Ime Archibong is the Head of Product at Messenger, overseeing all teams responsible for building Messenger products, features and experiences.

Ime joined Meta in 2010 and has held several leadership roles. Previously, Ime was Head of New Product Experimentation (NPE) at Meta, where he led an organization responsible for continuously building bold new product bets for Meta. Prior to this, Ime served as Facebook’s Vice President of Product Partnerships, where he built the global team that manages strategic partnerships with startups and developers. His career began at IBM as a software engineer, where he then transitioned to corporate strategy and business development.

Ime holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University, where he was Captain of the Varsity Basketball team, and also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he served as class president. He is a listed inventor on more than a dozen technical patents, and serves on Capital One’s corporate board, as well as many nonprofits focused on empowering underserved youth, students, and entrepreneurs.

Robert M. Bakish is President and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Global. Bakish oversees one of the world’s leading producers of media and entertainment content, driven by a global portfolio of powerful consumer brands and flagship streaming platforms, including CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, and Pluto TV, among others. In this role, which he assumed in December 2019, Bakish is responsible for growing the company’s creative assets, content capabilities and streaming services to serve important and diverse audiences, which consume over 30 billion hours of Paramount content globally across more than 180 countries.

Bakish’s leadership was integral to the successful merger of Viacom and CBS as he led the transformation efforts within the new company, combining two great cultures, formalizing a best-in-class leadership team and aligning the organization around strategic growth priorities centered on streaming. Importantly, Bakish created a new, unified global streaming organization and strategy to maximize Paramount content across pay, free and premium streaming services spotlighted by Paramount+, Pluto TV and Showtime OTT.

Prior to the recombination of Viacom and CBS, Bakish was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Viacom since December 2016. He led the revitalization and evolution of Viacom’s core businesses, returning the company to growth, and extending its leadership across multiplatform entertainment content, next-generation distribution and advertising. Through a strategy to deepen and expand Viacom’s presence in digital and live experiences, Bakish also stewarded the key acquisitions of free streaming television service Pluto TV; Gen-Z focused brand Awesomeness; influencer marketing firm WHOSAY; and VidCon, the world’s largest celebration of online video fans and creators.

Bakish previously headed the company’s international business as President and CEO of Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) since 2007. Under his leadership, VIMN more than doubled revenues and broadened its portfolio with new, broadly distributed pay-TV networks, including Spike and the Paramount Channel, as well as general entertainment broadcast networks Channel 5 in the U.K., Telefe in Argentina and Colors in India. At the same time, he guided the company to launch Viacom Play Plex and other innovative mobile streaming offerings that introduced a new generation of young audiences to Viacom’s popular brands and IP.

Bakish joined Viacom in 1997, and held a series of senior corporate, sales and development positions at the company. He previously worked as a partner with Booz Allen & Hamilton in its Media and Entertainment practice.

Bakish has an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.S. in Operations Research from Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. He serves on the boards of both schools and is also a Director on the Board of AVID Technologies, a NASDAQ-listed company.

Fabrice is vice president for strategy and partnerships at Intent IQ. His role is dedicated to building strategy and forging partnerships to help marketers, publishers, and the ad tech ecosystem thrive in today’s expanding cookieless environment. His career has been dedicated to bringing technology innovations to market and helping transform the media industry. As executive vice president of International sales at SintecMedia and Operative, he helped global media organizations such as Discovery, Globosat, and Disney unify their anytime any-screen content and advertising services. Previously at BigBand Networks, he spearheaded the design of digital TV network solutions and partnered with Verizon to deploy Fios TV, the first nationwide digital fiber TV network service.

Fabrice’s teenage fascination with computer graphics and world travels led him to study software engineering in France, after which he embarked on a career in Israel and Silicon Valley. Fabrice holds an M.Sc. in management from Stanford University, and an M.Sc. in software engineering from INSA Lyon, France. He is also a passionate musician and open water swimmer.

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn was sworn in to the Senate in January 2019.

Marsha Blackburn was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018, and is currently serving her first term representing the state of Tennessee. Before her election to the Senate, Marsha represented Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District.

Marsha’s public service is dedicated to promoting opportunities for women and making America a more prosperous place to live. Marsha’s leadership philosophy is based on her experiences in the private sector as a small business woman and author, as well as being a mother and grandmother.

Marsha went to college on a 4-H scholarship and worked her way through school selling books for the Southwestern Company as one of their first female sales associates, and later as one of their first female sales managers.

She then became Director of Retail Fashion and Special Events for the Castner Knott Company, which was a Nashville-based regional department store. Later, Marsha founded her own business, Marketing Strategies, which focused on the retail marketplace, as well as electronic and print media.

Marsha began her career in public service in 1995 when she was named executive director of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission. In 1998, she was elected to the Tennessee State Senate. In the state legislature, she earned a reputation for fiscal responsibility and government accountability by identifying waste and offering realistic solutions to Tennessee’s budget challenges.

While serving in the Tennessee Senate, Marsha led a statewide grassroots campaign to defeat a proposed state income tax. The tax was defeated, and Marsha’s leadership earned her a reputation as an anti-tax champion. In 2014, the people of Tennessee passed an amendment to the state constitution to expressly prohibit a state income tax – a fitting cap to a 14-year battle.

In 2002, Marsha was elected to represent the people of Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District based on her record in the state legislature. She brought her Tennessee values to Washington, DC, and became a leader in the fight for small, efficient federal government that is accountable to its citizens. As a Congressman, Marsha was often selected by her colleagues to lead the charge for principled conservativism. Her congressional career was also noted for her Chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, as well as bipartisan expertise in defending songwriters’ and performers’ rights.

Marsha is a member of numerous charitable organizations and is an active member of her church, Christ Presbyterian. Marsha and her husband Chuck live in Williamson County, Tennessee. They have two children, Mary Morgan (Paul) Ketchel and Chad (Hillary) Blackburn, two grandsons, and a granddaughter. Originally from Laurel, Mississippi, Marsha is a graduate of Mississippi State University.

Alysia Borsa is President of Meredith Digital of Meredith Corporation’s National Media Group, the leading multi-platform media company focused on women – reaching 95% of all U.S. women and more than 190 million unduplicated American consumers every month. Borsa oversees all digital strategy, content, products, technology, sales, marketing, e-commerce and operations for the company’s 40+ iconic brands, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Southern Living and REAL SIMPLE.

