Jessica is the lead for all Programmatic Buy-Side Media Trading at WarnerMedia, and soon DirectTV. Her team is responsible for planning, trafficking, managing and optimizing programmatic and addressable campaigns while also serving as experts connecting the Sales and Product teams behind the scenes. Jessica is an accomplished marketing professional with hands-on experience leading and executing full funnel marketing campaigns across Display, Mobile, Video and CTV, and has also built the teams to take on these responsibilities. With stints across various players in the programmatic landscape, she has worked on the agency, brand direct, measurement partner, and tech platform sides among others throughout her career.

Freddie Liversidge runs in-house global digital media agency at HP inc. Freddie’s team is focused on the planning, trafficking, buying, and measurement of all digital media. Prior to HP, Freddie spent his time between Agencies and Consultancies. He started the programmatic team inside Essence (Media agency within Group M) and then left to help Deloitte build an in-house consultancy structure helping large brands move media in-house.

Though this was exciting work he decided to move back to help HP and other brands at OMG, as the Director of Global Programmatic Operations. After a bit of a short stint, the in-housing trend bit again and he now finds himself at HP inc. building the internal agency.

Liting was responsible for driving the development and delivery of innovative, programmatic marketing solutions including development of programmatic best practice and advancement of programmatic products/solutions for Havas Media Group in the U.K. She was also responsible for connecting audience planning and programmatic implementation via an integrated approach with analytics, automation, content, performance and wider, meaningful digital experience strategies, to ultimately demonstrate business growth and meaningful outcomes for clients.

After 11 years in the UK, Liting now works for Havas China in Shanghai looking after all performance media, including all automated buys (programmatic and oCPX), SEO, Paid Search, eCommerce, Social Commerce and data engineering.

Liting also supported to drive the launch of Havas Social Equity Marketplace and Sustainability Marketplace for the UK, to help accelerating sustainability progress in advertising and deliver our shared purpose with Havas clients.

After coming to the realization that her first career choice, Monkey Trainer, had limited opportunities, Julie set her course on a career in marketing. Julie has spent 20+ years as a marketing executive driving transformation and overseeing global marketing programs for brands such as Intel, Microsoft, Schwab and Oracle. She is currently the Chief of Staff for the GM and VP of the Brand, Creative & Media Group at Intel. She also serves as Board Chair for Girls Leadership, a non-profit dedicated to helping girls find the power of their voice.

Julie has been awarded a Cannes Gold Media Lion and has been recognized by The Internationalists as "Internationalist of the Year," honoring marketers around the world reshaping the future of marketing.

Julie lives with her husband and two children in Redwood City, CA. In her free time, she enjoys cheering for her kids in volleyball and soccer, cooking for friends, electronic music and traveling. And she still loves monkeys.

Sturae Hickley is currently the Head of PBU At GroupM South Africa. She has been in the digital industry for over 12 years. Over the years, she has managed to work on various brands, big and small within South Africa, Africa and Australia. Sturae's expertise ranges from digital campaign management, performance strategy, data analysis, digital media training and various other agency responsibilities.

She has also had the privilege to collect a few accolades and esteemed achievements during her career such as top 10 finalist for Standard Bank Women Award, Best Adops team at the IAB Bookmark Awards, first all-female panelist at the IAB South Africa Annual Summit as well as appear as a guest speaker at industry conferences in South Africa. What inspires her? "I want to reach greater heights in everything I do, so that young females that come after me can aspire to be more and do more, because it's possible. I love big earrings and big hair, so you'll never miss me in a room, I stand out, always."

Starting his career at the start of programmatic’s journey to prominence, Joseph has worked his way up to be Head of Programmatic, UK and WW for m/SIX, one of the fastest growing global media agencies.

With over 10 years’ experience of programmatic planning and buying within media agencies, Joseph has worked across some of the largest media networks, leading the strategy and activation of many household and iconic brands across multiple industries. His focus is continuing to establish m/SIX as a centre of excellence for programmatic, through pioneering client led solutions.

