Adam is Chief Operating Officer at Twitter, overseeing the company’s business operations as well as its worldwide monetization efforts and advertising platform. He previously served as Twitter’s President of Global Revenue and Partnerships. Prior to joining Twitter in 2010, Adam was President of the Fox Audience Network (FAN), a role in which he oversaw a division that includes one of the web’s largest advertising platforms and a team dedicated to monetizing News Corporation’s web properties and hundreds of third-party online publishers.

Previously, Adam served as Fox Interactive Media’s original Chief Technology Officer, and helped spearhead acquisitions of MySpace, IGN, Photobucket, and Scout Media. He began his career with News Corp running the technology and product divisions at FOXSports.com, and previously served in several roles within the online news industry, including stints at latimes.com and Cleveland.com. In September 2012, Adam was listed as #1 in “AdWeek’s 50” ranking of indispensable industry talent. He serves on the board of the Ad Council and is a member of their Executive Committee. He is @adambain on Twitter.

A three-time Cyber Lions Grand Prix winner in Cannes, Lars Bastholm has become one of the most highly awarded and internationally renowned creative leaders in the digital and traditional advertising industry during his 20-year career. Lars is currently the Global Chief Creative Officer of The ZOO, which is Google’s creative think tank for brands and agencies.

Before joining Google, Lars was the Global Chief Creative Officer at Rosetta, where he oversaw the 200+ person creative staff in the U.S. and Europe and worked closely with key clients, primarily Samsung, and Rosetta’s business development team, as well as Rosetta’s global expansion team. Prior to that, Lars was the Chief Creative Officer of Cheil USA, where he focused on establishing Cheil USA as a center of creative excellence for the network and to elevate the creative integration across the Americas network, including Cheil Mexico, Cheil Brazil, Cheil Canada, and Cheil Central America. He joined Cheil following three years of digitally transforming Ogilvy North America as Chief Digital Creative Officer and fueling Ogilvy New York’s growth as Chief Creative Officer, where he oversaw clients such as IKEA, American Express, and Time Warner Cable. He was a member of Ogilvy’s Worldwide Creative Council. Lars previously spent five years at AKQA, where he was hired to open its New York office and helped land global Agency of Record accounts with Motorola, Coca-Cola, and Smirnoff. He grew the office to 120 people before departing.

Prior to AKQA, Bastholm started up Grey Interactive in Denmark and then joined Framfab as Creative Director, working on some of the world’s most recognized brands, such as Nike, LEGO, Coca-Cola, and Carlsberg. Lars has had the honor of chairing the Cannes Cyber Lions jury, and he is a frequent award show judge and speaker at industry events. He was named a creative leader by the Wall Street Journal and has contributed to three books about the digital advertising industry published by Taschen. He is a member of IAB’s Agency Advisory Board as well as The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. Lars is a film buff, who has co-written two screenplays and has reviewed films for over 30 years. He enjoys karaoke as well as science fiction, technology, and fine cuisine.

Andrew, or “Boz” Bosworth, as most know him, graduated from Harvard in 2004 before working as a developer on Microsoft Visio for almost two years. He joined former student Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook in January of 2006 where he created News Feed. He also created many early anti-abuse systems, some of which are still in production. After working briefly on site speed and site reliability, Andrew created and ran a program called bootcamp to help grow the engineering team and maintain its culture. Following that he led the integration of the Messages and Chat products and improving stability. He also directly led the Groups, Messenger, and Video Calling teams. At different times, he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, Mobile Monetization, and Feed Ads. He is currently the Vice President of Ads and Pages overseeing the engineering, product, research, analytics, and design teams.

Dave has been with Havas Media for five years where he has worked on Goodyear, Rémy Cointreau, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Philips. Dave and his team won the National Association of Realtors® business in 2015. He is currently the EVP, Group Account Director providing oversight for all accounts at Havas outside of TracFone and Fidelity. As EVP, Dave works with client teams to ensure Havas exceeds expectations in providing the best client service in the industry as well as overseeing growth strategies for respective clients. Dave joined Havas Media in Boston after spending 15+ years in Chicago where he was a Group Account Director at Mindshare responsible for such accounts as BP, Nestlé, Unilever and Sears.

Dave started his career at Young & Rubicam in New York where he learned the ‘nuts and bolts’ of media working on AT&T and the U.S. Postal Service. Dave also has a proven track record in delivering award-winning integrated communication plans for clients. This includes Mediaweek Magazine’s Media Plan of the Year (Unilever Degree for Men), Jack Myers Media Creativity & Innovation Award (Unilever) and the David Ogilvy Brand Stewardship Award (Sears).

