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Meta engineering leader and W3C co-editor driving the technical architecture of Privacy Sandbox and privacy-preserving ad standards that will reshape the future of digital advertising.

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 Innovid, the independent CTV advertising and measurement platform; a seasoned AdTech operator who has scaled multiple programmatic companies and is a leading voice for independent measurement in the connected TV era.

CEO of Audigent, a leading data curation and identity platform helping publishers and advertisers navigate the post-cookie 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 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.

Boaz Cohen is a veteran AdTech engineer and entrepreneur known for his technical contributions to ad serving and creative technology. He has been involved in multiple AdTech ventures following his work at Sizmek and continues to advise startups in the ad serving and measurement space.

Boaz Peer is co-founder and CEO of Sightly, a brand intelligence and activation company that uses AI to help advertisers respond to real-time cultural moments with appropriate ad placement and creative. Sightly's Brand Mentality platform sits at the intersection of brand safety, contextual targeting, and moment marketing. He is a thought leader on the topic of AI-driven contextual advertising and cultural relevance in media buying.

Co-founder and CPO of Optable, pioneering privacy-safe data collaboration and clean room technology for publishers and advertisers navigating the cookieless era.

Digital media strategist and researcher at USC Annenberg's Center for the Digital Future, translating two decades of AdTech and agency experience into forward-looking analysis on digital transformation and consumer behavior.

VP of Marketing Science at Meta, Brad Smallwood is one of AdTech's foremost authorities on advertising measurement, leading Meta's efforts to redefine attribution and incrementality testing in a privacy-first world.

Brad Weltman leads public policy efforts at Index Exchange, one of the largest independent ad exchanges globally. He represents the company's interests in regulatory and policy discussions around digital advertising, privacy legislation, and open internet standards.

Creator of JavaScript and co-founder/CEO of Brave Software, Brendan Eich is disrupting AdTech by building a privacy-first browser and the Basic Attention Token (BAT) ecosystem that pays users for their attention.

Brendan Kitts is a senior research and marketplace quality leader at Amazon Ads, focusing on auction design, ad relevance, and marketplace integrity. He has published influential academic and industry research on programmatic auction mechanisms and ad quality.

Product leader at The Trade Desk shaping programmatic advertising and CTV tools, with a background bridging editorial and AdTech product strategy.

CRO at Innovid driving revenue growth for one of CTV advertising's leading independent measurement and delivery platforms, helping shape how brands and broadcasters transact in the connected TV era.

CEO of Permutive, the privacy-first publisher data platform redefining audience targeting in a cookieless world through on-device computation.

The architect behind ads.txt and sellers.json, Brendan Riordan-Butterworth has shaped the technical foundations of supply chain transparency for the global programmatic advertising ecosystem.

Brent Halliburton is a senior business leader at Freewheel, Comcast's ad tech division focused on premium video and CTV advertising. He has extensive experience in video ad tech, having previously worked at numerous digital media companies.

CEO of Klover, pioneering first-party data monetization by connecting consumers with brands through cashback rewards while building privacy-compliant advertising solutions in a post-cookie world.

The 'father of programmatic advertising' who invented the ad exchange at Right Media, built AppNexus into a $1.6B AdTech giant, and now leads Scope3 in making digital advertising sustainable.

Chief Strategy Officer at Basis Technologies, Brian Stempeck is a veteran AdTech operator shaping programmatic advertising strategy and enterprise media automation at one of the largest independent DSPs.

Founder of Madison and Wall and former GroupM Global President of Business Intelligence, Brian Wieser is one of advertising's most respected independent analysts, known for authoritative ad spending forecasts and media market intelligence.