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Chief Strategy Officer at WPP and former Accenture Song leader, Baiju Shah is a transformative force bridging AI, creativity, and marketing strategy at the world's largest advertising holding company.

44th President of the United States, Barack Obama is not an AdTech industry figure but is globally recognized as a transformative political leader, author, and public speaker.

Bari Weiss is a prominent journalist, author, and founder of The Free Press — not an AdTech professional. No credible AdTech industry presence identified.

Barry Adams is the founder of Polemic Digital, a specialist news SEO consultancy, and one of the most respected technical SEO voices covering how search algorithms and platform policies impact news publishers and digital media.

CEO of Sourcepoint; co-founder of Admeld (Google acquisition, ~$400M)

Global Head of Marketing, Data & Technology Solutions at WPP; former InfoSum SVP Marketing.

Ben Cohen is the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, known more for social activism and conscious capitalism than AdTech — his influence on brand purpose-driven marketing has shaped how companies approach values-based advertising.

Seasoned ad tech operator who scaled programmatic video and CTV businesses through major industry consolidation; now President & COO at Attain, bringing deep supply-side and data-driven advertising expertise.

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.

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.

SVP of Connected Media at Keurig Dr Pepper, Ben Sylvan brings deep retail media and programmatic expertise from his time scaling Amazon's advertising partnerships into a multi-billion dollar business.

CCO at Operative; TV attribution expert

Co-founder and CTO of Yieldlove, a Hamburg-based publisher monetization platform, and a recognized technical architect in European header bidding and server-side auction infrastructure.

Co-founder and CEO of Sirdata, a leading European data and consent management platform, Benoit Oberlé is a prominent figure in privacy-first audience data and AdTech infrastructure.

AdTech executive and sustainability advocate who championed green media and supply-path optimization at Sharethrough before ascending to Chief Commercial Officer at Equativ, one of Europe's leading independent ad tech platforms.

Global brand experience and commerce leader at Dentsu, known for bridging creative strategy with data-driven marketing and retail media innovation.

Associate Professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School who bridges academic research and industry practice in advertising technology, media strategy, and digital advertising ecosystems.

Senior advertising executive at Pinterest driving measurement and insights strategy, with deep roots in Facebook/Meta's ad measurement and research ecosystem.

Amazon advertising executive with deep expertise in programmatic and retail media, helping shape how brands leverage Amazon's massive first-party data ecosystem.

AdTech executive and startup coach with deep programmatic advertising expertise.

Bill Owens is the Executive Producer of CBS's 60 Minutes, one of the most influential figures in American broadcast journalism — not a figure in the AdTech industry.

Co-founder and CEO of Audigent, Drew Stein is a leading architect of post-cookie programmatic infrastructure, pioneering supply-side data curation and privacy-safe identity solutions for the 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.