Dave is a graduate of Rutgers University where he holds a degree in both Art History and Economics. Dave’s wife and three boys had to make quite the adjustment from living in the City of Chicago to the suburbs of Boston as deer and wild turkeys roam freely in the yard. He also does all the cooking in his house and is a ‘365 Griller’ – even during Boston blizzards and East Coast hurricanes.

Summer Anne Burton is Executive Creative Producer where she oversees BuzzFeed’s creative strategy and team. Formerly she was BuzzFeed’s Editorial Director for BuzzFeed Distributed. She began her BuzzFeed career in 2012 as Weekend Editor and moved from Texas to New York City that same year to take on an expanded role. Summer has lead new initiatives, and management across much of BuzzFeed’s editorial department, and her projects have included pushing personality quizzes, launching BuzzFeed Books, and developing our weekend content strategy. Her biggest posts include What’s Your Animal Personality Type? and Every Year Of Your Twenties Ranked From Worst To Best. She is also drawing every member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, a project that’s been profiled in ESPN The Magazine, Deadspin, and all over the web.

Bruce Dincin is Senior Director of Media Strategy and Analytics at Choice Hotels International (NYSE: CHH). Bruce has been with Choice for almost ten years, holding key roles in the marketing department including responsibility for brand advertising and marketing. In his position, Bruce oversees the strategy and implementation for all paid media and the measurement of Choice’s media including TV, desktop, mobile, online video, and social media. For the past five years Bruce has worked closely with Choice’s Business Intelligence team and Media Mix Modeling (MMM) partner to help Choice become a leader in leveraging MMM and digital attribution to optimize their media spend and drive incremental revenue.

Bruce attended the University of Illinois and subsequently began his professional career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in Chicago. After Andersen, he earned his MBA at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. Prior to joining Choice Hotels, Bruce worked at US Airways and American Express in multiple marketing roles.

Bruce lives with his wife and two sons outside of Washington DC, but remains a Chicago sports fan.

Dave Etherington develops strategic initiatives and revenue-generating new products and opportunities at the convergence of technology, design and media as Chief Strategy Officer of Intersection. One of the foremost voices in the Digital Out of Home industry, Dave’s forward-thinking vision for how brands and organizations can best engage their customers and the potential for media to catalyze change in cities helped build the largest municipally focused media company in the U.S.

Under Dave’s leadership, the company became the first in the world to integrate location-based mobile into Out of Home and the first in the U.S. to create and execute a mobile purchasing campaign directly from street signage. He also leads the development of the groundbreaking advertising platform for LinkNYC, driving revenue for the City and presenting unique opportunities for brands to tell their stories.

Dave speaks frequently on the evolution of media at the convergence of the digital and physical platforms at events such as SXSW, Engadget, and Advertising Week and has been featured in numerous publications including LA Times, Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post. He is a contributor to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) on the Marketing and the New Technologies committees. Prior to Intersection, Dave worked at The Guardian and the BBC. He lives in SoHo, Manhattan.

Scott has spent his career utilizing mathematics and information technology to build profitable businesses and products. As founder and CEO of Videology, a leading software provider for converged TV and video advertising, Scott is focused on guiding the company through each new phase of growth, and driving innovation to meet the industry’s latest opportunities.

A pioneer in the digital advertising industry, Scott is committed to developing smart solutions to meet the needs of the world’s largest marketers, agencies and media companies. To that end, Videology’s global footprint now encompasses 28 countries across the North American, EMEA and APAC regions.

Prior to his work with Videology, Scott most notably founded Advertising.com in 1998—the world’s leading performance-based digital advertising network—and sold the company to AOL in 2004. He has also held key roles at Fortune 500 companies such as Procter & Gamble and Capital One.

Scott has received numerous awards including Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, CEO of the Year by Blue Chip Venture Company, and the American Business Award’s “Stevie” for Best Executive.

Scott graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. degree from the University of Virginia, Department of Systems Engineering, and a M.S. from the Stanford University, Department of Engineering-Economic Systems.

Sarah is a technology journalist for Bloomberg in San Francisco. Her reporting focuses on social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Her stories can be found at bloomberg.com and in Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, and she regularly appears to discuss them on Bloomberg Television.

Stephen Gold is the CMO and Vice President, Business Development for IBM Watson. As CMO, he has global responsibility for the brands marketing strategy, communications, social media, public relations, analyst relations, demand generation, and events. He also has responsibility for business development, including mergers and acquisitions, as well as the units $100M direct investment fund. As a member of the senior leadership team, he is working to help commercialize industry solutions based on IBM Watson’s cognitive technology.

