Chris Curtin is the Chief Brand and Innovation Marketing Officer for Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. In this role, he is responsible for many of the company’s high-profile marketing efforts, including Visa’s sponsorships of the International Olympic Committee, FIFA and the NFL. Previously, Curtin held numerous senior leadership roles at brands including Hewlett-Packard, The Walt Disney Company and the Muppets Holding Company.

Nuala O’Connor is the Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, Digital Citizenship at Walmart. She oversees the Digital Citizenship team responsible for providing advice across the company on issues related to privacy, use of data and data governance, use of emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and records management.

Before joining Walmart, she served as the President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a global nonprofit focused on digital civil liberties. In the private sector, Nuala served as both Vice President of Compliance and Customer Trust and Associate General Counsel for Privacy and Data Protection at Amazon, was the Chief Privacy Leader at General Electric, and held both privacy leadership and legal counsel roles at DoubleClick.

In the public sector, Nuala served as the first Chief Privacy Officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where she founded the DHS privacy office and was responsible for groundbreaking policy development on the use and protection of personal information in national security and law enforcement settings. Also in government service, Nuala served as deputy director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, and later as Chief Counsel for Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Nuala began her legal career in private practice at Sidley Austin, Venable, and Hudson Cook.

Nuala holds a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, a Master of Education from Harvard University, and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.
Nuala lives in the Washington, DC, area with her partner, Peter Bass, and their six children.

Emmett Shear is the CEO and Co-Founder of Twitch. Prior to launching Twitch in 2011, Emmett co-founded live streaming service Justin.tv in 2007. He is also a part-time partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator where he advises startups on product and strategy. Emmett graduated from Yale University in 2005 with a degree in Computer Science.

Meg Whitman is the CEO of Quibi, a mobile only media technology platform bringing together the best of Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Quibi is the first entertainment platform built for easy, on-the-go mobile viewing, allowing today’s leading studios and creative talent to tell original stories in an entirely new way. Prior to Quibi, she served as CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and President and CEO for the Hewlett-Packard Company.

Whitman was President and CEO of eBay Inc. where she oversaw its growth from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue. She has also held executive-level positions at Procter and Gamble Company, Hasbro Inc., The Walt Disney Company, and Bain & Company.

Meg is the national board chair of Teach for America.

Hazel is Global Head of User-Generated Content (UGC) Newsgathering at Reuters. She directs a fast-moving team of journalists who are dedicated to sourcing, verifying and clearing eyewitness media for timely distribution to agency clients. This year she has overseen the creation of a new fact-checking unit at Reuters that identifies and assesses misinformation that is being spread via social media.

Joe Barone is Managing Partner, Brand Safety Americas for GroupM, the world’s largest media buying organization.

In that role, Joe has helped pioneer the industry’s move to a more transparent, accountable digital inventory supply chain, working to ensure clients get full value for their digital advertising investment. Joe’s focus is on developing and executing GroupM’s marketplace position on Brand Safety elements including Brand Safety & Suitability, fraud detection and prevention, anti-piracy, and insuring client’s ads appear in positive, relevant advertising environments. He has spent the past 12 years shaping GroupM’s practice in North America, and in 2017 was named to a new post adding responsibility for supporting the Latin America roll out of these trusted supply chain practices.

Joe first joined WPP in 1989. He has held various traditional and digital media positions within WPP agencies including Managing Director of neo@Ogilvy, and Director, Strategic Media Integration at Ogilvy & Mather.

Joe has been buying digital media since 1994, when Hotwired.com became the first publisher to offer banners online. Before moving into a full time Brand Safety role, Joe managed the US Groupm Digital Traffic team, was engaged in ad-tech systems development, publisher and ad tech vendor contract negotiations, and process re-engineering/workflow analysis, all in support of GroupM agencies including Mindshare, Wavemaker, Mediacom, mSix, Catalyst, Essence, and Xaxis.

Joe is currently a member of many Brand Safety related industry working groups, including the 4A’s Advertiser Protection Bureau, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media Steering Committee, the IAB Tech Lab Content Taxonomy Working Group, MRC Digital Committee, the Coalition for Better Ads Research & Methodology Working Group, Trustworthy Accountability Group Leadership Committee, the Brand Safety Institute Leadership Council, and the Double Verify and Integral Ad Science Advisory Boards.

William Bock leads the Media & Data practice at the 4A’s, driving thought leadership around such hot-button topics as brand safety, identity management, and supply-chain transparency. His background includes the creation of best-in-class DMP and CDP solutions, as well as the development of industry-leading programmatic strategies (both demand- and supply-side) and anti-fraud protocols. William also has a wealth of agency-side experience, managing explosive growth for AT&T and others.

William holds a B.A. in Economics and Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University and resides in Chappaqua, NY with his wife and two daughters.

Dan is Chief Technology Officer of Extreme Reach. He leads innovation and development with a customer-centric software release cycle, growing the company’s industry-leading, global platform with new capabilities every two weeks. With over 25 years of experience in business and technical leadership, systems architecture, application design and agile software delivery, Dan is known for developing transformative advertising technology solutions. He is an experienced speaker and panelist with a knack for bringing clarity to complex issues, just as ER simplifies the management and delivery of creative assets in an increasingly complex media landscape.

As EVP, Global Head of Brand Assurance, Deva leads dentsu’s US and Global Media Brand Assurance offerings, bringing together Brand Responsibility, Brand Safety, and Brand Suitability to address evolving media threats and enable clients to make the best, most responsible media decisions. In this role, Deva partners closely with others across the organization, including on the Investment and Economic Empowerment teams, to constantly monitor and understand best practices in deliverability, suitability, viewability, responsibility, and sustainability. Deva is also leading the creation of a global Brand Assurance steering committee. Prior to taking on the Brand Assurance leadership role this year, Deva served as the EVP, Head of Digital Investment, leading marketplace strategy and positioning across digital & publishing for dentsu’s US media agencies.


A true digital native with nearly 25 years of experience in the media industry, Deva spent several years within GroupM and Publicis agencies, with client experience spanning the Technology, Pharmaceutical, CPG, Retail, Financial Services and B2B verticals. Deva also spent three years on the client side within the KFC Corporation and was responsible for the development and launch of the brand’s digital marketing discipline.

Dennis Buchheim has worked in digital advertising for 20+ years, driven to ensure content and services remain accessible and useful. He is a product-oriented leader who has led organizations to define, launch, and manage demand-side platforms, ad exchanges, targeting systems, identity solutions, audience insights tools, measurement and verification platforms, and other large-scale products/programs in advertising and beyond.

Dennis founded advisory firm ThinkMedium (www.thinkmedium.tech) in 2023 to advance his mission, helping ads and media clients navigate shifts and opportunities in privacy and data strategy, safety, and efficiency.

He was previously a VP at Meta, recruited to collaborate with the advertising ecosystem on privacy, measurement, and trust/safety, with scope later expanded to data science and enablement across business products. This role built on Dennis’ tenure as CEO of advertising technical standards body IAB Tech Lab and his prior ad tech product/business leadership experience at Yahoo and Microsoft.

Before “finding advertising” in 2002, Dennis held engineering and product roles at Apple, Oracle, Actioneer, and iHarvest (which he co-founded), working on a range of enterprise and consumer software products. Dennis earned dual degrees from Brown University, in computer science and business economics.

Lana Busignani leads the Global Marketing Analytics commercial organization for the Nielsen company. Her team is focused on helping advertisers make better decisions across their marketing investments and helping publishers demonstrate the value of their audiences and assets. Working with clients, her team leverages client data, Nielsen’s proprietary data, AI, advanced analytics and deep media expertise to drive effectiveness across the decisions of a modern marketing workflow.

Prior to Nielsen, Lana helped leading brands curate and cultivate their messaging as she led the Communications and Brand specialization at Ipsos in the US and in Western Europe. Lana started her business career grounded in customer first intelligence at IRI where she focused on Brand Advertisers, digital innovation and measurement.

Lana has always held a deep passion for advertising and marketing. She graduated from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in advertising and marketing putting in motion her career to change the marketing industry to a well choreographed customer 1st experience.

Andrew Casale is the president and CEO of Index Exchange, a global supply-side platform renowned for its innovation in programmatic advertising. With a career in digital media spanning over three decades, Andrew has been at the forefront of the ad tech evolution, driving industry standards and championing efficiency, scale, and transparency.

Andrew’s journey began in the late 1990s, when he created his first website on GeoCities, sparking a lifelong fascination with the internet and media. His early entrepreneurial ventures in web publishing and digital advertising led him to found Casale Media in 2001. The company quickly distinguished itself as a pioneer in programmatic advertising, evolving into Index Exchange in 2015. Under Andrew’s leadership, Index has become one of the most efficient and transparent exchanges in the advertising ecosystem with operations spanning North America, EMEA, and APAC.

