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Samsung Ads, Director of Product Marketing EMEA

Part strategist, part innovator, with over 20 years’ commercial leadership experience, Minai Bui is reimagining how the world's biggest screens deliver smarter advertising through CTV, data and AI.

Topics: CTV advertising, Mobile data in CTV, Commercial growth, Product marketing

Samsung Ads, Director of Analytics & Insights, Europe

A data and insights leader with over a decade’s experience, Matt Bryan drives data, analytics and measurement innovation at Samsung Ads, shaping the future across Europe's CTV landscape.

Topics: CTV advertising, Audience insights, Responsible AI & data in advertising, Monetisation strategies

Samsung, Senior Director Corporate Communications and Ads Marketing, Analytics and Insights EMEA

A strategic marketing and communications leader with deep adtech and media expertise, driving Samsung Ads’ global expansion and advanced TV advertising solutions across Europe and emerging markets.

Topics: Global marketing strategy, Leadership across multidisciplinary teams, Data-driven marketing innovation, Cross-market growth

Head of UK Sales, Samsung Ads

As the head of UK sales, she spearheads a dynamic team during a transformative period in the industry, empowering brands to effectively navigate the complexities of the CTV advertising landscape and maximise their outcomes. With a distinguished career in sales leadership, Lauren Barnett has made significant contributions to top media and technology companies, including News UK, LoopMe, Seedtag, before joining Samsung Ads.

Topics: CTV advertising, cross-screen media strategy, commercial growth, sales leadership

Head of Marketing Science, Samsung Ads

Matt Butts is Head of Marketing Science at Samsung Ads Europe, leading a client-facing ad measurement & insights team. Matt has been a regular voice at industry events and panels including IAB Europe, MAD//Fest, and OMR. He has also hosted webinars and masterclasses focused on measurement fundamentals, best practices and thought leadership, especially for emerging channels.

Topics: CTV measurement, audience insights, data-driven media planning, measurement strategies for emerging channels

Nectar360, Managing Director

A commercial and strategic business leader with over two decades' experience building successful data and media businesses and delivering market-leading data-driven marketing to clients.

Topics: Media strategy, Business growth & scaling, Commercial strategy in retail & FMCG, Loyalty & customer engagement

Nectar360, Digital Media Director

An experienced Media Director specialising in ecommerce across both retail and lifestyle brands, with a penchant for creating valuable relationships between brands and their customers

Topics: Retail Media, CTV, Programmatic advertising, Ecommerce, Martech and adtech in retail

Nectar360, Director of Nectar Partnerships

An expert in the loyalty space who has spent over fifteen years, developing, managing and launching loyalty propositions in a number of industries across Canada and the UK.

Topics: Loyalty, CRM, Insights and Analytics, Consumer Trends

impact.com, CMO

Named one of the most important marketing-tech executives of 2021, Cristy combines strategy, creativity, and leadership to amplify brand stories on a global scale.

Topics: Partnership marketing, Martech innovations & trends, Brand building, Digital strategy

impact.com, CEO

Author and partnership economy expert, Dave is a seasoned media and technology executive transformsing how brands connect and collaborate in the digital age.

Topics: The partnership economy, Driving growth in SaaS and tech companies, AI in marketing and partnerships, Navigating digital transformation

impact.com, Regional Vice Customer Success Director

Regional Vice President, Customer Success at impact.com, Smita Pillai leads teams that deliver world-class service while championing diversity, equity, and inclusion across the global partnerships industry.

Topics: Partnership marketing, Customer success strategies, DEI initiatives & business impact, Mental health & well-being

Managing Director, impact.com France & Spain 

Frédéric Taillier is Managing Director, impact.com France & Spain. Having successfully established and grown impact.com’s presence in the Nordics over the past eight years, he launched the company’s operations in France and Spain in May 2025. He has wide-ranging experience in sales, leadership, project management and customer service.

Topics: Partnership marketing, commercial leadership, international expansion and market entry, building high-performing teams

Regional Vice President, impact.com

As the EMEA Director for impact.com’s influencers and creators offering, Sanchit Sareen helps creators and customers bring inspiring influencer partnerships to life. San brings nearly a decade of experience in SaaS and digital marketing to impact.com, including three years as a customer success lead at impact.com in which he grew the business more than 700%.

Topics: Influencer marketing, creator partnerships, scaling global creator programmes, partnership technology and automation

Country Manager, impact.com

Anthony Clements, UK and DACH Country Manager at impact.com, is a seasoned performance marketing leader with nearly 20 years’ experience. He drives growth, partnerships, and go-to-market strategies across Europe, helping brands scale customer acquisition, revenue, and trust through innovative partnership marketing.