Since joining Meredith a decade ago, Borsa has served in several executive roles, including EVP/Chief Data Officer, Chief Business Officer and Chief Marketing Officer. Her distinguished record and forward-thinking approach have been instrumental in Meredith achieving many key milestones, including the establishment of the Meredith Data Studio. This suite of advertising solutions leverages the company’s rich, proprietary first-party data and predictive insights capabilities, helping to inform its partners’ marketing, product and business strategies. Under Borsa’s leadership, Meredith has also expanded its business partnerships with a wide array of retailers and blue chip marketers.

Prior to Meredith, Borsa held senior positions in the technology, telecommunications and consulting sectors. She worked at Nokia, Comcast and Accenture, developing and executing strategies to grow new and legacy businesses.

Borsa serves on the ANA’s Data & Technology Growth Council and the boards of directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau; AdLedger, an industry blockchain trade group; and 4-H, a nonprofit youth development organization.

Jen Brace is the Chief Futurist at Ford where she leads discussions on long-term thinking, planning and strategic development. By researching demographic shifts, identifying market outliers and developing data driven scenarios for the future, she challenges her colleagues to think through a broad range of possible narratives before settling on a plan of action. Throughout her 20 year career with Ford she has launched multiple versions of SYNC in vehicle technology, led user experience research projects on autonomous vehicles and drove innovation in mobility from Greenfield Labs in Palo Alto, California. Jen currently resides in Plymouth, Michigan with her husband, son, and English Bulldog.

Evan Bregman is General Manager, Streaming at Tastemade, where he is responsible for driving viewership and growth of Tastemade’s streaming business. Since joining the company in 2022, Evan has overseen a jump of 10% in viewership and 12% in revenue on Tastemade’s streaming channels. Tastemade is a modern media company that engages a global audience of more than 300 million monthly viewers on all major digital, mobile, and streaming television platforms and creates award-winning video content and original programming in the categories of Food, Travel, and Home & Design.

Prior to joining Tastemade, Bregman was VP, Head of Business Operations at Rooster Teeth, the original gaming lifestyle brand where he oversaw the strategic operation of Rooster Teeth’s direct-to-consumer business, leveraging data analytics to drive efficient revenue and audience growth across all social channels, e-commerce, podcasting, Rooster Teeth’s O&O apps, and their flagship membership product, FIRST. Prior to this role, Bregman was GM of SVOD and Programming for Rooster Teeth, where he grew FIRST into the most-subscribed creator membership program, and he oversaw Rooster Teeth’s distribution efforts that expanded their reach to AVOD and FAST partners internationally.

He is a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he was part of the first graduating cohort to receive Honors in Multimedia Scholarship.

Jessica Brown is a Managing Director of Digital Investment at GroupM where she works on holding company level deals for all the agencies under the GroupM umbrella. She establishes and implements best practices for digital media buying and our go to market approach on behalf of GroupM clients. Jessica works closely with the investment teams in other channels (TV, Radio and Print) to align GroupM”s position in the marketplace. She works across all digital platforms and channels.

Prior to this, Jessica worked at two agencies in the GroupM family; she started at Mindshare in 2009 and worked for a short time at MediaEdge (currently wavemaker). She started her media career at VML, a full service advertising agency. Jessica is experienced in managing accounts across many categories, including QSR, finance, CPG, travel, and many others.

Jeffrey Bustos is the VP, MAD+Commerce (Measurement Addressability Data) at the IAB where he develops industry standards and guides for measurement and addressability solutions to enable revenue growth, efficiency, and scale with a focus in Retail Media Networks, Video / Advanced Television, and Privacy Enhancing Technology. Key projects include: Categorization & Definitions Buyers Guide for Retail Media, Data Clean Rooms and Privacy Preserving Solutions Research, and Attention & Engagement Metrics Standards. Previously Jeffrey worked at GroupM where he led Data & Audience Strategy for eCommerce clients, consulting them on cookieless solutions, audience strategy & activation, and data taxonomy & identity resolution for CDP and Data Clean Room activations.

Jon Carpenter is a media & technology industry veteran with strong operational focus, strategic acumen, and experience driving both growth and profitability. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Mr. Carpenter served as Comscore’s chief financial officer since 2021. Before joining the company, he served as CFO at Publishers Clearing House since 2016, where he has partnered to transform and grow the digital business both organically and through M&A. Prior to that, he served in various senior divisional CFO roles for Nielsen, Sears Holdings and NBC Universal. Jon started his career with General Electric in their Financial Management Program.

Jon has a BA in Economics from the University of Vermont and lives in Connecticut with his wife and two young children.

David Cohen joined IAB in April 2020 as President and was named Chief Executive Officer in September 2020. Cohen is a widely respected advertising agency leader who, prior to IAB, served as President, North America for MAGNA, Interpublic Group’s (IPG) centralized media intelligence, investment, and innovation arm. In this role, Cohen was responsible for more than $20 billion in media spend. During his tenure, Cohen structured and executed large global transactions on behalf of IPG and its clients, with such major IAB member companies as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Twitter, and Verizon Media.

Prior to MAGNA, Cohen served as Chief Investment Officer of UM, ensuring that digital innovation, data, and technology acumen flowed throughout the agency to drive performance. From 2001 to 2011, Cohen served in critical, transformational roles at UM during the explosive growth of digital advertising, including Chief Media Officer, Chief Digital Officer, and Executive Vice President, U.S. Director of Digital Communications. In the late 1990’s, Cohen was responsible for launching and building IPG’s digital practice.

Cohen has a long history of working with trade organizations including IAB and 4As, where he served as chairman of the Interactive Marketing Committee from 2009-2013. He has also been instrumental in initiating several vital industry-wide programs, including the Future of Television, facilitated by EY. Cohen is a Queens native, with a bachelor’s degree in communications from Adelphi University. He was recognized by Adweek as a “Media All Star” and was part of the “Adweek 50” in 2012.

In 2016, David was elected to the Board of Directors of Partnership with Children a non-profit whose mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of vulnerable children in New York City to help them succeed in school, society, and life.

David enjoys spending time with his wife and two teenage daughters. A self-described gadget-geek and sometimes fitness fanatic – he ran the NYC Marathon in 2014 and 2019 and Boston Marathon in 2016.