Throughout his career, Andrew has remained dedicated to advancing the open internet, playing a pivotal role in developing industry standards and protocols. Recognized as a thought leader in ad tech, Andrew has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Ad Age, Forbes, and Reuters. He is an influential speaker at global events, including CES, Advertising Week New York, ATS London, IAB ALM, and many others. His contributions to the industry were honored in 2024 with the IAB Tech Lab Lifetime Achievement Award.

As the Chief Connectivity & Ecosystem Officer at LiveRamp, Travis Clinger leads activation partnerships spanning martech, commerce, customer service, along with the company’s global digital advertising ecosystem strategy: driving strategic initiatives, advancing global partnerships, and overseeing the business development and go-to-market strategies for key addressability and activations products and initiatives.

As Head of Global Content Partnerships at Publicis Groupe, Jeremy Cohen is responsible for developing content-centric partnerships with the world’s most impactful media companies and platforms. In this capacity, Cohen works with partners to co-develop proprietary products and capabilities, empowering Publicis Groupe clients around the globe to push the boundaries of content marketing and drive sustainable business transformation. Cohen also leads the Influencer Marketing center-of-excellence within Publicis Media, helped co-author the industry’s first Influencer Marketing Guidelines with IMC and was personally honored as a member of the Influencer 50: Top Industry Players From 2019. A respected industry thought leader, his insights have been featured in Ad Age, The Financial Times, Digiday and others. Cohen began his career at Yahoo! and has held positions at Sports Media Ventures and BuzzFeed, always living at the intersection of digital content and brand-building.

Jeffrey Cole has been at the forefront of media and communication technology issues both in the United States and internationally for the past three decades. An expert in the field of technology and emerging media, Cole serves as an adviser to governments and leading companies around the world as they craft digital strategies. He is Director of the Center for the Digital Future and a Research Professor at the USC Annenberg School.

Cole founded and directs the World Internet Project, a long-term longitudinal look at the effects of Internet technology conducted in more than 30 countries. He has worked with both the Clinton and George W. Bush White House on media and telecommunications issues and regularly makes presentations across the U.S. and in Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

Denise Colella serves as Senior Vice President, Advanced Advertising Products & Strategy, NBCUniversal. In this role, Colella is responsible for driving the strategic roadmap of new advanced advertising products and portfolio offerings that comprise NBCUniversal’s AdSmart: data capabilities, programmatic capabilities across all platforms, Open AP and addressable advertising. She reports to Krishan Bhatia, Executive Vice President, Business Operations & Strategy, Advertising Sales, NBCUniversal.

Colella has nearly 20 years of global experience in the advertising technology marketplace. Prior to joining NBCUniversal, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Maxifier, a leading technology platform for digital advertising performance optimization, and originally joined the company in 2011 as the Chief Revenue Officer.

Previously, Colella also served as the Chief Revenue Officer for AudienceScience where she led all of the company’s revenue producing operations in the US, Europe and Asia. From 2007-2010, she was Vice President, International, at Right Media, a Yahoo! company, where she developed and executed on the company’s international expansion strategy for its advertising exchange. She also held senior positions at DoubleClick, as well as its offline division, the leading transactional cooperative database company Abacus.

Colella earned her Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Finance and International Management from Villanova University and a Masters of Computer Systems Management from the University of Maryland. She is fluent in Japanese and enjoys spending her free time with her husband, two children and crazy dog. For fun she travels the world running marathons.

Julie DeTraglia is the Vice President and Head of Research & Insights at Hulu, where she oversees the company’s research teams in ad sales, consumer marketing, and user experience. DeTraglia leads the development, design and implementation of all research initiatives at Hulu, advising business leads on sales strategy, consumer insights, customer acquisition, and product design and experience.

Prior to joining Hulu, DeTraglia spent nearly 15 years at NBCUniversal, where she was most recently the SVP of Digital Research, responsible for sales research, strategy and analytics across NBC’s digital properties, including sites and apps for NBC Entertainment, News, Sports, Olympics and cable entertainment properties. She also spent several years in TV research and integrated marketing.

Julie serves on multiple industry advisory boards, including the Samba TV Data Science Advisory Board and the Cuebiq Product Advisory Council. In 2017, DeTraglia was recognized
as one of the top forty digital executives to watch by Campaign Magazine. In 2018, she was also recognized by She Runs It as a Working Mother of the Year and included in Digiday’s Changemaker issue. For 2019, DeTraglia has been featured in AdExchanger’s Pii Series. DeTraglia is a graduate of Dartmouth College and is based in New York with her husband and three sons.

Benjamin Dick is Global Lead, Data Collaboration & Interoperability at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He drives the development of cloud-based measurement and interoperability solutions for advertising & marketing customers by leveraging privacy-enhancing tools and other technology primitives. Ben brings 15 years of experience from various industry roles. Prior to joining AWS, he served as VP of Product – Privacy, Identity & Addressability at IAB Tech Lab, where he worked closely with ad tech platforms, agencies, and publishers to develop new industry standards aimed at navigating collaboration challenges stemming from emerging privacy laws and broader data deprecation. Prior to joining IAB Tech Lab, Ben was responsible for programmatic trading at GroupM for Nestlé’s 85 brand portfolio across the US, Canada and Mexico. He also developed programmatic and attribution strategies for clients including MasterCard, NBC Universal, Barclays, and Harvard Business School. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner Kate and their Swiss Mountain Dog Billie.

Scott Donaton is the Head of Creative at Hulu where he leads the teams responsible for bringing compelling creative behind Hulu’s brand, product offering and award winning content to life. In his role, Donaton oversees Greenhouse, Hulu’s creative studio, which includes a full-service multi-disciplinary creative team responsible for creative deliverables across every touch point in the consumer experience , and the industry’s first-ever branded entertainment function that designs and delivers creative opportunities for advertiser partners in streaming TV.

Prior to Hulu, Donaton served as the Global Chief Creative & Content Officer at Digitas, leading the agency’s worldwide creative practice including the agency’s brand campaign, content, experience design and production capabilities. Donaton also served as Head of Content for The Americas for Publicis Media and was the chief architect of the Digitas’ NewFront.

Before joining Digitas, Donaton was Global Chief Content Officer at Interpublic Group’s UM and head of UM Studios, where he led a team of award-winning content strategists and producers who developed creative programs and innovative experiences for clients including Chrysler, Coca-Cola, J&J, BMW and Sony. Prior to UM, Donaton founded Ensemble, an Interpublic Group content studio, where he served as CEO from 2009 till 2013.

Donaton coined the phrase “Madison & Vine”, and is the author of a book by the same name. The book helped launch the branded-content revolution by declaring that the entertainment and advertising industries need to converge to survive. Prior to joining Interpublic, Donaton served as publisher of Entertainment Weekly. Before that, he was at Advertising Age, where he served as its editor for more than a decade before becoming publisher. Donaton oversaw the publication’s extension into digital media and the growth of its global presence.

Donaton has numerous advertising awards, including the Cannes Lions, Clios and London International Advertising Awards. He was inducted into the AAF’s prestigious Advertising Hall of Achievement, and was once honored as one of the “21 Most Intriguing People in Media.” Donaton served as president of the Entertainment jury at Cannes in 2013 and 2019, and is the current president of the AICP Branded Content & Entertainment jury this year. He is also known for his industry thought-leadership, which has been published in numerous media outlets including Fast Company, Adweek, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Ad Age and MediaPost.

As President of Americas & Global Partners at Google, Sean leads the company’s advertising business in North and South America. Before this role he served as the Vice President of the Google Marketing Platform for the Americas, helping Marketers, Agencies and Partners leverage data and technology to advance their Digital Marketing Maturity and buy and measure media more efficiently. 

Prior to joining Google in 2008, Sean was the Vice President of Buy Side Sales at DoubleClick, where he led their agency and advertiser business. Sean has also worked in various ad technology and software startups, and over the course of his career has brought various evolving advertising technologies to market such as rich media and programmatic buying and analytics.

Sean earned his BS in Business Administration from the State University of New York College at Fredonia. He lives in the Greater Boston area where he is raising three children.

Tyler Finn is the Senior Policy Manager (CIPP/US) at Factual, the location data company empowering the world’s leading marketers with high quality location data to better understand, reach and engage consumers.
He also serves as a Fellow at TechGC, an independent, invitation-only community for General Counsels of leading venture capital firms and venture-backed companies. Previously, he was the Law & Public Policy Manager at AirMap, a start-up in Santa Monica powering the low-altitude air navigation systems of the future.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), where he is on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association.

Sara Fischer is a media reporter for Axios and a founding staff member at Axios. Fischer authors the Axios Media Trends column, a must-read weekly newsletter on media trends that reaches over 100,000 professionals across the media, tech and entertainment industries. She was also named to Forbes “30 Under 30” Media list and to the 2019 Folio 100 in their “Creator” category. Beyond her weekly newsletter, Fischer oversees Axios’ media coverage for the newsroom and steers the company’s products and events around that topic. Her coverage spans corporate media, advertising and marketing, technology, social media, deals, entertainment, media regulation, policy and consumer habits.

