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Pete Markey is a prominent UK marketing leader and CMO known for brand-building and customer-centric marketing strategies, currently serving at the University of Nottingham.

Peter Naylor currently serves as Chief Client Officer at Nielsen, bringing decades of senior advertising and media sales leadership to the role.

Peter Ruchatz is a senior marketing and growth executive at TeamViewer, known for driving brand transformation and digital marketing strategy at scale across global B2B tech markets.

CFO of Omnicom Group and key financial architect behind the landmark Interpublic acquisition, one of the largest consolidations in advertising history.

AdTech professional at The Trade Desk

CEO of GumGum and one of AdTech's most prominent champions of cookieless, privacy-first advertising, leading the industry's shift toward contextual intelligence powered by AI and computer vision.

Phil Spencer is the CEO of Microsoft Gaming and head of Xbox, a major player in gaming advertising and interactive entertainment monetization as Microsoft expands its ad-supported gaming ecosystem.

Former CEO of Cannes Lions who transformed the festival into the global benchmark for creative excellence, now Executive Chairman at Informa Festivals bridging the creative and AdTech worlds.

Senior Microsoft marketing executive and former Facebook UK MD who has shaped digital advertising strategy across EMEA for over two decades, known for championing brand-building in the digital age.

Co-President and COO of Omnicom Group following the Omnicom-IPG merger, Philippe Krakowsky is a holding-company veteran who shaped IPG's strategic and operational direction for over 15 years before stepping into a leadership role at the combined entity.

Founder & Global CEO of Neuro-Insight.

Co-founder of Optable, pioneering privacy-first data collaboration infrastructure for the post-cookie advertising era.

VP of Product at Walmart Connect driving one of the fastest-growing retail media networks in the US, sitting at the intersection of first-party commerce data and programmatic advertising.

VP of Product Management at Index Exchange driving publisher monetization, auction mechanics, and privacy-compliant identity solutions at one of programmatic advertising's largest independent SSPs.

Preethy Vaidyanathan has served as Chief Product Officer at Tapad, a cross-device identity company owned by Telenor Group. She oversees product strategy for Tapad's device graph and identity resolution capabilities used by advertisers and agencies globally. Her work is central to enabling cross-screen audience targeting and measurement in a privacy-constrained environment.

APAC programmatic leader at Index Exchange driving cookieless identity and data partnership strategy across Australia, India, and Southeast Asia's fragmented regulatory landscape.

Retail media strategist driving Criteo's APAC expansion by helping e-commerce players monetize owned ad platforms across Southeast Asia, Australia, and Japan.

COO of RTB House, the Warsaw-based DSP pioneering deep learning in programmatic retargeting at global scale.

VP of Programmatic and Data Partnerships at Condé Nast, driving first-party data strategy and identity solutions for one of the world's most prestigious premium publishers in a post-cookie world.

Media professional at Fox Corporation.

R.L. Stine is not an AdTech professional — he is the bestselling horror author behind the Goosebumps and Fear Street franchises, with no known presence in the advertising technology industry.