Topics: Performance and partnership marketing, GTM strategy, customer acquisition and growth, building trusted partner ecosystems

Jellyfish, Managing Director UK

A seasoned marketing professional with significant experience driving transformation in global organisations and high-growth SMEs across multiple sectors and geographies.

Topics: Global leadership, scaling high-growth businesses, AI & the future of agencies, women in leadership, building high-performance cultures

Jellyfish, VP Brand Strategy

Award-winning advertising strategist with 20+ years’ experience, renowned for championing the commercial impact of creativity and marketing effectiveness across the global communications industry.

Topics: Brand Strategy, Marketing Effectiveness, Brand vs Performance

Jellyfish, Global Chief People Officer

A senior global people leader driving organisational transformation, leadership capability and inclusive growth, with a particular focus on preparing businesses for the future of work in an AI-enabled world

Topics: People, L&D, Inclusion, Equity, Culture & engagement

Jellyfish, Chief of Media, Strategy and AI

An innovative marketing leader with digital-first expertise, known for transformative work with global brands like Google, Heineken, and EA Games, and a passion for genAI, gaming, and social media experiences. 

Topics: AI, business transformation, strategy, emerging media, digital culture

Jellyfish, CSO Martech

A global martech and analytics leader with expertise in data, measurement, customer experience and digital transformation, trusted by Google and Meta to help shape the next generation of advertising and measurement solutions.

Topics: Marketing tech & transformation, measurement & attribution, AI, value-based marketing

GumGum, CEO

Marcus is focused on the company’s mission to empower advertisers to achieve better outcomes through understanding consumer mindsets. Marcus is a three-time CEO with a successful background in scaling companies to $1B+ enterprise value. 

Topics: Mindset, contextual advertising, advertising innovation and effectiveness, scaling global adtech businesses, executive leadership

GumGum, Head of Sales, UK & Int

Championing attention as the ultimate advertising metric, Jessica leads UK sales at GumGum, helping brands make more meaningful advertising connections

Topics: Contextual advertising, Client relationship management, Sales leadership & strategy, Women in media

GumGum, Publisher Development Director, EMEA/APAC

An architect of premium publisher growth, connecting world-class inventory with scalable, high-impact advertising across EMEA and APAC. 

Topics: Publisher development & growth, contextual advertising & the open web, partnerships, mindset, the future of advertising

Limelight Inc, Co-founder and CRO

An experienced C-level executive and growth expert with wide experience within the SaaS, ad tech, video and mobile space.

Topics: OpenRTB, Product development, Customer Success, Technology, Privacy, Data Privacy, AI, Programmatic Advertising, Sustainability & Efficiency in Programmatic

Limelight Inc, Co-founder

A seasoned entrepreneur and leader with a career stretching back more than 20 years, covering awide range of technical and commercial management experience in challenging customer-focused roles.

Topics: Product development, Customer Success, Technology, Privacy, Data Privacy, AI, Programmatic Advertising, Sustainability & Efficiency in Programmatic

Particular Audience, Founder & CEO

A retail media and AI pioneer transforming product discovery, bringing Amazon-style recommendations to retailers worldwide.

Topics: Retail media, ecommerce & product discovery, AI-driven search, agentic commerce, digital transformation, vendor-retailer-supplier partnerships

Particular Audience, VP of Customer Success & GM, UK

Translating deep retail experience into practical AI solutions, Beth helps retailers unlock growth through smarter discovery, data-led decision-making, and customer-first tech.

Topics: The future of retail media, AI in ecommerce & product discovery, Digital transformation at scale, Vendor–retailer partnerships, Customer success & retention

Brave Ads, Regional Lead

Andy Squire is Regional Lead at Brave, heading up the search engine ad platform. Andy has worked in digital media for two decades, operating as a commercial lead across publishers, SSPs and DSPs.

Topics: Programmatic, Sales, Customer Insight, Search

Brace, Board Observer and Chief of Ads

A digital veteran, Jean-Paul Schmetz has been building tech companies since 1995 - once of which, Cliqz, eventually became Brave Search. At Brave, he leads browser and search engine monetisation. 

Topics: Privacy-first advertising, browser and search monetisation, search advertising, responsible advertising and data use, open web

Assertive Yield, CEO & Founder

Nils leads the company’s vision to help publishers maximize revenue through independent, data-driven yield optimization and revenue intelligence. With a background spanning engineering, digital publishing and AdTech entrepreneurship, Nils combines firsthand publisher experience with deep technical expertise to build innovative solutions that give media owners greater transparency, control and sustainable revenue growth.