Kevin is co-founder and CEO of PowerLinks, a company which develops advertising marketplaces and data solutions, automating relevant advertising and powering growth for brands and media companies.

Kevin oversees the strategic development of the business and is currently based between New York and London. Kevin is a patent inventor and a regular speaker on topics including marketing automation, performance marketing, personalization, contextual data and brand-safety.

Kevin is also Co-Chair of the IAB Tech Lab Data Transparency Standards Group, and Co-Chair of the IAB Tech Lab Content Taxonomy working group, responsible for setting standards to improve brand safety, relevance, data quality and supply chain transparency.

Kevin has been named amongst the OnMedia Top 100, the UK’s Young Guns 30 under 30 awards, alongside similar accolades in TechCrunch, The Telegraph and The Sunday Times.

David is a Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting LLP and helps lead Experience Management for Advertising, Marketing and Commerce within Deloitte Digital. He works alongside many talented individuals that help drive meaningful solutions for clients, including work in consumer experience, data and insights, content creation, digital media, and technology-based engagement platforms.

With more than 25 years’ experience working for agency, technology, and consulting companies, David brings a powerful mix of advise, implement and operate experience to bear. He has worked with clients on engagements ranging from marketing strategy to technology implementation & operations, and from business case development to organizational change management. He has helped leading organizations evolve their targeted, data-driven marketing and engagement efforts all focused on elevating the human experience. He continues to work with a set of globally diverse clients in the Automotive, Travel, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Retail, Technology, and Consumer Products industries. David earned his undergraduate degree from Boston University School of Management. He is currently based in Boston.

Sheryl Goldstein is the Executive Vice President, Chief Industry Growth Officer at the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau). In her role, she oversees engaging the IAB’s 650+ members across all of the IAB’s vast initiatives, activities and thought leadership programs. Under Sheryl’s watch are the Member Engagement, Centers of Excellence, Research and L&D teams. She also spearheads talent development, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and runs the IAB CRO Council.

Sheryl Goldstein is a “net vet” with over 20 years of driving meaningful revenue growth through consultative selling in the dynamic digital landscape (Yahoo, AOL, About.com). She is adept at building successful teams, developing go-to-market strategies and gaining consensus across key stakeholders. Her background includes a wide variety of digital media platforms and technologies and numerous leadership roles.

In addition to her experience as a sales leader, Sheryl brings years of talent development and training to her role and is committed to making the digital media landscape a great industry for diverse talent to thrive and have a long and exciting career.

Sheryl is a current board member for 212NYC, Makers and was a past Board member of She Runs It. She serves on the Rutgers Business School Advisory Board for Marketing and is helping RBS craft a digital marketing graduate program. In addition, she has served on Boards and Committees for the NY Ad Club, Women in Communications, Inc. and the IAB and is a member of Chief. She is an award-winning sales leader (Yahoo Accelerator Award, AOL Best Media Partner presented by Verizon, AOL Presidents Club, AWNY Crystal Award Winner).

Sheryl is a graduate of Syracuse University Newhouse School and lives in New Jersey with her partner Cindy and dogs Pancho and Camden. On the weekends, you can catch her on the pickleball court or riding around the Jersey Shore on her new electric bike. Her daughter Sarah-Jaana lives in the Boston area with her husband Michael.

Ms. Gorcey overseas product and advertising sales strategy for Condé Nast, where she focuses on turning the company’s unique assets – including data, video, programmatic, and experiential offerings – into buyable solutions that drive results for clients. Eden has held leadership roles in both agency and publisher settings, where her work leading media strategy for brands including P&G, Microsoft and Coca Cola has contributed to her status as an industry-recognized innovator.

Dave Grimaldi is Executive Vice President for Public Policy at IAB, and is based out of the Washington, D.C. office. He leads the the IAB policy team, which advocates on behalf of IAB member companies before Congress, federal agencies, and involves direct lobbying, political fundraising, issue campaigns, and policy development.

Dave joined IAB from Pandora Media, where he directed the company’s public affairs strategy and opened its Washington, D.C. office. Dave worked to craft Pandora’s policy messaging toward political and national media, while cultivating and strengthening relationships with a broad network of journalists, third party validators, and other music industry and technology representatives.

Prior to Pandora, Dave served as Chief of Staff to FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, serving as the Commissioner’s advisor on all matters. Dave prepared Commissioner Clyburn for congressional oversight hearings, the review of proposed mergers and various FCC rulemakings, and helped guide the office through Clyburn’s tenure as Acting FCC Chairwoman.

Before the FCC, Dave served as Senior Counsel to House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn of the U.S. House of Representatives. He advised the Whip in a variety of capacities, from policy positions to floor strategy, and coordinated with the House’s committees and other Leadership offices to prepare legislation for consideration by the full House.

Before joining the Whip’s office, Dave was a Principal at The Raben Group, where he advised corporate clients on issues relating to intellectual property, financial services, and telecommunications.

Dave earned his BA in English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, followed by a J.D. at Catholic University Law School.

Chris Guenther is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Programmatic for News Corp, focused on driving programmatic and ad tech collaboration across the media and information company’s global properties. Formerly, he was Vice President of Business Operations for Hearst Magazines International, working on sales operations and programmatic advertising across the digital businesses outside the United States. Mr. Guenther previously served as VP, Digital Operations & Monetization at Conde Nast. Prior to that, he was head of Business Development for the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, and worked in the Corporate Strategy and Franchise Development groups of Dow Jones. He was also an associate at the Jordan Edmiston Group, a boutique investment bank focused on media. He has a master’s degree in business from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University.

Michael Hahn is Executive Vice President & General Counsel at IAB and IAB Tech Lab. Michael has responsibility for all legal matters, including the direction of legal strategy, privacy compliance, antitrust compliance, intellectual property rights issues, and general corporate matters. Michael is also responsible for serving as an advocate for the digital advertising industry on common legal issues affecting member companies.

Michael joined IAB and IAB Tech Lab from Lowenstein Sandler LLP where he served as Vice Chair of the firm’s Antitrust Practice Group. In that role, he provided clients with strategic counsel around competition, distribution and governance issues. In the area of litigation, Michael’s matters have included multiparty class action antitrust defense representation.

Michael served previously as Co-Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Antitrust Law Committee. He also previously served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Competition Law 360 and the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section’s Civil Torts & RICO Committee. Michael frequently publishes on a range of legal and policy issues.

Michael earned his B.A. in History and Political Science from Rutgers University, M.P.P. from Georgetown University and J.D. for Georgetown University Law Center.

Todd is the SVP/Chief Marketing Officer of Hearst Magazines. In this role, he is responsible for the corporate marketing functions for Hearst’s industry-leading portfolio of 25 multi-platform magazine brands, including Elle, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Men’s Health and Good Housekeeping. Todd also leads Hearst Magazine’s marketplace and industry relations efforts, as well as press relations. Hearst Magazines reaches over 300 million consumers every month across print, online, video and social media platforms.

Previous to this role, Todd served for six years as Chief Revenue Officer for Hearst Magazines Digital Media, a period where HMDM saw unparalleled growth in revenue and profits. Before Hearst, Todd served in a variety of leadership roles at The New York Times, including Group Vice President for Advertising, where he was responsible for all sales activities on NYTimes.com, and responsibility for cross-platform sales (newspaper, magazines, mobile, and experiential) for a variety of The Times’ largest categories, including fashion, retail, culture, and travel as well as their international sales offices.
Todd started his career at The New York Times Company in 1989 as an intern, later becoming an advertising account manager at McCall’s. From 1994 to 2004, he worked for Meredith Corporation in numerous positions, including General Manager of Ladies’ Home Journal (where he managed circulation, production, finance and operations) and Managing Director of Meredith Integrated Marketing. He also served as General Manager for the 1998 launch of MORE Magazine, the successful title serving the baby boomer audience.
Todd earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from St. Lawrence University in 1990 and an M.B.A. degree from Fordham University in 1997. He resides in Manhattan with his wife Angela, and their two rescue dogs, Bella and Bowie.

Sue’s 30 years of experience spans integrated media strategy, consumer insights, advertising/media measurement and team building.

While the majority of Sue’s career has been creating, supporting and measuring advertising initiatives for content providers like Viacom and Martha Stewart Omnimedia, she also spent two years agency-side to gain a broader and deeper understanding of the advertising space. And her earlier years included B2B media (Cahners Travel Group; Lebhar Friedman, Chemical Week). Sue has been hands-on and “neck deep” in Digital since the mid 90s.

A graduate of Iona College (NY), Sue also taught various undergraduate Advertising courses at CCNY. “I am a course junkie myself. All kinds of topics—not just work-relevant. But I have found that even a beginner’s drawing class can spark ideas for an advertising insights study. Give yourself creative downtime and you find you are Always On!”

Christy has worked within leading CPG and Durables companies to build brands and drive affinity with humans and pets alike.