Bob is a Chicago-based Managing Director, Senior Digital Transformation Executive who leads the Accenture Interactive Midwest Communicate practice in our Design, Build, Run, Communicate Experience offering. Communicate Experience creates value for clients via Marketing Strategy, Omnichannel Creative and Marketing Transformation. Bob is the Accenture Interactive Midwest Inclusion and Diversity Champions Team Lead.

Bob joined Accenture Interactive in 2019 from Leo Burnett where he served in various global account leadership roles on iconic retail, CPG, and consumer electronics accounts. Prior to his global roles, Bob served in expatriate roles over six years while residing in Singapore and Tokyo. He is a published marketing editorialist.

Bob earned his Master of Management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and his Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Studies from Northwestern as well, where he was a competitor on their Men’s NCAA Tennis Team. Bob, his spouse Katharine, their son Will, a Harvard freshman, and daughter Eleanor, a high school junior and sustainability advocate, reside in River Forest, Illinois just outside of Chicago.

Carmen Graf, vice president, head of global brand advertising and media, at Indeed, helps people get jobs. Graf leads integrated campaign efforts across the US, Canada, EMEA and APAC markets and is responsible for the design and delivery of truly innovative and effective campaigns. A progressive thought-leader with both Agency and Brand experience, she understands the value of brand leadership, creative and media integration, measurement accountability and delivering results. Graf loves living in Austin Texas with her family, a good dip in Barton Springs, and is looking forward to global travel again once we are all through Covid restrictions.

Sarah has worked publisher side for 20 years, previously EMAP, CBS and for the last 6 years at IDG. Initially in commercial roles responsible selling across a portfolio of products (lead generation, display, content) always with a keen interest in the operational delivery. For the last 7 years Sarah has been focussed on programmatic roles culminating in her current role as global programmatic & operations director, consumer.

Ryan Cook is Managing Director UK at Criteo, leading local strategy and vision for the development of new products. With over 12 years industry experience, he is a veteran of the programmatic world and launched the first Open RTB programmatic platform at Nexage - now OATH. Formerly of Teads, he has a passion for working with fast-moving, ambitious companies that have a technology-first mindset.

Mayfield is an experienced marketer with a background in global business development and strategy. She is currently the global chief of staff at Initiative, where she oversees strategic business initiatives from development through execution, under the guidance of the Global CEO. Throughout her career she has worked on a variety of clients across verticals including healthcare, pharma, financial services, entertainment, beauty and CPG.

Prior to her role at Initiative, she was at Omnicom Media Group where she provided strategic and tactical leadership, driving the overall effectiveness and success of their global new business and marketing activities. In 2016, Mayfield was selected by the Advertising Club of New York as a fellow in their imPART Women’s Executive Leadership Fellowship program. She has also been an active contributor to the 4A's Multicultural Advertising Intern Program over the last decade, as a former member of their alumni executive committee and a current coach and mentor. Mayfield holds a Master of Business Administration with specializations in Marketing, Strategy, and Leadership & Change Management from NYU Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Princeton University.

Rob is the SVP of digital emerging businesses. He is responsible for pioneering new digital channels after the acquisition by T-Mobile, pivoting to pursue revenue streams through team of 25 innovators and developers. He leads product, strategy, digital marketing, business development, sales and channel partnerships for T-Mobile’s Residential Fiber business, as well as Developer Enablement platform.

Prior to his current role, Rob served as the Chief Digital Officer for sprint.com and boostmobile.com, charged with driving digital transformation across multiple functions, with an emphasis on sales, marketing, and technology. He DELIVERED THE LARGEST SCALE, DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, and helped Sprint become a mobile and digital-first company. He developed, lead, and implemented digital strategies for a broad group of initiatives to include customer acquisition, care and retention, and other marketing and sales channel initiatives to drive the company’s development of a one-to-one relationship with its customers. The role focused on continuing Sprint’s digital evolution, developing and driving strategies which fueled growth, achieved strategic and operational goals, and addressed significant opportunities for cost savings.