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.

Lucy Dobrin is a Managing Director in our New York office. Ms. Dobrin is currently a director of DoubleVerify & Smartly.io and is involved in Providence’s investment in OUTFRONT and the Times Square billboard partnership. She is a member of the Providence Women’s Roundtable and the firm’s D&I committee. Prior to joining Providence in 2011, she worked in the financial sponsors investment banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She currently sits on the boards of Works & Process at the Guggenheim and Tom Gold Dance. Ms. Dobrin holds a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania

Esi Eggleston Bracey is Unilever’s Chief Growth and Marketing Officer (effective Jan 1), responsible for leading Unilever into the next generation of marketing and maximizing opportunities for growth. Previously, Esi served as President of Unilever USA and CEO of Unilever Personal Care in North America. With decades of executive experience in consumer goods and beauty, Esi has a track record in guiding organizations to unlock growth in rapidly evolving marketplaces. She believes that business can be a force for good. Esi is an architect of Dove’s CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Coalition to help foster beauty inclusivity and to eradicate hair discrimination through support of the CROWN Act legislation. A native of Chicago, she graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Engineering Sciences. Esi is married with two children and lives in New York.

A seasoned executive with 24+ years of digital media, marketing and operations experience, Angelina Eng has focused her career on supporting agencies and brands to define, build and manage digital media and marketing efforts while enabling teams to operationally work efficiently and effectively with both internal and external partners and platforms. She’s been responsible for the development and management of internal systems and workflow, establishment of deliverable standards, designing ad trafficking and tracking guidelines, implementation of emerging platforms, as well as establishing best practices at companies such as Morgan Stanley, Merkle, Dentsu Aegis and Publicis Modem.

Over the years, She has been involved with multiple organizations and events to help define, establish and advocate some of the industry standards that we see in today’s digital media ecosystem (such as ad verification/brand safety, ad fraud, viewability and programmatic, social, etc)

Angelina has been awarded the AdMonsters 2018 Power List, IAB Data Rockstar 2016 and AdMonsters Digital Media Leadership Award 2016.

Michele Fino, head of branded entertainment at Crackle Plus, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company and one of the largest operators of advertising-supported video on demand (AVOD) streaming services, oversees the company’s Branded Content Studio, which is designed to create new opportunities for advertisers to reach and connect with new audiences more effectively.

With over 20 years of experience, Michele is an industry veteran whose career journey includes Branded Entertainment for American Idol at a global production company, content strategy at a national retailer and marketing at various highly regarded non-profits, including The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Her superpower is mixing the detailed intricacies of content production with the complex KPIs of a brand and sprinkling in the power of right time / right audience / right message with the right platform partner. 

Michele lives in Manhattan, is an active Mom of three kids, and is too old to be a millennial. She is user-friendly, very direct and has a wide collection of gym shoes but does not currently belong to a gym.

Kerry Flynn is a media reporter based in New York. She co-authors Axios Pro: Media Deals, a daily newsletter covering companies in telecom, media and technology, including streaming entertainment and ad tech. She joined Axios in 2022 from CNN, where she covered the business of media for CNN.com and the Reliable Sources newsletter. She previously reported on tech and social media for Digiday and Mashable.

Victoria Garrick Browne is a TED Talk speaker, mental health advocate, podcast host, and former Division I Athlete who has amassed 2M+ followers across social media where she’s known for her unfiltered campaign, #RealPost.

Victoria first began sharing her story of how she battled and overcame depression & anxiety as a student-athlete in her 2017 TED Talk, “The Hidden Opponent,” which has been viewed over 500,000 times. She delivered the talk as a sophomore member of the University of Southern California Women’s Volleyball Team, where she was a four year starter, PAC-12 Champion, and finished her career with the top five most digs in program history.

She has been featured in The New York Times’, The Players’ Tribune, E! News, People, Access Hollywood, and is the Founder & CEO of mental health non-profit, The Hidden Opponent, which was recognized as a standout resource for athletes by Kobe Bryant in his novel, “Geese Are Never Swans.”

She also brings her message of authenticity to life daily on her social media platforms as well as her podcast, Real Pod, which has surpassed 5M downloads and featured guests like Katie Couric, Josh Peck, & Kerri Walsh-Jennings.

Victoria now tours the country speaking at universities throughout the country in hopes of destigmatizing the conversation around mental health and encouraging all people to be their unfiltered selves.

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.

As CEO, Nancy Hall leads the strategy and operations of Mindshare’ s work across the U.S. and Canada, connecting the culture of more than 1,700 people and overseeing the agency’s diverse roster of both domestic and multinational clients—including clients such as Unilever, Discover Financial Services, Ford, Campari, and more.

Hall brings over 20 years’ experience working with best-in-class agencies and brands to her current role. Prior to joining Mindshare, she served as the U.S. CEO for IPG’s Matterkind, driving addressable strategies, data and audience programs, and media activation capabilities for clients across verticals including retail, pharma, beauty, auto, and more.

John Halley is President of Paramount Advertising, overseeing the company’s domestic multiplatform sales efforts across its leading portfolio of broadcast, cable, digital and streaming assets spanning CBS, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount+ and Pluto TV, among others. Previously, Halley served as Chief Operating Officer of Advertising Revenue for Paramount, where he oversaw commercial and business operations for the advertising team as well as Paramount’s advertising product suite and go-to-market strategy across its digital, social, and advanced advertising offerings.

An advocate for innovation and progress across the industry, Halley is the Chairman of OpenAP, an advanced activation platform for the convergent video marketplace enabling new currencies, and also serves on the Board of Directors of Blockgraph, the IAB and the VAB.

Halley serves as Chairman of the New York Chapter of the March of Dimes, and is on the Board of Directors of Literacy Inc., a New York-based childhood literacy organization. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an Economics degree from Santa Clara University.

As Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer, Tariq Hassan leads all marketing efforts — including digital, media, CRM, brand content and engagement, consumer insights, and menu strategy — to create holistic, compelling brand experiences for customers of the 14,000-plus McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. His team leverages iconic brand and digital capabilities to ensure McDonald’s continues to deliver powerful experiences that create authentic connections with customers.