Prior to joining IBM, Stephen was Vice President of Marketing (CMO) for SPSS, acquired by IBM in 2009. As President of the Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company, Stephen oversaw all aspects of the publically traded market research organization, which covered twenty-six distinct technology markets. Previous to this, Stephen successfully scaled and sold two Silicon Valley based startups; Azerity to ModelN as CEO; and Digital Market to Agile (now Oracle) as its CMO.

Stephen has a twenty-year winning track record of leading successful enterprises and building businesses across industries (technology, software and services) and geographies (domestic and international) for both high-growth, private and multi-billion dollar publicly traded corporations. Stephen holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and graduated with distinction from Carnegie Mellon University with an MBA. The Pennsylvania Small Business Association and Carnegie Mellon have both recognized him as “Entrepreneur of the Year.” Stephen has appeared on CNN, FOX, CNBC, and is a featured speaker at various conferences and universities.

Jessi Hempel is the head of editorial at Backchannel. A former senior writer at WIRED, she covered the business of technology. Earlier in her career, she served as a senior writer for Fortune, where she penned cover stories on Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, as well as IBM and RIM. Hempel also wrote about design and technology for BusinessWeek. She currently lives in New York City.

Mark Howard is Chief Revenue Officer at Forbes Media. In this role, he is responsible for the U.S. and European digital and print sales organization, marketing and advertising solutions. Previously, he was SVP of Digital Advertising Strategy.

Mr. Howard also held the position of SVP and VP of Digital Advertising Sales for Forbes Media, overseeing the global sales team in its online sales efforts as well leading the Western Region team in its integrated sales efforts. He was also charged with developing the corporate digital sales strategy, which included new product development, the creation and development of audience segmentation programs and strategic planning.

Mr. Howard joined Forbes Media as a Regional Sales Manager in 2002. During his time at Forbes, he has also served as West Coast Digital Sales Director and Western Region Director of Integrated Sales.

Prior to joining Forbes Media, Mr. Howard held sales positions at Inc. and Fast Company magazines, as well as E-Trade Financial. He began his career as a media planner at Anderson & Lembke. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing. He resides in New York City.

George Ivie is the Executive Director and CEO of the Media Rating Council, Inc. (MRC), a not-for-profit industry organization created in 1963 at the request of the U.S. Congress to assure high ethical and operational standards in audience measurement services. Mr. Ivie’s background includes 30 years of experience in media research auditing, oversight and consulting. Prior to bring appointed the Executive Director of the MRC in January 2000, George was a partner at Ernst & Young and their lead representative and advisor to MRC, conducting all MRC audits and interacting with MRC management and member organizations. George has a thorough knowledge of research best practices, operations, controls and information systems in Internet, Multi-media, Print, Radio and Television measurement services.

Over the course of over six years spent in marketing and advertising, Sarah Jones has led media strategy for companies such as Sam’s Club, Cincinnati Bell, Long John Silvers and Dick’s Sporting Goods. Sarah’s marketing career was highlighted by joining Dick’s Sporting Goods and spearheading the efforts to make the company the official retailer of the ESPN Fan Shop. After over three years with the retailer, she moved on to a completely new category by joining Anheuser-Busch – a leader in the US beer category.

Today as the Connections Capabilities Manager for AB, Sarah has the responsibility of supporting leaders and teams with the cross-functional role of leading Marketing training and best practice sharing in the US across the Media, Digital and Experiential teams, and beyond.

Kathy Kayse is the Vice President of Sales Strategy and Solutions at Yahoo. A seasoned industry leader, Kathy has extensive cross-platform advertising sales and strategy experience. Prior to joining Yahoo, she served as Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales at Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) since 2009 where she led the development and execution of advertising sales strategies for the network and its digital assets, including Oprah.com.

Previously, Kathy spent 24 years at Time Warner, including as Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales at AOL. Prior to that, she served as publisher for People, where she and the sales team achieved record success. Kathy also held publisher positions at Money and FSB: Fortune Small Business after serving in various sales capacities at Time Inc. She began her career in media planning at Wells, Rich, Greene, and J. Walter Thompson.

She received her Bachelor of Science in Advertising from University of Illinois. Kathy is a member of the Advertising Women of New York.

Bryan Kennedy is Chief Executive Officer, Epsilon/Conversant, overseeing the strategy and delivery of Epsilon’s and Conversant’s innovative digital and data-driven marketing services to global brands, including 15 of the top 20 brands in the world. In this role, Bryan is building out a vision for a new breed of marketing company, overseeing Epsilon’s team of approximately 7,000 marketing professionals in 70 offices worldwide. Under his leadership, Epsilon has received numerous accolades as a marketing innovator and leader, including notable recognition from Forrester Research and Ad Age.

