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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.

CMO at Sprinklr

Aruna Paramasivam oversees data and identity product strategy at Magnite, the largest independent sell-side advertising platform, focusing on cookieless identity solutions and publisher data activation. She works on integrating identity frameworks including UID2 and publisher-provided identifiers into the SSP stack. Her work is central to how sell-side platforms adapt to the post-cookie environment.

CTO of Adform, one of Europe's largest independent ad tech stacks, architecting GDPR-compliant programmatic infrastructure that processes billions of daily impressions.

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

Co-Founder & CEO of Jedify; serial ad-tech founder (Optable, Amobee, Kontera).

Senior AdTech marketing executive at Nexxen (Tremor International) known for bridging content partnerships and programmatic advertising to drive brand storytelling at scale.

Nestlé's Global CMO and former Google executive who champions data-driven, purpose-led marketing at massive scale — a leading voice on digital transformation and brand-building in the modern AdTech era.

VP of Programmatic & Data Partnerships at TF1 Pub, Aude Perrier is a leading figure in European broadcaster-led programmatic, driving the convergence of linear TV and CTV inventory into data-driven digital channels.

Serial entrepreneur and data industry pioneer, Auren Hoffman is CEO of SafeGraph and a prolific thought leader on data, identity, and the future of people-based marketing.

Ava Seave is a Principal at Quantum Media, a boutique strategic advisory firm serving the media and entertainment industry.