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Fashion and luxury industry analyst at Vogue Business, Anusha Couttigane bridges the worlds of high fashion and emerging technology, offering sharp insight into how brands navigate digital transformation and consumer trends.

VP of Engineering at The Trade Desk driving real-time bidding infrastructure and ML-powered optimization, including the integration of Kokai AI into core programmatic decisioning.

AI and data strategy leader at Samba TV driving connected TV measurement and audience intelligence at the intersection of streaming and programmatic advertising.

Co-founder and CEO of Aqilliz, pioneering blockchain-based privacy-preserving advertising solutions across Asia-Pacific and redefining data collaboration in the cookieless era.

Aram Sinnreich is Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at American University, where he brings a critical scholarly lens to the intersections of digital media, surveillance capitalism, and the commercial explo…

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.

Retail media pioneer and brand marketing executive who built Target's Roundel into one of the most influential retail media networks before joining Uber to lead its advertising business.

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.

Veteran digital advertising contrarian and founder challenging CPM orthodoxy; longtime MediaPost columnist and architect of performance-based publisher pricing models.

Co-Founder & CEO of KanduAI and a contributor to IAB in-game advertising measurement standards, Ariel Shemesh is a builder at the intersection of gaming, AI, and programmatic advertising.

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.

Pioneer of self-serve retargeting technology and co-founder of ReTargeter, one of the first platforms to democratize audience-based display advertising for mid-market brands.

Co-founder of Tribe Capital, applying quantitative and data-science methods to early-stage investing in AdTech, identity, and commerce media infrastructure.

Longtime leader of Equativ (formerly Smart AdServer), Arnaud Creput has been one of Europe's most prominent voices for privacy-first, publisher-centric AdTech and digital advertising sovereignty.

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.