Huge strides have been made to secure the digital advertising ecosystem over the past few years, but the fight continues against ongoing threats of ad fraud and malware as the latest ad technology standards get implemented. This event will showcase the industry standards for supply and demand chain transparency. As part of the path to an improved ecosystem, we will dive into updates including expanded support for new media channels and new programmatic RTB (real-time bidding) and automated guaranteed features.
Attendees will walk away with practical knowledge about supply chain vulnerabilities and a better understanding of buy-side transparency and input for programmatic product roadmaps in 2021. IAB Tech Lab will also highlight transparency use cases that are made simpler with the new industry data repository, the Transparency Center.
Emma Fenlon leads the exchange quality team for Yahoo. Her team focuses on protecting Yahoo’s clients from digital ad fraud and malware attacks. Emma began her career at Millennial Media, a mobile digital advertising company acquired by AOL & Verizon.
Chris Guenther is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Programmatic for News Corp, focused on driving programmatic and ad tech collaboration across the media and information company’s global properties. Formerly, he was Vice President of Business Operations for Hearst Magazines International, working on sales operations and programmatic advertising across the digital businesses outside the United States. Mr. Guenther previously served as VP, Digital Operations & Monetization at Conde Nast. Prior to that, he was head of Business Development for the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, and worked in the Corporate Strategy and Franchise Development groups of Dow Jones. He was also an associate at the Jordan Edmiston Group, a boutique investment bank focused on media. He has a master’s degree in business from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University.
As Senior Director, Publisher Thomas Mendrina is responsible for Xandr’ sell side business in Central Europe. One of his main goals is to strengthen the relationship with all publishers. In his previous position as General Manager International he was in charge of the development of the consent management platform Sourcepoint in Europe. Previously, Mendrina led the Media Publishing business unit at Google in the DACH region and, as Head of Marketplace Development, also accelerated the programmatic growth of the Google Ad Exchange. As Head of Commercial Development at Axel Springer, he developed and was responsible for non-traditional digital marketing activities. Since March 2021 Thomas is also a member of the Publishing/Marketing Advisory Board of the European netID foundation.
Amit Shetty heads the Video and Audio product initiatives at the IAB TechLab. He joined the Tech Lab with a history of building cloud, mobile and video products in a wide variety of markets ranging from Telcos to Enterprise to Consumer apps. He has worked in Product Management, Marketing, and Engineering roles and has built platforms in standards-based ecosystems at Motive/Nokia (products built on Broadband Forum standards) and InnoPath (products built on Open Mobile Alliance standards). He also worked at Yahoo where he worked on the Video Player used across all of Yahoo’s properties. He is a proud Longhorn from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jill Wittkopp is the Vice President, Product at the IAB Tech Lab, a global consortium for technical standards in the digital advertising industry. Prior to joining the IAB Tech Lab, Jill worked on the buy side of programmatic advertising with companies like MyBuys, Magnetic and Rakuten. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan, Dearborn and lives in San Francisco, California.