Rob previously served as SVP, Head of eCommerce and Digital Revenue for comcast.com and business.comcast.com from 2015 – 2016, responsible for the e-Commerce and Digital Revenue activities for the #1 cable company in the US, including strategic vision, product development and sales across all digital channels for both residential & business, serving more than 22 million customers and accounts. Rob also served as Head of eCommerce and Digital Marketing for timewarnercable.com and twcc.com from 2011 – 2015, responsible for the eCommerce, self-service and digital marketing activities for the #2 cable company in the US, including eCommerce strategy & vision, growth strategy, product development, sales and marketing across all digital channels for the residential business, serving over 14 million customers.

With 10 years experience in the Digital and ad Tech industries across sales, and business development, Jean-Marc leads the ad monetization strategy for Rakuten Viber and the global programmatic partnership for RakutenTV, Rakuten Viki and Rakuten France. Passionate of everything tech, Jean-Marc is always excited at the prospect of learning something new.

Abhishek is an award winning senior marketing leader with 12+ years of experience in developing growth strategy for global brands. He’s passionate about growing businesses, decoding ambitious challenges and leading digital transformation.

At Samsung, he’s the Head of Department (HoD) for Digital Marketing Group in South East Asia and Oceania region where his key responsibility is to lead, build and strengthen the capability in driving execution excellence. He’s successfully built large teams with robust strategic and analytical competencies, extensive functional expertise in CRM, Dotcom, Media, Performance Marketing, Data Science and Marketing Technology. He has demonstrated success in driving business growth with the help of data-driven approach and his competency to provide customers the best product experience.

Prior to Samsung, Abhishek spent over 7 years at # 1 global media agency GroupM in leading marketing strategy, communications planning and digital operations transformation for large global brands such as L’Oreal, Kimberly Clark, Google and Nokia. He has been awarded for best-in class work at prestigious marketing forums such as Cannes Lions and Spikes Asia. Having worked and lived in India, Philippines and Singapore, he greatly enjoys working with professionals from different cultures and backgrounds.

Janicke H. Eckbo is Global CMO for award winning Conversational Advertising Cloud, Cavai. She is a true marketing and brand strategy leader, with an international outlook and approach. In her role leading all marketing and insights efforts across the global business, Janicke delivers marketing and PR strategies for Cavai that boost personalisation and engagement for brands, publishers and agencies.

Prior to joining Cavai, Janicke was Market Development Director at Schibsted Media Group, the largest media group in Scandinavia, where she ran a team which developed the overall approach to sales marketing, agency development, insights and analytics, and programmatic sales. Prior to this she was Managing Director, Norway, at Amnet, Dentsu Aegis Network's programmatic group; and Commercial Director, EMEA, at MediaMath. She has also held senior roles at Twitter and Fandom (formerly Wikia) and has worked in San Francisco, London and New York, on agency, publisher and technology platforms.

A seasoned industry professional, Janicke is a regular contributor to marketing trade press as well as a speaker and moderator at key events and an experienced judge for leading awards.

As Managing Partner of Performance and a results-driven specialist, Paul leads a world-class Performics practice (a team of 150+ specialists) for Starcom UK, encompassing all digital performance marketing channels (PPC, Social, SEO and Acquisition). He has been with Publicis Groupe in various digital roles across the agency board for over 17 years, across most verticals and client sizes (local start-up through to global).

As part of his journey in driving a world-class practice and proposition, Paul and his teams have won an impressive 18 specialist awards including the prestigious Grand Prix at the Performance Marketing Awards and were crowned team of the year at the inaugural Performance Marketing World Awards in 2021. He is relentlessly focused on accelerating growth through enhanced capability as proven through UK agency client wins; Ancestry.com, Trafalgar Travel Group and Dominos. Paul is also a frequent contributor to key publications such as e-consultancy, The IAB, and industry publications.

Harpreet is Group MD at LAB Group overseeing the strategic growth of the group and it's 5 agencies. Active in the community, highlights include; invitation into the Forbes Business Development Council, 4x Sitecore MVP award, 2019 & 2020 BD100, 2020 BIMA100 and membership of the BIMA Diversity and Inclusion council.

