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CEO of Ampersand, Nicolle Pangis is one of AdTech's most prominent operators driving the convergence of TV and data-driven advertising through addressable and audience-based buying.

Chief Strategy Officer at Tinuiti and former Facebook Head of Optimization, Nii Ahene is a performance marketing strategist shaping how brands navigate retail media, social advertising, and algorithmic optimization at scale.

VP of Product Management at Yahoo overseeing DSP and SSP platforms, driving programmatic advertising innovation at the intersection of buy-side and sell-side AdTech.

VP of Media at Basis Technologies and recognized AdTech thought leader, Noor Naseer shapes programmatic strategy and champions media automation and AI-driven advertising innovation.

Chief Revenue Officer at Magnite, the world's largest independent SSP, where she leads revenue strategy across programmatic, CTV, and streaming monetization.

Serial entrepreneur who founded BlueKai (acquired by Oracle for ~$400M), pioneering the data management platform category that became foundational to modern programmatic advertising.

Columbia Business School professor whose research on advertising effectiveness, consumer privacy, and marketing analytics shapes how the AdTech industry thinks about measurement and data-driven decision-making.

Industry standards-setter driving cross-platform measurement innovation as President of CIMM, with a career built on shaping self-regulation and transparency in digital advertising.

SVP of Advertising Platforms at NBCUniversal, architecting the AdTech infrastructure that bridges linear TV and streaming for one of the world's largest media companies.

Senior partnerships executive at PubMatic driving global publisher and demand relationships for one of AdTech's leading independent SSPs in the programmatic ecosystem.

Leads Kargo, a mobile-first advertising platform focused on premium publisher monetization. Previously held senior roles at major publishers and has been influential in mobile advertising innovation.

Programmatic infrastructure veteran and Prebid.js contributor who now leads product at Audigent, bridging open-source AdTech innovation with data-driven audience solutions.

Co-founder and CSO of Raptive (formerly CafeMedia), Paul Bannister is one of AdTech's leading advocates for independent publishers, helping thousands of creators monetize at scale through programmatic innovation.

President of LoopMe driving mobile-first programmatic advertising with a focus on attention metrics and brand outcomes — a key figure in making attention measurement a mainstream AdTech currency.

VP of Programmatic at Advertiser Perceptions, Paul Gubbins is a leading AdTech research voice whose data-driven studies on programmatic advertising, identity, and privacy shape strategy for brands, agencies, and platforms alike.

CEO of Magnite, the world's largest independent SSP, steering the combined Rubicon Project and Telaria entity through a pivotal era of programmatic consolidation and CTV growth.

Veteran mobile marketing analyst, journalist, and founder of MobileGroove who has spent two decades decoding mobile advertising and app monetization for brands, agencies, and AdTech companies worldwide.

Veteran AdTech executive and VP at Amazon Advertising, best known for his decade-plus tenure as CEO of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions where he built one of the industry's most powerful B2B ad platforms.

Leads marketplace strategy at Index Exchange, one of the largest independent ad exchanges. Expert in supply path optimization and programmatic marketplace dynamics.

COO of MediaMath, one of programmatic advertising's pioneering independent DSPs, with deep expertise in buy-side technology and programmatic operations.

The architect of Netflix's advertising business, Peter Naylor is one of streaming's most influential ad sales leaders, having built premium video ad ecosystems at Hulu, Snap, and now Netflix.

VP of Product at Kevel, Phil Duffield is a leading voice on first-party ad infrastructure and retail media, helping brands move beyond Big Tech ad platforms with custom-built solutions.

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.

CEO of IPG, one of adtech's most powerful holding company leaders, driving the convergence of creativity, first-party data, and addressable media at global scale.