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Former Amazon Ads leader who helped build one of the world's largest retail media platforms, now founding Apollo Program to advance the next generation of advertising technology.

One of AdTech's most prominent buy-side voices, Vinny Rinaldi leads programmatic and addressable media at The Hershey Company and is a leading industry advocate for supply path optimization and media quality.

CEO of Ziff Davis who has transformed the digital media company into a performance marketing and programmatic advertising powerhouse through aggressive M&A and operational scale.

Founder of RingCentral and pioneer of cloud-based unified communications, whose telephony APIs and call tracking infrastructure have become critical tools for marketers measuring offline conversion ROI from digital ad spend.

Wade Rifkin leads streaming advertising strategy at Disney, overseeing monetization across Hulu and Disney+ ad-supported tiers. He is a key figure in the CTV and streaming advertising space, helping shape how premium video inventory is packaged and sold programmatically.

Founder of TPA Digital and The Programmatic Advisory, Wayne Blodwell is one of the UK's most recognized voices on programmatic strategy, AdTech stack transparency, and media buying best practices.

Wendell Wenjen is a privacy and policy expert at the Digital Advertising Alliance, where he works on self-regulatory programs and compliance frameworks for interest-based advertising. He engages with regulators, industry stakeholders, and standards bodies on consumer privacy matters.

SVP of Global Business Development at Magnite, the world's largest independent SSP, where she drives CTV strategy and premium publisher partnerships in programmatic advertising.

VP of Product at DoubleVerify driving brand safety, fraud prevention, and attention measurement innovation in digital advertising.

Wilfried Schobeiri is CTO at Ogury, a global AdTech company specializing in personified advertising and cookieless targeting solutions. He has been a key technical architect behind Ogury's privacy-centric identity approach, which does not rely on device identifiers or cookies. His work is widely cited in discussions around sustainable identity alternatives.

VP of Global Ad Revenue at Snap Inc., driving advertising strategy and revenue growth for one of the most innovative mobile-first, AR-forward ad platforms in social media.

Will Margiloff is the CEO of IgnitionOne, a digital marketing technology company focused on customer intelligence and cross-channel advertising optimization. He is a veteran AdTech entrepreneur with decades of experience building and scaling marketing technology platforms.

CRO at Outbrain driving global revenue strategy for one of native advertising's leading platforms, with deep expertise in programmatic monetization and publisher partnerships.

Co-founder and CTO of Taboola, one of the world's largest native advertising and content recommendation platforms, serving hundreds of billions of recommendations monthly.

Chief Commercial Officer at Criteo driving the company's transformation into a leading commerce media platform, overseeing global revenue strategy across retail media networks and performance advertising.

Co-founder and CEO of Outbrain, Yaron Galai built one of the world's largest native advertising and content discovery platforms, and orchestrated its landmark 2024 merger with Teads to create a scaled open web alternative to Big Tech.

Yaron Weitzman is a senior reporter covering the advertising technology and media industry, with a particular focus on programmatic advertising, ad tech companies, and the business of digital media. His reporting has broken several notable stories about major ad tech platforms and the evolving landscape of digital advertising.

Yoav Arnstein leads Google Ad Manager, one of the world's largest publisher ad serving platforms, overseeing product strategy and partnerships with publishers globally. He has been a key figure in Google's efforts around programmatic monetization and the evolution of the open web advertising ecosystem. His work directly impacts how publishers manage and optimize their ad inventory.

Yoav Naveh is a seasoned AdTech product leader who co-founded ConvertMedia, a video ad tech company acquired by Taboola. He subsequently led ads product development at Taboola and held senior roles shaping programmatic video and native advertising strategies.

Principal Analyst at Insider Intelligence/eMarketer specializing in mobile advertising and location-based marketing, widely cited for forecasts and research shaping how brands and agencies navigate the digital ad ecosystem.

CEO of Emplifi (formerly Socialbakers), Yuval Ben-Itzhak is a veteran AdTech and cybersecurity executive who has led major social media marketing platforms and shaped how brands measure digital advertising effectiveness.

Yves Schwarzbart leads policy and regulatory affairs at IAB UK, one of the most influential trade bodies in the European digital advertising industry. He is a key voice on GDPR, the UK's post-Brexit data protection framework, and the regulatory challenges facing digital advertising. His work shapes how the UK AdTech industry responds to and engages with regulators including the ICO and CMA.

Yvonne Eisenring drives programmatic and data monetization strategy at Ringier, championing the European publisher perspective on privacy-first advertising and GDPR-compliant audience solutions.

Founder of pioneering DSP Triggit (acquired by Facebook) turned prolific AdTech angel investor, with deep roots in programmatic advertising and real-time bidding.