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CEO of Publisher Collective (appointed Jan 2026); programmatic sell-side veteran (ex-OpenX EMEA, Sublime CEO, Index Exchange).

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.

SVP, Strategy at OpenX.

Veteran AdTech operator who scaled programmatic and media businesses across AppNexus, Xandr, Maven, and The Arena Group — now a fractional C-suite advisor and Board Director at Collective Audience.

Independent analyst and forecaster specializing in retail media, e-commerce, and advertising technology; founder of Media, Ads + Commerce and former Principal Analyst at eMarketer.

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 & Managing Partner of Counteract; co-founder of Essence.

Founder and CEO of Lotame, Andy Monfried is one of AdTech's most prominent independent data entrepreneurs, known for championing privacy-safe audience targeting and identity resolution in a post-cookie world.

VP of Measurement and Addressability at IAB, focused on post-cookie measurement standards and privacy frameworks.

Board Member at BigCommerce with expertise in adtech platform scaling and M&A integration

Anmol Malhotra is a senior advertising partnerships leader at Snap, driving monetization strategy and advertiser relationships for one of the most visually innovative social platforms in AdTech.

Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs, and one of the most influential voices in digital marketing and content strategy.

Anna Bager is President and CEO of the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), where she leads efforts to modernize and elevate out-of-home media as a data-driven, programmatically enabled channel withi…

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.

AdTech sales and partnerships leader at Yieldmo, known for driving revenue growth and publisher monetization strategies in the programmatic advertising space.

CEO at IAB Tech Lab driving industry standards for transparency, privacy, and measurement in digital 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.

VP of Marketing at Prebid.org, championing open-source header bidding as foundational infrastructure for transparent programmatic advertising monetization.