Stacy is Director of Marketing Technology at ADP Inc. and has been in love with marketing and advertising since she was 16! This passion translated in about 10 years of experience across domains of event management, brand development, marketing strategy and lately marketing transformation through technology. Stacy was lucky enough to study and work in various parts of the world, Western and Eastern Europe, South East Asia and North America, with the time at the Cannes Lions Academy in France having a special place in my heart. She also adore's creative work but believes that the best creativity is data-driven.

With over 10 years of experience Anna is leading a marketing team at the new existing Amsterdam based startup BRXS which is disrupting the real estate market. Anna has built her career both on the client and agency side. Starting at OMD EMEA in London and moving on into a tech scene in Amsterdam Anna was driving performance marketing efforts at Uber and Miro. Aside from the corporate career Anna also has an entrepreneurial background - she created her own direct to consumer brand Capsule Studio that is aiming to deliver sustainable yet stylish womenswear.

Having previously led a global trading team, Dani’s vast programmatic experience spans many verticals, channels, and aspects of campaign activation. Dani is currently a Senior Client Partner at TPA Digital, an independent strategic consultancy, where she is responsible for aiding brands to mature their programmatic and wider digital approaches to best-in-class solutions. She is also a regular trainer for both the IAB UK and The Programmatic University, educating marketers on both the basics and more advanced topics surrounding programmatic.

Amanda started her career selling Newspaper ads many moons ago. After spending many years at the New York Times selling print, digital, and event sponsorships she shifted to focusing on Programmatic buying & ad tech. She was the first programmatic seller at the Guardian US in late 2013 where she successfully sold pmps and optimized demand partners to 110% growth yoy. She moved on to Rodale in mid 2015 where she optimized the tech stack, onboarded new monetization partners, drove programmatic strategy, & trained the sales staff how to sell Programmatic. She joined IBM Watson Advertising’s Programmatic team ( AKA Weather.com) in mid 2016. She has moved up the ranks of the Programmatic team and is now the Head of Programmatic Partners and Strategy.

Nitin Mathur is a global marketing and digital executive with extensive experience in transforming complex global businesses and brands. As Chief Marketing and Digital Transformation Officer of Analog Devices (NASDAQ: ADI), Nitin leads global marketing and digital transformation for the company, focused on driving growth by transforming company’s brand, customer experience, go-to-market capabilities and enabling frictionless delivery of cutting-edge solutions to global customers. Nitin previously served as Chief Marketing Officer, Industrial Solutions at TE Connectivity (NYSE: TEL). Prior to this role, he also served as the company’s first Chief Digital Officer responsible for the global digital strategy as well as customer experience, e-commerce business, global CRM, data analytics, and all related technology platforms. Nitin previously held marketing leadership roles at Yahoo and Sapient. A truly global executive, Nitin has lived and worked in India and Singapore where he gained a significant international business perspective. Nitin is an avid traveler and open networker who coaches both early career and seasoned digital and marketing professionals. He is passionate about leveraging technology and new ideas to improve customer experience and business outcomes in complex B2B and consumer businesses.

Ellie Edwards-Scott is Co-Founder of The Advisory Collective, a digital consultancy working alongside innovative technology companies supporting their launch and growth strategies as well as market acceleration projects. Ellie has been in the advertising and media industry for over 20 years, starting out in press she has been in digital for the last 15 years and has held senior roles at Amnet, Dentsu Aegis trading desk, as well as ad network Hi-Media. She also launched QUISMA, GroupM’s leading performance marketing specialists into the UK in January 2012. An ambassador for the online industry, Ellie is also a champion for inclusivity co-founder of Digital Leading Ladies Group and Non-Executive Director of Look Ahead Housing & Care Ltd.

Alex is VP of Ad Operations for VICE Media Group, based typically in their London office. He has worked for VICE for 10 years and currently leads the Company's global advertising operations department that covers direct sold, programmatic and social media activation with a focus on platform partnerships, ad product design and integrations, as well as commercial performance.