Prior to joining McDonald’s, Tariq spent more than 20 years in global marketing, communications, innovation and insights with premier brands. He began his career in advertising and was a founding partner of the largest ad agency startup in U.S. history. He then held marketing and brand leadership roles with HP, Omnicom Group, and Bank of America before joining Petco as Chief Marketing Officer. There, he was recognized with the Adweek Brand Genius Award, the marketing and branding world’s consummate honor, for his bold thinking and imaginative approach. His leadership in repositioning the company from a pet supply store to a category-defining lifestyle pet brand was instrumental in Petco’s successful IPO in 2021.

A values-driven leader who is passionate about creating diverse and inclusive teams, Tariq was named an Adweek DEI Champion. He served as the executive sponsor for Petco’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEI&B) advisory council and LGBTQ employee resource group, and he was a board member of the Adweek DE&I and ANA CMO Growth councils. Since 2014, he has sat on the global board of Education for Employment, a non-governmental organization that empowers marginalized youth across the Middle East and North Africa. Additionally, he worked with the Obama administration on efforts to counter-message young Americans at risk to religious extremism and systemic discrimination.

Tariq earned an honors bachelor’s degree from Western University in Ontario and a master’s degree in integrated marketing communications from Northwestern University where he sits on the Medill School Board of Advisers.

Diana Haussling is a bold marketing leader, known for her breakthrough thinking and transformative approach. Utilizing her deep expertise, she has driven performance at four Fortune 400 companies, leveraging data and consumer insights to engage consumers, fuel brand connection and significantly increase sales. In her current role as SVP – GM, Consumer Experience & Growth, Diana leads the NA Marketing, Digital Commerce and Direct To Consumer efforts, advancing critical functions including, integrated marketing, eCommerce, insights, analytics, revenue growth management, and CRM & loyalty. Prior to Colgate, Diana worked at Campbell’s, General Mills and began her career with the Hershey’s in progressive marketing and sales positions.

Laura is a Partner and member of the Executive Committee of Shamrock Capital. She currently serves as a director of AnswerLab, Highwire, VidMob, Adweek, and EDO. Previously, Laura served on the boards of Bayard Advertising, Wpromote, Mobilitie, RBmedia, and Questex. Prior to joining Shamrock in 2012, Laura worked in the Corporate Strategy group at The Walt Disney Company. She also previously worked at The Carlyle Group and Credit Suisse.

Laura graduated cum laude from Georgetown University and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Debora is a certified futurist and foresight and future studies specialist with years of experience in the discipline, responsible for introducing, scaling, and leading Strategic Foresight & Futures Thinking at JP Morgan. She is the lead faculty of global foresight & futures executive programs, having trained thousands of senior leaders and executives on the discipline’s methods. She also leads foresight research and advisory, with the goal of identifying emerging disruptions impacting several businesses, revealing critical insights for strategy, business development, executive leadership, innovation, policy-making and risk management.

She holds multiple postgraduate certifications in Strategic Foresight and Future Studies, having studied at the University of Social and Business Sciences, Institute for the Future, Parsons School of Design, Politecnico Di Milano, MIT, THNK School of Creative Leadership and Singularity University. She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and ambassador for Singularity University in Latin America, where she mentors entrepreneurs on radical innovation and exponential thinking. She is also a global keynote speaker, having facilitated hundreds of workshops, conferences and sessions on topics such as foresight-driven innovation, exponential and forward-thinking leadership, futures thinking and speculative design. Debora is also a fiction writer, having published her first book in 2015.

Anthony Katsur is a media technology veteran with more than twenty-five years of executive leadership and technical experience at innovative technology companies in the digital media industry.

Most recently, Anthony was SVP, Strategy, Operations and Corporate Development at Nexstar Media Group, Inc., the largest local broadcaster in the United States. Anthony was responsible for overseeing strategy, technology platforms and corporate development across Nexstar’s portfolio of digital assets.

Prior to Nexstar, Anthony served as President of Sonobi, where he implemented their product and go to market strategy around people-based marketing. Anthony recruited, and led highly effective teams while driving strategic partnerships with leading media companies, agencies and brands.

Prior to Sonobi, Anthony held global leadership roles at Rubicon Project as EVP of Business Operations and General Manager of Buyer Cloud. He also held global executive roles at MediaMath and Maxifier, where he served as CEO. Earlier in his career, he joined DoubleClick via the acquisition of NetGravity where he lead multiple engineering divisions and also fulfilled several product leadership and general management roles.

Anthony is an active participant at industry conferences, speaking about the latest ends in advertising at the National Association of Broadcasters, AdAge’s Brand Summit, Advertising Week, Broadcasting & Cable, AdMonsters and GABBCON. He has been quoted on industry trends and provided thought leadership in The Wall Street Journal, AdAge, Adweek, AdExchanger, MediaPost, Econsultancy and Digiday, among others.

Jenna is a passionate marketer with a track record of success in a variety of settings from tech startups to agencies to Fortune 100 insurance company. As Chief Marketing Officer of Liberty Mutual Insurance, Jenna leads the development and execution of the company’s overall marketing strategy. She is responsible for building the Liberty Mutual brand, driving efficient and profitable growth, and creating customer and agent loyalty.

Jenna has held a series of marketing leadership roles with increasing responsibility since joining Liberty in 2013. Jenna has made significant contributions to the organization building the company’s social, digital, and direct marketing capabilities. She led our insourcing efforts including building out our in-house creative agency, Copper Giants, which creates 80% of all consumer-facing work today. In her last role as VP of Brand & Integrated Marketing, she repositioned the brand, created a new consumer segmentation, and launched the LiMu Emu & Doug campaign which has received positive reception and results contributing to the category’s highest unaided brand awareness growth. Her work at Liberty has been recognized by a variety of publications like AdAge, AdWeek, USA Today, Business Insider, The Boston Globe, Fortune, and Forbes and she has won over three dozen awards including a 2015 Cannes Lions.

Prior to Liberty, she worked at Digital Marketing agency, Likeable, managing social media strategy for brands like Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, GE, Medtronic, and Logitech. Jenna earned her BA from Stonehill College and her MA from Emerson College. She currently serves on the Alumni Board of Directors for Emerson College. She was a member of Boston’s Future Leaders program in 2017 and was the recipient of the 2018 Ten Outstanding Young Leaders Award presented by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

As Founder & CEO, Ross McCray manifests the company’s mission by ensuring VideoAmp always maintains a performance-oriented culture that runs at higher velocities, with higher standards than most. He relentlessly looks for and exploits every opportunity possible to remove slack in the system by expecting higher quality outcomes, stepping up the pace and growing people out of their comfort zone.