Currently, she leads the Shopper Marketing organization at Whirlpool Corporation, the market leader in home appliances. Her team is dedicated to influencing shopper behavior throughout the path to purchase in service of the Whirlpool portfolio of brands – Whirlpool, Maytag and KitchenAid.

She joined Whirlpool in 2016 to lead the KitchenAid brand where she led the development of a new global brand strategy to unite the brand across regions and evolve its meaning.

Previously, Christy spent 14 years with Nestle Purina Petcare across marketing disciplines like brand communication and product development on petcare brands like Beggin’ Strips, Beneful and Beyond.

Christy has a BA in English Literature from DePauw University and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Lung Huang is the Head of Growth Solutions for Mars Petcare, making a better world for pets through the evolution of data, science and technology. He is focused on understanding Mars Petcare’s data assets in order to provide the best customer experience based on data and personalization; reducing operational costs and time through data-driven intelligence.



Before moving to his current role , Lung was the global SVP of business development at Merkle. He led all commercial engagements with data partnerships that supported initiatives in people-based marketing on behalf of Merkle and the Dentsu Aegis Network M1 Platform. Prior to joining Merkle in 2017, Lung was the head of strategic partnerships at 84.51° (A Kroger Company), where he managed business development, industry engagement, and media data strategy. He also played a critical global role for dunnhumby, a customer data science company owned by the retailer Tesco, leading the partnership development and commercialization strategy in media, advertising, payments, and analytics. Lung was formerly the vice president of Arbitron Inc. and had his start at Young & Rubicam’s The Media Edge.



Lung’s career has taken him from retailer to agency to brand, garnering him extensive experience in business development, global data privacy, and GDPR compliance.



He earned his BA in Business from the University of Kansas, where he currently sits on the advisory board for the business school. He lives in New York City with his wife, two children, and new puppy Fritzi

Alysa Hutnik, Partner and Chair of Kelley Drye’s Privacy and Information Security practice, provides practical legal advice in all areas of privacy, data security, and advertising law, with a strong focus on adtech and the intersection of privacy and marketing practices. Alysa has a strong pulse on the ever-evolving privacy legal landscape, and frequently defends companies in privacy and advertising matters before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general. Alysa is ranked as a leading practitioner in the Privacy & Data Security area by Chambers USA, Chambers Global and Law360 and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the country.

Stu Ingis is chairman of Venable and co-chair of the eCommerce, Privacy, and Cybersecurity Group. Stu is a nationally recognized attorney who has earned a reputation among peers and the industry as a thought leader in crisis management, privacy, marketing, advertising, consumer protection, eCommerce, and Internet law. Stu’s leadership in developing cutting-edge industry self-regulation and coalition building has placed him at the forefront of privacy and data security regulation and public policy. Clients rely on him as a trusted voice, confidant, and advocate before Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, and other federal and state agencies.



Stu has represented a number of high-level executives in testimony before Congress and is relied upon by clients for his advocacy during congressional investigations, especially in crisis management situations specific to congressional relations. He also defends and advises companies in investigations by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state attorneys general, and state consumer protection authorities, among others. Clients depend on Stu to help them resolve challenging situations efficiently and on favorable terms.



Stu brings coalitions together and leads self-regulatory efforts to develop and implement new standards and best practices in the eCommerce, privacy, and data security industry. He represents the nation’s leading marketing and advertising trade associations in legal and policy matters; in this capacity he serves as marketing, government affairs, and privacy counsel to the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). Stu serves as Washington advertising and privacy counsel to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He is also counsel to the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) – the cross-industry self-regulatory online advertising initiative that brings together the nation’s leading marketing and advertising trade associations, including the ANA, IAB, the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), and the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI).

Eric John leads the IAB Media Center, a dedicated unit within the IAB whose mission is to simplify the video and audio supply chain, providing best practices and education for brands, agencies, and media companies. Eric drives the center’s efforts in the development of market-making research, industry standards, best practices and buyer/seller terms and conditions. Before joining the IAB, Eric served as VP of Digital Services and Strategy at the Alliance for Audited Media and as Global Director of Publisher / Developer marketing at Nokia, managing the company’s world-wide mobile app developer ecosystem. Prior to Nokia, Eric launched and led advertiser brand engagement solutions for Yahoo!, creating advanced, data-driven video, mobile and interactive campaigns for brands such as Pepsi, L’Oréal, GM, Audio and Nikon. Eric began his career at internet advertising pioneer DoubleClick (Google) where he led product development and marketing within the DART for Publishers (DFP) and DART for Advertisers (DFA) business units where he launched the industry’s first post-click measurement tools. Eric is an alumnus of Miami of Ohio (BA) and Indiana University (MA) and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Product Management Program.

As Client Development Officer for Dentsu Aegis Network in the US, Angela is responsible for organic client retention and growth. She brings a wealth of global integrated client experience and is helping DAN US develop the muscle to deliver solutions that drive exponential growth aligned with business strategy. She is also part of the team focused on both Dentsu and its clients’ role in Sustainability and Social Impact.

Prior to joining Dentsu Aegis in 2018, Angela was a WPP client leader for Kimberly-Clark. She built that business from a small base of revenue concentrated in traditional advertising and media to be truly integrated across all marketing disciplines with huge growth in digital and loyalty. During her 13 years at WPP, in addition to her global client roles, Angela also held general management roles, running Ogilvy Advertising London and on the leadership team of Ogilvy Chicago. The previous 13 years were spent at Omnicom, mainly at DDB, running a variety of global business and helping set up the training program now known as Omnicom University.

In 2009, she moved from London to Chicago to take on the Global leadership role of the Motorola account and spent nine productive years in the Mid-West. She uprooted her family again in 2018 when she joined Dentsu and settled in New York.

Angela’s passion for Inclusion and Equality have led her to mentor widely, serve on the boards of the Chicago Advertising Federation, CASA Children’s Charity and She Runs It (Formerly AdWomen of NY). She regularly publishes, speaks on panels and teaches marketing at colleges.

She graduated from Oxford University with an Masters in Japanese and Chinese and still has lessons every week so not to lose her language skills. She also decided to learn to play the organ this year. She continues to love cold weather sports; both skiing and paddle tennis are regular pastimes.

Terence Kawaja is Founder and CEO of LUMA Partners, a strategic advisory firm focused at the intersection of media, marketing and technology. He is a seasoned investment banker with more than 25 years of experience and has advised on over $300 billion of transactions, including some of the most pivotal deals in the media and tech industries.

Terry is both a recognized expert in digital media and a popular speaker at leading industry conferences, frequently using humor to aid substantive presentations.

Jo is President of TVSquared, the global leader in TV attribution. At TVSquared, Jo’s focus is on leading the company’s commercial portfolio, including client relations and strategic partnerships across the entire media ecosystem – from brands and agencies to networks and publishers. A creative and passionate leader, Jo is driving TVSquared’s leading position in linear and digital TV measurement and helping to shape the future of TV advertising by bringing transparency and proof of performance to the forefront. As a founding team member, Jo has scaled large enterprise customers and empowered thousands of advertisers to leverage TVSquared’s cross-screen, multi-touch attribution platform.

Jo is a 20-year software veteran with a proven track record of bringing to market innovative products and services across the adtech and fintech industries.

A UK expat, when Jo is not working, she is mom to her 10-year old daughter and training for her next triathlon (she completed the IronMan in 2014!).

Jaya Kolhatkar serves as Hulu’s Chief Data Officer, overseeing customer intelligence and all data and analytics related efforts at Hulu. In her role, Kolhatkar is responsible for elevating Hulu’s customer intelligence, implementing strong data governance and driving a culture of objective, data-driven decision making across the company. As CDO, Kolhatkar manages a team of more than 100 across strategic analytics, data engineering, data science and business intelligence.

Prior to joining Hulu, Kolhatkar served as SVP of Global Data and Analytics Platforms at WalmartLabs where she built data and analytic platforms that provided data and tools for
making business decisions at Walmart Inc. Kolhatkar joined WalmartLabs in 2013 as part of the acquisition of predictive analytics firm, Inkiru, where she was the Chief Analytics Officer and co-founder.

Before WalmartLabs, Kolhatkar worked in analytics roles at PayPal, eBay and Amazon. Kolhatkar holds a Masters of Business Administration from Villanova University and is based in Los Angeles, CA.

Growing up in Palo Alto, Todd Krizelman was born and raised near the epicenter of technology innovation. Todd joined veteran web architect Jesse Keller to found MediaRadar in 2007. After years of thorough research, development, and data collection, MediaRadar is now the most comprehensive data company focused on the ad sales market. He previously co-founded one of the world’s first social media sites. Todd led the site theGlobe.com, from inception to taking it public on NASDAQ. Krizelman is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Business School.

Doug is the CEO of Rulo, a company focused on leveraging the scaled, responsibly sourced, highly actionable dataset of CivicScience – a consumer intelligence platform trusted by top brands and publishers. Powering next-gen advertising solutions in a rapidly evolving, privacy-first open internet, the new company provides value to users, brand marketers and content creators in a permissioned and regulatory compliant fashion without dependence on third party cookies.