Topics: Publisher monetisation, programmatic yield optimisation, customer success strategy, scaling client growth and retention, building scalable customer success teams

Assertive Yield, Vice President of Customer Success

Leela recently joined Assertive Yield as the Vice President of Customer Success, bringing over a decade of experience in advertising technology with her. Leela leads the customer success organization, helping clients maximize revenue through strategic onboarding, performance optimization, and long-term partnership development while building scalable processes that drive retention and growth.

Topics: Publisher monetisation, programmatic yield optimisation, customer success strategy, scaling client growth and retention, building scalable customer success teams

Assertive Yield, COO

An experienced Adtech and digital publishing leader with more than 20 years’ expertise scaling commercial operations, driving growth and helping publishers unlock measurable value from programmatic technology.

Topics: Publisher monetisation, programmatic yield optimisation, customer success strategy, scaling client growth and retention, building scalable customer success teams

adnomaly, founder & CEO

Max von Weber is a young entrepreneur and the driving force behind adnomaly, an innovative AdTech company specializing in AI-powered anomaly detection. Max has built a solution that safeguards media budgets, prevents costly errors, and enhances campaign quality assurance for leading agencies and brands.

Topics: Digital Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Startup, AdTech, Paid Social, B2B SaaS, Quality Assurance, Disruption

Parallel, CEO and Founder

Rob Hall is the Founder and CEO of Parallel, an ad-tech company building and deploying Digital Twins into activation to drive more effective advertising. He has nearly two decades of digital media experience working across APAC, EMEA and the US.

Topics: AI Commerce Infrastructure, the Zero-Click Era, Agentic Commerce, Transparency Standards for AI, Retail Media in AI

Parallel, Senior Sales Lead

A commercial adtech leader with a track record of bringing emerging technologies to market that help brands understand which creative and contextual combinations will resonate most

Topics: Digital twins, the future of ad targeting, media and creative convergence, AI and predictive advertising

OpenAttribution, director

Alex Springer has spent a decade building marketing, measurement and reporting teams and technologies across the US, UK, and Europe. His primary focus is transparency, accuracy, and accountability in AI systems. He serves as tech lead for the SPUR Coalition of publishers founding members include the BBC, Guardian, Telegraph and the FT), is Director of OpenAttribution and co-leads the AI Taskforce for the UK based APMA.

Topics: AI Commerce Infrastructure, Zero Click, Agentic Commerce, Transparency Standards for AI, Retail Media in AI

OpenAttribution, director

Florian is a Director of OpenAttribution, building open standards and infrastructure for AI content usage, attribution and transparency. He works with publishers, brands, AI platforms and measurement partners to create a more transparent content ecosystem for the AI era. Previously, he was MD EMEA at impact.com and has 20+ years’ experience in commercial leadership, partnerships and technology.

Topics: AI Commerce Infrastructure, Zero Click, Agentic Commerce, Transparency Standards for AI, Retail Media in AI

Preciso, CEO

Disrupting programmatic ad buying and democratising access to premium advertising, Piero Pavone leads global adtech innovation, helping businesses optimise RTB performance and minimise budget waste

Topics: Display Advertising, Ad Buying, Advertising, Native Advertising, Programmatic, Smart-Bid Technology, Ecommerce 

Preciso, COO

An entrepreneur and rising adtech star with over two decades’ experience building innovative digital businesses, leading global partnerships, and driving programmatic growth.

Topics: Programmatic Advertising, Ecommerce, Native Advertising, Ad Buying, Smart-Bid Technology

Preciso, Regional Sales Director

An experienced digital marketing leader with a track record of driving growth and customer retention, Manal now leads global sales strategy for programmatic media at Preciso.

Topics: Sales, Digital Marketing, Loyalty, Programmatic, Strategy, DSP, First Party Data, working in global markets

esbconnect, CEO

A transformative business leader with a clear strategic vision who inspires those around her by listening and leading by example.

Topics: Email marketing, First-party data strategies, Female leadership and industry issues

The Digital Voice™, CEO & Founder

Known for her boundless energy, Julia started her career in digital advertising in 1995 and she has been at the heart of the changing digital media landscape ever since. Julia is a regular industry commentator and speaker and she has a raft of award wins and shortlists to her name.

Topics: Digital marketing, PR, trends, industry changes, female founders, publishing, buy side, sell side