's largest independent SSP, Ben Kartzman is a key architect of the programmatic sell-side ecosystem with deep expertise in CTV monetization and large-scale ad tech operations.

Serial AdTech entrepreneur and CEO of Sincera, pioneering supply chain transparency and fraud detection in programmatic advertising after leading Dstillery's AI-driven audience targeting platform.

VP of Strategy & Partnerships at Amazon Ads, Ben Sylvan is a key architect of Amazon's retail media and DSP partnership ecosystem, helping cement Amazon as a top-three global digital advertising platform.

AdTech operator who led TVSquared's rise as a pioneer in cross-platform TV measurement and attribution, navigating its landmark acquisition by Innovid in 2021.

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.