Sean Muller is the Founder and CEO of iSpot.tv, the leading TV measurement company trusted by hundreds of top brands, agencies and publishers. 

iSpot helps advertisers measure the brand and business impact of TV and streaming advertising, from concept to airing to conversion. Founded by Sean in 2012, iSpot has transformed the way TV advertising effectiveness is measured, giving advertisers always-on performance insights unified across linear and streaming TV. In 2022, iSpot secured a $325m investment led by Goldman Sachs, and announced the acquisition of 605 in 2023, its fourth acquisition. iSpot was named “Hottest TV Measurement Company” by Adweek in 2022 and Sean has previously won the EY “Entrepreneur of the Year” award.

Sean also serves on the board of TVision, the innovative audience panel technology company iSpot has invested in. Prior to iSpot, Sean founded or served as a key executive in multiple ventures, including Demand Media.  He holds a bachelor’s degree and MBA from the University of Washington and resides in Bellevue, WA with his wife and two boys.

Peter Naylor is Vice President of Global Advertising Sales at Netflix, responsible for
launching and driving the ad-supported advertising sales revenue strategy for Netflix’s
advertising business.

Naylor joined Netflix from Snap Inc, where he was the Vice President of Americas
responsible for driving the growth of the company’s advertising business across the
United States, Canada and Mexico.

Prior to Snap, Peter Naylor was the SVP and Head of Advertising Sales at Hulu where he
oversaw the sales and operations teams driving the company’s billion-dollar advertising
business. Under Naylor’s leadership, Hulu more than tripled its ad revenue and
significantly expanded its offerings for brands, introducing new interactive ad units and
alternate ad solutions, and deeper data and analytics. Naylor was also the leading force in
delivering solutions for measurement in the Streaming TV space, achieving complete
measurement of viewership in OTT and launching the industry’s first closed-loop
attribution tool.

Before Hulu, Naylor was the EVP of Digital Media Sales for NBCUniversal (NBCU) where
he ran digital advertising sales for NBCU’s entertainment, news and sports digital
properties. Before NBCU, Naylor served as the SVP of Sales for the iVillage Properties,
which was acquired by NBCU in May 2006. Prior to joining iVillage, he served as Vice
President of Sales for Terra Lycos. He started his digital advertising sales career at Wired
Digital.

In the advertising community, Naylor is on the Board of Directors for MMA Global and the
Foundation Board of She Runs It. He also is a board member and sits on the executive
committee for and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), in which he served as the
Chairman in 2012 and was named the founding chairman for the IAB’s Video Center of
Excellence in 2014. He also serves non-profits such as the Sandy Hook Promise media
advisory board, the National Kidney Foundation and the TD Foundation, an organization
that provides aid to Gold Star Families.

Naylor has earned several industry accolades, including being honored as one of Variety’s
Digital Innovators pushing the boundaries of media and one of the 50 Most Indispensable
Executives in Media by Adweek. He was also recognized in 2020 as Digiday’s Video
Executive of the Year

Throughout his career, Christopher Neff has been at the forefront of new modes and systems for delivering branded content and storytelling to big brands. Recently he joined forces with powerhouse Anomaly, as their Global Head of Emerging Experience and Technology, to accelerate their innovation offering with an eye toward moving the agency and their clients deeper into Web3 and emerging modes and mediums. Beyond Anomaly, he also sits on The Ad Council’s UX committee, serves as a founding member of Web3 collective Pesky Union working on their first NFT project called Mole Patrol, and has previously worked with AdFellows as an agency mentor to push DE&I within innovation and creativity. He holds the position of marketing advisor for Million Marker, a Y-Combinator startup centered on biological testing of plastic exposure and other contaminants in humans.

Amie has over 15+ years of experience within the shopper media industry and has worked with many of the world’s biggest companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Mars, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Colgate, Henkel, Levi’s Energizer, Amex, Hershey’s as well as retailers, CVS, ALDI, The Home Depot, and more. A results-driven, innovative leader with extensive experience in all facets of retail marketing and advertising, she is the industry’s go-to expert on Commerce media, a practice she pioneered at UM. As head of this discipline for more than ten years, Amie conceptualized, developed, and launched UM’s first Commerce Media team supporting our current three solutions: “Commerce as a tactic” drives sales online and in store through 400+ global media retail networks, identifying consumers most likely to covert and connecting the dots on their consumer journey to reach point of sale.

Created out of the merge of data, tech, and retail media, “Commerce as a strategy” customizes each pathway to a specific user journey, using the latest data and advancements in shoppable tech to reach audiences where they are, with the right messages, at the likeliest moments of purchase.

“Commerce as content” engages shoppers with curated content based on their own media consumption and behaviors, creating a personalized advertising experience.

Amie has most recently been recognized as 40 under 40 from Ad Age as well as P2Pi. She was a 2021 Adweek Media All-Star, a 2020 Cynopsis Top Woman in Media, 2019 GenNext She Runs It winner, and won a spot as a 2022 MAKER. She has served as an Effie judge for the Commerce awards over the last four years and regularly speaks at the industry’s most prominent events.

An avid runner who has participated in over 10 marathons, Amie runs in support of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to honor her friends and family who have lost their lives to these cancers, and also supports the National Blood Clot Alliance. She resides in Long Island, NY with her husband Rod, five-year-old son Connor, 22-month-old daughter Emma, and their dog Rigley.

Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with technology, media and marketing, and the creator of the popular, free online course, Generative AI for Execs. Named LinkedIn’s “Top Voice in Technology,” he covers tech and business for Fox 5’s Good Day New York, and is a regular commentator on CNN and CNBC. He hosts the Shelly Palmer LIVE livestream.

Shelly is a prolific author. Along with his daily newsletter, his books include, the Amazon #1 Bestseller, Blockchain – Cryptocurrency, NFTs & Smart Contracts: An executive guide to the world of decentralized finance and Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV, the seminal book about the technological, economic, and sociological forces that have changing everything about the the business of television, Overcoming the Digital Divide: How to use Social Media and Digital Tools to Reinvent Yourself and Your Career, and Digital Wisdom: Thought Leadership for a Connected World.