A post graduate in Economics, from the top ranking University of Warwick (United Kingdom), with a passion for Consumer Behaviour Understanding, Abhinay has been an instrumental force in driving the vision of the Data Sciences division of Dentsu as one of its founding employees in South Asia. In his 5 years in the industry, he has risen from being a young manager with Carat (the media flagship agency of Dentsu) to Vice President– Asia Pacific of its Data Sciences division. He has won numerous industry awards recognizing top talent in the region such as the Impact Top 30 Under 30, the Social Samosa Top 30 under 30, Leaders of Tomorrow and was even featured in the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. He was also Asia’s sole nominee for New talent in UK’s prestigious DataIQ Awards in 2018. He has also given TEDx talks on topics in advertising and the future of talent. He is an active member of the advertising and media industry in India and is on the Board of the Young Professionals Program of the Indian chapter of the International Advertising Association. When he isn’t at work, Abhinay drives his passion for creating a more inclusive society as a part of his role as Founder-Member in the Youth Council of Kindness Unlimited – India’s apex body for Kindness.

With a background in arts and psychology, plus over 15 years of agency creative experience in the US and China, Florence has developed successful multi-channel engagements ranging from digital to TV to print to behavioral CRM.

Not your traditional creative, Florence is a bridge between art and data, and psychology and technology. At RAPP Los Angeles, she helped establish the Visual and Interaction Design group to push forth the philosophy of creating more innovative human-centered experience, inspiring customers engagement for a variety of clients in the automotive, toys, finance, and FMCG. Across the Pacific in China, she has brought the first in the auto industry full-scale AR MKX to life. Currently at AKQA Shanghai, she’s designed innovative digital, social, and omnichannel customer experiences in skincare, luxury, hospitality, and fin-tech industries.

Aleksandra is a highly skilled leader with over 20 years of professional experience and 10 years in the ad tech industry with a background in Coaching & Training. Current responsibilities include to develop and lead the buying side of the programmatic team at The Economist.

Aleksandra has strong skills with ability to work independently and be an effective member of a team. Strong ability to translate complex data and technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Aleksandra is an active speaker at conferences and has presented internationally on various subjects, including GDPRvs.CCPA Compliance, AdTech Industry and future of AI and Programmatic Advertising. A gifted relationship builder at all levels who has successfully worked across time zones and cultures with major logos, including Siemens, Google, Microsoft, Huawei, PineBridge, Cisco, JP Morgan, EY, KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Pictet, Franklin Templeton Management, Mastercard, Rolex, Wharton Education, Prada, Chanel. Aleksandra is a strong strategic thinker and team builder capable of significant leadership responsibilities.

Frank Vertolli is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Net Conversion (netconversion.com), a leading paid media and analytics services agency founded in Orlando, Florida in 2007. Partnerships are deep, long-term relationships with a focused list of world-class brands where the agency acts as an extension of the team driving business impact.

Net Conversion also developed data and analytics platform Conversionomics (conversionomics.com) as a stand-alone SaaS tool for advanced data teams to provide robust, flexible, cloud-based data aggregation and automation services.

Prior to founding Net Conversion, Frank spent over a decade with Universal Parks & Resorts in a variety of progressive marketing and analytical roles. Frank graduated from the University of Central Florida in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Saumya is Digital Performance Director at Mediacom Singapore. Saumya’ s team is focused on the planning, buying and measurement of all digital buys for their digital only clients. Saumya leads a team to work with their clients on their end-to-end briefs involving biddable or non-biddable digital needs. In her career spanning over 12 years, Saumya has spent her time at agencies, audience management publisher and Google. She started her career with Google India back in 2007 learning her basics of Digital from where it all started and there has been no looking back ever since.

As Head of Programmatic for OOH company WallDecaux (JCDecaux in Germany), Dorota Karc is tasked with both strategy and development of the programmatic OOH market in Germany.

With over 10 years of experience in global online marketing, Karc gained special expertise in programmatic, data and cross-channel technologies while working in different positions for digital marketing agency spacedealer, data provider Eyeota, Zalando and UEFA.