Prior to starting this new venture, Doug launched the programmatic business of Media.net and built it to a top ad platform as SVP & GM. He has spent over twenty years in media spanning various leadership, strategy and partnership roles for platform technology and branded content-driven enterprises at various stages from start-up to corporate.

Doug has earned an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business and lives in Laurel Hollow, NY with his wife and two children.

Stephanie Layser is the VP of Data, Identity and Ad Tech Products & Platforms at News Corp. In her role, she provides thought leadership as a subject matter expert in those areas, while managing cross business initiatives across News Corp’s portfolio of global brands. She also serves as the board representative of the Publisher Taskforce at Prebid.org. Prior to News Corp, Layser founded a digital media consulting business to help publishers understand and utilize programmatic advertising effectively. In her twelve years in advertising, Layser also oversaw ad tech at A Plus (Ashton Kutcher’s Media Start-up), Dailymail.com and New York Post.

Bret Leece is the Global Chief Data & Innovation Officer of Havas.

Most recently, Bret was President, M1 for the US at Dentsu Aegis Network.

Bret has led a successful career leading data and technology initiatives for global agencies like Initiative where he served as the Chief Analytics Officer and most recently, leading the data transformation efforts at ComScore. Bret has also served as Senior Vice President, Managing Director – International for Market Share Partners based in London where his responsibilities included sales and delivery of marketing and budget optimization, analytics software for accounts in Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. He also held the title of Vice President, Strategic Director with responsibility for business development, analytic design and data specifications for western U.S. accounts.

Bret received his Masters of Business Administration from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and his Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Pepperdine University.

Janet Levine leads Mindshare’s Invention+ discipline in the U.S. She brings the concept of “Media-As-Creative” to life by merging data, science, and creativity to ignite media plans that have a cultural impact for brands and their consumers. She particularly focuses on crafting provocative ideas and exploring innovation and emerging technology. Janet has been with Mindshare for the past decade, working on accounts across every vertical, such as Nike, Unilever, and Allergan. A respected industry thought leader, her insights have been featured in Ad Age, Adweek, Business Insider, and more. She’s also been personally honored as one of Broadcasting & Cable’s Top Media Planners and Strategists, and one of Cynopsis Media’s inaugural Top Women in Media.

Chris Loeffler serves as Senior Director & Counsel, Privacy for Take-Two Interactive – a leading developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment including its labels Rockstar Games, 2K, Private Division, Social Point, and Ghost Story Games. Chris draws on his background in privacy and advertising law to guide Take-Two on privacy and data considerations across game development, analytics, marketing, and partner relationships. He leads the privacy program at Take-Two with an emphasis on user experience, collaboration, and practical solutions. Prior to joining Take-Two, he focused on the intersection of privacy, advertising and technology, including time with a national law firm, the Federal Trade Commission, and an international ad agency, and he has been repeatedly recognized for data protection and privacy by US Legal 500 and Super Lawyers.

Scott Messer, a Los Angeles native, serves as Senior Vice President, Media at Leaf Group (NYSE: LEAF). Messer began his Leaf work as a senior manager focusing on third party monetization, revenue operations, vendor management, contract negotiations and advertising technologies. Over the years, he has facilitated hundreds of projects, deals and partnerships across Leaf Group’s various platforms and properties. In 2016, Messer became VP & GM, Media while running a business that provides unique editorial content solutions to partners on a fully managed basis and a collection of over 20 owned & operated web properties. Last year, Messer added the Revenue Operations team to his purview and now also oversees all adtech and programmatic revenue, operations partnerships for the Media group.

Brian is a Global Client President and Head of Retail Media Solutions for dentsu. Prior to returning to Agency life, Brian worked client-side leading marketing and retail media monetization at Walmart.com and platform side, leading Retail Vertical Strategy at Pinterest. He enjoys intermittent entrepreneurial forays having launched 3 companies. Brian has been recognized in the American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement, the Bay Area Innovation Group’s Hall of Fame, and as an AdAge Media Maven. Outside of work, Brian volunteers with the San Francisco Unified School District, the Gun Safety Alliance, and ExtraFood.org.

Ryan Moore is the Global Chief Revenue Officer at SuperAwesome, an Epic Games company. He leads the company’s revenue, marketing, insights & partnerships teams in helping brands and content creators have safe, meaningful interactions with audiences online. Part of Epic Games, he and his teams are focused on helping create a version of the metaverse that is designed particularly with the needs of younger audiences and families online. He also leads Epic Games’ broader Agency Partnerships team across the wider Epic portfolio.

Prior to this role, Ryan has spent 15 years at the intersection of media, entertainment and technology at companies like Quibi and Twitter and has built and run teams across US, European and Asian markets.

On the personal front, with his firsthand experience of how technology can affect behavioral change, Ryan is deeply passionate about helping non profit organizations leverage these platforms to scale and amplify the reach of their work. He is on the Board of Directors of the Google-born Search Inside Yourself Institute alongside other similar organizations that seek to use technology to make people happier, healthier and more resilient in their personal and professional lives.

Chris Morgan is the VP Strategy for Moat by Oracle Data Cloud. In his current role Chris oversees strategy for Oracle Data Cloud’s measurement solutions suite whose products — Moat Analytics, Pro and Outcomes — power trusted measurement, analytics, and intelligence for the world’s largest brands and publishers. He joined Oracle with the Moat acquisition in 2017, where he led as CRO and scaled the global business to $100MM in annual recurring revenue during his time at the helm of the global sales team. Prior to Moat, Chris held various roles as a SaaS leader which included a 9-year leadership run at Hitwise (acquired by Experian), a data and analytics business focused on providing marketing intelligence to brand advertisers.

David is a skilled media executive with 20+ years of experience in both traditional and digital media and marketing strategies across premium publishers, technology platforms and media agencies.

David joined Amplifi, the global media investment platform for Dentsu Aegis Network, in 2016 as EVP of Digital Operations & Technology. In his role, David oversees the Ad Operations, Tech Partnerships, Business Operations and Terms and Conditions teams across multiple Dentsu Aegis Network Agencies in the US market as well as oversight of key DAN Global clients digital operations. He is DAN’s leader for Brand Safety governance across agencies and leads industry representation as the Dentsu Aegis Network Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) Global Compliance Officer and Executive Council member. David is also active in prominent industry steering committees and initiatives such as the IAB Tech Lab and the 4A’s Digital Operations Technology and Advertiser Protection Bureau (APB) Committees.

Prior to joining Amplifi, David was the SVP of North American Publisher Accounts at The Rubicon Project, where he oversaw publisher relationships and operations. He also held leadership roles in the Direct and Programmatic Sales and Ad Operations capacity across premium publishers, inclusive of Gannett/USATODAY, CBS Interactive, NASCAR & Time Inc.
David received his B.S. in Sports Marketing from the University of Connecticut, where he is a frequent guest speaker at the UConn School of Business

Doug Neil is the Executive Vice President of Digital Marketing for Universal Pictures. In this capacity he oversees the online and mobile strategies for theatrical releases including website development, publicity, promotions, social media, creative strategy, digital analytics, data mining, emerging platforms and media placements. His responsibilities include the global coordination of theatrical digital strategies through the full life cycle of a film campaign. He has overseen the online and mobile marketing campaigns for over 200 films including The Grinch, Get Out, Sing, Fifty Shades of Grey, Jurassic World:Fallen Kingdom, Unbroken, Ted, Minions, The Fate of the Furious, Straight Outta Compton, Despicable Me 3, Les Miserables, Pitch Perfect and Us.

Neil received Hollywood in Pixels’ 2017 Silver Pixels Award for his pioneering contributions to digital theatrical marketing. He was iMedia’s 2012 Visionary Marketer of the Year and was also recognized by OnHollywood as a Digital Entertainment Power Player. He has made keynote and panel presentations at the OMMA Premium Display Conference, Ad Week, UCLA Anderson School and the Variety Film. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Prior to Universal Pictures, he worked for AOL as Director, Entertainment Strategy, managing the online marketing campaigns for AOL’s filmed entertainment partners, playing a key role in the launch of AOL’s new entertainment initiatives including TMZ.com.

Prior to AOL, Neil was Vice President, Marketing for Hollywood Ventures, a children’s entertainment production and distribution company. Neil also has held executive positions with The Disney Channel, Hawaiian Airlines and Andersen Consulting. He has a M.B.A. from The Tuck School at Dartmouth College and is a Computer Science graduate of the College of William and Mary. Neil has completed thirty-nine marathons and resides in Studio City, CA, with his wife and three daughters.

Monique Nelson is chair and chief executive officer of UWG, the country’s longest-standing multicultural marketing and advertising agency. She took the helm of the agency in May 2012, when founder and advertising pioneer Byron Lewis retired.