Carryl Pierre-Drews is an entrepreneurial marketing executive experienced in driving transformation and innovation to stay ahead of the ever-evolving media ecosystem. With a passion for data-driven storytelling that connects brands with fans, combined with a builder personality, Carryl has a reputation for devising compelling and differentiated positioning and bringing it to market effectively. Establishing marketing teams of extraordinarily talented people and becoming their biggest cheerleader is at the heart of her success. 

Previously, Carryl held the title of Vice President of Marketing at Fullscreen, a next-gen social marketing agency, where she built and led the agency’s brand marketing, PR, digital/social channels, influencer engagements, and global industry activations featuring marketers from American Eagle, AT&T, HP, Marriott, Mars, Mattel, Visa and more. During her tenure, she launched the proprietary audience insights series “Fullscreen Confidential,” which secured a 2018 ANA Global ACE Award. Carryl also led the agency’s foray into Cannes Lions with the 2017 short film “Future Five: Most Popular Gaming Lifestyles” for the Live Stage, as well as the 2018 Entertainment Stage panel “Action!: Diversity in Filmmaking — Beyond Empowerment to Execution” for AT&T’s Hello Lab Mentorship program featuring Emmy® winner Lena Waithe. Additionally, she realigned the PR strategy and secured high-impact digital and broadcast coverage, driving a 1,000% increase in impressions in 2019. Carryl was instrumental in catalyzing key strategic decisions that drove business growth, elevated visibility, and increased shareholder value positioning Fullscreen for the AT&T acquisition in 2018 and eventual WarnerMedia integration in 2019.  

Karthik Rao is Nielsen’s Chief Executive Officer of the Audience Measurement business, responsible for driving and evolving our audience measurement in a comparable and consistent manner, enabling a currency across all media distribution and consumption models globally, and maximizing customer engagement and usage of Nielsen ONE. He was appointed to this role in December 2022.

During his time at Nielsen, Karthik has held a variety of leadership roles spanning the U.S., Middle East and Asia for Nielsen’s Connect and Media businesses and Chief Product & Technology Officer for Nielsen Global Media. Most recently, Karthik was the Chief Operating Officer, where he was responsible for driving a global product-driven technology transformation.

Previously Karthik was the CEO of Nielsen Portfolio, where he led the fully independent division, comprising Nielsen Entertainment, Nielsen Gracenote, Nielsen Brandbank and
Nielsen Telecom businesses across all global markets. He led Gracenote during its acquisition and integration by Nielsen, which included building Gracenote’s management team, aligning its strategy, and driving growth across key markets and segments. Before Gracenote, he served as President, Expanded Verticals, and led the teams serving our advertiser and agency clients. Earlier in his career, Karthik was Executive Vice President of Digital Enablement, where he oversaw a global transformation program. He also led Nielsen’s Media Analytics business, which delivers deep analytical insights that help media companies with their ad sales and programming activities.

As head of Nielsen China, Karthik led the company’s initiatives towards China becoming one of the company’s fastest growing markets for Nielsen. Karthik began his career as an
account executive at Ogilvy & Mather in India.

Currently, Karthik serves on the Board of Directors for Blucora. He has previously served on the boards of NCSolutions and OpenSlate.

Karthik has a passion for talent development and serves as Nielsen’s co-Executive Sponsor for the Asian Affinity Link (AAL) internal employee resource group. He holds a degree in Economics from Loyola University in Chennai and an MBA from Illinois State University.

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.

With over a decade of experience in digital advertising, I am a passionate and driven leader who thrives in the dynamic and fast-growing gaming industry. I oversee Enthusiast Gaming’s global advertising business: sales, account management, programmatic, revenue operations and marketing strategy. Enthusiast is the largest gaming media platform in North America, reaching over 300 million gamers monthly. We work with leading brands and agencies to create innovative and impactful campaigns that connect with engaged audiences and drive brand growth. I bring a strategic approach to processes, new product ideation, and people that is both creative and solution-oriented, which has been instrumental in building Enthusiast Gaming’s advertising revenue business since I joined in the fall of 2019. ​

I have extensive experience in global brand partnerships at Electronic Arts, where I worked with major brands such as Coca-Cola and Verizon to integrate them into popular gaming franchises such as FIFA, Madden & TheSims. ​

I am a proud member of both Chief (a private network of women leaders who support and inspire each other to achieve their goals) and SheRunsIt (a network for women in advertising). I’m always eager to learn from and collaborate with diverse and talented teams. I believe that gaming is not only about play, but learning, creation, and ultimately dee.​

I started Raise Your Game, an initiative that focuses on connecting trailblazing women, persons who identity as women, and nonbinary individuals in the ad industry. RYG provides a place to share stories, experiences, & triumphs in the professional world while using gaming as a backdrop.​

Susan Schiekofer is the Chief Digital Investment Officer for GroupM U.S. She is responsible for digital partnerships and trading across all of GroupM’s agencies including Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker and Essence.

Susan’s digital skillset, coupled with her broader knowledge of trading best practices across all media formats, ensures that GroupM continues to lead the market with the most valuable and accountable digital solutions for clients of GroupM agencies.

She is figurative in GroupM’s efforts to improve the integrity of the digital marketplace in the U.S. by championing viewability, anti-fraud safeguards, measurement, and standards.

Schiekofer has been a leader in the digital media space at WPP and GroupM since 1994. She founded the digital media offering at Ogilvy & Mather, which was later rebranded to Neo@Ogilvy, and worked on accounts including IBM, TD Ameritrade and Lenovo, among many others. In 2010, Schiekofer joined MEC to head up the AT&T digital business, and soon became responsible for all of digital at MEC. In July of 2014, she moved to GroupM to lead digital investment for Maxus and MediaCom, and to assume responsibility for all of online video.

Jessica Sibley is the Chief Executive Officer of TIME.

As CEO, Sibley oversees the global media brand which includes TIME’s iconic magazine and digital platforms that reach the largest audience in TIME’s history of 120 million people around the world; the Emmy Award-winning film and television division TIME Studios that has generated more than $100 million in revenue; a rapidly growing global live events business built around the powerful TIME100 and Person of the Year franchises; an industry-leading web3 division; Red Border Studios, producer of award-winning branded content; TIME for Kids, which provides trusted news with a focus on news literacy for kids and valuable resources for teachers and families; the website-building platform TIME Sites, which TIME acquired in 2022; the sustainability and climate-action platform TIME CO2 and more.