Bryan joined Epsilon in 1996 and has been a key architect behind the rapid growth and expansion into the data and digital marketing services arena as well as the company’s current position as the second largest US Digital-Agency Network, according to Ad Age.

On behalf of its clients, Epsilon manages over 4,000 databases and 550 million loyalty memberships worldwide, delivers more than 47 billion permission-based email messages a year, and through its Conversant digital platform, manages over 50 billion online interactions per day in display, mobile, and video advertising, leveraging the power of rich data to connect people to brands.

Serving over 20 years at Epsilon, Bryan has been Chief Executive Officer since 2009, following prior roles as President, CEO, and CTO. Prior to that, he held management positions with Capstead Mortgage Corporation.

Bryan earned a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Once the youngest Managing Director of a UK media company, Steve King is now one of the most experienced global network leaders.

In 2000, Zenith became part of Publicis Groupe, and Steve was part of the management team that oversaw the successful merger with the Publicis-owned Optimedia network. In 2001, he became Chief Executive Officer of ZenithOptimedia EMEA. In 2004, when the long-standing Chairman of Zenith, and subsequently ZenithOptimedia, John Perriss, retired, Steve became Global Chief Executive Officer of ZenithOptimedia. Steve held this position until the start of 2016, when he was promoted to Chief Executive Officer of the newly-formed Publicis Media, overseeing all media operations within Publicis Groupe.

King has served on the P12, the management executive team of Publicis Groupe, since 2004. He was one of the architects of VivaKi within Publicis Groupe, which created a dynamic and unique operation housing the key media and digital assets of Publicis Groupe—representing ZenithOptimedia, Starcom Mediavest Group, and Digitas.

In 2012, King was appointed to the Board of BBH. In 2014, he was appointed to the Directoire+ of Publicis Groupe. Steve is a regular presenter on industry trends and is frequently interviewed for his views on global media issues.

Jim is CEO of Yahoo. With over 20 years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience in technology and media, Jim has a proven track record of driving growth and innovation. Prior to joining Yahoo, Jim was CEO of Tinder, the most popular app for meeting new people, as well as the highest grossing non-gaming app, in the world. Jim joined Tinder after nearly a decade as President and CEO of CBS Interactive, a top 10 global Internet company with brands ranging from CBS All Access to CNET. Jim was also named the first Chief Digital Officer in the history of CBS Corporation.

As Vice Chairman, Global Chief Creative Officer, Nick guides R/GA’s strategic and creative vision. He partners with the agency’s senior clients to ensure that R/GA’s wide range of capabilities – business consulting, product and service design, and communications – are equally grounded in creativity, strategy, and technology.

Nick leads an increasingly diverse group of creatives including designers, copywriters, interaction designers, and creative technologists. From these disciplines, he curates and choreographs teams that collaborate on a variety of work, from mobile applications to TV spots and everything in between.

Since joining R/GA in 2001, Nick has worked with clients such as Nike, Beats by Dre, Samsung, HBO, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, and Google. During his tenure, R/GA has become one of the most awarded agencies in the world, winning every major creative accolade, including four Cannes Lions Grand Prix awards, a D&AD Black Pencil, and a GRANDY; and Adweek named R/GA Digital Agency of the Decade and Nike+ as Campaign of the Decade.

Nick has been on every major award show jury (including being named Jury President for the Cannes Innovation Lions) and has twice been named in the Creativity 50, a list of the world’s most influential creative people. He is recognized as an industry thought leader and has been published globally.

Meredith Kopit Levien is president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. She leads the Company’s global operations and directs its business strategy.


Before becoming CEO in September 2020, she served as chief operating officer, overseeing all major commercial operations, including subscriptions, advertising, events, and the cross-functional digital product development organization.


Prior to being appointed COO in 2017, she was executive vice president and chief revenue officer, a position she held since 2015. In that role, Ms. Kopit Levien was responsible for both the subscription and advertising businesses. Ms. Kopit Levien joined The Times Company in 2013 as head of advertising.


Before joining The Times, she spent five years at Forbes, where she held various roles, including publisher and chief revenue officer, and six years at the Atlantic. She began her career at the Advisory Board Company.


Ms. Kopit Levien is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. She serves on the board of directors of The New York Times Company and Instacart.


She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1993 and divides her time between New York and Washington, D.C.

Steven Levy is editor in chief of the online tech publication Backchannel, part of Conde Nast’s WIRED Media Group. He is the former senior staff writer for WIRED, the former chief technology correspondent for Newsweek, and author of seven books. The Washington Post describes him as “America’s premier technology journalist… a Silicon Valley insider who writes for the rest of us on the outside.”