Ed Grice is a strategic brand & performance marketer with over a decade of experience leading digital omnichannel campaigns, strategic marketing solutions and growth initiatives for globally recognised brands. He set up, and currently leads PMG's EMEA operations based out of London where he is responsible for localising PMG's digital services across EMEA & APAC ensuring PMG's clients get in-market expertise on audiences, strategic partnerships, and market leading campaign execution at scale exceeding their business objectives.

He joined PMG after a lengthy stint at Dentsu, where his roles included Global Media Partnerships Director, where he led Dentsu’s strategic digital media partnerships team, driving exclusive and unique data-led innovations. Prior to this he was Head of Search at iProspect (Global Clients) leading a team of 45 SEM specialists, delivering and overseeing market leading & ambitious Paid Search & Performance Media solutions.

Ed has worked in both the independent and holding-company/network agency environments and has a proven track record of delivering results that transform and grow businesses regionally and integrate globally. He has built and grown high performing teams and valuable experience delivering digital client strategy across a number of verticals including; retail, luxury, FMCG and entertainment.

Mark is a digital marketer with over 12 years of experience across FMCG, hospitality, technology and government brands.

He has always been curious about how technology can enable better customer engagement, and this has allowed him to develop strategic and hands on experiences across all digital channels to meet various sales and marketing objectives at a global and regional scale.

Unfortunately trying to satisfy his curiosity in golf and carpentry hasn't yielded the same results. Fortunately, Mark's wife and two daughters keep him from floating into the abyss of despair.

Keri is the Programmatic Trading Manager at BBC Global News, leading the programmatic commercial strategy across the Europe, Middle East and Africa markets. Working closely with the commercial, business intelligence, ad tech and leadership teams, her key objective is to drive BBC’s commercial arm of the business by increasing the programmatic advertising revenue outside the UK.

She also holds a post graduate degree in Psychology and has an entrepreneurial flair as she started a cheesecake company in Johannesburg South Africa where she was born.

When Meagan Phillips joined her high school’s Lord of the Rings Club as Public Relations Officer, she had no idea it would be just the first of many positions in marketing.

Now more than a decade into a colorful career she’s held ranks within San Francisco government, broadcast news, an Oscar-winning visual effects studio and world-renowned advertising agencies.

Currently Meagan is Vice President of Marketing Communications at integrated B2B marketing agency, Just Global. Previously as Awards Director at creative ad agency 72andSunny she oversaw campaign promotions through the lens of what makes work innovative and distinguishable.

Prior to 72andSunny, Meagan was North American Marketing Director for Oscar-winning visual effects studio, Framestore. There she grew the Integrated Advertising division’s footprint and reputation by translating complex computer graphics work into simple and compelling messages for a variety of audiences.

Other agency experience includes 180LA where as Associate PR Director she grew the agency’s profile through work with clients like HP, Expedia, AMPAS, UNICEF and others. She cut my teeth in advertising as Agency Communication Manager at world-renowned Goodby, Silverstein & Partners alongside brands like got milk?, Adobe, Chevrolet, Frito Lay’s portfolio and dozens more.

Early in her career she was recognized by Adweek as an “Emerging Communication Leader” and has earned other awards from institutions such as Cannes Lions, MarCom Awards, One Show, AICP, Favourite Website Awards and more. Meagan’s grown a career crafting brand messaging and creative marketing content.

On the weekends she’s usually in the garden with her Havanese and Russian Blue or hanging out with her human family elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Krista leads our Investment media team and comes to Empower with a successful history of leading her teams and clients to deliver on business goals. For over 20 years, Krista has worked with all channels and audiences on national brands like Nike, Baskin Robbins, GNC, Newell Brands, Truist Bank, Miller Coors, and Microsoft to name a few. Krista ensures that every dollar Empower clients spend is used effectively and efficiently. Her love for advertising comes honestly and she will tell you that she was born into the advertising world. Literally. Her mom was a corporate Media Director and her dad was a newspaper Sales Rep.