Sibley has accelerated TIME’s digital transformation, expanded into new platforms, and revitalized its brand overall. In addition to unveiling and implementing her TIME 3.0 transformation plan, Sibley launched TIME into e-commerce for the first time with TIME Stamped and led the initiative to remove the paywall making TIME.com accessible to all readers around the world.

Under Sibley’s leadership, TIME has transformed its global events business, which convenes dynamic leaders from every sector, including members of the TIME100 community, with the mission to drive impact. In 2023, TIME will execute a record number of industry-leading events, including the TIME100 Gala and Summit, the Women of the Year Gala, the first-ever TIMECO2 Earth Awards, the TIME100 Impact Awards, which will expand from Dubai and Singapore to Israel and Rwanda for the first time this year, and more. For the first time, Sibley established a growing custom events business—with new offerings including the TIME Impact House, TIME100 Talks and others—that generated +55% year-over-year event revenue growth through partnerships with brands including Verizon, UBS, Meta, PMI, Nissan, and many more.

Sibley has led TIME’s initiatives to reach and build new audiences. Most recently, TIME debuted new extensions of the TIME100 franchise with TIME100 Voices, a new editorial platform dedicated to spotlighting the ideas and perspectives of the world’s most influential people, and the first-ever TIME100 AI list, which inspired a new series of events, with partners including Meta and Intel, focused on finding solutions to create a more inclusive future with AI.

With Sibley at the helm, TIME Studios expanded into audio with the Person of the Week podcast which reached more than 150k downloads in the first five weeks following its debut, while continuing to announce exciting projects including a new docuseries with Netflix following the U.S. Women’s World Cup team.

Since joining TIME, Sibley has also built an engaged community with her Inside by TIME newsletter, which reaches over 3k readers monthly, and regularly leads interviews with business leaders and CEOs, including on the Person of the Week: Executive Spotlight podcast from Red Border by TIME and TIME Studios.

Prior to joining TIME, Sibley was the Chief Operating Officer of Forbes, where she led all revenue and growth initiatives for the world’s largest business media brand. Under her direction, the revenue team at Forbes achieved five consecutive years of growth from 2018 to 2022 in overall revenue, the number of premium custom-content campaigns executed on behalf of top-tier clients, and the proliferation of ForbesLive and custom events, which generated significant new and recurring revenue streams.  

Sibley has also held senior leadership positions at The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Condé Nast. Sibley is co-chair of IAB’s CRO Council, serves on the board of directors for The Ad Council, The Business Marketing Association, and is a Member of the Board of Advisors at Chief, Her Campus Media and Prota Fiori, a sustainable luxury footwear startup. When she is not leading the next phase of TIME’s evolution, Sibley is an avid runner and supportive mother of two. She is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and resides in New York City.

Sibley was named to Variety’s New Power of New York List in 2023.

Resh Sidhu is a highly accomplished and respected global leader in the field of creative technology and augmented reality. As a co-founder of Arcadia Creative Studio, at Snapchat, based in New York, she leads a world-class team of AR pioneers and manages a wide range of high-profile projects. With over two decades of experience in the industry, Resh has a proven track record of success in a variety of roles, including Chief Creative Officer for Barbarian, Group Creative Director at AKQA, and Creative Director at Oscar-winning visual effects studio Framestore.

Throughout her illustrious career, Resh has consistently been lauded for her ability to foster an inspiring, inclusive, and forward-thinking work environment. Her leadership is characterized by a commitment to innovative thinking, and she has played a pivotal role in delivering iconic experiences for an extensive portfolio of global clients, including esteemed names like Nike, Disney, Livenation, L’Oréal, and Coca-Cola, among others.

Resh Sidhu’s contributions to the creative industry have not gone unnoticed. She has been recognized by numerous prestigious organizations, earning accolades such as inclusion in Adweek Creative 100 and a spot among Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. In addition to her accomplishments, Resh is a highly sought-after speaker who has graced events like TEDx and Cannes Lions with her insights on creativity, design, and technology.

With her distinctive perspective on the intersection of design and technology, Resh Sidhu remains an influential driving force in shaping the future landscape of digital experiences. Her recent appointments as the Jury President for Cannes Lion Digital Craft and her reception of an honorary doctorate from the University of Art London underscore her enduring impact on the industry.

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.

Academy Award-winning writer, director, and renowned playwright Aaron Sorkin graduated from Syracuse University with a B.F.A. in Theatre.

He made his Broadway playwriting debut at the age of 28 with the military courtroom drama A Few Good Men, for which he received the John Gassner Award as Outstanding New American Playwright. The following year saw the debut of his off-Broadway play Making Movies, and in 2007, he returned to Broadway with The Farnsworth Invention, directed by Des McAnuff.
Sorkin made the jump to feature films with his 1993 adaptation of his own play A Few Good Men. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture. He followed this success with the screenplays for Malice, starring Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, The American President, starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening, and Charlie Wilson’s War, starring Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Julia Roberts.

In 2011, Sorkin won the Academy Award, Critics’ Choice Award, British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award, and Writers Guild Award in the Best Adapted Screenplay category as well as the USC Scripter Award for The Social Network.

The following year, Sorkin adapted, alongside Steve Zaillian with story by Stan Chervin, Moneyball for the big screen. The film won Sorkin the Critics’ Choice Award and New York Film Critics’ Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and went on to receive four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2015, Sorkin wrote the feature film Steve Jobs based on the Walter Isaacson biography of the late Apple co-founder. His adaptation garnered him nominations for a Broadcast Film Critics’ Association (BFCA) Critics’ Choice Award, Writers Guild Award, and multiple regional critics’ association awards.

Sorkin made his directorial debut in 2017 with Molly’s Game, which he also wrote based on the personal memoir by Molly Bloom. It made its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews and garnered Sorkin Best Screenplay nominations for an Academy Award, Writers Guild Award, and BAFTA Award.

