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Co-founder of Sparrow Advisors and a leading AdTech strategist known for cutting through complexity on identity, privacy, and the future of programmatic advertising.

COO of Index Exchange, one of the world's largest independent ad exchanges, driving global operations and strategy for a platform processing billions of programmatic transactions daily.

CEO of Index Exchange, Andrew Casale transformed his family's ad network into one of the world's largest independent programmatic marketplaces and became a leading industry voice for publisher rights, supply chain transparency, and open web standards.

CRO at TripleLift driving revenue growth across native, display, and CTV programmatic advertising at one of the industry's leading native ad platforms.

Independent analyst and leading voice on retail media and commerce media, formerly principal analyst at eMarketer and VP at Comscore.

VP of Data Science Engineering at NextRoll, Andrew Pascoe builds the ML infrastructure powering programmatic advertising at scale — bridging research and real-time bidding systems across AdRoll and RollWorks.

Co-founder of Essence Global, Andrew Shebbeare helped pioneer the programmatic media agency model and built one of the world's most influential data-driven digital agencies before its landmark acquisition by GroupM/WPP in 2015.

Co-founder and CEO of Chalice Custom Algorithms, pioneering self-serve custom bidding tools that give media buyers algorithmic control without relying on black-box DSP optimization.

IAB's VP of Measurement and Addressability, Angelina Eng is one of AdTech's most influential standards-setters driving industry consensus on privacy-preserving identity, measurement, and the post-cookie transition.

COO of Magnite, the world's largest independent SSP, where he helps lead programmatic and CTV infrastructure powering billions in ad spend across the open web.

President & CEO of OAAA, Anna Bager is one of AdTech's most influential trade leaders, having shaped standards for both mobile advertising at IAB and the digital transformation of the $8B+ out-of-home industry.

Google's VP of Privacy Sandbox, Anthony Chavez is the central architect of the post-cookie advertising era, leading the industry's most consequential privacy-preserving ad tech initiative.

CEO of IAB Tech Lab, Anthony Katsur is the driving force behind the digital advertising industry's most critical technical standards, from ads.txt to privacy-preserving infrastructure.

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

Academic critic and author who scrutinizes AdTech's societal harms, surveillance capitalism, and the political economy of attention — a leading scholarly voice challenging the ethics of data-driven advertising.

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.

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.

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.

CEO of Smart AdServer, Arnaud Creput is one of Europe's leading voices on privacy-first programmatic advertising, championing cookieless solutions and data sovereignty as alternatives to U.S. AdTech dominance.

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.

Chief Product Officer at Integral Ad Science, driving product strategy for digital ad verification, brand safety, and media quality across programmatic channels.