Vincent is the Digital Marketing Director at Learning Technologies Group PLC, responsible for pioneering new digital channels and enhancing digital technologies within the business.

Prior to his current role, Vincent worked in the Financial Services industry at Western Union, as Digital Marketing Leader. Previous to this role, Vincent was the Head of Performance Marketing & CRM in the education sector at Kaplan International, looking after their end to end customer journey. He's also had vast experience in the retail industry for companies such as House of Fraser, M&S and HMV group.

With over 12 years experience, Vincent is passionate about everything digital, whether that be hands on management, team bonding, strategy or leadership. Vincent is particularly interested in how superior projects and ideas come together through seamless and selfless team work.

Viewed by her peers as an advocate of innovation and a future-oriented business leader, Heeru Dingra is the CEO of Isobar Group where she oversees 300+ clients and leads nearly 2,000 people passionate about shaping the digital media landscape. Isobar Group comprises of the award-winning creative agencies, Isobar India and WATConsult, and the PR agency, Perfect Relations. Heeru manages the entire executive duties of the group, ensures smooth operations across agencies and is a key player in the company’s role as a market leader in the APAC region.

A decade ago, Heeru began her career at WATConsult as the CFO and CHRO. Being an integral part of the agency’s growth story and possessing an intimate understanding of the business led her to the role of CEO. Under her leadership, WATConsult has won numerous awards and remains India’s most awarded agency. Prior to WATConsult, Heeru spent nearly 8 years in the finance sector where she worked with leading financial institutions like ICICI, Citibank and Indiabulls. She has studied at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and owing to her in-depth understanding of mergers and acquisitions, she was instrumental in the acquisition process of WATConsult back in 2015.

Heeru, who is extremely passionate about work life balance, gender equality and diversity & inclusion, was recognised for her contribution at Campaign’s Women Leading Change Awards 2021. At the mCube awards, Heeru was listed as one of the Top Ten Professional Young Achievers in India, while IMPACT titled her as one of the Top Ten Digital Pioneers. Additionally, she bagged the ‘Iconic Women Leader’ award at Asia GCC and ‘Woman Agency Head of the Year’ award at Women Disruptor 2021 hosted by Adgully. In 2020, Heeru won the ‘Businesswoman of the Year’ at ET Now Awards and the ‘Woman Super Achiever’ title at CMO Asia, as well as ‘Agency Head of the Year’ award at Social Samosa AgencyCon.

With an objective to share her expertise and gain fresh perspectives from great minds in the industry, Heeru has taken on jury duties at award shows like The Drum Awards, MiAwards, Foxglove Awards and Diggies by Afaqs, Goafest, EDMI, mCube awards by Inkspell, People's Brand of India Award 2020 conducted by Herald Global and WINA World Independent Advertising Awards.

Over the years Heeru has also been a guest lecturer at leading management institutions like Amity University, Xavier Institute of Communications, Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication, Symbiosis School of Media & Communication, MICA, IIT and others.

With over 20 years of marketing and advertising experience, and a trans-national career, across India and the Silicon Valley of America, Anusha is the co-founder and CEO of Autumn Worldwide, a hyper-specialized Digital Marketing firm. In Oct of 2018, Grey Group, a WPP company acquired majority stake in Autumn Worldwide. As of Jan 2020, Anusha has been promoted as Chairperson and Group CEO of Grey Group India, which includes both Grey and AutumnGrey.

In her current role, Anusha is responsible for Organizational Growth, Innovations, Planning and Operations. She is on the board of the Mobile Marketing Association of India and a council member with MMA Women’s Business Council. Anusha is a recent winner of IMPACTs 50 most Influential WOMEN List 2020; the Economic Times Women Ahead award, Corporate Excellence Award for Women at Work and many more.

Prior to co-founding Autumn Worldwide in 2005, Anusha has held a number of progressive assignments in advertising & marketing and has served for brands like Intel, Titan, Unilever, Honeywell et-cetera and in globally reputed agencies, Lowe and Euro RSCG.