In 2020, Sorkin premiered his feature drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, which he wrote and directed for Netflix. The picture features an all-star ensemble cast and garnered Sorkin six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay as well as three British Academy Film Award nominations, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay.
The following year, Sorkin wrote and directed Being the Ricardos, a biographical film about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s relationship starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as Ball and Arnaz, respectively. The film received three Academy Award nominations and two British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) nominations, including Best Original Screenplay.

For television, Sorkin created and produced NBC’s renowned series “The West Wing,” which earned nine Emmy nominations in its first season. The series went on to win a total of 26 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series for four consecutive years from 2000-2003. For his work on the series, Sorkin twice received the Peabody Award and Humanitas Prize, as well as three Television Critics Association Awards and Producers Guild Awards, and a Writers Guild Award. He also produced and wrote the television series “Sports Night” for ABC, which garnered eight Emmy nominations and won the Humanitas Prize and the Television Critics Association Award. Additionally, Sorkin created the series “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” which took place behind-the-scenes of a live sketch-comedy show and received five Emmy nominations in 2007.

In 2012, Sorkin made his return to television with the HBO drama “The Newsroom,” bringing in an average of 7 million viewers per episode. The show won a Critics Choice Television Award for Most Exciting New Series and has been nominated for numerous awards, including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Writers Guild Award, and Directors Guild Award. The third and final season aired on HBO in 2014, closing the series on a ratings season high.

In 2018, Sorkin premiered his Broadway stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s iconic American novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The production currently holds the title of the highest-grossing American play in Broadway history.

Next up is Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation of the classic Lerner & Loewe musical Camelot. Featuring a book by Sorkin, based on the original book by Alan Jay Lerner, Camelot will reteam Sorkin with Mockingbird director Bartlett Sher.

Sheila Spence is the Vice President of Global Corporate Development at Spotify. She joined Spotify to start Spotify’s Corporate Development group, from the ground up in 2017. Sheila led the team in Spotify’s foundational acquisitions across the full stack of podcasting from creation tools through studios and adtech as well as their entry into audiobooks. Sheila also led the acquisitions of platform innovations such as voice synthesis and content moderation. Before Spotify, she co-led WPP’s Corporate Development effort in North America. Among accomplishments, she has been named on Variety’s Dealmakers Impact Report and Hollywood Reporter’s Top 20 Dealmaker list.

As a VP & GM for Google Ads, Vidhya oversees the product and engineering teams behind advertising on Google’s properties, including Search, Maps and Shopping. Since joining Google, she’s led the revamp of Google Analytics, led the launch of the new Search Ads 360 as well as pixel-less measurement for YouTube advertising, and helped launch Performance Max. Prior to joining Google, Vidhya led engineering, product management, and operations for Amazon Redshift and also held both technical and leadership roles at IBM. She holds a Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a Bachelors in Computer Science from IIT-Madras. Vidhya is the proud mother of four children, two precocious young girls and two teenage boys.

Josh Stinchcomb is the Global Chief Revenue Officer of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal where he oversees advertising and marketing solutions.
Prior to this role, Stinchcomb held numerous positions at Condé Nast, including SVP of Corporate Sales, Publisher of Condé Nast Digital and most recently, Chief Experience Officer,
where he oversaw branded content, experiential and licensing.

In 2008, he was awarded Sales Team Leader of the Year by MIN (Media Industry Newsletters). In 2009, he received a Top Performance Award from Condé Nast, and in 2013 was named to
AdAge’s 40 under 40. Josh is a regular speaker at industry events and an adjunct professor at NYU’s Master of Science in Publishing Program. A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, Stinchcomb also has an M.B.A from New York University.

Jonathan Stringfield is VP Global Business Research & Marketing at Activision Blizzard and the author of Get In The Game: How to Level Up Your Business with Gaming, Esports, and Emerging Technologies. At Activision Blizzard he oversees a global team responsible for crafting legendary marketing experiences, conducting rigorous science to substantiate the unique power of gaming to advertisers, and supplying partner teams with evidence-based insights that drive innovation.

Previously, Jonathan was Director, Marketing Insights and Analytics at Twitter where he was responsible for all measurement and ad effectiveness research for the US advertising business. Prior to that, Jonathan was an early member of Facebook’s measurement solutions research team and led demographic research for Nielsen’s TV and media research services. Jonathan holds a PhD in Sociology, where his NSF-funded research focused on identity and audience conceptions among users of social media technologies.

Jennie Weber is the chief marketing officer for Best Buy Co. Inc. In this role, she is responsible for creating compelling marketing, driving the retail ad business and designing experiences customers will love.  

She oversees brand strategy, planning, creative, Best Buy Ads retail media network, and store and digital design. 

Jennie has more than 25 years of marketing and design experience, including leadership roles in ad agencies, category marketing, brand marketing and end-to-end customer strategy. She joined Best Buy in 2005 and most recently held the role of senior vice president of customer experience and insights.  

She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of St. Thomas. She serves on the board of directors for the Best Buy Foundation.

Pam is a 30+ year veteran of the media and marketing industry who is a proven media strategist across digital, programmatic, and traditional platforms. Known for innovative approaches to media and marketing challenges that turn the complex media eco system into understandable ideas for both the C-Suite and day-to-day tacticians. Pam sees the world as a white board – empty, boundless space to create, transform and innovate for growth; to re-imagine how media and marketing can work to grow brands and build companies. Pam believes winning at the intersection of data, content, marketplace, and technology means refusing to let the status quo be good enough and being humble enough to know true transformation takes collaboration, iteration, willpower, and trust.

Pam spent her first 25 years on the agency side at Publicis Media leading clients such as Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Activision, Yahoo and others. In addition to client leadership Pam built new practices for the agency including Advanced TV and Experience Design. To broaden her experience, Pam also spent 3 years leading Media for Starcom Mediavest Group in Russia when that market first opened to media in the mid-1990s. This taught Pam that anything is possible to create in the marketplace with some ingenuity, marketplace knowledge, and a relentless push creates win – win – win experiences for consumers, marketers and publishers. Following her work on the agency side, Pam spent five years consulting for the media and technology companies (NBCU, Fox, Viacom, Double Verify) helping them design custom programs and market their digital assets for growth. For the past fifteen months, Pam has been at Amobee, an Ad Tech firm, leading their marketing and sales strategy efforts to bring new identity, performance and new targeting techniques to the DSP and cross channel planning marketplace.

Pam lives in Hastings on Hudson, NY with her two sons.