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Jim Shepherd is Senior Director of Content Partnerships at Meta, which he joined in 2026 from Snap.

Principal of The Spanfeller Group (media consulting); former CEO of G/O Media and longtime head of Forbes.com.

Jim Sullivan is the CEO of Smashburger, the fast-casual burger chain known for its smashed-patty format and aggressive national expansion strategy.

CEO of Madhive, the AI-driven local TV advertising platform; a 20+ year media-and-technology operator who founded TEGNA's Premion CTV platform and has repeatedly scaled and transformed businesses across streaming, OOH, and broadcast advertising.

Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast, is the world's most-subscribed YouTuber who has built Beast Industries into a multi-vertical media and consumer goods empire, redefining creator-led advertising and brand partnership models at massive scale.

Jimmy Pitaro is the Chairman of ESPN, a core business segment of The Walt Disney Company.

Head of Sales, UK at Teads, the global media platform known for its outstream video advertising solutions.

AdTech and data infrastructure leader at Hightouch, driving the composable CDP and data activation movement that is reshaping how marketers connect warehouse data to advertising platforms.

Jo Cronk is the Co-CEO of Whalar.

Chief Operating and Financial Officer at Signet Jewelers, the world's largest retailer of diamond jewelry, overseeing both financial strategy and operational execution.

Chief Growth Officer at Piano, a leading analytics and customer experience platform, with a career spanning senior commercial and growth roles across media and technology.

CMO at HyphaMetrics driving go-to-market strategy for the panel-based TV measurement challenger taking on Nielsen's dominance in cross-platform audience measurement.

Chief Intelligence Officer, North America at Omnicom Media Group, Joanna O'Connell is a veteran AdTech strategist known for translating programmatic complexity into actionable intelligence across agency, trade, and analyst roles.

AdTech creative leader specializing in AI-driven brand engagement across voice and emerging platforms.

Brand Partnerships Director at Overwolf Ads, connecting advertisers with the gaming and creator ecosystem through Overwolf's in-game and app-layer advertising platform.

Joanne Hsu directs the University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers, the gold-standard measure of U.S. consumer sentiment that moves financial markets and informs advertising spend decisions globally.

Senior media and AdTech executive at dentsu, leading global media partnerships at the intersection of advertising technology, data strategy, and media investment.

CMO of Expedia Group driving global travel marketing strategy, with a career spanning senior marketing leadership roles across Europe and the US in travel and e-commerce.

Jochen Schlosser is the Chief Technology Officer of Adform.

Serial entrepreneur and AI-coaching pioneer known for bridging entrepreneurship, marketing technology, and AI — founder of Coachvox AI and a widely-followed voice on AI's transformative role in marketing.

GVP, Customer Strategy at Zeta Global; previously VP, Customer Success at Tealium.