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44th President of the United States, Barack Obama is not an AdTech industry figure but is globally recognized as a transformative political leader, author, and public speaker.

Bari Weiss is a prominent journalist, author, and founder of The Free Press — not an AdTech professional. No credible AdTech industry presence identified.

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.

CEO of Sourcepoint; co-founder of Admeld (Google acquisition, ~$400M)

Global Head of Marketing, Data & Technology Solutions at WPP; former InfoSum SVP Marketing.

Ben Cohen is the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, known more for social activism and conscious capitalism than AdTech — his influence on brand purpose-driven marketing has shaped how companies approach values-based advertising.

Seasoned ad tech operator who scaled programmatic video and CTV businesses through major industry consolidation; now President & COO at Attain, bringing deep supply-side and data-driven advertising expertise.

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.

SVP of Connected Media at Keurig Dr Pepper, Ben Sylvan brings deep retail media and programmatic expertise from his time scaling Amazon's advertising partnerships into a multi-billion dollar business.

CCO at Operative; TV attribution expert

CMO of Sharethrough and one of AdTech's leading voices on sustainable programmatic advertising, championing carbon-neutral media buying and the Green Media Product initiative.

Global brand experience and commerce leader at Dentsu, known for bridging creative strategy with data-driven marketing and retail media innovation.

AdTech executive and startup coach with deep programmatic advertising expertise.

Bill Owens is the Executive Producer of CBS's 60 Minutes, one of the most influential figures in American broadcast journalism — not a figure in the AdTech industry.

Co-founder and CEO of Audigent, Drew Stein is a leading architect of post-cookie programmatic infrastructure, pioneering supply-side data curation and privacy-safe identity solutions for the open web.

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.

Co-founder and CTO of Sizmek, one of the largest independent ad serving and programmatic platforms, who helped build the technical backbone of global digital advertising infrastructure.

CEO of the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) for over two decades, Bob Liodice is one of the most influential voices shaping marketing accountability, brand safety, and industry standards in the U.S. advertising ecosystem.

Co-founder and CPO of Optable, pioneering privacy-safe data collaboration and clean room technology for publishers and advertisers navigating the cookieless era.