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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.

Ari Rosenberg is a veteran digital advertising executive and founder who has long advocated for alternative pricing models in digital advertising beyond CPM, including performance-based publisher compensation models. He is a longtime columnist for MediaPost's Online Publishing Insider and a respected contrarian voice on digital advertising business models. His writing and speaking challenge conventional wisdom about how publishers and advertisers should structure their commercial relationships.

Co-founder and CEO of Anzu.io, the pioneer bringing programmatic, blended in-game advertising to mainstream AdTech and major brand budgets.

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.

Arjun Dev Arora is an entrepreneur and investor who co-founded ReTargeter, one of the early retargeting advertising platforms. He has since become an active angel investor and advisor in the AdTech and MarTech space, mentoring startups and contributing to the broader ecosystem.

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.

Pioneer in contextual intelligence and semantic web technology for AdTech, bridging AI-driven content analytics with privacy-safe targeted advertising.

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.

Arun Pattabhiraman is a global marketing leader who has held CMO and VP-level roles at major AdTech firms including InMobi and LoopMe. He is known for championing AI-driven advertising and brand outcomes measurement in mobile and video environments. He is a regular speaker at industry events including Cannes Lions and Advertising Week.

CTO of Adform, one of Europe's largest independent ad tech stacks, architecting GDPR-compliant programmatic infrastructure that processes billions of daily impressions.

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

Co-founder and President of Optable, a leading privacy-safe data collaboration and clean room platform — Assaf Henkin is a key architect of post-cookie identity infrastructure in AdTech.

Aude Gandon serves as Global CMO of Nestlé and has been an influential voice on the advertiser side of the AdTech ecosystem, particularly around data-driven marketing, personalization at scale, and responsible advertising. She has spoken extensively at major industry events about how large brands should approach digital transformation and programmatic investment. Her perspective as a major advertiser shapes demand-side expectations across the ecosystem.

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.

CTO of InfoSum and a leading architect of data clean room technology, Ben Cicchetti is shaping how brands collaborate on data without compromising consumer privacy.

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.