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Chief Strategy Officer at USC Annenberg's Center for the Digital Future; 25+ year digital strategy advisor.

Creative technologist and strategist at Mojo Supermarket known for blending advertising craft with digital innovation across brand and agency work.

Founder & CEO of Anonym (privacy ad-tech, acquired by Mozilla in 2024); former VP of Marketing Science at Meta.

VP, Government Affairs at CoreWeave; former Meta and IAB public-policy lead.

Senior AdTech executive known for scaling businesses to $100M+ and shaping industry standards at the intersection of programmatic advertising, AI, data, and sustainability — with leadership stints at The Trade Desk, Oracle Data Cloud, and Scope3.

Veteran AdTech revenue leader who helped scale MediaMath into one of the most recognized independent DSPs, driving enterprise programmatic adoption across global agency and brand partnerships.

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.

Brendan Hunt is best known as an actor, writer, and co-creator of the hit Apple TV+ series 'Ted Lasso,' not an AdTech industry figure.

Amazon Ads research leader and auction theory expert known for influential work on programmatic auction mechanisms, ad relevance, and marketplace integrity.

CRO at Innovid driving revenue growth for one of CTV advertising's leading independent measurement and delivery platforms, helping shape how brands and broadcasters transact in the connected TV era.

CEO at Choreograph focused on privacy-by-design advertising technology.

Brendan Riordan-Butterworth is a digital advertising standards architect best known for developing ads.txt and sellers.json during his tenure at the IAB and IAB Tech Lab, where he worked from approximately 2012 to 2021.

Spotify's VP of Global Advertising driving the platform's programmatic and audio ad ecosystem, helping define how brands reach audiences in the streaming audio era.

Senior Product Manager (AMC Audiences) at Amazon; ad-tech product veteran.

Co-Founder & CEO of Attain, a consumer-permissioned commerce data and advertising-measurement company.

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.

AdTech veteran and co-founder/CEO of Evertune AI, formerly a long-tenured Chief Strategy Officer at Basis Technologies (Centro), known for deep expertise in programmatic advertising, media workflow automation, and AdTech platform strategy.

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.

Co-Founder & CEO of 37Arc and veteran AdTech operator who led 360i's rise as a top digital agency and stabilized Comscore as CEO — now building his next chapter in AI-driven marketing.

SVP of Research & Standards at Digital Content Next, Bryon Schafer is a leading advocate for premium publishers navigating programmatic advertising, privacy standards, and sustainable monetization.

Byron Allen is a media mogul and founder of Allen Media Group, known for acquiring major TV networks and challenging the advertising industry's racial equity practices.