Kris Soumas is the Director of Platforms & Programming for the Verizon Consumer Group. In this role, she leads the development and ongoing content operations for Verizon’s +play platform, as well as next gen immersive partnerships with iconic creators from gaming and entertainment.
Prior to joining Verizon, Kris created content strategies and immersive entertainment experiences for blockbuster entertainment brands including Disney, NBC Universal, A+E Networks, the Oscars and ABC News. Kris started in TV but shifted to digital early on. She has produced award-winning websites, AR, VR, apps and social games which have grossed millions and reached the top of the app store charts. She has run game studios in Seoul and Mumbai and was an early advocate for women in gaming.

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.

Stephanie Llamas is Chief Data Storyteller at VoxPop Insights, working with companies to leverage data for decision-making and create actionable insights around games, immersive and the metaverse. Prior to that she held a lead role at the World Economic Forum on its metaverse initiative. Stephanie began her career as an analyst after becoming the third hire at SuperData Research. There she helped develop the company’s insights research business and strategy. SuperData was acquired by Nielsen in 2018, where she became head of the XR and games  verticals while leading group strategy, heading operations and functioning as Nielsen’s XR thought leader.

Stephanie is a contributing author on two XR books — Charlie Fink’s Metaverse and Convergence: How The World Will Be Painted With Data. She has presented at a number of conferences such as SxSW and CES, and has appeared in media that include the NYT, Forbes, WSJ, NPR and MSNBC.

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.

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.