His most recent book, In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, a New York Times bestseller, is definitive word on the search giant. It was named best business book of 2011 by Amazon. His first book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, was named by the readers of PC Magazine as the best sci-tech book of the past 20 years, and is known as the definitive book on the computer culture. Other books include, Insanely Great (a history of the Macintosh), The Perfect Thing (about the iPod), Artificial Life, The Unicorn’s Secret, and Crypto, which won the 2001 Frankfurt ebook prize for best non-fiction book of the year. He is a rare journalist recipient of the SV Forum “Visionary” award, given to technology leaders like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen. Levy has written for many publications including the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Esquire.

A catalyst of innovation, a pioneer of programmatic, a collaborative business partner, and fierce believer in diversity and inclusion, Helen Lin is Chief Digital Officer for Publicis Groupe. She is responsible for driving integrated digital solutions from across the organization, while leading the holding company’s broader digital strategy and partnerships – including representing Publicis Groupe in industry-leading initiatives to continually improve the standards and brand safety on the world’s largest consumer platforms.

Prior to her current role, she served as Chief Digital Officer for Publicis Media where she oversaw all digital and programmatic strategy, partnerships, investment and negotiations on behalf of the network globally.

She has received a number of esteemed industry honors, including the 2023 Ascend A-List Awards; 2021 Gold House A100 List; 2019 ADCOLOR Legend; Campaign US Female Frontier; MediaPost Digital All-Star; Adweek Media All-Star; Cynopsis Top Women in Digital; and currently serves as Chair for the American Advertising Federation (AAF). Outside of the office, Helen is an active board member for Partnership With Children, a non-profit that helps over 10,000 New York City children overcome the stresses of growing up in poverty. Helen earned her bachelor’s degree at UCLA and her MBA at NYU.

Betty Liu is an anchor at Bloomberg Television as well as the founder and CEO of Radiate, an education technology company based in New York City, leveraging multimedia to help today’s managers grow into tomorrow’s leaders.

Radiate will give members access to exclusive video interviews, roundtable discussions, live events and other learning tools to help solve the most important management and leadership challenges. Interview guests include Jack Welch, Gary Vaynerchuk, Bob Nardelli, Mellody Hobson, Greg Norman, Adam Grant, and Scott Galloway.

In addition, Liu hosts the Radiate podcast, with over 130,000 listeners, featuring intimate conversations with titans in business. Featured guests include Steve Schwarzman, Charlie Rose, David Stern, Mohamed El-Erian, Sallie Krawcheck and many more.

Liu also anchors the Bloomberg Daybreak Asia program from the NY headquarters.
An award-winning business journalist, Liu regularly interviews influential business, political and media leaders including two former U.S. Presidents – Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton – as well as Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, Jamie Dimon, Elon Musk and many others.

Before joining Bloomberg Television, Liu was an anchor for CNBC Asia based in Hong Kong. Prior to that, she was the Atlanta bureau chief for the Financial Times where she covered a wide variety of topics from business to civil rights. Earlier in her career, Liu was the Taiwan bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires and a Hong Kong-based regional correspondent for the newswire. In 1997, she received a Dow Jones Newswires Award for her coverage of the Asian financial crisis.

Liu is also author of the career guide, Work Smarts: What CEOs Say You Need to Know to Get Ahead.

Liu was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania magna cum laude in English. She currently lives in New Jersey with her twin sons.

As President of Content and Consumer Brands at AOL, Jimmy leads AOL’s portfolio of content brands, as well as AOL’s content strategy and OTT operations, which altogether reach a global audience of around 400 million unique visitors every month.

Prior to joining AOL, Jimmy co-founded GoViral, an early innovator in online video production and distribution, developing video advertising platforms able to track, distribute and host video ads across multiple sites online. With Maymann’s guidance the company evolved from being primarily involved in video production to focusing on platform development, allowing it to rapidly scale its operations. Since joining AOL, Jimmy has served in several roles including Senior Vice President of International and most recently as CEO of the Huffington Post, where he made international expansion, profitable growth, and improved video operations his three key priorities.

In his three years at the Huffington Post, Jimmy was responsible for designing and executing on an international expansion strategy that saw the establishment of editions in 15 international markets and which helped fuel its audience growth from 30 million to around 200 million unique visitors each month.