Capability Builder and a Data Driven Storyteller. Kartika has more than 13 years of experience in the dynamic world of Digital Marketing & Creative agency. She ran campaigns, built digital capabilities and led agencies to success. She transformed Unilever Indonesia’s Digital Hub (Unilever’s data-driven marketing unit) to a #2 spot in SEA and accelerated U-Studio (Unilever’s in-house agency) to Top 8 U-Studio globally.

Kartika currently holds the Digital and Media Director position in SEA for Fonterra. As she continues to build digital capabilities for SEA, she is establishing the Centre of Excellence for Digital Marketing & Media to drive consumer engagement across Fonterra SEA markets and business growth.

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational publicly traded dairy co-operative owned by around 10,500 New Zealand farmers. The company is responsible for approximately 30% of the world’s dairy exports and with revenue exceeding NZ$17.2 billion, is New Zealand's 39th largest company.

Fran Cowan is the EMEA Sales Marketing Director at Twitch. Fran is an award-winning B2B marketing leader with 16 years’ international media experience in the worlds of gaming, music and ad tech. Prior to Twitch Fran served as Chief Marketing Officer at ad tech company Inskin Media, establishing the company’s marketing and insights departments, and was a founding member of Myspace’s international consumer marketing department. Fran also serves as VP Marketing and member of the Professional Development Committee for the International Advertising Association.

Kristian is Managing Partner at Finecast leading business growth through partnerships, product, sales and marketing initiatives that drive value for customers.

Kristian inspires and educates partners about the addressable TV advertising proposition and delivers on strategic and commercial objectives to drive increased adoption.

Prior to joining Finecast as Head of Engagement in 2017, Kristian held several roles at Videology in both the UK and APAC developing multiple commercial partnerships, business models and new market launches. He has also previously held roles at Channel 4 as Commercial Executive and at MEC as Broadcast Manager.

Carla is a Digital Marketing Manager at Sainsbury’s focusing on programmatic and paid social. Her responsibility includes digital performance and brand campaigns for Argos, Tu Clothing and Sainsbury’s Beauty. Carla joined Argos in 2010 as a Social Media Manager, prior to joining Argos she worked at Microsoft marketing Bing Maps across EMEA and APAC.

Megan Jones joined January Digital as its first employee in 2012 and has served in a multitude of roles across the company. As VP of Marketing, Partner, Megan is responsible for communications, marketing strategy and business positioning focused on the agency’s continued and rapid growth. Prior to her time at JD Megan generated impactful business results through paid media for category leaders including Estée Lauder Companies, Tory Burch, DKNY, Kendra Scott, NARS, and Cole Haan. Her expertise in purpose-driven company growth enabled JD's rapid ascent to a leading consultancy and agency for the most notable brands in the world.

Jamie Gutfreund is the Chief Marketing Officer for the leading global creator commerce company, Whalar. Jamie is a digitally savvy, creative development and marketing executive with significant experience taking big swings on behalf of her clients and colleagues.

At Whalar, Jamie is responsible for translating data and stats into insights and stories that help identify and explain cultural shifts and innovations in technology and creativity. Jamie has worked for some of today's most successful consumer brands including two of the world's largest toy companies. She served as Chief Customer Experience Officer for Hasbro and as Chief Marketing Officer for the $9B privately-held MGA Entertainment.

Jamie also served in leadership roles at Microsoft and Expedia. Additionally, she has worked with some of the top global talent and advertising agencies, including WPP, Saatchi & Saatchi and Creative Artists Agency. In addition to her position at Whalar, Jamie is also a board member for Tubular Labs, the premier cross-channel measurement and analytics solution for social video, and a strategic advisor for Anzu.io, a programmatic in-game advertising platform.

While leading marketing at MGA, Jamie's forward-thinking approach led to the creation of a wildly successful branded Roblox game, the creation of a virtual TikTok influencer, the establishment of an industry-leading Amazon commerce storefront and launching a Direct-to Consumer fan merchandise and collectible site. Jamie has also created original award-winning content for broadcast television and YouTube.

Jamie lives in LA with her family and two dogs and remains a dedicated fan of the NY Giants.