Headquartered in Brooklyn, with offices in Detroit, Atlanta and Miami, UWG maintains a list of esteemed clients. Today, this list includes Ford Motor Company, Colgate-Palmolive, The Home Depot, Bacardi U.S. and Coca-Cola. As one of the country’s leading multicultural agencies, UWG services its clients with General Market, Black, Hispanic, Asian and LGBT marketing and advertising, digital and traditional advertising, consumer insight, public relations, consumer healthcare communications and cultural fluency consulting.

Michael Palmer is originally from a small town in upstate New York. As an undergraduate at Vassar College he majored in history and political science and holds advanced degrees from Cornell, Harvard and the Stern School of Business. Prior to settling into a career in software development, Michael had previously worked a wide variety of jobs, including being a college lecturer, a wilderness guide and a factory shift manager. After working for several years as a software product manager for a clinical trial software, Michael helped found a small business intelligence company, where he ran operations. After selling and successfully exiting this company, Michael joined Xaxis and then GroupM where he has worked for the last five years in several technology-related roles. He is currently GroupM’s Global VP for Emerging Technologies where he is active in guiding innovation strategy. He has served co-chair of the IAB Tech Lab’s Blockchain Working Group for two years and currently represents GroupM & WPP on the IAB Tech Lab’s Board of Directors. Michael is also an active member of the Tech Lab’s project Rearc for identity and he regularly represents GroupM and WPP’s interests in technical matters with the 4As and the W3C.

Pedro Pavón is Director and Senior Corporate Counsel for Global Data Protection at Salesforce. He advises Salesforce executives on data privacy and data security, data licensing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and general data protection and information privacy risk. Prior to joining Salesforce, he worked as Senior Managing Counsel for Oracle Corporation, and before that, he practiced law at a national law firm. Before entering private practice, Pedro served as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the United States at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.; attorney advisor and program manager at the U.S.Department of Energy in
Washington, D.C.; and attorney advisor at the Department of Justice in Miami, Florida. Pedro’s expertise is in global data protection law in the context of product development and sales, mergers and acquisitions, and development and deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions.

Janna’s career has spanned 15 years in New York, London and Chicago in both Communications and Brand Planning roles at OMD/OMD UK, Mediacom, and Ogilvy. During this time, Janna has been personally and professionally awarded for developing innovative and effective communications and brand strategy for some of the world’s best brands. She currently serves as Beam Suntory’s Director of Global Integrated Marketing Communications. Above all else, Janna champions creativity (and ideas) to build brands the right way and the power of made-for-platform content and brand experiences.

With over seventeen years of experience managing digital advertising campaigns, Orchid Richardson is the Senior Vice President of Digital at Blavity Inc., where she leads the growth of Blavity360º’s Black and multicultural publisher network, increasing revenue for all its members. Her experience as an expert data solution architect and integrator has allowed her to lead initiatives within many prominent media companies, entertainment networks, and publications during her career. Orchid has worked for several other media companies, including BET Networks, Hearst Magazines Digital Media, and 33Across, Inc. At the IAB, Orchid served as the Senior Vice President of IAB’s Programmatic and Data Center (PDC), where she defined the strategic vision and executed the PDC Board of Directors’ agenda. Orchid also established industry-wide standards and business guidelines for the responsible use of data that enabled relevant, personalized, and privacy-compliant consumer experiences. Orchid led industry-wide training on The Data Centric-Organization, providing direction on how to break down a matrix organization through four key areas – people, partnerships, processes, and platforms.

Orchid is actively involved in advertising, having held leadership roles in key industry trade organizations, including Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement and Black MAKERS. Additionally, she is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She is Vice President of the Metro-Manhattan (NY) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, and the Westchester Chapter of Jack & Jill of America. Orchid also serves as a board member and fundraising chair of the Ujamaa Community Development Corporation, which has built over $100 million in affordable housing in Westchester County, New York. She is passionate about giving back and helping to unite the community.

Dr. Neal Richter has worked in the software industry since 1996 and since 1999 focused on data science, ML and AI applications. Currently, he’s Director of Bidding, Exchange, Analytics and Modeling (BEAM) at Amazon Ads. Most recently he served as Chief Scientist at SpotX, a streaming CTV ad platform. Prior to that he was Chief Technical Officer at Rakuten Marketing, as well as CTO and Chief Scientist at the Rubicon Project.

Neal also serves as Chairperson of the IAB TechLab, the technical standards organization of ad tech. He has been a contributor to the development of the OpenRTB protocol, Ads.txt, Ads.cert, and Sellers.json and other associated standards.

Neal grew up in a log cabin in a rural area of Montana and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Montana State University as well as an MS degree from Utah State University. He has authored and published 16 academic papers and 10+ Patents.

When not sifting through data or designing high scale systems learning algorithms, Neal enjoys fly fishing, skiing and living in the Rockies in Salt Lake City Utah with his wife, four teenagers and furry dog.

Joe is CEO & co-founder of Permutive, an Audience Platform that puts publishers in control of their revenue by enabling them to reach and monetize 100% of their audience while respecting consumer privacy. Following a BEng in Computing at Imperial College and an MSc in Computer Sciences at Oxford, Joe chose to drop out of a PhD in Mathematical Genomics at Cambridge to start Permutive, joining Y Combinator S14 together with his co-founder, Tim.

Sarah Rose is the SVP of International Digital Operations for IPG’s Kinesso division, covering international digital delivery and global team management execution. She leads IPG’s International division of Digital Ad Operations experts out of EMEA, APAC, LATAM and offshore India hub for IPG. Across multiple global accounts she has standardized global process and lead on-boarding initiatives across multiple verticals. She has 17+ years in the Advertising Technology space with an expertise in emergent technologies in mobile, cross-screen attribution, audience development, DMPs, and also has experience in programmatic execution, strategy, planning on both the supply side and buy side. Prior company roles include, Opera Mediaworks as their SVP of Global Ad Operations, and Vice President of Client Services for Rakuten. Sarah started her career leading and managing Ad Operations experts on the publisher side for Time Inc, and IDG. She has worked in entrepreneurial start-up environments in New York and San Francisco and has been part of multiple executive teams that moved early stage start-ups to acquisition, including managing M&A transitions for Mobile Theory, Deep Forest Media, XGraph and Tumri. Her passion is new emerging technologies, responsible artificial intelligence, particle physics, and the arts.

Justin Rosen joined Ampersand in 2018, to head a team that develops and executes data and measurement solutions in support of Ampersand’s mission: leading the transformation of the TV industry to audience-based, multiscreen, and accountable. This includes identifying new and innovative approaches to performance-based TV measurement, as well as building scalable partnerships with data and analytics companies. Justin is also responsible for working alongside Ampersand’s MVPD owners to ensure consistent methodology, data governance, and workflows.

Prior to joining Ampersand, Justin was Executive Director, Data Innovation with Comcast Spotlight. His Data team worked closely with the Comcast Media 360 group in laying the Addressable TV foundation now looking to scale across the national footprint.

Justin has also spent time at Turner Sports with their Research & Strategy team, as well as with The Nielsen Company, in their Media Analytics group.

Randall Rothenberg is the Executive Chair of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the trade association for digital media and marketing in the United States. Among the IAB’s 750 member companies are such major platforms as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Snap; the nation’s most important ad-supported media companies, including The New York Times, Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal, ViacomCBS, Hearst Magazines, Spotify, Verizon Media, Hulu, Warner Media, LinkedIn, and Meredith; incumbent and disruptor brands, including Coca-Cola, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Hubble Contacts, ThirdLove, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, and Citigroup; and scores of technology and data companies, among them Mediamath, LiveRamp, Quantcast, and Pubmatic.

With these members and its 47 affiliate associations on every inhabited continent, the IAB and its sister technology-standards group, the IAB Tech Lab, serve as the digital marketing industry’s public policy and lobbying organization, market and consumer research center, training and development base, and hub for the development of standards and best practices.

Mr. Rothenberg joined the IAB in January 2007 as President and Chief Executive Officer, and led the organization until becoming Executive Chair in September 2020. During his tenure, the organization became one of the largest and most influential media and marketing trade bodies in the world, helping to develop technical standards, self-regulation, government regulation, market and consumer research, and professional development programs to protect consumer privacy, foster brand and media revenue growth, improve data security, and reduce supply chain friction in the digital marketing industry.

Prior to his IAB role, Mr. Rothenberg was the Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Director of Intellectual Capital at Booz Allen Hamilton, the international strategy and technology consulting firm, where he oversaw business development, knowledge management, and thought leadership activities, and directed the award-winning quarterly business magazine strategy+business, Strategy+Business Books, www.strategy-business.com, and other electronic and print publications for senior business executives.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Rothenberg spent six years at The New York Times, where he was the technology editor and politics editor of the Sunday magazine, the daily advertising columnist, and a media and marketing reporter. For 10 years, he was a marketing and media columnist for Advertising Age. Mr. Rothenberg has written for a score of major national magazines, among them Esquire, GQ, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and New York Magazine. He is the author of four books, including Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), a critically-acclaimed chronicle of the birth, evolution, and death of a single advertising campaign.