Jimmy also oversaw the creation and development of HuffPost Partner Studio, the Huffington Post’s market-leading branded content production team. In a little over two years HuffPost Partner Studio has grown to account for around 35% of the Huffington Post’s revenue, by offering premium custom advertising solutions throughout the Huffington Post platform. Jimmy has also prioritized the elevation of video at the Huffington Post, building upon its existing HuffPost Live operations. He is responsible for spearheading an exclusive partnership between Huffington Post and Broadband TV, creating an innovative next generation video platform that empowers open source content creation.

Jimmy is a graduate of the University of Odense in Denmark with degrees in Economics and International Marketing and has an MBA from London Business School.

Adam brings a wealth of expertise from his experience working with sophisticated digitally-centric brands. As the business operations leader and Managing Director of UM Studios, North America, he facilitates unique relationships with production, talent and media partners to deliver better outcomes for our clients.

Adam recently joined UM from Ogilvy, where he initially ran the E*TRADE business. He successfully negotiated the Ogilvy partnership with Kevin Spacey and led the TYPE E* campaign launch from conception to completion. Most recently, he re-established and ran a bespoke global service model for the Qualcomm Snapdragon business.

A graduate of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, Adam began his career in account management at JWT. He worked on global brand assignments for Samsung, Merrill Lynch, Trident Gum and Macy’s. From there, he moved to Atmosphere BBDO, where he immersed himself in all things digital – working on complicated brand and product launches online for AT&T; followed by creative sponsorship and retail activations for FedEx.

In 2010, Adam moved to McGarryBowen to serve as lead on the Verizon digital account. Once Verizon was up and running, he rotated to run the fully integrated United Airlines business. During his time there, he led the activation of their current social media customer service program and later the reprisal of their famous “Fly the Friendly Skies” campaign.

In addition to his agency accomplishments, Adam has most recently been working with Oscar-winning writer and producer Armando Bo and Emmy-winning actress Olivia Munn on a branded content series designed to function as a product demonstration of their latest mobile phone processor.

Doug Ray is the U.S. CEO of Carat, Dentsu Aegis Network’s flagship media network. His vision is clear: to Redefine Media by leveraging the disruptive, yet powerful dynamics of globalization and media convergence.

Under Doug’s leadership, Carat has consistently achieved year-over-year growth by focusing his innovation agenda on people, product, and clients. The agency has added more than $4 billion in billings and nearly doubled in revenue since he was appointed to lead the brand in 2011. Most recently, Carat has expanded its relationship with leading marketers including P&G, Mondelēz, Macy’s and Pfizer.

Doug also served as Carat’s first Global President from 2012 through the end of 2015. During this period, Carat was named Global Network of the Year (by Campaign), ranked #1 within RECMA’s Qualitative Agency Assessment five out of their last six reports, and Agency of the Year 54 times across 15 local markets.

Doug has been honored by Adweek as Media Executive of the Year, joining the publication’s prestigious list of Media All-Stars. He has also been named a Media Maven by Advertising Age and a Legend & Leader by NBCUniversal.

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.

Tom Salomone, a REALTOR® from Coral Springs, Fla., is the 2016 President of the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). NAR, The Voice for Real Estate®, is America’s largest trade association, representing 1.2 million REALTORS® involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

Tom has been a licensed real estate agent for more than 40 years. He is a second generation REALTOR® and Broker/Owner of Real Estate II, Inc., a firm specializing in residential real estate.

He is currently President of NAR’s Board of Directors and Leadership Team, and Chair of the Executive Committee. He is also a proud member of the Women’s Council of REALTORS® North Broward Chapter.

Tom was NAR’s 2015 President-Elect and 2014 First Vice President. In 2012, he served as Director of REALTOR® Party Activities for NAR. He also served as the committee liaison for the Issues Mobilization, Political Involvement, and REALTOR® Political Action Committees. In 2011, he was the committee liaison to the REALTOR® Party Coordinating Committee, the RPAC Fundraising Forum, and the RPAC Trustees Committee. He chaired the 2009 Economic Issues & Residential REALTOR® Business Trends Forum and the 2008 Meeting and Conference Committee.

In 2007, Tom was NAR’s Region 5 Vice President, serving Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

The Florida REALTORS® elected Tom their president in 2003 and treasurer in 2001. He was named Florida’s REALTOR® of the Year in 2005.

Tom served as President of North Broward Association of REALTORS® from 1991 to 1992. Between 1980 and 1994, he served on and chaired every committee of the North Broward Association of REALTORS®, which merged with the REALTOR® Association of Greater Ft. Lauderdale in 1995. He was named 1992 REALTOR® of the Year for the North Broward Association. In 2003, the REALTOR® Association of Greater Ft. Lauderdale honored him with their Life Membership Award, recognizing him for outstanding performance in service to the REALTOR® Association.

