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Jimmy Pitaro is the Chairman of ESPN, a core business segment of The Walt Disney Company.

AdTech and data infrastructure leader at Hightouch, driving the composable CDP and data activation movement that is reshaping how marketers connect warehouse data to advertising platforms.

Jo Cronk is the Co-CEO of Whalar.

Chief Operating and Financial Officer at Signet Jewelers, the world's largest retailer of diamond jewelry, overseeing both financial strategy and operational execution.

Chief Growth Officer at Piano, a leading analytics and customer experience platform, with a career spanning senior commercial and growth roles across media and technology.

CMO at HyphaMetrics driving go-to-market strategy for the panel-based TV measurement challenger taking on Nielsen's dominance in cross-platform audience measurement.

Chief Intelligence Officer, North America at Omnicom Media Group, Joanna O'Connell is a veteran AdTech strategist known for translating programmatic complexity into actionable intelligence across agency, trade, and analyst roles.

AdTech creative leader specializing in AI-driven brand engagement across voice and emerging platforms.

Joanne Hsu directs the University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers, the gold-standard measure of U.S. consumer sentiment that moves financial markets and informs advertising spend decisions globally.

Senior media and AdTech executive at dentsu, leading global media partnerships at the intersection of advertising technology, data strategy, and media investment.

CMO of Expedia Group driving global travel marketing strategy, with a career spanning senior marketing leadership roles across Europe and the US in travel and e-commerce.

Jochen Schlosser is the Chief Technology Officer of Adform.

Serial entrepreneur and AI-coaching pioneer known for bridging entrepreneurship, marketing technology, and AI — founder of Coachvox AI and a widely-followed voice on AI's transformative role in marketing.

GVP, Customer Strategy at Zeta Global; previously VP, Customer Success at Tealium.

Host and owner of The Joe Budden Podcast, funded largely by its Patreon membership network.

Joe DePinto is a veteran retail and convenience store executive who joined Target Corporation following a long tenure as CEO of 7-Eleven, bringing deep expertise in retail media, loyalty programs, and consumer data strategy to one of the largest retail media networks in the U.S.

Co-founder and co-CEO of Viral Nation, one of the world's largest influencer marketing agencies, who helped pioneer the creator economy as a mainstream marketing channel.

Serial entrepreneur and investor who founded true[X] and led ad revenue at Fox Networks Group; a leading voice challenging programmatic advertising's broken economics and championing attention-based metrics.

Joe Petyan is a senior AdTech and media leader at VML UK, known for driving data-driven advertising strategy and programmatic innovation within one of the world's largest creative and media networks.