Mr. Rothenberg, an avid nature, urban, and portrait photographer, serves on the Board of Directors of the International Center of Photography and the Board of Overseers of the Columbia Journalism Review. He received an undergraduate degree in Classics from Princeton and lives in New York City.

Trace Rutland has spent 20+ years at media agencies in various roles in both planning and buying across all media channels. She acted quickly on a fad called digital media and has been chasing that bright shiny object ever since. Jumping to the client side, she oversaw media buying across the Mars portfolio and then moved to Hershey to lead addressable media and technology. Recently, Trace joined Ocean Spray to build and lead a data driven media practice.

Kristy leads Permutive’s fast growing North America business working with the region’s leading publishers including Hearst, BuzzFeed, Penske, Bell Media, Insider Inc. and Leaf Group to help them better understand and monetize their audiences. Prior to joining Permutive she held a number of successful roles at companies including Wildfire, acquired by Google, where she built the New York office from the ground up.

Chip Schenck is responsible for all targeted digital media monetization, including audience sales, programmatic (premium and open), and targeted email, in addition to other data-driven ad products at Meredith. He leads and manages the entire business lifecycle from client-informed product development and go to market strategy, to ad sales, deal success and product optimization. Schenck also developed a sales, ops and analytics organization focused on improved sell thru, yield, deal size and deal mix, in addition to supporting addressable media integration into large volume direct deals.

Vivian Schiller is a longtime executive at the intersection of journalism, media and technology. She recently joined the Aspen Institute in a new position heading up
programs across media, technology and cybersecurity.

Prior to joining Aspen, Schiller served as the founding heads the Civil Foundation, an independent not-for-profit committed to the sustainability of trustworthy journalism
around the world. She is also strategic advisor to Craig Newmark Philanthropies Over the last 30 years, Vivian has held executive roles at some of the most respected media organization in the world. Those include: President and CEO of NPR; Global Chair of News at Twitter; General Manager of NYTimes.com; Chief Digital Office of NBC News; chief of the Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture of The New York Times and Discovery Communications; and head of CNN documentary and long form divisions. Documentaries and series produced under her auspices earned multiple honors, including three Peabody Awards, four Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and dozens of Emmys.

Schiller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a Director of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian.

Daniel A. Sepulveda is the Senior Vice President for Policy and Advocacy for MediaMath, a global advertising and marketing technology company. He represents MediaMath on public policy issues in public forums, before government officials and agencies, in industry associations, and in dialogues with consumer organizations and civil society working on technology and the digital economy. He also works with teams across the company on special projects including Purpose Driven Advertising, political advertising, and media supply chain issues.

Sepulveda served in the Obama Administration at the State Department as Ambassador and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy from March 2013 – January 2017. Prior to joining the State Department, Sepulveda served as a Senior Advisor to Senator John Kerry from 2009 – 2013 working on technology, telecommunications, trade, and economics. From 2004-2008 Sepulveda was a senior legislative aide to then-Senator Barack Obama on the same issues and also advised his presidential campaign.

Before joining Senator Obama’s office, Sepulveda worked for Senator Barbara Boxer, a member of the Senate Commerce Committee. Additional prior work experience includes service during the Clinton Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor and at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). Mr. Sepulveda received a Master of Public Affairs from the Lindon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Public Policy and International Affairs and holds Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from Emory University.

As Vice President of Business Development, Danielle focuses on bringing new solutions to market by partnering with data, analytics and technology companies and representing the voice of the customer internally. Prior to this role, Danielle led Midwest Client Partnerships and was responsible for reinventing how Ampersand partnered with Fortune 500 advertisers with data, analytics and media activation at the core of the partnership.

Danielle joined Ampersand from Comcast Spotlight where she led Comcast Media 360’s advanced advertising sales for the Midwest region. Before that, she spearheaded the evolution in Comcast Spotlight’s traditional media research team to a data-driven analytics organization. Her team created marketplace trends, planning insights and innovative analytics for local, regional and national businesses and is credited for launching Comcast Spotlight’s first addressable analytics offerings.

Amit Shetty heads the Video and Audio product initiatives at the IAB TechLab. He joined the Tech Lab with a history of building cloud, mobile and video products in a wide variety of markets ranging from Telcos to Enterprise to Consumer apps. He has worked in Product Management, Marketing, and Engineering roles and has built platforms in standards-based ecosystems at Motive/Nokia (products built on Broadband Forum standards) and InnoPath (products built on Open Mobile Alliance standards). He also worked at Yahoo where he worked on the Video Player used across all of Yahoo’s properties. He is a proud Longhorn from the University of Texas at Austin.

Shiv Singh is the Chief Marketing Officer at Eargo Inc. where he is responsible for all brand building, customer acquisition, digital, PR and product strategy activities. Eargo is revolutionizing the hearing loss space with a hearing aid and licensed care offering that has been recognized by Time Magazine as a Top 50 invention. Prior to Eargo, Shiv drove marketing, innovation and digital strategies at Visa as the SVP & Global Head of Innovation Go-To-Market and the SVP & Global Head of Digital & Marketing Transformation. Earlier he ran digital marketing across paid, owned and social media at PepsiCo as their Global Head of Digital Marketing. In July 2019, Shiv was recognized as Forbes CMO Game-Changer. Earlier, in 2016, Shiv was inducted into the American Advertising Hall of Achievement and has been recognized by Adweek as a Top 50 marketer twice (#11 & #14). He was also recognized as a Media Maven by Ad Age and was featured on their magazine cover. Over the years, Shiv has been featured or quoted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Ad Age, Adweek, Huffington Post and the Harvard Business Review. Shiv is also the co-author of Savvy-Navigating Fake Companies, Fake Leaders & Fake News and also of Social Media Marketing for Dummies which is in its fourth edition and has been translated into several languages.

Brad Smallwood leads Facebook’s Measurement and Insights group, responsible for analyzing and optimizing the online and offline impact of Facebook’s advertising. Smallwood works with the world’s largest brands and agencies both to measure advertising effectiveness and to improve the relevance of ad campaigns to Facebook users. Advertisers his team works with range from direct-response marketers interested in driving immediate consumer actions, to brand marketers looking to understand offline ROI as well as affect more long-term attitudinal changes in consumers (e.g. brand awareness metrics). In addition to ad effectiveness measurement, Smallwood oversees the day-to-day management of Facebook’s worldwide ad inventory including pricing, inventory controls, and running of Facebook’s marketplace.

Smallwood has over 20 years of experience developing and running both on and offline marketplaces. Prior to joining Facebook, he was General Manager of Yahoo’s multi-billion dollar display advertising business. While there, he worked to introduce several third-party demand channels to help strengthen the industry-leading Yahoo marketplace, including the acquisition of Right Media. Prior to Yahoo, Smallwood worked at startups Namezero, AllAdvantage, and Revcube, where he developed a series of state-of-the-art ad targeting and ad serving techniques. These techniques include the first behavioral targeting system, along with an integrated platform for online campaign management across search, display, email, creative, and landing page optimization. Before this, Smallwood was one of the early innovators in the pricing space, developing and running the pricing and revenue management systems for a variety of industries including airlines, hotels, and shipping.

As Senior Vice President for Monetization and Yield at Pandora, Dave Smith manages Pandora’s monetization of inventory and data assets as well as our efforts around ad quality measurement. He manages a team of 30, responsible for setting and managing product pricing, developing and deploying Pandora’s audience data assets, managing the availability of saleable inventory, and measuring the quality of Pandora’s advertising for our clients.

Prior to joining Pandora, Dave worked in executive roles in start-ups focused on various aspects of the digital advertising space. Most recently, Dave served as Vice President, Solutions at Krux, a leading Data Management Platform provider to publishers and marketers worldwide. Before that, he served as Vice President, Sales of Rapt, which provided yield management technologies to premium publishers. After the acquisition of Rapt by Microsoft, Dave led Microsoft’s Publisher Sales Team, selling a full suite of ad serving and yield management technologies to publishers.

Dave is the co-chair of the IAB Working Group on Data Transparency and is actively involved in the management of the Tieni Duro Junior Cycling team in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the most successful junior training teams in the US. His favorite Pandora stations right now are: Fred Small, Stephane Grappelli, and Brandi Carlile.

Rick is an accomplished 20+ year digital media veteran with a track record ​of helping build companies, from venture backed start-ups to multi-billion-dollar enterprises​. He recently joined Nielsen as the SVP & Group Head of Digital, responsible for expanding media measurement and data partnerships with the industry’s leading digital companies.

Previously,​ Rick ​was the Global CRO at Telaria, overseeing supply and demand growth for CTV and premium video, working with the top video publishers, brands and agencies. Prior to that, he was the CRO of Rocket Fuel and managed a team of 150 across North America, charged with selling AI-driven marketing solutions, through its acquisition by Sizmek in 2017. At ZEFR, the leading contextual video advertising company, Rick led 350% revenue growth and doubled the sales and service team. As EVP of Digital Sales at iHeartMedia, he built the first National digital sales team and launched its Digital Advisory Board, while increasing the business by 70%. Earlier, Rick was at Microsoft for almost seven years, generating four-fold ad revenue growth and presided over a sales and service org of 200.

