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Media and AdTech strategist advising major broadcasters and platforms on CTV monetization, programmatic advertising, and the economics of digital transformation.

Founder of State of Digital Publishing and one of the industry's sharpest critics of Google's impact on publishers, blending deep technical SEO expertise with advocacy for sustainable digital journalism.

Serial AdTech entrepreneur who sold Admeld to Google and now leads Sourcepoint, the consent management platform reshaping how publishers balance privacy compliance with monetization.

CTO of InfoSum and a leading architect of data clean room technology, Ben Cicchetti is shaping how brands collaborate on data without compromising consumer privacy.

COO of Magnite, the world's largest independent SSP, Ben Kartzman is a key architect of the programmatic sell-side ecosystem with deep expertise in CTV monetization and large-scale ad tech operations.

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.

VP of Strategy & Partnerships at Amazon Ads, Ben Sylvan is a key architect of Amazon's retail media and DSP partnership ecosystem, helping cement Amazon as a top-three global digital advertising platform.

AdTech operator who led TVSquared's rise as a pioneer in cross-platform TV measurement and attribution, navigating its landmark acquisition by Innovid in 2021.

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.

Co-Founder and CTO of Kevel (formerly Adzerk), Blake Commagere pioneered API-first ad serving infrastructure that powers retail media networks and custom ad platforms for major publishers and marketplaces.

Digital media strategist and researcher at USC Annenberg's Center for the Digital Future, translating two decades of AdTech and agency experience into forward-looking analysis on digital transformation and consumer behavior.

VP of Marketing Science at Meta, Brad Smallwood is one of AdTech's foremost authorities on advertising measurement, leading Meta's efforts to redefine attribution and incrementality testing in a privacy-first world.

Creator of JavaScript and co-founder/CEO of Brave Software, Brendan Eich is disrupting AdTech by building a privacy-first browser and the Basic Attention Token (BAT) ecosystem that pays users for their attention.

CEO of Klover, pioneering first-party data monetization by connecting consumers with brands through cashback rewards while building privacy-compliant advertising solutions in a post-cookie world.

The 'father of programmatic advertising' who invented the ad exchange at Right Media, built AppNexus into a $1.6B AdTech giant, and now leads Scope3 in making digital advertising sustainable.

Chief Strategy Officer at Basis Technologies, Brian Stempeck is a veteran AdTech operator shaping programmatic advertising strategy and enterprise media automation at one of the largest independent DSPs.

Founder of Madison and Wall and former GroupM Global President of Business Intelligence, Brian Wieser is one of advertising's most respected independent analysts, known for authoritative ad spending forecasts and media market intelligence.

Veteran AdTech executive transforming Quad from a legacy printer into a data-driven retail media and marketing services powerhouse; previously led turnarounds at Comscore and built 360i into a top digital agency.

Veteran AdTech operator who led Xandr through its evolution as AT&T's programmatic and TV advertising platform, with deep expertise in the convergence of linear TV and digital advertising.

Chief Product Officer at Lotame driving the company's cookieless identity strategy, including the development of Panorama ID — a privacy-first identity solution reshaping addressability for publishers and advertisers.

Chief Transformation Officer at Xandr driving the integration of premium programmatic and CTV capabilities into Microsoft Advertising's global ecosystem.

CEO of Acxiom, one of AdTech's most storied data and identity companies, driving the future of privacy-safe, data-driven marketing at enterprise scale.

Co-founder of Improve Digital (acquired by Azerion) and CEO of Say It Now; one of Europe's most influential voices in publisher monetization and programmatic advertising.