Tom uses his experience in business and sports to serve the community through a number of different organizations, including the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. He has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce, a Coral Springs Charter School Business Sponsor, and a Water Control District Supervisor. He has coached over 46 sports teams in local city leagues and been a member of the Amateur Athletic Union and the United States Specialty Sports Association. He volunteers with organizations to prevent heart disease and cancer and attends St. Andrew’s Church. He is the proud father of two sons, TJ and Bryce, and husband to his lovely wife, Diana.

Kevin Slavin is faculty and founder of the Playful Systems group at the MIT Media Lab. His group focuses on building systems that delight, instead of systems that explain. These range from mobile games to urban metagenomics.

Prior to MIT, he co-founded several companies including Area/Code (which worked with Nike, Nokia, Disney and others to pioneer locative and cross-platform entertainment, acquired by Zynga in 2011) Everybody at Once (audience development for BBC America and others) and Collective Decision Engines (software applying behavioral economics to market research.)

His most recent work with MIT was part of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and his background includes 10 years as creative and strategy at DDB, Chiat, and others. His TED talk on “How Algorithms Shape the World” has been overexposed on the internet and other places people watch videos.

Eric Solomon is Nielsen’s global leader for Watch Product Marketing, Product Architecture, and Ad Intel. He is responsible for defining the integrated product vision and story for the Global Watch business, as well as managing the foundational capabilities that underlie Nielsen products. Eric is also responsible for the advertising intelligence product suite globally. Eric joined Nielsen in 2010 and spent the first five years of his tenure helping define the Total Audience measurement and planning strategy and product set.

Prior to joining Nielsen, Eric’s career spanned almost two decades in digital product development and program management. He has held product roles at A+E Networks, MLB Advanced Media and Yahoo! and also has experience with web startups and in consulting, having worked at both Cambridge Technology Partners and Andersen Consulting (now
Accenture). He is a frequent speaker at industry events, including Nielsen’s own National Client Meeting and Consumer 360. Eric holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School.

As global head of sales, Jeremy Steinberg oversees advertising sales efforts across all platforms and sales channels at The Weather Company, including U.S. and international sales, programmatic sales, agency partnerships and development, sales strategy, marketer solutions, and account management. Under his purview, he is responsible for driving overall ad revenue growth, and client and agency partnerships. Jeremy is based in New York.

Previously, Jeremy was senior vice president of ad sales, where he led national sales across all screens, including The Weather Channel, weather.com, mobile and tablet apps. In that role, he also oversaw programmatic sales along with agency partnerships and development, and mid-market sales.

Prior to that, Jeremy was senior vice president of digital ad sales and responsible for the digital sales efforts for The Weather Company as well as revenue across weather.com, wunderground, and The Weather Channel mobile and tablet apps.

Jeremy joined Weather from FOX News, where he was vice president of digital sales and business development for FOX News and FOX Business Network. There, he oversaw all revenue generation, sales marketing and operations across the FOX News Digital Network properties, including FOXNews.com, FOXBusiness.com, FOXNewsLatino.com, FOX News and FOX Business .Mobisites, and iOS and Android phone and tablet applications.

Jeremy joined FOX News in 2001, where he began as a cable sales assistant before being promoted to cable sales planner. He was then named director of digital media sales and launched the sales department for FOXNews.com, before being promoted to his final role there. Jeremy began his career as a sales assistant at News Digital Media, a division of News Corporation.

Jeremy is a board member of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and serves on the UJA-Federation of New York’s digital media executive committee. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Michigan.

Gretchen Tibbits is a media executive with more than 25 years of experience in general management, strategy, finance, operations, and strategic branding. She has worked for a diverse group of companies including Hearst Business Media, StyleCaster, Maxim, ESPN, Working Woman Network, and Inc. She holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Management from NYU, where she was a Stern Scholar, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia, where she was an Echols Scholar and a Lawn Resident. She is a proud resident of Harlem, a theatre lover, a wine collector, and an avid traveler.

Karin Timpone is Global Marketing Officer at Marriott International. In this role, Karin leads the integrated global marketing and consumer relationship management strategy for the company. This includes evolving the strategy to strengthen the relevance of Marriott’s portfolio of brands to the Next Generation Traveler. Under Karin’s leadership, the global marketing team has integrated new brands into the portfolio, grown its loyalty member base, innovated new digital marketing platforms, pioneered an industry-first content studio and global social media command centers, as well as introduced new global marketing partnerships in sports, entertainment, travel and technology.