Rick currently serves on the Executive BOD for The Ad Club of NY and was honored with the first “Volunteer of the Year” award in 2014. He is a former President of 212NYC, a four-time IAB MIXX Awards juror and a founding member of the Digital Content Newfronts. Rick is also the Benefit Chair for Young Audiences NY, a non-profit which provides arts education programs to underserved NYC public schools. He holds a BA from Carnegie Mellon University and is based in NYC.

Zoe Soon has 10+ years of experience building products in technology-driven businesses with a heavy focus on mobile. Six years ago Zoe flew 21 hours from Sydney to NYC for a 30min coffee meeting which led to her first job in NYC. Since then she’s worked with three major New York based media companies, The New York Times, Condé Nast and Business Insider on projects ranging from location-based apps to paywalls. Zoe began her career as a user researcher and UX design consultant working with three of the top five banks in Australia. She was then hired to establish a user insights practice at Fairfax Media, a leading Australian news and media conglomerate. Here she led the user research for the flagship news apps which won Best Mobile News Product at the 2012 Australian Mobile Awards and went on to become product lead for the news sites. In this role she launched a content paywall and a unified user data system to diversify revenue and enable more targeted marketing.

Prior to joining the IAB Zoe was General Manager of apps and email at Business Insider where she was charged with defining the go-to market strategy for these platforms. In this role Zoe launched Insider Inc’s first OTT apps across Apple, Amazon Fire and Roku offering advertisers cross-platform video digital distribution and access to an audience that generates over 2 billion views each month.

Zoe has a Masters in Organizational Psychology and lives in New York. She enjoys burning pancakes, Cuban salsa dancing and talking to strangers in line.

Flavia Sparacino is the founder of experiential design and technology studio Sensing Places, a visionary MIT spinoff that creates immersive spaces, transformational experiences, and technology products for brands, agencies, theme parks, and museums. Sensing Places was founded in 2006 in Santa Monica, California. It has contributed its expertise in innovation and groundbreaking technologies to landmark projects worldwide such as Zaha Hadid’s Daxing airport in Beijing, recently opened, and Gehry Partners’ 5.4 billion dollar design for Resorts World Sentosa.

Recent projects span from a 10,000 sqf customer experience center for Vodafone, from ideation to build, to a computer-vision powered activation for the US Open, and interactive theme park experiences for Disney’s Epcot. Sensing Places has also created two product spinoffs: BEAM, which provides wireless video in conference rooms, and Presentize, a custom digital signage platform for art galleries, retail stores, and gyms.

Flavia is a pioneer and innovator in augmented reality and immersive environments. Her work on gesture control for interactive applications came 5 years before Spielberg’s Minority Report movie, as documented by the Discovery Channel feature on her work. Her work has been displayed at MOMA, SFMOMA, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and Redcat Theater and was reviewed by The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Discovery Channel, France’s Arte, and Japan’s NHK television.

She received her PhD in Media Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a Masters in Cognitive Sciences and degrees in Electrical Engineering and Robotics. MIT granted her a dozen technology licenses for her inventions, one of the highest numbers of intellectual property licenses ever awarded to one person. Flavia holds more than 1500 academic paper citations for her contribution to entertainment technology and immersive environments (source: Google Scholar).

Nada Stirratt is VP, Americas at Facebook where she leads marketing partnerships with the largest brands and agencies across the Americas & LATAM. Her team supports all of Facebook’s offerings including Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Marketplace.

Prior to Facebook, Nada was CEO of Verve Mobile, a venture-backed global, location-based mobile technology platform. Nada joined Verve from Acxiom, where she served as the company’s first CRO leading a global team responsible for the company’s revenue, operations and analytics practices.

Nada has also held executive positions at News Corp, Viacom, and AOL.

Nada currently serves as a director on the boards of BlueStar Families, a 501C3 that supports US military families during the difficult time of deployment, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau. She has been named to CableWorld’s Most Powerful Women, Business Insider’s Most Powerful Women in Mobile, and was awarded the Ad:Tech Industry Achievement Award.

Long-time media and ad tech industry executive specializing in Publishers’ revenue operations. Lori is the SVP, Digital Revenue & Operations for Nexstar Digital overseeing the advertising operations, ad tech and monetization of 145 local broadcast stations’ digital properties.

Suzanne Taylor has more than 14 years of experience in the marketing and events space. Her career expertise spans throughout the advertising, digital media, ad tech, finance, and non-profit sectors. A leader in the Xandr marketing organization, Taylor, oversees the experiential marketing team, including their activations at marquee industry conferences, and events and speakerships across the globe.

She is also a champion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring event programming supports growth of female leadership in the technology and media industries. Taylor also co-hosts a marketing meetup, #NOBSMKTG. The organization provides varied and inspirational content from different industries that showcase successful marketing strategies and practical learnings for the present-day marketer.

White Ops’ co-founder and President Michael Tiffany started the company to attract the kind of people who wow him, and to focus their energy on a new way of protecting people in the interconnected future. Michael’s founding vision for White Ops is to make people more secure by making them less attractive targets, by disrupting the profit centers of cybercrime. Tiffany is also a lifetime Technical Fellow of Critical Assets Labs, a DARPA-funded cyber-security research lab, and a Subject Matter Advisor for the Signal Media Project, a nonprofit promoting the accurate portrayal of science, technology and history in popular media. And he is a member of the old school white hat hacker collective ninjas.org.

Sam joined IAB Tech Lab with the DigiTrust acquisition as a founding board member and volunteer CTO. Prior to his role as CTO of Tech Lab he was in engineering leadership roles for nine years at Rubicon Project, where he helped to grow the business from an ad network optimization startup to an independent global leader in Real Time Bidding. Sam has a BA in Communications from UC San Diego and an MBA from Cornell University.

Alex Weinstein is the senior vice president of growth at Grubhub, and is responsible for the consumer business of the nation’s leading online food ordering and delivery marketplace. Alex’s team drives the expansion of the diner base and their engagement with the platform via online and offline channels, using marketing and product techniques that bring together art and science. In the 12 months ending June 2019, Grubhub sold $6 billion worth of food and has grown revenue 41% year-over-year. Prior to Grubhub, he was the director of marketing technologies at eBay, leading personalization and CRM efforts, including engineering, product management, and marketing. Prior to eBay, Alex led the product development team at Wetpaint, a machine learning startup in the social media space. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from UCLA.

Brad currently serves as Director – Privacy and Public Policy at Meta. Prior to joining Meta, Brad served as Vice President of Public Policy for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Earlier in his career, Brad served as senior advisor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and as a fellow on the Senate HELP Committee.

Troy Young was named president of Hearst Magazines Digital Media in May 2013. Since then, he has built a continuously growing division that creates and manages the content, technology, operations, product and business development strategies for 21 digital brands in the U.S. with an audience of 180 million unique visitors and 640 million video views. The portfolio includes Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar and Delish as well as Sweet, a collaboration with Snapchat on its Discover platform, and a partnership with LENNY, a newsletter from GIRLS co-creators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner. Young also oversees the Magazine division’s international digital business, with a combined audience of 236 million unique visitors across 36 regions.

In 2015, Young was named Adweek’s Magazine Executive of the Year, an honor that recognized him for unifying Hearst’s “print and digital brands into a single, well-oiled machine whose traffic has surged” leading to a 75 percent increase in revenue, and for his development of MediaOS, “a combined CMS, ad sales and data strategy tool for all Hearst properties.” In 2014, Young was inducted to MIN’s Digital Hall of Fame, and in 2013 he was named to the FOLIO 100, a list of the most influential and impactful media professionals of the year. Young was also one of MIN’s Most Intriguing People the same year.

A media executive and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in digital publishing and advertising, Young was previously president of Say Media. Prior to Say, Young held several executive positions at Omnicom’s digital agency Organic, including the role of chief experience officer, where he advised on strategy and created award-winning work for clients including American Express, Virgin Mobile, Sirius XM, Chrysler and Bank of America. He has held numerous advisory roles with digital media, mobile and commerce companies and currently serves on the boards of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Digital Content Next (DCN).

Maggie Zhang, Ph.D. is SVP, Video Research & Insights at Dentsu Aegis Network. Maggie oversees linear and non-linear video research to inform media investment and partnership opportunities. She works as a central resource for audience insights, measurement, and market intelligence across the agency network. Maggie also leads the DAN Video Innovation Council that promotes a holistic, cross-platform video approach and thought leadership.

Julian Zilberbrand is the Executive Vice President of Advanced Media for ViacomCBS. Zilberbrand is responsible for providing strategic direction and leadership for ViacomCBS’s InView reporting platform and for working across the organization to further develop capabilities in Customer Identity Management amongst other responsibilities in addressable media and data focused business development.