Karin joined Marriott from the Walt Disney Company, where she was the Senior Vice President, Product Strategy + Marketing for Disney ABC Digital Media. While there, she set up the first-ever digital media product strategy and marketing team for the company and led consumer strategy for brands such ABC.com, ABCNews.com, ABCFamily.com, Disney Channel and Oscar.com and the introduction of award-winning mobile products. Prior to the Walt Disney Company, Karin was head of Marketing for Yahoo! Media Group as well as Consumer/Customer Innovation. She also served as senior marketing executive at the Seagram Company where she helped lead strategy for a broad portfolio of brands, including Absolut Vodka. She has extensive experience working in product marketing and new product development for various Fortune 500 companies in both the U.S. and internationally.

Karin is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College where she obtained her B.A. in Political Science. She received a Master’s degree in Media Ecology at New York University and executive education at UCLA Anderson. She has dual citizenship in both the U.S. and Ireland.

Sebastian Tomich was named global head of Advertising and Marketing Solutions at The New York Times in November 2017. In this role, he guides the strategy and revenue generation of the entire advertising team across media, partnerships and services, including T Brand Studio, ad innovation, marketing solutions and sales.

Previously, Tomich was senior vice president of Advertising and Innovation, starting in April 2015. In that role he led The Times’s branded content business and studio, overseeing Hello Society and Fake Love—the two agencies the Times Company acquired in 2016—and steered the company’s advertising innovation efforts.

Tomich was previously vice president of advertising where he led the launch and rapid expansion of T Brand Studio, The Times’s commercial content studio. He also managed sales teams across multiple categories.

Before joining The Times, Tomich was the director of East Coast advertising at Forbes Media. In this position he led the company’s largest regions advertising sales and business development efforts with their new native advertising platform, BrandVoice. During his tenure at Forbes, Mr. Tomich held a number of positions, including Regional Sales Manager and National Digital Director.

In 2017 he was named an Ad Age “40 Under 40” and in 2014 he was named to Ad Age’s “Creative 50.”

Deborah Wahl is the global CMO of General Motors.

Previously, Ms. Wahl served as the global CMO of Cadillac and, prior to joining General Motors, as the SVP and CMO for McDonald’s. Additionally, Ms. Wahl has held a number of CMO and marketing leadership positions, including at PulteGroup, Chrysler, and Lexus.

Ms. Wahl earned a bachelor’s in economics from Wellesley College and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She also has a master’s from The Lauder Institute.

Bryan Wiener is an Internet entrepreneur with almost 20 years of experience pioneering digital companies, and a track record for growing businesses in disruptive markets, including the meteoric rise of 360i as a top digital agency. As Executive Chairman, Bryan directs 360i’s strategic partnerships and global expansion initiatives. For more than a decade as agency CEO, Bryan led 360i to become an industry leader and market disruptor by helping the world’s leading marketers at companies like Coca-Cola, OREO, Toyota, Oscar Mayer and Capital One, connect with consumers by putting digital and social behaviors at the center of their marketing strategies. 360i has been named on Advertising Age’s Agency A-List four years in a row, and MediaPost’s OMMA Agency of the Year three years straight. This success builds on years of distinguished agency recognitions, including being named a “Best Place to Work” by Advertising Age and Crain’s New York Business.

Previously, Bryan was Co-CEO of Innovation Interactive, the privately held parent company of 360i and digital media SaaS provider IgnitionOne, which was acquired by Dentsu in 2010. His digital media background dates back to 1994 and includes a series of senior management positions at Net2Phone, a pioneer in VoIP communications technology, and as General Manager at TheGlobe.com, one of the largest web 1.0 social media communities.

Bryan has been named a “Media Maven” by Advertising Age and to the “Mediaweek 50 List” (now part of Adweek) two years running. Additionally, he was inducted into Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Hall of Fame.

Bryan currently serves on the Advisory Board for IAB and the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. He holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at NYU and a BA from Syracuse University.

Lauren Wiener is the CEO of Tremor Video DSP, a Taptica Company, which provides software for video advertising effectiveness by employing patented all-screen technology to make every advertising moment more relevant for consumers, and deliver maximum results for buyers. Prior to Tremor Video DSP, Lauren was president of buyer platforms at Tremor Video, where she led business strategy, revenue generation and marketing for the company’s demand-side platform. Her two decades of experience partnering with the world’s leading brands on the buy-side and sell-side inform her strategic vision of developing data-driven software solutions for video advertising effectiveness. In previous roles, Lauren was a key driver of innovation and revenue growth at fast-growing media and technology companies, as well as a corporate development expert and strategy consultant at several premier global firms. She lends her expertise to various boards of directors, with current positions on the Internet Advertising Bureau (Chairman of the Board 2016 to 2017) and the International Radio and TV Society.